Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialAmanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 24/01/2026"He had a gun" is just the latest MAGA variation of "we are allowed to kill you whenever we want." Because they definitely think they're allowed to carry loaded weapons wherever they like. 440289
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialAaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 09/12/2025They cut off her wedding ring. Wanton cruelty, just because. When this is all over all of these people need to go to prison 24765254
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialMatthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5% 3291651555
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality. 8453442711321
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialJoshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude. 381915350
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/10/2025The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wingwsj.comExclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom ConstructionImages of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat. 999132256327
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/10/2025Do you know what a group of frogs is called? AN ARMY 807272747181
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 18/10/2025every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell" 2016480900
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings 22918840528617
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialFrettie Fingers @frettiefingers.bsky.social · 18/10/2025#nokings Portland frog brigade 295188764641
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialThe Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 18/10/2025From the No Kings rally in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. My new friend. 402247241
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialWoozer @woozer.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Vancouver, WA. Overflow crowd in the park. Gridlock. Huge + support from cars going by. Great crowd. Didn't see a single obvious agitator. Did see at least a dozen dinos. We high-taloned each other. 171
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialAlejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue. 205179714729
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Stopped at Office Depot. Had to wait in line behind five other middle-aged people buying poster board and markers. 12710952945
ruthj.bsky.social @ruthj.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Beautiful day to stand up for democracy in our beloved #Portland #NoKings 020
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialBill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 13/10/2025WARNING: This horrific video by a war correspondent reporting from the front lines of war ravaged Portland is not for the squeamish. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇 1202643796
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Someone should do a FOIA request for the raw footage of the videos they took of that Chicago raid and then edited into a fascist ad for ICE. 11451071010
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 05/10/2025ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror. 7952725310504
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/10/2025If ICE agents are proud of what they're doing, then why do they cover their faces like cowards, refuse to identify themselves, and hide behind anonymity? 462120292579
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 05/10/2025This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL... 33704364015473
ruthj.bsky.social @ruthj.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Dearest Isabelle, We have taken refuge with thousands of fellow citizens at the town stadium in war ravaged #Portland, as drums pound and smoke fills the air, along with the cries of the citizenry. Around us we see the horror of empty beer cups and insufficient hot dog relish. #BAONPDX 215635
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialCarolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Video below: “I am American. I am American.” A man pleads, “Ayúdame, ayúdame. Help me!” Meanwhile, an ICE officer pulls a gun on innocent bystanders — in Hyattsville, MD. This is happening in America. Right now. What are we doing about this? It MUST stop. @SenateDems @HouseDemocrats 2061505819
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialPeggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 23/09/2025People in Portland, Oregon and the vicinity, want to call KATU (a Sinclair station not broadcasting Jimmy Kimmel tonight)? Here's the phone number. Business hours are 8-5 PT: MAIN PHONE: 503.231.4222 katu.com/station/cont...katu.comPortland Contact | News, Weather, Sports, Breaking NewsKATU ABC 2 offers coverage of news, weather, sports and community events for Portland, Oregon and surrounding towns, including Beaverton, Lake Oswego, Milwaukie, Happy Valley, Gresham, Vancouver, Hill... 10229176
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialiain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 19/09/2025If you’re in Portland and pissed off about the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel, here’s a good guide as to what you can do. Our local Sinclair station is KATU, and the post includes a list of last night’s advertisers. www.bojack2.com/2025/09/acti...bojack2.comActing locally about KimmelI'm interrupting my current blog hiatus (which has been quite positive; I'll write about it soon) for what I consider a public service. Any... 44217
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/ 581120876162
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialJesse Rabinowitz @jesserbnwtz.bsky.social · 26/08/2025For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE 17763093111
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/08/2025DC stands tall and resilient, driving ICE GOONS away with determination ✊ 11234581222
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Just so we’re keeping score & everyone understands where we are now: you live in a country where there are two tiers of citizenship, the government is sending people to concentration camps, the president sets the policies of elite universities, & there are security checkpoints in the capital city. 19768349
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialJen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Tense scene out here. People booing and shaming unidentified federal law enforcement as they stand in the middle of the street, posted to pull people over for random checks. 12850961282
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture. 191127543327
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialTiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 16/07/2025We need to amplify the good news, the stories where communities come together, where ordinary people learn to fight back, where politicians and judges do what is right. If this ship can be saved, it will be up to all of us to not give up the fight. 3525213
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago. Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away” timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...timesofsandiego.comICE agents scatter as SD Bishop Pham, other clergy visit immigration court"Our presence made a difference," one priest said, quoting an immigration lawyer saying their client was given more time to prepare for another hearing. 441172084640
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialBat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Among the most striking things I saw today were passing drivers who didn't simply give a polite honk in support, but pumped a fist out the window with their whole body, visibly excited to see people out there. Because a protest shows there is something to be done, and people to do it with you. 231631274
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialArtologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 05/04/2025Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff 6480711671
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/04/2025Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff 10038023315361
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back. 9052800213787
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialBrian White @brianwhite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Elon’s Downfall 22847181513
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US. 16272282700
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialBen Rhodes @rhodesben.bsky.social · 21/03/2025"You are meant to feel powerless. That is what a strongman wants: to make you feel as if nothing can stop the takeover of your country." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Democrats Can Stop Trump and Save AmericaThe Democratic Party can’t stop America’s spiral into autocracy and oligarchy unless it casts off its stale talking points and reimagines what it stands for. 1016561
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got. 10135990010549
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate. 34507812515088
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I think what is making everyone so angry isn’t just the cowardice of Senate Democrats, it’s their cowardice in comparison to the random normal person who runs for school board to oust a Moms for Liberty freak 131112452021
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialJen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 14/03/2025The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000+ federal and D.C. workers (i.e. people directly impacted by a government shutdown), is urging senators to vote no on the House GOP's CR. In other words, AFGE is saying a government shutdown is less bad than this GOP bill. 11475132816
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.social#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 14/03/2025If it feels like no one's fighting for you, that there's no opposition, that the bad guys are being allowed to win, it's time to BE the opposition! Make your voice heard! There are 180 upcoming #TeslaTakedown protests in the US and abroad! Join a protest or organize your own at TeslaTakedown.com.teslatakedown.comTesla Takedown | Take action at Tesla showrooms everywhere.The stakes couldn’t be higher. No one is coming to save us—not politicians, not the media. 12618198
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/03/2025The question is what additional pressure can be brought to bear over next 18 hrs to shake this free. As noted, no on cloture Sens CAN bring pressure to bear if they really want to; reps can too. Ordinary voters can apply more pressure. I see no reason to give in until the votes r cast. 631789443
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025The absolute devastation that @chuckschumer.com is about to inflict on D.C. by supporting the GOP’s continuing resolution is hard to overstate. Massive cuts to schools and law enforcement. Teachers laid off en masse. Basic city services may grind to a halt because we *cannot spend our own money.* 6136511080
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 14/03/2025There are so many betrayals in Chuck Schumer's vote for the CR, but perhaps none worse than going against the request of the federal workers who've been most harmed by the on-going coup. The largest federal workers union asked @schumer.senate.gov to vote against the CR and he just ignored them.talkingpointsmemo.comBiggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CRFederal workers obviously don’t like government shutdowns. Most of them are furloughed.... 12823290
Reposted by @ruthj.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Here Are the Arguments for Why Senate Ds Should Vote Yes and Why They’re Wrong talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/here-...talkingpointsmemo.comHere Are the Arguments for Why Senate Ds Should Vote Yes and Why They’re WrongOver the last week a few TPM Readers have written in with... 41569163
