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

Tear off the masks when they show up. Take their photos. Get them on video. Expose them. Out them. Name them. They need to be made into pariahs where decent people gather. We cannot allow them to terrorize us. Eyes open. Phones on.

submitted 46 days ago • 618 comments

NEW: The Trump administration is looking into suspending people’s right to challenge their incarceration in court, to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts, White House aide Stephen Miller said Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 47 days ago • 352 comments

“The controversial 1,000-bed facility is owned by the private prison company GEO Group, which entered into a 15-year, $1 billion contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February.” $1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company. www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...

submitted 48 days ago • 892 comments

You and millions of other people rely on the NPR Network for trustworthy journalism. NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support. Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR

submitted 52 days ago • 559 comments

A gift to the NRA.

submitted 52 days ago • 1431 comments

Donated to my local @npr.org affiliate today for the first time. I wish I could afford more, but I did what I could. I hope anyone else reading this will do the same. Their local programming is some of the best.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

With nearly 40 years of legal practice, lawyer Abbe Lowell has represented many powerful people. Now he's starting a new law firm to represent those who have drawn the ire of President Trump. By @carriejohnson.bsky.social

submitted 55 days ago • 141 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 58 days ago • 1327 comments

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all of the staff that had distributed $1.7B annually in Social Services Block Grant funds, which many states had depended on for their child welfare, foster care and adoption systems.

submitted 59 days ago • 64 comments

NEW: Crowd now growing at the Capitol where Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are staging a sit-in on the steps. Is this building into something? If you’re in DC, they’re encouraging folk to come down there & support. #Resist (📸 Sen. Brian Schatz)

submitted 60 days ago • 465 comments

At least three medical journals have received letters from U.S. Department of Justice that questioned their editorial practices and standards, prompting several journals to push back and assert their independence.

submitted 61 days ago • 18 comments

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

submitted 63 days ago • 912 comments

No meat inspection No milk inspection No keeping track of child/domestic abuse No keeping track of women dying in childbirth No funding of head start No childhood cancer research No vaccines No affordable housing Minimum wage 7.25 LETS HAVE A BABY!

submitted 64 days ago • 54 comments

ICE is unlawfully detaining Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk over a thousand miles away from their families and communities, simply for their political advocacy. We went to Louisiana with members of Congress to demand answers.

submitted 64 days ago • 13 comments

they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 65 days ago • 806 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 65 days ago • 754 comments

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

submitted 67 days ago • 407 comments

😳🤬"A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it: The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure."😳🤬

submitted 70 days ago • 4 comments

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

submitted 71 days ago • 660 comments

This is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason

submitted 71 days ago • 3455 comments

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

submitted 71 days ago • 4217 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

submitted 71 days ago • 807 comments

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

submitted 72 days ago • 1478 comments

Trump orders government to stop tracking cancers in U.S. firefighters. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 73 days ago • 390 comments

Any Democratic politician who doesn't understand Nayib Bukele's grave offense against the sovereignty of the American people and constitutional order and say as much publicly should have no future in elected office. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bukel...

submitted 73 days ago • 386 comments

Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.

submitted 73 days ago • 312 comments

The number of people jailed pretrial has nearly quadrupled since the 1980s; people with mental-health issues tend to be detained much longer than the rest of the population. Sarah Stillman reports on a crisis of care in county jails across the nation.

submitted 73 days ago • 24 comments

Would men need to provide a marriage certificate to vote? No? Just women? Got it.

submitted 74 days ago • 905 comments

Perioidic reminder that the reason you didn't see autistic people with intellectual disabilities on the street five decades ago was not because they didn't exist. It's because they were sent away to institutions and their parents were told to put away pictures of them.

submitted 74 days ago • 193 comments

Donald Trump is trying to gut the Department of Education — the agency that makes sure that students with special needs are supported in our public schools. So I asked: How has the Department of Education supported a student with special needs in your life?

submitted 77 days ago • 58 comments

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed the SAVE Act, a bill that would make it much harder for millions of people to register to vote. We're calling on the Senate to reject this legislation.

submitted 77 days ago • 416 comments

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a major voter suppression measure that, if it became law, could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters and badly undermine U.S. democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 77 days ago • 1233 comments