Reposted by Oh So AudreyMedusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.social · 23mGenuinely the best synopsis of Strange Days i’ve ever read 052
Reposted by Oh So AudreyKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3hKimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn't leave a paper trail.wsj.comExclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex AccountText messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece. 50834314
Reposted by Oh So AudreyAleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 4hArizona and Virginia, both of which are governed by Democrats, are ending Medicaid coverage of care for trans youth, Transitics has learned. The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet. Cowards.transiticsnews.comDemocrat-led Arizona, Virginia Quietly End Medicaid Coverage of Care for Trans Youth, Acquiescing to Trump DemandsThe policy changes, which go into effect on October 13th, see Arizona and Virginia join Kansas as states where Democrats have needlessly opted to restrict Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care. 26753363
Reposted by Oh So AudreyJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1hAfter two days of discourse over what Trump meant, he goes full Colonel Jessup "you're goddamn right I ordered the Code Red" tonight. 514235
Reposted by Oh So AudreyJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 4hUntreated chronic pain leading to suicidality is not autonomy. 16514
Reposted by Oh So AudreyCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 7hAnd no, they do not love their mixed-race children enough to abandon white supremacy. They will do what their forefathers did, which is set their children up as an elite caste to rule over the group their wife belongs to. 168057
Reposted by Oh So AudreyCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 7hPeople do not understand how men who are white supremacists can have wives who are women of color and I need folks to realize that those men see their wives as subordinate property and not equals. These men are foaming at the mouth to bring back quadroon balls. 12034478
Reposted by Oh So AudreyRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5hIt took three years for these thugs to release the body cam footage. Now we know why. bsky.app/profile/al.c... 11408141
Reposted by Oh So AudreyChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6hNew strong candidate for best sentence of journalism in 2026 just dropped in this wild Kimberly Guilfoyle story from WSJ “‘Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,’ she texted [Eric] Deters, adding a prayer hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from American Express.”wsj.comExclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Pay Her $100,000 Amex BillText messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece. 26762238
Reposted by Oh So AudreyElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 6hA Democratic candidate for Congress, Bernadette Greene-Placentia, went out to fix one of her damaged campaign signs in Arizona. She was attacked and raped. Please note that this article may be triggering and do take care if you read it.phoenixnewtimes.comCongressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signsEmbarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive. 2420979
Reposted by Oh So AudreyOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 6hJust a reminder that no matter how well Democrats do they should get rid of this guy 1417117
Reposted by Oh So AudreyProPublica @propublica.org · 15hNEW: A 26-year-old man has become the de facto advocate of last resort for families who are homeless in Arizona’s most populous county. As ProPublica’s @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social reports, it’s a scene that’s “both heartening and disconcerting.”propublica.orgHomeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the Unofficial Hotline for Struggling Families.Austin Davis, 26, has become a lifeline for some homeless families in the Phoenix area who’d otherwise wait months for shelter. His work has highlighted how the system to care for local families who a... 14817359
Reposted by Oh So AudreyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h"Call it “mom populism”—an appeal that centers a full-throated rejection of school privatization and presents the GOP’s increasingly aggressive interventions into local school districts as “corruption schemes” intended to benefit big donors, especially the right-wing oilmen who hold such sway here." 14423108
Reposted by Oh So AudreyMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 8hreading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the newsphoenixnewtimes.comCongressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signsEmbarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. 1749871606
Reposted by Oh So AudreyNPR @npr.org · 16hResearchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALan.prOver 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwideResearchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. 6317851061
Reposted by Oh So Audreykim hébert @kimberlyhebert.bsky.social · 8h230 Black boys. buried. Maryland gravesite. 053
Reposted by Oh So AudreyMary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 9hOrchitis = inflammation (PAIN) of the testicles. (And as extra trivia, this is why testicles are called orchids) 14414
Reposted by Oh So AudreyMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8hI think pretty much every woman can understand this impulse right now. 171748147
Reposted by Oh So AudreyMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8hNot All Men but like…pretty close 28150776
Reposted by Oh So AudreyMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9hHorrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”phoenixnewtimes.comCongressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signsEmbarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. 16239211500
Reposted by Oh So AudreyAtlanta Black Star @atlblackstar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A huge settlement for Black siblings enslaved by their white adoptive parents while the state looked away and the robbed of their youth reality those children lived is the reason no number attached to this case was ever going to feel like enough. atlantablackstar.pulse.ly/xxunq9cs3vatlantablackstar.pulse.ly'Robbed of Their Youth': Black Siblings Kept Locked Away as Slaves by White Adoptive Parents Reach $4.4M Settlement After State Failed to InterveneFive Black siblings who endured years of abuse and forced labor while living with their wealthy adoptive parents have reached a $4.4 million settlement 24826
Reposted by Oh So AudreyArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 11hThe Green Party candidates had told a judge they'd cooperate with the Clean Elections investigation, then moved the same day to block subpoenas for records story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.socialazmirror.comGreen Party candidates balk at records demands as they scramble to stall fraud investigationClean Elections fraud subpoenas: An appeals court lets the probe of two Green Party candidates proceed as they resist records demands 1108
Reposted by Oh So AudreyChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10hPike's lawyer also notes that, to the extent the state is complaining about the scope of the requested preservation, that is largely due to the state's own secrecy provisions regarding executions. 215116
Reposted by Oh So AudreyChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10hTennessee is here fighting an evidence preservation request following its failure to kill Christa Pike. Judge, noting that Pike was earlier in the litigation focused on stopping the execution, asks of TN's args today: "Isn't that kind of an untenable position?" "We are here improvidently." 411914
Reposted by Oh So AudreyChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10hPike's lawyer is highlighting how the underlying complaint in this case — before the execution — had raised questions about the execution protocol and difficulties the state could face in trying to execute Pike. 112012
Reposted by Oh So AudreyJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11hI wrote about Elon Musk, and why it bothers me that he is still first and foremost described in the media as an entrepreneur, rocketeer, or tech mogul, when the most salient fact about him is that he is now the world's most powerful white supremacist. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/06/e...religiondispatches.orgElon Musk, the World’s Richest Human, Is a White SupremacistThe latest warning about the Republican Party’s far-right turn has come from the unlikeliest of places: conservative commentator, George W. Bush Chief of Staff, and renowned Republican strategist Karl... 11738246
Reposted by Oh So AudreyI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10hHell read the letters and missives among slave owners here and see the same thing. 1336
Reposted by Oh So AudreyI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10hAnd Mitt Romney wasn’t up to the task of breaking the “siege” they were under and tell me you’ve read any writing from British French, etc colonials saying the same thing throughout their time subjugating people. 1407
Reposted by Oh So AudreyMicah @rincewind.run · 10h"what are you gonna do, vote harder?" I mean yeah there's not a lot of other levers to pull these days but we can still pull that one 1134024
Reposted by Oh So AudreyI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10hBlack people who don’t want to be targeted by the police, a special interest. People who support the police targeting Black people, tradition-minded Americans. 111218
Reposted by Oh So AudreyI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h“tradition-minded Americans” 1416232
Reposted by Oh So AudreyGay ISIS Brony @rainbowdaesh.bsky.social · 13hRacism is both evil and backwards. Also never forget that Reagan kicked off his presidential campaign extolling the virtues of states rights in the county where Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner (Mississippi Burning) were murdered. 1427
Reposted by Oh So AudreyMicah @rincewind.run · 10hthe impunity of the rich and powerful has never been more blatant and obvious than it is right now and people feel like they have very few ways to impose any sort of consequence or accountability on our would-be overlords but we can still vote to throw the bums out, and it sure looks like we will 1058882
Reposted by Oh So AudreyLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 15hI must have missed Trump justification of DOGE as an effort to "protect individual liberty." 320017
Reposted by Oh So AudreyLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 15hThe assertion that "powerful cultural institutions" and the Democratic Party "treated more tradition-minded Americans as evil or backward" has become such a cliche in the punditry that people who say this feel no need to offer examples (or a single example) and journalists rarely ask them to do so. 1726944
Reposted by Oh So AudreyLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 16hRonald Reagan came to political prominence in CA with his opposition the Rumford Open Housing Act--"If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes...it is his right to do so,"--opposed the Voting Rights Act, and called the Civil Rights Act "a bad piece of legislation." 326165
Reposted by Oh So AudreyLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 16hFusionism was undoubtedly a significant force in the growth of modern conservatism, but the reliance on "3-legged stool" (free markets, virtue, anticommunism) framing can lead to the underplaying the role of opposition to the Civil Rights Act and other civil rights laws played in this growth. 421324
Reposted by Oh So AudreyLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 16hOther than an aside on the "white nationalism that has emerged out of the dark corners of the internet," (which she she pairs with the "excesses of work") Slade makes no mention of the role of race in the construction of the modern conservative movement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...nytimes.comOpinion | With Trump Flailing, Some Conservatives Are Having Second Thoughts About TrumpismWhat is the future of the conservative movement? 3262785
Reposted by Oh So AudreyJerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 10hWe got two drones flying over southern Arizona right now. One appears to belong to Customs and Border Protection while the other is believed to belong to the Army. More info on that Army one here: azmirror.com/2026/09/24/w... 195
Reposted by Oh So AudreyCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h“.. defense companies backed by the president's sons, including Anduril, have now raked in more than $6 billion dollars in active or promised government contracts since those investments were made, according to the government's official contract reporting. abcnews.com/Politics/tru... 1471201657
Reposted by Oh So AudreyTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15hI fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get. 191092213
Reposted by Oh So AudreyRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In 1997 I was at an art conference where everyone was saying cozy things about close-knit deeply rooted small communities so I stood up and said "I am a San Franciscan and I live among people those close-knit deeply rooted small communities wanted to kill."cityarts.netAnand Giridharadas | City Arts & Lectures 952160
Reposted by Oh So AudreyCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12hWe're here because people like Kara Swisher (famously a WaPo retail reporter before she got handed the tech beat) get snowed day after day by snake oil salesman because they don't know what the hell they're looking at. And you listen to them because they're supposedly experts. 629335
Reposted by Oh So AudreyCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12hThese are all true statements. And the only reason we don't immediately sink this detrimental shit is that somewhere along the way, someone (cough cough tech press) said these Silicon Valley guys were all geniuses and not the scam artists. That's the whole thing. 551698
Reposted by Oh So AudreyDavid Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 10hThread. The kicker is that it also appeals to plenty of bog standard liberals and centrists for similar reasons. 05018
Reposted by Oh So AudreyOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11hthis is why i roll my eyes at linda mcmahon and the other millionaires talking about fast tracking people for trade school instead of getting notions in their head about white collar work they want a serf army to serve the white billionaires 915940
Reposted by Oh So AudreyM Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 11hThe logical endpoint of Trump domestic policies is an imprisoned population of people of color doing forced labor. 54312
