Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is 141254645256
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 05/11/2025The voters, after 10 months of Republican government: holy fucking shit get me outta here 5678104
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 01/10/2025If I’m the president of npr and there is no federal funding… Bring me Michelle Norris… and the swear words buttonmedia.tenor.coma man is pointing up with his finger while holding a cell phone .ALT: a man is pointing up with his finger while holding a cell phone . 121055143
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckNPR @npr.org · 01/10/2025Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj 657306409646
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 30/09/2025People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it. 7803956312308
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckDave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 29/09/2025A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access. 8158081669
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckNPR @npr.org · 24/09/2025In making unsupported claims about autism, the Trump administration is "pointing the finger" at parents and making them feel guilty, says autism community advocate Colin Killick.n.prTrump admin 'seems to care very little about autistic people,' says advocateIn making unsupported claims about autism, the Trump administration is "pointing the finger" at parents and making them feel guilty, says autism community advocate Colin Killick. 4152986
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2025I feel like news publications should put more energy into asking autistic people how they feel about all this because… 281293203
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckJohn Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2025This Kimmel thing is one of the first important blinks of the second Trump term. They have a tendency to breed others - so keep pushing. 223838
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Genuinely wild that basically every C-suite in America has forgotten why they were doing corporate pride stuff and anti-Trump signaling in 2017 1355584
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 18/09/2025Lander does this shit when he's not even running for anything. The realest possible one 184118620
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckGwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc 10792027610506
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/09/2025WEIRD, HUH. 331818342
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckRowan Mysel Zeoli @rowanzeoli.bsky.social · 18/09/2025This is what part of what it means to represent and fight for your people. It's only going to get harder. We have to rely on each other and protect each other. 013237
Reposted by Sonja Riley-Swanbeckbmazing.bsky.social @bmazing.bsky.social · 18/09/2025weird that neither of these articles two main stories decrying censorship mention WaPo's firing of @karenattiah.bsky.social I guess democracy really does die in darkness 441464297
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/09/2025I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo. 152108693118
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs. 303248516263
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service. 23899012769
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckAaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado. 951320399242
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 10/09/2025I understand that people who go to Ivy League schools are simply worth more than people who don’t but if it’s not too much trouble and you have the time perhaps one of our major news outlets could look into a major right-wing political operation being run at the ag science capital of the world 353963
Reposted by Sonja Riley-Swanbeckellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 09/09/2025what an abhorrent day to be literate and have eyes 1580481
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 04/09/2025This graphic nails re the state of the Democratic Party/Leaders in Congress and they - specifically Senate Dems/Schumer - once again have a chance to reverse the narrative this month. Will they? www.economist.com/leaders/2025... 1206
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckJaime Fear Her 👻 @bogrosemary.bsky.social · 02/09/2025The literal opposite of what DC’s mayor has communicated. #FreeDC 0184
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 01/09/20252 weeks after being violently attacked & arrested. "Good job, Mayor Bowser. You're a Fascist, too.” 17770263
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/08/2025The judge who initially enjoined the cuts us a Reagan appointee who said the policies were the most racist he has seen in his 4 decades on the bench. This is what I mean when I say SCOTUS is a white supremacist institution. 8483128
Reposted by Sonja Riley-Swanbeckemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025MS has a much worse violent crime problem than DC. 901688462
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 04/08/2025They’ve co-opted and restructured the information systems. They’ve (already) reconfigured the political systems around their project. Now, they are flipping values upside down and inside out. I don’t know that folks have accounted for those last two. Most are still trying to figure out the first. 954471
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckJoe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 03/07/2025And if you don't know who in your community is working to help your immigrant neighbors, today is the day to learn. 6409103
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this. 34849981121741
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckThree👁️Eyed👁️Devil👁️ @anarcish.bsky.social · 28/06/2025“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up. 88136955573
Reposted by Sonja Riley-Swanbeckmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Groups and activists have been pushing for this for at least a week -- this was not a given. I hate that we had to fight for it but regardless, this is a WIN and big shout out to everyone who has been calling and pushing and organizing around this 211258303
Sonja Riley-Swanbeck @srileyswanbeck.bsky.social · 28/06/2025The immigration portions of this bill get less play but are disastrous for refugees. Turning humanitarian asylum into a pay to play scheme and effectively erasing protections for abused/abandoned children. What 9 year old can pay a $12,000 bribe to the USG just to not be sent back to their abuser?supportkind.orgThe Senate Reconciliation Text’s Catastrophic Implications for Unaccompanied Children - KINDA proposed Senate bill could gut protections for unaccompanied children, exposing them to trafficking, abuse, and indefinite detention. KIND urges rejection. 110
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 27/06/2025Monstrous: "They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."tpr.orgICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ... 30054842516
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckStand.earth @stand.earth · 27/06/2025This is climate change. This is what happens when fossil fuel companies pump pollution into our environment with FULL KNOWLEDGE that they would cause unnatural disasters like this dangerous heat dome — directly harming the health of both people and planet.theguardian.comMore than 150 fall ill from extreme heat at New Jersey graduationsA ‘mass casualty incident’ as temperatures soar to upper 90s fahrenheit in the region 1021887
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Horrific political assassinations took place in America, & we’ve totally erased it from the National Conversation™️ because they happened in the Midwest instead of Manhattan & we’re not a serious country. Incredibly depressing on so many deep, pathetic levels. May their memories be a blessing. 401658526
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckMinnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 27/06/2025Former President Joe Biden paid respects to Melissa and Mark Hortman as they lie in state at the Minnesota Capitol. 66961267
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 26/06/2025Why does this matter? Because name recognition matters. One study I looked at that found name recognition alone can boost turn out for a candidate by 10 percentage points. Another found that it can boost it by 17%. What they are doing is, fankly, anti-democratic. 47926
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckEliel Cruz @elielcruz.com · 25/06/2025Zohran Mamdani is the only democrat in the mayoral race that released an LGBTQ platform and the only democrat in the country (that I know of) to commit to safeguarding gender affirming care for youth + adults with $$. 204876802
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p... 12184412747
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them. 1461761302
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/06/2025The United States is committing genocide against its trans population, and SCOTUS just legalized it. That's the truth. 10770287
Reposted by Sonja Riley-SwanbeckAlyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Setting the precedent that the Supreme Court gets to decide what medical conditions can and can’t be treated has a dark history with dark implications for the future. Y’all are so filled with bigotry you can’t see all the rest of the fucking dominoes and it’s infuriating 08319
