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Bay Commentary
@baycommentary.bsky.social
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Tri Cities guy providing commentary (venting, really) about the news. Worker's and Consumer's Rights #1. Solidarity with all working people and Democracy in both our government and in the workplace.
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baycommentary.bsky.social
i wish democrats would realize i would like them more if they didn't send me mailers sent by dark money PACs that I can't find online to see who their donors are
December 17, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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junlper.beer
online gambling is essentially legal and open money fixing and laundering at this point
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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detroitnews.com
For 128 years, Bay City's four-story Richardsonian Romanesque Revival-style hall has endured as the city's municipal hub.
Michigan Marvels: City Hall in Bay City
For 128 years, Bay City's four-story Richardsonian Romanesque Revival-style hall has endured as the city's municipal hub.
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
baycommentary.bsky.social
Chedrick getting some uhhhh interesting endorsements, between Amos and "veto immigrant protection legislation Bay City Mayor Chris Girard
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
baycommentary.bsky.social
Abolish the Department of Racism (ICE)
Opinion | He’s a citizen with a Real ID. ICE detained him anyway. Twice.
Leo Garcia Venegas’s experience shows why Trump’s immigration raids are unconstitutional.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
baycommentary.bsky.social
not only would flock surveil all our movement all the time and save them to a third part server but anyone, and I mean anyone, can just go get them as public records and use them for stalking purposes

www.404media.co/judge-rules-...
Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone
A Washington judge said images taken by Flock cameras are "not exempt from disclosure" in public record requests.
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
baycommentary.bsky.social
Maybe we need to repackage "move to the center" as "moving left" rather than use framing that benefits republicans as to what "left" is.
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
baycommentary.bsky.social
Republicans have been chanting for decades about how government ruins everything, but maybe their voters will realize as their politicians starve them and kick them out of their homes that perhaps government sucks because you were told to not care about making it work for you instead of billionaires
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
baycommentary.bsky.social
Data centers are cool because you put billions in and then your electricity rate goes up and then you end up with less jobs than when you started and all the profits from it goes to a few dudes on a yacht
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
baycommentary.bsky.social
They used blackhawk helicopters for this

They just wanted to use their cool toys, because they are 12. Everyone is 12 now. "That house is full of bad guys send the military to get them" and then not even find a single criminal. You are 12. One who needs to go to boarding school for being an ass
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
baycommentary.bsky.social
Texas gerrymander good, california counter gerrymander bad, make it more fuckin obvious republicans

apnews.com/article/cali...
Justice Department sues to block California US House map in clash that could tip control of Congress
The Justice Department has sued to block new congressional district boundaries approved by California voters, joining a legal battle that could determine which party wins control of the U.S.
apnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
baycommentary.bsky.social
If the tiktok sale to republicans goes through this might be the competitor we need even if it too is owned by billionaires

....pending of course if it is going to suppress palestinian existence as being "antisemitic" or not.

Shoutout the AI ban though, thats huge
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
baycommentary.bsky.social
Mr President the epstein emails are getting traction what do we do

*slams big red button on desk that says 'war with venezuela*
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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nyclabor.bsky.social
Make the most of your Monday. #Organize.
Do not panic. Organize.
September 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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ruddock.bsky.social
With the news cycle focused on ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, a journalist with a valid US work permit and pending green card application is about to be deported for the crime of reporting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US appeals court orders deportation of Atlanta journalist detained by Ice
Mario Guevara faces imminent removal from US as his attorney files emergency petition
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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mclem.org
This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt.

Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
mulchy.bsky.social shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · Sep 19
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.

one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
September 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
baycommentary.bsky.social
Check out the wildfire smoke in the air that day sheesh. Shoutout Abdul for linking a big issue in town to the broader message of oligarchy
abdulelsayed.bsky.social Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · Sep 3
Radical idea: corporations shouldn’t own essential public infrastructure.
September 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
baycommentary.bsky.social
Starting another foreign war with a war crime to open hostilities, a classic. These guys wanna be Israel, they look at what they are doing in Gaza and love the idea of using it in the Americas
September 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
baycommentary.bsky.social
The cool thing about this is that Trump is in the Epstein files and no amount of distraction attempts will make that untrue
August 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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leastactionhero.bsky.social
for some reason every centrist/3rd-way "we must compromise on popular issues to win" consultant always wants to brutalize immigrants and trans people instead of banning robocalls, onerous subscription cancellation policies, atm fees, or making healthcare free 🤔
ocasio-cortez.house.gov Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · Jun 4
It's 2025 and Americans still get an average of 15 robocalls each month. Spam calls are not just annoying and predatory, they're preventable.

Congress needs to act and hold bad actors accountable.
June 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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mattielubchansky.com
reading the HHS "gender dysphoria report" summary and this is some truly insidious shit. sure, all the studies SAY the kids are happier, but we bet they aren't actually. they're all hopped up on something we bet probably
"Evidence for harms associated with pediatric medical transition in systematic reviews is also sparse, but this finding should be interpreted with caution. Inadequate harm detection in pediatric gender medicine may reflect the relatively short period of time since the widespread adoption of the medical/surgical treatment model; the failure of existing studies to systematically track and report harms; and publication bias. Despite the lack of robust evidence from population level studies, important insights can be drawn from established knowledge about human physiology and the effects and mechanisms of the pharmacological agents used."
May 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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anjalikdayal.bsky.social
something really remarkable is happening at all these. look at these flags—US, Canadian, Ukrainian, Palestinian.
joshroman.bsky.social Josh Roman @joshroman.bsky.social · Apr 5
Dropkick Murphys throwing down in Boston
April 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
baycommentary.bsky.social
Me when I say "excellent" to doing a war crime I would call a "horrific terrorist attack" if it was done to an american
March 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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ed3d.net
we're fast approaching the most important SCOTUS case of our lives, Crimes Still Exist v. No They Don't
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Mar 24
NEW: The ACLU has filed a sworn declaration from a Venezuelan woman who ICE sought to turn over to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, who declares that "I heard two US government officials talking and they said 'there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.'"
Declaration of S.Z.F.R. 1. I am a woman from Venezuela and I am in detention at Webb County Detention Center in Laredo Texas. My initials are S.Z.F.R. 2. On March 9 at 7 a.m. I was in my dorm in El Paso and was told to get my things together and I was being transferred to another facility. There was one other woman and 14 men who were also transferred with me. 3. I was supposed to have a merits hearing for my asylum claims on March 10th. 4. They took me to the airport in El Paso and I was put on a plane. Already on the plane were many Venezuelan men and three other Venezuelan women. We flew to Laredo. 5. When we got to Laredo we met up with another group of Venezuelan men. 6. There were at least 10 Venezuelan women on the plane. We arrived March 9 in Laredo and were taken to Webb County Detention Center. 7. Thursday of last week, March13th, we were told to gather our belongings and we were driven toward the airport for about an hour. We were told we were being deported to Venezuela. We never made it to the airport. We were sent back to Webb and told it was because of a plane malfunction. 8. On Friday again we were told to gather our belongings and put on the bus at Webb and sat on the bus for about 15 minutes and then were taken back to Webb. 9. Saturday morning we were again told to gather our belongings and get on the bus. We went to the airport and 8 women were put on the plane with me. When we got on the plane there were already over 50 men on the plane. I could see other migrants walking to the plane but we took off before any additional people boarded. 11. Within a couple of minutes of take off I heard two US government officials talking and they said “there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.” 12. I asked where we were going and we were told that we were going to Venezuela. 13. Several other people on the plane told me they were in immigration proceedings and awaiting court hearings in immigration court. 14. We were not allowed to open our window shades. 15. We landed somewhere for refueling. We were there for many hours. We were arm and leg shackled the whole time. 16. We took off again and landed fairly quickly. I was then told we were in El Salvador. 17. While on the plane the government officials were asking the men to sign a document and they didn’t want to. The government officials were pushing them to sign the documents and threatening them. I heard them discussing the documents and they were about the men admitting they were members of TdA. 18. After we landed but were still on the plane a woman opened the shade. An officer rushed to shut the shade and pushed her down by her shoulders to try and stop her from looking out. The person that pushed her down had HOU-02 on his sleeve. 19. I saw out the window for a minute and I saw men in military uniforms and another plane. I saw men being led off the plane. Since I’ve been back in the U.S. I have seen news coverage and the plane I saw looks like the one I’ve seen on TV with migrants from the U.S. being delivered to El Salvador. 20. All the men got off the plane. The remaining women asked what happens to us? I was told that the President of El Salvador would not accept women. I was also told that we were going back to detention in the U.S. 21. We left in the middle of the night and landed in the early morning in Laredo. The 8 women who were on the plane were all returned back to the U.S. /s/ S.Z.F.R. S.Z.F.R.
March 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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sanjukta.bsky.social
Logged onto twitter and saw that a young journalist I've been following for the last year and a half has been killed, via his final message posted on his behalf by his community. Was a primary source of news for so many. I recall many times over the last months feeling relief that he was still alive
Hossam Shabat's final message, posted on his Twitter page
March 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM