Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 10/02/2026nodding 131902200
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/02/2026“They just told me where to stand, and they said: ‘Don’t move. Stand here and be one with the grass.’” A fun read: 019757
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 13/07/2025this is basically how I feel about rainbow capitalism is it obviously insincere horseshit? yes it is still much better for society as a whole that companies are expected to performatively signal their support for marginalized people, it helps set the norms we’re seeing the alternative now 6355351205
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 13/07/2025"Nearly 70 percent of Democrats now have an unfavorable view of Israel, according to Pew. Yet Democratic officials carry on as if full-throated support for Israel were party doctrine," writes @ryuspaeth.bsky.social. nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.comIsrael Was Supposed to Sink Zohran MamdaniWill the Democratic Party absorb the lesson? 1002832541
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/05/202560% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality. 450141804878
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025humans are not designed for the amount of feedback being a public figure on social media provides. Whether it's praise or criticism, receiving an avalanche of nonstop attention is profoundly corrosive to your brain. 464379505
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures. 6161481024
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/04/2025ILLINOIS… Gov. Pritzker… 627331509116
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/04/2025fun historical fact: among the core political forces in the development of mass incarceration was the "Victims' Rights Movement". Its first major legislative national legislative victory was under President Reagan. The prison population doubled under his administration. 684200895
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 19/04/2025Are you a current or former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee? Our reporter Jake Pearson wants to hear from you. You can contact him directly on Signal at 917-512-0276. Here are other ways to reach us securely: propublica.org/tips 3483233
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 31/03/2025going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force 532292693812
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025The thing we learned from Web2 is that the most impactful businesses became the most impactful by optimizing for addiction. Which means we should all ask, how would you optimize generative AI for addiction? Whatever makes it the most addictive is probably what it will become. 1953432312
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/03/2025every person involved in this needs to be in prison 11265948415762
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialKCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 18/03/2025Federal agents and local police are investigating a fire that damaged two Tesla Cybertrucks at a dealership in Kansas City.kcur.org'Suspicious' fires at Kansas City Tesla dealership under investigation by federal agenciesAfter two Telsa Cybertrucks caught fire at a dealership on Monday night, the FBI and ATF agents joined the Kansas City Police Department Bomb and Arson unit in the investigation. 3119015
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialWIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.freedom.pressWired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should followAs the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy 16249134923355
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialtalia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 13/03/2025BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil. 5239697078
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialKCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 13/03/2025NEW: Thousands of probationary federal employees fired by the Trump administration must be offered job reinstatement within the next week, a judge has ruled, because they were terminated unlawfully. That likely includes many fired workers from the Kansas City region.kcur.orgThousands of fired federal workers must be offered reinstatement, a judge rulesThousands of probationary federal employees fired by the Trump administration must be offered job reinstatement within the next week because they were terminated unlawfully. The firings affected many ... 1191
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Congrats to ADL, AJC and the other mainstream Jewish orgs content to sit back while a fascist delivers antisemitic smears against the most prominent Jew in American government 8957761188
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 06/03/2025Rep. Zooey Zephyr - My Wife - just gave an incredible speech against a drag ban in Montana. It was so strong that a Republican rose to speak passionately against the bill, chastising the sponsor. The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes! This is the power of representation. 248214023965
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Reminder: if you predicted half the things happening now (threatening to take Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal; lawless mass firings; complete defiance of Congressional prerogatives; mass pardons of violent supporters) even a couple of years ago, Serious Thinkers would have dismissed you. /1 263102061898
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 27/02/2025Current and former federal workers: We’re here in D.C. sending out our signal 🚨 Contact us confidentially on Signal at 917-512-0201 or go to propublica.org/tips. 2834651198
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 25/02/2025In occupied France, people would drop their used matches folded into a V, as a secret sign of resistance. People who opposed the Nazis would see them, knew they weren't alone, & felt emboldened to take action. Some modern day equivalents here--small but powerful actions you can absolutely do:thewhitepages.netThirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now which probably won't magically catalyze a mass movement against Trump but that are still wildly importantWhy? Because others will see you do them, and it will make it easier for them to take their own (slightly less lonely but equally beautiful) action by your side 35958338
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialMe and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 23/02/2025How to change a swastika that cant be removed 100171345230
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23/02/2025I've never seen it stated so plainly: Joyce can imagine herself as an author whose book event is disrupted by protestors so she opposes the protest. Can you imagine yourself as a fired federal worker or deported immigrant? Wouldn't you want people to take drastic measures on your behalf? 362199219
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/02/2025So an open threat against a sovereign state. Where are all my “state’s rights” people? 821567333
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialRio Tazewell @riotazewell.bsky.social · 20/02/2025The fact that Trump is siding with Russia and calling Zelenskyy a dictator is the latest tell that he is either compromised by Putin or so stunningly misinformed that it’s a shock he’s even able to have an opinion at all. I suppose it could be both. 66843207
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialJonathan Shorman @jonshorman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025BREAKING: Andrew Lester, who shot KC teen Ralph Yarl, has died, prosecutors say 141
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialRaging Techie 👊🇨🇻🔥 @raging-techie.bsky.social · 19/02/2025JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating 253153102984
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialTristin Amezcua-Hogan @tah.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Does anyone personally know a moderator on r/kansascity? The Labor Beacon is having a hell of a time posting there. 151
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Did you call Target? Wanna call them again? Did you not call before because you thought it wouldn't make a difference? Wanna call them now? ☎️ Target Employee Relations and Integrity Hotline: 1-800-541-6838 511455589
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialFiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Just in case people don't know the context, this is a policy called splitting the letters, developed by fundamentalist Christians to use feminist and queer language and culture to split the T off and then turn the others against each other. You can watch their 2017 conference planning it. 3934241752
sammysnack.bsky.social @sammysnack.bsky.social · 13/02/2025isthisacoup.com Coup in progressisthisacoup.comIs this a coup? Home of the Coup-o-meterPrevention is the best medicine: Get background on coups, how they happen in a democracy, and what we can do to stop one. 010
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialTristin Amezcua-Hogan @tah.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Kansas City's @iafflocal42.bsky.social is on Bluesky! I think this is the first union in the region to join the site. 043
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2025i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane. 391260646439
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialBram Sable-Smith @realbrambo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025NEW: I want to tell you about some of the most courageous people I've ever met. One year ago they were injured during the mass shooting at the Super Bowl parade in Kansas City: Shot, trampled, burned, scarred. They've allowed @peggylowe.bsky.social and me into their lives to see their journeys 12114
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025I’d just like to shout out humans for at least seeing through NFTs as the most idiotic idea possible. 839348731949
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialKat Flandermeyer @katflandermeyer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread 242140654343
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialTrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 08/02/2025Part 3, in which AOC explains that the calls we have been making to members of Congress this week are having an impact on Republicans and Democrats alike. Don’t let up. Keep making noise. 7236761324
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025The husband of an Indian-American wife and the father of 3 Indian-American kids wants to bring back the staffer who posted “normalize Indian hate.” 2015168504181
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialSally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Hear me out — If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is. Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone. 7185213825
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialSarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 06/02/2025Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing? DON'T DO IT. If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT. Document, document, document. Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document 159129653857
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/02/2025This is a good action. 4037321331
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialJonathan Shorman @jonshorman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025From The Star's Judy Thomas: International House of Prayer-KC founder Mike Bickle committed sexual abuse or misconduct against 17 women — including minors — over decades, amid a thriving culture of systematic abuse and coverups, a 3rd-party investigation found. www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...kansascity.comIHOPKC founder committed sexual abuse, misconduct against 17 women, investigation findsIHOPKC founder Mike Bickle misused his position of authority “to engage in sexual misconduct with multiple victims,” the investigation found. 042
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialmerr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 01/02/2025headline: Elon Musk has constructed the Howling Engine, which converts the anguished cries of children into cancer democrats: in these dark times, the american people need us to reach across the aisle 353431633
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025“We must end gender ideology,” say the people who believe that heterosexuality should be enforced with state violence and that women should have the legal status of permanent children. 192840679
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialEric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 28/01/2025I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it. Irony is dead. I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated. #LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust 15170482570
Reposted by @sammysnack.bsky.socialAaron - Thorgi's Haunted Arcade @thorgisarcade.bsky.social · 28/01/2025I used to work for an elected official as the person who answered their emails. I can tell you from personal experience, if even twenty or thirty people all call an official in a day, they start panicking. This stuff does help. 8181844156
sammysnack.bsky.social @sammysnack.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Today’s action was calling my two senators at both the dc and local office. Highly recommend it as a way to blow off steam. I wrote a list of concerns and went bullet point by bullet point. Even though, I have zero hope my senators care about my opinion, I think it’s important they get pushback. 010