Reposted by Marge In ChargePaul Chapman @poulchapman.bsky.social · 15hPrivate Equity owns 1 out of every 8 apartments in America. Double the amount from just 5 years ago. This neo-feudalism is a massive problem for America. truthout.org/articles/pri...truthout.orgPrivate Equity Now Owns 1 in 8 Apartment Units, a 50 Percent Increase Since 2021Private equity’s expansion into housing comes at the same time as Americans are increasingly struggling to afford rent. 36473259
Reposted by Marge In ChargeNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 8h"‘But I’m Not From Ghana’: ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country Deportation" -- www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/05/t...thecityreporter.nyc'But I'm Not From Ghana': ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country DeportationImmigrants with protected status who've lived in the city for decades are finding themselves swept up, shackled and threatened with expulsion. 9190108
Reposted by Marge In ChargeEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 8hICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...austinkocher.substack.comJulian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on RecordAccording to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29. 5611314
Marge In Charge @margolovesalatte.bsky.social · 7hI believe it. The 50 Shades Of Grey 2013 baby-boom kids are turning 13 now and mine requires his own laptop, *says* he needs AirPods, new Nikes & Birkenstocks (in adult sizes— no cheap kid shoes these days), Owala water bottles, & can we please for the love stop shopping Old Navy sales for him. 🙃😳😬 000
Marge In Charge @margolovesalatte.bsky.social · 20hAlligator Alcatraz was performative and expensive and cruel. 000
Reposted by Marge In Chargejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading. 743506896
Marge In Charge @margolovesalatte.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Apparently the only CEOs Trump isn’t friends with are the CEOs of insurance companies. 000
Reposted by Marge In ChargeThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Dems getting better at this 300115813663
Marge In Charge @margolovesalatte.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Do people normally create databases of things for no reason? Like aren’t there usually goals associated with data collection? 000
Reposted by Marge In ChargeKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’m sorry, what’s that acronym again? 1952701486
Reposted by Marge In ChargeJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's hard to tell which is weirder: the fact that these guys seriously suggest that models like Claude have consciousness/sentience or that they actually invest time and money (weird!) trying to convince the Pope as well as theologians and legal scholars of this belief. 821017242
Reposted by Marge In ChargeKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There's a new wave of Democratic ads across the country that are somehow brutally partisan and incredibly effective and it's going to take some time for me to get used to this? 1213487732
Reposted by Marge In ChargeMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse. 20262392878
Reposted by Marge In ChargeSarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...alternet.orgKennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianosPhotos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week. 14916941005
Reposted by Marge In ChargeAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You really can’t make this shit up. 791149714397
Marge In Charge @margolovesalatte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I… don’t love where this appears to be heading. 000
Marge In Charge @margolovesalatte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Funny how we’ve been suspicious about this being the case… been told “no, they’re keeping you safe!”… and now it appears the suspicions were correct. 010
Reposted by Marge In ChargeMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The government's AI chatbot is able to say something that no Trump nominee is allowed to. 633235987
Reposted by Marge In ChargeSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21375792504
Reposted by Marge In ChargeTeam Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026NEW AD: Today on House Hunters, Ken Paxton is shopping for a new house. Will he buy the three-story luxury lodge in Oklahoma? The condos at a wellness resort in Utah? The ocean-view property in Hawaii? (Spoiler alert: He won’t take one — he’ll take 15.) 501786630
Reposted by Marge In ChargeBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports. 274128292111
Reposted by Marge In ChargeMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Fox News just did a long segment on this Jack Smith hearing and, you're never going to be believe this, but they didn't play any of Schmitt embarrassing himself. 451350246
Marge In Charge @margolovesalatte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think the defense that “this isn’t an ad” is fun because it was created to literally BE an ad in 2024… AND I want to know if the government used our money to pay him or his PAC back for creating it 2 years ago— or if the government is just paying for the air space (still a problem). 001
Marge In Charge @margolovesalatte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I just can’t imagine the cognitive dissonance it takes to think that Joe Schmo Republican gives a shit if Ted Cruz’s shit was looked into— prior to *absolutely nothing* happening to Ted Cruz. TMZ is following these jokers around now. Everyone knows they’re a class unto themselves. 000
Marge In Charge @margolovesalatte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oh good. A whole lotta nothin’ and then shitting the bed. 000
Marge In Charge @margolovesalatte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Clearly Ka$h was hard at work this weekend making sure his FBI agents and their families felt safe after the hack last week. Hard at work tracking down the hackers, making sure nothing got leaked… nothing to see here 🙄🙄 001
Reposted by Marge In ChargeGordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 28/09/2026I am excited and worried about the US midterms My hunch, if you deign to call it that, is the guy who tried to mount a coup last time he lost a critical election will, ya know, go Coup Two Electric Boogaloo 55853160
Marge In Charge @margolovesalatte.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Feels like a thing which does not bode well. 000
Reposted by Marge In ChargeGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo. 17744701798
Reposted by Marge In ChargeGary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Iran would like to open the Hormuz Strait, but the US controls the Hormuz Strait so it's a bad deal. Got it. 661111213
Reposted by Marge In ChargeM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Joe Walsh Is Right...... 1003205666213
Marge In Charge @margolovesalatte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Chat: is it good that in America, the government is arguing AGAINST this? Asking for millions of people. 011
Reposted by Marge In ChargeLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Life comes at you fast 672455616
Marge In Charge @margolovesalatte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Denying people their right to legal representation and to challenge the basis on which they are held is wrong and illegal. On top of that— how many of these people will be sent to third-party countries to be imprisoned without ever having any communication with anyone (potentially ever again)? 000
Marge In Charge @margolovesalatte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026He almost sounds like he just asked to give Republicans a decade of power to fix what Trump broke in less than 2 years… Did I hallucinate that? 000
Reposted by Marge In ChargeRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 13153721943
Reposted by Marge In ChargeAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 18845972952
Marge In Charge @margolovesalatte.bsky.social · 20/09/2026There’s something about hearing them say out loud that dissenting opinions literally don’t matter and shouldn’t be heard— even if they make up a significant part of the county— that is outright unAmerican and scary. 011
Reposted by Marge In ChargeBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Other news organizations should leave the White House. They can of course still cover the administration--almost none of their coverage depends on being there physically. But they shouldn't stay there, raising their hands dutifully in the briefing room, as if it's business as usual. 1372614555
Marge In Charge @margolovesalatte.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Seems bad. Something about global commodity markets and prices… 000
Marge In Charge @margolovesalatte.bsky.social · 18/09/2026They’re telling us there’s at least a 1-in-10 chance that one of these things destroys all of humanity… And it’s not the immigrants. 011
