Reposted by LanaCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17hIf I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me. 4494182608
Reposted by LanaEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...politico.comEU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressureThe Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat. 491133550
Reposted by LanaRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026But also she was trying to be a citizen, a voice, a participant in public life, a person with agency, and a man turned her into an unconscious object to be abused at will. He violently denied her rights, her voice, her humanity even as she was trying to be all those things. 163356
Reposted by LanaMartha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is possibly the worst thing I have ever read. It should be the only headline on every news source. It won't be. If you've experienced sexual assault, maybe don't read the details. 12415142
Reposted by LanaSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW 3444581466
Reposted by LanaDavid Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 07/10/2026He literally demolished the whole East Wing of the White House and no one came for him. He forged Electoral College votes in 2020 and set an insurrection in foot to sack the Capitol and even when someone DID come for him, they ended up dropping the case. We all see where he’s coming from. 0206
Reposted by LanaAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We used to have a federal agency devoted to investigating and prosecuting abuses by law enforcement, but Americans voted for the "let cops do crimes" candidate instead bsky.app/profile/kevi... 8819170
Reposted by Lanatoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 191114753122
Reposted by LanaJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026These are the layups. All these actions are crimes. All the perjuries are crimes. Find one vicious bastard prosecutor and have them chew through these ICE/DHS cases starting Day One. Just enforce the law! The lowest bar possible! 4620170
Reposted by LanaJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts, 1013157643
Reposted by LanaColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵 121194282
Reposted by LanaA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026At the leadership level anyway the two parties are "represents billionaires with openly racist beliefs" and "represents billionaires who have mostly submerged their racist and genocidal beliefs." Which is why you can't get any party leadership to sign up for transformative change the people want. 7687156
Reposted by LanaSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling. 781561641
Reposted by LanaBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here. 3242871148
Reposted by LanaJess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just to add a small point to discourse about rape and its effects on its victims. I don't think I recovered from mine--I mean, really recovered, fully and completely, so that weeks and months could go by without me thinking about--until I was about fifty, 35 years or so after it happened. 315616
Reposted by LanaMore Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.” 261202268
Reposted by LanaMatt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026my man went so rogue that he wrote everything out as a chapter in the single most influential document of the MAGA movement a full year before the election before sliding comfortably into exactly the position he was lobbying for after it 1118765
Reposted by LanaLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7359792001
Reposted by LanaAW Stiles @awstiles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This, the continual "body cams were not on" , "ICE accounts differ with witnesses", all of this unlawful nonsense. EVERY Dem or politician who claims to care about the rights of individuals should be demanding another hearing, to stop funding of ICE & DOJ programs. 05714
Reposted by LanaDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026Agree with this & I'd broaden it: as income inequality increases, the affluent class increasingly strains to free itself of public services. Those services suffer & the flywheel accelerates. Only way to stop is to say, for certain things, no: you have to use the same shit as us. 1744080
Reposted by LanaDilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽♀️ 161169284738
Reposted by LanaChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Everyone involved in this, including the Palantir employees who built the software and the executives that sold it, need to be tried for warcrimes 301634391
Reposted by Lanaelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible 25150303941
Reposted by LanaRajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Disbarment and sanctions for everyone involved. 723874
Reposted by LanaAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia. 5953728213400
Reposted by LanaJuliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Fun fact a falconer told me. A hawking glove's primary purpose is to stop the bird feeling the pulse in the hawker's wrist, otherwise it will tighten its grip with its talons until the pulse stops because that's how it kills prey. There's no way to override this instinct without hurting the bird. 621548
Reposted by LanaBen Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026You can tell we're a country of idiots by how easily we're convinced to debate the 1% of trans people who want the right to live their lives authentically and safely and don't negatively impact our lives instead of the billionaires who spend every day making our lives genuinely tangibly worse. 11029279
Reposted by LanaLifuX @lifux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is why the internet was invented... #LifuX #Dogs #Dogsofbluesky 301929520
Reposted by LanaSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026If tearing it down is considered too wasteful, I would think a ballroom that vast could be fitted out to hold a LOT of offices for a newly formed Department of Truth and Reconciliation. Then tear it down when the job is finished. 3548979
Reposted by LanaMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day. 3545801156
Reposted by LanaSTEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Every week the richest man in the world, who is both an unambiguous white supremacist and the largest Republican donor, posts heinous racist and antisemitic slop to the social media network he controls. Every week, reporters fail to treat this as a scandal worth their readers' time. 151423361
Reposted by LanaJenna @stay-a-spell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I think it's worth noting that nothing is being done now. Johnson has kept congress home for most of the year over the Epstien files. The two year average is 284 stand alone bills passed. This congress has passed 38....they hold all 3 branches. These are not serious people. 67349891919
Reposted by LanaStephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Trump has been determined to disprove every argument that Electoral College proponents have made. No, it doesn’t compel candidates to pay attention to the interests of voters all over the country. It shields a tyrant from electoral blowback when he tells states that voted against him to drop dead 3350122
Reposted by LanaA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026They’re ending democracy via post office 11317103
Reposted by LanaJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026sounds like affirmative action for MAGA basically 26912193
Reposted by Lanafolukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We are told to ignore the racism of Hegel, Kant, Locke etc because they were just "men of their time". So what do we do with the racism of current academics? Are they too just "men of their time"? What is this "time" that seems to make racists of men? 332394487
Reposted by LanaLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The fact that Jeffries is meeting with Kushner to find “common ground” with this fascist administration while simultaneously publicly attacking the Democratic left shows clearly who he is and why he is backed by corporatist and pro-Israel donors. Jeffries is the definition of controlled opposition. 611333
Reposted by LanaLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23/08/2026‼️ Hakeem Jeffries met with Jared Kushner to discuss “how Democrats and the administration could work together.” Gift link:nytimes.comJeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly (Gift Article)President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together. 199237
Reposted by LanaChris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026It really shouldn’t be a footnote, even after all this time, that the entire purported justification for these self-destructive tariffs is that the president is stupid, and his party refuses to stop him. 342317509
Reposted by LanaPhillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026No amnesty. No mercy. No fucking plea deals. Nothing but relentless pursuit and vigorous prosecution for every last one of these fucking monsters 22755245
Reposted by LanaJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"is it legal? no. should he stop? also no." -- every Supreme Court decision about Donald Trump 415744
Reposted by LanaKim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Zero new NSF grants in sociology, anthropology, political science and economics. The agenda of this US govt is to stop documenting the society in which we live while they are destroying it. We will find other ways to track and explain our times and fight to restore our research funding. 15893454
Reposted by LanaDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Oi! We saw you from across the bar and your vibe is TERRIBLE. 91636288
Reposted by LanaMike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The questionable change was made in the middle of rising transmission across most of the country; 15 states already have COVlD outbreaks, and others may soon join the ranks. These are serious ethics concerns that warrant investigative journalism. 120839
Reposted by LanaKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 16/08/2026These questions have now been asked of Blanche repeatedly & he gives the same bullshit answer each time. Here’s an idea: How about we ask Blanche direct and pointed questions about his noncompliance with court orders from Judge Sullivan compelling him to provide unredacted Epstein Files? 80089462713
Reposted by LanaSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026It's a choice when the Commander in Chief suggests deployed service members are either whiners or liars to not make that a front page headline. 231219274
Reposted by Lanamtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/08/2026once again this is useful for demonstrating that the media that spent 25 years using "gotta support the troops we love the troops do you support our brave troops" as a cudgel against anyone opposed to war were full of shit this entire time. they never even cared a little tiny bit about the troops 331440328