Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialGail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad report about enshittification, how and why digital products and services keep getting worse - and how we can turn the trend (open tech, enforcement, public policy++) >80 groups in Europe and US joined a call to action. www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree 084
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10/12/2025400 immigrant children were kept in custody beyond the 20 day limit. Five children were held for more than 168 days. Advocates say these kids are suffering illness and injuries and not receiving proper medical care. They’re being sent to immigration court alone The cruelty is the pointapnews.comAbout 400 immigrant children were detained longer than the recommended limit, ICE admitsLegal advocates concerned over the prolonged detention of immigrant children in federal custody are sounding the alarm before the federal court. U.S. 10209117
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.forever-wars.comTorture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator AlcatrazAmnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison 7891987310584
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/12/2025ICE detained a US citizen who was originally from Somalia. They grabbed her because they didn’t like her hijab. She says they sexually assaulted her and said things like “what are you hiding under your hijab” She was held for 24 hours. A US citizen. No one is safe. 481658767
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/11/2025Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead… 26498123660
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/11/2025This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't. It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ... 26545551662
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialJayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 27/11/2025I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important. 13888263229
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialMartin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record. @independentsage.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...observer.co.ukI’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer 8748298
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Never forget that the airlines were instrumental in reducing the Covid isolation requirements and paid time off. Why? It was hurting their profits. They were about to lose money again due to the shutdown… so the Dems caved. Medicaid & ACA will be gone to keep airlines happy. Profit over people. 16652228
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/11/2025ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America. 64276253957
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Disabled people tried to warn you. We said that the rising eugenicist sentiment that accelerated during the “back to normal” phase of Covid would eventually hurt everyone The new healthcare plan for America appears to be: Don’t get sick If you do get sick, it’s your fault If you can’t pay, die 15702269
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/11/2025When you desperately want to starve Americans: 731143485254
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialCongresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 29/10/2025The commission of fine arts was set to review Trump’s ballroom. Instead, he fired them. Because when the rules get in his way, he rewrites them. 716673
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialDr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Anyone who would so nonchalantly tear down a huge chunk of the White House would sell ANY and all top secret information to any foreign power. 538121253224
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Happening now: ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard who targeted criminals is out...replaced by Border Patrol loyalists and Bovino’s “Midway Blitz” crew. This isn’t reform. It’s a power grab. Shit just got more real. 18040211672
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/10/2025Our new health insurance premium feels more like a shakedown‼️ Thank you, @politicsgirl.bsky.social , for sharing your story. You’re right—there are millions like you. Our new premium is over $3K/month for a family of three. Could we scrape it together? Maybe. Should we have to? No. 1/2 48879864008
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialDr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I just want to make this *abundantly clear*. When “experts” say COVID-19 is mild for kids… THEY HAD, AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TEN YEARS WORTH OF INFECTIONS WILL CAUSE. 17693212
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft. 775244235086
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialStephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE! 1843310716096
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialRasta @rastasack.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Buy Guitars, not Guns! #Guns #GIfts #Guitars 2038783
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialTara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025 SEVERE: NL, NS, SK VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, PEI HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, ON, QC MODERATE: none About 1 in 95 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected. 23382200
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialKeith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 11/10/2025So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently? 399100733042
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/10/2025👇👇 7473334312740
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Yes. Collapsing all fed law enforcement into one undifferentiated, untrained, masked force. "Agents said they worried the changes would transform the FBI from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...nytimes.comF.B.I. Plans to Lower Recruiting Standards, Alarming Agents 62876073116
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialNobody @davidepike.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Boiling, but slowly www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...theguardian.com‘Boiling frog’ effect makes people oblivious to threat of climate crisis, shows studyResearch shows people’s response to binary data could drive more effective ways of communicating gravity of crisis 162
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project. 657222475181
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialMargaret Cho @margaretcho.bsky.social · 07/07/2025The hoods are off. 291149125
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Spot on. It’s happening right now…this is how it starts. 574167615580
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/07/2025The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think. 12873957610437
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialMS NOW @ms.now · 02/07/2025OPINION: Lawrence: What you're feeling is the banality of cruelty from Trump and the Republican Party At least 17 million Americans will lose healthcare coverage under Donald Trump’s budget bill. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com says this is part of Donald Trump’s worldwide campaign of cruelty.youtube.comLawrence: What you're feeling is the banality of cruelty from Trump and the Republican PartyYouTube video by MSNBC 2017466
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/06/2025The budget bill contains tens of billions to fund an army of 10,000 more ICE agents. This is a red alert moment for our democracy. 1121140216133
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialJodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Seriously depraved. If you had any doubt at all these people are Nazis, you can stop wondering. They are. Full stop. 37523
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 28/06/2025BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island. 20763202663
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialPamela Fiore... and live alone in the bee-loud glade @pfiore8.bsky.social · 26/06/2025mad relevant: 011
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 24/06/2025I'm still not over yesterday's obscene SCOTUS decision that our government can deport people to prisons in countries they're not from. How is anyone walking around going about their day? 668115702659
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialStephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 19/06/2025ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo. 1615303745720
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialStephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 14/06/2025I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks. 2056376696736
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Governor Tim Walz is holding a press conference at 9:30 CT/10:30 ET on the Minnesota Democratic lawmakers who were shotm.youtube.comState officials provide update on overnight incidents in Brooklyn Park, ChamplinYouTube video by Minnesota Department of Public Safety 12663210
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13/06/2025You guys…..when Corey says it’s bad 19934031057
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Worth considering that one reason Bluesky doesn't always feel super fun is that current events are relentlessly horrifying and bad 330196973122
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Why is ICE arresting employees but not employers? DOJ policy is to charge the most culpable people. The employers would seem to qualify. 1447301487154
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10/06/2025Watching the right now oppose the part of the second amendment that guarantees a well regulated militia under state control is… something. 993281996037
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialArt Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Donald Trump deploying the military against protesters is what happens in fascist countries. 731901437
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Tanks being moved into DC. National guard being mobilized in LA. Paramilitary thugs being unleashed across America. It's summer in America in fascism is in full bloom. 17056091740
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialJ. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 08/06/20252,000 Guard troops. But possibly not just the National Guard: Hegseth is now also threatening to activate the marines at Camp Pendleton, too - against Californians. Newsom shouldn't have just sat there, last week. It was his responsibility to prevent this. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...nytimes.comTrump Is Calling Up National Guard Troops Under a Rarely Used Law 1143
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/06/2025Experts: 548897
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialAmy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Check out what Medicaid covers in Maine. #mepolitics Source for this and other graphs: files.kff.org/attachment/f... 23729
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialpotatum @pot8um.bsky.social · 04/06/2025In 5 years, long covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness among children in the US. The only way to avoid long covid is to avoid catching covid. Masks lower your instance of illness. These are facts. Cognitive dissonance & denial are kicking people’s ass. 11523181
Reposted by @wildlandspainter.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/05/2025The Energy Department announced on Friday that it was terminating $3.7 billion in Biden-era awards to companies trying to demonstrate technologies that might one day help tackle global warming.nytimes.comEnergy Dept. Cancels $3.7 Billion for New Technologies to Lower Emissions 47178121