flyingdonut.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

submitted 23 hours ago • 442 comments

This photo. ICE is a gang.

submitted 7 hours ago • 627 comments

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1078 comments

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2102 comments

For the third time since I took office, we're funding above the required pension payment — creating a $75M reserve fund for expected costs of adjusting to the Social Security Wage Base. With this fix in effect, we’re protecting taxpayers and state workers from future shortfalls

submitted 23 hours ago • 82 comments

For Dems to even consider a comeback for Cuomo after his serial predation of women, is for Dems to also say that EVERYTHING they claim to believe about equality and women’s rights to be safe in the workplace was bullshit. Do they even get the level of hypocrisy?

submitted 1 day ago • 246 comments

The Illinois General Assembly and I are working to make life more affordable for working families. Unlike the Trump administration, we're balancing a budget while maintaining programs our people rely on — and we're investing in our children and building them a brighter future.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Thanks, Las Vegas!

submitted 1 day ago • 150 comments

"The days of moral victories are over" is a killer quote.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Great line here: "Considered individually, defendants’ legal arguments are meritless. Considered in the aggregate, they are terrifying."

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 2 days ago • 395 comments

Before the cops in LA started escalating things for no reason it was funny how my main takeaway was how much people were looking out for each other in really helpful ways. I’ve never seen so many people with carts giving away free water, sunscreen, snacks, and masks to total strangers.

submitted 2 days ago • 327 comments

The beautiful Ecuador Poison Frog (Ameerega bilinguis) is usually found hopping around on the forest floor, except when it's getting ready to sleep. It spends the night on leaves, usually in very close proximity to bullet ant nests. I am not sure if that's intentional or random, just my observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Took to the streets of St. Paul this morning against the backdrop of the unspeakable tragedy that unfolded in Minnesota today. #NoKings

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Small town Viroqua WI here. People are pissed everywhere and coverage needs to show that. #NoKings

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

submitted 3 days ago • 679 comments

#nokings #savannah And here’s a lady getting arrested for wearing a medical mask

submitted 3 days ago • 1206 comments

Countries with women leaders tend to be better run, but not because women are better leaders. Women can be trash too. Countries with women leaders tend to be better run, because if your country is too sexist to elect women about 1/2 the time, then it's not selecting leaders on talent.🤷🏿‍♂️

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

submitted 4 days ago • 287 comments

President Trump signed a Congressional Review Act resolution Thursday that revokes California’s authority to set tailpipe emissions standards, upending policy in California and 17 other states that tie their standards to that of the Golden State ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/06/12/r...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

Trump's regime has now committed at least 16 of King George III's 27 offenses specified in the Declaration of Independence. Armed occupation of a city/state over its government's supposed ideology: "He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us."

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

“There’s no recording allowed out here.” I just grabbed this uncredited off Facebook. Does anyone know who recorded it? I want to make sure they get proper credit.

submitted 5 days ago • 921 comments

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - Bent into Submission? Domestic Investors and Populist Governments - cup.org/4l2b2l5 - Alison L. Johnston & @excubs.bsky.social #FirstView

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Alison Johnston and I have a new open access article out arguing that pressure from domestic rather than foreign bondholders is most effective in forcing populist governments to rein in their economic policies. Our case studies are Italy and Hungary, but there are clear lessons for the USA.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)

submitted 5 days ago • 1624 comments

The National Guard sleeping quarters in Los Angeles, organised by Hegseth and Trump. American soldiers had better living conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan than when deployed to America's own cities.

submitted 8 days ago • 56 comments

President Trump called for California Gov. Gavin Newsom to be arrested Monday and reportedly dispatched Marines to Los Angeles, shortly after Trump’s mobilization of California National Guard troops to quell protests without the governor’s consent. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/06/09/r...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

LOS ANGELES: Stay off the streets tonight. Stay home. Stay safe. Tom Homan says the National Guard might be deployed — and I’m telling you, he wants violence. They’re baiting us to react so they can escalate. Rule #1: Never protest at night. That’s when the worst happens—under cover of darkness.

submitted 10 days ago • 381 comments

Better safe than sorry… 🚨Heavy ICE Presence Expected in Los Angeles on Sunday. A bilingual warning is being shared with the community — including areas to avoid. Stay alert. Protect each other. Know your rights.

submitted 10 days ago • 261 comments

I’m in front of the Metropolitan Detention Center where protesters are gathering for night two. Horman is threatening to send in the National Guard

submitted 10 days ago • 44 comments

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

submitted 9 days ago • 633 comments

It’s provocation. LA didn’t ask for the National Guard. We don’t need it, and won’t be safer because of it. Stay home, everyone.

submitted 9 days ago • 271 comments

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

submitted 10 days ago • 3002 comments

“Such rapid melt rates are not normal.” Flash flood warnings across parts of the U.S. after an unusually warm spring. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

“They had things like the U.S. Digital Service and 18F, the internal consultancy ... . They had that expertise in house, and they sacked them all. You have to wonder why they’ve done that.” 🤔

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

WHAT? Home sewing, aside from being out of style, is seen as women's business, it's not considered to be important. But these patterns comprise a cultural, business, and a technological heritage. The patterns with the business records should be held by the Library of Congress or Smithsonian.

submitted 11 days ago • 51 comments

Nathan Sage is running against Joni Ernst. My question is who is Ernst’ barber?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Nice piece in the @nytimes.com today about how cuts to NOAA will make this, and future, Atlantic Hurricane Seasons more dangerous www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Most people who are not in the #bee industry are unaware of just how many hives are moved around for pollination. It is the largest livestock movement in the world, but is also a microcosm of the issues with industrial agriculture.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

ICE brings flash bang grenades and assault weapons… to arrest some bus boys.

submitted 17 days ago • 146 comments

youtu.be/64vW_Lxs6Vk?...

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

submitted 19 days ago • 1130 comments

Some conversations are uncomfortable, but I hope some major reflection is going on right now. FACTS: The House just passed the nightmare bill with the biggest Medicaid cut in U.S. history—by one vote. Since Election Day, three House Democrats have died. You do the math.

submitted 25 days ago • 147 comments

America is in for a very rude awakening: “Despite scientific certainty of the anthropogenic influence on climate change misinformation and politicisation of climate change science has created polarisation in public and policy domains in North America, limiting climate action (high confidence).” 1/

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

‘Unprecedented’ marine heatwave hits waters around Devon and Cornwall in the UK, and Ireland Scientists warn of profound impacts as sea temperatures rise by up to 4C above average for springtime #climatecrisis 1/2 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments