Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialMatt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Two-star major general irony. Today’s Age cartoon. 31622135 622
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 05/10/2025Classes are in session, but Columbia is still struggling to recover from its showdown with the Trump administration.bloom.bgColumbia Grapples With Federal Scrutiny After Trump Deal BeginsOn the last Friday of summer, nearly 200 Columbia University professors joined a packed lecture hall and video call where speakers blasted the Ivy League school’s $221 million settlement with the Trump administration and threatened work stoppages. 4207 20
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/10/2025The Trump administration sent 300 federalized members of the California National Guard to Oregon early Sunday, after being blocked by a federal court from deploying the Oregon National Guard in that state, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom. Newsom denounced the move and said California would sue.nyti.msTrump Sends California Guard Troops to Portland, Ore., Newsom SaysThe move follows a judge’s order on Saturday that blocked the Oregon National Guard from deploying there. California’s governor said the state would sue. 4724093 240
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 02/10/2025 764233127228 23.3K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialPolitico @politico.com · 16/09/2025Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to rebuke calls to target “hate speech” in an apparent swipe at Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” said Sotomayor.politico.comSotomayor rebukes calls to ‘criminalize free speech’ in apparent swipe at Pam BondiThe justice, in public remarks, didn’t name the attorney general, who has come under fire for comments to target people over “hate speech.” 21387082819 8.7K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialTexas Bob @txbob.bsky.social · 07/09/2025I laughed when I saw this, yet unfortunately, it is true. 1121553 215
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialPolitico @politico.com · 07/09/2025The Florida Surgeon General said that his team did not need to do any studies on the effects of removing state vaccine mandates before making his public appeal.politico.comFlorida surgeon general denies need for study ahead of end to vaccine mandates in the stateJoseph Ladapo insisted that his position was a principled defense of parents' rights. 161911333 911
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialJeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 07/09/2025thanks to @karin829.bsky.social, I've changed the cover artwork on today's post, "decrepit draft dodger declares war on Chicago" — Donny’s gonna make an apocalypse ... in his pants. thanks, Karin! folks, please check out my updated post here: bit.ly/485u7Qdbit.lydecrepit draft dodger declares war on ChicagoDonny’s gonna make an apocalypse ... in his pants 782011444 2K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialJeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 05/09/2025because nothing says 'I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize' more than renaming your Department of Defense to the Department of War 1724616888 4.6K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/08/2025No, JD, belonging in America does not depend on how many generations of your family have lived here. The values of this country matter - deeply - to who we are and what it means to be American. 1202187084978 18.7K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 10/08/2025This is exactly why Dems get their ass handed to them by Trump's world. They have no clue how to leverage social media algos to their advantage. open.substack.com/pub/weaponiz...open.substack.comSilent Coup: How Trump’s Allies Are Gaming Algorithms To Seize Your FeedNew research unravels the secret tactics behind Stop the Steal and other right-wing disinformation campaigns. 91144491738 4.4K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/08/2025Exclusive: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a minimally redacted version of a highly classified document on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election after an intense behind-the-scenes struggle over secrecy with the CIA.washingtonpost.comGabbard overrode CIA officials’ concerns in push to release classified Russia reportCIA officials worried the release of the House Intelligence Committee report on 2016 Russian election interference could reveal top-secret spying techniques and sources. Tulsi Gabbard overrode their c... 4052378871 2.4K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/08/2025Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons 12503144 503
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialJeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 04/08/2025from today's post, wherein America's Imbecile King now claims that he has ALREADY lowered the price of prescription drugs by FIFTEEN HUNDRED percent.. please read the whole thing, thanks! link is here: bit.ly/4orQHbJ (and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text) 591005199 1K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.social👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Good morning 🌞 373221713273 22.2K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/08/2025Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff." 12313544710932 35.4K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialPolitico @politico.com · 01/08/2025The scheduled congressional deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell is indefinitely postponed.politico.comComer says he will postpone Ghislaine Maxwell testimonyThe House Oversight chair also rejected an immunity request from the Jeffrey Epstein associate. 112260352387 6K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Sixty years ago today, Medicare and Medicaid were signed into law - securing health care for millions and saving countless lives. As GOP politicians try to tear them down, it's up to us to protect and expand these programs for Americans who rely on them today and for future generations. 326126643198 12.7K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialAva Laugh… 🤭 @avalaugh.bsky.social · 23/07/2025This bird has more IQ then most humans… Can it solve the puzzle… 🧩 🐦⬛ 46092911524 9.3K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialCOURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social · 23/07/2025"I’d be terrified to go back to Texas to practice as an OB-GYN after I finish my residency. I’d be absolutely terrified," writes a resident physician for COURIER's Courier Texas.couriertexas.comTexas native reveals: ‘Why I’ll be terrified to practice in Texas as an OB-GYN’‘By my second year in medical school, the effects of SB8 were getting more and more real. One night in the emergency room, the consequences just became so obvious in a real life way.’ 417948 179
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 23/07/2025The most recent U.S. ambassador to Orban’s Hungary writes: “After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence”nytimes.comOpinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here. 39843 98
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialTiggsCupcake @tiggsisacupcake.bsky.social · 15/07/2025 6242110 242
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15/07/2025Congressmember @maxwellfrost.bsky.social visited the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz" immigration jail in the Everglades. He says the Trump administration is “trying to ethnically cleanse the country of Latinos, of Haitians" and notes he didn’t see “Europeans who've overstayed their visa.” 15503197 503
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialWill🇺🇸📎✌️☮️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 15/07/2025 414162104769 16.2K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/07/2025Exclusive: Trump officials have indefinitely suspended work on a crucial tool to predict extreme rainfall frequency, a move that experts said will make the country more vulnerable to storms supercharged by climate change.washingtonpost.comNOAA was developing a way to predict extreme rainfall — until Trump officials stopped itThe tool would have projected how climate change could affect rainfall frequency and intensity in communities across the nation. 39463248 463
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 16/07/2025Exclusive: For 15 years, UnitedHealth beat earnings estimates. That streak might have ended sooner if not for some stealth dealmakingbloom.bgStealth Stake Sales Helped UnitedHealth Beat Wall Street TargetsThe health giant included gains from asset sales in its adjusted earnings — a move that’s permissible but now has some analysts looking more closely at profits. 81512 15
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialNEW POPULAR FRONT Survivor❤️🩹 Ally🏳️🌈 Ukraine Must Win🇺🇦 @ouaisouaisdubuffet.bsky.social · 12/07/2025No one. 221182004195 18.2K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialMoms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 10/07/2025Don't fall into apathy! Join us ❤️ 637188 371
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Wishing everyone a happy Fourth of July! 249 years since we declared independence from a king, the work of living up to our founding promise is more important than ever - and it calls on each of us to do what we can for our country. 1026194543246 19.5K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialPam🫘🧶💙🏳️🌈🐸 #NoKings🚫👑 @pmmcdaniel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025The GOP's Big Ugly Bill is a WAR ON THE POOR! They're taking away healthcare, food assistance, and dignity from those who need it most. #VoteHellNO Call your Representative TODAY! ☎️ 202-224-3121 18704216 704
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialAngie@blueangie.bsky.social @blueangie.bsky.social · 02/07/2025 29592305 592
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 30/06/2025If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it. Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest. 968236278011 23.6K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialFull of Contempt @m-theory3.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Well, we know that about the people around the orange idiot. Bird of a feather... 17396101 396
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialCynthia Hope Laub @bloomlove.bsky.social · 28/06/2025💔💔 2759491 594
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28/06/2025Thousands of people lined up at the Minnesota Capitol to pay tribute to slain lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. Between the caskets was an urn containing the ashes of the family’s golden retriever, Gilbert.washingtonpost.comBeloved dog joined Minnesota lawmaker, husband as they lay in stateWhen Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot this month, their golden retriever was grievously wounded and had to be euthanized. 384135592388 13.6K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialPam🫘🧶💙🏳️🌈🐸 #NoKings🚫👑 @pmmcdaniel.bsky.social · 28/06/2025“Disaster looms”: Justice Jackson’s warning for the countrymotherjones.com“Disaster looms”: Justice Jackson’s warning for the countryThe Supreme Court allows presidents to do what judges have ruled illegal. 301064366 1.1K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialDeb Farmer @thewarriorwoman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Why? Why? Why? We keep asking ourselves as does the press - why is F47 doing this or that? He’s not. He’s a figurehead. He’s incompetent. He’s impotent. Who’s running the country? Stephen Miller and the 70% of his Cabinet members who are Project 2025 architects are running the country. 971191351 1.2K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialThe Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 16/06/2025A landmark new study finds that after a major SCOTUS decision, child gun deaths soared—but only in states that loosened gun laws. In states that kept them tight, the outcome looked much different. Jeff Nesbit explains.contrarian.substack.comWe all need to take a troubling, new gun violence study to heartThe more guns are available, the more children will find them and use them. 22797325 797
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialBradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 14/06/2025 595521886 5.5K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025I'm looking forward to having a conversation with @hcrichardson.bsky.social over on Substack later today. Tune in live at 2pm ET.petebuttigieg.substack.comPete Buttigieg's Substack | SubstackClick to read Pete Buttigieg's Substack, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. 1215311862 5.3K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Former ABC News correspondent and anchor Terry Moran has joined Substack. He says he can’t wait to “get at the important work that we all have to do at a time of such trouble in our country.” bit.ly/3HAX77o 610181014377 18.1K
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/06/2025Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro vowed Wednesday to protect the right of protesters if President Trump sends troops into Philadelphia as he has in Los Angeles. Shapiro told The Post that it is not the president’s job to police American cities.washingtonpost.comJosh Shapiro says he’s ‘prepared’ if Trump sends military to PennsylvaniaGov. Josh Shapiro’s comments came during an interview following Trump administration threats to expand National Guard call-ups to other states. 44975261 975
Reposted by @jenasmith50.bsky.socialMariaevaJ (Formal Tribel) @mariaevaj.bsky.social · 11/06/2025 542208133149 20.8K