Reposted by S. S. NewberyParkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 6hKeep it going, y’all. Let’s do Axon next. 18621
Reposted by S. S. NewberyClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3hFuck this shit. Vote early. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comDHS shoots New York man with five-year-old in carFederal agents surrounded and fired into the man's vehicle, reportedly with a young child inside. 8325122
Reposted by S. S. NewberyAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6hI keep thinking of the soldiers convicted of war crimes in his first term that he pardoned. Hegseth was deeply involved with that. time.com/7176342/pete...time.comPete Hegseth's Role in Trump’s Controversial Pardons of Men Accused of War CrimesPete Hegseth advocated for Trump to intervene on behalf of service members in three cases involving war crime accusations in 2019. 335775
Reposted by S. S. Newberyemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20hI've been arguing that Trump's fraudulent Fraud Task Force looked like Stephen Miller disinformation. www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen... 229194
Reposted by S. S. NewberyRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America. 261448306
Reposted by S. S. NewberyDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 16h🔥 from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. I would add: billionaires are a renewable resource, sadly. Five years ago there was no OpenAI or Anthropic. We mint billionaires here in California with some regularity. The movement of capital moves both ways. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag... 27327
Reposted by S. S. NewberyGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16hAlso, I want to highlight this part of the case for all the pilots and avgeeks out there. I’ve heard ICE is doing this with manifests from a number of sources, but this is, as far as I know, the first confirmation. Really shows the complicity of the pilot-in-command. This was an Omni flight. 5307154
Reposted by S. S. Newberyunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 08/10/2026Brutal scenes coming out of Lochiel, Arizona tonight. Border Patrol is moving a truck with a land defender locked to it while firing off pepper balls and tear gas: instagram.com/reel/DeODKqCt_BS/ 420485
Reposted by S. S. NewberyMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026🚨BREAKING: Voting rights groups are citing recent ICE activity near voting sites and new evidence of intimidation as they expand a lawsuit seeking to keep armed federal agents away from polling places during the midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comICE is already showing up near voting sites, bolstering lawsuit against armed agents at pollsAmong the newest examples is an ICE detention that took place in the same area California voters had to pass through to reach a ballot drop box. 9833041877
Reposted by S. S. NewberyJean Walsh @therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Credit where credit is due! This is how it should be. Not a single canceled AC Transit bus! 3585
S. S. Newbery @ssnewbery.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Oh Rebecca!!! I'm so glad you're (basically) OK, but I really hope the driver learned a lesson and won't ever do that again!! 110
Reposted by S. S. NewberyJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 07/10/2026Via @kathrynpost.bsky.social: “I don’t have words,” (Martín Alonso Soto Hernandez, who helped organize a hunger and labor strike at Delaney Hall) said in Spanish, holding his wife and children… “Thank you so much for everything. I always, always stayed in prayer.” religionnews.com/2026/10/07/i...religionnews.comImmigrant who helped set off Delaney Hall hunger strike released from ICE custodyELIZABETH, New Jersey (RNS) — 'I don’t have words,' Martín Alonso Soto Hernandez said in Spanish while holding his wife and two children. 'Thank you so much for everything. I always, always stayed in ... 16928
Reposted by S. S. NewberyProject Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 07/10/2026btw I think our warehouse map is better than ICE's official one. 27922
Reposted by S. S. NewberyLawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 06/10/2026The leading automated license plate reader manufacturer, Flock, does not just read license plates anymore, but deploys an AI-driven system that police can use to track people. Matthew Cavedon and Laura Bondank-Harmon explain what safeguards should be enacted and the obstacles to enforcing them.lawfaremedia.orgThe Law Can’t Keep Up With Flock’s AI SurveillanceFlock promised to read license plates. It built surveillance that can track dissenters—and the law hasn’t caught up. 64032
Reposted by S. S. NewberyGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026My new employer, The American @prospect.org, is doing its fall fundraiser! TAP is a nonprofit unionized magazine with no paywall & no programmatic ads. I'm at TAP rn due to a generous grant, which won't last forever. Please help them raise their budget & tell them I sent you.✊ prospect.org/donateprospect.orgHelp us speak truth to power.This year, we decided to take a risk and turn off programmatic advertising on our site. We’re making a bet that our readers will respond to us aligning our editorial values with our business model. We... 313858
Reposted by S. S. NewberyGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically. 1335721331
Reposted by S. S. NewberyNereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 05/10/2026From a light-seeking alga came the key to controlling single neurons in the living brain. Hegemann and Nagel’s protein, turned by Deisseroth into an optical switch, activates circuits in ms and shows how memories, emotions and actions arise. An epochal leap for #neuroscience. #NobelPrize2026 🧪 1196
Reposted by S. S. NewberyRobert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is great, though the settlement is a fraction of the harm done. During the pre-Prop 22 era gig driver companies underpriced rides via cheap labor & VC funding, to undercut public transit & get customers hooked. Allowing them to operate illegally contributed to our current transit crisis. 28414
Reposted by S. S. Newberyemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Really cool tool from @popular.info to crowdsource who is paying for what campaign ads. paidforby.infopaidforby.infoWho paid for this?Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads. 2829403
Reposted by S. S. NewberyTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Oh: I really can’t emphasize enough how useful it is to check — literally right now, do it. Likely, it’s peace of mind in a couple of minutes. At worst, you still have time (barely) to remedy it. 5477200
Reposted by S. S. NewberyTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If you’ve read about TN this week, please take a moment with this piece if you didn’t read it when we published it: It’s an investigation into the execution team Alabama has put together. It’s officers with a history of violence who choose each other. Eye-opening to what happens in executions.boltsmag.orgIn Alabama, Prison Guards Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions - BoltsAs Alabama keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments. 6424233
Reposted by S. S. NewberyBike East Bay @bikeeastbay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Happy Friday! In our most recent Bikeside Chat, we talk with Bruce Beyaert from TRAC, about how the city of Richmond built 36 miles of San Francisco Bay Trail – far more than any other city on this planned 500-mile multi-purpose trail. Check it out at BikeEastBay.org/Podcast!bikeeastbay.orgPodcast - Bike East BayBike East Bay chats with local champions from Contra Costa and Alameda Counties who create positive change via inspiring bikey projects 023
Reposted by S. S. NewberyBryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 03/10/2026If a human driver crashed into a bus every week we would rescind their license 183
Reposted by S. S. NewberyRobert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This tragedy occurred on a street where the county recently completed a “pedestrian safety” project, but which local advocates pushed back against due to the lack of physical traffic calming & bike infrastructure. The warnings were ignored. 59015
Reposted by S. S. NewberyAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare. 351241506
Reposted by S. S. NewberyDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Cities across the country have gotten the message that residents hate Flock cameras. But one growing response is to replace them with *other* license plate readers (like from Axon, makers of the Taser), as if the brand name is the concern. @thorbenson.bsky.social has the story.prospect.orgLicense Plate and Switch - The American ProspectCities are succumbing to public pressure and removing Flock license plate readers. But they are substituting alternatives with the same capabilities. 15626
Reposted by S. S. Newberycapitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For people unfamiliar with this list of schools Hegseth claims are essential to America's defense, Liberty and Hillsdale are small religious colleges. Hillsdale is the pet project of the DeVos/Prince families, and its whole admin helped Trump with his fake elector scheme, organizing MI electors. 1/ 17296155
Reposted by S. S. NewberyNorm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026BREAKING: we just struck the 1st blow against Trump's illegal impoundment of almost $1B appropriated by Congress to help average folks We & partners sued to stop him from flushing away vast sums in housing support. Housing! The court just SUSPENDED his illegal action while we fully brief the case 382535760
Reposted by S. S. NewberyAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026Impeach Hegseth on January 3. I don’t care if you don’t have enough senate votes to convict and remove. 24140941231
Reposted by S. S. NewberyBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Here’s Trump increasing the trade deficit by being a repulsive, tyrannical pig. Or, I guess in his mind (because he’s also pig *ignorant*) he’d say they’re ripping us off by refusing to vacation here. 49416
Reposted by S. S. NewberyOwen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Once again granting a stay with no analysis of the stay factors in a case where the balance of equities is utterly bonkers 312448
Reposted by S. S. Newbery🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I cannot find a single TV news story on this. 37034
Reposted by S. S. NewberyAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this isn’t real life it’s a clip from veep, right?? 4573285
Reposted by S. S. NewberyShipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 29/09/20263 sorties of PLA aircraft, 6 PLAN vessels and 4 official ships operating around Taiwan detected up until 6 a.m. (UTC+8) today. 1 out of 3 sorties entered Taiwan’s southwestern part ADIZ. 03512
Reposted by S. S. NewberyAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So is Todd gonna personally present the case to the Ft. Pierce grand jury or….? Because if you can’t even persuade Joe DiGenova or Kurt Olsen to do it….who’s left? 27454102
Reposted by S. S. NewberyAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026BREAKING: At least six (I'm hearing 8) prosecutors - including Kurt Olsen - have QUIT the "Grand Conspiracy" case in Florida overseen by Judge Aileen Cannon. I know this is the Daily Mail, but there are well-placed sources. Waiting for more developments. www.dailymail.com/news/us-poli...dailymail.comTrump 'grand conspiracy' case in crisis amid mass exitTrump loyalist Kurt Olsen has resigned from the 'grand conspiracy' probe in Miami, along with at least six other prosecutors assigned to the investigation. 8831191050
Reposted by S. S. NewberyGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026IT'S OFFICIAL. The progressive members of the Chicago City Council (looking at you, @andrefor40th.bsky.social) stopped ICE's cruelest, most notorious charter airline, Omni Air International. news.wttw.com/2026/09/28/f...news.wttw.comFirm Set to Buy Chicago’s Parking Meters Sells Airline That Carried Out DeportationsMore than a dozen progressive members of the City Council said they would not vote in favor of the deal unless the firm sold Omni Air, threatening the completion of the deal involving the city’s 36,00... 6815255
Reposted by S. S. Newberyamanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If you have experience FOIAing cities for airport cameras, I need help please. 417886
Reposted by S. S. NewberyMeredith Glaser @cyclingprofessor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026BREAKING 📣 For several days, a peaceful protest took place in the morning, after a young child was killed by a car driver. The child was riding his bike to school, the father with him. The grieving community came together with hundreds of people, cyclist or not, creating a 3km long human bike lane. 5340113
Reposted by S. S. Newberyrandy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026from the former editor-in-chief of Germany's Thüringer Allgemeine: “AfD are nationalists. And if nationalists come to power, there will be a desire to divide Poland up with the Russians. I would advise Poles to start slowly fortifying the border along the Oder and Lusatian Neisse.”rp.plAfD ma być wielka. „Pojawi się chęć podzielenia się Polską z Rosjanami”Nacjonalistyczna AfD uważa, że już przejęła w Niemczech przewodnią rolę CDU. – Jak przejmie władzę, pojawi się chęć podzielenia się Polską z Rosjanami – wieszcz 183
Reposted by S. S. NewberyBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Our country is staring into the abyss, and much of our national press corps lacks the fortitude that this moment demands www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...nytimes.comTV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable. 50937247
Reposted by S. S. NewberyProject Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 27/09/2026We are super small potatoes in the grand scheme of things. But the number of times a larger publication has linked to SAM.gov or a report through our newsletter (psst, we can tell because you don't delete the UTM code) without crediting our reporting is way too high. 312728
Reposted by S. S. NewberyKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2026When I was in my early/mid 20s, I played pro basketball overseas, relying on the team to navigate everything from housing to phone service to immigration. I had to trust that they — & the country I was essentially an invited guest in — would protect me. Schools here can’t make this promise anymore. 110710
Reposted by S. S. Newbery@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning” This is excellent reporting on the destruction of the CDC. Kennedy is every bit as horrible & dangerous as you think he is, maybe even worse. 15315
Reposted by S. S. NewberyGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026I know this is cheesy as hell, but I mean it with my whole heart: Love, love is a verb Love is a doing word ✊ 513631
Reposted by S. S. NewberyRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5 14470251
Reposted by S. S. NewberyAndi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 12231351284
Reposted by S. S. NewberyKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 632914955