iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21h

the only suitable response if they try this shit

1116315

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

9660003432

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Peoria Bummer @peoriabummer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There’s also a dangerous framing lurking in this conversation we should call out and explicitly reject. Israel engaging in collective punishment of Palestinians for acts of terrorism is morally wrong and criminal. No act of terrorism, no matter how reprehensible, justifies collective punishment.

0692

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.

884015697

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Analog Assassin @analogassasin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Change isn’t easy for me - the big changes in life, new phases, pivots, resets. I’ve had LOTS of them - including 3 marriages and divorces, and 1 of 2 children moving onto adulthood (the 2nd w/ one foot out the door). BIG changes. Moving into a new pot w/ fresh soil is a shock. #typewriter #poetry

051

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Analog Assassin @analogassasin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“… fragments passing through me …” #typewriter #poetry

031

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

102630632

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This shit makes me so mad. I voted for her, but she never once said she’d stop arming Isreal while campaigning and the people that thought she’d never stop arming Isreal so couldn’t vote for her are the problem? MAYBE SHE SHOULD HAVE SAID IT

001

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

these people had so much more to lose than Sheeran, mad respect

0357

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The title is a military acronym — it's the Israeli army's euphemism for civilians expected to be killed in an attack. One insider from a unit reporting directly to Netanyahu's office said their mission was to "thwart peace."

03011

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One lovely thing Chris Hayes brought up in his tribute to Gloria Stenheim was that she always respected and encouraged each new generation of feminists. Of course Penn thinks, “kids are stupid”is a new idea when actually it’s the oldest lamest laziest thing ever.

000

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Analog Assassin @analogassasin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“… as my lips made contact …” #typewriter #poetry

051

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/09/2026

This seems absurdly simple, but: Republicans talk *all the time* about how Democrats are bad. Not this or that individual Democrat, but the party, the ideology, the very idea of Democrats. Democrats almost never do this about Republicans. Not in a coordinated, concerted way.

881593302

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

someone posted (on threads) that opening up threads is like a lil phone cigarette and yes

294465483

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 03/09/2026

If they do in fact build this, I want it torn down before February 1, 2029.

Tweet from the interior secretary with four photos of the tacky Arc de Trump

Secretary Doug Burgum @SecretaryBurgum
X.com
We are pleased to announce that after a very long wait (over 125 years!), we are preparing to start, over the next two-week period, the excavation work necessary for the Great Triumphal Arch and Military Observation Deck, at Memorial Circle on Columbia Island between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. This will be one of the Great Pieces of American Architecture, honoring the history and significance of Arlington Cemetery and befitting the most powerful Capital in the World.
3:01 PM • 9/3/26 • 101K Views

81687124

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Each of us can do something meaningful to lessen suffering. This is borne out daily.

124571

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Moderation isn’t the answer — progressive populism is. I don’t understand how some members of my party hate the DSA and Hasan Piker more than literal white supremacists in our government. Especially if Democrats actually want to win.

1883969731

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Again, I know I sound like a broken record, but general fucking strike. We have actual concentration camps in the USA and everyone in a position of power expects us to just keep working.

seattletimes.com

Green card holder, 76, with Stage 4 cancer held in Tacoma ICE facility

Family members and community supporters are seeking Loreto Javar's immediate release and demanding he receive proper medical care while living at home.

413655

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I really wish California’s congressional delegation had a talent pipeline other than “whoever Nancy takes a liking to”. Something to look into if the state ever gets real political parties.

634029

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Analog Assassin @analogassasin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“… flitted …” #typewriter #poetry

051

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."

8650381163

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

anyway, as quite a few ppl have noted, you can both work tirelessly to see the destruction of ICE while also taking a little joy at a craven sociopath being jammed into the ethnic cleansing woodchipper, as a treat

323438

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Mike Rogers just held a rally where he hugged Donald Trump, embraced him on stage. Did any of you hear about that? The media wants you to think that Rogers' association with the President is less relevant for the public to be informed about than Abdul El-Sayed's association with a Twitch streamer.

141474328

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

we have always been at war with east aflac

141070151

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

To paraphrase my friend @brendannyhan.bsky.social: if those things were happening in another country, anyone would recognize this as a 12-alarm fire. Here we’re basically left telling ourselves, “but he won’t be able to pull that off!”

423941

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

As a white person growing up in Iowa, nothing made me understand the ways race is key to understanding pretty much everything in this country than the many African American Studies classes I took at the Univeristy of Iowa in the 90s. I guess it’s not hard to understand why they shut it down.

324351

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

On the Jeffries imbroglio, it looks at the very least like he got played for a sucker; to regain trust, he’d have to debrief House Dems and free them to talk to the press (or just discuss the Kushner meeting directly). But it’s a bad omen. www.offmessage.net/p/hakeem-jef...

offmessage.net

We Need To Hear From Jeffries

He needs to be drawing redlines, not signaling compromise. Did he get snookered, or does he really intend to work cooperatively with thieves?

70861184

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Mainstream Democrats want every member of the Trump regime tossed in prison and Jeffries is talking with Kushner about their common ground on immigration.

21922180

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22/08/2026

I am getting reports that in retaliation for scuttling the deal, Mark Carney has deployed Caillou to John Roberts' house

2281778

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Jake (Real) @jakemhs.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

the thing about "champagne socialists" is that a lot of us know we were extraordinarily lucky due to the circumstances of our birth and want better lives for everyone as a result, I do not understand how this is supposed to be a gotcha

421487170

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 21/08/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Aisha Wahab on securing this big win in the CA-14 special election! Despite millions in outside spending against Dr. Wahab, Congress just added a real Democratic fighter who will focus on making life better for working families and life worse for the Trump regime!

(around a photo of Dr. Aisha Wahab) CONGRATULATIONS
Aisha Wahab
US CONGRESS, CA-14

7536139

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

as I understand it from my reading and research, those promoting ai labor as the future of work (with caveats that it might not be a useful moniker) explicitly promise that ai workers won’t become a professional class. that is the selling point. Expertise with labor power.

2746

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Analog Assassin @analogassasin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Threepete offender … #typewriter #poetry

031

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

When a President with his own plane claims it's too hard for him to vote in person, would GOP politicians and Fox News like to explain why, for example, a working mother or someone working two jobs to pay the rent should have no problem waiting in line on election day?

15057261793

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes

121126332126

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is a very dangerous lunatic. RFK Jr: “The polio vaccine "killed many, many more people" than polio ever did.”

2442126183971

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

variety.com/2026/film/ne... Damn. Hayden Panettiere was only 36. Goddamn Hollywood, hounding her and abusing her. Sigh. Rest in power, Hayden. I never watched Nashville, but I did love the first season of Heroes and the video game Until Dawn, she was great in those.

variety.com

Hollywood Failed Hayden Panettiere

Hayden Panettiere, the star of “Remember the Titans,” “Heroes” and “Scream,” passed away at the age of 36. And Hollywood failed her terribly.

981612274

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

many "centrists" agree with Cofnas and when they complain about "wokeness" and "political correctness" they often mean that they are not allowed to express this stupid idea — that black people in smart-guy jobs shouldn't be there and should be like, sprinters and jazz musicians instead — explicitly

351920365