Larisa LaBrant (@larisa-labrant.bsky.social) reposted
Hey @colorado.gov we need this here in Colorado.
Iowa refugee and modern day serf living in Bizzaro America fighting encroaching MAGA fascism, racism, and hate against women and LBTQIA+. Tired of getting doxed so no real smile (sorry!). #FuckTrump
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view profile on Bluesky Larisa LaBrant (@larisa-labrant.bsky.social) reposted
Hey @colorado.gov we need this here in Colorado.
Pete Buttigieg (@petebuttigieg.bsky.social) reposted
On #LaborDay, we recognize the workers who make so much of our everyday lives possible. And every day, we should have American workers' back by supporting their organized efforts to secure higher wages, good benefits, and safe & dignified workplaces.
Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) reposted
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
DESCRIPTION: self-described alpha male, wearing body armor, assault rifle, and wraparound sunglasses because he’s “afraid of nothing.”
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...
Democracy Now! (@democracynow.org) reposted
"I want my taxes to help children, not kill them." https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/1/ms_rachel_on_her_gaza_advocacy
Madgem Laments (@madgemlaments.bsky.social) reply parent
Every day
Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 (@minibubbly.bsky.social) reposted
Ancient civilization collapsed thousands of years ago due to Climate Change www.theweathernetwork.com/en/video/IA0...
Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) reposted
If all the documents were released, all the records, all the interviews, if every shred of paper written on the Epstein sex trafficking operation were released tomorrow, there would still be horrific things we’ll never know. Think about that.
Char (@kiwichar.bsky.social) reposted
Odd how 8% & 5% of the nation gained 100% control of our nationwide government & now there is radio silence about those same groups pushing lunatics & morons forward to carefully steer the disengaged forward into the fire. 🤷♀️🔥 #nzpol #LGNZ
Madgem Laments (@madgemlaments.bsky.social) reply parent
WTAF 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 “Child prostitute” because we are never allowed to hold the abusers accountable!
Madgem Laments (@madgemlaments.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh I am so glad I missed that 🤬 Good on Molly pushing back!
Mistress Matisse (@mistressmatisse.bsky.social) reposted
Hey @mollyjongfast.bsky.social thank you for pushing back on misogynistic bullshit other guests on MSNBC The Weekend were spewing about the victims of Jeffrey Epstein being somehow UNFIT to testify in court because they were PAID for SEX. They were all WRONG, and you were the only one to call it out
Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger.bsky.social) reposted
I'm going on record. You don't cover up dead. He's not dead. However, he's sick as shit. That you can cover up for a bit. But just a bit. Mostly I hope he feels like absolute shit and is very scared of death. That I can work with.
The Daily Tism (@thedailytism.com) reposted
WE’RE HIRING! Comedy writers with lived experience of autism, send us your funniest stuff! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is here: www.patreon.com/posts/137768...
Madgem Laments (@madgemlaments.bsky.social) reply parent
Get out today and let them know! #WorkersOverBillionaires #LaborDay2025
Bluebonnet82 (@txbluebonnet82.bsky.social) reposted
RFK Jr. kept a journal describing his multiple affairs with other women where his wife found it and soon after she killed herself. Caroline Kennedy wrote a public letter about RFK, Jr., the heroin addict, introducing drugs to his younger cousins and siblings (his younger brother overdosed and died)
Otto English (@ottoenglish.bsky.social) reposted
Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it. This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.
Madgem Laments (@madgemlaments.bsky.social) reply parent
So many powerful people turned their heads and let him fester for decades. Also most jel. VV was the place to be!
Kelly 🦋🦋86 47🦋🦋 (@kelofchgo.bsky.social) reposted
"What will be explosive is the September 3rd press conference that both of us are having with ten Epstein victims, many who have never spoken out before," #Epstein #Pinks www.rawstory.com/epstein-vict...
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
Char (@kiwichar.bsky.social) reposted
Well this is a sentence I wasn’t expecting to read on a Monday morning. Looks like breakfast will be repeating itself for lunch 🤢🤮🤣 “They seem like the type who’d set KPIs for sex.” (Ew & yes) #OneTermGovernment #DeadDuckDomeBoy #nzpol #Election2026 #Aotearoa #NZ www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
Char (@kiwichar.bsky.social) reposted
Local Elections: I cannot stress enough how important it is to “Know Your Candidates”…& which party has been quietly working to entrench their destructive neoliberal ideology across our political landscape. #LocalElectionsNZ #VoteYESToMāoriWards #nzpol #TangataTiriti www.actlocal.nz/candidates
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
“Jobs disappear and the markets cheer.” On Labor Day 30 years ago, I issued a warning the growing divide between workers and the super-rich. Watch. youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw
Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🖇️ (@buca.bsky.social) reposted
Margaret Atwood is a national treasure! 🍁
The New Yorker (@newyorker.com) reposted
“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.
davidonstrike (@davidonstrike.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Putin already owns Musk and Theil, who are the joint owners of Vance. Ipso facto, Putin already has the deed to Vance.
Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted
COVID vaccine update: Pharmacies in these states won't give you a shot unless you have a prescription. CVS: CO, FL, GA, KY, LA , ME, NY, NC, PA, UT, VA, WV, DC Walgreens: AZ, CO, GA, IN, LA, MO, MT, NM, NY, OR, SC, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI CVS is not yet offering COVID shots at all in MA, NV, and MN.
ProPublica (@propublica.org) reposted
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit.
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) reposted
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out it’s already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
Madgem Laments (@madgemlaments.bsky.social) reply parent
Have you seen Balderdash and Piffle? VC (before the M) investigating word origins 😍
Bayly Hoehne (@baylyhoehne.bsky.social) reposted
Voters of Tomorrow is eager to take back the house next year by putting organizers on college campus in flippable Congressional seats. But, we're still just $840 away from our August fundraising goal. Can you chip in to help us turn Congress blue? secure.actblue.com/donate/votho...
CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted
🚨Chicago’s Mayor Johnson speaks out against federal officials entering the city. He outlines what local LEO’s will and will not do in his signed EO. Feds are encouraged to identify themselves and not to mask their faces. 1/2
Amused muse 🦋 (@devikk.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Come on Americans this is what’s. planned for the UK tomorrow! Let’s bring peaceful protest to every city in every state in the United States. Democracy is on the docket across the globe. 🥳🇺🇸🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🤺🤺🤺🤺🔥🆘🆘🆘
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Why has Trump been attacking unions and workers’ rights? He wants working people to feel helpless and divided. Trump and his billionaire backers realize that the collective power of a unified labor movement outweighs their own power. Know this: Workers outnumber the oligarchs.
Morgan Fairchild (@morgfair.bsky.social) reposted
'Something is very wrong': Ex-Trump insider flags 'alarming' news about president's health www.rawstory.com/trump-someth...
cindys636363.bsky.social (@cindys636363.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
MISSOURI IS FIGHTING BACK! @mojwjva.bsky.social @moworkers.org
Guardrails of Democracy (@demguardrails.bsky.social) reposted
🧵 1/3 AP News has reported it-hours after Abbott signed the TX new map into law, Mike Kehoe called a special session to redraw Missouri’s U.S. House districts Kehoe scheduled it to begin Sept. 3 Below is a line up of targets & moves red states can make & relevant articles in the 🧵
Erin Fogg (@criminalerin.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
By state law if my LLC says the local district isn't using their buildings enough for me, the CEO of a for-profit charter school, I can buy them for $1 each That's right! One American dollar buck! www.wfyi.org/news/article...
Adam Rogers (@jetjocko.bsky.social) reposted
I thought it was a fashy tenet that you could get citizenship through military service.
Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) reposted
M-orons A-re G-overning A-merica shorturl.at/Y5yPL
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted
Unafraid to speak truth to power, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics Dr. Susan Kressly joins @vinguptamd.bsky.social on Meidas Health for a powerful discussion on truth, conviction, and her deep commitment to ensuring optimal childhood health for the nation amid chaos at the CDC.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
TRUMP just now: “NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE” Are you guys buying this? Because I’m not. His account has posted over a dozen times in the last hour. Someone’s overcompensating for him. What are they hiding? We deserve proof of health, not just a grainy photo of a man looking like a stroke victim.
CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted
🚨🚨🚨 This video is just over an hour old now. The judge’s order to halt of the deportation of 600 children to Guatemala was upheld - for now! The person who made this video was threatened. Details on the following post.
ChonginTommy (@chongintommy1.bsky.social) reposted
🗽We all know that there's no blame on you brave men and women in uniform! We, who've served know you have to go where they tell you to go. But! You do not have to do what they are "inevitably" going to be ordering you to do! There's a reason you don't feel right about it! "THAT BEING THE CASE"👇
MI6 - Home of James Bond (@mi6hq.bsky.social) reposted
What is your most controversial James Bond opinion? (These may be discussed in a future podcast)
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted reply parent
📌 City department of law are directed to pursue every legal mechanism, to resist unconstitutional efforts & hold them accountable 📌 Demands Trump stand down from deploying the military in Chicago 📌 Chicago PD not to wear masks or collaborate with ICE on patrols, arrests, or immigration enforcement
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
I stand with Chicago. I stand with Mayor Johnson. 🚨 NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trump’s federal invasion and occupation of the city. Details in 🧵
welladriansays.bsky.social (@welladriansays.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
youtu.be/Fcecvnlgu8E
Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted
Call to Action: Mass protest at Washington D.C. on November 5th. Plan accordingly. #3E #RefuseFascism
SABUCH (@sabuch.bsky.social) reposted
Vets in DC protesting against this authoritarian regime. This gentleman came from Kentucky to let this #PedoKing who’s trying take over our democracy know we are resisting his takeover. #WeAreTheResistance #3E youtube.com/shorts/uMQ3n...
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...
S.V. Dáte (@svdate.bsky.social) reposted
NEW -- Exactly 10 days after taking the oath early this year, Donald Trump nearly drowned dozens, potentially hundreds, of his own citizens in California’s Central Valley. Why? Because he is one of the most ignorant people you will ever meet. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
texastwinkie.bsky.social (@texastwinkie.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Dallas today. Now you know why TX GOP-Fascist party pushed through splitting up these Dem congressional districts.
Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted
Alright folks, here we go! Ask me anything, 30ish mins, gogo!
Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted
I wasn’t super convinced that something was seriously wrong with Trump until he tweeted this
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
The media needs to stop calling this an “immigration crackdown.” That’s not what Trump’s doing. He’s using the military and ICE to invade cities and occupy them. Trump is itching for a fight, and he wants it with blue-city mayors and blue-state governors. The good news: they’re not backing down.
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) reposted
I’ve heard wall streeters are buying up the tariff refund rights from importers as speculative investments.
Madgem Laments (@madgemlaments.bsky.social) reply parent
Our politicians were corrupted by easy money (Citizens United, insider trading), compromised by deviants, blackmailed by Putin (and mossad?), and manipulated by broligarchs and Murdoch. None of these pitfalls are unique to America. The whole world needs to keep #ElbowsUp
Philip Gourevitch (@pgourevitch.bsky.social) reposted
Bleak: www.wsj.com/world/europe...
🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 (@msgrumpybunny.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
The real problem isn’t immigrants. Recommending some documentaries about the abuse of workers, where they are essentially held captive, underpaid or not paid at all and are under the constant threat of deportation— Trafficked in America (2018), Food Chains (2014), and The Harvest/La Cosecha (2011)
Imani Gandy (@angryblacklady.bsky.social) reposted
Listen if Giuliani, Clinton, and Trump make the rule of three, I'm ok with it.
Jason S (@jasonswritings.bsky.social) reposted
The media could do a huge story on how the trump administration was just stopped from doing the same thing they got in trouble for multiple times by deporting 600 children without any due process. This story could even move the needle. They could do this. If they wanted to.
Cheri Jacobus (@cherijacobus.bsky.social) reposted
Perhaps Putin is ready to start slowly releasing the kompromat triggering aTrump resignation for health reasons to keep the dirt under wraps: From a friend: "Financial records showing illicit transactions connected to accounts either owned by Trump or clearly affiliated with his name.
John B Des Moines (@john-b-des-moines.bsky.social) reposted
All built on the dead, broken bodies of the Palestinian people. This disgusts me beyond anything else this criminal, cruel, chaotic administration has done. It is ethnic cleansing and genocide for profit. I can't condemn this proposal enough. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Kenny Akers (@keneakers.bsky.social) reposted
I think I have my background situation figured out………..
Rabbi Jill Zimmerman (@rabbijill.bsky.social) reposted
They loaded up those planes with children - some as young as 10. I don’t believe they had a safe place to go in Guatemala. And the government did not care. This admin is the least compassionate of any in my lifetime.
amanda moore 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) reposted
Group of HSI agents walking around Shaw, shining flashlights in cars.
Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 (@theswprincess.bsky.social) reposted
"They're takin' our jobs!" has NEVER been true. It's a lie to make US-born people resent immigrants and get them to support harsh, cruel, anti-immigrant measures. No US-born citizens are rushing to fill the jobs undocumented people were doing.
Madgem Laments (@madgemlaments.bsky.social)
#UnionStrong! #LaborDay2025
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
If you prefer to read this thread on our site, here’s the link: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...
Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) reposted
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
Katie Porter’s White Board (@ohdangitevie.bsky.social) reposted
What’s with that weird fucking hat?
Madgem Laments (@madgemlaments.bsky.social) reply parent
NFW! Seriously? The typewriter song made me abuse my grandpas old underwood. Needed a sledgehammer to move those keys 🔨
Madgem Laments (@madgemlaments.bsky.social) reply parent
A welcome outlet at just the right time.
Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist (@drandrealove.bsky.social) reposted
What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
Madgem Laments (@madgemlaments.bsky.social) reply parent
They want to cannibalize our carcasses. 🤬
Cassandra 🏴🇪🇺🌐 (@troybairn.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
”Next on the list is John Armitage, a hedge fund manager reported to have interests worth more than $500m in United Health – the largest healthcare insurer in the US. Armitage has bankrolled Streeting, including for “staffing costs”, to the tune of £95,000 since 2022.”
Madgem Laments (@madgemlaments.bsky.social) reply parent
No America is not the world. TFG As for “world” series I fucking hate sports so 🥱 But as I said, the broligarchs are international and they salivate over profits to be had by gutting NHS etc.
Madgem Laments (@madgemlaments.bsky.social) reply parent
If so then we must evict them too. Weed some out in midterms, remove the weak and compromised from leadership (Schumer and Jeffries).
Madgem Laments (@madgemlaments.bsky.social) reply parent
Take back what they stole ($$$ and property) to pay for #TheGreatUndo
Steve Hill 🏴☠️📚 (@stevehillwriter.com) reposted
When this national nightmare is finally over, no pardons. No “This is necessary to heal the country.” Public trials. Jail time. We need to expose, convict & punish every corrupt & complicit one of them.
Democratic Activists (@democratswin.bsky.social) reposted
“Stop Lying”: Voters Erupt at GOP Lawmaker’s Shocking Claim on Economy Iowa State Representative Ashley Hinson’s comments were met with boos and jeers.
VivianOfTheSierras (@vivianofthesierras.bsky.social) reposted
🌈 Great fashion choice for Floridians! Walk those side walks! shop.hrc.org/rainbow-bloc...
𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐉.𝐒. 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐚 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ¬1ɩ (@ajsdecepida.bsky.social) reposted
{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿}: Trump is converting the Guard into a domestic police arm —𝘋.𝘊. 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘢 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦 ❝𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘬-𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯❞ 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵— with Stephen Miller helming recruitment. Legal footing looks shaky; the aim is intimidation. 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝑮𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒅-𝒐𝒏-𝑮𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒔. 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social) reposted
YES! Thank you... Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". - seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
It isn't just me. (@shirleyanng.bsky.social) reposted
👏👏👏✊️
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.