Reposted by Melissa JohnsonPat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 2hKen Paxton and Greg Abbott have plenty to say when they're attacking Texans' rights, but suddenly have nothing to say when it's time to debate their opponents. Texans deserve answers, accountability, and leaders who aren't afraid to face the people they're asking to represent. 17467119
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 2hAt this stage it doesn't matter to me if this guy is cosplaying. I want a person who talks like this and then promises to back it up to be the next president. If there's somebody who winds up being more convincing than him in the next year or so, I'll vote for that person instead. 802928290
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonMac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 6hOkay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality. 313088787
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonKarl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 15hCongressional investigators uncovered an email from Botstein to Jeffrey Epstein in which Botstein asked if a young woman was “for me, or are you keeping her for yourself?” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comLeon Botstein resigns from Bard roles as key Democrat demands investigation into Epstein linksJamie Raskin says ‘startling’ email asked whether young woman was ‘for me, or are you keeping her for yourself’ 067
Reposted by Melissa Johnsonpaulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court 8 years ago on October 6, 2018. @bagleycartoons.bsky.social 491480478
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is sad news. Simon was a big help with this story that showed Howard Lutnick apparently lied about his business entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein—a story that deserves more attention. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comNew details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offenderThe commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein. 1442175941
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Tom Homan: “I think September is going to be the highest deportations of any month in the history of ICE. We are removing and arresting more people right now than we ever have in the history of this nation. Wait until you see what we do next year.” ABOLISH ICE. www.thebulwark.com/p/doral-flor...thebulwark.comTrump Turned His Beloved Golf Hub Into a Ghost TownIn Doral, there are empty tables, shuttered businesses, and families struggling to survive after their loved ones have been thrown in detention. 55899292
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We all complain about the media’s failures but organizations like @propublica.org and @texastribune.org are doing the work and deserve our financial support 111047270
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026“On Tuesday, department chair Danielle Clealand told faculty in the Social and Cultural Analysis Department that the provost’s office rejected all women’s and gender studies courses from counting toward UT’s core, according to an email reviewed by the Statesman.”statesman.comUT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classesThe provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum. 914589
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...static.klipy.comEuphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About UsAlt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us 202162540
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonGeoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The first thing a Dem Congress does is pass a resolution saying the President is not immune from any prosecution, and remove it from SC jurisdiction. 855671
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonMy Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“This is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government” — @sarahkendzior.bsky.social on MSNBC January 2019 210442
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonThe Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 19/09/2026In the early 1950s, Roy Cohn destroyed the lives of thousands of civil servants: He targeted closeted homosexuals and was the boyish prosecutor who gleefully sent Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair. bit.ly/46uvhCXbit.lyWe Are Living Under Roy Cohnian LogicThe political fixer created a career for himself as a self-promoting, ubiquitous hustler. Like Trump, he got away with it by having the right friends. 44728
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"What they hide matters less than creating a world in which future generations do not even know what to seek. A silo in which even your scream is just an echo, fine-tuned by an algorithm that never lets you escape a machine's perception of yourself.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-great-...sarahkendzior.substack.comThe Great UnconformityOn heading to a future with a deleted past. 214151
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Must be nice to just be able to go home when you don’t feel like working — and still get paid for it. 415644
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated. 840119052849
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonDavid Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Video and a photo show Marshall Rawson—the current GOP nominee to be a state representative in Florida—marching alongside neo-Nazis at the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a new TPM investigation reveals. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...talkingpointsmemo.comExclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives... 37138
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonElizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“The labs are saying to governments: ‘We’re quite likely to kill every human being on Earth; please stop us.’ Governments respond with ‘Can we give you a tax break? Build you a datacenter?’ Perhaps at some point governments will remember that their voters prefer not to be dead.”giftarticle.ft.comWhy the AI race has its creators fearing human extinctionAdvances in autonomous agents and bitter rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed once-fringe fears into the mainstream 34822
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Oh a trans athlete might have some sort of physical advantage? Let me introduce you to Michael Phelps, Victor Wembanyama and Oskar Svensden 2539127
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonCanadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The AI and tech boom runs on critical minerals. In Congo, their extraction is bound up with smuggling, exploitation, and war. As the United States and China compete for Congo’s vast mineral wealth, Judi Rever investigates the bloody underside of the global supply chain.canadiandimension.comCongo is at the centre of a critical minerals race between China and the WestThe rise of artificial intelligence and the global transition to green energy are inextricably linked to conflict minerals in central Africa. Rwanda has used a well-oiled international network of elit... 095
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonEd @notdred.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I guess it’s important to communicate that MAHA is fundamentally an movement by individuals to capture health care dollars by lying to people about having products and services that work 594733913
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonJuan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Game of Thrones got it wrong; the big danger is that Summer is Coming 192
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonProf. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 05/09/2026Your 'doom quote' for today: "The comparison of the growth and form of cities and cancer is obvious." www.thriftbooks.com/w/homo-ecoph...thriftbooks.comHomo Ecophagus book by Warren M. HernBuy a cheap copy of Homo Ecophagus book by Warren M. Hern. Home Ecophagus by Warren M. Hern is a wide-ranging look at the major problems for the survival of not just the human species, but all other s... 56311
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026#ThrowbackThursday 41989491150
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonPatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Thomas Massie warns Speaker Mike Johnson might send everyone home to avoid another vote on the Epstein files. Why are some of these politicians bent on protecting pedophiles? 35317127
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The iconic weeping willow trees outside the Kennedy Center have been cut down by Trump. 48425271406
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonBen Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 24/08/2026On August 25, 1976, a local rock band that had started a few years earlier in the basement of an MIT grad student turned Polaroid mechanical engineer released a self-titled album that would go on to become one of the best-selling rock records of all time. I'm talking, of course, about Boston. + 918829
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonBob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is your periodic reminder that the leader of the Republican party and the person elected president by 77 million of our worst is a rapist. 13831
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Do we get to randomly rename stuff too? "The president lives at the Pedophile House, where he checks in on the latest news in the Iran conflict from the Department of Massive Losses before doing an event with Secretary of Human Suffering RFK Jr." 311022184
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Whatever you call it, you just made all the goods we buy that come across our border more expensive. Michigan, he’s asking us to pay for his vanity trade war with our money. 1254178504722
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonElizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"The United States has doubled down on its opposition to plastic production limits in global treaty talks, pushing to create a broad loophole to disregard the treaty on national security grounds." National security grounds??wapo.stLeaked memo shows how U.S. aims to weaken global limits on plastic pollutionA memo reviewed by The Washington Post, circulated by U.S. diplomats, comes as negotiations over a plastics treaty reach a critical point. 36235
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026Rolling out “academic freedom” as a rallying cry now, after the CRT panic led to a bunch of Black scholars and theory to be literally banned from classrooms, shit is too rich lol 313264678
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonL Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Every couple years all the just-asking-questions racists in academia have to sign an open letter about free speech or some shit. It’s basically how they declare eligibility for right wing dark money. 143571
Reposted by Melissa Johnsonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery 8065881908
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/08/2026Here's your daily reminder: Trump and Republicans are kicking 15 million Americans off their health care so that people like Mark Zuckerberg can buy another yacht. 16539381233
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The next time you hear Republicans in Congress complaining about the national debt, remember that roughly 25% of it has been added during Trump's presidencies — largely thanks to his tax cuts for the rich. The notion that Republicans care about the debt is one of the biggest lies in politics. 8728391062
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/08/2026As we have seen in Texas, Florida, and other places, Republicans can control everything for 30 years in their states and still blame Democrats for their failures, so what Republicans are doing nationally is their standard playbook. They accept responsibility for nothing. 1012658744
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis shows www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... The Supremely Corrupt Court !theguardian.comSamuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis showsCritics argue US high court justice should recuse himself from upcoming fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case 1301584898
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonThe Onion @theonion.com · 21/08/2026White House Doctor Claims President Has Always Been Face Drawn Onto Cantaloupe theonion.com/white-house-doctor-cla… 474125489
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The best measure of how America is doing isn’t the unemployment rate, or the stock market, or the rate of economic growth, or the inflation rate, or the average wage. It’s how well most Americans are living. And the reality is that most Americans are struggling. 762477680
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonI support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Universities must focus on the quest for truth, which is why the football coach is the highest-paid person on campus. 4354
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonMatthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 20/08/2026David Axelrod is operating in a 2010s mentality. The mainstream media's audience is much smaller now. To reach the people with a message, it has to be viral. Democrats had two times in 2024 where this happened: Tim Walz's "weird" attack. The other was started by Taraji P. Henson on Project 2025. 37412
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Mamdani is succeeding in part by projecting joy Ossoff is succeeding in part by projecting steely ferocity We’re in a moment when attitude is nearly as powerful as ideology, because we all need courage. And these are two ways of summoning it 10271191249
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonClayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 17/08/2026Organized people rose up and fought back. Thank you to all the Texans who organized themselves to help stop this. But our fight isn’t over. Organized money will try again, so we need you to vote in November. 12857451899
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonI support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026In other words, harp on it. 5565
Reposted by Melissa JohnsonRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them. 585216896240