prairiedad.bsky.social @prairiedad.bsky.social · 08/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...nytimes.comSmithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution (Gift Article)In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart. 011
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Was this insider trading? 19136571276
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 15381663434
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Join @redistrictingaction.org and tell your member of Congress to vote no: act.redistrictingaction.org/a/natl-saveact-cte 443157137319
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/02/2026Raskin: "I want the whole country to look at this. This is the attorney general of the US whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before. Excuse me." 805232397123
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialNoah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 29/01/2026An FT analysis shows that Palantir has received $81 mln in contracts from ICE since Trump began his second term, while Deloitte has been handed new work totalling more than $100 mln from ICE and Customs & Border Protection over the same period 🧟♂️ www.ft.com/content/c741...ft.comCompanies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdownPalantir and Deloitte among beneficiaries of spending by government agencies 01710
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Trump's continued threats to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota make this video I filmed a few months ago all the more timely. Please watch. 591372607
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 25/01/2026This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...documentcloud.orgTincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF 20274753158
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialThe Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · 23/01/2026Speaking in #Minneapolis alongside MARCH, UU Rev. Ben Atherton-Zeman named why he answered this moment: morality and ethics in the face of illegal and violent enforcement. His words reflect UU witness and insistence on dignity. Updates: www.uuworld.org #ICEOut #UU #Solidarity 03212
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialLaurie True Blue, PHR, SHRM-CP @laurietrueblue.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...alternet.orgTrump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidderPainted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted... 17421501079
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/07/2025@svdate.bsky.social 1972220247767
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Good! He’s going to force the Supreme Court to eventually explain itself. 252138375
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025 15285093413361
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2025Jeffries: "You got some people in the town who go to church and pray on Sunday, and then they come to Congress and prey on the American people. I'm not down with that kind of faith. That's not the faith that comes out of the Gospel." 313122202878
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialDevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 03/07/2025The majority of Japanese-Americans interned during WWII were American citizens. Our government ignored their civil rights. 14241591824
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialThe Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 02/07/2025No lies detected from HRC! Call your members of Congress RIGHT NOW, before they vote again on this immoral reconciliation bill: (877) 853-4144 And send a letter here: bit.ly/4nt6Blz #NoBillionaireBailout 351033346
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York has now passed the four-hour mark in his floor speech. Keep going, we’re with you! 258136241990
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/07/2025If someone doesn’t ask Karoline Leavitt why she posted on social media that this bill includes no taxes on Social Security when she knows it is a lie and she intentionally lied to the American people, everyone in the room should lose their jobs. 1031332408388
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 02/07/2025More than 16 million Americans are at risk of losing their health care because Republicans in Congress are rushing to pass a bill that would cut federal funding for Medicaid and weaken the Affordable Care Act. 1081269988499
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 30/06/2025If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it. Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest. 968236358013
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/06/2025If the Senate's budget is enacted, millions will lose health insurance, millions will fall into poverty, and the national debt will increase by $3.3T. All of this to provide a major tax cut mainly to the rich and big corporations. There is no justification for this. 566126464246
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/06/2025Chris Murphy: "This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress." 631256797541
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Hakeem Jeffries is so skilled at being a disappointment. The worst opposition leader possible. I am so sick of rank careerism and incompetence. 710144012108
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/06/2025Take your masks off ICE, show us how proud you are adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...adamkinzinger.substack.comWhy Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American DemocracyMasked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy 1566246236997
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialPam🫘🧶💙🏳️🌈🐸 #NoKings🚫👑 @pmmcdaniel.bsky.social · 28/06/2025“Disaster looms”: Justice Jackson’s warning for the countrymotherjones.com“Disaster looms”: Justice Jackson’s warning for the countryThe Supreme Court allows presidents to do what judges have ruled illegal. 301064366
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialAFT @aft.org · 28/06/2025NEW: Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" will cut Medicaid by $930 billion - and that's before cuts to Medicare and the Affordable Care Act. Visit go.aft.org/BigUglyBill to stop the cuts. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb... #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaidfinance.senate.govWyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft | The United States Senate Committee on FinanceWyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft 610664
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/06/2025We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps 10751732301
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialMark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 22/06/2025What am I worried about? -Safety of 30k US troops in the Middle East -cybersecurity (since CISA was recently gutted) & homeland security (as HLS focused on immigration) -Economic strength (oil prices and tariffs) -Allied assistance (we’ll need that now) -Domestic intell (leadership at FBI/DNI) 43189792643
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22/06/2025I was thinking that maybe, more than 20 years after the start of the Iraq war, media coverage would be more skeptical and less sycophantic No such luck 947160192828
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialStone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this 8086336414275
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/06/2025We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman. 28036864021835
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/06/2025If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens. 488255498637
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialACLU @aclu.org · 20/06/2025BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools. 11034942011506
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/06/2025We don’t know what the real name of the Director of White House Personnel is, we don’t know what country he came from, he refuses to turn in background check forms, and nobody will ask the president or press secretary about it. 898191076948
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialMother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/06/2025ICE agents concealing their faces: Can they really do that?motherjones.comICE agents concealing their faces: Can they really do that?It's not illegal, but paired with high-visibility raids, police masking sows fear and conflict. 2262413722
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20/06/2025ICE's increasingly aggressive tactics are unacceptable and dangerous. They do not make us any safer. I’m calling for an independent investigation right now — this abuse of power must end.bostonglobe.comWarren, Markey call for probe into ‘escalating aggression’ by federal agents in immigration raids - The Boston GlobeThe Massachusetts senators called for the investigation in a letter sent Wednesday to the US Department of Homeland Security. 1145201445163
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialLaurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 20/06/2025“ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a ‘secret police,’ with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF.” @garrettgraff.bsky.social 664142755319
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Today’s decision out of Rhode Island isn’t getting a lot of attention, but it’s very important. Trump tried to withhold fed’l funds from states that won’t help with his immigration policy & mass deportations. A Judge just told him he can’t do that. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...open.substack.comA Rhode Island Judge Tells Trump "No"And it's a very important "no" 10554621719
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialBrennan Center @brennancenter.org · 20/06/2025The volume and evolution of election certification disputes between 2020 and 2024 demonstrate that they are likely to arise whenever a contentious race emerges. Our latest report lays out the steps that states can take to protect against certification refusals.brennancenter.orgElection CertificationStronger safeguards can ensure that the process cannot be exploited to disrupt elections. 2256
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 19/06/2025Make America Healthy Again. 1901939532
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/06/2025DHS wants 72 hours notice before inspections of detention facilities. Kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it? 99788952443
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialRitchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Juneteenth honors the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. If that offends you, it says more about you than it does about the holiday. Outrage at Juneteenth is itself an outrage. 21923189
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialRep. Steny Hoyer @hoyer.house.gov · 19/06/2025160 years ago, enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, TX, heard freedom's ring. Their triumph reminds us of Opal Lee's wise words: ‘We have simply got to make people aware that none of us are free until we’re all free.’ Happy Freedom Day, MD-05! 320327
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Meiselas: And now, the little engine that could—the one people said could never happen—the MeidasTouch Network has hit 5 million subscribers, 33 million views every 48 hours, more views than Fox News and any cable news network… we are so grateful to share this moment with you all. 914239174725
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/06/2025Every time I post about ICE tactics, I get replies, “This is what I voted for.” Really? You voted for a mother crying for mercy while her child is still in school—about to come out and find her missing? There isn’t another way to go about this that preserves our humanity? 2151128575129
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/06/2025"Peace president." 649126975343
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialKarly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 16/06/2025A senator celebrating the murder of political opponents should be expelled. Not debated. Not excused. Expelled. 583271326386
Reposted by @prairiedad.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Mike Lee was born with every conceivable advantage in life. His father was US Solicitor Gen & dean of BYU Law, where Mike went to school. Older brother UT Sup Ct justice. Then he got jobs where family connections certainly help open doors. But he decided he wanted to be Catturd. 744212654085
![A purple-tinted photo shows a group of Unitarian Universalist clergy and laypeople standing closely together outdoors in winter, wearing coats, hats, scarves, and white UU stoles with the flaming chalice symbol. Large white text overlays most of the image with a quote that reads: “I am here for reasons of morality and ethics. ICE, I feel, has sacrificed any moral authority in the way they have done their job so poorly, so illegally, so violently. I would say [to all UUs] to answer the call.” Beneath the quote is the attribution: “Rev. Ben Atherton-Zeman, Minister, UU Church of St. Petersburg Florida.” At the top of the image is the text “UUWorld.org.” Along the right edge, vertical text reads “Image © Chris Northcross/UUA.” The UUWorld logo appears at the bottom.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:khrnkp6ud4p6da4tbfmca5c2/bafkreiejzm2yixppybl2rjrf3sqphxkvm2q2n63vdieka6sqggvrszspl4)
