Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialHarry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c 1. continuing, not 1 off. 2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it 3. literally at hand of federal government, which is 4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves. 20578192286
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22/01/20261/The law requires a judicial warrant based on probable cause signed by a judge to enter a home or private area in a biz (not an administrative one signed by an “immigration authority” ie a DHS employee). This is clearly unlawful conduct. ICE can’t change the law just because it doesn’t like it. 18030231255
stacywes.bsky.social @stacywes.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I guess we don’t even have a Constitution any more. 000
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 10/01/2026This agency is out of control if leadership is no longer checking violations of constitutional rights. Congress absolutely must step in before more people are kidnapped/killed. 47858082384
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Sources say this is the ICE agent who murdered a woman in cold blood today. 1992187725
stacywes.bsky.social @stacywes.bsky.social · 06/01/2026This is a must-read. The Dangerous Revision Of Jan 6 History On The Official WH Website open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...open.substack.comThe Dangerous Revision Of Jan 6 History On The Official WH WebsiteAs I wrote to you last night, five years on from January 6, Donald Trump is trying to rewrite the history of the insurrection. 000
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5 5573559218058
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 30/11/2025The Trump apologist checklist after Trump or his administration does something awful: 1. Fake news, it didn’t happen. 2. It might’ve happened, but it would be OK if it happened. 3. So it happened, so what. 4. Whatabout [insert names of various presidents here] 802317468
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/11/2025HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS 13663552034
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Is he just gonna steal $230 million dollars from us? 6503666896
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Gov. Bill Lee says Trump’s military-police occupation of Memphis “may never end.” “We have just begun. We do know this is going to last for months… In fact, I will tell you that it will last forever.” 176532244
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/10/2025This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent. Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop. 789175755376
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Starting to wonder how the National Guard troops Trump is treating like pawns in a game of chess feel about this commander in chief? 1211479278
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2025This. 277142044355
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialMother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2025New polling suggests that Trump’s efforts to falsely claim that Democrats shut down the government because they want to provide “free health care for illegal aliens” are not working. Nearly half of Americans blame the shutdown on Trump and Republicans in Congress, and for good reason.motherjones.comAmericans aren't buying Trump's shutdown blame gameEarly polls show that most blame Trump and Republicans—and for good reason. 54965301
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2025SHUTDOWN STAKES: Democrats are fighting for affordable health coverage. Trump and Republicans refuse to negotiate. If Trump gets his way, health ins. costs on HealthCare.gov are going to SKYROCKET for 610K Tennesseans 💸 26635275
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialGovernor 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. 7813956712311
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/09/2025This is a declaration of war against United States citizens 68971872573
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/09/2025Jeffries: “Four days away from a government shutdown and Republicans are on vacation…Donald Trump, right now as we speak, is at a golf event. It's outrageous.” 70781275
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Today, the New York Times published a long essay glorifying Jay Bhattacharya, the Trump NIH director. What?⁉️ Here’s the explanation: That essay was written by the editor of a Trumpist Republican journal, funded by a Trumpist org that hates science. SHAME on the Times. 🧪1/ 1122682
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialJeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 22/09/2025he's so fucking stupid it hurts 521292113
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/09/2025JESUS: "Feed, clothe, and provide shelter to the homeless." CHRISTIANS: "Nah, let's just KILL them instead. Glory!" 955127664217
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 13/09/2025"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.” 32267462031
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/09/2025Democracy, it turns out, doesn’t die in darkness. It dies in broad daylight when otherwise good but cowardly people fail to act until it’s too late.thebulwark.comIt’s Not Yet Too Late to Save Our DemocracyThe window is closing fast—but a handful of senators and Supreme Court justices could check Trump’s autocratic ambitions. 45875270
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialSteve Benen @stevebenen.com · 05/09/2025Job growth over the first eight months of the year: 2015: 1.76 million 2016: 1.58 million 2017: 1.51 million 2018: 1.75 million 2019: 1.36 million 2020: [pandemic] 2021: 4.69 million 2022: 3.5 million 2023: 1.84 million 2024: 1.14 million 2025: 598,000 #trumpeffect www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo... 35645315
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialHillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Link to CNN piece: www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/p...cnn.comDOGE put Americans’ Social Security records at risk, whistleblower says | CNN PoliticsDepartment of Government Efficiency employees at the Social Security Administration put the records of more than 300 million Americans at risk by creating a copy of the data in a vulnerable cloud comp... 12513141
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialMichael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Communist regimes: Own companies Control their central banks Use tariffs to insulate their economies Use armies, false charges, home raids & arrests to intimidate the opposition Idolize their leaders with posters & praise Sound familiar? 1641320497
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialAbuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 12/08/2025📍 𝐍𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐇 𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐌 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇, 𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐀: An 18-year-old U.S. citizen secretly recorded Border Patrol and state troopers using tasers and neck restraints during a stop, even after he identified himself. Agents later bragged about bonuses and joked about their tactics. #AbuseofPowerWatchmiamiherald.comTasers and neck restraints: A U.S. citizen recorded his arrest by state, federal agents“They’re not going after criminals, they’re going after landscapers and roofers,” he told the Miami Herald 01915
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Hey folks, Below is a place to submit your photos of Park signs. Supposedly they’ll be whitewashed by September 17. So now is a good time to start taking photos. 4500234
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Before folks start critiquing the possibility of Democrats redistricting in blue states in response the Republican/Trump gerrymandering-palooza, let’s remember that the Dems would only be playing the hand SCOTUS dealt. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...open.substack.comHow Did We Arrive at this Redistricting Mess? The Supreme Court, Of Course“Is This How American Democracy is Supposed to Work?” 481236358
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialJudge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 09/08/2025though I am a congenital optimist, for the first time I believe that if the behavior that this administration has exhibited in just its first six months continues and is amplified for its full four years, the America you know will be gone. And I don’t know how we will get it back.” 31708192
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/07/2025Following President Trump’s demand, Texas unveiled an aggressively redrawn map for the state’s U.S. House districts, proposing to carve up five Democratic seats so that Republicans would now be likely to win them in 2026.nyti.msTexas Republicans Unveil Gerrymandered House Map, Trying to Please TrumpThe proposed map would give Republicans a chance to gain five U.S. House seats, including in Houston, Dallas and along the U.S.-Mexican border. 367836
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 29/07/2025We’re basically just paying for these people to have vacations and do horrible morally reprehensible things to people who don’t look like them 1020110653246
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape. Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it. 25983473343
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2025CNN: The Wall Street journal is reporting that in May, AG Pam Bondi and her deputy informed the president at a meeting in the white house that his name was in the Epstein files. 953177215742
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialCNN @cnn.com · 23/07/2025The Pentagon watchdog has evidence that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's Signal messages included classified information, sources say. cnn.it/3IG9HTj 59365137
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialSen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 17/07/2025@booker.senate.gov and I just tried to force a vote to allow the prosecutor who blew the whistle on Emil Bove to appear before the Judiciary Committee. Republicans ignored the rules – and rammed Bove through. All that matters to them is power and appeasing their Dear Leader. 1841962635
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14/07/2025"Trump and Epstein were friends. Trump’s name is the Epstein files. Trump is responsible for the decision that no more information be released on Epstein. These are facts, not conspiracy theories. And facts are stubborn things."thebulwark.comAmerica ThirstWelcome to the era of Trump-branded globalism. 34661204
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialMother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/07/2025Senate Democrats are introducing legislation today that would require immigration officers nationwide to wear clear ID when making public arrests. It would also prohibit them from wearing non-medical masks or balaclavas that hide their faces.motherjones.comSenators introduce a bill requiring immigration agents to show their facesDemocratic sponsors call masking tactics a "clear attempt" to compound "fear and chaos—and to avoid accountability." 872766782
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialGod @thegodshow.com · 28/06/2025They are sending roving bands of masked thugs with the stated goal of kidnapping 20 million brown people to transport them to any country they can pay to take them. All this has been cleared by The Stolen Court. This is not deportation. This is ethnic cleansing. 764231777962
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/06/2025I can't tell if it's because I'm too NYC focused but does it feel like the news cycle spent more time crashing out on the fact that NYC picked a brown Muslim dude as is primary candidate then it did on a right wing extremist who shot 2 Minnesota legislators killing one, her husband and dog? 461150213380
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/06/2025This is on Trump’s head. Should be headline in every paper 872000830
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialDavid Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Shouldn’t the president be too busy to watch TV for three days straight? 🤔 1441054150
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Reactions from @jessicatarlov.bsky.social & @votegloriaj.bsky.social to this inhumane story out of LENOIR CITY, TN nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i... 26418190
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialCBS News | Breaking news, top stories & today's latest headlines @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy · 24/06/2025cbsnews.comGOP "big, beautiful bill" would force USPS to sell its new EV mail trucksBut the Senate parliamentarian says the Postal Service's 7,200 new EVs can't be auctioned off. 032
Reposted by @stacywes.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Vance: I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents 272747541044