Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵 22834391319
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026deranged behavior to just treat it like an anthology of established facts to be taken at face value with zero critical thinking, and honestly it says a lot about you as a person if you're hyped about a river of blood rising to the height of a horse's bridle drowning unbelievers. stay away from me 141820
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026To complain about Apple's decison go here: www.apple.com/feedback/map... 2012884
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialJen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Happening now in TX: Voters in battleground Tarrant County are telling GOP local officials what they think of their plan to cut 30% of voting locations this year “Nothing you can do can stop us from removing you in November” 18568562053
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialsnackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The Creative Activities building at the Minnesota State Fair is the best. Such a rich hub of cultural, social, and political expression. Lots of Minnesota resistance artwork throughout. 821046
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026That's not how executive orders work and that's not how naming things work and this isn't how political reporting should work either. This event should be covered, yes, but as another sign of the president's steady descent into complete ineffectiveness and utter insanity. 1934124999
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialDaniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton 7165572899
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone. 570582101
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/08/2026cis Black women athletes are also VERY FAMILIAR with having their bodies policed by, or on screechy indignant behalf of, their white peers which is why we always say “scratch a TERF, find a racist”, and why the right is so motivated to downplay the very real solidarity happening across communities 01405344
violetandblue.bsky.social @violetandblue.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Two identical looking ball-point pens. One with dry ink. 010
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialjessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful 193126037998
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialBrant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 29/07/2026It’s a Fair Question….. “Why is it that it takes 900 years and 5000 impact studies to build high speed rail but a 5 minute city council meeting is all it takes to approve a massive data center?” 31090342634
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialIf you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I had a visceral physical reaction to this story that is hard to describe. Just destruction of everything I hold dear. Monstrous garbage oligarchies. 14623
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialAir Budd Dwyer @airbudddwyer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026[eleanor rigby voice] connecticut bigfoot hids in the woods outside Lyme but is spotted by rubes doesn't have boobs 171576315
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialJohn Paul @johnpaulhi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Pass it on: #WhereIsMitch 22519
violetandblue.bsky.social @violetandblue.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Beginning to think RFK has a diarrhea fetish 100
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This doesn't seem good. #cyclospora www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/... 53120
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialPalpableConcern @palpableconcern.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Here’s one: www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...consumerreports.orgParsley and Cilantro Identified as Potential Sources of Cyclospora Outbreak in North Carolina - Consumer ReportsState officials said parsley and cilantro may be linked to rising cases in North Carolina. The FDA is also investigating a new outbreak with an unknown source. 123
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialRosa DeLauro @delauro.house.gov · 21/07/2026This isn't suspicious at all (sarcastic) 34823
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Remember Harlan Crow, the GOP megadonor who took Clarence Thomas on luxury vacations? He just loaned three statues to be displayed in Trump's paved-over Rose Garden. What will he ask for in return? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comTrump continues overhaul of White House grounds with new Rose Garden statuesA bronze Thomas Jefferson was installed as the fifth new statue last week. Three were provided by Harlan Crow, a conservative collector and political donor. 77963425
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Just a reminder that Trump, the President and MAGA's "Daddy," is a rapist who was ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll $6 million this week. Totally normal in America, not even big news. 311161288
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialYgrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 16/07/2026hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe 12899302194
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialKelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development 240693923
violetandblue.bsky.social @violetandblue.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Is this going to be an EZ-Pass type thing or Venmo or how are we going to collect this 20% toll fam? 000
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialCeleste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026YES. THIS. 0348
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Who could have guessed that when you gut the CDC and put a quack with no medical expertise in charge of American healthcare, diseases we had eradicated would come back and there would be explosive diarrhea situations happening. Just no way to know. 161369228
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences 114208745341
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us. 155188834440
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialVicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Good fucking morning we will outlive them 0712166
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialchris “bluesky” poster @chrisrd19.bsky.social · 12/07/2026It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait. 253192213782
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2026The corruption is endless. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich] 238105323536
violetandblue.bsky.social @violetandblue.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The Prison Libraries Act ensures that correctional facilities provide access to library services, trained staff, and materials. via @everylibrary.bsky.social bit.ly/4v5oE3Cbit.lySEND AN EMAIL: Support the Prison Libraries Act!Help support libraries across the country by taking action today! 000
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026It’s really important to install an entire federal discrimination system so somebody’s cis daughter can finish 14th at her swim meet. 91830373
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/06/2026It’s weird to be clearly living through exactly what was warned about with global warming and still have the concept treated as a future event or hypothetical. 21492282469
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 16/06/2026none of this is true and the place where this is going is potentially very awful 26160571249
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialLiz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 19754522131
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/06/2026Russell Vought has a plan for science, but so do we. Join the fight by taking action against the latest OMB grant funding proposal at the link in our bio, or go here 👉 zurl.co/t1x4G #StandUpForScience #Science #OMB #Vought #SaveScience 03318
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/06/2026RAJU: But what evidence is there to prove the California election is rigged? MIKE JOHNSON: Look, some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream it's impossible to prove. But I think everybody knows instinctively that something is wrong here. 5780100072486
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialThierry Ennui @heisenbergkamp.bsky.social · 08/06/2026(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this 1946731125
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialACLU @aclu.org · 07/06/2026There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports. 85110724471
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026sign at mt. kisco, new york anti-trump protest this past week: 11563691798
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/06/2026WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads 4358172535047
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialDavid Brauer @dbrauer.net · 07/06/2026Bari Weiss tried to get “60 Minutes” to make Minneapolis protestors look more violent, AFTER the Feds killed two of us. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m... (Gift link) 151419481
violetandblue.bsky.social @violetandblue.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Oh man, this is so sad. I enjoyed his work, from the coffee commercials on. Three major Buffy cast members now lost. :( 010
Reposted by @violetandblue.bsky.socialMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/06/2026"NEWS MAN CREATE HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT BY SAYING JOURNALISM SHOULD BE GOOD. MANAGEMENT FEEL UNSAFE AROUND FACTS."buff.ly“NEWS MAN BAD”: A Personnel Memo from Animal, Your Editor-In-Chief“MEETING WITH NEWS MAN GO BAD. NEWS MAN SPEAK LOUD. NEWS MAN SAY THINGS. NEWS MAN DEFEND JOURNALISM LIKE JOURNALISM CAN BE SAVED FROM ANIMAL’S LARRY ELLISON ... 1399112
