Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form. 185109521826
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialKat4Obama @kat4obama.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Every editor of every newspaper should get on a big bus and drive to DC and look at the gouge in the land where the ballroom is supposed to be. There are something like 20 Pulitzers down in there waiting to be found." www.esquire.com/news-politic...esquire.comA Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity. 2127
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialGayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Lady, voters don't want him any more than you do www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...nytimes.comAs She Divorces Ken Paxton, His Wife Urges Texans to Vote for Him (Gift Article)In a new ad, Angela Paxton tells voters to focus on the “whole team,” not “individual players.” 2131146
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US historyesquire.comA Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity. 321267374
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialMcDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In addition to the direct harm, this is also blatantly unconstitutional. Of course, the NYT refers to this act of dictatorial lawlessness as "creative ways to work around Congress." 313022
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us 351344492
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 30/09/2026example one 626917
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialBen @809explorer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Plus Osborn and (see the replies) Talarico bsky.app/profile/purr... 1413
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialLorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. 333398819
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/09/2026always hilarious when stuff that people insist must be a signifier of an optimistic techno-utopia turn out to just kinda suck 1518131
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026once again the actual "story" behind Tilly Norwood is how the company's PR firm continues to get these stories placed in ostensibly legit outlets over and over despite zero demonstration of the supposed phenomenon being written about ("AI movie star Tilly Norwood") being real 292455512
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My dad was a small-town doctor who made late-night house calls on most nights I can remember growing up—and to my personal knowledge forgave (or delayed) payments from people who were on hard times. This story makes me want to move to Kansas and spend next 5+ weeks canvassing. 371141261
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026HUGE: Autozone workers just won the first ever union at the company. Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today. These workers will now join the @uaw.org. 11973091624
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.forbiddenstories.orgThe Deportation Project MapBetween 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De... 3822401169
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Texas is a voter suppression state, not a red statevotebeat.orgTens of thousands of Texas voter registration applications likely ensnared in state errorDemocrats are calling for investigations into why voter registration applications submitted via a DPS portal weren’t forwarded to counties. 23998395
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/09/2026feels like I shouldn't even have to say this, but if someone says "holy shit, something I worked on may well be caught and killed by the oligarch it's critical of," responding with "that's cool, I'll just steal it" isn't exactly a statement of heartwarming solidarity 729534
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026can't make it up -- the Trump administration is literally rolling a red carpet out right now for President Xi 2201403381
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialElon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Headline is not as strongly worded as the quote. 11097298
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Good to see this national AI conversation get going. But it’s still too much on Silicon Valley’s terms. The rest of us don’t have to act like everything is computer. We can talk real world instead of sci fi. We don’t need to put tech companies’ power and profit first, and societal impacts second. 7712104
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialJoe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 12/09/2026Who’s got the Ted Cruz footage 1193
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026this somehow manages to be wilder and funnier actually hearing it. it's not some vague "boo-urns" kind of thing. it's full on "ted you suck" 381106193
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026similar systems were part of the mass crackdown in Xinjiang, largely in order to provide a fig-leaf of justification for arresting people for the crime of being Uyghur 423969
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialleftynavyseal.bsky.social @leftynavyseal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026CBC: Trump is really showing them: Mark Carney announces Canada will build $4.7 Billion worth of railroad cars in Canada rather than the US. 810731
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce 12934981233
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialMapQuest @mapquest.com · 01/09/2026Them too.static.klipy.comSnow White: The Poisoned AppleALT: Snow White: The Poisoned Apple 43873198
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026why did the mainstream media cover the deliberate abandonment of obsolete and decommissioned equipment during the Afghanistan withdrawal as a scandal for the Biden administration yet they do not cover the total destruction of US bases in the gulf by Iran as a scandal for the Trump administration? 22706214
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Requisite Tony Judt quote about the single greatest institutional achievement in 250 years of the Republic: 721969
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes 121126332126
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/08/2026your Tesla supports mass child death 262480651
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialHenry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 13/08/2026it remains insane to me that Elon Musk and Trump being responsible for more death than any one else in the 21st century is just a non-story, like a total non-event in the discourse. 7299146
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03... 16154702517
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed. 8553511206
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comAI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of DebtAI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt. 10355922419
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 28/07/2026only donald trump could deliver the eulogy graham deserves 15965119
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialHobbes @flawedfacade.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable. 6757512477
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 27/07/2026When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)propublica.orgHealth Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the ScenesLearn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case. 181334684
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/07/2026Ossoff: "The price of admission to the president's service seems to be proof you're willing to lie for him. Maybe you saw Jay Clayton refuse again and again under oath to affirm Donald Trump's defeat in 2020, or Pete Hegseth ... There's something uniquely despicable about lying a nation into war" 8157681597
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/07/2026They died serving our country. They should be honored, not erased. Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Hawaii Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Texas Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of New York Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of North Carolina 32178662867
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption 245109954412
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026matthew always brings the receipts 6776053906
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵 108093505045
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Maybe they should just practice locking the door and turning off the lights and remaining silent while hiding under their desks…or is that just appropriate for kindergartners?  19045721291
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Writing headlines is hard. You have to compress an article into a phrase or two. And you have to fit an exact and usually inconvenient line space. Two images below: What the NYT is running on line. (h/t @jaywillis.net for calling this one out.) And what would fit exactly the same space, by me. 1122757664
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialgwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/07/2026The Harris County DA's office says it will treat ICE killing Lorenzo Salgado as a criminal investigation: www.texastribune.org/2026/07/13/t...texastribune.orgHarris County to fund independent investigation into ICE shootingHarris County officials say they will fund an independent investigation to identify the ICE agents involved in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's killing. 329396
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialNBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/07/2026An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comAfghan national who fought with U.S. forces died of allergic reaction in ICE custodyMohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma, the death report shows. 962100726081
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialBryan Cursèd @chucklebot314.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Did you hear about the Smithsonian Folk Festival? 110311
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Again, if there's a Democratic majority in the House in 2027, I think it's imperative that they start impeaching Supreme Court justices. 273456568
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialRyan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 24/06/2026A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were. 7261983813
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialJadzia Axelrod 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable." 695902895
Reposted by @thelibrarywindow.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2026currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals 10396571284
