Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h“Courage”static.klipy.comPrincess Bride: You Keep Using That WordALT: Princess Bride: You Keep Using That Word 76817
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 10hTomorrow they’re holding a funeral in Springfield for the Haitian college kid Pierre Damas Bel who killed himself. On the same day in nearby Dayton Ohio suburb President trump will be there holding a fun little rally, not far from the body of the student his policies appear to have, you know, killed 5328113
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialAndrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 12hAs of this afternoon, 273 law enforcement agencies in the five states that border Illinois now participate in ICE's 287(g) program.tituslegaldesign.comICE 287(g) Program TrackerInteractive map and data visualization tool tracking local law enforcement partnerships with ICE under the 287(g) program. Understand how immigration enforcement operates in your community. 13922
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 15hYou can’t transition out of your statutory mandate to undertake basic research! Man, the appropriation riders need to be doozy in December. 43211
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end 806434768
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3 95080625
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1 30497072341
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialSenate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 01/10/2026BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE detention, marking the 26th death in ICE custody in 2026. 67446244
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialDave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Domestic Violence court, near which ICE vehicles were seen today, is one of ICE's favorite Chicagoland targets. Per info from Cook County public defenders, ICE has been at DV court over 2 dozen times between July 2025 and the start of September 2026. More incidents have occurred there since. 03112
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Withdraw from Iraq yesterday, send 10,000 troops and another carrier to fight Iran today. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...wsj.comU.S. Sending Third Aircraft Carrier, Up to 10,000 More Troops, to Middle EastThe deployments come as President Trump weighs resuming bombing Iran after the midterms. 21208101
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026As it turns out & everyone could have predicted, other countries have agency & domestic politics, too. 48723
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialAunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Arguably the civil war was as much about northern states not wanting to be legally required to enforce the slavery laws of southern states as it was about the south wanting to continue enslaving people. Just mentioning that for no particular reason. 15216
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialCarolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos" 933397529
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026i've never seen a human head shaped like this before 4781920199
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is an example of why Donald Trump is just a simple-minded bought-and-paid-for stooge for tech when he talks about AI being self-regulating. 861265641
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“Witch Hunt” Tennessee AG Skrmetti is going after the records of Planned Parenthood and other women’s health orgs — as an appeals court blocks a portion of the TN GOP abortion travel ban. #ForcedBirthState www.wate.com/news/planned... 13286118
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every single member of this administration sees themselves, first and foremost, as a Content Creator™ It's like they staffed an administration with homeschooled aliens who learned about humanity through mainlining TikTok accounts. Just unbelievable levels of sweaty dorkiness. 441118193
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The jackals are out, as they usually are for a woman who speaks up in a way that challenges patriarchy. (And a lot of why victims don't come forward or withdraw--as a Weinstein victim did--is because the misogynist public and legal system launch their own punitive assaults.) 6741152
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.social@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"The 4-year-olds don’t know where they are and what’s going on" “I have no one. I have nothing.” This is beyond grotesque. Shame, Shame, Shame on Trump and everyone involved in this horror. 46145
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialAlex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It really should tell us something how many of these institutions will tolerate abuse, but not activism. 09329
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026Trump: "As soon as that war ends, inflation is gonna be eradicated totally" 3661072215
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026asked about gas prices, Trump says "if you want to see turmoil and a travesty, let them take out a city with a nuclear weapon ... let them hit us with a nuclear weapon" 4741217303
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US. 18833499
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.social@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar” Credit to Daniel Dale for this deep dive into Trump’s lies, the topics he lies about most; why MAGA loves the lies & the impact of the press failure to consistently fact check Trump. www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...cnn.comI started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN PoliticsTen years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ... 8295120
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It was so nice for that little time where he had no microphone. 912439308
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialDr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Want the truth about measles? Listen to the doctors treating it. Voices breaking as they describe suffering that did not have to happen. More than 165 hospitalizations and rising. Their testimonials are the clearest answers to the fed’s rhetoric. 10348139
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Meanwhile have you heard the horrible eviction stories from SF lately? Or the landlord that *killed their tenant* only to turn around and jack the rent to $8,000 a month and not disclose the murder? sfstandard.com/2026/09/09/s...sfstandard.comSF landlord charged with murder is now renting out his victim’s homeA judge blocked the sale, but nothing stopped the family of an accused killer from trying to rent out the scene of the crime. 26119
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026It's just after 1pm on another picture perfect fall day in Chicago. So far today, masked federal agents have taken people from Brighton Park and suburban Aurora. ~1 year after the "Blitz" began, the alerts haven't subsided. ICE is still breaking windows and destroying worlds. 9319192
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Discussion well worth listening to. These two have been totally in the trenches and details of health care reform for at least a decade. As AES points out adding kids would be an existential and material relief to families and cost little. Most kids are incredibly healthy and a few are vey sick. 311126
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialEric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is excellent modern journalism. A century ago, a newspaper would publish a muckraking article. Then a pol could get quotes into the paper in response. That was slow turnaround. Now subjects of articles go on TV and social media to counterspin. And @propublica.org is rapidly responding. Great! 6500135
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialPatrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s like they are applying the insane types of “analyses” Rudy and others did on the 2020 election and applying it to all of government. 4550170
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5 14471251
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialJoe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 26/09/2026For those keeping track, this is the 978th time this story has appeared in a mainstream media publication 1015418
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So many times we see this. Where illegal cancellation of congressional appropriation becomes one weird trick. 29752144
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialBobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Russ Vought just sent a rescissions request to Congress, signaling he intends to illegally impound funds. The $810 million highlighted in this “request” (but this is a pretext to just illegally impound the funds) is not the exhaustive list of many billions of dollars he’s impounding this year. 32974409
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary. 8141891737
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 25/09/2026People have had enough 591189440
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies. 251373409
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026When people say it feels weird that we would ask Congress to be powerful; you have to understand that we have been Unitary Executive red-pilled. The Founders very clearly believed that the two Houses of Congress were the movers and shakers: No Kings (American Revolution), No Masters (Civil War). 47520
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Genuinely, when you send someone to the United States Senate as submoronic, gibbering and ridiculous as Tommy Tuberville, your statehood should be suspended. At this point there should be 49 United States and the Alabama Territory. Followed by a second, more committed attempt at Reconstruction. 2753798
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialbuvezcocacola @buvezcocacola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Seen in Virginia 493170738
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026They’re honoring the unbought and unbossed lady by being bought and bossed 432984
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialGeorge Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Roses are red, Violets are blue, Drag queens ain't done shit to you 11567451181
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Perfection.cbsnews.comEd Sheeran's Gillette Stadium concerts canceled due to nor'easter, tour promoter saysEd Sheeran's Gillette Stadium concerts in Foxboro, Massachusetts, have been canceled as Boston braces for a nor'easter. 1501959268
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Climate change affects everything. "These threats are not regarded as some far-off or remote contingency: disastrous impacts, for instance on the UK’s food supply, could be expected as soon as 2030, it warns." 417667
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit... 1483895546
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.social@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026trump and rfk jr did this: six babies with measles. babies! www.nbcnews.com/video/doctor...nbcnews.comDoctors in Pennsylvania estimate at least six babies have been born with measlesAt least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. The growing outbreak is raising alarm among doctors who are treati... 48052
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The New York Times remains laser-focused on ignoring the horrible things horrible people are doing to us. Coming Up Next: "Pol Pot's Favorite Footwear." 3653396757
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 25/09/2026This is the woman who said that Talarico’s in favor of “same sex bathrooms”, and getting that kind of lunatic to stay home is how you win an election in Texas 131304125
Reposted by @jaxonp.bsky.socialKylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is all right-wing politics is now, a guy who's killed tens of thousands of children complaining about podcasters 22965565
