Reposted by Ruth BeckerCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue. 173075782
Reposted by Ruth BeckerTim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Rip out your Ring doorbell RN, jfc 301215238
Reposted by Ruth Beckerrosebanditquinn @rosebanditquinn.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Why are the comedy team of Witkoff and Kushner the lead negotiators on …. ANYTHING??? No Senate approval. No confirmation process. The only expertise these two have is the ability to enrich themselves. 31161951524
Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 06/02/2026What must really piss him off isn’t just that Obama’s nowhere to be seen in the Epstein files — It’s that they tried every possible means to compromise him — and failed. 000
Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Rowan — along with Kushner and Witkoff and Tony “bankrolled by Oracle” Blair — is also a Trump “Board of Peace” appointee 010
Reposted by Ruth BeckerJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 31/01/2026A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵404media.coHere is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. 5125391606
Reposted by Ruth BeckerJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026To avoid the mere possibility that Holocaust remembrance might make a person draw contemporary political conclusions, JD Vance managed to post a Holocaust Remembrance Day message that does not mention Nazis, fascists, Jews, Romani, queer people, disabled people, nor any other victim or perpetrator. 98616
Reposted by Ruth BeckerJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group. 512157573
Reposted by Ruth BeckerRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 25/01/2026COLLECTIVE LIBERATION OR BUST 018539
Reposted by Ruth BeckerLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026“At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom....So it was last week in Selma, Alabama." Lyndon B. Johnson, speech before Congress on Voting Rights, March 1, 1965. 111127
Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Inaugural meeting of Trump’s “Board of Peace.” From left to right: extractive capital, media capture, financial engineering, regional strongmen, shadow diplomacy, organized crime — with the Don, of course, presiding. 010
Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 14/07/2025This is truth spoken soft and low, opening a window into the increasingly featureless desert of Israel's soul. @lisang.bsky.social writes with profound sensitivity and an unflinching, but deft touch. Worth your time. 121
Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Oh those clever Gen Z kids! It's almost like... these are their only possible options? FFS 010
Reposted by Ruth BeckerWesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025We are in the phase of the Gaza war where Gazan towns’ Wikipedia pages are having to be rewritten in the past tense. The demolition of Khuza’a this spring was the work not of air strikes in combat, but of the IDF’s 188th Armored Brigade and attached engineers while facing little resistance. 06446
Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Waiting for the ADL to explain these are just “awkward statements” made in a “moment of enthusiasm” 000
Reposted by Ruth BeckerAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing. 43719650737481
Reposted by Ruth BeckerAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Given KAG's filing outlining torture in El Salvador, *anyone* being removed to El Salvador should, under both domestic and international law, have an opportunity to file a claim showing that they have a credible fear of being tortured if removed to that country (in addition to other due process) 8751601391
Reposted by Ruth BeckerFrench Sanford @advertisinal.bsky.social · 25/06/2025HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA FUCK YOU NYT 235611
Reposted by Ruth BeckerMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I can't emphasize enough how ugly and pervasive and persistent the "Mamdani hates Jews" campaign was. I'm happy that so many Jews stood strong against that vileness. Maybe people will start to understand that we've had it with being treated as a paranoid, easily manipulated single-issue bloc. 416223868
Reposted by Ruth BeckerJason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 25/06/2025gotta say, Brad Lander's really walked the walk in these past weeks and it's not something I'll soon forget 737146596
Reposted by Ruth BeckerWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/06/2025All the racist tropes of "global intifada" and bla bla bla coming out in corporate media and through pundits against Mamdani. Oh, silly racists, you are spitting in the face of the majority of NYC voters without realizing it. Not going to work this time. 231057112
Reposted by Ruth BeckerThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/06/2025WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…” A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs... 20203284511071
Reposted by Ruth BeckerFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Jeff Bezos is an absolute trash human. 2763139633
Reposted by Ruth BeckerNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Letssssss gooooo emersoncollegepolling.com/new-york-cit...emersoncollegepolling.comNew York City Mayoral Poll: Mamdani Catches Cuomo In Rank Choice Voting - Emerson PollingThe final Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill survey of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary…Full Release & Results 1496
Reposted by Ruth BeckerThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/06/2025In case it wasn’t already obvious. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... 29658151923
Reposted by Ruth BeckerBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Rank me #1. Rank Zohran #2. Rank the rest of the WFP Slate. And Don’t Rank Andrew Cuomo. 192433303
Reposted by Ruth BeckerJoe Cirincione @joecirin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Important thread on the sheer incompetence of the Trump administration. The military strikes are impressive - no other country in the world can do this - but the results? We may have accelerated an Iranian drive for the Bomb, not “obliterated” it. 212631
Reposted by Ruth BeckerArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 23/06/2025The Swan, No. 24, Group IX, by Hilma af Klint, 1914, 📸 by me 202399344
Reposted by Ruth BeckerJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Obviously it is true Netanyahu has been pressuring Trump to join into a war with Iran which other voices in the Republican Party opposed. That is not the same as saying Israel has the power to force the US to do something it doesn't otherwise want to do. Israel, not the US, is the client state here. 5398
Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 22/06/2025“To the extent that threats against which a given government protects its citizens are imaginary or are consequences of its own activities, the government has organized a protection racket” Charles Tilly 000
Reposted by Ruth Beckerderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/06/2025just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything. 885272304967
Reposted by Ruth BeckerChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/06/2025I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success. 453139234247
Reposted by Ruth BeckerWesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025This guy in Missouri saw the strike package as it headed out of Whiteman AFB and tweeted it 24 hrs ago 461774243
Reposted by Ruth BeckerScott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 22/06/2025I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself. 203250664232
Reposted by Ruth BeckerYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Mahmoud Khalil returns home with his wife, Noor Abdalla, and their brand new baby boy, Deen. 141378175
