Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/03/2026You have clearly not read the War Powers Act, Mike. Everything you've written is totally wrong. The War Powers Act SPECIFICALLY PROHIBITS military action unless: a/ there is a prior congressional authorization; or b/ it's a response to an attack against the U.S. 27460411994 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/03/2026NEWS: In 2019, the Trump DOJ took over New Mexico’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch — telling the state to stand down and turn over its findings. According to officials and newly unsealed records, the probe soon fizzled after the federal takeover. Link to NYT reporting in reply. 18956202481 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialDeborah Elizabeth Finn @deborahelizabeth.bsky.social · 01/03/2026I have no great love or respect for the national Democratic party leadership, but I can't help agreeing with this. 084 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialGod @thegodshow.com · 02/03/2026Iran was not going to attack the USA. There was no imminent threat. They will not even bother to prove one, because what are you going to do about it? 582119351 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/03/2026These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal. 240107473507 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialSteve Postman 🇨🇦 @steve1970peng.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Eisenhower 365156645861 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialGod @thegodshow.com · 02/03/2026They always have trillions of dollars for illegal wars in the Mideast, but SCOFF in your face and clutch their pearls when you ask for universal healthcare. You are all being played. 237109523123 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialAaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son. 10054689318034 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not. 301109113220 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialGet Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 16/10/2025 12050711642 0
wshurd.bsky.social @wshurd.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Now what? Now what? substack.com/inbox/post/1...substack.comShe Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election. 010 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/05/2025What happened before Mayor Baraka’s arrest needs daylight. Did masked ICE agents let him in just so they could arrest and perp walk him to send a message of fear. Because that’s what it looks like. We’re sliding into fascism—and fast. And if we don’t stop it now, we may not get another chance. 898148716238 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialSunshine, Philosophy & Atticus 🐕🦺 @philosophydj.bsky.social · 10/05/2025I agree. 🤔☮️💙🌊🐕🦺 56773230 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialMeidas Rick ❌🚫🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 09/05/2025open.substack.com/pub/johnnypa...open.substack.comEscalating Assaults on Democracy: The Arrest of Newark Mayor Ras BarakaFascism is here. 12533169 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/05/2025“These are our community members. They're our neighbors. We don't want to send our friends away. We don't care where they're from... "We would want them to stand up for us, so we're standing up. Tucson is resisting.” www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...azcentral.comLost in the Arizona desert, pregnant and alone: Guatemalan woman tells her storyErika Mateo, 35 weeks pregnant, traveled more than 2,000 miles to get to the U.S.-Mexico border. Here's what happened after she was detained in Ariz. 13477792190 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Thank you @victorerikray.bsky.social for calling this what it is. Earlier this year, I argued that media needs to use the word "Segregationist" instead of anti-DEI, or "culture wars". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything 7388108 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/05/2025In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive. In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him. Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism. 5973057510749 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025(🎁) GIFT LINK to a stunning but also inarguable New York Times piece that says in no uncertain terms that America is no longer a democracy but an autocracy.nytimes.comOpinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? 19427621221 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/05/2025Once again, Hillary was right— about everything! 19962411706 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialRep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 05/05/2025The only appropriate response to this question is an unequivocal YES. The President is bound by oath to uphold the Constitution, and by duty to ensure the laws of this country are faithfully executed—whether he likes them or not. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...nbcnews.comTrump, asked if he has to 'uphold the Constitution,' says, 'I don't know'Trump said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that he’s following lawyers’ advice as he tries to execute rapid deportations, arguing that giving immigrants due process is time-consuming. 914644 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.axios.comIsrael plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's tripTrump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say. 18863642547 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/05/2025The Washington Post bragging about Pulitzer winner Ann Telnaes, the political cartoonist who left the Post because it had turned into an anti-journalism partisan rag, is one of the most shameless examples of misplaced self-congratulations in recent memory. 19689292106 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/05/2025Pass it on… 734202628155 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialAndrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 05/05/2025Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality. 909258916856 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Scanlon: The Gulf of Mexico was so named over 500 years ago. If we want to update that name to reflect our current culture, maybe we should call it the Sea of Emoluments—you know, the place where we can board the Ship of Fools and navigate from a State of Ignorance to the Confederacy of Dunces… 737339658093 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialStephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 05/05/2025For all of these reasons and also because ableism and eugenics are a tool of fascism. Include disabled people in your movement work. 331467 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Breaking: federal district court orders North Carolina to certify state supreme court election for Democrat Allison Riggs & rejects Republican attempt to overturn election and throw out thousands of votes. Huge victory for democracy & fair elections www.courtlistener.com/docket/69489... 421780421 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialKerrBear @kerrbear.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Don’t let the arrest of a Federal Judge distract you from the announcement that ICE can enter anyone’s home without a warrant to look for migrants. 1424122215911 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...nytimes.comLeonard Zeskind, Researcher Who Foresaw Rise of White Nationalism, Dies at 75With “Blood and Politics,” he predicted that anti-immigrant ideologies would become part of mainstream American politics, and warned about downplaying the threat. 19175512073 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/04/2025Today at least two judges were arrested for acts that are not criminally illegal and a two year old U.S. citizen was kidnapped and shipped to Honduras by ICE, who called it a "deportation." Are we great again yet? 321112403738 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/04/2025A two year old baby forced onto a plane by her government—our government. That’s what Ilan Wurman and Kurt Lash and their academic collaborators and defenders have been paving the way for with their bullshit articles. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...politico.comJudge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father’s efforts to keep her in the United States. 29486843608 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 25/04/2025"They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay the longer hours the reduced benefits the end of overtime and the vanishing pension" ~George Carlin 561246177094 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/04/2025These monsters. 14439031121 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/04/2025POLITICO: “A federal judge is raising alarms that the Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with ‘no meaningful process’ even as the child’s father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep her in the country.” www.politico.com/news/2025/04... 1181978778 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025They’re just joking, right? He has no plans to violate the constitution and try and stay in office, right? Right? 136775591228 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialKatherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Women experiencing pregnancy loss are being tortured and even allowed to die in medical settings www.ossoff.senate.gov/wp-content/u...ossoff.senate.gov 1217 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/04/2025WATCH: “MCCARTHYISM ON STEROIDS.” Senator @edmarkey sounds the alarm about Trump grabbing people who are here legally and shipping them to prisons with no charges, simply for writing op-Eds or protesting Israel’s actions in Gaza — and says everyone should be standing up against it. 19714202 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialnacholib.bsky.social @nacholib.bsky.social · 24/04/2025This is him being nice 408127923139 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all. 275163975944 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Pete Hegseth installed a make-up station at the Pentagon. JD Vance loves a smoky dark eyeliner. Trump cakes on orange base till he resembles an Oompa Loompa. And these guys say LGBTQs are threatening gender norms? 391127352258 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/04/2025Remember when Trump and MAGA influencers falsely claimed the Biden Administration was doing nothing during Hurricane Helene and other storms, despite FEMA providing hundreds of millions in aid? Remember their lies about FEMA funds being diverted, which sowed distrust in recovery efforts? 1/ 13050371157 0
Reposted by @wshurd.bsky.socialStephanie Simoes @critikid.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Interested in more critical thinking content? Sign up for Critikid's newsletter! 111 0