Reposted by Melissa WeeksSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/06/2026And what will be in their goodie bags? Take a look. 42569262
Reposted by Melissa Weeksjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026the way it works is that if i say, "i'm a black american," sam alito thinks that is "dividing people up by race." but if someone says, "get that jigaboo out of my country," alito thinks, "looks like nothing to me" 16493621958
Reposted by Melissa WeeksJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 30/07/2024On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28 8155012407
Reposted by Melissa WeeksLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Yep. Trump asked “what the hell do you have to lose” by electing me, and, now, we are getting another reminder that the answer is “a lot.” 131114194
Reposted by Melissa WeeksEmily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Chris Wright is genuinely a con man selling climate denial to the world in order to enrich himself and his gas industry friends. This should be a much bigger story.heated.worldTrump sends fracking CEO to Europe to sell climate denial—and gasDebunking some of Chris Wright's most egregious lies 6284128
Reposted by Melissa WeeksMatt Sutkoski @mattweathervt.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Matt's Weather Rapport: The western U.S. has been strangely warm all winter. Things really got out of hand as February closed and March began. Now the heat is spreading east. Severe storms, too. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2026/03/abru...matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.comAbrupt Spring: Weird Summer Heat Spreading Across Much Of The U.S. Way Too Early. Severe Weather, Too!We didn't see forecast maps like this much during the winter. High chances of well above normal temperatures in the East between March 8-12... 031
Reposted by Melissa WeeksRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Wow!! Paxton - who is a candidate for the same Senate race, as Crockett, just got the Texas Supreme Court to pause the extension of time for Democratic voters to vote in Dallas, an extension a lower court granted for 2 hours because of confusion all day. Paxton clearly wants to make trouble. 31340133
Reposted by Melissa WeeksJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/03/2026More detail here: www.ms.now/news/justice...ms.nowJustice Department rescinds Biden-era ‘no-knock’ warrant policyPolicy launched after the police killing of Breonna Taylor restricted when law enforcement could burst into a home without knocking. 441137555
Reposted by Melissa WeeksJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/03/2026This is what happens when the Secretary of HHS is a guy who snorts cocaine off of a toilet seat 9830601173
Reposted by Melissa WeeksJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/03/2026The Deputy Attorney General just rescinded the policy against no knock warrants in most cases. That policy was an important public safety measure. Restricting their use saved lives. Breonna Taylor died because of one. www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/u... 721530727
Reposted by Melissa Weeksemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026WOWO. When Cory Booker asks Noem abt a warehouse she paid 2X what it was worth. She tries to filibuster. He describes that DHS refused to set up a meeting with a GOP town board that doesn't want that warehouse. 531670572
Reposted by Melissa WeeksThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026It appears we may have replaced Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khameneinytimes.comAyatollah Ali Khamenei’s Son Emerges as Leading Choice to Be His Successor 4243746955
Reposted by Melissa WeeksSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20 446102923295
Reposted by Melissa WeeksKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20/02/2026After pulling out of the World Health Organization, the Trump admin is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the global disease surveillance and outbreak functions the U.S. once helped build and accessed at a fraction of the cost, according to three officials briefed on the proposal.washingtonpost.comAfter leaving WHO, Trump officials propose more expensive replacement to duplicate itHHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the U.S. accessed through the WHO at a fraction of the cost, according to officials briefed on the matter. 70418196
Reposted by Melissa WeeksDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 20/02/2026The Republican Party of Wisconsin filed a disturbing amicus brief in support of the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking access to the state’s unredacted voter registration data. Amongst many, many unhinged claims, the filing framed anyone opposing the department’s demand as corrupt and dishonest.democracydocket.comIn unhinged brief, Wisconsin GOP compares not giving the Trump DOJ voters' personal data to Jim CrowThe Wisconsin GOP delivered a culture war-addled screed complete with typographical errors, segregation-era comparisons, anti-immigrant panic and ad hominem attacks. 1024592
Reposted by Melissa WeeksPeter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 20/02/2026The US economy grew at a 1.4% annual rate in the final three months of the year, down sharply from a 4.4% rate in the third quarter, partly because of the prolonged government shutdown. @bencasselman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/b...nytimes.comU.S. Economy Grew Modestly at End of 2025 44112
Reposted by Melissa WeeksAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/02/2026The cover-up just never ends. Rest in peace, Ruben Ray Martinez. 496190298951
Reposted by Melissa WeeksJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Brendan Carr, head of the FCC, wrote the chapter on it in Project 2025. It’s hard to know what’s worse: The administration’s efforts to intimidate journalists or CBS’s willingness to cave in. Read here to understand the issues: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...open.substack.comStephen Colbert and the First AmendmentAs if CBS hasn’t drawn enough fire for tampering with 60 Minutes’ journalistic integrity, on Monday, Stephen Colbert shared that he was told by the network’s lawyers that he couldn’t have Texas Democr... 9735171269
Reposted by Melissa WeeksJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports ... why no criminal investigation??? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...nytimes.comLabor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports 1828480
Reposted by Melissa WeeksAmee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 19/02/2026The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been barred from the department’s headquarters after at least two female staff members told officials that he had touched them inappropriately. One incident was recorded on camera. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...nytimes.comLabor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports 179055
Reposted by Melissa WeeksRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/02/2026RFK Jr/MAHA disciples, you got PLAYED. And everyone else saw it coming except you. 43453731616
Reposted by Melissa WeeksTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE. Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program. That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract! And New Mexico did the same last week:boltsmag.orgMaryland, New Mexico Become Latest Blue States to Ban Local Contracts with ICE - BoltsGovernors Lujan Grisham and Moore signed laws barring local sheriffs and police from partnering with ICE’s 287(g) program, joining a string of ten states with similar prohibitions. 383241960
Reposted by Melissa WeeksAILA @aila.org · 19/02/2026NEW: AILA is launching A Better Way on Immigration, a series of policy briefs evaluating the first year of the Trump Administration’s policies, showing the impact on Americans and presenting a forward-looking vision for immigration policy. bit.ly/4tItZOWaila.orgThink Immigration: Trump’s Chaotic Policies Show America Needs a Better Way ForwardAILA Directors of Government Relations Greg Chen and Shev Dalal-Dheini introduce AILA’s A Better Way on Immigration policy brief series about the Trump Administration’s destructive changes to the immi... 035
Reposted by Melissa WeeksEverytown for Gun Safety @everytown.org · 19/02/2026This doesn’t have to be our normal. We released a comprehensive analysis of gun violence in 2025 using EveryShot—our AI tool that tracks incidents of gun violence across the country in near-real time based on public media reports. 21612
Reposted by Melissa WeeksDetention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 19/02/2026The threat of detention warehouses harkens back to one of our most shameful periods as a nation, when warehouses were used for Japanese American incarceration in the 1940s, which caused immense suffering and generational trauma. It was wrong then and it is wrong now. 212763
Reposted by Melissa Weeksali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 19/02/2026in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away. 396093164
Reposted by Melissa WeeksMatthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 19/02/2026a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing404media.coMan Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too LongAn Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit. 12033761444
Reposted by Melissa WeeksThe Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 19/02/2026Besides posing an existential threat to our favorite nonprofit bookmobile, Antelope Lending Library (which is probably at the top of the list of reasons library haters are attacking bookmobiles).... The library haters squatting in the Iowa Statehouse are at it again. action.everylibrary.org/hf2324action.everylibrary.orgSEND AN EMAIL: Save Iowa Bookmobiles - Oppose HF2324Help support libraries across the country by taking action today! 25683264
Reposted by Melissa WeeksDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 19/02/2026This is not normal. 97905292
Reposted by Melissa WeeksAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day. 402228085422
Reposted by Melissa WeeksJon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...mprnews.orgICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin CitiesSome people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ... 28258363150
Reposted by Melissa WeeksACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity. 4654062410689
Reposted by Melissa WeeksCenter for Reproductive Rights @reprorights.org · 19/02/2026TODAY: A Texas appeals court is hearing arguments in a civil lawsuit brought by the State of Texas against our client Maria Rojas, a Houston-based midwife. 185
Reposted by Melissa WeeksJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 19/02/2026So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty. 30111073092
Reposted by Melissa WeeksJason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 19/02/2026NEW: Kathy Ruemmler shared nonpublic details with Jeffrey Epstein about the White House probe into a 2012 prostitution scandal that engulfed the Secret Service during her tenure as White House counsel, emails show www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comGoldman Lawyer, Epstein Conferred on Secret Service Prostitution ScandalIn a series of 2014 emails, the wealthy financier gave advice to the former White House counsel as the Colombian incident blew up. 46955465
Reposted by Melissa WeeksGovernor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 18/02/2026The President is lying to the public: 1) For the past century, the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor – not Maryland. The sewage pipe is on federal land. youtu.be/OKyIKHW8ONIyoutu.beThe President is Lying to the PublicYouTube video by Governor Wes Moore 794135545156
Reposted by Melissa WeeksLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19/02/2026⚠️ Trump administration plans to build a 5,000-person, 350-acre military base in Gazatheguardian.comTrump officials plan to build 5,000-person military base in Gaza, files showExclusive: approximately 350-acre compound planned as base for multinational force, according to records reviewed by the Guardian 85546
Reposted by Melissa Weeksemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026In DHS hearing Eric Swalwell erroneously says [only] two people have been killed. Todd Lyons erroneously calls Kristi Noem an elected official (while refusing to deny that Renee Good was a terrorist). www.c-span.org/event/house-...c-span.org 27422107
Reposted by Melissa WeeksRobert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Police are using Flock cameras from Texas school districts to assist ICE.theguardian.comLocal police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdownLocal police assisted federal immigration agents by repeatedly searching school cameras that record license plate numbers, data show 07953
Reposted by Melissa WeeksAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/02/2026A backgrounder is someone who conducts background checks. 423100843843
Reposted by Melissa WeeksGovernor Kathy Hochul @governor.ny.gov · 10/02/2026First the Trump Administration worked to erase transgender history from the Stonewall Monument and now they have secretly removed the pride flag — a shameful attempt to erase our LGBTQ history. I will not let this administration rollback the rights we fought so hard for.nydailynews.comLGBTQ Pride flag removed from NYC Stonewall National Monument after Trump admin. directiveApparently following orders from a Jan. 21 memo from the U.S. Department of the Interior, the large pride flag was removed over the weekend. 48524
Reposted by Melissa WeeksDee Chan @deechan17.bsky.social · 10/02/2026On Monday evening, Rachel Maddow spotlighted this group working out of Baltimore. Just another in a long list of unsung, American heroes. Donate to their project! www.thebanner.com/community/lo...thebanner.comProject Salt Box: How citizen sleuths are monitoring ICE in MarylandInside their homes scattered around the Baltimore area, the group of watchdogs is unearthing records, like property filings, contracts, and government procurements, that are otherwise overlooked. 11296203199
Reposted by Melissa WeeksAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours." 11385307916776
Reposted by Melissa WeeksWomen’s March @womensmarch.com · 26/01/2026Keep spreading the truth about what happened to Alex Pretti. 45716
Reposted by Melissa WeeksDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/01/2026Read this if you still need proof that Trump is going to try and rig the midterms👇 13406166
Reposted by Melissa WeeksAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here." 625245947764
Reposted by Melissa WeeksGovernor Kathy Hochul @governor.ny.gov · 25/01/2026Secretary Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I’m calling on her to resign. Gregory Bovino must also be fired. No one, not an ICE agent, not a federal officer, not a president, is above the law. 468164253903
Reposted by Melissa WeeksAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government 292170874985
Reposted by Melissa WeeksRenée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 26/01/2026In criticizing a lack of transparency and questionable tactics, police chiefs from Minnesota to Maine are talking about ICE/CBP the way civilians often talk about the police. 0144