Reposted by Rayna HelgensGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically. 1335531319
Reposted by Rayna HelgensClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 05/10/2026 11-yo Andrés lived with his dad in Texas—but was deemed “unaccompanied” by ICE and sent to foster care. “They’re kidnapping people’s kids and keeping them in government custody,” a former Biden official told us. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.com“You kidnapped my son”ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.” 3372237
Reposted by Rayna HelgensNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist. 5846831396
Reposted by Rayna HelgensPeter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Many stories. It's a very hard article to read www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... archived: archive.ph/6snOLtheatlantic.comThe Babies Left Behind in AmericaThe United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis. 615279
Rayna Helgens @raynahelgens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026static.klipy.comHoward The Duck Waves HelloALT: Howard The Duck Waves Hello 001
Reposted by Rayna HelgensJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad. 8146941173
Reposted by Rayna HelgensTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity. 213379832
Reposted by Rayna HelgensSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum. 372981916
Reposted by Rayna HelgensSFist @sfist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Filmmakers are at work on a new documentary about SF drag impresario Heklina, sadly gone before her time, and her friends and chosen family hope that it will inspire younger queer artists and also call attention to anti-LGBTQ bias in police investigations. buff.ly/8molmvIbuff.lyNew Documentary In the Works About Heklina's Work, and Her London DeathFilmmakers are at work on a new documentary about SF drag impresario Heklina, sadly gone before her time, and her friends and chosen family hope that it will inspire younger queer artists and also… 011
Reposted by Rayna HelgensCOYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 24/09/2026Gavin Newsom, who has spent the past year courting billionaires and the right wing, is "a political juker — an advocate for nothing but his own ambitions as the Democrats’ best boy," writes @soleilho.com. www.coyotemedia.org/what-is-the-...coyotemedia.orgWhat Is the Point of Gavin Newsom?You can’t build a movement around a person whose only commitment is staying uncommitted. 718370
Reposted by Rayna HelgensMichael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Welcome to the Resistance, Jonathan Taylor Thomas! 1419412
Reposted by Rayna HelgensBut Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 22/09/2026The two Bee Gees songs 57919
Reposted by Rayna HelgensAlex 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 Rayna Helgenspmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Georgina M. Cox - "Mammal in a Sunday Dress" (2026) 121630326
Reposted by Rayna HelgensTom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026FBI warns ICE agents not to trust any women willing to date them gizmodo.com/fbi-warns-ic... 901934413
Reposted by Rayna HelgensJenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Woah woah woah what the fuck 411036
Reposted by Rayna HelgensScary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Ms. Rachel thing is instructive because ppl just vaguely talk about her being antisemitic so as to avoid articulating her original offense: daring to feature in her videos a 3 year old whom the IDF blew the feet off of 153180574
Reposted by Rayna HelgensJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026These tragedies are happening all the time, and I hope the monsters causing them are held legally accountable, and these terrible laws are wiped off the books! (Unclear if the second thing is even a possible result here, but I'm still hoping!) 125937
Reposted by Rayna HelgensMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026She was Rachel, weeping for her children, because they were not. 647151
Rayna Helgens @raynahelgens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ok but I’ve watched the entirety of Frasier multiple times 000
Reposted by Rayna HelgensGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/09/2026There have to be consequences again. Any corporation who takes advantage of this miserable policy and poisons the environment should be nationalized by the next administration. 116429
Reposted by Rayna HelgensAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity. 191383648
Reposted by Rayna HelgensBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Left to its own devices, the theft machine is going to keep doing theft. Big AI models were created by people who simply don't care about the law, so it will do garden variety data theft and infrastructure hacks at much faster speeds. It's not the Terminator. It's a crowbar. That is bad. 12856108
Reposted by Rayna HelgensAndrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This fact also completely defangs any argument about “job creators.” Job creation means nothing when the jobs being created don’t lead to any reasonable standard of living. 7734205
Rayna Helgens @raynahelgens.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Lucas Museum is nuts didn’t realize Rockwell did so many nude self-portraits 110
Reposted by Rayna HelgensA Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 06/09/2026The reason that the Harry Potter apologists won't just read better books is because they're not looking for good stories...if they were, they wouldn't have glommed on to Harry Potter. They're looking for the camaraderie and social phenomenon that Harry Potter was in the 2000s. 92573611
Reposted by Rayna HelgensMolly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tubeExclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent 13250492076
Reposted by Rayna HelgensConnect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"They get in trouble for laughing" CA mom Casey Revkin has seen the "heartbreaking" living conditions at Dilley detention center. Her non-profit, Each Step Home, provides funds to help detained families get basic needs - from toothbrushes to cereal, which costs them an insane $14.msnbc.com‘$14 box of cereal’: detained families forced to shell out for basic needs at DilleyThe conditions at DHS’ family detention center in Dilley, Texas are infamously horrific: reports of worms in the food, unsafe drinking water and unsanitary conditions. Potable food, water and other ba... 1411958
Reposted by Rayna HelgensPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It really sounds like we're hurtling toward a crisis here. The USPS seems determined to disenfranchise MILLIONS of Americans, and there is no reason to believe the Supreme Court won't let them do it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/u...nytimes.comUSPS Is Building a Mail-In Ballot Screening System Despite Legal Battles Over Trump OrderElection officials warn that the creation of a new online portal for states to upload voter information is already fueling confusion and could ultimately disenfranchise voters. 25705237
Reposted by Rayna HelgensSt. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...sfchronicle.comICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ICE owes millions in unpaid bills to hospitals and, in some cases, detainees themselves have been directly billed for care, records show. 641518808
Reposted by Rayna HelgensGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/09/2026Every. day. Everyday one of these ICE charter planes has to abort takeoff, or do an emergency return, or has a decompression, or gets stuck somewhere for 20+ hours with shackled immigrant passengers trapped onboard. And we never find out why. There is no transparency. 9722326
Reposted by Rayna HelgensMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined. 34895814675
Reposted by Rayna HelgensDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 01/09/2026🎥 NEW: Marc Elias is breaking down two major allegations from a bombshell whistleblower complaint 👇 1️⃣ USPS defied court orders while developing its new mail ballot portal. 2️⃣ The system is designed so that if just one ballot in a batch of thousands can't be verified, the entire batch gets rejected.youtube.comBREAKING: Whistleblower Exposes Trump's Secret USPS Plan to Reject Thousands of Ballots at OnceYouTube video by Democracy Docket 17460284
Reposted by Rayna HelgensConnor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule. 2685697709
Reposted by Rayna HelgensBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 29/08/2026This is the sort of thing an invading warlord would do to show the peasants who's boss. 29871258
Reposted by Rayna HelgensRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives. 14584482882
Reposted by Rayna HelgensJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE. 69492325070
Reposted by Rayna Helgens🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026youtube.comThe Rocky Horror Picture Show - I'm Going HomeYouTube video by THIRDPROJECT 0258
Reposted by Rayna HelgensTom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass 4561251508
Reposted by Rayna HelgensDaniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton 7165572897
Reposted by Rayna HelgensBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/08/202640 kids, separated from their parents, and held in detention by our government, despite committing no crimes. Those were the cases I sat in on today in immigration court. (1/2) 12590231
Rayna Helgens @raynahelgens.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Insane to have led such a full and wild life that plans for your death undoubtedly included protocols for how to handle your theme park and multi-state literary program. She was amazing. 000
