Author | Lightnews

Reposted

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23h

Essentially it is this, yes.

Jason Kander posts:
“Dems: We’ll vote for a budget if you let sick people go to the doctor.
Republicans: Let us take doctors away from sick people or we’re gonna take food away from poor families.”
He ends with the hashtag #shutdown2025.

49 700 2.4K

bklynnative.bsky.social @bklynnative.bsky.social · 22h

Thank goodness his tires were pumped.

1

Reposted

Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 22h

How many heavily armed Rambo wannabe ICE agents does it take to catch a young unarmed Black man with a bicycle❓

Who knows because a dozen of them haven’t caught him yet❗️🤣

They’re calling in dozens of reinforcements and air support 😂

#ANTIFA HQ #Operation Red House @arxivofourminds.bsky.social · 2d

2 4 6

bklynnative.bsky.social @bklynnative.bsky.social · 22h

Use their salaries to fund SNAP.

3

bklynnative.bsky.social @bklynnative.bsky.social · 22h

He destroyed another art deco landmark, the building he ripped apart to build his tower in Manhattan. What is it with art deco and him?

7

Reposted

The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 1d

45 520 1.1K

bklynnative.bsky.social @bklynnative.bsky.social · 1d

Can we deport Melania?

Reposted

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 1d

We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.

dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

59 1.3K 2.8K

bklynnative.bsky.social @bklynnative.bsky.social · 2d

He looks like he’s somewhere else.

bklynnative.bsky.social @bklynnative.bsky.social · 2d

Just because they agree to do it doesn’t mean they will.

8

Reposted

Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 3d

Jimmy Kimmel mocks a geriatric Donald Trump as he wanders around aimlessly with the Prime Minister of Japan 🤣

28 310 1.4K

Reposted

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration threatened Ohio with “costly litigation” unless it bans the counting of ballots that arrive after Election Day, the state’s top election official revealed in comments to lawmakers. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Exclusive: Trump Administration Threatened Lawsuit Over Ohio Mail-In Ballot Deadline

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

86 720 1.3K

Reposted

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 2d

The White House on Tuesday fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that would have reviewed President Trump’s ballroom construction project, a White House official confirmed to NBC News.

20 80 100

bklynnative.bsky.social @bklynnative.bsky.social · 2d

Unlike

Reposted

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 2d

Too many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇

330 4.5K 11K

bklynnative.bsky.social @bklynnative.bsky.social · 2d

His biographer, Tim O’Brien, said his instincts are predatory.

Reposted

Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 2d

good headline, @newrepublic.com

Trump, 79, Wanders Off While Meeting Japanese Prime Minister

In an embarrassing moment caught on video, it’s clear Donald Trump gets confused and walks away from Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

newrepublic.com

19 200 840

Reposted

Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 2d

Right now, Republicans are working to ‘replace’ reproductive healthcare clinics with crisis pregnancy centers—claiming that the fake clinics are perfectly acceptable alternatives to the credible healthcare centers their policies are shuttering.

Here's the reality:

Imagine you’re a teenager who wants birth control pills. The problem is, your Planned Parenthood has shut down—financially devastated by Donald Trump’s budget bill. You don’t know anything about that; you just know the next closest clinic is a two-hour drive away.

You look around for an OBGYN, but the few who haven’t fled your anti-choice state are booked solid for months. Besides, you’re on your parents’ health insurance, and you’d rather keep this visit private. So you go to a ‘pregnancy clinic’ you found on Google; the staff are wearing white coats and seem legit enough, so you don’t think much about the framed picture of a Bible quote on the wall.

But when you ask about getting on the Pill, the woman there says hormones could give you cancer—and that it’s illegal for minors to get birth control without parental permission. You’re pretty sure that’s not true, but you’re 15 years old and aren’t going to argue with an adult. So you leave defeated, without contraception, hoping that your boyfriend might agree to wear a condom.

Now imagine that’s happening in every community, every day, across the country.

5 56 150

bklynnative.bsky.social @bklynnative.bsky.social · 2d

Eminent domain time

Reposted

Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 2d

Shocking video out of Chicago showed a scene reminiscent of authoritarian dictatorships: Border Patrol agents in full tactical gear dragging a 67-year-old man from his car as terrified children in costumes look on.

Horrific Video Shows Border Patrol Agents Attacking Elderly US Citizen and Breaking His Ribs

Shocking video out of Chicago showed a scene reminiscent of authoritarian dictatorships: Border Patrol agents in full tactical gear dragging a 67-year-old man from his car as terrified children in costumes look on.

open.substack.com

6 55 82

bklynnative.bsky.social @bklynnative.bsky.social · 2d

Please consider visiting the Daily Show to reach the youth regarding this situation.

Reposted

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

Patel's girlfriend performed at Penn State last weekend. A government jet arrived at State College Regional Airport, according to its FAA registration, with an address listing the FBI HQ. The plane then flew to Nashville, where his girlfriend lives.

All on the taxpayer’s dime.
trib.al/TBvPo7A

210 1.4K 2.8K

bklynnative.bsky.social @bklynnative.bsky.social · 2d

Where were you when I had economics 101? I’m embarrassed to say how long ago that was.

2

Reposted

The Weather Channel Meteorologist Alex Wallace @alexwallaceweather.bsky.social · 3d

The owner of See Jamaica (live cameras 24/7 in several places on the island) has an important message! Share away! #Hurricane #Melissa #Jamaica

4 8

Reposted

VoteVets @votevets.org · 3d

Donald Trump's sick fixation on people's personal body parts means that the PACT Act has now been rolled back, and many male veterans who get breast cancer will no longer be allowed treatment at the VA. Should they die of it, their death is on Trump and the GOP's hands. #PACTAct

19 120 200