Reposted by Slim HeilpernAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics. 1060131573713
Slim Heilpern @slidemanslim.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Stand Up! We put this little Country tune together four years ago in advance of the midterm elections and, well, it's that time again and this is still relevant as ever. Whatever else you do, stand up and VOTE BLUE – it's the only way out of this mess! youtu.be/RsS4KmuD3M8youtu.beStand Up! (Slide Man Slim & Penny Hanna)YouTube video by Slim Heilpern 001
Reposted by Slim HeilpernAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026owner even lost in federal court trying to force access through Yosemite. Now suddenly it’s back on the table. Our national parks are not supposed to be carved up to make private developments more valuable. Yosemite belongs to all of us! 18868149
Reposted by Slim HeilpernMaxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 10/07/2026The Trump admin just changed the definition of "harm" to animals under the Endangered Species Act, in what environmentalists called the biggest erosion of protections for wildlife in 50 years. @nytimes.com gift link to the story w/ @catrineinhorn.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...nytimes.comTrump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals. 19181133
Slim Heilpern @slidemanslim.bsky.social · 04/06/2026"Buenos Dias America" Words and Music by Penny Hanna ©1985. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqu5...youtube.comSlide Man Slim & Penny Hanna - "Buenos Dias America"YouTube video by Slim Heilpern 000
Slim Heilpern @slidemanslim.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Buenos Dias America" is a never before published song written by Penny in 1985. Her poignant lyric is even more relevant now than it was back then. Listen here: slimandpenny.com/web/articles... 020
Reposted by Slim HeilpernBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Sometimes it feels like Trump thinks he was elected president of the White House. 4693
Reposted by Slim HeilpernGovernor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 06/05/2026California is showing the world a top 5 economy can grow AND be green! “For the first time, California discharged just over 12,000 MWs, equivalent to 12 large nuclear plants, of energy from its battery arrays. That’s enough to meet over 40% of the state’s energy demand.” 415337
Slim Heilpern @slidemanslim.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Our scrapbooks serve as a scattershot index into our personal stories, with each item surfacing deep (if not completely accurate) memories. And its the subject of our latest single: slimandpenny.com/pages-of-our... 000
Reposted by Slim HeilpernPublic Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026The Agriculture Secretary sent an agency-wide email titled "He has risen!" that told the story of Christ. Separation of Church is just the latest Constitutional principle this administration is destroying. The Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves. 26519
Reposted by Slim HeilpernNorma Ballingall 🏴 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 @balr0g.bsky.social · 20/04/2026In a nutshell. 😊 658238448401
Reposted by Slim HeilpernThe Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 15/04/2026"The Children of the New." 😄😅😆 And man, we burned the fuck out of so many CDs.🥹💿 1017216
Reposted by Slim HeilpernPatrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 10/04/2026We should not move on from the President threatening to annihilate a civilization. 1014428962
Reposted by Slim HeilpernMaggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 08/04/2026"Within weeks ... major artificial-intelligence systems began repeating the invented condition ... The fake papers were then cited in peer-reviewed literature. Osmanovic Thunström says this suggests that some researchers are relying on AI-generated references without reading the underlying papers."nature.comScientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was realBixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness? 67745
Reposted by Slim HeilpernCongresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 07/04/2026This is a horrifying threat of genocidal war crimes. The lives of civilians and service members alike are at stake here. Congress must stop this war and remove Trump from the White House. 71812192
Reposted by Slim HeilpernMissing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Artemis II crew returning to Earth. 359159422600
Reposted by Slim HeilpernGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2026"He wanted it big. He wanted lots of gold, lots of marble. He wanted visitors awestruck by his architectural expansion of the country’s symbolic seat of power." {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 20342301498
Reposted by Slim HeilpernSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/03/2026We need the lawsuits brought to specifically charge racial discrimination in these firings and blocked promotions. 22764226
Reposted by Slim HeilpernJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/03/2026“This is one of the most grotesque crimes of our time.” 955133946183
Reposted by Slim HeilpernDr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 16/03/2026It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose. 17115573255
Reposted by Slim HeilpernSenator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 09/03/2026We offered to fund TSA. No conditions. Republicans refused. They want the hostage, to extract more ICE money with. No ICE reformsusatoday.comGovernment shutdown hits spring break travel with hours-long TSA linesA partial shutdown impacting the Department of Homeland Security left some travelers waiting hours at airport security checkpoints. 731283591
Reposted by Slim HeilpernMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026"Jews don't belong in American society." Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America. But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure. 33774602183
Reposted by Slim HeilpernBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...billmckibben.substack.comSunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earthNone of them through the Strait of Hormuz 15639206
Reposted by Slim HeilpernChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation. 35589962161
Reposted by Slim HeilpernGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Also Marco Rubio: Our shared Christian faith must dictate our most consequential decisions about who gets to enter and join our society 14334121
Reposted by Slim HeilpernJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Excellent advice right here. 16670331655
Reposted by Slim HeilpernAmerican Humanist Association @americanhumanist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026American humanists are committed not to governments or nation-states, but to the safety and dignity of every human being. The Iranian people deserve peace, safety, and the right to self-determination - now, and always. (To be clear - we don’t support temporary wars, either.) 0246
Reposted by Slim HeilpernMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Send ICE agents to Iran. They already have the outfits. 34376581576
Reposted by Slim HeilpernKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Donald Trump in 2012: 431697545
Reposted by Slim HeilpernRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Weird they dragged in Hillary Clinton when there's another First Lady right there in the White House who actually knew Jeffrey Epstein. 493166333916
Reposted by Slim HeilpernJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/02/2026the 'restrictions' are worth stating explicitly. Anthropic doesn't want its AI to be used to make decisions about whether to kill someone without some human oversight. Hegseth says he won't accept that restriction. 21359154
Reposted by Slim HeilpernMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Of all Presidementia's prior State-of-the-Unions I've not watched in the past, tonight's State-of-the-Union is the State-of-the-Union I'm not watching the most. 🍊🚫 2179334294841
Reposted by Slim HeilpernMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23/02/2026I refuse to get used to our government murdering people on the high seas. If they can do it to these people, they can do it to you. 401154443
Reposted by Slim HeilpernEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 21/02/2026So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE. And this is what they called it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n... 13045471439
Reposted by Slim HeilpernRep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026The American people do not want war. Trump is threatening an illegal strike on Iran. This will do nothing but bring needless death and destruction. We cannot let warmongers override Congress's power. No war with Iran. 1020044
Reposted by Slim HeilpernJohanna Vogel @johannavogel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026A heads-up from @billmckibben.bsky.social: "One way of summing up this moment is to say that the endangerment finding & the politics of climate are puny in the face of physics. We’re going to see that physics in action in the next 24 months, and it will drive many changes... some of them political" 37733
Reposted by Slim HeilpernThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/02/2026None of this is normal 472126875817
Reposted by Slim HeilpernRichard Silvia @yesrising.bsky.social · 12/02/2026[Abraham] “Lincoln saw clearly that if we give up the principle of equality before the law, we have given up the whole game.” —Letters from an American 🇺🇸 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... 0381144
Reposted by Slim HeilpernAmi Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 11/02/2026Courage and clarity — wow 131574255
Reposted by Slim HeilpernThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/02/2026Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons 19816
Reposted by Slim HeilpernCato Institute @cato.org · 03/02/2026The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3 7943782250
Reposted by Slim HeilpernMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I can’t believe how stupid everything is. I just hate the stupidity. 4138156778