Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialBryan Crockett 🇨🇦 @bryancrockett.bsky.social · 16/07/2025The US is not a safe country to visit. Going there right now is simply unfathomable to me 911105159
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialJason Dogwood 💙 🏳️🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 14/07/2025🚨This needs repeating: When they go low, we need to go lower. We are already in a Civil War. No one ever won a war because they were nice. Every time a Red state gerrymanders districts to give them an advantage, EVERY Blue state needs to gerrymander to give Democrats the advantage. #Resist 16343123
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialRicky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 11/07/2025You’ll notice ICE Gestapo never detain the owners of businesses who hire the hard working undocumented workers that the orange felon wants to terrorize on an hourly basis. Funny how that works. 32991462293
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/07/2025this angers me to no end. so many people are incarcerated for being poor. and now many are too poor to even call their families. there's a special place in hell for prison telecom companies. 8730147
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialKeith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Breaking: per FEMA sources Kristi Noem was responsible for THREE DAY DELAY in deploying search-and-rescue in Texas Fire her. Blood on her hands. 1824203818316
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialAtima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her 6864276112476
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialKayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services. 153140024684
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Sadly, this is not new! CBP for many decades routinely confiscated any medication migrants had on them and toss it in the trash. It was a part of our lawsuit against the Tucson Sector BP in 2015. 16858346
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 09/05/2025It’s important to pay attention to the fact that there are simultaneous efforts to criminalize mask-wearing by citizens and to standardize the wearing of face-obscuring gaiters by people purporting to be law enforcement. 241862698
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 07/05/2025almost all scrolling is now doomscrolling (except fashion, flowers, and pets). however, you should still avoid staying up late doing it, because sleep deprivation makes everything worse. you still deserve time to rest and recover. 620316
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Wow, finally we get some answer as to what happened! They really did just run all names through law enforcement databases and terminate SEVIS status for anyone with a match, no matter the circumstances or magnitude of the "offense" (including things like speeding tickets and even dropped charges). 201617668
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialAdrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I got lots of advice, some very specific. But one thing I heard again and again: America, you are running out of time. Here is what I learned: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comA Ticking Clock on American FreedomAutocracy is no longer something that happens only in other countries. 22510283
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialDiane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 22/04/20251. Why are falling birthrates a problem? 2. If "smaller workforce bad for economy" is your main answer, then why not open up immigration? These are the questions every journalist writing about US natality-boosting efforts should highlight before getting into the weeds of policy options. 1/2 111
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/04/2025If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans. 268226214662
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT. 437151855071
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 19/04/2025This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.wired.comThe CFPB Has Been GuttedThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency. 8863686514835
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialJoe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 19/04/2025When the Supreme Court issued its order in JGG, I joked that they had turned "habeas corpus" into a Latin shibboleth. Well now ICE has done exactly that. Nothing on this form tells the person they can seek habeas corpus relief; they have to know to say the right Latin word, or they go to CECOT. 24920
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/04/2025fighting tears 2037992225
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17/04/2025If you receive one of these bizarre, unethical, poorly written letters from Ed Martin, please send it to me so that I can write about how bizarre, unethical, and poorly written it is. Signal: annabower.24 Email: anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org 981943658
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.social Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 16/04/2025They are literally putting children, our children, in handcuffs and kidnapping them on their way to school... #revolution2025 What have we become.... 126355
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialPhilosopher Jersey Flight @jerseyflight.bsky.social · 09/04/2025This is, hands down, the most useful piece of political information to obtain on a daily based. I wish I had summations like this from day one, exactly in this format. 1434784
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten. 7554496912385
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.social Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 08/04/2025 14432
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialDiane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Thanks to a student's paper, I have now learned that the Heritage Foundation wants to cut federal spending on higher ed because education is keeping people from settling down and having kids. Literally, cut education to increase fertility rates. www.heritage.org/sites/defaul...heritage.org 062
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialEliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 05/04/2025If you’re protesting today, KNOW YOUR RIGHTS! Watch and share widely. youtube.com/shorts/Yk7pM...youtube.comIf you’re protesting today, KNOW YOUR RIGHTS! Watch and share widely.YouTube video by Eliza Orlins 210044
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Much of our discourse is invested in believing that Trump voters didn’t really vote for what he’s doing. Why do we treat these people as if they were children who do not understand things instead of holding them responsible for their ignorance and stupidity — especially when it harms all of us? 127615
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Hey NBC and Seth Meyers, y’all need to book the largest possible venue in D.C. on April 26th and do a competing fundraiser and comedy show that actually celebrates the First Amendment. Televise it. Make Amber Ruffin the central act. Send a message that free speech is non-negotiable. 208190624277
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialCongressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 28/03/2025We've heard concerning things about the Social Security Administration lately, so I decided to check for myself. SSA says Wednesday is the best day to call, so I called then. Their system told me there would be a two-hour wait time, told me to call back, and then just hung up. 861148846046
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 29/03/2025Doctors call it the Physiology of Poverty: The stress of trying to survive every day breaks the mind and the body. That's why working class people in America live SEVEN years shorter than the very wealthy. 373108412857
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialMark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 28/03/2025The fascists running our government are now targeting legal clinics for representing causes they disagree with drive.google.com/file/d/19ub0...drive.google.comFILE_1517.pdf 17454165
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialTokyo Sand @dhstokyo.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Uh guys? NBC just found out a DHS staffer accidentally added a journalist to an email thread about an ICE raid in Denver. Yeah, a completely separate incident. THAT staffer is being punished — so why aren’t Hegseth & Waltz??? 394183235775
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialA Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 29/03/2025They are counting on us to memoryhole their national security dumpster fire while they flood the zone with shit. We can’t let them. The Vice President The Secretary of Defense The Secretary of State The DNI The head of the CIA… Have all broken the law and betrayed EVERY American. #SignalGate 36721
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialBailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 29/03/2025If any random man in a mask can say he’s the police now, all it means is more women and children foreign and non foreign alike are going to be kidnapped in broad daylight and no one will stop them - we all get that right 661845607
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialMatthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 28/03/2025If I were a useful member of Congress, I’d be moving heaven and earth to get the heads of Paul Weiss and Skadden under the bright lights of a televised congressional hearing at the earliest possible instant. Give us video. We’re not winning this war with clever tweets you losers. 619733
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 28/03/2025cross-posting: if you have an iPhone, you may have pressed the power button 5x before. the phone vibrates briefly, you get options to call emergency services, power off, etc... this kicks the phone out of this AFU state. you can do it with the phone in your pocket. you should practice doing it 27912468
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialDan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Let me see if I can make this clear: Due process is the safeguard to make sure that US citizens are not deported in the event of malfeasance/incompetence/malice by ICE claiming someone is not a US citizen. 88520
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialStrahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 28/03/2025If you are a vaguely Hispanic-looking citizen or legal resident of the US who has ever gotten any ink, there is practically nothing standing between you and life in a distant foreign prison if an ICE team needs to meet a quota. 929390
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialClint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 27/03/2025They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken. 511228117464
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialMelissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 27/03/2025They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets 372162355042
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 26/03/2025"engaged in activities in support of Hamas" getting more and more meaningless every moment 19793141
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Free speech warriors and conservatives who fight for the First Amendment and bla bla bla, please defend this. A student arrested by masked individuals on campus for writing an OP-ED! Federal Government Detains International Student at Tufts www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...nytimes.comRumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICEThe university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members. 48818348
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like. 484199027361
Reposted by @lostinthemidwest.bsky.social Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 26/03/2025 818692
