Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 15/03/2026After Trump took a break from commander-in-chiefing for rounds of golf this weekend, he is only five away from having spent a full 365 days of his two terms on the course. www.pbump.net/o/an-officia... 421203496
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Worth knowing. popular.info/p/the-corpor...popular.infoThe corporate enablers of the ICE crackdownHow Amazon, AT&T, and Citizens Bank are profiting from the administration’s mass deportation campaign. 361480759
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialBrad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Abolishing ice and prosecuting those ICE officials and employees who commit these crimes must be the baseline for the Democratic Party going forward. Anyone who does not adopt this basic stance is OK with you or your neighbors being kidnapped by masked men and must be driven from political life. 315343
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialhilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Josh Marshall; gift link. Civic virtue is incredibly important. People who study crime say: most people don’t commit crimes not because they’re scared of punishment, but because you just don’t do that. Imagine how awful it would be if that weren’t true; if we couldn’t rely on people’s decency.talkingpointsmemo.comFear, Greed, Civic Virtue and the Fall of the ElitesMembers of America’s founding generation had an ambivalent and evolving understanding of... 14636175
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialSimon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Where is the Republican budget? By law it was required to be passed and in place by Sept 30th. Anyone seen it? Got any idea what might be in it? Why the f-ck is the House taking a month long vacation without getting their work done? Dems ready to negotiate. Rs remain on vacation. 451388399
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialPaul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 04/10/2025““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+theguardian.comIsrael accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flagsActivist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water 21063183804
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds. 13956871389
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/09/2025"The Trump administration will launch a program to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the federal government by denying care to Medicare patients... "It will affect patients in AZ, OH, OK, NJ, TX, and WA starting January 1..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...nbcnews.comPrivate health insurers use AI to approve or deny care. Soon Medicare will, too.A pilot program testing the use of artificial intelligence to expand prior authorization decisions in Medicare has providers, politicians and researchers asking questions. 22017731094
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/09/2025"Because of changes that are starting to roll out from Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill... about 2.4 million people could lose access to the food stamps per month... "Millions more will see their monthly benefit amounts shrink because of changes mandated by the law... www.cbsnews.com/news/food-st...cbsnews.comMillions of Americans are facing food stamp cuts as grocery costs continue to riseThe Republicans' "big, beautiful" spending and tax law will result in cuts to food stamp benefits for many Americans, experts say. 19026841276
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialTammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 27/09/2025If you’re worried about losing your health care, apparently Trump has a message for you: 952003912
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 27/09/2025Portland:media.tenor.coma man in a suit is holding a jacket over his shoulderALT: a man in a suit is holding a jacket over his shoulder 69700163
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialAli Velshi @velshi.com · 27/09/2025Michael Grynbaum, media correspondent for the New York Times, joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss how Sinclair and Nexstar caving to pressure and returning Jimmy Kimmel’s show to all local stations shows that media conglomerates “can say no” to the Trump administration. www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...msnbc.com‘Surprised’ by public pushback, affiliates bring Kimmel back on air, says GrynbaumMichael Grynbaum, media correspondent for the New York Times, joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss how Sinclair and Nexstar caving to pressure and returning Jimmy Kimmel’s show to all local stations sh... 2724953
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Officially a tyrant: Trump announced Saturday that he will send troops to Portland, Oregon, and to immigration detention facilities around the country, authorizing “Full Force, if necessary” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comTrump deploys troops to Portland, authorizing ‘full force’ if necessaryThe action escalates a campaign to use the U.S. military against Americans that has little modern precedent. 2101243539
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/09/2025This is what Ice is doing in front of the cameras, imagine what they’re doing when no one is filming 56264452240
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 22/09/2025“I’m less careful about medical claims than is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” is quite a flex. 28599104
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/09/2025"The $42 billion initiative, created by Biden's infrastructure bill, aimed to close the digital divide, with a focus on rural communities. Trump’s changes to the program have disqualified hundreds of thousands of locations from receiving internet access..." www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fewe...newsfromthestates.comFewer households, businesses will get high-speed internet under revamped federal planLEFT HAND, W. Va. — The residents of Roane County, West Virginia, enjoy living among the rolling mountains and winding, two-lane roads. Situated between Charleston and Parkersburg, two of the state’s ... 1111273660
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 12/09/2025Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.socialpropublica.orgPrograms for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity PushCiting concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc... 9222611273
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 05/09/2025I bet the folks over at "The Free Press" are going to have a field day with this one! 3035791
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Over a quarter of all homes sold in the first three months of 2025 were bought by real estate investors. If we want to make housing affordable again, we must get Wall Street out of our homes. youtu.be/q9TOGxDJ0TE?feature=sharedyoutu.beHow Wall Street Priced You Out of a Home | Robert ReichRobert Reich 31995373782
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 22/08/2025The UN says the famine in Gaza is “entirely man-made” and “could be halted & reversed.” Trump is supposedly a “tough guy.” Well, it’s time for him to have the guts to stand up to Netanyahu and stop sending billions in U.S. tax dollars to Israel to starve children. 671216288
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialGazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 20/08/2025Reporter Eddie Kim went downtown to cover the detainment of an immigrant by ICE this morning. Then he was pepper-sprayed in the face by an ICE agent standing a foot away. Completely unprovoked. See our exclusive story and video from @eddiekimx.bsky.social here: sf.gazetteer.co/i-reported-f...sf.gazetteer.coI reported from an ICE action on Sansome and all I got was a face full of pepper sprayFederal agents are stepping up their actions against protesters and, apparently, the press 811495790
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/08/2025New — I wrote about the violent assault on a DC delivery worker this morning by masked federal agents, and how these agents have made the disturbing turn from quiet thugs to playing for the cameras.thehandbasket.coFederal agent during violent DC arrest: “Liberals already ruined” this countryTrump's thugs are proving their skull-bashing loyalty in broad daylight. 11630991310
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/08/2025There are historical cases, going back hundreds or thousands of years, of humans reacting quickly to climate change. And then there is the current case of humans both causing the climate change and refusing to react to it. www.wired.com/story/kerr-c...wired.comThe Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to ComeMounting evidence shows no US state is safe from the flooding that ravaged Texas’ Kerr Country. 451346442
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialNina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 30/07/2025The deliberate starvation of Gaza was predicted 18 months ago by the top UN expert on the right to food. This is not unexpected, our political leaders knew this what they were backing @michaelfakhri.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...theguardian.comIsrael is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert saysExclusive: UN special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri says denial of food is war crime and constitutes ‘a situation of genocide’ 13760304
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/08/2025An inevitable stand-off created by this Court’s distorted interpretation of the 14th Amendment to require colorblindness. How can a legislature could draw districts that don’t violate the Voting Rights Act w/o looking at race? It can’t be done. But the Court’s rightwing could not care less. 21837289
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialZeteo @zeteo.com · 31/07/2025Centrist Democrats are now scrambling to act as if they've always been against Israel's genocide in Gaza, despite several of them recently posing for a photo with Benjamin Netanyahu. Zeteo's Frank Cappello returns as our (fake) centrist Democrat to imagine the deflections they would use. 44833194
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/07/2025If you believe all human beings are created b’tzelem Elohim, in God’s image, then you must speak up now against the daily atrocities in Gaza. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...haaretz.comIn the not-so-distant future, Israel will have to reckon with its war crimes in Gaza | Opinion*** 202102543
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman and Big Tech are worse than you can imagine. Adam Michael Becker has done the research and reveals their master plan, ideologies, and super villain designs. He joins me now on The Left Hook to break it down. Join us live@ thelefthook.substack.comthelefthook.substack.comThe Left Hook with Wajahat Ali | SubstackA political, cultural, and intellectual playground for the rest of us with writer Wajahat Ali. Click to read The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscriber... 17337126
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 18/07/2025The Trump administration has decided to destroy $9.7m worth of contraceptives rather than send them abroad to women in need.theguardian.comTrump administration to destroy nearly $10m in contraceptives 45498348
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/07/2025I wonder if history offers any examples of leaders who survive assassination attempts who turn out to not be divine? (My mom, daughter of a US Army officer, spent her teens in post-war Germany and became friends w/ the children of Claus von Stauffenberg, so there's one example that comes to mind). 1510814
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialFree Press @freepress.bsky.social · 15/07/2025"Anything less than immediate release is a continued assault on Mr. Guevara's freedom and sends a chilling message to others who exercise their constitutional rights." - Free Press' @attorneynora.bsky.social via @atlantaciviccircle.org atlantaciviccircle.org/2025/07/09/i...atlantaciviccircle.orgWhy is ICE still imprisoning Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara?Although he was granted bond last week, Guevara remains in ICE custody after being shuffled through five Georgia jails and ICE prisons. 0215
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2025 REPORTER: Will you commit to include California in any disaster aid package? MIKE JOHNSON: We've not seen the formal disaster relief request from California yet REPORTER: The formal request was sent to your office in February 2368311839358
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Congrats everyone, Trump just raised tariffs on Mexican tomatoes for no apparent reason. Mexico currently supplies around 70% of the U.S. tomato market apnews.com/article/mexi...apnews.com 70591203
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialEveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Take action against book bans in the United States at www.bookbanpetition.us 03513
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13/07/2025My colleagues and I strongly condemn the effort to expel MK Ayman Odeh from the Israeli Knesset, which is a direct response to Odeh’s brave calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. If Israel is going to call itself a democracy, it must tolerate peaceful dissent. 491448210
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/07/2025UTAH… this is not a game… 1464218169640
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialPBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/07/2025A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold." 4263894211256
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialJonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025I want to add a small but suggestive experience to this. In a recent piece I did for @newyorker.com about ICE arrests of Democratic officials and lawmakers, we got a comment from the White House, in which a spokesperson said that the magazine was “encouraging lawless behavior” by reporting on it. 28993355
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled. 10684008111215
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialPolling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Nationally - Net Support For Mamdani's Policies: Raises Taxes On Corporations/Millionaires: +43% Free Child Care For Children Under 5 Years: +38% Freezing Rent For Lower-Income Tenants: +38% Government-Owned Grocery Stores: +20% Eliminating Fares On Public Buses: +10% YouGov / June 30, 2025 1004502966
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2025The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...nytimes.comAs Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas 886242408407
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/07/2025"The DOD held up a shipment of US weapons for Ukraine this week over what officials said were concerns about its low stockpiles. But an analysis by senior military officers found the aid package would not jeopardize the US military’s own ammunition supplies ... it was a unilateral step by Hegseth."nbcnews.comHegseth halted weapons for Ukraine despite military analysis that the aid wouldn’t jeopardize U.S. readinessThe move blindsided the State Department, Ukraine, European allies and members of Congress, who demanded an explanation from the Pentagon. 42534721525
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/07/2025I guess she hasn't read it. 4385497990
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 27/06/2025“You know what would help a lot? Some elite disapproval—publicly and boldly expressed. While a successful democracy depends on some degree of reasonableness from voters, a successful liberal democracy also depends on responsibility and even courage from elites.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-public...thebulwark.comThe Public Is Resisting Trump. The Elites Aren’t.The president is encountering little resistance as he remakes our society. And yet polling is clear that voters aren’t with him. 19142351019
Reposted by @k7d5austin.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/06/2025Brilliant. 10/10. No notes. 1003436649905
