Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 30/09/2026How come no one's calling for a complete and total shutdown of all college fraternities... 'until we can figure out what's going on'.. ? 001
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 10/07/2026We passed the freeway exit to “Concerning” more than 1,000 miles agoreuters.comTrump fires Election Assistance Commission members ahead of midtermsThe terminations follow the recent Supreme Court decision that granted the president more power. 000
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 08/07/2026As a graphic designer, I wholeheartedly endorse this diagnosis by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social 000
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 07/07/2026#BankingOnClimateChaos 🌎🔥motherjones.comWall Street just won't stop financing the fossil fuel industry's expansionMajor lenders are all in as Big Oil pivots toward plastics, pesticides, and other petrochemicals. 000
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 03/07/2026🌎🔥 We are living in a 5-alarm climate emergency, but let’s set the night sky on fire while we fiddle in Rome..yahoo.comExtreme heat, severe storms and wildfires highlight July Fourth weather hazardsExtreme heat in the East, severe thunderstorms in the Midwest and Northeast, and elevated wildfire danger in the West will create a wide range of weather hazards across parts of the U.S. on Independen... 000
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I defy you to show me true, revolutionary love does not exist 🖤♥️ 000
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 17/06/2026"We're going to drain the swamp!"sfgate.comCongratulations, the Reflecting Pool is now a swamp"A national treasure has now become the world's dullest aquarium." 000
Reposted by TobenGreen and Red Podcast @podcastgreenred.bsky.social · 09/06/2026~NEW EPISODE~ Rainforest Radicals: The History of @ran.org In our latest, we talk with historian Prof. David Benac about his new book on RAN, its roots in Earth First!, international forest campaigns and Indigenous solidarity. 🎙️: bit.ly/49Og9SY 1114
Reposted by Tobenshut up, world @thebatshitsutras.bsky.social · 30/05/2026BREAKING: Star Wars cantina band pulls out of Freedom 250 event, saying they weren't told the hive of scum and villainy would be *this* wretched 55211
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Trump’s $1.7 billion J6 insurrectionist restitution fund: “Why go to college when you can attack the capital and get $1 million for your troubles?” 000
Reposted by TobenMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/05/2026I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy. 203111163480
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Oh look, its Dystopian Grifter Vacation with Transportation Secretary Clark W. Griswold.. 🤡 100
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 05/05/2026We need less glorification of billionaires and more protection for the Amazon that all life on Earth depends..newsweek.comWall Street Must Stop Financing the Destruction of the Amazon | Opinion"We depend on the river and the land to live. When they are destroyed, we are destroyed with them." 000
Reposted by TobenLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Palestinian photographer Saher Alghorra was awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography for documenting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. His photos are worth seeing, so here’s a gift link:nytimes.comOur Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer’s Work From Gaza 151260572
Reposted by TobenDavid Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Happy Birthday to Sir David Attenborough who turns 100 years old this week. He is someone whose words we should all stop and think about. 113036
Reposted by TobenThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/04/2026Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ theonion.com/supreme-court-overturn… 114138144222
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 02/05/2026As an appreciator / aficionado of apt metaphors that help us see the world more clearly, I found this piece stunningly accurate 0333
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 27/04/2026How about GTFO Again instead?! 🦉🌲oregonlive.comTrump administration wants to Make Oregon Logged Again, revving up decades‑old battles over big timberThe proposal to quadruple logging on federal lands in 18 Oregon counties would raise timber harvests to levels not seen since before spotted owl protections. 000
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Resilient are the seeds of Revolution..nytimes.comRainforests Can Bounce Back Much Faster Than Thought, Researchers Say 000
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Introducing two new terms for the political lexicon: -Vanceplaining - Pope Derangement Syndrome 000
Reposted by Tobendsilsby.bsky.social @dsilsby.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I just had my coffee and I have to take a vance. 1112
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Ph*ck Private Equity, Ph*ck Philz www.sfgate.com/food/article...sfgate.comClient Challenge 010
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Good 👏independent.co.ukDemocrats draw up impeachment articles against Trump and Hegseth over Iran warWhite House calls the efforts ‘pathetic’ as Democrats push JD Vance and Trump’s cabinet to declare the president unfit to serve 000
Reposted by TobenMaxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office. 900186455420
Reposted by TobenEzra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026It's near the end of Trans Day of Visibility, but visibility doesn't end at midnight. If you showed up on 3/28, show up for trans people tomorrow and every day. This regime wants to divide and conquer us, but their fight is our fight. And we win when we treat an attack on one as an attack on all. 834882
Reposted by TobenLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran. (Photo by Pooria Hatami) 6932731014
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Call this joint the Cult of MAGAste 🙏coastsidenews.comPacifica yoga instructors resign after owner’s alleged hate speechAt least three instructors have resigned from Pacifica Beach Yoga in the past week after the studio’s owner, Tommy Antoon, allegedly posted hate speech using the business’s social media account. 010
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Danger, D-A-N-G-E-R. Danger 😰 #EndFossilFuelscnn.comBefore and after satellite images show how little snow is left in the western US | CNNA record warm March has melted an already abysmal snowpack across the western United States, with impacts clearly visible in satellite imagery. It’s setting the stage for an especially concerning summ... 020
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 25/03/2026"Smoking does not cause lung cancer..." ☠️cnbc.comJury in Los Angeles finds Meta, YouTube negligent in social media addiction trialA jury reached a verdict in the L.A. trial focused on Meta and YouTube, a case that experts have characterized as social media's "Big Tobacco" moment. 000
Reposted by TobenVeronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 23/03/2026The white folks whining about standing in long TSA lines at the airport will never make the connection with black folks standing in long lines to vote. 7796226
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Pic of the Year contender - "Duality of Realities" category * sidenoting the irony in which we unapologetically prefer ICE agent lazy do-nothingry to them terrorizing everyday Americans on top of just trying to get through travel inconveniences..defector.comICE Agents Deployed To Nation's Swamped Airports To Stand Around And Do Nothing | DefectorThe second government shutdown of the year, this one affecting only the Department of Homeland Security, went into effect on Feb. 14. While Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Bo... 010
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 23/03/2026We're going to pay $1 billion to water to NOT help put out the fire.. 212
Reposted by TobenMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York. 1008389429562
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 17/03/2026We are destroying the climate to power data centers that produce algorithms for robotic brain rot, and now we are deploying robotic guard dog killing machines that cost more than a Kentucky Derby stallion to protect them.. 000
Reposted by TobenTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us. 520269248466
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 12/03/2026"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people." - Howard Zinntheguardian.comUS responsible for deadly missile strike on Iran school, preliminary inquiry saysStrike that killed at least 175 people, most of them children, reportedly the result of a targeting mistake by US military planners 000
Reposted by TobenAyana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 11/03/2026The war in Iran shows, yet again, how much better and safer a world powered by renewable energy would be. ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/environmen...ayanaelizabeth.substack.comEnvironmental devastation is yet another reason war is awful.The war in Iran shows, yet again, how much better and safer a world powered by renewable energy would be. 66618
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 10/03/2026When they say #GoldenAge, what they really mean is #GildedAge 000
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Pete Hegseth, once again proving that being anti-inclusion and being an asshole aren't mutually exclusive 100
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Afghanistan redux..washingtonpost.comRussia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials sayThe targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said. 000
Reposted by TobenAntonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026The ouster of Kristi Noem is the result of formidable organizing by people outraged at the actions of DHS. Great investigation and reporting by the media laid bare corruption and malfeasance and demanded accountability. Democrats shut down DHS with among other demands, Noem's ouster. Trump caved. 0189
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Their first line of defense of the truly indefensible is always to drag this rat out of the sewer to yell at us for having the audacity to care for other humans * no offense to actual 🐀s 000
Reposted by TobenJohn Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 03/03/2026I don't think it's going to be morally, legally, diplomatically, or pragmatically correct, either. 0142
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 02/03/2026They’re instigating a war in the Middle East in order to distract us from their war against American cities.. 010
Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Our cigarettes are part of an effort to cure cancer under his leadership.. 110