Reposted by Pink SaladAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In which one of the nation's most prominent opinion writers, a man frequently published in the most influential national outlets, wails about being on the weaker side of a supposed power imbalance with a professor of medieval history at a regional public university. Talk about victim culture. 738745
Pink Salad @pinksalad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Food is good. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Service is s l o w. ⭐️ Portions are far too small. ⭐️ Private dining experience available (but seems to be offered only when I eyeball my buddy’s dish). ⭐️ ⭐️ 120
Pink Salad @pinksalad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This mayor makes me want to move to NYC. Opera is a hoot! Yes, what these artists do with their voices is incredible, but also, the plots are fantastic. These are the OG freaking superhero, lost love, and revenge fantasies! Kids and teens can love opera, too. 010
Reposted by Pink SaladMonica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"High up in the continental pedigree the entire DNA fingerprint matched a predicted empty space. The Maine team had found a living lost progenitor to hundreds of varieties—a tree that had been contributing its characteristics to American apples for hundreds of years." #DNA 🧪 47528
Reposted by Pink SaladGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026Two thing can be true. The WH kicking out media it doesn’t like is absolutely a First Amendment violation. And There is little journalism of value to be found in the highly controlled, substance-free halls of power—wall-to-wall navel-gazing about one’s access probably being of the least value. 172103293
Reposted by Pink SaladAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026NERD ALERT: This is so rad. @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social Votes hub pro lets you customize your election results viewing dashboard. Here's one of four I've built for election night. You can include other information in each race as well, such as district maps; and it's all updated in real time. 541120287
Reposted by Pink SaladAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it. 1023131453807
Pink Salad @pinksalad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Another important story broken by student journos. Hire people like them when you can: they make excellent humans, if this former student journo who broke a fun local story about white supremacists may be so bold… 020
Reposted by Pink SaladJake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 18/09/2026More from Jackson Karki, who chairs 4 counties for the Mike Rogers campaign: "Thank you Donald Trump for ruining it for us… and handing the country over to socialism.” #MIsen 3288
Reposted by Pink SaladGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 2821991231
Pink Salad @pinksalad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026About damn time! (They should have done this after his “piggy” remark, but some have slower-growing spines than others.) www.politico.com/news/2026/09...politico.comMajor TV networks decline White House pool dutiesThe move comes after the Trump administration restricted access to the White House for CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO. 000
Reposted by Pink SaladBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026McClatchy just laid off dozens and dozens of local journalists across the US, likely replacing many of them with AI. And that is going to be far worse for this country than pushing a CNN camera crew off the White House lawn. www.cjr.org/analysis/mcc...cjr.orgMcClatchy’s post-layoff future.“AI is clearly part of the plan moving forward,” Ariane Lange, an investigative reporter at the Sacramento Bee, said. “It’s been part of the plan for quite some time.” 78730
Pink Salad @pinksalad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Great idea! Go to the Upper Midwest, maybe Montana or Idaho, like, tomorrow and sign one of those executive orders with a sharpie on giant foam core there. Rural voters will LOVE it!!! 010
Pink Salad @pinksalad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026LOCK THEM UP. Not surprised, just infuriated. wapo.st/4xzocMCwapo.stCourt filing in Kennedy Center battle highlights fears of potential demolitionRep. Joyce Beatty asked a federal judge Thursday to clarify that the Kennedy Center cannot be demolished after images surfaced of President Donald Trump reviewing what appeared to be a printout relate... 000
Reposted by Pink SaladBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 10/09/2026I’m just a simple country copy editor, but that sounds to me an awful lot like *spits into cuspidor* a crime. 1116521
Reposted by Pink SaladDoktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026After escaping the rubble of the WTC, Trump barely had time to get aboard Flight 93, lead the uprising against the hijackers, and parachute to safety. 1672288367
Reposted by Pink SaladProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The dude who runs Skyhorse Publishing—& who is holding the kooky, extreme anti-vaxx MAHA movement together (www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...) is also the dude who published the 3 anti-Fauci books—by Rand Paul, RFK Jr, & RFK Jr’s son The Fauci show trial boosted sales—all part of the MAHA grift 🤑 2258
Reposted by Pink SaladAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026hello liberal democracies around the world, i hate to say it but you need to take a look at how successful the funding of fascist media in america has been for the far-right and you need to start counteracting this with your own dollars funding progressive media here 432260463
Reposted by Pink SaladJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 07/09/2026Let’s just observe that none of Juniper Blessing’s family got a New York Times op-ed about grieving after she was killed in the sort of hate crime Erika’s late husband used to encourage almost daily.abcnews.comTransgender University of Washington student stabbed over 40 times: Court documentsThe transgender University of Washington student who was killed in her student housing building suffered over 40 stab wounds. 122858
Pink Salad @pinksalad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Face-eating Leopard Party’s poster boy coming back for an encore. For Trump’s Former Fixer, a Tortured Path From ‘Rat’ to Reconciliation www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...nytimes.comFor Trump’s Former Fixer, a Tortured Path From ‘Rat’ to ReconciliationThe president has made peace with Michael D. Cohen, his onetime lawyer who turned against him. But contrary to Mr. Trump’s claims, Mr. Cohen has not recanted the testimony that helped convict his form... 100
Reposted by Pink SaladProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: 10547791907
Reposted by Pink SaladKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold. 6244841094
Pink Salad @pinksalad.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is just media relations. Standard practice. Goes back centuries. 000
Reposted by Pink SaladLila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Today, members of @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social showed up at the first meeting of the LAUSD AI Ad Hoc Committee to reiterate our demands for an immediate moratorium on student AI use. But District staff stunned us by announcing that all standalone AI products are now blocked on student devices TK-12! 631174
Reposted by Pink SaladAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I am sad for all the talented students who assured me it was a clear path to a better life for them as they discarded study plans they loved and studied coding instead. 28955112
Reposted by Pink SaladAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/09/2026Let this trouncing be a message to anyone who thinks throwing trans people under the bus is a good idea. 813433654
Pink Salad @pinksalad.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The sculpture is a joyful person, and literally titled “Blue”. That’s all the explanation anyone should need for why Trump wants it gone. Another way to own the libs. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/a...nytimes.comKennedy Center Will Remove Outdoor ‘Blue’ Sculpture (Gift Article)The towering artwork was targeted for elimination after President Trump’s takeover of the center last year. 144
Reposted by Pink SaladLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026It’s not suicide it is social murder. It is the result of policy that is explicitly designed to Inflict maximum pain & make a class of people feel as life isn’t worth living. 161814633
Reposted by Pink SaladRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Goes great with the tidal wave of attention to Jake Tapper's bullshit book about Biden, the one in which multiple named people said they were misrepresented. Beyond these books, the way editors press their opinion columnists to have the right opinions... 324845
Reposted by Pink SaladJim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The cruelty is the point. Shame on this administration and shame on the people who voted for this. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...springfieldnewssun.comSpringfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates sayA 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates. 431277512
Reposted by Pink SaladMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/08/2026Spotted outside The Penthouse Nightclub in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. REUTERS/Chris Helgren. 421259636248
Reposted by Pink SaladMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I wonder if there’s a remote government warehouse that holds the Ark of the Covenant, the unreleased Epstein files, the manuscripts from Ernest Hemingway’s lost suitcase, Stephen Miller’s unused conscience, a secret 10th season of “Seinfeld,” and Mitch McConnell’s crypt. 47613142
Reposted by Pink SaladSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Wait, he gets to go immediately but a family with a 7 year old and a pregnant mom who was trying to self deport is held for a month? 571514322
Pink Salad @pinksalad.bsky.social · 29/08/2026NOCHPT www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...washingtonpost.comTrump lauded low prices at Freedom Fuel. A supplier says some gas wasn’t paid for.Mansfield Oil Company of Gainesville claimed in a federal lawsuit this month that it was never paid for more than a million gallons of fuel from a terminal in Pennsylvania between late May and early J... 000
Reposted by Pink SaladTara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 28/08/2026My latest: Kennedy is undermining the #measles response in Pennsylvania by suggesting recent deaths were "fabricated," and his years of lies about vaccines have made it much more difficult to end our ongoing measles outbreaks throughout the country and prevent new ones from happening.ms.nowOpinion | America beat measles once. RFK Jr. is making it harder to do so again.The U.S. is headed for more cases, more suffering, more deaths and enormous financial costs. 6220124
Reposted by Pink SaladKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026After FDR cleaned up the mess created by Calvin Coolidge and blamed on Herbert Hoover, Democrats spent decades reminding voters what the two parties had done. In recent generations, that basic act of politicking has been deemed impolite by Democratic leaders. That needs to end. 14540141067
Pink Salad @pinksalad.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This is the worldview of my shitty, magatty relatives. It’s rather an intractable problem. 000
Pink Salad @pinksalad.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Face-eating Leopard party, you have a pick-up ready. 000
Pink Salad @pinksalad.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Calling BCBS (again) to see why not 1, not 2, but 3 members of the household’s prescriptions are being dicked around with — for more than a month. “Let me transfer you to someone who can help!” Yeah right. The shrinking formulary, new hurdles, and slow-rolling are 😡 . I get why people give up. 110
Reposted by Pink SaladPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 28/08/2026It’s a point that has been made before: These people are here without authorization only because the administration revoked it. It is as if Trump were somehow to strip citizenship from every Democrat. 491575435
Reposted by Pink SaladStephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”. 282115272172
Reposted by Pink SaladNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026this is so incredible I can’t stop laughing because he forgot to include Reagan 151990591247
Reposted by Pink SaladMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Dolly Parton lived with a gay man for years. She was a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ folks and a philanthropic champion of childhood literacy and education, vaccines, and the black people in her community. "We don't know what her politics were"? Please. She lived them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/a...nytimes.comDolly Parton’s Cautious Politics Resulted in Widespread AffectionBipartisan tributes demonstrated the success of the singer’s long-running effort to stay out of party politics in a sharply divided country. 613759639
Pink Salad @pinksalad.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Trump administration literally gutted her literacy nonprofit’s federal funding, and now ordering flags at half-staff for a week for her. Because white Christian lady country music singer must be GOP, right? 000