This is all exactly right

Will Harris@sandwichpick.bsky.social · 14h ago

This is what news pundit shows should be like

Stephen Miller is the Chief of Staff. Masked secret police are terrorizing minority communities and murdering people in the street. The military is committing extrajudicial executions on the high seas. The president is impounding appropriated money. not saying authoritarianism is malpractice

If we want MAGA to be the last breath of the confederacy, then we need to ensure that we see through Reconstruction completely this time around.

Imagine a 2028 presidential election where every vote counts equally, not just the margin in a few swing states. The Electoral College props up white supremacy. It makes us vulnerable to authoritarians (J6), biased judges (2000), and foreign influence campaigns (2016). Ending it is possible now:

America finally has the votes to end the Electoral College

After more than 200 years, the midterm results could change how we pick presidents.

motherjones.com

Next speaker of the house needs this fucking energy

Maria Thaldore 🔅🔆☀️♒🚩@mariathaldore.bsky.social · last wk.

Anyone know where I can see current results for LA races? LA Times and the LAist are behind pay walls/ sign up logins.

Donald, when the walls fell

People have died from lesser heartbreak than the repudiation of an entire nation

Mark our fucking word

Waldo Jaquith@waldo.net · last wk.

If congressional Democrats do not vigorously pursue justice against the criminal syndicate that runs the United States, we will come for them in 2028 as surely as we came for Republicans in 2026.

Double pay increases for librarians and a glut of library hiring!

55 SEATS 55 IMPEACHMENTS 55 SUPREME COURT JUSTICES 55 BURGERS 55 FRIES 55 TACOS 55 PIES 55 COKES

What happens to these criminals will determine whether, at some point in the near future, some not-huge number of years down the line, this country is a liberal democracy or else has a consolidated authoritarian regime and/or collapses into civil conflict. That's not hyperbole, it's what's at stake.

We MUST normalize the conversation around arresting Trump, the GOP, and Oligarch media outlets for treason and sedition. Bring that conversation everywhere you can because that's the rational and appropriate response for all the insanity of the last decade. We need it.

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

Truthout@truthout.org · last mo.

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

A fundamental task indeed

Kelly Barnhill@kellybarnhill.bsky.social · last mo.

Reading to children isn't a "sometimes" activity. It's every day. It's multiple times a day. It is a fundamental task of parenting. The fact that there is not one, but apparently many tech buffoons trying to wriggle their way out of this basic responsibility is frankly enraging. Their poor kids.

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

🚨 BREAKING

John Moe@johnmoe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The news business moves fast and you don’t want to get left behind. That’s why I had to lay off the entire staff of Here Are The News. But I’ve hired them all for my new venture, America News Hey. We hope to add video or maybe blogs. Check out our logo and slogan!

A sundowning old man, addicted to AI slop, surrounded by supplicants and apparatchiks, with control over the US nuclear arsenal.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

A string of absolutely bonkers Truth Social posts from Trump in the span of about 10 minutes

If you've cared for loved ones with dementia, you will recognize this disinhibition phase that we are currently witnessing with the fascist in chief. And much like what sometimes happens in families, there seems to be a deep sense of denial/averting the gaze happening across the country.

I remain convinced there’s little else more impactful in this life than kidlit

Garry@thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

It's hard to fathom that anyone thinks ICE can be reformed or retrained. ICE needs to be dismantled and then cauterized so it can't grow back. #AbolishICE

Chris⚖️Justice@chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 3mo ago

💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.

Beginning my research seminar, as always, with Lynn Hunt's essay How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around). Should be mandatory reading in light of the impact of AI. www.historians.org/perspectives...

OH WAIT

I think a lot of adults could learn from picture books.

Me, since 2016

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I don’t know how much more of this horseshit I can take

Y'all don't want teens to go to the beach, ride the bus, or go to the mall. But y'all also don't want them staying home and playing video games or being on their phones or social media. So what do y'all expect teens to do? Sit silently and stare at the wall? Come the fuck on.

*muttering* I don't think we should have a Gestapo

Literally abolish ICE. We don’t need them. We never did. They are in fact an anathema to a free and democratic society. Abolish ICE

I don't think the government of a democracy should have masked secret police that roam the country murdering people, with their actions treated as totally outside the law.