Reposted by Tom MontroyNoelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness… 315147302313 14.7K
Reposted by Tom MontroyElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I disagree, categorically, that adding additional justices, even in a "tit-for-tat" way, is a "race to the bottom." I think having a great many *more* judges is actually good for democracy, representation, ethics, and limiting the importance and power of any individual judge. Furthermore... 20999120 999
Reposted by Tom MontroyIlhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced. 14805002711748 50K
Reposted by Tom MontroySenator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 09/10/2026I am horrified by reports of ICE shooting a man with his five-year-old child in the car. Abolish ICE now. 1526955 269
Reposted by Tom Montroybryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 102144294733 14.4K
Reposted by Tom MontroySenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 01/10/2026Pierre Damas Bel was an honor student & part of his college's ROTC program. He was also a TPS recipient. After Trump's attacks on TPS, he was forced to wear an ankle monitor that isolated and humiliated him. Pierre died in an apparent suicide. He was 20. 19805270 805
Reposted by Tom MontroyErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026In response to a slew of anti-trans Democrats pushing hate during the 2026 midterms, Governor Andy Beshear provided principled criticism to the idea that red-state Dems need to adopt anti-trans views to win: "We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus," he said. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comKY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights. 281576367 1.6K
Reposted by Tom MontroyThe Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt theonion.com/mr-autumn-man-walking-… 892933433 2.9K
Reposted by Tom MontroyThe Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 14/09/2024[Thread] "We will have to rebuild everything and we, the young people, will have to try to do everything so that such atrocities never happen again." I'm honored to share with you excerpts from the memoirs of my dear, late grandmother, Jacqueline. (1/41) 224876 248
Reposted by Tom MontroyDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026…And 3) I am really tired democrats vice signaling to try to gain votes on the right that will never, Ever go to them as long as those on the right have a republican to support. Just hold on fucking principle, you utter feckless cowards. 327852 278
Reposted by Tom MontroyTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This or that with @dunlapforcongress.bsky.social 😄 20421115 421
Reposted by Tom Montroypretty BOO!!!👻👻🎃🎃😈😈🎃👻!!!😈g @inyourculture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026wait fr?? 162581545 2.6K
Reposted by Tom MontroyAleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.transiticsnews.comI’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids. 9064232557 6.4K
Reposted by Tom MontroyEd Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights. 149107911819 10.8K
Reposted by Tom MontroyMaggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026In 2023, I nearly died when an ectopic pregnancy burst, taking out a corner of my uterus and one ovary with it. I bled 2 liters out internally, and the whole time kept asking am I dying because it FELT like I was dying bc I WAS. It was excruciatingly painful. That's how these people are dying. 118189 181
Reposted by Tom MontroyCongresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 02/09/2026The passing of Pierre Damas Bel is utterly devastating. He was a son, a brother, a college student and JROTC member with dreams of studying medicine—and he embodied exactly what the American dream could look like. 812146 121
Reposted by Tom MontroyEd Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Proud to vote in Malden this morning. Polls are open. Visit edmarkey.com/vote to make a plan to vote. 1867 86
Reposted by Tom MontroyElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This story is a tragedy of a magnitude that’s hard to describe. That’s is for me today. I need to go do something else for awhile. 224517 245
Reposted by Tom MontroyElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“Bel was a varsity soccer player for Springfield City School District…He was on the National Honor Society and a member of the Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps”. He was a legal immigrant, and MAGA couldn’t tolerate his excellence, so now he’s dead.springfieldnewssun.comSpringfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates sayA 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates. 991025617 1K
Reposted by Tom MontroyAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Awful. Just awful. A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor. His blood is on their hands. 542655987 2.7K
Reposted by Tom MontroyCal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2 9437961404 3.8K
Reposted by Tom MontroyShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This thread hurts my heart to read. I have known three children who transitioned in my life, all who suffered profoundly until they were made free to live as they knew themselves to be. Once you have seen the difference it makes to be supported in that, you will never forgive those who strip it away 121058 210
Reposted by Tom MontroyGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People. 1241191180 4.1K
Reposted by Tom MontroySenator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 27/08/2026TPS holders are our friends and neighbors, and they deserve to stay in their communities without the fear of being forced to return to insecurity and widespread violence. I led a letter urging the Senate to schedule a vote to preserve Haiti TPS. No more delaying this humanitarian emergency. 48728 87
Reposted by Tom MontroyScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The Stars & Stripes was operated as an independent newspaper from 1861 until it encountered Pete Hegseth... 10643235 643
Reposted by Tom MontroyCongresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 15/08/2026We came to Plymouth to conduct oversight of a major detention facility in our state, check on our constituents, & demand accountability of ICE. The trauma experienced by families like Darwin's is a reminder of why we must abolish ICE, end qualified immunity, & stop their campaign of terror. 38729 87
Reposted by Tom MontroyRep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 14/08/2026🧵 I was the first member of Congress to demand that we abolish ICE. Today, after hearing heartbreaking stories at the Plymouth detention facility from folks who were abducted by ICE & ripped away from their families, my resolve to abolish this rogue agency has never been stronger. 516039 160
Reposted by Tom MontroyPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026We were looking for Florence but couldn't find it, but we have found a beautiful town called Firenze. 1351368 513
Reposted by Tom Montroyaustin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 05/08/2026KFC announces their frontier-class model briefly escaped its sandbox and attempted to exfiltrate the 27 herbs and spices 142259351 2.3K
Reposted by Tom MontroyDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty. 22662983010336 29.8K
Reposted by Tom MontroyGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Sister Letty, the South Texas Catholic nun who was abducted by ICE last month, said she feels she must speak out because there are too many others going through the same situation without the same kind of headlines that her outrageous case has received: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/catholic-n...americasvoicecnn.substack.comCatholic Nun Abducted By ICE Speaks Out: I Cannot Stay Quiet About What Is Also ‘Happening to Others’Sister Letty did "everything the law has asked of her," but she was still targeted. She worries about others facing this same crisis. Even Christians aren’t safe under Trump’s mass deportation agenda. 03615 36
Reposted by Tom MontroyHeadquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside. 251324658 1.3K
Reposted by Tom MontroyThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/07/2026Teacher Required To Provide Own Salary theonion.com/teacher-required-to-pr… 414075776 4.1K
Reposted by Tom MontroyAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukJodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understandsAstronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained. 561346704 1.3K
Reposted by Tom MontroyAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Not unknown but unsung: Linda Bove, actress and poet, known to Gen X-millennials as Linda the Librarian on Sesame Street. She was TV’s first Deaf regular and very nearly singlehandedly changed children’s education surrounding disability. Also a founding member of Little Theatre of the Deaf. 6387113 387
Reposted by Tom MontroyAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026Admirable clarity @science.org 4974902710 7.5K
Reposted by Tom MontroyDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 22/07/202686 people in a single ICE holding room, "all jostling for space in a closet of humanity that smelled of sweat, urine and feces." What would we call it anywhere else? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/... 25667304 667
Reposted by Tom MontroyProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This is a concentration camp @andreapitzer.bsky.social has written one of the best respected books on the history of concentration camps, & argues, convincingly IMHO, that ICE detention centers meet the definition of concentration camps We need to shut them down now, while we still can 1/2 7549262 549
Reposted by Tom MontroyAndrew Russeth @russeth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026"Four months into an appeal, Ms. McDonald, a cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds, bustles to food banks, stretches ground turkey with oatmeal, and skips meals to feed three teenage boys." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...nytimes.comFaced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food StampsArizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties. 561639802 1.6K
Reposted by Tom MontroyAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Have kept thinking all day about this story, full of starving moms and grandmothers trying to feed 3-6 kids each on virtually nothing and Republican men cheering and patting themselves on the back for kicking them off food stamps. Congrats, boys, you really did it 351914640 1.9K
Reposted by Tom MontroyBaltimore Banner Sports @sports.thebaltimorebanner.com · 20/07/2026“We’re not asking for permission to be here. We’re playing.” In February, USA Rugby banned transgender women from competing in women's matches. It was, on paper, a massive blow to the Baltimore Ferals, one of hundreds of teams affiliated with International Gay Rugby. Instead, they kept playing. 131319374 1.3K
Reposted by Tom MontroyMike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 19/07/2026A father in Idaho, speaking to police after his child died by suicide: “There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids. The whole fucking country. The whole fucking administration, every single fucking day.” Please read this important story by @joyurcaba.bsky.socialnbcnews.comIdaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America. 342692917 2.7K
Reposted by Tom MontroyPeter Cheung @bostonaruban.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Today we painted Louisa’s Ghost Bike. It used to be Jessica Mink’s bike. Since 2015, I’ve created about 30 ghost bikes, but this one was the hardest to make so far. I couldn’t have done it without my best friend and brother Galen Mook. We Need Each Other. #NoMoreGhostBikes 11620103 620
Reposted by Tom MontroySenator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 18/07/2026Today I made an unannounced visit to ICE’s facility in Scarborough, Maine. What I heard was unacceptable: no body cameras, no training, and no accountability. Johan Guerrero should be alive. Congress must act. Abolish ICE. End qualified immunity. 709230637383 23.1K
Reposted by Tom MontroyMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 17/07/2026"I hope that this shares with people that are incarcerated on Rikers, that they too are a part of this city. The World Cup has been a magical moment for the entire city. These are New Yorkers, and they will be New Yorkers when they get out of Rikers. They are New Yorkers today." ♥️♥️♥️m.youtube.comMamdani watches World Cup semifinal match with Rikers Island prisonersYouTube video by Associated Press 438083 380
Reposted by Tom MontroyTina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 15/07/2026Naïve to think he was ever going to end ICE traffic stops. He LIKES that his secret police force can do whatever they want with no repercussions. The cruelty is the point. 1333477 334
Reposted by Tom MontroyJoshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026NEW: A 5-year-old girl spent months in federal immigration custody here in Connecticut while her family waited for her release. Her case isn’t unique, experts and court records show. My latest w/ @jrabethomas.bsky.social at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegskyctinsider.com5-year-old spent 118 days on her own in federal immigration custody in CTOn any given day there are more than two dozen immigrant children detained without a parent or guardian in programs run by Connecticut nonprofits. 25611428 611
Reposted by Tom MontroyEd Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026This is footage of ICE handcuffing a 26 year old father after murdering him in broad daylight. We cannot look away. Abolish ICE. Abolish qualified immunity. Hold these murderous thugs accountable. 1412506969 2.5K
Reposted by Tom Montroymichael oshea @osheafoto.bsky.social · 10/07/2026This is a hell of a piece of writing from an essay by German Philosopher Jurgen Habermas, 10304112 304
