Hank Layfield
@hlayfield.bsky.social
Father, husband, urban cyclist, active life enthusiast, ANTIFAscist, Star Trek nerd. Baseball is my religion.
She says the quiet part out loud, boldly declaring that we should invade Venezuela for an oil grab.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
She says the quiet part out loud, boldly declaring that we should invade Venezuela for an oil grab.
If he's talking about the Republican caucus, I agree that they do their best work by not showing up.
Mike Johnson claims House Republicans did "some of the best work of their careers" during the govt shutdown
November 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
If he's talking about the Republican caucus, I agree that they do their best work by not showing up.
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More Military personnel are calling legal military non-profit agencies seeking advice for orders they received.
The DOJ has issues a order that all orders are legal & the personnel are immune from prosecution. Right there is the red flag, the prosecution immunity.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
The DOJ has issues a order that all orders are legal & the personnel are immune from prosecution. Right there is the red flag, the prosecution immunity.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Military personnel seek legal advice on whether Trump-ordered missions are lawful
Military service personnel have been seeking outside legal advice about some of the missions the Trump administration has assigned them. The strikes against alleged drug traffickers and deployments to...
www.pbs.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
More Military personnel are calling legal military non-profit agencies seeking advice for orders they received.
The DOJ has issues a order that all orders are legal & the personnel are immune from prosecution. Right there is the red flag, the prosecution immunity.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
The DOJ has issues a order that all orders are legal & the personnel are immune from prosecution. Right there is the red flag, the prosecution immunity.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Trump is explicitly saying that the US government is bankrupt. 10 months, it took him 10 months to do to the country what he has done to every single damn business he has ever touched.
So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Trump is explicitly saying that the US government is bankrupt. 10 months, it took him 10 months to do to the country what he has done to every single damn business he has ever touched.
These needs to be amplified. Republicans are trying to enact a nationwide abortion ban. Shout it to the roof tops!
Thank you to Senator Ron Wyden for letting us know the MAGA Senate Republicans are trying to slide a nationwide abortion ban into the shutdown negotiations.
Hell no! They want to control every part of women’s lives and we aren’t having it.
F the patriarchy.
Hell no! They want to control every part of women’s lives and we aren’t having it.
F the patriarchy.
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
These needs to be amplified. Republicans are trying to enact a nationwide abortion ban. Shout it to the roof tops!
It's crazy how much this looks like the czarist Winter Palace.
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It's crazy how much this looks like the czarist Winter Palace.
Tempt me with a good time.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Tempt me with a good time.
Just another day in Donald Trump's America.
The Feds deceived them by conducting a green card interview, subsequently arresting his wife, and mocking them while taking selfies.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Just another day in Donald Trump's America.
Beautiful.
If you aren’t familiar with Nigerian playwright and poet Wole Soyinka… here’s a taster:
‘I think it rains
I think it rains
That tongues may loosen from the parch
Uncleave roof-tops of
the mouth, hang
Heavy with knowledge
1/n
‘I think it rains
I think it rains
That tongues may loosen from the parch
Uncleave roof-tops of
the mouth, hang
Heavy with knowledge
1/n
October 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Beautiful.
I love this!
Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.
October 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I love this!
He is literally stealing the Whitehouse for one of his golf courses.
A... scoop? Multiple workers tell me that dirt from the demolition of the East Wing of the White House (to make way for Trump's new $200 million ballroom) is being trucked to the north end of the Hains Point golf course. It will then be used to create new terrain on the course.
October 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
He is literally stealing the Whitehouse for one of his golf courses.
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Watergate every day
Two more career prosecutors fired for refusing to indict NY AG Letitia James because they could not find probable cause to charge her. 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Prosecutor Who Rejected Trump’s Pressure to Charge James Is Fired
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Watergate every day
I admit to wondering about this guy from time to time. But really, he probably doesn't exist.
October 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I admit to wondering about this guy from time to time. But really, he probably doesn't exist.
I better not come across one of these things when I'm riding. Bike lanes are for people operated micro-mobility devices, not for robots delivering burritos.
DoorDash Plans to Send Autonomous Robots into Bike Lanes.
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DoorDash Plans to Send Autonomous Robots into Bike Lanes | Momentum Mag | Momentum Mag
DoorDash has begun rolling out Dot, its new autonomous delivery robot — a sleek, all-electric bot that can hit speeds of up to 20mph.
momentummag.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I better not come across one of these things when I'm riding. Bike lanes are for people operated micro-mobility devices, not for robots delivering burritos.
October 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This violates the Hatch Act, not to mention it's dishonest and incredibly unethical. Everything the federal regime does is a violation. Time to revoke our consent, as Thomas Jefferson would have it.
It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.
October 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This violates the Hatch Act, not to mention it's dishonest and incredibly unethical. Everything the federal regime does is a violation. Time to revoke our consent, as Thomas Jefferson would have it.
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one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.
time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.
time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.
Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.
October 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.
time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.
time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.
It's time to recognize that we no longer have a federal government in the United States.
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
October 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
It's time to recognize that we no longer have a federal government in the United States.
Yeah, that's about white.
October 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Yeah, that's about white.
Trump, bragging that he destroyed a legal industry, is something to behold.
Trump: "We call them the water drugs. The drugs that come in through water. They're not coming. There are no boats anymore. Frankly, there are no fishing boats. There are no boats out there period, if you want to know the truth. Does anybody go fishing anymore?"
October 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Trump, bragging that he destroyed a legal industry, is something to behold.
We are going to need some sort of truth and reconciliation process. These people cannot be allowed to continue in positions of authority, and most will probably need a period of confined rehabilitation.
If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out.
Every single one.
Every single one.
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
October 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
We are going to need some sort of truth and reconciliation process. These people cannot be allowed to continue in positions of authority, and most will probably need a period of confined rehabilitation.
Bravo, Chicago!
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Bravo, Chicago!
When did the authoritarian in DC federalize the National Guard? Can they just send units from other states without gubernatorial consent?
Gov. Tina Kotek said Sunday that she’s aware that 101 California troops arrived in Oregon via plane overnight and that more were on their way. She received no official notice or correspondence from the federal government via @jmshumway.bsky.social oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/05/t...
Trump administration sending California troops to Oregon after court loss, governors say • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Hours after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from mobilizing 200 Oregon National Guard troops in Portland, the federal government began sending California National Guard troops to Oreg...
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
When did the authoritarian in DC federalize the National Guard? Can they just send units from other states without gubernatorial consent?
I'm Gen-X, and I haven't seen a single episode of The Sopranos.
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I'm Gen-X, and I haven't seen a single episode of The Sopranos.