Reposted by JenBradfordAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3hMamdani: "What you could see in the videos is bystanders outside unsure as to what they were even seeing. Because in that imagery, it feels as if you’re almost looking at a mass shooter as opposed to seeing someone who’s purportedly representing a federal agency." 382590692
Reposted by JenBradfordKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3hI’m old enough to remember when the Treasury Secretary would only weigh in on things related to the economy. And this is a good reminder of why that used to be true. 631406220
Reposted by JenBradfordOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick 633510981
Reposted by JenBradfordNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump’s plan to save the midterms is…help Russia. The Trump-Vance-Kushner-Witkoff approach to the war has always been weaken Ukraine so they bow down to Putin. It hasn’t worked. With nearly two years of this, Ukraine has shown it can thwart ground offensives and strike Russian oil without US help.ft.comUS warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharingDonald Trump’s administration delivered threat after Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised diesel deal with Moscow 591293436
Reposted by JenBradfordShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026this is literally why you have uniforms and badges every member of the media pretending that any of this is due to anything else should be frogmarched out of public life 121519317
Reposted by JenBradfordCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026As usual, he says it so clearly: "The Afrikaner policy... proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you're poor, you're a moocher, and if you're gainfully employed, you're taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian." 6410105
Reposted by JenBradfordOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/10/2026Zelenskyy: While our teams are meeting in Florida, US President is having conversation with Kremlin leader responsible for this war. I believe they are simply using our team as a cover...clearly not acting in good faith as a partner. And this, in my view, is a weak decision from strong partners. 491125384
Reposted by JenBradfordSenator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 09/10/2026Just as terrorist groups used on-camera executions as propaganda for their cause, this video will be used in recruitment videos by America's enemies for decades to come. It also gives Hasan exactly what he likely wanted when he walked onto Ft. Hood and started shooting. 410735
Reposted by JenBradfordYael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live. 3021621050
Reposted by JenBradfordKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026ZELENSKYY: At this very moment, when we are talking about peace, America gives Russia the opportunity to export diesel — that's millions, billions. It all goes toward the war against people, against Ukraine, against all of us. 11326941067
Reposted by JenBradfordNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it. 452667504
Reposted by JenBradfordIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/10/2026It's fun coming up with little conversation starters and joke posts while the government identifies increasingly degenerate levels of barbarism to aspire to 213720
Reposted by JenBradfordClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is insane www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...gadgetreview.comOne of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data CenterA rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land. 13255135
Reposted by JenBradfordSean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 08/10/2026EVERY BATHROOM IN YOUR HOUSE IS UNISEX YOU FUCKING WEIRDOS 926442
Reposted by JenBradfordAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Airplanes, trains, and automobiles have been used far more often than ships as transport for mass detention or deportations of those denied due process, but what history there is... is not good. 28125
Reposted by JenBradfordAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!" 80348251341
Reposted by JenBradfordJonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 08/10/2026ICE arrested more than twice as many *children* in the first 7 months of 2026 as they did in the same period last year. Important work from my colleagues @shannonheffernan.bsky.social @annaflagg.bsky.social www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/08/i...themarshallproject.orgICE Has Arrested Twice As Many Children This YearIn total, more than 8,500 kids have been arrested by ICE in Trump’s second term. 14133
Reposted by JenBradfordScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In which we learn, among other things that Stephen Miller trains FBI agents in counterterrorism, and wants to train all the FBI's counterterrorism resources on Democrats who dare to criticize the Leader, starting with groups in his community in suburban Virginia. www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen...cbsnews.comTrump adviser Stephen Miller spoke to agents at recent FBI training on domestic terrorism, sources sayStephen Miller spoke at a training session at FBI headquarters just days before prosecutors criminally charged a man with making disturbing calls and texts to his wife, sources told CBS News. 1613980
Reposted by JenBradfordSteve Benen @stevebenen.com · 08/10/2026Trump is increasingly brazen in politicizing federal disaster relief, explicitly tying approvals to campaign endorsements and elections. It’s one of the underappreciated scandals of his second term. Or as one governor put it yesterday, it’s “complete and total bulls---.” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...ms.nowAhead of the midterms, Trump isn’t even being subtle about politicizing disaster aidThe president’s latest move was so brazen that the governor of Wisconsin called Trump’s announcement “complete and total bulls---.” 510256
Reposted by JenBradfordRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...npr.orgICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors sayThroughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated. 12521831204
Reposted by JenBradfordAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want." 304869692755
Reposted by JenBradfordChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war. 23446952151
Reposted by JenBradfordRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?bbc.comParamount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood mergerThe merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition 676147515999
Reposted by JenBradfordKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm not sure if @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social have issued a statement on this yet, but they should publicly announce that if Russ Vought tries to fuck with the election in any way they will fire him out of a cannon when they take power. 1162139599
Reposted by JenBradfordLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This strikes me as really fuckin bad 441125236
Reposted by JenBradfordPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 06/10/2026ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati... 331056549
Reposted by JenBradfordThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption? 702236408549
Reposted by JenBradfordJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is a community note for the ages. 6659291177
Reposted by JenBradfordMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/10/2026We’re moving 10,000 low-income children off the child care voucher waitlist — at absolutely no cost to their families. Eligible families with children ages 6 weeks to 13 years, and through age 19 for children with special needs, will be invited to apply for a voucher on a rolling basis. 168116422428
Reposted by JenBradfordOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026megyn kelly is the exact sort of woman who mocks a rape victim for their appearance. she's a loathsome, awful woman. 3253266
Reposted by JenBradfordIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The thing that gets me about these lurid anti-Zionist statements, like the one the Greens just passed, is that it is *so fucking easy* to criticise the Israeli government without engaging in that type of language. 631285164
Reposted by JenBradfordKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is a sharp closing argument. A real benefit to his party heading into the midterms. 2483268
Reposted by JenBradfordNancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...thequeenzone.comNew ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking RisksA new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to... 40050883103
Reposted by JenBradfordLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 02/10/2026just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October. 8659327
Reposted by JenBradfordS.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 30/09/2026god what a weird little freak of a man 001
Reposted by JenBradfordKate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 663025992
Reposted by JenBradfordEuromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Russia struck the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv People are escaping by climbing out of windows, risking a fatal fall, to avoid being burned alive 📹 Kyiv Dvizh 24626
Reposted by JenBradfordGuardian 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. 18836500
Reposted by JenBradfordGiles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026AfD bans Stolpersteine: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukGerman town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victimsGermany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal". 24266160
Reposted by JenBradfordProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026Advocates say the delays mean people are left waiting in prisonlike detention facilities that are riddled with allegations about spoiled food, beatings and medical neglect. “People are left hungry,” said the wife of a detainee in Mississippi.propublica.orgThese Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully DetainedJudges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be dep... 23601343
Reposted by JenBradfordDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14095432208
Reposted by JenBradfordClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Trump plans to escalate the war right after the midterms www.wsj.com/world/middle...wsj.comExclusive | Trump Rejects Iran Ceasefire, Expects Renewed Bombing After MidtermsThe president is skeptical that Tehran will meet his demands. 47146
Reposted by JenBradfordScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026She was an FBI agent. She started an investigation of the murder of Renee Good. Trump forced her to reclassify it as an ICE agent assault. She was then forced to resign. Her evidence confirms that a cover-up of the homicide has been undertaken, directed from the highest levels.cnn.comFBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned | CNN PoliticsThe FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with... 281557899
Reposted by JenBradfordScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials. 24982253350
Reposted by JenBradfordBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026something has gone very, very wrong with the UK 1143332751
Reposted by JenBradfordKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just the most boring bores who ever bored. 3681592
Reposted by JenBradfordTom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Should Dems win control of the House (and possibly the Senate) in November, they have to doggedly investigate Stephen Miller. They should hold hearings on him each week. See this report on Miller’s role in the Office of Remigration - a white nationalist project.washingtonpost.comHow Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operationInside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own. 613042
Reposted by JenBradfordMariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Jfc. This is why the "sex cult" part of the Silicon Valley AI thing matters. Because frankly these kinds of people rarely stick to consenting adults and the power dynamics are already effed (see next skeet in that thread for an example). 18421
Reposted by JenBradfordScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The framing of this suggests that the NYT editor is not in fact a Christian, and has no understanding of Christian theology. There is no issue of "reclaiming." The issue is of people understanding Christianity, and understanding that white Evangelicals are not, in fact, Christians.nytimes.comCan Democrats Reclaim the Christian Moral High Ground?A surprising number of pastors are running as Democrats this year, challenging Americans’ assumptions about politics and faith. 65418