Reposted by sharon zhangNegin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The legal system that the Trump administration has been weaponizing against immigrants and the left is not something of its own creation. They inherited this legal machinery from the war on terror, and until we dismantle it, all of us are at risk. Please, please read this. 19256
Reposted by sharon zhangPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Google is killing journalism: "At Truthout, we anticipate a loss of roughly $500,000 in online revenue as a result of this massive traffic plunge in the next year alone."truthout.orgWe’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian FutureAI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back. 8388170
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 14/08/2026One of the most heartbreaking headlines I've ever read. How do we allow this to go on? 396
Reposted by sharon zhangTruthout @truthout.org · 20/07/2026The State Department has released a 99-page report that labels Cuba as the “ideological capital” of left-wing politics in a document seemingly imitating Cold War politics published amid the Trump administration’s fascistic crackdown on the left.truthout.orgState Department Releases Chilling Report Vilifying Cuba as “Ideological Capital” of the LeftIn the report, officials condemn the dissidence of left wing figures like Hasan Piker and Zohran Mamdani. 55635
Reposted by sharon zhangTruthout @truthout.org · 16/07/2026In a set of speeches on the supposed “Resurgence of Political Terrorism,” Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups.buff.lyMiller Labels Leftists a “Cancer” That World Must “Root Out” in Fascistic SpeechPeople with left-wing beliefs are “enemies of civilization,” said Miller in a speech with numerous McCarthyist echoes. 197761
Reposted by sharon zhangTruthout @truthout.org · 20/04/2026Major military contractor and surveillance giant Palantir has posted a chilling manifesto that calls for tech companies to play a larger role in a dystopian future where imperialist powers are unleashed and Americans are increasingly subject to the whims of the surveillance state.truthout.orgPalantir Posts Manifesto Lamenting Post-War “Neutering” of Nazi GermanyThe surveillance giant has exploded in value as it’s scored massive contracts from the Trump administration. 46855
Reposted by sharon zhangTruthout @truthout.org · 17/04/2026A new analysis finds that tech giant Palantir Technologies paid $0 in federal income taxes last year, despite raking in hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to build out a mass network to surveil Americans in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.truthout.orgPalantir Paid $0 in Federal Income Tax in 2025 While Raking in Taxpayer Funds to Surveil AmericansIts $0 tax bill comes despite the company raking in $1.6 billion and landing a $10 billion military contract last year. 8221156
Reposted by sharon zhangProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 08/04/2026We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te... 6349172894
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Trump called Iran's leaders "animals." Just like how, on Oct. 9, 2023, Israel's Yoav Gallant said Israel was fighting "human animals" in Gaza — and was later cited by the Hague for that statement. The ICJ quoted it directly in its preliminary genocide ruling. truthout.org/articles/tru...truthout.orgTrump Uses Same Language Cited by ICJ in Genocide Ruling Against IsraelTrump said the US is fighting “animals,” echoing Yoav Gallant’s “human animals” remark early in Israel’s Gaza genocide. 057
Reposted by sharon zhangNegin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 07/04/2026To put it in even further perspective — Lockheed Martin produced both the spacecraft for the Artemis mission and the PRsM missile that shot tungsten pellets into an elementary school in Lamerd. 41168442
Reposted by sharon zhangTruthout @truthout.org · 25/03/2026“Aircraft should always be vehicles of peace, never of war! No one should fear that threats of death and destruction will come from the sky,” the pope said, “After the tragic experiences of the twentieth century, aerial bombardment should have been banished forever!”truthout.orgPope Leo: Aerial Bombing Should Have Been Banned Forever After 20th-Century Wars“No one should fear that threats of death and destruction will come from the sky,” Pope Leo XIV said. 835796
Reposted by sharon zhangJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 05/03/2026DeSantis (in Florida) and Abbott, and Paxton (in Texas) are using the same playbook against CAIR that southern states used against the NAACP and other civil rights groups in the 1950s and 60s. But First Amendment doctrine is stronger now, thanks in part to the cases that the NAACP litigated. 017368
Reposted by sharon zhangKim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 04/02/2026what a godawful day for journalism, following a great many other godawful days for journalism 81307138
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 04/02/2026this feels like a coded way to say "we're orienting more toward sports betting" 081
Reposted by sharon zhangIn These Times @inthesetimes.com · 29/01/2026Abolishing ICE isn’t enough. Representative Delia C. Ramirez says the real problem is DHS itself: “The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights.” @sharonzhang.bsky.social reports on why calls to dismantle the whole department are growing.inthesetimes.comHouse Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez. 17722
Reposted by sharon zhangKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 27/01/2026This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position. 12086062046
Reposted by sharon zhangTruthout @truthout.org · 27/01/2026Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”truthout.orgHouse Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez. 8750501602
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 26/01/2026"ICE agents have been kidnapping hard working people — mothers, fathers, and children — and now murdered a registered nurse, one of the most trusted professions in the country. ... Abolish ICE now." 082
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 26/01/2026National Nurses United, the largest nurses' union in the US, has called for the abolition of ICE in response to Alex Pretti's killing truthout.org/articles/uss...truthout.orgUS’s Largest Nurses’ Union Demands Abolition of ICE After Alex Pretti KillingThe union vowed to do everything in its power to ensure Congress members who vote to fund DHS are voted out. 0121
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Just taking a second to note Truthout's amazing reporting on our homepage right now. Independent media is more important than ever, and I am so proud to be part of this outlet. Please take a second to support us if you can. truthout.org/donate/ 071
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 25/01/2026“We will continue to kill you until you allow us to take away your voting rights” 152
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 24/01/2026ICE is out here murdering people in cold blood and we can’t get democrats to even SAY “abolish ICE”, much less take any of the actions it would require to do so — investigations, impeachment, prosecutions, even whipping votes. Democrats needed to be abandoned years ago. 0149
Reposted by sharon zhangDean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Just completely unmasked evil at this point 02111
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Included in Jared Kushner's hellish slide deck pitching Gaza as a real estate investment in Davos today was a plan to build data centers across the Strip. Because their hatred for life wasn't already abundantly clear truthout.org/articles/kus...truthout.orgKushner Reveals Dystopic Plan to Build Data Centers, Vacation Resort on Ruins of Gaza GenocideThe plan appears to be to finish Israel’s bulldozing of Gaza to make real estate opportunities for investors. 65528
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Trump admin ignoring the glaring hole in their self defense lie, which is that the car speeds up after she's shot, likely because she went unconscious and her foot got heavy. It's common sense that killing the driver of a moving car would not make the car stop moving. 0105
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 03/01/2026truthout.org/articles/exp...truthout.orgTrump Says US Will “Run” Venezuela After Maduro AbductionLegal experts called for Trump’s impeachment as world leaders condemned the action as a violation of international law. 050
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 11/12/2025“Watching his life cut short for standing up publicly for what he believed” huh…wonder who else has had that done to them that in relationship to kyle rittenhouse 0143
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 06/12/2025i made this cherry chocolate cake (for a retired cardiac PA) :) 2130
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Very rarely, I have the privilege of reading an article that changes the way I think, fundamentally alters the fabric of reality that unrolls before me. This article is one of them. nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.comWatched, Tracked, and Targeted in GazaLife under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime. 1115
Reposted by sharon zhangTruthout @truthout.org · 02/12/2025This is what you get when billionaires own the media. Support grassroots, independent media like Truthout if you can. truthout.org/donate/ 15659180
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 25/11/2025This is a must-read from legal scholar Marjorie Cohn, who lays out times that she *personally* testified on behalf of soldiers who disobeyed unlawful orders. Very thorough account of how the Trump admin's assertions w/r/t Sen. Kelly and co. are wrong. truthout.org/articles/sol...truthout.orgSoldiers Must Disobey Unlawful Orders Under Trump — It’s Their Legal DutyI have been called to testify at courts-martial as an expert witness on servicemembers’ duty to disobey unlawful orders. 185
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Sen. Joni Ernst blocked a bill by @vanhollen.senate.gov yesterday to suspend arms shipments to the UAE while it backs the slaughter of tens of thousands of people in Sudan truthout.org/articles/gop...truthout.orgGOP Blocks Bill to Ban Arms Sales to UAE Until It Stops Arming Sudan GenocidairesDarfur’s governor said this week that 27,000 people were killed in the days following RSF’s el-Fasher siege last month. 021
Reposted by sharon zhangTruthout @truthout.org · 21/11/2025Trump’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, reportedly welcomed a man convicted of spying on the Navy for Israel into the U.S.’s Jerusalem embassy for a “friendly” meeting this summer. The spy, Pollard, was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for selling a huge cache of military secrets to Israel.buff.lyHuckabee Welcomed Man Imprisoned for 30 Years for Spying for Israel Into Embassy“I wholeheartedly embrace an ‘Israel first’ doctrine,” the spy, Jonathan Pollard, recently said in an interview. 36452
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 19/11/2025"Decades ago, far-right investors and philanthropists committed to a long-term, risk-taking investment in media and narrative infrastructure. Meanwhile, progressive philanthropy has largely ignored progressive and left media, relying on the continued operations of traditional, profit-driven media."truthout.orgThe Right Funds Its Media. Can Progressive Philanthropy Meet the Moment?Rigorous, principled, independent journalism is an essential part of movement building. 070
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 12/11/2025No less a part of the media's hard right pivot than the Kimmel cancellation -- Condé Nast firing union leaders who dared to speak out against the gutting of Teen Vogue. truthout.org/articles/con...truthout.orgUnion Blasts Condé Nast for Firing Labor Leaders Who Sought Answers on Teen Vogue LayoffsThe firings and gutting of Teen Vogue come amid a hard right pivot by media companies under Trump. 1125
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Much like those who continue carrying out his wars today, Cheney enjoyed impunity for his imperial crimes. He lived out his life as part of the 1 percent, availing himself of luxuries funded by atrocities so vast they are almost impossible to describe in full. truthout.org/articles/war...truthout.orgWar Criminal Dick Cheney Dead at 84, With Blood of Millions on His HandsCheney’s legacy more than outlives him; he reshaped the very structures of war and authoritarianism at home and abroad. 04513
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 24/10/2025"We're just going to kill people." "We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like, dead." truthout.org/articles/tru...truthout.orgTrump Flouts Constitution With Caribbean Strikes: “We’re Just Going to Kill”“I don’t think we’re going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re just gonna kill people,” he said. 182
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 11/09/2025to recap the past couple of hours: - we determined the bullets had trans ideology on them - local pd releases pic of the suspect - nvm 1111
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 11/09/2025The right's entire ideology is built on violence. There is nothing to valorize about that. One of the only things uniting the various factions of the right is their commitment to violence. Kirk and Fuentes, for instance, had differences in that they disagreed who that violence should be done to. 1120
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Biden officials keep patting themselves on the back saying "at least we prevented famine!" But famine is just a regulated word. You need huge swaths of starvation, built up over a long period of time, to reach famine. And starvation preceding famine isn't magically better. 4125
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 27/08/2025"When I saw the news about Mariam, I was in such disbelief that I kept calling my colleagues in Gaza and asking one question: Is Mariam alive? When they said no, I just hung up and called someone else to ask the same question." www.aljazeera.com/features/202...aljazeera.comRemembering Mariam Abu Daqqa, my strong, beautiful friend killed by IsraelYoumna ElSayed writes about the disbelief and shock of losing her friend, killed in Israeli air strikes on a hospital. 181
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Early in the genocide, the US told Netanyahu he'd be "fighting this war for...decades to come,” Miller said. “The prime minister said, ‘You’re right. We are going to be fighting this war for decades to come. That’s the way it’s been. That’s the way it’s going to be.’” truthout.org/articles/for...truthout.orgFormer Top Biden Spokesperson Admits Israel Sabotaged Ceasefire Deals as US Blamed HamasThe former State Department spokesperson effectively admitted he and the president repeatedly lied about negotiations. 081
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 15/08/2025It disgusts me that Ezra Klein & co sit around in their cushy homes hand wringing about the WORD genocide when Palestinians' lived reality is hell on earth. I want to force them to look at the photos of kids killed in Gaza every day. I want to glue the pictures to their glasses so it's all they see. 081
Reposted by sharon zhangTruthout @truthout.org · 12/08/2025After killing 6 journalists on Sunday outside of al-Shifa Hospital, Israeli forces targeted another well-known journalist, Motasem Ahmed Dalloul, on Monday.truthout.orgUN Experts: Israel Killed Journalists in “Deliberate Attempt to Silence” WitnessesIsrael struck the home of another prominent reporter in Gaza City just after killing six journalists on Sunday. 25135
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Cuomo’s campaign has clearly been trying to Mamdani-fy his social media presence and literally every single tweet is incredible. They all sound like robots trying to emulate Elon Musk’s sense of humor 281
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Really astonishing how getting even the smallest bit of engagement on Twitter is a hellish experience now 150
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 31/07/2025It is genuinely hard to imagine anything more abhorrent for her to do right now, as ICE is ravaging the US, public health is being completely destroyed, and Trump is literally setting humanitarian aid aflame. 1121
sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 30/07/2025oh, were we talking about cory booker speeches again 010