Reposted by @poios.bsky.socialGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Photo caption: “Rodrigo, a 58-year-old Los Angeles green-card holder, was detained for 10 months and denied access to medical care as a tumor in his throat grew to the size of a lemon.” 29363963567
Reposted by @poios.bsky.socialAlex Graudins @toonyballoony.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf 11472675141
Reposted by @poios.bsky.socialAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/06/2025One thing social media has taught me (though I have definitely experienced it in other media too): a lot of people, even quite smart people, are worryingly bad at reading comprehension. For instance: many have trouble distinguishing between someone *describing* a thing and *advocating* that thing. 1132682357
Reposted by @poios.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/03/2025New, from me: Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America. Here is a partial inventory. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...donmoynihan.substack.comWhitewashing American historyThe Trump Presidency as a project of erasure 8429451350
Reposted by @poios.bsky.socialKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/02/2025JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25... 815201618971
Reposted by @poios.bsky.socialGavin Sherlock @gsherloc.bsky.social · 15/02/2025On January 6th, 1995, my (now ex) wife and I boarded a flight from Heathrow to JFK on a one way ticket. We had two suitcases and about $900 in cash - this was everything we owned and we were moving to the US. We thought it was maybe for 2-3 years. I had visited the US once, for a conference, and 181135346
Reposted by @poios.bsky.socialAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Children are now starving. Vaccines have stopped. A rented ambulance can no longer come to the site of a bombing. Days into the Musk/Trump attack on US foreign aid, here’s what’s happening already wapo.st/42J2gCFwapo.stFear, pain and hunger: The dire impact of U.S. funding cuts in AfricaAcross Africa, the policies of the Trump administration are already having profound consequences for some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. 19422186
poios.bsky.social @poios.bsky.social · 02/02/2025If Dems in power won’t stick their necks out now, then they MUST step aside for those who will. 150
Reposted by @poios.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/01/2025Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies." 319610094823850
Reposted by @poios.bsky.socialNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯 24299394630580
Reposted by @poios.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2025Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals" 1514323648576
