Robyn Swirling
@rswirling.bsky.social
Abortion, abolition, those sorts of things. Free DC.
Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.
Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed
Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...
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I absolutely did not think we needed more Ted Lasso but wow is this comforting right now
One of the things that's true of both Israel and AIPAC is that they don't think they have to look good to make their case. They don't think it hurts their case to support people who hate American jews if they like Israel.
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 16h agoAIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
Nothing is more boring than who will play Bond unless they do Across the Bond-i-verse and have multiple Bonds: Bond Woman, Bond Noir, Punk Bond, Indian Bond, Bond 2099, etc. And there can be a bit where they all say "The name's Bond" at the same time and everyone laughs
Local news makes itself hard to love when it publishes the names of people arrested after abortion or pregnancy loss. Cut it the fuck out, lots of these charges are illegal and you're ruining people's lives
It’s a Klan Rally. These people only have to hear a name that their lizard brains process as sounding Arabic and hate immediately pours out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h agoLOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently
I was on a visit in Southern Virginia and stopped at a nearby winery in a county that went 2-1 for Trump in 2024 and 2-1 Winsome Sears for Virginia Gov…. I was chatting with staff and a local came up to remind one of them about the anti data center meeting coming up Indeed this has legs
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18h agoI’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.
Of all the things to admit on the internet, “I don’t know how bananas work” is one of the funniest
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · yesterdaySpoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.
Mazel Tov, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social! Abdul’s win is a victory for everyone who supports equality, justice, and a thriving future for all - for Palestinians, Israelis, our neighbors, and ourselves!
The morning after, the margin on this measure is still 39-61 -- a remarkable rebuke of conservatives' attempt to corrupt the Kansas Supreme Court into an anti-abortion, anti-public school funding, Republican-rubber-stamping body
Carolyn Fiddler@cfidd.bsky.social · 2d agoSome +other+ primaries in Michigan, and more than you maybe wanted to know about the Kansas ballot measure to upend judicial selection (which is already a little gerrymandered!) open.substack.com/pub/statehou...
Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
this man should get combat pay bc he was FIGHTING here
The president’s Marine One helicopter took off from the White House Tuesday afternoon, but air-traffic controllers hadn’t halted commercial flights at nearby Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport as required under safety protocols.
Two more GOP amendments go down to crushing defeats, both in MO. #4 would have made future ballot initiatives impossible to pass by requiring winning a majority statewide *and* in each congressional district. #5 would have eliminated the state income tax.
We've spent so much effort, for so long, to get this. And they lit so much money on fire. Imagine how much community organizing $60 million could have gotten in Michigan. But organized community wasn't the goal.
April Glick Pulito@aprilglick.bsky.social · yesterdayEl-Sayed numbers truly INSANE this is a movement
The tax immunity is the most illegal part. As outrageous as it is to give a settlement to the J6ers, it's within the DOJ's power to negotiate financial settlements on these terms. Tax immunity isn't something that can legitimately be given.
Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d agoTodd Blanche's last-minute promise won over Senators Cornyn & Tillis, but shouldn't have. The "deal" leaves Trump's tax immunity intact. It confirms what the Senators should have already known about Blanche's lack of fitness to be AG. My analysis: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Dick Durbin ... doing something ... good? Huh.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: Sen. Dick Durbin accuses Todd Blanche of lying under oath. He says Blanche told him in his office — with witnesses — that the slush fund was a mistake. In his confirmation hearing, Blanche denied that remark.
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Each of these incidents in a heavily Jewish Queens neighborhood was alarming to learn about. Now the same person has been charged in both — one of them as a hate crime — putting the speeding-vehicle death of journalist Cara Trager in a new and chilling light.
Man charged in car crash that killed Jewish journalist vandalized a Jewish business days before
A fatal car crash, an unsolved murder and attacks on Jewish establishments have put a Queens community on edge
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"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care
My favorite team name at tonight’s @dcabortionfund.bsky.social abortion trivia night is Judicial Bypass Deez Nuts (My team is No Gestation Without Representation)
We just got back from Delaney Hall and we can confirm that Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo died on Saturday while in ICE’s custody. More on what we heard today at Delaney:
So is this where the DNC admits it was wrong about Mamdani through the whole election or…?
Democrats@democrats.org · 2d agoHUGE: Under Mayor Mamdani, New York City just recorded its safest first 7 months of a year in history—and its safest July ever. In July: Major crime dropped 13% Murder dropped 32% Robberies dropped 15% Vehicle thefts dropped 25% Democratic mayors are putting public safety first.
draw three stick figures on a stock photo of ancient ruins, do we have to do everything for you?
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3d ago"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take
this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol
The Verge@theverge.com · 3d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."