Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Lolo @loloverruled.bsky.social · 11/05/2025My piece today on Substack loloverruled.substack.com/p/im-not-sad...loloverruled.substack.comI’m Not Sad a Cop DiedPolicing Doesn’t Need Reform. It Needs to End. 229853 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11/05/2025lol at the idea that the tent needs to be big enough for Trump-supporting fraudsters 46220 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Al Quds News Network @alqudsnewsnet.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Breaking: India violates ceasefire! US President Donald Trump had announced a ceasefire from 8 PM tonight till the 12th, but India has opened unprovoked fire along the Line of Control, in Peshawar, Sialkot, Bahawalpur and other areas. #pakistan #india 055 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Yesterday, the Trump Administration abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.buff.lyThe Trump Administration just fired America’s top librarian.Photo from the Library of Congress In their continued campaign to trample institutions and eject expertise from government, the Trump Administration abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayde… 12611 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 09/05/2025“How the fuck did it come to this?” Read from John Tottenham’s new novel, Service.buff.lyServiceHow the fuck did it come to this? A modest career on the lower slopes and outer fringes of journalism dried up when the frontiers of the internet opened up to people who were prepared, free of char… 062 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 10/05/2025What should you do if your NEA was terminated? Here are some ideas:buff.lyHere’s what to do if your NEA grant has been terminated.Last week, hundreds of publishers, theatre companies, symphonies, and community arts programs abruptly lost funding. Beloved institutions from the Bay Area to Harlem were rudely informed of cancele… 097 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Trump defeated again and has caved to Canada as the Prime Minster confirms the old relationship with the US is over. 24 hours later Trump groveled to Canada via a tweet where he stopped calling it the 51st state or referring to the PM as the governor. #cdnpoli www.bbc.com/news/article... 2012262535 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Canadian NDP MP Charlie Angus 🇨🇦 - "I think there’s something deeper that Canadians are really focusing on right now—watching our nearest neighbor slip into totalitarianism." #cdnpoli 692588743 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Jonah In The Heart of Nineveh @jonahinnineveh.bsky.social · 23/03/2025#VotePalestine 2025 Stand Up For Palestinian Rights jonahintheheartofnineveh.blogspot.com/2025/03/stan...jonahintheheartofnineveh.blogspot.comStand Up For Palestinian Rights#VotePalestine 2025 is a Canadian grassroots campaign supported by a diverse range of organizations from coast to coast who are committed ... 042 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 29/03/2025“But in Tesla, activists have found a catchall for an array of political grievances — and a rare chance to trace impact directly, through sinking car sales and company stock.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...washingtonpost.comTesla is uniting the anti-Trump movementDemocrats are furious at the Trump administration. But no one is firing them up as much as Elon Musk. 615928 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉annetics @annetics.bsky.social · 29/03/2025@teslatakedown.com Salt Lake City 3/29/25 #teslatakedown 9895156 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉cyber professional @permadeath.com · 29/03/2025crowd chanting: we don't want your Nazi cars take a one way trip to Mars #teslatakedown #Boston 8271921537 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025mmm hmmm 634327823 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Would like to see every signatory of that notorious Harper's Letter take a stand about the current crackdowns, arrests, defundings, firings, etc. (A pass for signers who have departed...) I guess the arrests and deportations don't qualify as being "cancelled." harpers.org/a-letter-on-...harpers.orgA Letter on Justice and Open DebateJuly 7, 2020 The below letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the magazine’s October issue. We welcome responses at letters@harpers.org Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of tri... 26926215 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/03/2025When I was 17, I opened my first checking account w/a couple hundred bucks. I didn’t meet the min monthly deposit, so they kept charging fees until I owed them money. It stuck with me—I still won’t bank w/BofA. There’s no upside to this move for anyone who isn’t rich—just cruelty for cruelty’s sake 1134173436614 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/03/2025America destroyed itself due to greed and racism. It tracks. The two original sins the country was unable or unwilling to ever confront and conquer. 31398401977 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉NPR @npr.org · 29/03/2025The protests are scheduled to take place at Tesla facilities across the U.S. and in Europe on Saturday, as part of a grassroots campaign against Tesla CEO Elon Musk's work in the Trump administration.npr.orgHundreds of anti-Musk protests are planned at Tesla locations worldwide this weekendThe protests are scheduled to take place at Tesla facilities across the U.S. and in Europe on Saturday, as part of a grassroots campaign against Tesla CEO Elon Musk's work in the Trump administration. 612428529 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Susan Crawford is directly positioning herself as being in a race against Elon Musk, who is spending tens of millions to defeat her: “I want to talk about my opponent, Elon Musk.” badgerherald.com/news/campus/... 391709396 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/03/2025Many students at Southern Illinois University come from families that are poor, or barely middle class, and depend on scholarships. Vice Chancellor Paul Frazier says the way DEI has been politicized ignores what it actually does: “Poor doesn’t have a color.” With @capitolnewsil.bsky.socialpropub.liA University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher EducationThe administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural… 16904238 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Martial Law. It’s the elephant in the room. It’s what authoritarians resort to when the tide turns against them. It’s what the authoritarian in this White House is setting the stage for. 🧵… 1341222326447 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Protect Democracy @guarddemocracy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025US-CANADA RELATIONSHIP IS OVER #Canada #TrumpImperialism #TrumpIsNotFitToBePresident 711179269 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.freedom.pressWired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should followAs the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy 16249133123351 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/03/2025the vice president of the united states follows this guy on twitter! 278138202992 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril. 6823800910732 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/03/2025[describing bluesky's existence as some sort of atrocity against me] these people are out there acting like they're victims of trauma 3493156 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 17/03/2025“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.” - Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training 140102352443 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025the most charitable I can be about this is that the people who say this shit have no earthly idea which ideas we like 840353 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025This is a lovely piece on what's actually wrong with the adolescent bullshit that passes for right wing masculinity and the issue being that there are now so many ways to be a man that it's frightening for some men who would rather not have a choice www.liberalcurrents.com/most-men-don...liberalcurrents.comMost Men Don't Want To Be Heroes (And That's Okay)Despite the self-pity of some, there has never been a better time to be a man. 301170294 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/03/2025On the subject of people traveling to the US right about now: Fuck, if I were from another country and I didn't need to come, I sure as hell wouldn't, the current administration has made it clear traveling here isn't safe, and why not take them at their word, there's a whole world to visit 1284378885160 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable. 866352518504 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/03/2025pete hegseth carrying out his effort to resegregate the military www.military.com/daily-news/2...military.comMarines with Skin Condition Affecting Mostly Black Men Could Now Be Booted Under New PolicyA new Marine Corps policy says troops with a genetic skin condition that can cause pain and scarring from shaving and mainly affects Black men can be separated if the health issue persists. 495117233726 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | Trump upending world order will cost America dearlyThe decline of American influence is a gift to Russia and China. 1455338539329 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 17/03/2025ritchie torres hates jews and zionism isn’t judaism so it is completely correct to criticize schumer for blatantly attempting to conflate the two — an action which provably harms jews! — and accounts like this get yelled at and then blocked for trying to poison the well with bullshit. 41409 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 16/03/2025In the middle of all the chaos there is an opportunity we need to seize. Millions of people are seeing public goods that help them stripped away, and that realization can and must be transformed into an awareness that we need each other. My latest: www.jphilll.com/p/turns-out-...jphilll.comTurns out we need each otherRight now more than ever 225559 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign. 26447685617556 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/03/2025the funny thing about the people who insist that i'm part of the "illiberal left" and the "woke left" is that both views are entirely grounded in the fact that i don't think "cancel culture" is an existential threat to society and that i can be mean on the internet sometimes. 25111965716 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Some English language coverage of yesterday's massive student-led demonstrations in Belgrade. This figure seems like a massive undercount though: www.cnn.com/2025/03/15/e...cnn.comOver 100,000 people rally in massive anti-corruption protest against Serbian government | CNNAt least 100,000 people descended on Belgrade on Saturday for a mass rally seen as a culmination of months-long protests against Serbia’s populist President Aleksandar Vucic and his government. 252 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 16/03/2025I am very proud of Momodou Taal and other students on F-1 visas for suing Trump for his executive orders. A true show of bravery at a time when so many folks are cowering. 222157 0
Reposted by Siren 🇵🇸🍉Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/03/2025ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.nhpr.orgGreen card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detainedFabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court. 19563047312473 0
