Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten. 13784151113651
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 13/12/2025We’re def going back to the “roaring 50s” with a nice measles outbreak. Nice work MAHA n stuff 414107992148
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/12/2025No cherry-picking. No party filter. Just receipts. And a lot of powerful men are terrified right now. KASIE HUNT: “Do you have pictures of people engaged in sexual acts as part of this?” REP. SUBRAMANYAM: “Yes, there are people engaged in sexual acts.” @repsuhas.bsky.social 552101754102
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialChicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 14/12/2025Multiple people were shot Saturday in the area of Brown University, police said, as the Ivy League school issued an active shooter alert and urged students and staff to take shelter during the second day of final exams.trib.alPolice search Brown University after shooter kills 2 and wounds 8 on campusMultiple people were shot Saturday in the area of Brown University, police said, as the Ivy League school issued an active shooter alert. 5198
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialFrank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 14/12/2025No parent wants this text. Thinking of the Brown University community. 38098472713
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/10/2025"Frivolity and absurdity are kryptonite to authoritarians..." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Rise of the Inflatable Chicken Resistance 389121403076
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/10/2025It’s book launch day for Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual For Keeping A Democracy, my first book. I hope you’ll read it or listen to it. a.co/d/43dbybC 27675181572
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialRep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 21/10/2025Enough is enough. Adelita Grijalva was elected on September 23. The people of Arizona have a right to be represented in Congress. During today’s pro forma session, when the House is called to order I will seek unanimous consent to insist upon the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva. 954317587233
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialMother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/07/2025The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that private citizens have no standing to sue for disability-based violations of the Voting Rights Act—the landmark federal statute that protects, among other things, the right to voting assistance for disabled people.motherjones.comVoters can't sue for disability discrimination, court rulesThe conservative Eighth Circuit restricted voting rights enforcement to state officials—even in notoriously anti-voter states. 33382198
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialJessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 29/07/2025"He wants the world to know what happened to him in the Salvadoran prison — daily beatings, humiliation, psychological abuse. 'There is no reason for what I went through,” he said. “I didn’t deserve that.'" A haunting dispatch from @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/vene...propublica.orgHe Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court. Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison.Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to ... 11902375
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialCheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Trump threatens media "brass" to mutilate journalism because reporting on him accurately can end him. He controlled Roger Ailes, Jeff Zucker, Washington Post, New York Times, ABC, CBS, and is threatening a lawsuit because he couldn't control The Wall Street Journal -- THIS time. 96919
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 12/07/2025I don’t feel the need to talk at length about this but no, the President cannot strip a natural born citizen of their citizenship. Period. End of discussion. There are not two fucking sides to this. It cannot be done. 4238674
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/07/2025I continue to pledge allegiance to this flag, and all of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and to the Rules Committees that approved them (subject to congressional review), one judiciary, under Article III, occasionally confounding, but ultimately, I pray, protecting liberty and justice for all. 10902147
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialDoug Jones @dougjones.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Hey folks, take a look at this brilliant idea by my friend Andrew Aydin - telling the stories of Hurricane Helene vivitms with COMICS. This can reach so many people. Please consider supporting however you feel comfortable. Folks in W NC still need our help www.kickstarter.com/projects/app...kickstarter.comIslands in the SkyA Comic Anthology - Uniting Stories, Art, and Survival in the Wake of Hurricane Helene 36818
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialMax Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 03/07/2025On May 28, Trump said he would know in 2 weeks whether Putin was “tapping us along.” More than a month later, Trump isn’t doing anything differently even as Russia shows no sign of ending its aggression. wapo.st/3TpyKw2wapo.stOpinion | Trump showed moral clarity on Iran. He should do the same for Ukraine.Iran’s regime drew decisive action from the president, yet he continues to indulge Vladimir Putin. 1310522
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialNikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 24/06/2025There are moments when you can very clearly tell that Karoline Leavitt is a 27 year old and this right here is one of them 1921700231
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialMS NOW @ms.now · 26/06/2025Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas, the real-life brothers behind the @meidastouch.com, join @nicollewallace.bsky.social on her podcast “The Best People,” to discuss Trump’s playbook of distraction, the FOX News effect & much more. WATCH the full episode on YouTube here: www.msnbc.com/thebestpeople 11575111
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 26/06/2025The word "Kafkaesque" fails to do justice to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, migrant Everyman who got in his car and ended up in a Salvadoran gulag, with a regime that will never let him free Why they defy judges and invent crimes to deny one man due process. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/kilm...inquirer.comWhy Trump regime shattered the Constitution to crush a 29-year-old Maryland laborer | Will BunchTrump's Justice Department is defying judges and fabricating charges to deny freedom to Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Here's why. 21785333
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Which of you Democrats leaked it?! 9432637
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Sorry and with respect to the military who are participating, this parade is a costly mistake. Low energy, politicized by Trump, meh crowds, degrading the military it seeks to honor. A dud. But worse because it is intended by Trump to coopt military power to serve his personal goals. 19532109
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Reporter: I'm going to show you what 20,000 people in the streets of downtown Los Angeles looks like 531355397957
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14/06/2025Trump’s twisted ideological obsession with deporting moms—and other unauthorized immigrants who have committed no serious crimes—is detracting from the fight against transnational gangs, drug trafficking, and child exploitation. trib.al/IYjL258trib.alStephen Miller Erupts in Fury over Low Arrests—and Hands Dems a WeaponHitting Miller’s new deportation quotas could mean fewer resources to fight child trafficking, terrorism, and other crimes. Do Americans really want that? 1620585
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/05/2025Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united. 852248216136
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Not a coincidence. 1871233395652
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Weigel: Authoritarian—that’s a fine word to use. If we were watching Canada do this, or France do this, right now—say, ‘We’re not letting any Americans into the school for political reasons’—we’d probably use that word. So I don’t know why it would be anathema when it’s happening here. 574905936
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 26/05/2025This is completely false and not From Liz or me. 573104392950
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialMiaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Let’s make it happen!💙💙💯 331069298
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/05/2025The administration’s “mass deportations” policy is in conflict with other priorities they claim, especially human trafficking. People suffer if our commitment lags. substack.com/home/post/p-... 963960895
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Wonder how many people Trump is negotiating foreign policy and tariffs with, that have children and other relatives going to Harvard and other Ivy League schools ? 853209813237
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialVaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Conservative capitalists will be like "oh, you believe in social democracy? That pales in comparison to my strategy, supporting fascism to protect my profits" and then the fascists don't protect their profits 411925
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialSteve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 17/05/2025A massive boom that rocked downtown Palm Springs late this morning around appears to be a car explosion near the American Reproductive Centers clinic. www.desertsun.com/live-story/news/l…desertsun.com 36326
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialdavidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 18/05/2025Trump's pal Putin bombed a bus filled with elderly women fleeing other Russian attacks.theguardian.comZelenskyy calls for tougher Moscow sanctions after deadly Russian strike on busUkraine’s president describes attack on minibus reportedly carrying mostly elderly women as ‘deliberate killing of civilians’ 15424
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/05/2025An explosion outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California on Saturday killed at least one person in what appears to be an intentional act of violence, Police Chief Andrew Mills said.washingtonpost.comOne dead in explosion at Palm Springs fertility clinic, police sayThe blast appears to have been ‘an intentional act of violence,’ the local police chief said, and severely damaged several buildings. 1911541505
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialMarc N Cunat @marccunat.bsky.social · 17/05/2025She be cray-cray. 901472213
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Fact-check: True 247194655985
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/05/2025👇👇 927235427576
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialCaitlyn Kim @caitlynkim.bsky.social · 17/05/2025GOP Medicaid proposal would cost thousands of Coloradans their health coverage, roll back ‘federal support for health care’ www.cpr.org/2025/05/16/r... via @codaleynews.bsky.social #copoliticscpr.orgGOP Medicaid proposal would cost thousands of Coloradans their health coverage, roll back 'federal support for health care'The plan, as it stands on Friday afternoon, would reduce federal spending on Medicaid by $625 billion. 412172
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/05/2025What happens when there are no more tornadoes warnings? joycevance.substack.com/p/when-the-c...joycevance.substack.comWhen the Cuts Hit HomeI am not an alarmist. 40553011801
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialAmerican Oversight @americanoversight.org · 16/05/2025During a hearing this week, RFK Jr. defended massive agency cuts and dodged questions about vaccination. Earlier this year, he also appears to have dodged a CDC planning exercise related to bird flu. americanoversight.org/rfk-jr-appea...americanoversight.orgRFK Jr. Appears to Have Skipped January CDC Planning Exercise on Bird Flu - American OversightAs concerns mount about the spread of bird flu, documents recently obtained by American Oversight indicate that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was not present at a transition-period CDC tablet... 2027887
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 17/05/2025U2 frontman Bono appeared on the red carpet with #Ukrainian soldiers. At the premiere of a documentary based on his autobiography late on Friday, May 16, he stated that the world is once again threatened by fascism, just as it was when the festival was founded in 1939 10966671585
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/05/2025It’s not just Newark: Nearly all air traffic control facilities in the U.S. are understaffed.nytimes.comNewark Airport's Crisis Puts Spotlight on U.S. Air Traffic Controller ShortageAs of May 7, all but two of the 313 air traffic control facilities in the United States were understaffed, a New York Times analysis found. 48484963056
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialleeia @hey-leia.bsky.social · 16/05/2025I'm so happy someone dug this up from the past. #moodys 16421119
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialNeil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 17/05/2025The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this. 35989362938
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17/05/2025As Donald Trump leads America down the path to becoming a failed state, we have lost 24/7 weather services in parts of the country. Along with massive deterioration in Social Security services caused by Musk, American decline at the hands of billionaires couldn't be more stark. 681303537
Reposted by @laura-fairfield.bsky.socialThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14/05/2025Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced questions from lawmakers in a pair of hearings Wednesday and did not directly answer whether he would vaccinate his own children against chicken pox and polio. He paused before answering, “Probably.” 3243093781