Reposted by MrWizardit’s me AC @wellgoshacs.bsky.social · 28/06/2025the Star Tribune just called me and told me they would not be publishing the obituary I wrote for my father as it is “unfair to him” and “in poor taste” so here it is and fuck the strib ✌🏻 570124381711
Reposted by MrWizardjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2025mike johnson doesn't give a shit 603120222669
Reposted by MrWizardThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/06/2025The wildest part about us getting banned on instagram and threads and all meta platforms without warning or explanation is not even being able to get in touch with a human being about it. Dystopian, Orwellian shit. 749135202819
Reposted by MrWizardJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 29/06/2025It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...washingtonpost.comTim Walz eulogizes slain lawmaker as a historic Minnesotan — and friendAfter a hug with Kamala Harris, Gov. Tim Walz eulogized slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.” 1970338899905
Reposted by MrWizardKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/06/2025I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget 235139243279
Reposted by MrWizardThree👁️Eyed👁️Devil👁️ @anarcish.bsky.social · 28/06/2025“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up. 88136965573
Reposted by MrWizardChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/06/2025Enough! This is exactly why ICE should be required to identify themselves. If ICE looks like criminals and thugs, they should be regarded as such. 🚨 Yesterday, an L.A. man was arrested for impersonating a federal agent. Loaded gun, fake documents, cop gear and even blinking & blue on his car 784197607486
Reposted by MrWizardJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/06/20256/I managed to catch, just before I hit send that I had accidentally included a picture of my very good dog, Bella, in the post above & deleted it. But it seems wrong to deny you her smiling face this morning. 1494971225
Reposted by MrWizardGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/06/2025Mark and Melissa saw the humanity in everyone. Let’s honor them by doing the same. 417313084859
Reposted by MrWizardPhillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban 507386978084
Reposted by MrWizardvalentine @dozygay.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 5525402112657
Reposted by MrWizardThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/06/2025💰 WATCH: “How is that happening?” 🤷🏼♂️ @aoc.bsky.social informs a confused RFK Jr. that his own HHS is stuffing the pockets of insurance companies by doubling the rates taxpayers pay them even as they defraud us. 🤔 1034198486893
Reposted by MrWizardAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/06/2025The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they *knew* was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ 300177555766
Reposted by MrWizardThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/06/2025It’s wild that in the video DHS posted in an effort to make the beating of an innocent landscaper (with 3 marine sons) seem justified there’s a masked ice goon pointing a gun at a random car passing by and they don’t seem to think it matters at all 510122174700
Reposted by MrWizardAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2025VEASEY: You've credited the 12 steps in your recovery. What's step 4? RFK JR: Making a fearless inventory VEASEY: Of ourselves. Do you remember step 12? RFK JR: We try to help other addicts VEASEY: Does cutting off treatment from people still suffering align with step 4 or step 12? 540183414804
Reposted by MrWizardGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/06/2025They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas. 15954022914756
Reposted by MrWizardChristine Is Fed Up With Republicans @coralgableswang.bsky.social · 24/06/2025 212254695196
Reposted by MrWizardAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2025RUIZ: Did you read the report & fact-check its sources prior to publication? RFK JR: I did not fact check RUIZ: It included citations to sources that don't exist. How does that happen? RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions are accurate RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate? 793211755721
Reposted by MrWizardJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/06/2025david hogg off the top rope on the other site 236174873146
Reposted by MrWizardAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/06/2025If you need a mask to enforce the law, you don’t deserve a badge. Federal agents are snatching people off the streets—faces covered, names hidden. This isn’t safety. It’s secrecy. It’s not America. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...adamkinzinger.substack.comWhy Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American DemocracyMasked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy 2019262668102
Reposted by MrWizardSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/06/2025I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along. Really scary stuff. 577216755438
Reposted by MrWizardChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 24/06/2025I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers. Easy money, no risk. Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words. 12472740310628
Reposted by MrWizardSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 24/06/2025This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy. 12804039912754
Reposted by MrWizardInsta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 20/06/2025A flyby of Earth from the International Space Station. Credits: NASA 329108931837
Reposted by MrWizardRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14/06/2025AOC: "They have released chaos in LA by violently raiding & ripping apart peaceful public spaces, and now they are tackling & arresting US sitting members of Congress, while going on the record & lying about what happened. 359229556170
Reposted by MrWizardBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/06/2025“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country 3613653710605
Reposted by MrWizardIndivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social · 14/06/2025The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible 299219005272
Reposted by MrWizardMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/06/2025The Meidas Mighty showing up STRONG at today's NO KINGS protests!!! 463024316
Reposted by MrWizardDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 14/06/2025NEW: The DOJ filed a lawsuit against the newly GOP-controlled North Carolina Board of Elections. It represents a troubling Trump administration tactic: Filing lawsuits in cases where the plaintiff and defendant are aligned, allowing for sweeping policy changes without the legislative process.democracydocket.comDOJ and North Carolina Collude to Tighten Voting RulesRead more here. 12401217
Reposted by MrWizardThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14/06/2025Trump parade vs No Kings march, San Diego 29491332437
Reposted by MrWizardBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd. 20343174112489
Reposted by MrWizardRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/06/2025It’s that time again. Post your favorite signs from today for entry in my Top 15 No King sign contest! 83762431038
Reposted by MrWizardAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025“Special thanks to our sponsor: Coinbase” 48255971051
Reposted by MrWizardAmanda Terkel @aterkel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Democratic governors seek to roll back state-funded health care for undocumented immigrants www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...nbcnews.comDemocratic governors seek to roll back state-funded health care for undocumented immigrantsThe moves by Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker and Tim Walz — all potential 2028 presidential contenders — have angered some progressives and immigrants' advocates. 3136
Reposted by MrWizardRenee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Here is the Right Wing Bullshit Machine kicking up again. It is the same playbook, and the same players, every. single. time. They twist funding and relationships. They use phrases like “ties to”. 🙄 Then,it was SIO’s right to do research on Trump’s election lies. Now it’s your right to organize. 79725
Reposted by MrWizardAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/06/2025It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice. 1051409645427
Reposted by MrWizardKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13/06/2025NEW: Judge says Trump administration can continue detaining Khalil on charge related to his green card application, dashing his allies’ hopes of imminent release. w/ @eorden.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/06...politico.comJudge won’t order release of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud KhalilFarbiarz’s ruling dashed the hopes of Khalil’s advocates that he might walk free Friday morning. 1318772
Reposted by MrWizardMimi Rocah @mimirocah1.bsky.social · 13/06/2025The federal courts have held the line once again - for now. My latest for @contrariannews.org open.substack.com/pub/contrari...open.substack.comCourt declares no rebellion, no National GuardA federal judge ruled the president could not deploy the National Guard in California, but an appeals court stayed the order for now. 14606113
Reposted by MrWizardNorm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Big day today – another major legal win in federal court, this time prohibiting mass layoffs by Marco Rubio at the State Department We @democracydefendersaction.org are proud to be a part of the coalition of incredible lawyers, labor unions & nonprofit groups litigating this case 613741898
Reposted by MrWizardAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Rieckhoff: Trump, smartly—and maybe stupidly—chose to hit the military first. They’re using the military and the Pentagon as a test case for everything they want to do in America. And what I’d say is: if they can come after us, they can come after anyone. 9146091381
Reposted by MrWizardMargaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social · 14/06/2025From my column, linked below 19696232
Reposted by MrWizardMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 14/06/2025TODAY 6/14/25, we peacefully make our voices heard... NO KINGS!* 🇺🇸 *Also NO: CONVICTED FELONS/PATHOLOGICAL LIARS/DRAFT DODGERS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS/SHORT-FINGERED VULGARIANS/MALIGNANT NARCISSISTS & ANYONE WHO INCITED AN INSURRECTION IN AN ATTEMPTED COUP AGAINST HIS OWN COUNTRY a/k/a TRAITORS ✊ 261107881959
Reposted by MrWizardJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Horrific political violence in Minnesota this morning, even worse because early reports are that the perpetrator was imitating a uniformed law enforcement officer. 1232205430