SootyFoxSparrow
@sootyfoxsparrow.bsky.social
Art, birds birds birds, books, DEMOCRACY, listening to people that are smarter than me.
brought to you by the people who ended the brief and effective ‘they’re so weird’ moment last time around and had walz be nice to vance in the debate
Salome@salome-gongadze.bsky.social · 8h agowhat is it with ex obama people and misreading the room lol? this whole thing sparked a news cycle and endless earned media, feels like a slam dunk to me
This is, bar none, the stupidest fuckung thing I’ve ever heard. And the idea that there’s nobody in the chain of command - civilian or military - with enough courage to say so is a disgrace.
Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences
The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.
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Just insanely Orwellian. People here lawfully have now been declared unlawful by policy fiat so they can be treated like criminals & subject to intrusive, humiliating surveillance.
Ohio Capital Journal@ohiocapitaljournal.com · 5d agoHaitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/14/h...
ICE has started its crackdown in Springfield, Ohio -- the town where JD Vance accused Haitians of eating dogs and cats. Residents reported "a caravan of vehicles" conducting raids. One unnamed neighbor "praised all the Haitians who live around him." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...
Springfield Haitians in ICE custody following immigration enforcement
Several Haitians from Springfield are in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in the Butler County Jail following an apparent increase in enforcement after the official end of Temporary Protect...
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The end of TPS was only finalized a few days ago and it is only now starting to break as they are losing their jobs and being detained and feeling the heft of this wholly fucking evitable human tragedy that some of the worst people on the planet have brought upon them
Because our mayors are Black, Chicago and Baltimore don’t get credit for significantly reducing crime numbers. Our cities are still treated as war zones by the media, because we can’t have any other narrative for high-density Black populace cities. My city is beautiful - stay out if you’re scared.
Helen @helenbennett.bsky.social Have set the themes for #BirdOfTheDay #DownyFeathers - any bird showing soft, fluffy down feathers. Here we have a newly hatched Pied-billed Grebe chick nestled up next to its parent on the nest. Its siblings are tucked under the adults wings. #birds
Wasting billions of our taxpayer money in order to make our electric bills higher? Well, that's just the proven brilliance of the Businessman President™ folks.
Rep. Mike Levin@levin.house.gov · 2w ago$4 BILLION. That’s how much the Trump Administration has now spent paying companies to cancel offshore wind projects that would have lowered your electric bill. Yes, you heard that right: they are PAYING to keep more energy off the grid and your bills higher.
This is a terrific response, but they can go even further -- the weak attack on "communism" gives Democrats a great opening to call out Trump's massive cronyism and corruption.
laura olin@lauraolin.bsky.social · 2w agoAbdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
I love thrashers. They just look so bitter and ready to fuck shit up on a moment's notice. Like if a grackle was more than just squawk. 🪶
We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Coming Food-Stamp Crisis
A looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.
theatlantic.com
"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
Absolutely incredible #PileatedWoodpecker action at the park yesterday. Papa is teaching baby how to find grubs and insects in the tree. #Birdsky @gettoknownature.bsky.social
I’ve been working with states over the last year trying to prevent massive culling of the SMAP rolls to prevent payment error rates, talking with SNAP directors and case workers. It’s bleak, and I’ve cried a lot.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4w agoI don’t talk about real life on Main but my comment requires credentialing: i was at food banks 4x times last month, trying to support etc. Food insecurity is off the charts & I just don’t see anything on the horizon to help people. It’s terrifying. I just come home and sulk and cry and dissociate.
Kentucky, I have some major political news. Lt. Governor Jaqueline Coleman has endorsed our campaign for U.S. Senate!
I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.
Opinion | ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.
Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics.
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This is total insanity. Words fail to explain how anyone let alone a plurality of voters thought giving an obviously demented person control of the most powerful government in the world was a good idea. We will be lucky to come out the other side of this alive.
SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply.
suddenly recalling that there was a spike of hate crimes against Jehovah's Witnesses after the Supreme Court ruled in 1940 that schools could expel Witness kids who refused to pledge allegiance to the flag anyway 2 weeks ago the Court condemned Haitians to death ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mulli...
The Republican Justices Are Pretending They’ve Never Heard Donald Trump Speak
No comment about “shithole countries” is too racist for this Supreme Court to decide that it might be legally significant.
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Lynn Tramonte@lynntramonte.bsky.social · last mo.Springfield, OH hate crime. Haitian father shot driving his kids to church. "They said he was going to give someone a ride and 'they just shot him. I don’t know why.'" Consequences of hate from our gov't. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/crime/... @gregsargent.bsky.social @jimswift.bsky.social
He lied about every single thing. Everyday. He ran knowing full well who he is while presenting himself as someone else (poorly). He wasted everyone’s time & money & shattered people’s credibility. He used the political process as a vanity project to the detriment of the folks he wanted to represent
One amazing thing about Black-crowned Night Herons is that they use tools to fish! I captured this heron dangling this filament in the water. 🎣🎣🎣 #Herons #CentralPark #birding
It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo ago“.. He also reported earning $636 million in royalties from Celebration Coins.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
