Reposted by LisaWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3hremember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all. 312692642
Reposted by Lisa🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 4hI’ve also been trying out ‘fight fascism, get vaccinated’ and that actually has gotten a very positive response, lol. Some people I have had to make the connections that in getting vaccinated were taking care of each other and fighting disinformation and standing up to fascist dictators- 1133
Reposted by LisaJustin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 4hthese states comprise less than 4% of the US population and they are asking SCOTUS to let them regulate medical care and commerce nationwide. meanwhile SCOTUS just held that the state of Hawaii lacks the power to say you need permission from a property owner to carry a gun on their property. 23016
Lisa @notrocketscience.bsky.social · 7hDoing the math, that means Congresscritters can pocket 100-133k/year in reimbursements without receipts, but poor folks have to jump through hoops to get food stamps or healthcare. 032
Reposted by LisaNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 7hIncredible chutzpah from a Congress whose one major legislative act was a budget bill that among other things imposed significant new administrative burdens on Medicaid recipients 4408106
Reposted by LisaAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses. 12664161
Lisa @notrocketscience.bsky.social · 11hThis administration's enthusiasm for murdering people and making the world a worse place knows no bounds. 010
Reposted by LisaRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12hThese ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity. 321554454
Reposted by LisaI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12h“We’re making a machine that’s a guy who sets up a table and a sign that says “change my mind” and you have to argue with it forever.” 918339
Reposted by LisaAdam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 12hSCOTUS looked at the harm of people being dumped in foreign lands, and the harm of the government not being able to disappear people… and sided with the government. 8353103
Reposted by LisaJacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 17h🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...apnews.comUS withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groupsThe Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog. 47661456
Reposted by LisaJosh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There is criminal exposure everywhere you look in this administration, from the obvious of ICE murdering civilians in the streets, to more discrete stuff like insider trading or agencies funneling tax money into pro-Trump ads. This is what wanton corruption looks like, and the hammer must fall. 312051
Reposted by LisaBen 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. 273127922104
Reposted by LisaMother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026John Roberts has spent his entire career trying to kill the Voting Rights Act. Now his Republican-appointed majority is dusting off arguments once used to destroy Reconstruction to roll back the gains made during the civil rights era. Our latest cover story: tinyurl.com/3m6nawpj 815365
Reposted by LisaAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The cleansing of the blood of the nation must continue, as it says in the constitution bsky.app/profile/stev... 16625126
Reposted by LisaSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026People are commenting Save The Academy on all of Drexel's instagram posts and I think that's pretty cool. If you're looking for something to do tonight 👀 223252
Reposted by LisaThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-… 263093460
Reposted by LisaNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You know, researchers since the 1980s have found that men can tell when they don’t have consent. They just choose to continue anyway because they prioritize consent as less important than power, domination, and sexual gratification. 325653
Reposted by LisaSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Bold move for Republicans to remind everyone just before the election. But I'm sure Trump will have a very calm and rational, "reasonable people can disagree" reaction. 833984
Reposted by LisaGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe. 5550323
Reposted by LisaTyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions. 131189608
Reposted by Lisahammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Congress can fund and staff the Federal Accountability and Fairness Oversight Commission 525550
Reposted by LisaTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 28/09/2026I believe the Constitution provides a remedy for Congress when the President doesn't follow his constitutional appropriation-spending requirements! 13926127
Reposted by LisaD.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This works, btw. It's actually pretty incredible and heady just how powerful it is in practice. Every time I've done it the impact is pretty memorable. 3345110
Reposted by LisaBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026aaayy shout out to all the climate organizers and legal groups like @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social, @courtacctability.bsky.social, and @peoplesparity.bsky.social that kept raising hell about Alito's glaring conflict of interest ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...ballsandstrikes.orgThe Supreme Court’s Recusal Rules Are WorthlessCases involving the oil and gas industry are great for Justice Samuel Alito, a noted investor in the oil and gas industry. 423572
Reposted by LisaWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...inquirer.comWe need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will BunchThe media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy. 901818703
Reposted by LisaTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield. 9962264
Reposted by Lisamorbius @jazzpomegranate.com · 27/09/2026i do think it’s funny that no one has the balls to simply follow the law and impeach men in power who flagrantly violate the law 612723
Reposted by LisaNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’ll add to this that a big part of why Biden’s approach failed is because he tapped Title IX administrators to lead the effort, instead of survivors and their advocates. He picked the betrayers instead of the betrayed. 225581
Lisa @notrocketscience.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Abolish ICE. Any agency that leaves someone they shot untreated for days is an agency that does not need to exist. They are not protecting America, they are terrorizing and brutalizing our neighbors. 000
Reposted by LisaCosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 27/09/2026The most telling thing that everyone needs to take away from this is: Why does Meta / Zucky keep trying to integrate this tech into our lives so desperately? They brought out pervert glasses and everyone has started rejecting them. Then the non-camera pervert glasses... Now, the pervert necklace 5251104
Reposted by LisaSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Anybody who would decide to close this museum does not have Philadelphia’s best interests at heart. 11751194
Reposted by LisaSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A good read on the the state of the academy as it stands today. We're in a pivotal moment right now. The academy board must accept the bridge funding or find another way to keep the museum open immediately. neighborhoodfundamentals.substack.com/p/the-academ...neighborhoodfundamentals.substack.comThe Academy Has an Offer. Does It Have the Authority to Take It?A year of funding is on the table. What's unresolved is who actually gets to decide. 112746
Reposted by LisaSaavik ‘Careful of the Ankle’ Ford @saavikford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026MFers. I’m a professional scientist whose mom has dementia AND cancer. So. I’m taking this personally, Russ Vought. And WHY don’t you give a shit about your daughter’s CF treatment options? Like wtf is actually WRONG WITH YOU?!? 2244
Reposted by LisaProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026What Theodore Roosevelt understood and Franklin Delano Roosevelt perfected is that the President is a creature of the modern media. The attempt by the oligarch to control modern media through CBS and CNN is a product here. This is why a denial to give the SOTU on camera would be a disruption. 530462
Reposted by LisaSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item: 15549483
Lisa @notrocketscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Iran mess is bad enough. We do not need to embarrass ourselves in Cuba a second time. 120
Reposted by LisaDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It’s going to be a major liability problem if your enterprise tool has a chance of committing felony computer hacking when you ask it to search the internet.nytimes.comOpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No PromptingIn each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said. 74014
Reposted by LisaDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Yes, it’s propaganda, and good for WaPo putting the word in the headline, which almost nobody else did. They should remove the damn quote marks though. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comTrump ad airing with government funding despite law against ‘propaganda’A TV ad boosting President Trump and saying that it was paid for by the U.S. government is airing in two major markets despite a federal law against using tax funds for "propaganda." 17318145
Reposted by LisaJeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum. 362974913
Reposted by LisaAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026lol but not THEIR kids though. Tech bros want their kids to be tech-free.nytimes.comSilicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not for Their Own Kids.At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something. 322590
Reposted by LisaNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do. 421662463
Reposted by LisaMuppet Pictures @muppetpictures.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Today is Jim Henson's birthday! Born this day in 1936. Why not celebrate by hanging out with your weirdest, funniest and most creative friends? 623655780
Reposted by LisaCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down. 222257518
Reposted by LisaPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If an internationally-wanted war criminal (whose forces have killed Americans) comes to US soil, attacks Americans (including the mayor of the largest city), and then says "Remember the beepers" in reference to a terrorist attack he committed — how can that be taken as anything other than a threat? 301967575
Reposted by LisaLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The broader issue that Trump's efforts at unilaterally name changing highlights is that he seeks to privatize, monetize, and militarize public space, turning collective goods into vessels of self-glorification. 412928
Reposted by LisaJustin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026No amnesty. Tribunal and jail for every disgusting soul responsible for assaulting our neighbors like this. 222970
Reposted by Lisa the postes @rem.bsjky.team · 24/09/2026i like last week tonight because john oliver gets upset and angry while talking about things that are upsetting and angering and thats so refreshing to see tbh 2828