Reposted by McCray WootenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026To whom it may concern: Exercising your legal right to say the worst and most harmful thing at any given moment does not transform you into a heroic defender of that right. It just makes you a miscreant. 218213
Reposted by McCray WootenACLU @aclu.org · 28/09/2026BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow essential health care to be withheld from transgender people in federal prisons. Denying medically-necessary care to any incarcerated person is cruel and unusual punishment — period. 11595192
Reposted by McCray WootenAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“Do you think the government of Israel is committing a genocide?” 1561748519
Reposted by McCray WootenSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/09/2026If European countries & other signatories to the International Criminal Court have any self-respect, they'd sanction Rubio & Trump for obstructing investigations of Netanyahu's war crimes.wsj.comExclusive | Trump Ramps Up Bid to Dismantle International Criminal CourtThe U.S. administration is preparing sweeping sanctions that would cut the court off from much of the global financial system. 742105564
Reposted by McCray WootenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“Raising immigration” is how immigration went from being a good issue for Trump to one he’s unpopular on. This is like saying you should never attack an enemy’s army since that’s where they’re strong. Often that’s WHY you have to attack it. 1421626
Reposted by McCray WootenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026To be clear, while I don’t think this is widespread among Dems or reason to help Republicans win by not voting or voting third party, it’s abhorrent and unacceptable language and should be condemned universally by Dems. 1818416
Reposted by McCray WootenAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Mike DODGERS is too cowardly to show up to debate me. 430178013681
Reposted by McCray WootenStacey Hauff @staceyhauff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Even if Amy and Vivek felt the same about the rights of trans Ohioans (they don’t), I’m curious why other policy differences wouldn’t matter. Why their positions on education, Medicaid expansion, free speech (drag show ban!), public benefits, voting rights, and immigration are outside the purview. 1312710
Reposted by McCray WootenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/09/2026They want to force denunciations of trans people so they know they control you and can force you to abandon people 920932
Reposted by McCray WootenBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Gender-affirming care saves lives, respects the rights of patients, and reflects that healthcare is supposed to be between providers and patients, not between providers and the Trump Administration. (1/3)gothamist.comMount Sinai reaches deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minorsMount Sinai is the latest in a string of U.S. hospitals to reach similar agreements with the Trump administration. 382367556
Reposted by McCray WootenDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 03/09/2026If the President of Harvard had posted what Elon did, an armed DOJ anti-Semitism strike force would already be on the way to seize the campus If just a random Harvard undergrad had posted it, DOJ would cut off its grants and launch an investigation 401985455
Reposted by McCray Wootenmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one? 653134939
Reposted by McCray WootenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Any of us could become illegal if the government suddenly declares us as such. The administration is not interested in ensuring people follow the law; it is interested in placing groups it loathes (primarily because of the color of their skin) into the category of law-breaker, so it can punish them. 320836
Reposted by McCray WootenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The "offense" committed by Haitians is that they were here legally, working jobs, completing degrees, and so forth, and then the administration abruptly revoked their status, rendering their presence illegal. They have literally been TRANSFORMED into illegal immigrants by the admin's own policies. 339486
Reposted by McCray WootenDante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This happens because Democrats squirm, which makes media want to target them, and Republicans don't squirm at all, which means that the situation gets brought up once and then fades into the background. 110010
Reposted by McCray WootenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The double standard is extraordinary. Roughly 20 times as many column inches are spent on Hasan Piker as Fuentes. Meanwhile half of Republicans under 35 are openly in the thrall of Fuentes and guys like him, who just advocate for the US to be purged of Jews, and no one is pressured to denounce him 522844
Reposted by McCray WootenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Democrats are an opposition party afraid to oppose. They think opposition is seedy. They worry opposing stuff makes them look obstructionist. They fear that admitting that they’re in the minority looks weak, so even when they are, they only talk about their policy agenda, as if they weren’t. 1828027
Reposted by McCray WootenRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Letting Trump’s WH Ballroom go forward, SCOTUS majority misleads from the 1st sentence, calling it a “federal govt” project. But it's not. It's a Trump project. That's why it’s illegal. He failed to get Congress’s permission. The 4 dissenters (at right) correct the record, also in 1st sentence. 1/3 29639292
Reposted by McCray WootenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I actually can’t take it anymore, not just that these guys are our national leaders, but that their repulsive, degenerate behavior doesn’t even elicit comment 738129
Reposted by McCray Wootenjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026the press has gotten completely habituated to the ugly and hateful behavior of the people in this government so i will be surprised if anyone ever asks hegseth why he thinks it is appropriate to mock children for wanting to learn, grow and maybe serve their country 13873171168
Reposted by McCray WootenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Genuinely I cannot take it. The way the press has ONE STANDARD for everyone but Trump and his goons and then A TOTALLY DIFFERENT STANDARD for them. It’s intolerable, it’s obscene 311520237
Reposted by McCray WootenRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago. 153109052685
Reposted by McCray WootenRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives. 14584492882
Reposted by McCray Wootenjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house 17557611334
Reposted by McCray WootenAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras. 36099443827
Reposted by McCray WootenAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 26/08/2026in Springfield Ohio right now. I’m told by multiple activists and religious leaders here that ICE took a second Haitian pastor 3734761318
Reposted by McCray WootenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/08/2026RIP to the presidents killed by the voters for saying “mission accomplished” but im different. and better. maybe even good enough to accomplish the mission 515413
Reposted by McCray WootenAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents 474236458096
Reposted by McCray Wootenjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026don’t repurpose it or turn it into a museum or anything like that. destroy it. youtu.be/pkFNAd1DaaAyoutu.beNo matter what, we have to tear down that ballroomYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 32657571179
Reposted by McCray WootenGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Exactly. It's now treated as normal that the American president does not pause for a single second to consider the impact that his actions will have on countless Americans. Everything is about sating his crazed vendettas and nothing more. The whole world must bend itself around that. 21842198
Reposted by McCray WootenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Democrats are obviously not the primary villain in American politics but they really, really need to take care to not find themselves in the position of being the person who downplays the offenses of the abusive maniac they share a home with. 636742
Reposted by McCray WootenKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...nytimes.comWashington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen AttiahAn arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing. 1194326396226
Reposted by McCray WootenAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS. 566280918610
Reposted by McCray WootenAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions. 7855121454
Reposted by McCray WootenStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026There’s an underlying assumption a lot of people are making that if a black guy successfully misleads you, it means you have set your racism levels too low. 292433408
Reposted by McCray WootenJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Just insanely Orwellian. People here lawfully have now been declared unlawful by policy fiat so they can be treated like criminals & subject to intrusive, humiliating surveillance. 5550243
Reposted by McCray WootenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The reason ICE and DHS must be annihilated, extirpated completely, is because they have been made into the paramilitary arm of this sinister fascist project. It doesn’t even matter what role they purport to play: the institutional death penalty is the only sentence that fits the crime. 217421
Reposted by McCray WootenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The Trump administration doesn’t care at all about illegal immigration; they only care about creating a second tier of Americans, into which they can move as many people of color as possible, so that they may be brutalized, controlled, confined, and harassed by masked agents of the state. 622836
Reposted by McCray WootenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Indiscriminately putting ankle monitors on an entire nationality, thousands upon thousands of people living in a small community, all of whom were living here entirely legally until a few days ago when you revoked their legal status. It’s an authoritarian nightmare. 311554409
Reposted by McCray WootenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026We are besieged by nightmares and we are hiding from them 42379
Reposted by McCray WootenAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot. 15561382410
Reposted by McCray WootenAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?" 491277546140
Reposted by McCray WootenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/08/2026We blew through all the long-range weapons we'd use to, say, protect Taiwan from invasion, in order to fight a war that did nothing but make Iran vastly more influential? I feel like I'm going crazy when I even describe it. How is DC not melting down over this world-historical strategic catastrophe 1222122
Reposted by McCray WootenCNN @cnn.com · 31/07/2026The Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. cnn.it/3RJJnwj 1801608428
Reposted by McCray WootenHeadquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside. 251326660
Reposted by McCray WootenAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This includes people who came here legally on a visa, applied for another form of status, and are just waiting for the US government to decide their case. People who haven’t done a single thing wrong. 351973824
