Reposted by Leah ElizabethAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 16hYou’ve gotta be fucking kidding me 52437691060
Reposted by Leah ElizabethPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11hNew: Jasmine Crockett was offering government relations & lobbying services on a campaign-funded website. It was taken down after Zeteo reached out. Experts say they’d never seen something like this before. Rules bar members from lobbying and from using campaign funds for non-campaign purposes.zeteo.comJasmine Crockett Offered Lobbying Services on Her Campaign-Funded Website – While in OfficeThe offering was removed after Zeteo contacted the Texas Democratic congresswoman’s office. 91956217
Reposted by Leah ElizabethAssigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 19hA nest of TERFs in Worcester Massachusetts? Say it ain't so! New original reporting by @valorievandieman.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...assignedmedia.orgQueer Community Raises Alarm as TERF Conference Comes to Worcester, MA - Assigned MediaThe conference, arranged by an anti-trans radical feminist with several notable anti-trans speakers, is set to occur in mid October. 612248
Reposted by Leah ElizabethMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h🚨BREAKING: Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board invited the Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday to declare the state’s voting system unlawful before the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comGOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegalThe request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials. 21217861046
Reposted by Leah ElizabethAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030471071
Reposted by Leah ElizabethImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026fucking reallythehill.comEducation Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ studentsThe Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati… 672165717
Reposted by Leah ElizabethGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before. 22684453
Reposted by Leah ElizabethThey/Thempress @theythem.press · 27/09/2026consent is impossible when you mix career networking and sex together in a social space. the inherent power differentials extant in such an environment muddies the waters of consent to the point of complete opacity. how do you say "no" to someone who has the power to make or break your career? 630556
Reposted by Leah ElizabethSylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So YouTube won't platform the Musk documentary trailer but they'll run anti-UN ads?? www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 010333
Reposted by Leah ElizabethSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.apple.newsThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood ReporterThe Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing. 763616945
Reposted by Leah ElizabethAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form 392136617
Leah Elizabeth @uberleah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Love to see NPR following up its interview with Steve Bannon by now platforming Carlson. Carlson’s brand of ‘I’m so reasonable’ is a front for his bigotry & extremism, and yet catnip for liberals due to Democrats’ inaction and collusion. 010
Reposted by Leah ElizabethRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.wsj.comExclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health OfficeThe cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026. 27674933149
Reposted by Leah ElizabethPublic Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Trump's EPA paid staff roughly $200 MILLION to NOT work last year. Trump's Interior Department paid staff $156 MILLION to NOT work last year. So we don't have money for food or health care, but we have enough to stop staff from doing their jobs? Absolutely irresponsible. 06032
Reposted by Leah ElizabethEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026guess god frowns upon genocide apologists 624231
Reposted by Leah ElizabethKim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Cute! Hot2Vote is a new voter registration campaign led by workers in the adult entertainment industry, including performers, directors, producers, strippers, online creators, sex educators and advocates, who want “to defend our rights to privacy, free expression, and bodily autonomy.” hot2vote.orghot2vote.orgHot2Vote — Check Your Voter StatusUse your power. Register to vote, verify your status, and join the Hot2Vote Artist Ambassador Program. 28526
Reposted by Leah ElizabethJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you are champing at the bit for a nice piece of plainly obvious propaganda to come along so you can indulge a weird desire to bash some faction of marginalized people who bother you, consider…not doing that. 320131
Reposted by Leah ElizabethJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Look at how easy it was, to get most of the left to spend two days bashing maskers over a false story that had so many red flags for being false it was practically a Valentine’s Day parade. 119934
Reposted by Leah ElizabethRebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God this is so smart @sarahkendzior.bsky.social An example of how white supremacy works in such hidden, nefarious ways 12410
Reposted by Leah ElizabethChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026And that is why they are dismantling the structures for DEI in the US, particularly in education systems. Because kids were learning ideas that made it harder to turn them into genocidal drones who would look on or actively participate. 123257
Reposted by Leah ElizabethChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026I had a conversation with a DEI professional in another country last week, and y'all know I'm a critic of DEI as a framework, but she said something while discussing where the US is on the path to genocide: The goal of DEI work is to prevent genocidal ideas from taking root. 435582
Reposted by Leah Elizabethmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/05/2026saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :) 1475782316
Reposted by Leah ElizabethJames Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Administration officials are circulating a list of government sites that could have Trump’s name affixed to them... One landmark that has emerged in the discussions among administration officials has raised eyebrows: Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865."ms.nowTrump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s TheatreThe playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW. 96419203
Reposted by Leah ElizabethBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The USG crusade to destroy the ICC seems primarily motivated by a desire to shield Israeli officials like Netanyahu and Gallant from accountability. Worth recalling that those two face charges related to using starvation as a method of warfare in Gaza. 25723258
Reposted by Leah ElizabethKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually 11996981920
Reposted by Leah ElizabethDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026International criminals preparing to punish International Criminal Court 25736244
Reposted by Leah ElizabethNathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this 202820976
Reposted by Leah ElizabethJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years. 7845621062
Reposted by Leah ElizabethMalevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back" 11568111526
Reposted by Leah ElizabethMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Cold-blooded murder. The goal is to get us used to it so they can do it on a larger scale. 551195405
Reposted by Leah Elizabethshaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't 3371921954
Reposted by Leah Elizabeth🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I’m so sick of everybody and the racism and the sexism and how it’s destroying fun deadline.com/2026/09/ride...deadline.com'Ride Or Die' Canceled By Prime Video After One Season (Exclusive)'Ride Or Die' has been canceled By Prime Video after one season. The Octavia Spencer & Hannah Waddingham series is shopped By Paramount TV Studios. 48515107
Reposted by Leah ElizabethEdward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026From a former State Dept. lawyer who specialized in the law of armed conflict 819485
Reposted by Leah ElizabethAnnalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder. 21654502
Reposted by Leah ElizabethMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026NEWS: The Pentagon has announced mandatory low-testosterone screenings for male troops 30 and older, including screening for symptoms such as “reduced libido, loss of spontaneous morning erections, erectile dysfunction,” and other symptoms. 242851172040
Reposted by Leah ElizabethSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Don’t forget, this is how the Kennedy center dismantling started. The folks at your institution doing equity work might be the first targeted, but the institutions themselves are always the target. Hope folks have learned this now. 3950330
Reposted by Leah ElizabethFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026A lot of my anger at the dominance of the rationalist/longtermist “AI safety” narrative right now - which is way more focused on distant future tech harms than current ones - relates to how we’re really struggling to get people to care about how tiny flying robots are exploding 1000s of civilians.map.faineg.comTargeted Small Drone Attacks on Civilians: A Global OSINT PictureA global OSINT map of targeted small drone attacks on civilians since 2022. 423654
Reposted by Leah ElizabethFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks. 7962302
Reposted by Leah ElizabethPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this. 349160724126
Reposted by Leah ElizabethLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When’s that protecting scheduled for? 01307
Reposted by Leah ElizabethSunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Okay yeah see I think we should be a lot more worried about this kind of shit than the killer machine god and not just because this is a clear concrete thing that’s happening right now 5465189
Reposted by Leah ElizabethEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I think there is a good chance that if Democrats sweep Congress one of the first things they'll do is try to pass an Australia-style social media ban for under 16s. We need to start organizing against this right now. Ron Wyden can't be the only Senator who will understand this is terrible. 823689
Reposted by Leah ElizabethDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026As I said the first time Trump proposed tariffs: this is precisely why he likes them! It makes everyone come to him on bended knee, begging for exemptions. It makes economic survival dependent on his whim. That, not any economic theory, is the whole attraction. Mafia boss thinking. 26993250
Reposted by Leah ElizabethSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." --Tom Lehrer 10713162
Reposted by Leah ElizabethKen Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026While Sen. Katie Britt was publicly defending Trump's tariffs, she was privately seeking exemptions for 4 companies operating in Alabama that could be hurt by tariffs, according to emails between her staff & Trump's US Trade Representative, obtained via FOIA by @wsj.com. www.wsj.com/opinion/kati... 28493222
Reposted by Leah ElizabethLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 16/09/2026wow it appears him saying there are only two sexes did not stop republicans from using transphobia to harass him. who could have seen this coming. who could have known 14958144
Reposted by Leah ElizabethWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026mainstream media has learned nothing 943871
Reposted by Leah ElizabethGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...gillianbrockell.comThe truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been. 3245811498
Reposted by Leah Elizabethcapitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026With all due respect, fuck Bernie Sanders and anyone who appears with Steve Bannon, forever. 4/ 2759