Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Jurors ruled that yes, Meta "eavesdropped and that yes, users could have reasonably expected that their sensitive menstrual information was not being shared. Finally, the jurors ruled that no, Meta did not have consent for its actions." 5454137
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialAmanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 06/07/2025My FYP is video after video of pre-med students explaining how the big bill’s student loan cap will make it impossible for them to afford med school. Experts were already predicting a doctor shortage to the tune of 86k by 2036. This will make it exponentially worst. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hFxfBL/tiktok.comThe government just ended my ability to even apply to medical school, it’s no longer an option because private student loans would lead to absolute financial ruin. All of my work for the past 5-8 year...TikTok video by Lauren Steiner, MS 13338641653
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/07/2025A few days ago, Kristi Noem was bragging about stealing money from FEMA to fund Alligator Alcatraz 72284843573
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 06/07/2025As we kept warning, Republicans are willing to kill their own base to line up their pockets and please the billionaires. And, voila, the tragedy in Texas that sadly will become more common with natural disasters and defunded infrastructures and organizations designed to help people. 571505317
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.social50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 04/07/2025May this Fourth of July remind us of where we came from, of what we’re fighting for, and of who we can be. Organize. Mobilize. Resist. Power to the people. 662526620
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialAaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 03/07/2025They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare. 360183405591
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 03/07/2025trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether 151127723035
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/07/2025This bill is an act of war by the billionaires and their white nationalist allies against the people of the United States. It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps. It’s fascism. 402519791
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/07/2025It's a fascist regime, folks. You have to start treating it like such. You need all hands on deck and a remarkable change in attitude, language and tactics to confront Trump and MAGA. The old guard ain't gonna cut it. 702487573
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialTina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 03/07/202517 million people’s health insurance is not waste. If you’re looking for frauds, look at all the Republicans who promised not to cut Medicaid but did it anyways. 291148215
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.social50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 03/07/2025An obscene $170 billion is going towards the Trump regime’s deportation efforts in the “Big Beautiful Bill”, including $45 billion for detention centers and $27 billion for more ICE agents and operations. The ICE concentration camps alone will have more money than the entire federal prison system. 514854
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.social50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Not only does this bill strip healthcare from millions of people, steal our money for billionaires, and explode the deficit by trillions. It also gives $170 billion to the regime’s deportation efforts. More ICE. More kidnappings. More concentration camps. Their evil has no limits—this is fascism. 38803220
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialFelipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Well, seems like it's over. Trump will get his almost $200 billion more for immigration agents, weapons, surveillance tools, and huge detention expansion. This will entail at minimum another roughly 19,000 immigration agents across ICE and CBP, that will probably be shotgun-hired at lower standardsnewrepublic.comThe Worst Part of Trump’s Big Bill Is Getting Almost No AttentionThe Republican budget bill is stuffed with terrible policies, but Democrats have been largely silent on perhaps its most destructive component. 17325122
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialFelipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025All of what you've seen so far — the detention of activists, the masked agents in cars with no plates, the raids with in full combat gear, the detention camps — has been a prelude. We'll see it all kick into overdrive. There will be multiple more teams of masked, inexperienced agents in every city 11388115
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialGovernor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 03/07/2025The GOP Budget Bill is a tragedy for the American people and a complete moral failure. Donald Trump and his MAGA enablers are ripping care from cancer patients, meals from children, and money from working families — just to give tax breaks to the ultra-rich. 981094256
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/07/2025the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history 200186123888
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/07/2025Mike Johnson just said if you are for reducing the deficit, this bill is for you. The bill adds 3-4 trillion dollars to the deficit. They just lie. 1346326818913
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing. 43709649137474
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/07/2025“Congress” didn’t pass this murder budget. Republicans did it. Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate. Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due 14385172638
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/07/2025“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…” 21752942229
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Here’s Abrego Garcia’s amended complaint. It alleges that Abrego Garcia “was subjected to severe mistreatment upon arrival at CECOT, including but not limited to severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition, and psychological torture..” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 342957945
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/07/2025NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland. Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…” 197127994671
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025One thing that's clear is that these kidnappings will continue so long as there's no organized resistance to them. That resistance could be nonviolent or armed, coordinated by state and local governments or by groups of residents. Bottom line is that someone has to get between immigrants and ICE. 11443112
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialMatthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/06/2025I often wonder how many of these guys go to church on Sunday after spending the week terrorizing children 3258692
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Call your senators and your rep. This is insane. 717475
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025for the record, just over 12 percent of students at uva are black or hispanic. 12 percent are asian. 5 percent identify as "multi-ethnic." about 57 percent of students are white. this is what Trump considers to be "DEI" run amok. 231486270
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialAndrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Cville: 3pm today, at the Rotunda. you don’t have to love Jim Ryan, I sure don’t, but Trump’s DOJ forcing his replacement by Youngkin would be an absolute disaster for anyone affiliated with UVA, and honestly for our region at large. 14555109
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialRuth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Taking $ meant to help the population and using it for mass incarceration is kind of the essence of authoritarian priorities and goals. 35621248
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialDavid Noll @david.noll.org · 25/06/2025Agree 100%. And it is not just the lying and efforts to evade judicial review. A first grader could tell you that the administration's rendition scheme flagrantly violated the Fifth Amendment's due process guarantee, regardless of what the courts said. 033971
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Yeah, that’s exactly what he wanted. 821650303
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 24/06/2025As the author of a global history of concentration camps that came out in 2017, this sums up the last several years of my life. 51280254
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialPoliticalOdor @politicalodor.substack.com · 24/06/2025This is really short, so easy watch. I've mentioned how pumping up the infrastructure is what saved us all from the great depression. This is another facet of that. Lift people out of poverty, and you help the country! Tax breaks for rich do NOT benefit the people!!! youtube.com/shorts/IWs-z...youtube.comWhy don’t we see addressing poverty as investing in our future? Sociologist Matthew Desmond explainsYouTube video by The Daily Show 25794248
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialJoshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Veasey has RFK Jr dead to rights here, and they both know it. 191115185
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2025CARTER: How could you possibly justify the decision to terminate HIV vaccines studies? RFK JR: We've been promising an HIV vaccine since 1984 and every year Congress pours money into it CARTER: Because they haven't come up with one, you then cut the forward motion by getting rid of NIH dollars? 22557571543
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Reuveni notes that he repeatedly told DHS throughout the night of March 15 that they had to follow court orders. Even Drew Ensign agreed Judge Boasberg's order required them to turn the planes around. Emil Bove intervened and ordered DHS to ignore that interpretation. 4516137
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Reuveni accuses Drew Ensign, the DOJ lawyer appearing for the Trump admin in the CECOT cases and other immigration cases, of lying to Judge Boasberg on March 15 when he said he didn't know planes were taking off. He says Ensign was at a meeting the day before when the flight were planned! 9804211
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations. He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you." 18662662901
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 24/06/2025RFK Jr. is killing Americans with his reckless health policies. We need to state that plainly because it's important and it's true. 15978234
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/06/2025This man has been nominated by Trump for a judicial appointment. Hearing on Weds "Senior Justice Department official, Emil Bove III, told subordinates he was willing to ignore court orders in order to fulfill the president’s aggressive deportation campaign, according to a whistle-blower complaint."nytimes.comJustice Dept. Leader Suggested Violating Court Orders, Whistle-Blower Says 1291205532
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialAaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 24/06/2025HUGE: Senate Parliamentarian says that Mike Lee's public land sell-off violates the Byrd rule, requires 60 votes in the Senate. A bunch of other terrible anti-environment provisions do too. This isn't over, but this is a huge win. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb... 11371811829
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialScott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 20/06/2025If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit. 1331255975696
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/06/2025Our nation’s heroes put their lives on the line to protect our way of life – we owe them every bit of support we offer. Trump wants to deny veterans’ health care because of who they love or vote for. Illinois will protect the benefits they've earned.gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.comGov. Pritzker Takes Action to Protect Veterans from Healthcare DiscriminationGovernor directs state agencies to activate resources for veterans amid reports of Trump administration threatening veterans healthcare 15991166
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/06/2025If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens. 488255488636
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialACLU @aclu.org · 20/06/2025BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools. 11034941511504
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20/06/2025The Supreme Court's bias toward corporate interests is persistent, pervasive, and exhaustively documented. But it is still extraordinary to hear a sitting justice bluntly call it out and castigate her colleagues for consistently twisting the rules in favor of big business. slate.com/news-and-pol...slate.comIn a Stunning Critique, Ketanji Brown Jackson Nails One of This Court’s Worst TraitsThe court is contorting the law to favor big business while locking out the most vulnerable, the newest justice wrote. 502424864
Reposted by @sowosteph.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/06/2025And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail in Jamaica. Do you get it yet? 12256472466