Reposted by StarlightMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. 20318811024816 0
Reposted by StarlightOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Nobody I worked with killed as many people as Lindsey Graham (or Mitch McConnell or Dick Cheney or George w Bush or Henry Kissinger). This incessant need Democrats have to pay tribute to despicable scumbags js part of the reason people don’t believe them when they say elections are a crisis point. 691978361 0
Reposted by StarlightEliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 12/07/2026UM HOLY SHIT LINDSEY GRAHAM IS DEAD. ANY OTHER INSOMNIACS AWAKE TO GET THIS NEWS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT??? 13497557 0
Reposted by StarlightMezer-Kiss of Death @bananapantz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I’m old enough to remember when this kind of thing would end a presidency. 42392892774 0
Reposted by StarlightMikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026So I made this video last year about Platner and more broadly the road we were on if we let a candidate like him through. Two things stand out to me looking back at it. I was right and we are still on the same racist road. We might want to get off now 422264 0
Reposted by Starlightidamus.bsky.social @idamus.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Does no one in this admin of yours, know that other countries know American history??? 141022 0
Reposted by Starlightleftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient. 1047286878159 0
Reposted by StarlightPatrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026A 5-4 "win" on a question that should have gone 9-0 is a catastrophe 31047 0
Reposted by StarlightElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory. It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT? 13459771543 0
Reposted by StarlightBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man. 415192744460 0
Reposted by StarlightAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/06/2026KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible. 700292447244 0
Reposted by StarlightMaggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I probably wouldn’t comment but I couldn’t help but notice that the mandatory apology from Tenbarge as part of the settlement was the epitome of burying the lead + turning off comments and quotes. Didn’t come off like an apology she really meant. Bad form. 041 0
Reposted by StarlightBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/06/2026The idea that this just happened to the Broadview 6 — forcing grand juries to indict by cajoling them in an elevator, vouching to the grand jury, and telling "no" votes to leave if they don't want to indict — is nuts. It's probably happening everywhere. And it means the law as we know it is dead. 303561766 0
Reposted by StarlightSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I’ve gone from having no opinion on Scott Pelley to being ready to lay down my life for him. 692481207 0
Reposted by StarlightLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Speaking of Bari Weiss, she put a target on the back of the poet and professor Refaat Alareer in Gaza and he was assassinated by the IDF less than two months later. He, his brother, his sister, and four of his nephews were killed in a surgical strike. 1931111080 0
Reposted by StarlightAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Difficult really, to think of a single, more disgusting act a journalist can commit than lying to the public to justify someone being murdered by their government for activism. But this is who these people always were. 333721707 0
Reposted by Starlightilikesandwitches.bsky.social @ilikesandwitches.bsky.social · 06/06/2026It's not one man. It's one party. One party holds all three branches of the federal government. Every member of that party is complicit. Remember this when you vote in November. 2267 0
Reposted by StarlightHansel Krankepantzen @krankepantzen.bsky.social · 06/06/2026A whole county of supposedly smart people? I hope you're not talking about the USA. About half the USA is uneducated and basically dumb as a rock. And it's not one man doing the damage, again it's about half the USA, the conservative, Republican half, and their political representatives. 211210 0
Reposted by StarlightDrew @dskywlkr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Fuck this supreme court and fuck the gop forever and a thousand years 1305586713 0
Reposted by StarlightPandora Boxx @thepandoraboxx.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I don’t know how the hell we as people who have suffered through this administration twice now would seem to have collective amnesia and say exactly the same things about voting for Pratt. Please don’t LA. Let’s be smarter this time. Get out and vote. 💙 1313499806 0
Reposted by StarlightAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/06/2026WOW. So Blanche won't rescind the tax immunity. Was the entire charade just a cover to grant Trump tax immunity? Blanche claims that part of the "settlement" still stands. This is somehow MORE CORRUPT. 34249391520 0
Reposted by StarlightSam Duncan @southshoresam.bsky.social · 02/06/2026This is an easy question. The view that following a court order is somehow optional, based on the opinion of the executive branch is so far beyond the boundaries that it is hard to comprehend. 521521 0
Reposted by StarlightGil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/06/2026What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State." 403130724430 0
Reposted by Starlightlickmeimacid @lickmeimacid.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Bojangles Cajun Filet biscuit 1163 0
Reposted by StarlightAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/05/2026It’s embarrassing, and honestly it’s starting to look like Idiocracy could see the future. 3834378756 0
Reposted by StarlightKayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Republicans are actively running the country into the ground and people are still voting for them 🫠. Yes there’s voter suppression and gerrymandering, but there are still legitimately millions of Americans showing up to vote for republicans. 1461176290 0
Reposted by StarlightThe Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 26/05/2026"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." ~ George Orwell 10957951987 0
Reposted by StarlightCtlAltDel @ctlaltdel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026The beclowning of America continues. 54985722343 0
Reposted by StarlightThe Scot 💙🇺🇸🏴🇺🇦 @thescot.bsky.social · 10/05/2026This will be a test case to enable removing anyone the regime wants to. 418610 0
Reposted by StarlightChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 07/05/2026Suppression of voting rights was part of the case that civil rights leaders made to the UN that what was happening to Black Americans constituted genocide, back in 1951 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we...zinnedproject.orgDec. 17, 1951: “We Charge Genocide” Petition Submitted to United NationsPaul Robeson and William Patterson submitted a petition from the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) to the United Nations, signed by almost 100 U.S. intellectuals and activists. 119882 0
Reposted by StarlightRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Reminder... Any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message — they can't win on their ideas alone. 609251206705 0
Reposted by StarlightThe Downballot @the-downballot.com · 08/05/2026VA AG Jay Jones: "My team is carefully reviewing this unprecedented order and we are evaluating every legal pathway forward to defend the will of the people and protect the integrity of Virginia’s elections." 772597647 0
Reposted by StarlightBox of Frogs @boxoffrogs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The 2026 and 2028 elections are going to be decided by gerrymandering. I don't want to hear of a single Democratic state legislature that isn't fully committed to maximizing the gain in seats for the party. This is a political war that needs to be won. 12138551017 0
Reposted by StarlightRebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Last week was the 25th session on the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Indigenous leaders talked about the staggering rates at which Indigenous land defenders are killed and threats to Indigenous people from AI infrastructure. ictnews.org/news/indigen...ictnews.orgIndigenous land defenders are being killed, and AI is scraping their knowledge - ICTAt the U.N., leaders confronted compounding crises of territorial violence and digital extractivism. 02320 0
Reposted by StarlightNiko Okamoto @nikookamoto.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I fucking hate Republicans especially the SCOTUS ones. I'll vote for the Democrat who promises to hold hearings on everyone in the Trump administration and really pushes to expand the court. 516615 0
Reposted by StarlightIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I encourage you to read the 1901 final Congressional speech of George Henry White, who would be the last Black man in Congress for 30 yrs.This “is perhaps the Negroes’ temporary farewell to the American Congress; but…phoenix-like he will rise up some day and come again… blackpast.org/african-amer...blackpast.org(1901) Congressman George H. White's Farewell Address To CongressIn January 1901, at the beginning of a new century, George H. White was ending his term as a Congressman from North Carolina’s Second Congressional District. Realizing that he was bringing to a close ... 92223639 0
Reposted by StarlightIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none. 2950021845 0
Reposted by StarlightIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating. 163647962 0
Reposted by StarlightIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026And to be clear, in case it’s not, democracy cannot and will not exist without these protections. We already see a South so heavily gerrymandered that numerical majorities cannot win elections and where a minority holds supermajorities in state legislatures. 92727607 0
Reposted by StarlightIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Folks will try to parse language around this, using words such as “limits” the VRA or “diminishes” the VRA, but the acts most potent tools for ensuring Black representation or that Black people can pick their representation have been eliminated. 102475532 0
Reposted by StarlightIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026We must understand the racist political rhetoric, the erasure and attacks on Black history, the reinstalling of Confederate names and monuments, all go hand-in-hand as the Court and Congress legitimize the taking of political rights and the end of multiracial democracy itself. 1839741053 0
Reposted by StarlightIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South. 340122935044 0
Reposted by StarlightJulia Child Support 🔜 FurPoc @ezenbaklattan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Democrats have no excuse not to pack the court the millisecond they get back into senate control. The Roberts Court has been the most corrupt, racist iteration since the Civil War, and we need Dems who will do whatever it takes to cut these monsters down to size. 0275 0
Reposted by StarlightSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/04/2026"I dissent because Congress elected otherwise. I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent." 442634950 0
