Reposted by Tompaul WheelerSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3hThe administration that continues to cover up for pedophiles simply cannot be trusted with the care of hundreds of unaccompanied children with no oversight and no transparency 31713309
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4h“Although [Mr. Belgal] was initially hospitalized, it appears that ICE moved quickly to transfer him out of the hospital to an unknown location—raising grave concerns for his health and well-being.” from @maketheroadny.bsky.social’s habeas petition filed todaycourthousenews.comICE shot a man in New York City; his lawyers can’t find himThe agency claims Oscar Belgal "weaponized his vehicle” against agents in the Bronx, prompting them to fire seven shots at his car. 3227130
Reposted by Tompaul Wheelergamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 17hA televised execution and a president making an investment in a contractor immediately before announcing a policy relevant to its business are two very different stories both deserving of attention, but the first is so viscerally horrifying the second seems mundane by comparison. 37410
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17hThis would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.wapo.stTrump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policyThe purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk. 6235531309
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Imagine if the national media covered American politics through the lens of which party actually competently staffed & governed the country when it was in power, instead of covering it as horse races, theater, & grading on a curve for the One Special Boy & the far right authoritarian party. 731782
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version. 6847071150
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerMr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comA Reckoning in SpringfieldA truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become. 37353431838
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026abcnews.com/US/18-year-i...abcnews.com18-year-old in ICE detention for more than 200 days: 'They just took me away'Elder Chavez Carranza has spent more than 200 days in an immigration detention center in Louisiana, hundreds of miles from his home in Albertville, Alabama. 821579749
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 10387126
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerDoug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Dems’ 2028 platform should include stuff like letting soldiers have beards, letting TSA agents sit down, letting generals get their promotions, etc. The deep state isn’t real but civil and uniformed services are. We need them to know which side respects their human dignity before MAGA’s next coup. 1040587
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Withdraw from Iraq yesterday, send 10,000 troops and another carrier to fight Iran today. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...wsj.comU.S. Sending Third Aircraft Carrier, Up to 10,000 More Troops, to Middle EastThe deployments come as President Trump weighs resuming bombing Iran after the midterms. 21211103
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerJill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Unnerving @washingtonpost.com exclusive: US and Russia worked in secret to remove "a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons." For instance, leave targeting to AI, no human review required. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4yWadkRwapo.stU.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pactThe two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre... 38621409
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/09/2026Trump's third-country removal scheme may be suspended, but the cruelty of ICE flights continues. This is yesterday, Monday, Sept. 21. --72+ flights, nearly every adult onboard shackled --12 removal flights --A removal flight headed to Myanmar 4477234
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerScott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 24/09/20261. Biden Dems & reality give huge incentive to EVs 2. Detroit adopts two-pronged strategy: milk gas guzzlers, sink money into great EVs (& lobby to give gas guzzlers a few extra years) 3. Trump goes 100% gas guzzling, Detroit writes off $$$$$ 4. Detroit asks for protection against Chinese cars. :( 28130
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public. 141283543
Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Will true Narnia fans boycott the audiobooks read by women—or at least mute all of Aslan’s dialogue? 010
Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The Magician’s Nephew is my fave Narnia book, so let’s be real: It’s got likely the darkest scene in kids’ literature. In a flashback, the kids learn the world of Charn is dead because Queen Jadis committed ecocide rather than lose a civil war to her sister. TMN also has perhaps the brightest scene— 130
Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I love the aesthetic, but this makes him look way too cool. The whole point is his self-centered quest for mystery and power has made him pathetic. 010
Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 16/09/202625 yrs ago today, I walked out of a sermon. Title: “God’s 911 Call to the World.” It featured an old Chinese story about someone who lit a fire to get people’s attention. I found it utterly tone deaf. I look for God’s hand in world events. Something’s wrong, though, if we lose sight of His heart. 100
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerAaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Incredible headline here (among other things)theguardian.comTexas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to communityDisbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply 13060481425
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026So a big part of Iran Contra and one of the (many) reasons it was illegal was that third party fund weren’t deposited into the U.S. Treasury 852804978
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year 10632601548
Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This description sounds way too familiar in 2026. 000
Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The U.S. economy is eight times larger now than fifty years ago. The difference is that the gains have been overwhelmingly claimed by the wealthy. 001
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/09/2026So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes. 14639411374
Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Republicans have long accused Democrats of “buying votes” when they promise policies that benefit people. 000
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerMichael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Marco Rubio was confirmed as Secretary of State on a 99-0 vote. 6454122
Reposted by Tompaul Wheelershauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026chess dot com probably doesn’t have much money but they clearly have enough to own the world’s richest man 402280316
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerLuca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Horrifying footage out of Danbury, CT shows ICE agents violently piling on, punching, and pepper-spraying a man on the pavement while bystanders scream for them to stop. Human rights abuses happening in broad daylight cannot be normalized. We MUST demand accountability and justice now! 🎥 ICEOut.org 90588477
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerPop-up Leftist Cwab Depot @fancycwabs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Say what you want about Elon Musk and DOGE, they’re much more efficient at starving people and having them die of treatable diseases than communism ever was. 1176
Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The road to hell is paved with moral cowardice. 000
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It is really time to sue on the ankle monitor policy: it was issued as interim guidance rather than a notice and comment rulemaking. It also likely violates the 5th Amendment Due Process Clause. 6540146
Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Stock buybacks were illegal until Reagan has the law changed in 1982, as they were considered market manipulation. 010
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps 2731541017
Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026People who receive hospice care typically live longer than those who don’t. That is generally considered a positive outcome. 023
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerAaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Congress enacted laws on deportations. It also enacted laws that allow some without status (or have status ripped away) to gain status through family-based petitions, relief in immigration court, etc. The agencies' role is as much to enforce and facilitate *those* laws as the ones on deportations. 08216
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A far-right ethnonationalist movement turning the machinery of the state against its early activists once they are deemed insufficiently loyal — now I’ve heard everything. 1504798958
Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Don’t worry. Republicans will care again as soon as a Democrat’s back in the White House. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u...nytimes.comIn Trump’s Washington, Ballooning National Debt Stirs Little ActionThe relative indifference to the news that the U.S. government now owes $40 trillion demonstrates how drastically the politics of deficit spending has changed. 000
Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Can’t remember the names of all five Great Lakes? Just remember this handy acronym! Superior Huron America Michigan Erie 010
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerDavid Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 27/08/2026If you still have a Twitter account, today is a great day to delete it. Nothing you could possibly get out of that site is worth having your name associated with child pornography. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...arstechnica.comElon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit saysxAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography. 5341732310
Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Remarkable how liars don’t even own up to their lies. Because they know they’re lying, and they’re lying about the lies the knew they told. 000
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerDemCast USA @demcast.com · 26/08/2026Trump runs a $1.8 billion cash-for-criminals program while families struggle to pay rent. He turned the White House into an all-you-can-eat corruption buffet for himself, his family,& his cronies. Meanwhile Americans lose jobs & can’t afford groceries. #TrumpsCorruptionCostsUS 17283185
Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Talking with our 11yo the other week, we mentioned that not long ago, Dolly Parton was basically thought of as a joke. 11yo: What?! Why? She sends kids books! Us: Well, people called her a dumb blond because she was pretty, and made jokes about her body, and just generally made fun of her . . . 100
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerMistrrx @mistrrx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I.C.E. is a terrorist anti-human organization that is the enemy of the American ideal, an enemy of the American dream, an enemy of the American people. I.C.E. must be defunded, disbanded, and all its members and “leadership” investigated and tried for their crimes. 24826
Reposted by Tompaul Wheelerthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026i'm pretty familiar with doug wilson's whole deal but nothing could have prepared me for how he answers hasan's charge that he discriminates against women at 0:33. 9557
Reposted by Tompaul WheelerGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The bigger story here is that Trump's collapse is the direct result of the three pillars of right wing populist nationalism all failing disastrously. Mass deportations, America First foreign policy, and now tariffs/trade wars are all getting badly discredited. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2146... 191013231