onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Dang! I wish this wasn’t behind a paywall. Really, really want to read. 130
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Exactly! How can anyone not have seen it from the beginning?! 000
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Bush the Younger appointee who stopped ballroom construction. An enthusiastic punctuater!!!! 020
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 14/05/2026None of this would be necessary if Republicans actually believed in democracy. 120
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 12/05/2026It must have taken everything the judge had not to jump over the bench and strangle govt atty. 030
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Apparently the seashell incident took place on a NC beach. 000
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 08/05/2026@joycevance.bsky.social curious about the names of your other chickens. 000
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Similar experience in high school. Had to go see the principal and hope he’d give me permission to enter late. Never been so terrified in my life. He always came across as so stern. My knees were buckling all the way on that long walk. Glad things worked out for your son—and for me. 110
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Which idiot staff person keeps putting him in a room with children?! 010
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 26/04/2026At a hotel. At a hotel that didn’t have security at the entrances. At NOT the White House. No shot was fired in the White House. 070
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Glad you failed. These shots are iconic and good for our collective soul. 050
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 06/04/2026youtube.com/shorts/L2V1m...youtube.comWeird Way to Win #war #middleeast #iran #russia #casualties #politics #comedy #shorts #cleancomedyYouTube video by Jason Salmon 000
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Never a backup plan for us. Came so, so close to moving 55 years ago, but ultimately couldn’t tear ourselves away from family. Canada is my first love. 020
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Can someone who knows this stuff explain to me the actual point of these incessant objections? 000
Reposted by @onthediagonal.bsky.socialScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/03/2026 5392149
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 15/03/2026There is something seriously wrong with this guy. 131
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Breathing. Being hopeful for my grandchildren. Not forcing back tears all the damn time. 000
Reposted by @onthediagonal.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live. Please take it to heart and take action. 7270282410
Reposted by @onthediagonal.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19/02/2026We cannot afford to forget what happened in Minneapolis. New from me for @cafedotcom.bsky.social cafe.com/notes-from-c...cafe.comMinneapolis Was a Stress Test for Accountability - CAFEICE may have left Minneapolis, but we cannot afford to forget what they did there — it matters for all of us and our democracy. 662166676
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 10/02/2026“Without that [legal observers exercising their rights] you wouldn’t have any idea these arrests were taking place.” Did you hear that?! So, the problem with folks taking pix is that we learn arrests are taking place! That’s the problem? The arrests are supposed to be in secret? Just why is that?! 010
Reposted by @onthediagonal.bsky.socialAlt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 10/02/2026In 1933, the camps came first. For those of us lost, we are at March 1933. This is not a drill. #iceout 324269
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Ya know, you could just drop those first five words—that’s just wimpy. 000
Reposted by @onthediagonal.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Homan has changed nothing 331357594
Reposted by @onthediagonal.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Sharing this amazing poem with the kind permission of the author. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...open.substack.comIf They Call Me A Domestic TerroristThis morning, I stumbled across an amazing poem by a wonderful man named Michael F. 472013699
Reposted by @onthediagonal.bsky.socialBruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay freeyoutu.beBruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen 42559708340539
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026… under the influence, from 2005 through 2012—that’s nearly one CBP officer or agent arrested for misconduct every single day for seven years.” By 2018, that pace had only slowed to one agent or officer arrested every 36 hours.” 000
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Garrett M. Graff:”That helped enable the now-two-decade-long tidal wave of corruption, crime, and misconduct that has swamped CBP since its 2000s era hiring surge. As I wrote in 2014, “There were 2,170 reported incidents of arrests for acts of misconduct, such as domestic violence or driving … 100
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Really worth reading. Pay particular attention to the no. of arrests of of, not by!) ICE and CBP agents themselves. 000
Reposted by @onthediagonal.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Curious why ICE and CBP agents are so brutal? Here's a useful explainer I wrote last week, before Saturday's outrageous murder, about how uniquely unsuited ICE and CBP are for this moment—and why they were so corruptible into Trump's own fascist secret police: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...doomsdayscenario.co"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret policeICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America. 541226507
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026No love lost for TT but I could watch this all day! 000
Reposted by @onthediagonal.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.” 414176667030
Reposted by @onthediagonal.bsky.socialAltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 24/01/2026USAID was killed with an ink pen. ICE can be too. 191093259
onthediagonal.bsky.social @onthediagonal.bsky.social · 25/01/2026You know, that’s what video games have always been training us for. 000