Hey residents of Los Angeles and San Diego, are we listening? Do we pay federal taxes for this level of representation? Are your state reps saving you from the sacrificial altar of this illegal war? U.S. residents outside those named cities- are you willing to let this criminal admin kill us all?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

10/1/26 Chicagoland ICE activity update: Rapid responders reporting ICE in multiple Chicago neighborhoods and suburbs today, with detainments reported in Lakemoor and Joliet. ICE vehicles also seen today outside Cook County courthouses in Maywood and Chicago, incl. at the Domestic Violence court.

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this weekend an armed man stormed into a tent where the Democratic candidate for the governor of Ohio was speaking he shoved people down to get closer, was stopped by security he had two guns and a taser it was in the news for like six hours that's the country the US has become

and make no mistake that cults don't always look like Charles Manson. sometimes it looks like convincing young men they're unloveable and its women's fault. or convincing women that being really skinny is the only way to be attractive. sometimes like refusing vaccines. or hating trans people

When laws are treated not as the bedrock of our security and prosperity but as mere obstacles to the Greater Goal.

Charles Ornstein@charlesornstein.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is wild. In late 2025, federal and state officials kept a Mexican woman in custody for almost a month by repeatedly rebooking her just before her 72-hour time limit ran out. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

NEW: Evidence filed in a Colorado case reveals how ICE officers are arresting people without a warrant, which is illegal unless ICE determines the person is a flight risk. A man was dragged from his car after ICE showed him a warrant for someone else and refused to check his ID to see his identity.

Oof. This may still bring a smile, if somber

Donkey Haute@donkeyhaute.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In lighthearted news… Updated the wall calendar to add a little joy to the month. Thought somewhere in the crowd, another Tim Curry or Rocky Horror enjoyer may like this too.

Rocket 💙

I want my tax dollars to give the people of Gary, Indiana their power back instead of being used to murder and imprison children.

After Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers shot and detained Carlos Ricardo Parias last October, the Los Angeles-based journalist will cross 300 days in ICE detention on Monday.

ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.

With the case of Carlitos Ricardo Parias, the U.S. has broken its own record for holding a journalist in custody.

theintercept.com

1. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14 and has not been in the Senate for two months. But he's continued to get paid his salary of 174K/year. Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times.

I had given her some flowers too so she wouldn’t haunt me

🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱@oddoblivion.bsky.social · 2y ago

Decided to paint outside in a storm to see what would happen

The most inconvenient truth in the world right now is that trans people are in the early-to-middle stages of the *fourth* historical attempt to genocide our entire community.

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈@danifroom.bsky.social · 5mo ago

When I hear "you have to support Democrats no matter what", I think of the trans people wiped out by the Inquisition while politicians stood by, I think of the trans people wiped out by the Nazis while politicians stood by, I think of the trans people wiped out by AIDS while politicians stood by.

In lighthearted news… Updated the wall calendar to add a little joy to the month. Thought somewhere in the crowd, another Tim Curry or Rocky Horror enjoyer may like this too.

The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

ICE’s Camp East Montana is a hellhole. It’s been open less than a year and three people have died there, including the first-ever homicide in ICE detention (allegedly at the hands of guards). Both DHS and Congressional watchdogs have documented extensive problems. Shut it down!

Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 3mo ago

Ninety percent of the 71 detainees contacted in the concentration camp on Fort Bliss say they were beaten by guards are witnessed beatings, in addition to inedible meals and lack of access to medication or lawyers.

How many people will have died in the concentration camps before people act? How much innocent blood will be spilled before we tear it down? How many before he is removed from office?

Please for the love of G-d stop ranking causes. Stop creating hierarchies of marginalized people. Because "x group is more important than y group" just means "sorry, x group has to be willing to die until we get to them."

I’m now receiving AI voice bot calls from a temp agency. It is, as far as I can tell, recordings of a real person, messily stitched together to attempt a conversation. I applied for a job with QPS over 14 months ago. Now they’re spamming me with this fishing trash. I caught the bot this time…

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

This is really worth your time to read. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/dem...

Demise of Voting Rights Act already hurting minority voters across the country

The immediate wave of filings and court orders offers a stark preview of what’s to come as the heart of the VRA becomes almost impossible to enforce and the consequences unravel ahead of the 2026 elec...

democracydocket.com

Baltimore checking in 🔥

I was bummed about the recent surge of bot accounts and boomer AI slop posts here making bluesky feel like facebook. Then I realized… this is a new opportunity to find and like people who are vocal against generative AI! And an opportunity to block slop pushers! Thank you all. Fuck gen AI.

random photo study wip cos i got nothin else

Today, a boomer joked that since I don’t like my job, I must not want to work. I objected to their assertion, stating that i like working, yet i loathe having to ‘earn a living’. An out of touch millennial chimed in with, “You don’t need to. Just get a mortgage and make passive income.”

I wish everyone contributed more to the social aspect of political awareness. Not just during election time. So many want to ignore it to “keep the good feelings” or “not bring down the vibe”. But the vibe will be gone if all of our rights are taken away. We all have to care.

I paid $126 from my last paycheck to the feds. They bombed children, bought warehouses to convert to concentration camps, fielded more masked armed thugs, and subsidized data centers. I did not get healthcare coverage, cheaper utilities or groceries or gasoline. They did not represent me.