Reposted by Orange ExpatElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The thing about Gillis's monologue isn't just that it's misogynistic; it's that it's misogynistic in the most unoriginal, dated, cringe-ily 1982 would-be Andrew Dice Clay way. Like, wow slut shaming women in workout clothes, where'd you dig that fossil up 361106119
Reposted by Orange ExpatAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Yandex is Russia's leading IT giant;its cloud infrastructure supports not only the civilian sector but also business systems&government agencies,meaning the consequences of the attacks on it are systemic: Damage to data centers caused disruptions to over 80 of the company's services (including 43785232
Reposted by Orange ExpatUnion of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 11/10/2026Write today and demand your members of Congress reject a liability shield for the fossil fuel industry. Take action: act.ucs.org/4iG87AS Learn more in our Decades of Deceit timeline: act.ucs.org/3TOOwEv 03220
Reposted by Orange ExpatJenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Time for 2026 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread, now with storage. If you like these, you might like edition 2 of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website til end of Nov 2026. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...worldscientific.comSolar Power Finance Without the Jargon 5453190
Reposted by Orange ExpatChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 10/10/20261/ Russian sources expect that as well as purchasing Russian oil and diesel, Donald Trump will provide Russia with spare parts to repair the refineries damaged by Ukrainian drone strikes. They anticipate that Trump's fuel deal will lead to a Russian victory. ⬇️ 93908542
Reposted by Orange ExpatJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The FDA just announced they won’t release their “safety review” of abortion pills until March of next year. In other words: They’re stalling until after the midterms.nbcnews.comFDA says it will complete safety review of abortion pill in MarchA federal judge in Louisiana ordered the FDA to provide an update on its safety study as part of a lawsuit seeking to overturn a provision allowing mifepristone to be delivered by mail. 7275114
Reposted by Orange Expat5 Calls @5calls.org · 07/10/2026Please don’t use AI to do your ballot research. It will make shit up. 59735
Reposted by Orange ExpatThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸 29991293842
Reposted by Orange ExpatJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word! 13577322
Reposted by Orange ExpatFreethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026 669128554198
Reposted by Orange ExpatHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money! 721924715
Reposted by Orange ExpatPlant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Holy shit...this is incredibly accurate!! 441671467
Reposted by Orange ExpatAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If you have a few minutes today, please submit a comment opposing the elimination of the Roadless Rule. Tomorrow, October 6, is the deadline. Tell the Forest Service why protecting our forests matters to you. Submit your comment: www.regulations.gov/docket/FS-20...regulations.govRegulations.gov 761406750
Reposted by Orange ExpatShangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Aside from the stupidity of this, it's playing into something real, which is that conservatives believe it's some kind of personal affront to their very existence when someone chooses not to eat meat. 721912
Reposted by Orange ExpatThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/202616. Why bother to vet information when every allegation against the Democrats, no matter how unbelievable, is believed? He tracks the pattern going all the way back to Newt Gingrich in the 1980s. Bernstein suggested that the laziness is part of the deeper malignancy affecting the GOP. 444376
Reposted by Orange ExpatGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026Jeez. The court may have stopped some third-country removals at the last second yesterday, but ICE recalibrated quickly. Sept. 24 saw the most ICE flights+removals in the months I've been keeping a daily log. --at least 90 flights --at least 18 removals, including Haiti --plus a stop at Gitmo 2210152
Reposted by Orange ExpatTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets. So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most. NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.boltsmag.orgThe 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - BoltsVoters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states. 181026566
Reposted by Orange ExpatScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the GOP formula for *not talking about* affordability, housing costs, rising gas costs, global warming, nuclear proliferation, the Iran War, gross political corruption, collapsing healthcare accessibility, or any other issue of actual consequence to voters. 19714
Reposted by Orange ExpatMarc Alessi @marc-alessi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026For the next year, we can expect to see precipitation and other weather extremes unlike anything we’ve seen before. Why? When the oceans are warmer, thanks to climate change and the developing El Niño, they release vast amounts of moisture into the atmosphere, which act as extra fuel for any storm. 2165
Reposted by Orange ExpatBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/09/2026Today we're celebrating the two year anniversary of Bellingcat's Online Open Source Investigation Toolkit. The resource that helps you discover and use open source tools is maintained by a group of amazing volunteers. If you've not explored it yet, you can find it here: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit 520576
Reposted by Orange ExpatPatrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My thoughts on why this is bad: gaspriceguy.substack.com/p/why-a-dies...gaspriceguy.substack.comWhy a Diesel Export Ban Won't Fix Expensive U.S. Diesel PricesWith gasoline and especially diesel prices skyrocketing as of late, politicians in certain quarters are eager to shift the narrative around record-setting diesel prices ahead of elections. 519168
Reposted by Orange ExpatCall me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Why does the Times quote her “like” and “um”s when they don’t for others and it’s against normal editorial ethics? 28106263
Reposted by Orange ExpatAlex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026People are hiding at home, afraid to go outside and encounter ICE. They're struggling to find food and holding kids out of school, as friends and family are disappeared in bunches. This is now the reality of daily life across the U.S., and I took a snapshot of what it looks like in one community:boltsmag.org“We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - BoltsFrederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo... 11574328
Reposted by Orange ExpatLauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in. 8927091121
Reposted by Orange ExpatTHE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026how can we expect Trump to end the conflict with Iran when his financial interests are tied to the continuation of the blockade? he needs to be removed from office and put on trial for his innumerable crimes against the American people 3469
Reposted by Orange ExpatGregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's what I've been calling "The Trump Doctrine" since Term 1: If Trump can’t eat it, own it or fuck it, he’d just as soon kill it. 042
Reposted by Orange ExpatScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Note that in two articles today, WaPo describes a "sale" of bombs to Israel. This is extremely misleading. The reported $2.bn package is 100% funded by US taxpayers via the Foreign Military Financing grants for Israel to buy US weapons. 16406205
Reposted by Orange ExpatMary @mds97402.bsky.social · 15/09/2026What is most appalling about this isn’t cost or potential for scarcity. The most appalling thing is that this is essentially the work of a single man, our president—and none of the +-8,300,000,000 human beings on this planet can figure out what to do about him. Normal people would oust him. 091
Reposted by Orange Expatcapitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12/09/2026On Jan 6, Ted Cruz was the first Senator to sustain an objection to the electoral vote, creating the delay that let the mob attack our Capitol. (The other Senator to do so was Hawley: two proteges of Peter Thiel). Ted Cruz encouraging violence to undermine our democracy ....he's already done that. 715770
Reposted by Orange ExpatBrandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Get in, folks: a new Russian disinfo campaign is targeting the midterms, specifically Democrats, in what seems to be the first attempt by the Kremlin-backed op to meddle in this year’s U.S. elections. They're faking celebrity videos attacking Dems and are...very stupid. www.ms.now/news/russia-...ms.nowA Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midtermsThe Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican. 8824611552
Reposted by Orange ExpatTrita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Something has happened in the last few months. We went from hearing Western officials describe the US as a challenge, unreliable, unpredictable, and incompetent. Now, Western officials publicly refer to the US as a threat. Carney said it three times in his video speech today. 24214
Reposted by Orange ExpatThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe political effects of X’s feed algorithm - NatureAmong users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared... 4239591780
Reposted by Orange ExpatKUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 09/09/2026A new study shows the steep economic cost of 2025's ICE raids in Chicago. Fear kept many immigrants home, draining the area of more than $1.26 billion in lost retail, restaurant, and sales-tax revenue.kuow.orgNew report shows the economic toll of ICE raidsA new study shows the steep economic cost of 2025's ICE raids in Chicago. Fear kept many immigrants home, draining the area of more than $1.26 billion in lost retail, restaurant, and sales-tax revenue. 715998
Reposted by Orange ExpatCatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It’s important for everyone to check their voter registration and go to reliable sites like vote411.org, iwillvote.com, or your state election boards. However stay away from Musk’s votesafe. org, which will collect all of your data info & share and sell your info including inference it makes…vote411.comVOTE411Election information you need. Brought to you by The League of Women Voters Education Fund. 5144140
Orange Expat @orangeexpat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I am assuming this was posted entirely in jest. And yet. Here we are. 000
Reposted by Orange ExpatInternet Archive @archive.org · 04/09/2026If you see something, save something. Web pages disappear daily—changed, moved, deleted, or just forgotten. 🕳️ Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage before it disappears. See something worth keeping? Save it today. ➡️ web.archive.org/save/ #ToolsYouCanUse 11693354
Reposted by Orange Expat🪡 Ether’s spoooky lace 🎃 🪡 (she/her—illiteratis did this) @laceslibgremlin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Things rural white people hate more than they love their children, in no particular order: 1. Black people having rights 2. Women, including their wives, daughters, sisters, moms, and themselves, having opportunities for independence 3. Black people again 4. Jewish people 5. Religious freedom 45820
Reposted by Orange Expatcapitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 24/08/2026It is astonishing to watch US science get snuffed out with people not even noticing. The US led the world for a century, and it is being destroyed. All those climate activists from 2024 - total silence. We can maybe fix this in November, but the patient is bleeding and it can't go on forever. 417081
Reposted by Orange ExpatJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23/08/20261/ In March 2025, shortly after his return to power, Donald Trump’s administration postponed the compliance deadline for the FDA’s Food Traceability Rule by 30 months. That moved it back from January 20, 2026, to July 20, 2028. We are now paying the price. 271617665
Reposted by Orange ExpatHold My Beer ❌👑🐸🇲🇽🇨🇦 @holdontoyourbutts.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Posting every day til the midterms for our overseas friends. Use this essential tool. Can register, check your registration, request your absentee ballot, track your ballot, etc. Been using it for years. Super easy tool to help you vote from abroad. If stateside use vote.org www.votefromabroad.orgvotefromabroad.orgRequest Absentee Ballots for US Citizens | VoteFromAbroad.orgHelping US Citizens Request Their Absentee Ballot to Vote from Outside the US | VoteFromAbroad.org 314982
