Reposted by LaurenAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Julia Roberts: Renee Nicole Goode is not a symbol. She is an American woman, a queer woman who was doing the very best she could do to be good in an unjust world. And I am honored to celebrate her life and her legacy tonight, because the life she gave is our responsibility to carry. 5369421711
Reposted by LaurenCorduroy Cheddar @corduroycheddar.bsky.social · 29/05/2026A jam with Born Miserable I did a while ago, a wonderful person who should not be in Bluesky jail I HAVE SPOKEN #freebornmiserableyoutu.beMy Love Life (Morrissey cover) - Born Miserable with CheddsYouTube video by Korzel 19831
Reposted by LaurenPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/05/2026However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions. 12432361134
Reposted by LaurenNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026The Trump admin’s whole case regarding Haitians in Ohio is racism, xenophobia, and lies. There’s literally nothing else to it. Legal status, proper papers. No criminal record. Employers, neighbors, local leaders say they’re a benefit to the community. It’s showy, bigoted cruelty, nothing more. 151251446
Reposted by LaurenLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Measles is airborne and has a basic reproduction number (R0) of 12–18, which means each infected person could infect 12–18 other susceptible people (the unvaccinated are particularly vulnerable). 1013370
Reposted by LaurenMark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 30/04/20251/ 80 years ago yesterday, US forces liberated #Dachau concentration camp. My maternal grandfather #DavidMaxEichhorn, a Jewish Chaplain, was there. I will spend next week documenting from contemporaneous reports what he saw & did. #NeverForget #NeverAgain www.history.com/this-day-in-...history.comU.S. Army liberates Dachau concentration camp | April 29, 1945 | HISTORYOn April 29, 1945, the U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberates Dachau, the first concentration camp established by Germany’s Nazi regime. A major Dachau subcamp was liberated the same day... 691830564
Reposted by LaurenChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Something I hope everyone covers this tomorrow notes is that...the President has no authority whatsoever to make trade deals without congress. None. Not even the pretext of one. 389118253185
Reposted by LaurenPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 27/04/2025the primary reason you impeach him is because every waking moment of American civic and political life should be about the incompetence and tyranny of Donald Trump 321349172
Reposted by LaurenPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Congress says it's antisemitic to say Jesus wouldn't approve of killing Palestinian children but not antisemitic to say Jews killed Jesus 762216639
Reposted by LaurenMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27/04/2025This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”wapo.stThree U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from LouisianaThe cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens. 30665322818
Reposted by LaurenAlex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 27/04/2025This is a remarkable letter and everyone should read it. 7717266
Reposted by LaurenRicky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 27/04/2025This is how you accurately write a headline. Rolling Stone gets it. 328120304190
Reposted by LaurenAna Visneski @oceanbound.bsky.social · 25/04/2025I have gotten confirmation from sources inside the Coast Guard that this is in fact true and happened in Key West. ICE went into military housing and took the spouse of a USCG member who is currently out to sea. 18352602763
Reposted by LaurenCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...nytimes.comU.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are JewishA questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed. 39992973254
Reposted by LaurenEuromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 25/04/2025We pay tribute to the men & women who stood to fight the Russian invaders. They will not be forgotten. RIP – Dmytro Minaiev (31), American fighter Cedric Charles Hamm, Roman Babanskyi, Serhii Balabko These put their bodies Between us and the flaming skies, Eternal Memory! 1325744
Reposted by Laurendarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 23/04/2025“i’ve always been an ignorant piece of shit my entire life guys” 1420192062593
Reposted by LaurenRobert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 21/04/2025A few weeks ago, chemical lobbyists asked the Trump administration to shut down an EPA website showing the locations of thousands of dangerous chemical facilities. The EPA just took it down.levernews.comThe Government’s Chemical Disaster Tracking Tool Just Went DarkThe chemical lobby demanded Trump make the locations of high-risk chemical plants secret. The EPA did just that. 25944682
Reposted by LaurenTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 22/11/2024Hi! You're seeing this because someone noticed you posting an image that doesn't contain alt text. This is not a scolding! You are loved! But everyone needs to be convinced using alt text is socially mandatory. (I sure had to be shown the way as well!) Would you mind reading this🧵 about it and why? 871020412
Reposted by LaurenMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I'm a lawyer and this is correct. Straight line of "blatantly illegal constitutional end-runs to violate human rights" from Iran–Contra to Gitmo to CECOT paved by the only consequences the perpetrators suffering being more money, more power, and more prestige. 6653531371
Reposted by LaurenKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/04/2025This isn't going to end until the judges start holding lawyers and DOJ officials in contempt and throwing them in jail. Even that might not end it, but there's no point trying to delay the inevitable. They're just getting bolder and more destructive as they go. 26584772128
Reposted by LaurenJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/04/2025“Hey, hey, Elon, How many kids did you kill today?” admittedly doesn’t rhyme as well as the original. But that’s not as important as Elon being responsible for the needless deaths of tens of thousands of kids. 50827283
Reposted by LaurenJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Power, Obligation and the Universities talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/power...talkingpointsmemo.comPower, Obligation and the UniversitiesIn the mid-80s, when I was a teenager, I had a brief... 1023548
Reposted by LaurenJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/04/2025DEMOCRATIC ELECTEDS: You need to be holding hearings like Raskin/Schiff did but on the bloodbaths at Social Security and IRS. DOGE can now pocket everyone's personal information. IRS is being set up to make billionaire taxes optional; no more phone support # at SSA. HOLD THE HEARINGS. 622538794
Reposted by LaurenKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Weird how the same party that insisted undocumented immigrants don't pay any taxes is now using the records of undocumented immigrants paying their taxes to find them. Of course they think it's *great* they won't be adding to our tax revenues anymore. Damn freeloaders, giving us money for nothing. 632668839
Reposted by LaurenIan Johnson @mrianjohnson.bsky.social · 06/04/2025This funny 'American Pie' parody bites hard — from a comedy show that went out a few days ago in the UK 661263610
Reposted by LaurenDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/04/2025NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony. Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law. 518206186602
Reposted by LaurenJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you. 14599184837
Reposted by LaurenThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/04/2025"If the admittedly mistaken word of someone somewhere in the vast government bureaucracy is enough to pluck a man from Maryland and deliver him to a foreign prison in mere days—what is there to protect lawful immigrants, American citizens, or anyone?"thebulwark.comWhere Does Kilmar Abrego Garcia Get His Due Process?The Trump administration’s admitted “error” could have been avoided if they’d followed the rules. 29773186
Reposted by Laurenjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/04/2025you, a rube: “i want my kid to grow up to be a doctor or an engineer or a teacher” lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford” 1625340147013
Reposted by LaurenMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Last point: the goal of protests (and direct action) isn’t to target the dictator, but to shift the public. The way to bring down dictators is through building a movement so large that the regime can’t continue. Dictators want people to be afraid. Movements win by making participation feel good. 10501114
Reposted by LaurenAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Via New York Times: “The DOJ prosecutor who questioned the Trump administration’s decision to deport a Maryland man to El Salvador has been placed on indefinite paid leave for a “failure to zealously advocate” for the department — less than 24 hours after defending the gov’t in federal court.” 26451131839
Reposted by Lauren🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 04/04/2025The most important thing you must share today. Trump is destroying your life savings and ability to make a living for 1 reason: he wants to make us all beggars who bow to him, his donors and his family. Not sure why @chrismurphyct.bsky.social hasn’t posted this here but can’t be posted enough. 331406732
Reposted by LaurenDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 28/03/2025I wrote about the goblins in charge, an old boss who bit me on the arm, and the use and abuse of contempt. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...defector.comKingdom Of The Biters | DefectorThe summer after I got married, one of my bosses bit me on the arm. I had a lot of jobs that summer, and a lot of bosses; at the time, I was recreating the sort of interchangeable, poorly paid jobs I’... 45782206
Reposted by LaurenPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Someone asked me what to do if you see someone being snatched off the street like those students detained by ICE, and whether you should ask them to tell you their family members’ numbers or their lawyer to notify them, to try to help. It’s a noble sentiment. But… /1 481230293
Reposted by LaurenChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 19825603021198
Reposted by LaurenTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary. 3252757110442
Reposted by Laurensouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 24/03/2025The Trump administration escalates its confrontation with Judge Boasberg, invoking the state secrets privilege and saying it will provide no more information to aid him in determining whether it defied his orders by trafficking detainees to El Salvador. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...storage.courtlistener.com 3132782
Reposted by Laurensouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 22/03/2025All of this is vindictive, and the swipe at Biden’s family is especially ugly (and wholly gratuitous, unless I’m missing something), but Tish James is the currently serving attorney general of New York. 37930198
Reposted by LaurenCats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 21/03/2025This account is so good for doomscrolling relief. 🐑 ☺️ 251345138
Reposted by LaurenSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 21/03/2025It's pretty remarkable that Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter but acquiring the US government only cost him around $250 million. 381513405
Reposted by LaurenAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/03/2025This is going to have significant consequences for immigration law. The State Department Human Rights Report is presumptively reliable and cited in asylum decisions all the time. If it's gutted completely (it was moderately gutted under Trump), it'll erase a major evidentiary tool for asylum cases. 10442207
Reposted by Laurensouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19/03/2025In recent years, Judge Boasberg has: - ordered the release of Hillary’s emails - ensured Trump’s tax returns never became public - restricted disclosure from the Mueller investigation - limited disclosure of grand jury material in the Trump classified docs case. The resistance, he ain’t. 17867431996
Reposted by Laurensouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15/03/2025@schatz.bsky.social when are you going to tell us what you were thinking? 1983474397
Reposted by LaurenMike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/03/2025They're already shutting this stuff down. And giving the GOP this means they get the okay to continue shutting stuff down with NO WAY for Congress to push back. THIS is the pushback. Now. Here. 441789420
