simplynam.bsky.social @simplynam.bsky.social · 10hTried dating sites and no thanks. Yuck! Seventy-five years old and widowed for 6 years. Was hoping for a companion/friend but decided I’m happier with my dog sleeping next to me and riding with me on errands! Life is grand on my own. 000
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialICE must be destroyed 🏳️⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It's honestly an astonishing reflection of what this technology does to your mind that this guy had his work stolen by these AI companies and he's still using them he's just trying not to give them any more of his knowledge Moreover, ICE must be destroyed 839387
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The "leaders" of Silicon Valley appear to be fascists or fascist-adjacent. Why exactly is the public being badgered to "trust" these people re AI? It makes NO SENSE. 738589
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Messed around with this tool this am, and it really does look entirely possible that we will take the Senate. Fingers crossed. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.com2026 Midterms: How the Battle for the Senate Could Play Out (Gift Article)Explore possible outcomes in battleground states to see how each party could win a majority in the Senate. 89721
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/10/2026According to VPAP, twice as many Virginians have voted early at this point in the midterms than 2022. TWICE as many. www.vpap.org/elections/ea... 1163546848
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialSarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 10/10/2026BREAKING: At least six soldiers are planning to file for preliminary religious exemptions to avoid participating in the firing squad execution of Nidal Mikal Hasan, a nonprofit leader told The Washington Sun. www.washingtonsun.com/defense/sold...washingtonsun.comSoldiers Are Already Looking for a Way Out of Hegseth’s Livestreamed Firing SquadAt least six soldiers are planning to file for preliminary religious exemptions, a nonprofit leader told The Sun. More are expected to follow. 1325594
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine. 402633643
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialBlack Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026It's not that this country has never had state sanctioned murder for mass comsumption, it's just that at some point it became taboo to say that you wanted to actually see a lynching, but our current government is trying to get rid of that taboo and take America back to its roots. 10615183
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Despite ongoing lawsuit seeking to stop Trump overhaul of DC's East Potomac Park, the National Park Service has notified the court that it's going to take down nearly 530 trees at the site Team Trump is pursuing plan to redevelop the golf course on site 1521227791
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/10/2026yes. gotta call these dirty white supremacists what they are to their faces. more of this. 454283
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026You can see the woman in red behind him laugh after he says this and say "It's true." 2135153
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026And the five-year-old boy who was in the car? His mom says he's "traumatized" and hasn't spoken since the shooting. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/n... 10407187
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 10/10/2026No reasonable law enforcement agency would ever fire a hail of bullets into a car that presents no safety threat … with a five-year-old in the backseat. We need an independent investigation. We need Oscar to be released from custody immediately. And we need ICE to get the hell out of our city. 11476110
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialAnat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Your vote is your ICE whistle, blow it. Your vote is your gas bill, lower it. Your vote is your Supreme Court, remake it. Your vote is a data center, ban it. Your vote is... Revenge of the Voters. Coming Soon. 19147
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026As part of my Black Women & Greenwich Village tour, I share the story of Rose Butler, an enslaved young Black woman who is the last known person to have been executed by hanging at Washington Square Park. 10,000 people came to see her execution: thevillagesun.com/the-executio...thevillagesun.comThe execution of Rose Butler in Washington Square Park - The Village SunBY PAUL DeRIENZO | Next month marks 202 years since the last execution in Washington Square Park. A 19-year-old Black woman, still enslaved, named Rose… 619199
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026TOLD YA! TACO incoming: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comTrump says he will ‘make a decision’ on Hegseth plan to live-stream executionThe Pentagon has said a firing squad for the Fort Hood shooter is scheduled for Dec. 3. “By showing it, maybe other people won’t be doing what he did,” the president said. 1325036
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10/10/2026Once again: The ICE Air Operations Handbook allows children as young as 13 to be shackled on ICE flights. All adults are shackled except pregnant and postpartum women (up to two weeks) and, on removal flights only, single parents with young children. That’s according to their own policy. 4338166
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialUnited Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Warrantless stops and violent roving patrols by masked federal agents across California, especially the Central Valley, have been terrorizing farm workers for the past 5 days. The chaos is escalating. full statement: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 241613853
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The ICE agent is now in the custody of the Fresno police charged with multiple felonies. This story is one to watch. 616852
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026He sounds triggered, honestly. How pathetic. 1310121
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Former antitrust lawyer here. No they did not. 633059
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I still follow the Getty from my years in SoCal and sometimes this account is really fun. 2342
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/10/2026RFK Jr is one of the worst people to ever wield power in US government. Eternal shame on anyone who has ever elevated him. 7759225
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 12hHistory and the present are brutal, but/and we are all, every one of us, part of the same garment of destiny (to quote MLK’s letter from a Birmingham jail). Justice demands our attention, far more than that man and his ballroom. 0377
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialNPR @npr.org · 10hThe move escalates Trump's fight with the press amid court battle over barring CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House. n.pr/4hEsXQdn.prJustice Department investigates TV networks, citing possible anti-trust violationsThe move escalates Trump's fight with the press amid court battle over barring CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House. 3318953
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10h“'The recent decisions to shutter nearly complete offshore wind projects and to pay Total Energies hundreds of millions of dollars to renounce wind leases are an assault on logic and the American taxpayer,' he wrote...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comVeteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists 592004903
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialLaura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Just read Avalon, Rise by Madeline ffitch and really loved it! It tells the intertwining stories of people in an Appalachian town who are resisting a local white nationalist group - from Food Not Bombs punk kids to white liberal Boomer ladies to an elderly, disabled WWII vet. 1299
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor 3) Donors make huge gains 4) Repeat This is why we must get Big Money out of politics — and support the candidates who will fix the system. 261200538
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The basis for his request? Tish James expressed empathy for the victim. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/n...nytimes.comCornell Student Wants Letitia James, NY Attorney General, Removed as Prosecutor (Gift Article)Attorney General Letitia James should step down from leading the investigation into a former student’s claim that she was sexually assaulted in 2024, a lawyer for one of the men said. 76616
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Page One in Raleigh: 7695160
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialEmily Bregel @emilybregel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to facilitate the return of a Phoenix man who the judge determined was "unlawfully" deported to Equatorial Guinea in April and has suffered "irreparable harm" since then. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...tucson.comJudge orders Arizona man returned from Africa after 'unlawful' deportationA federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to facilitate the return of a Phoenix man who the judge determined was "unlawfully" deported to Equatorial Guinea in April and has 315359
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop. 25590012076
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026What’s happening in Roxbury has been a growing site for activist intervention. ICE has been barred by the courts from using this site but is doing it anyway. 08751
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller 501441446
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Yesterday in Harrison NJ. THIS is what ICE is doing to babies. Get trained in rapid response and fucking vote for progressive and DSA candidates. THIS MUST END. 17215140
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I’ve been training activists and organizers since 2016. And if there is one thing the last decade has taught me, it’s this: The work changes when the political landscape changes. www.rippleeffectinstitute.com/how-to-be-an...rippleeffectinstitute.comThe Ripple Effect Institute 1326
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The death penalty on its own is morally indefensible; Turning it into a public spectacle is an abomination 23513112
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/10/2026Breaking news: Arlington County sued to block construction of President Trump’s planned 250-foot triumphal arch, arguing that the administration failed to adequately evaluate potential environmental impacts of the project as required by federal law. washingtonpost.comVirginia county sues to block Trump from building his archArlington County’s all-Democratic board argues that the planned 250-foot-tall arch needs more review. 623761
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it. Monstrous 281713477
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026AGAIN. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/n...nytimes.comICE Agent Shoots Man in New York City (Gift Article)The person who was shot had been taken to a nearby hospital and was conscious and receiving medical attention, according to the New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooti... 05625
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialRoger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is objectively psychotic and every member of Congress and Senate should be ashamed if they don’t try to remove him from office before this happens 1122265549
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026OMG ENOUGH. 614439
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026a livestreamed execution is just a lynching 285103292007
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialregular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 08/10/2026need so badly for everyone in the country to understand that whatever they do to people like Nidal Malik Hasan, they would also do to you. 15773224
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialJustin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is a call for a state-sponsored pogrom. The republican majority whip in the house of representatives, Congressman Tom Emmer (R-MN) is on TV calling for a pogrom and the suspension of habeus corpus based on race, religion, and national origin. 26343
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialtalia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026After ICE agents shot a man in the Bronx today, a call is circulating for people to mobilize to the hospital where the man was taken. Per NYPD an hour ago, “The individual who was shot…is currently conscious and receiving medical attention.” 7675318
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent 460175212683
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity. 17261181495
Reposted by @simplynam.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I’ve said many times over the last few weeks that he (and the whole regime) is going to get a lot more insane the closer we get to him losing control of government and the narrative. Did not exactly expect “bring back lynchings” and “pogrom yourselves Minnesota” but the point stands. 412632
