Reposted by tonylibMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home." 697154218480
Reposted by tonylibAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face. 9046182822191
Reposted by tonylibLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/12/2025News stories about the concentration camps we run in foreign countries have to be smuggled to a third country in order to be seen. 5833212
Reposted by tonylibAdam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 21/12/2025Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again. 58110972328
Reposted by tonylib🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/12/2025"The collapse of journalism is part of a larger trend in which institutions are being annihilated." Andrea Pitzer on one of the most consistent features of dictatorships—an assault on journalism.youtube.comShredding public knowledgeYouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer 5354120
Reposted by tonylibRuth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe. 3257521336
Reposted by tonylibAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/10/2025the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history 8862202133
Reposted by tonylibJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 19/02/2025"In America, THE LAW IS KING." Thomas Paine, 1776. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bjj...youtube.comCommon Sense by Thomas Paine, read by Professor Joanne FreemanYouTube video by Beinecke Library at Yale 632221571
Reposted by tonylibMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/09/2025I keep using the term "non compos mentis" to describe Trump because that's how he's acting. It's beyond his longstanding history of total ignorance, habitual lying, and constant exaggeration. He's genuinely disconnected from reality and often incapable of expressing coherent thoughts. 592220502
Reposted by tonylibJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Republicans Kill Attempt to Subpoena FCC Chair After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...talkingpointsmemo.comRepublicans Kill Attempt to Subpoena FCC Chair After Jimmy Kimmel SuspensionThe House Oversight Committee voted Thursday to table a motion to subpoena... 44635291
Reposted by tonylibGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 27/08/2025This story is not getting nearly enough attention. A sting on a pedo ring pulled in an Israeli government official and the Trump Administration stepped in to set him free. 5289140
Reposted by tonylibElad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost. 245147645068
Reposted by tonylibAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Voting Rights Act turns 60 today. I've studied VRA for 15 years. Most people don't realize just how much it transformed American democracy, ended Jim Crow & enfranchised millions of Americans Now it’s on life support. If it dies, American democracy dies with it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comThe nation's landmark voting rights law just turned 60. It may not survive Trump.“The long-term game is to repeal the Voting Rights Act.” 10411161
Reposted by tonylibRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/08/2025The man who just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because their numbers supposedly weren’t accurate just claimed that he lowered drug prices in America by 1500%. 1079157644447
Reposted by tonylibJames Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country. 895123644006
Reposted by tonylibChris Seaman @cbseaman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025So this broke almost immediately after I posted. We are in a very, very bad place. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...nytimes.comUniversity of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration 617544
Reposted by tonylibPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 25/06/2025The Trump administration is arresting more and more immigrants with no criminal records. To maintain the illusion that their focus is criminals, they're ginning up charges including by leveraging testimony from criminals who then get leniency.washingtonpost.comOpinion | ‘Criminal immigrant’ means whatever the administration says it meansTrump's deportation goals are being met by targeting non-criminal immigrants. 39829370
Reposted by tonylibThe Athletic @theathletic.com · 22/06/2025Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh made history on Saturday by hitting his 30th home run of the season. Full story: dlvr.it/TLV01X 2836
Reposted by tonylibI support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Because I am a glutton for punishment, I watched the Fox coverage of Trump's parade for a while, and I have never truly experienced state propaganda on that level before in my entire life. 1238254
Reposted by tonylibCarolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 03/06/2025He needed air. The price was $539. When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price. 5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler. He paid with his life. www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSkynbcnews.com22-year-old dies after being unable to afford asthma inhalerIn our new series “The Cost of Denial,” NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports on the young man who went to refill his asthma inhaler only to find it unaffordable because it was no longer covered by his insu... 23232361764
Reposted by tonylibMark Russell @manruss.bsky.social · 31/05/2025The lesson people infuriatingly never seem to master is that there is no creating a police state just for other people. If you create a police state with no due process for immigrants or accused criminals, then that's the system you've created for yourself. 4543501315
Reposted by tonylib🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/05/2025"When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face government retribution, they no longer live in a full democracy." 116152
Reposted by tonylibJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comNew images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes themWithout scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk. 7242906813511
Reposted by tonylibBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025a decadent and rotten elite that crumbled at the barest touch, and can't defend even its own interests. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...politico.com‘Everyone is terrified’: Business and government officials are afraid to cross Trump on tariffsWhile lobbyists, business leaders, and lawmakers are worried about Donald Trump’s tariffs, there’s a culture of fear in Washington preventing many from speaking out. 12152691108
Reposted by tonylibNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 02/04/2025The stupidity in Trump’s new tariffs is apparently limitless. He has introduced a 10% tariff on the British Indian Ocean Territory. The only inhabited island there is Diego Garcia, home to US service personnel. TRUMP HAS PUT A TARIFF ON A US MILITARY BASE 🤡 14945101652
Reposted by tonylibNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts. 14538201509
Reposted by tonylibNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Lot of really angry people on here, folks mad at what’s happening in this country and Democratic leaders. Have you considered putting your effort into something more productive and fulfilling, like Seattle Mariners baseball? 4340731
Reposted by tonylibAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Immigrants, trans people, palestinian rights activists, eventually it’s going to be your turn when the regime decides you are an enemy 713898998
Reposted by tonylibAndy Richter @andyrichter.co · 01/03/2025Sometimes it feels like I’m going crazy, because there is something that is right in front of our faces, has been for years, and nobody of consequence ever says it: Donald Trump works for Vladimir Putin. How much more proof does anyone need? And what is anybody going to do about it? 634160292533
Reposted by tonylibKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/02/2025This video is profoundly disturbing. But it should remind us that the focus on the danger of “deepfakes” was misplaced. Trump rose to political prominence (~2015/2016) alongside a visual meme culture. Generative AI allows him to take that kind of visual propaganda to a whole other level. 818338
Reposted by tonylibPeter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...sfchronicle.comYosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their returnYosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off 801174068819
Reposted by tonylibMel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Over the last five days, we’ve been witnessing remarkable, even miraculous mutual aid happening all over the city of Los Angeles—but esp. Altadena—, done by ordinary Angelenos, some also fire victims, who care deeply about their city and it’s ppl. We’ve shared those experiences here. Take a look—calmatters.orgIn LA's darkest moment, the light of tireless Angelenos providing aid, food shines bright | OpinionAmid the destruction in LA, there are glimmers of hope. Angelenos everywhere have heard the call for aid and stepped up in remarkable ways. 81198454
Reposted by tonylibDeva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 19/01/2025This is a propaganda masterpiece. Tens of millions of people who know nothing about politics will see this & when TiKTok is back Trump will take full credit (& a huge kickback) & no one will care the ban was his idea in the first place. An idea an idiot cadre of elderly Dems went along with. 🤡 💩 553330986
