neb12.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

open.substack.com/pub/newrepub...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 721 comments

wapo.st/4dtHGtj. Rest in peace, Gerry. A life well-lived. And what this tribute doesn’t say, because it would fill up a book, are the ways Rep Connelly and his staff helped his constituents when they needed government intervention or assistance.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

MUST WATCH: Holy hell. Brendan Boyle just obliterated the GOP’s Reconciliation scam live on the floor, calling out every crooked clause and profiteer-friendly loophole like a prosecutor in a murder trial. This isn’t political theater — this is war.

submitted 20 days ago • 66 comments

10 more Zmiy robotic platforms, funded by you, alongside Timothy Snyder and Mark Hamill, will be helping Ukrainian sappers. Thank you to everyone who joined the fundraiser! 💙💛

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

Anti-IVF rhetoric is on the rise. Anti-abortion leaders have described IVF as mass murder; some consider it ~ worse ~ than abortion. Also on the rise: calls for more clinic harassment, attacks, and protests after Trump pardoned 23 FACE Act violators in January. And today in CA:

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

You just traveled to the Middle East, Donald. They let you go, no issues.

submitted 19 days ago • 195 comments

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

submitted 21 days ago • 361 comments

Great idea from @cherijacobus.bsky.social.

submitted 25 days ago • 151 comments

Wow. the sticker price new of the plane Trump is getting as a bribe is over $400 million. Big even compared to Trump's other bribes.

submitted 25 days ago • 37 comments

"'It’s the story of a soccer player who left one dictatorship, fled to America, only to suddenly discover America is one too—and they sent him to another dictatorship.'" ICYMI @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social on the entertainment and sports world spotlighting deportations:

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

"After arriving at Boston Logan International Airport, Ms. Ozturk walked into a room with a big smile on her face, and was joined by her lawyers and Massachusetts lawmakers, including Senator Edward J. Markey and Representative Ayanna Pressley..." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...

submitted 26 days ago • 151 comments

A convicted criminal who has had endless trials wants to make it so he can imprison or kill anyone he wants without a trial.

submitted 26 days ago • 352 comments

Welcome to the RFK Jr public health era.

submitted 26 days ago • 876 comments

This cash grab is hurting the party. We have enough reputational problems as it is; we don’t need campaigns buying and selling our phone numbers without permission at a time when we should be restoring our standing with voters.

submitted 26 days ago • 239 comments

"Cardinal Wojtyła had been a great opponent of the Communist dictatorship that ruled over his native land. As pope, he saw Poland liberated from it. Cardinal Prevost has been a critic of the nativist bigotry and cruelty now ascendant in the United States."

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

NEWS: Earlier today, the three-judge district court in Alabama again ruled that Alabama's congressional map — with its refusal to add a second majority-Black district — violates the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 28 days ago • 31 comments

American Pope🇺🇸

submitted 28 days ago • 314 comments

"Gone was his belief that a conservative could question anything; the war that had to be waged, as he saw it, demanded total obedience and commitment until victory against the left." From communist to conservative intellectual to Trumpist:

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

😱

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re a brain surgeon, always be ready. Good night Blue Sky

submitted 30 days ago • 25 comments

Promises made. Promises kept. Latinos for Trump - Go straight to El Salvador. No due process. Thanks for playing. Blacks for Trump - you’re DEI. DEI bad. Pro-Palestine for Trump - Gaza is being cleared out to make room for Trump resorts. You’re welcome. 🧵

submitted 30 days ago • 101 comments

@dianeravitch.bsky.social I am honored to have you follow me I hope you can read this because Harvard is today’s winner in social media

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.

submitted 30 days ago • 2258 comments

The job was Ed’s to lose. And he did!

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

"In March, the Trump administration cut $1 billion from Department of Agriculture programs that provide food to schools and food banks and said there would be future cuts to other programs..." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 30 days ago • 232 comments