Kristin Cherry Jackson @kisforcrafty.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Tell me again how this is the pro-life party. 010 0
Kristin Cherry Jackson @kisforcrafty.bsky.social · 27/08/2025For those on FB: I made a West Coast version of that viral “What to do if you see an ICE raid” post that’s been going around. This one has CA/OR/WA hotline numbers and Spanish translation (thanks, Google!). www.facebook.com/696898948/po... 110 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Spot on. It’s happening right now…this is how it starts. 574167525576 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/07/2025You wouldn’t vacation in Dachau in 1935. Don’t vacation in Florida in 2025. 964308069522 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry Jacksonill-boo-mi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 04/07/2025My Reagan-loving father in law asked what I thought of “the transgender athlete” stuff so I told him there are something like less than 20 transgender high school athletes in the country and the Nazis started with destroying the Berlin Institute of Sexology and now he’s in a rabbit hole. 1035349 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry Jackson@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Looks like the embattled National Weather Service did it's job here. It was Texas officials who failed to act on the weather service warnings for FOUR HOURS. Read this from Austin local news KXAN-TV: www.kxan.com/investigatio... 66915450 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025I hope everyone is having a good Fourth of July break. Here is how I ended up spending some of mine... 1/n 1324857 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/07/2025ICE just became the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the entire country. There’s no telling what Trump is planning to unleash now. 2442669962 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 05/07/2025One thing that is weird about the Mandami story is the focus on the checked boxes, not the rest of the application (which presumably contains essays or other written statements). Admissions people actually read those! (especially at a school like Columbia, in an era of paper applications) 1/ 541347133 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Oh the prescient and righteous critiques of the only Black woman on the court “test her colleagues’ patience”? Hmmm gosh, wonder what’s going on there… 632514437 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/07/2025Pretty clear that this will be the vehicle SCOTUS will use to deny equal protection to transgender people. While the case will be about sports, that decision would essentially strip all rights on transgender status or sex for trans people. It would make virtually any law permissible. 271796416 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonPatrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships 11146072095 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 04/07/2025I had the pleasure to chat with Thor Benson for Public Notice on how Trump and Hegseth are dangerously politicizing the military. 27522152 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing. 43709648337470 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Musk will be responsible for the deaths of 14,000,000 people. That’s a genocidal amount of death. 381255427 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/06/2025This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙 222258373997 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonJosh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen. 8785585216965 0
Kristin Cherry Jackson @kisforcrafty.bsky.social · 05/07/2025This take-no-shit post from JAMA earlier today, on the 4th of July (no coincidence), is flying under the radar and I am just *waiting* for it to blow🌋🔥🍿 It’s JAMA giving 🍊💩one big, fat middle finger. 🧵 (1/5) 221 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonBenjamin Dillon (Charts Guy) @chartedbenjamin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025The US is spreading a preventable disease to its neighbors. America is like a third-world country now. www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/measl…ctvnews.caMeasles jumps borders in North America with outbreaks in Canada, Mexico and U.S.North America’s three biggest measles outbreaks continue to balloon, with more than 2,500 known cases. 12314 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonKye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 13/05/2025BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back. 12465035612815 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonAlt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 21/04/2025HHS Eliminated Programs - Updated Here is an updated list of all programs eliminated in the 2026 HHS Budget. Reach out if you have information or clarity on the cuts. These cuts will impact Every Single American. Email altcdc1@pm.me for PDF and xlsx. 59862603 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/20251/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs. 6863103111487 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/04/2025This is their argument. In court. Not just a theory. From today at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-told... 281122382 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 14/04/2025That business model for scores of online sellers is threatened by Trump's new tariffs — including eliminating the exemption for small parcels from import taxesbloomberg.comEtsy Artisans, Shoppers Poised for Pain Under Trump’s Tariff PlansPam Duthie, a 51-year-old UK-based artisan, built her business selling Americans a unique way to capture their love of their furry friends. 25926 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonPatricia Zengerle 🎃 @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Good questions 1559 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Aren't you tired of how central money is to our democracy? To give a sense of out-of-kilter we are, a single state court race saw significantly more spending than the entire United Kingdom national election. Thanks John Roberts! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-bigges... 191134375 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonRogueFEMA @roguefema.altgov.info · 02/04/2025They literally want people to die before growing old enough to draw social security. 77512 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/04/2025NEW at PROOF: An admittedly terrifying report on what is likely to happen in the United States over the next twelve months. Reader discretion advised.sethabramson.substack.comThe Dozen Most Likely Paths to Mass Civil Disorder in America, Now That Trump Admits He Will Seek An Illegal Third TermAmerica will never be the same, now that a burgeoning fascist in the White House has simultaneously announced plans to ignore judicial rulings he dislikes and illegally seize a third term in office. 1302154765 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonShepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 02/04/2025People keep saying Senator Booker's filibuster was meaningless and people who were moved by it are naive and gullible but I lived and organized in a south where this record stood and slavery and Jim Crow cast a long shadow and I tell you Booker taking that record means something. 42914486 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/04/2025Senator Cory Booker, his voice still booming after more than a day spent on the Senate floor railing against the Trump administration, surpassed Strom Thurmond for the longest Senate speech on record, in an act of astonishing stamina that he framed as a call to action. nyti.ms/4iXMx8m 352071235 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 04/01/2025👀 Praxis is a Thiel-backed “network state” project that aims to build its OWN COUNTRY. In Nov, Praxis founder Dryden Brown wrote about wanting Greenland 4 Praxis. In Dec, Trump named Thiel partner Ken Howery as ambassador to Denmark & said the US shld buy Greenland. Praxis & Dryden are thrilled...1/ 20222821379 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025This comes on top of Trump not being aware of The Atlantic bombshell story about his military and foreign policy officials planning an international attack (which Trump also seemed out of the loop on). Is he just not doing national security briefings, or does he not remember what he was told? 771307290 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/03/2025so to be absolutely clear: the black man hired for the job did it competently for four years, only to be replaced by the unqualified white guy who has careened from fuck up to fuck up think ive got that right. 22762041530 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 27/03/2025When this video was first texted to me, I assumed it was from Iran. The way she screams, she was wearing a hijab, and the way the law enforcement approached her—it looked no different from the way Islamic Republic authorities arrest women. It’s from Massachusetts, of course. 38919302 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonRebekah @rebel4ever.bsky.social · 27/03/2025My dear friends of Bluesky! This one has hit way too fing close to home for me. This young woman, Rumeysa Ozturk from Istanbul, Turkey wax detained by US Homeland Security today. One of her professors at Tufts University in Medford, MA just spent a week in my home in Charleston, SC. 9198104 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonTammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 26/03/2025Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately. 20775891412489 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/03/2025And what are Wisconsin prosecutors doing about it? 12324100 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 19815602021195 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics. 35568131684 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonCiara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 27/03/2025They didn’t learn this lesson from Matt Gaetz’s Venmo? ‼️🧐 14412 0
Kristin Cherry Jackson @kisforcrafty.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence." The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information." 100 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry Jacksonstephen fowler @stphnfwlr.com · 26/03/2025NEW: An @npr.org review of thousands of pages of records across more than a dozen federal lawsuits finds an alarming pattern across agencies, where DOGE has given conflicting information about what data it has accessed, who has that access, and most importantly — why. w/@jennamclaughlin.bsky.socialnpr.orgDOGE says it needs to know the government's most sensitive data, but can't say whyDOGE staffers have skirted privacy laws, training and security protocols to gain virtually unfettered access to financial and personal information stored in siloed government databases. 691306538 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Remember when Edolf first took over Twitter and anyone could buy verification, but he somehow couldn't anticipate all the impersonations, and a fake blue check Eli Lilly account tweeted insulin would be free and tanked their stock? Yeah, that's the guy who's in your Social Security account. 271788446 0
Reposted by Kristin Cherry JacksonThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/03/2025Groups representing university professors sued the Trump administration on Tuesday. The lawsuit says the detention of noncitizen students and faculty members deprives U.S. citizens of their right to engage with foreign-born peers and to hear their perspectives.nytimes.comProfessors Sue Trump Administration Over Arrests of Campus ProtestersThe lawsuit says the detention of noncitizen students and faculty members deprives U.S. citizens of their right to engage with foreign-born peers. 10497102 0
Kristin Cherry Jackson @kisforcrafty.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Great analysis. Now we just need some company to use this argument to sue the administration to rescind tariffs. The obvious choices would be Walmart, Target, Dollar Tree…and Amazon. That puts Jeff Bezos in a pretty sticky position. 000 0
Kristin Cherry Jackson @kisforcrafty.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Our national security is in the toilet. Our Secretary of Defense and VP are using Signal chats to coordinate about national security decisions…and accidentally adding the Editor-in-Chief of the Atlantic to the chat. Holy smokes. The incompetence is beyond words… 210 0
Kristin Cherry Jackson @kisforcrafty.bsky.social · 13/03/2025It’s crucial that we are vocal and demand dignity for trans and queer people, at every opportunity! If we don’t, the other side assumes that we agree with them, and that they have successfully shamed us into silence. (🧵) 100 0