Elaina McCartney
@fisheyeview.bsky.social
Retired Mars rover camera operator. Lake dweller. Pro-democracy. Pro-science.
created October 11, 2024
9,115 followers 7,554 following 3,894 posts
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Purple Teacher (@peaceandteachin.bsky.social) reposted
Johnson may have thought taking an early break would cover up the Epstein files but Massie and Khanna have enough votes for their discharge petition to overrule the speaker. They are coming back with a press conference on Wednesday that includes Epstein Victims. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory apple.news
Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted
I wasn’t super convinced that something was seriously wrong with Trump until he tweeted this
Morgan J Freeman (@mjfree.bsky.social) reposted
Trump’s only focus right now is midterm voter suppression via illegal national voter ID mandate, redistricting in favor of more red house seats & removing ballot boxes and mail-in ballots. He’s terrified of being shellacked come 2026, and imprisoned come 2029.
Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) reposted
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
Ken Bardsley (@kenbar.bsky.social) reposted
Cath RN, PhD (@headdoc35.bsky.social) reposted
Mike Johnson refuses to put up a plaque honoring Capitol Police’s sacrifice on Jan. 6. Yet, Ashley Babbit’s family gets a $5M settlement & a full military honors funeral for her being part of a riotous mob trying to break into the House chamber. This country’s so fuct thanks to GOP enablers.
Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) reposted
Trump continues to pursue an imperial presidency. Here's what you need to know to be ready to follow events in court this week: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Dr. Mar 💙 (@boldnewme.bsky.social) reposted
Ballrooms and concentration camps get funded. But lifesaving brain cancer trials for children? Cut. That’s Trump’s America, neither mine nor yours and decidedly not our children’s. A heartbreaking lack of compassion and empathy. His priorities are cruel and out of touch.👇
Adam Keiper (@adamkeiper.com) reposted
NEW: "Long the envy of the world…the CDC finds itself no longer able to advocate for what its scientists believe the best available research shows….The agency has since January shed literally centuries' worth of collective experience through a combination of firings, retirements, and resignations."
Elaina McCartney (@fisheyeview.bsky.social)
Eulogies perhaps?
Dittie (@dittie.sheshed.rocks) reposted
🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS Russia suspected of jamming radar of EU leader’s plane above Bulgaria early this morning. The plane landed safely in Plovdiv airport and Von der Leyen will continue her planned tour of EU nations bordering Russia and Belarus, said the commission's spokesperson Arianna Podestà.
pissed-off-g.bsky.social (@pissed-off-g.bsky.social) reposted
A.Better.World (@skyladsy.bsky.social) reposted
bluwndzdancing (@bluwndzdancing.bsky.social) reposted
Glad these women are standing up after being ignored for way too long. According to this piece, Ro Khanna & Massie will hold a press conference later tomorrow morning. Good read today about tomorrow. #EpsteinSurvivors
Bunny 🕊️ 🦋 🌊 🔔 🌈 🌲 💙 🌊 (@pittsburghlady.bsky.social) reposted
Protest, remind them you have a duty,
Nancy B 💙🐱🐶📚💀 (@extremebeautylv.bsky.social) reposted
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) reposted
If we don’t stand up for these victims, who will ?
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) reposted
“California was on fire. It was January 2025, and Gavin Newsom was battling the spread of misinformation online. Some of the hottest flames were being stoked by our troller in chief, Donald Trump, who wrote on Truth Social….” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
Elaina McCartney (@fisheyeview.bsky.social)
Last Wednesday Trump's Cabinet members gave him a syrupy eulogy. JD is fired up.
Atul Gawande (@agawande.bsky.social) reposted
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Elaina McCartney (@fisheyeview.bsky.social)
Weak and needy Trump is going to want a do-over. www.wired.com/story/china-...
Elaina McCartney (@fisheyeview.bsky.social)
Maybe you read these in school before this fascist takeover. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
ENSIGN says all 600 children in question are still in the United States, planes are grounded and will not leave while the judge's order is in place. He said it's possible one had taken off and was returned. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) reposted
I would love to know more about that process because I’m sure it’s totally above board.
Elaina McCartney (@fisheyeview.bsky.social) reply parent
Ew
Katie Mack (@astrokatie.com) reposted
This is just the coolest thing
ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected (@adelpreore.bsky.social) reposted
It will get worse. Expect roughly 1 in 10 people to be ecologically displaced within the next 25 years. www.zurich.com/media/magazi...
Old School Gentleman (@oldschoolgentl1.bsky.social) reposted
Science is real
Elaina McCartney (@fisheyeview.bsky.social)
Shit.
Elaina McCartney (@fisheyeview.bsky.social)
The Trump administration is trafficking children. They know they are breaking the law. This is our life when a pedophile, felon and adjudicated rapist is crowned by a corrupt Supreme Court. The courts are fighting back, and it's hard to be fast enough.
JJ in DC (@jjindc.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
👉 it’s not unusual for ICE Air to send two planes to Guatemala, even on a Sunday. The real story today may be the planes that *didn’t* fly. We’ll look into that a little bit later.
JJ in DC (@jjindc.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
🛬 First of three planes heading south arrives in Guatemala City: GlobalX A320 (tail: N630VA) out of Louisiana. ✈️✈️ One Eastern 737 (N959BP) out of El Paso follows over Mexico’s Tabasco State, and another out of Dallas (N917XA-formerly JD Vance’s campaign jet) is southbound over the Gulf of Mexico 👀
Elaina McCartney (@fisheyeview.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump never talks to the real sentient press. He only talks to Kaoline's flock of geese.
Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Also HHS document indicates some facilities housing Guatemalan minors in US balked at handing them to ICE, prompting a Trump administration official to threaten criminal prosecution. She worked for DHS just a few months ago before taking the HHS job. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Colette Delawalla (@cdelawalla.bsky.social) reposted
Hi. I’m the executive director of the organization that had the honor of hosting the FEMA Katrina Declaration and I can confirm this is a lie. NICE TRY, KRISTI! @standupforscience.bsky.social @atrupar.com
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted
The LGML case came very close to being JGG redux. But just before the hearing began, the judge decided not to wait. She entered a TRO barring removal of all the children. That made all the difference: DHS already had the kids loaded on planes. One plane even took off (then turned around).
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
NEW: Since corporate media won't call for Trump's resignation, I will. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-must...
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
nowbluesky99.bsky.social (@nowbluesky99.bsky.social) reposted
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) reposted
Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here
Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social) reposted
Thank you, my friend. I am aware that another imposter is using/stealing my content and posting it on YouTube. Can I ask all of my Team Justice friends to please report the imposter YouTube channel that bears the name "Glenn Kirschner NBC." Thank you.
Elaina McCartney (@fisheyeview.bsky.social) reply parent
Is he hiding brain surgery under there?
pjhrose.bsky.social (@pjhrose.bsky.social) reposted
ICE agents should quit. In a few years, when their employment records are public (BTW this will happen), along with videos of their egregious acts, their kids will find out and ask "Dad, did you really do this to human beings?"
David Pakman (@davidpakman.bsky.social) reposted
Remember when they attacked Biden because "the American people deserve to know the truth about the President’s health?” Now after being missing for 5 days we get a picture of Trump taken with a telephoto lens from hundreds of feet away.
The Democratic Coalition (@thedemcoalition.bsky.social) reposted
This is gonna be a big week for the Epstein survivors. Tell Congress to demand answers now!
RandomWhiteGuy (@thereelrandom.bsky.social) reposted
Brilliant
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE NOTE… It’s not just Chicago standing strong. Other blue cities and governors are ready to unite against Trump’s federal invasion. I’m not an attorney, but this point seems huge: if federal agents break state or city laws, they can prosecuted. And Trump cannot pardon them.
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted
The mysterious case of disappearing Trump continues to leave more questions than answers with each “proof of life” post put out by him. Get the latest updates in this weekend's bulletin.
Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine (@papootx.bsky.social) reposted
Texas AG Partizan Attack On Beto Ken Paxton threatens to arrest Beto O'Rourke for fighting the illegal gerrymander of five congressional seats. Speech is no longer Free in Texas! open.substack.com/pub/betoorou...
Elaina McCartney (@fisheyeview.bsky.social)
What's with Trump's tall voluminous gray hat? Did RFKJr install some leeches on his head?
Fighting Liberal Texas Dem🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 (@fightingliberal.bsky.social) reposted
This is crazy and inhumane… Judge blocks flights sending hundreds of children back to Guatemala… “I have the government attempting to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend," the judge said… www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social) reposted
Trump working hard to cover-up his child rape and sex trafficking with Epstein while literally trafficking children to Guatemala. Can someone in the media please point that out. That's the real deportation block headline.
Brad Heath (@bradheath.bsky.social) reposted
A federal judge in D.C. now says DOJ has missed its deadline -- by an hour-and-a-half -- for confirming that it has removed unaccompanied children it planned to deport from the aircraft that were to carry them to Guatemala. The judge also ordered DOJ to explain why it missed the deadline.
Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) reposted
JUST IN: DOJ says all children on planes that were supposed to fly to Guatemala today have been unloaded and are being returned to custody of HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement. Drew Ensign says missed deadline earlier was bc DOJ wasn't aware. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman.bsky.social) reposted
Rudy Giuliani just set a world record in the field of Statement That Invites More Questions Than It Answers.
Philip Gourevitch (@pgourevitch.bsky.social) reposted
what a nightmare, to flee a domestic violence attack & flag down a passing car & out pops Rudy Giuliani — not that there’s any reason to believe that’s what actually happened
Say Something (@founderintel.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
FAMOUS QUOTES; "Christians, get out and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore, you know what? Four more years, it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians" Candidate Donald Trump youtu.be/gE7xoHJkgvE?...
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
"Rudy Giuliani nursed an injured crow back to life with warm milk, then drove to a place not a liquor store, and then got in a car accident. After this, an unscrupulous stranger littered the backseat of his car with scores of emptied airline-size bottles of Gilbert’s vodka. Two may have been gin."
Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) reposted
This is just sad. We’ve posted about this before. Now here is what is going down. The rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse memorial in Orlando (created to honor the 49 lives lost in the 2016 shooting) has now become the target of state enforcement.
Elaina McCartney (@fisheyeview.bsky.social) reply parent
Need to ID these thugs for the Trump Trials.
📎 Otto Von Danger (@ottovondanger.bsky.social) reposted
Its that the same pig from UC Davis that sprayed those kids? Looks like him.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
Elaina McCartney (@fisheyeview.bsky.social)
The party of "family values" is actually in the business of trafficking children. open.substack.com/pub/muellers...
Elaina McCartney (@fisheyeview.bsky.social)
If Trump is so into whiteness, how come he paints his face to look non-white?
Elaina McCartney (@fisheyeview.bsky.social)
Trump figures if Vlad can traffic children, he can too. He'll just pretend that the children he ships to Guatemala have family members waiting for them. Then it will be too late.
reneedodson.bsky.social (@reneedodson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
The Pedophile President is trafficking children!
shercg.bsky.social (@shercg.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Then the DOJ must have a spreadsheet of all the kids' names and the names/addresses in Guatemala of each of their parents and guardians, right?? Yeah ..no.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
The DOJ is telling the court that all unaccompanied children Trump is sending to Guatemala have parents or guardians in that country who have requested their children be returned to them. The plaintiffs are saying that's not at all true. You can read the back and forth here:
Carter P. Hayes (@allchronology.com) reposted
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders wants RFK Jr. under oath. He’s demanding a special Senate hearing on the CDC disaster RFK Jr. helped create. Go Bernie!
Elaina McCartney (@fisheyeview.bsky.social) reply parent
Palm trees plus that's an inflato.
MJ (@bstnboy.bsky.social) reposted
NJ has Palm trees??? MAGAts aren't the brightest. 🤣🤣🤣
💙 J. H. White (@slick-50.bsky.social) reposted
The WHITE thieves can stay, the BROWN menial labors got to go.
Maria ✨️ (@ki-mystic.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Governor Pritzker asked for Proof of Life yesterday.
Kate Starbird (@katestarbird.bsky.social) reposted
Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.
darren32359.bsky.social (@darren32359.bsky.social) reposted
Democratic Hispanic Caucus of FL Alachua County Chapter (@dhcfalachua.bsky.social) reposted
We think it’s important to highlight the many good hardworking people who are doing everything right and still being taken by ICE. Abused in facilities. This is a racist abhorrent policy. History won’t be kind to America. #OnYourSide
MikeM3 (@mikeg80.bsky.social) reposted
Madonna Lennon (@madonnalennon.bsky.social) reposted
Yolo0311 (@yolo0311.bsky.social) reposted
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
Exactly. It doesn't give him implicit authority, either.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I know that Sebastian Gorka is *always* a ridiculous buffoon, but throughout history inanimate objects have killed for more people than conscious ones.
PattyAnne (@txmeema.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I think it's his media goons posting to 'prove' he's still able to. Proof of his life so to speak. Not proof that his physical and mental faculties are still fully functioning.
Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) reposted
Maybe we can jog Tom Emmer’s memory about why he opposed common sense, bipartisan legislation designed to protect schoolchildren from mass shooters
The Editorial Board (@editorialboard.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
18. You could say voter suppression laws, but a bigger source of “voter suppression” was propaganda, directly or indirectly from rightwing media, or from anti-trans TV ads, or “false-flag efforts” funded by billionaires, to make Dem voters in swing states feel like there’s no point in voting.
The Editorial Board (@editorialboard.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
17. Harris won more votes than Trump did in 2020 (74.3 million to his 74.2 million), but she did not win as many as Joe Biden in 2020. (He won 81.3 million votes, the most ever, while Trump won 76.8 million this year, the second-most ever.) Where did seven million voters go?
earthbound420.bsky.social (@earthbound420.bsky.social) reposted
Go Shawn 💥💙
Elaina McCartney (@fisheyeview.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh good grief. And he's in the Epstein files too.
Grandpa (@grandpaws.bsky.social) reposted
Kick some nazi ass. Fucking fightt back.
Elaina McCartney (@fisheyeview.bsky.social) reply parent
If chimichurri isn't a word, I quit. @tomtitbaobab.bsky.social
Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) reposted
The Trump plan for Gaza includes the relocation of the entire population - 2 million people - a US “trusteeship” and the creation of a tourism and tech hub. Landowners get digital tokens worth $5,000 and rent subsidies. Investors are promised 4x return on $100 billion.
Mayor Karen Bass (@mayor.lacity.gov) reposted
This Administration doesn't care about the laws. They don't care about due process. All they care about is power and exerting control over cities they don't like. Los Angeles will not stand for it.
Maca Iglesias🇺🇸Thank You, President Biden🇺🇸 (@rotterdamvvg.bsky.social) reposted
Whoever did this wins the internet today.🏆
Climate Dad (@climatedad.bsky.social) reposted
The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years. CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years. But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures. Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.
Gonzo in Houston (@gonzoinhouston.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
One of Al Capone’s more memorable quotes was “Cops? I own the fucking cops!”
Tee Vixen Sutton (@vixenbite.bsky.social) reposted
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