M Hobart
@mhobart.bsky.social
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
They’re all just looting the treasury now
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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🤣🤣🤣
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🤣🤣🤣
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Old enough to remember both Israel and the U.S. arguing that they didn’t need the ICC in their business because they were able and willing to hold their own personnel accountable for atrocities.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Israeli right skewers efforts to prosecute soldiers for wartime abuses
The alleged sexual abuse of a Palestinian detainee has ignited a fierce debate over whether soldiers should be immune from prosecution or face justice for misconduct.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Old enough to remember both Israel and the U.S. arguing that they didn’t need the ICC in their business because they were able and willing to hold their own personnel accountable for atrocities.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Has this been resolved @support.bsky.team? Restore @sarahkendzior.boat.social’s account. She is a needed and trusted voice.
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Has this been resolved @support.bsky.team? Restore @sarahkendzior.boat.social’s account. She is a needed and trusted voice.
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On this Veterans Day, more than any before, let us remember the valiant service of Black, Hispanic, Navajo, Japanese and other non-white Americans who fought bravely for the ideals of a country that failed to live up to them, and whose legacy a racist GOP is desperately trying to erase.
Two panels highlighting the role of African American soldiers in the liberation of the Netherlands have been removed from the American Military Cemetary Margraten. The Cemetary is controlled by the AMBC, and the panels were removed in line with current Trump policy.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Monument: Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun...
www.nrc.nl
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
On this Veterans Day, more than any before, let us remember the valiant service of Black, Hispanic, Navajo, Japanese and other non-white Americans who fought bravely for the ideals of a country that failed to live up to them, and whose legacy a racist GOP is desperately trying to erase.
Maybe making it possible for even more political leaders to extract money from the government as a way to punish efforts at anti-corruption and accountability is not a great idea.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Maybe making it possible for even more political leaders to extract money from the government as a way to punish efforts at anti-corruption and accountability is not a great idea.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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“People are blaming republicans for food prices and flight cancellations and health insurance costs and are furious about gilded ballrooms and Gatsby parties and the president is falling asleep on tv and is the most deeply unpopular president in history, time to cave” is a hell of an argument
November 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
“People are blaming republicans for food prices and flight cancellations and health insurance costs and are furious about gilded ballrooms and Gatsby parties and the president is falling asleep on tv and is the most deeply unpopular president in history, time to cave” is a hell of an argument
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Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
“We are living and fighting for each other, and that means we have a chance.”
Inspiring. Thank you Kelly, thank you Chicago, for showing how to resist, and why.
Inspiring. Thank you Kelly, thank you Chicago, for showing how to resist, and why.
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“We are living and fighting for each other, and that means we have a chance.”
Inspiring. Thank you Kelly, thank you Chicago, for showing how to resist, and why.
Inspiring. Thank you Kelly, thank you Chicago, for showing how to resist, and why.
This. And some way to get the truth out even to people who only watch Fox.
There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This. And some way to get the truth out even to people who only watch Fox.
Let’s be clear, these are concentration camps. We demand accountability.
@murray.senate.gov
@jayapal.house.gov
@schumer.senate.gov
@murray.senate.gov
@jayapal.house.gov
@schumer.senate.gov
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Let’s be clear, these are concentration camps. We demand accountability.
@murray.senate.gov
@jayapal.house.gov
@schumer.senate.gov
@murray.senate.gov
@jayapal.house.gov
@schumer.senate.gov
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Moderates can try and launder Dick Cheney all they want, but he was a murderous war criminal who laid the tracks for Trump and overt fascism.
We live in Cheney’s America, god help us, and it’s on us to dishonor him by undoing the damage he caused.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-author...
We live in Cheney’s America, god help us, and it’s on us to dishonor him by undoing the damage he caused.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-author...
The Authoritarian Architect: Dick Cheney and the Dystopian World He Built
We live in Dick Cheney's America. God help us.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Moderates can try and launder Dick Cheney all they want, but he was a murderous war criminal who laid the tracks for Trump and overt fascism.
We live in Cheney’s America, god help us, and it’s on us to dishonor him by undoing the damage he caused.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-author...
We live in Cheney’s America, god help us, and it’s on us to dishonor him by undoing the damage he caused.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-author...
Straight up election interference.
We want accountability for this kind of domestic terror.
We want accountability for this kind of domestic terror.
Bomb threats disrupting voting in New Jersey today, which has a competitive governor election.
As with LibsofTikTok and bomb threats to hospitals, the Online Right has seen they can do this to force closures.
Preview of 2026 midterms? Either way, states should be working on plans to deal with it.
As with LibsofTikTok and bomb threats to hospitals, the Online Right has seen they can do this to force closures.
Preview of 2026 midterms? Either way, states should be working on plans to deal with it.
Across New Jersey, bomb threats at multiple polling locations have prompted closures and relocations today
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Straight up election interference.
We want accountability for this kind of domestic terror.
We want accountability for this kind of domestic terror.
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Research on "millionaire migration" shows that it rarely happens and that states could raise their top tax rates way higher.
www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...
www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...
June 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Research on "millionaire migration" shows that it rarely happens and that states could raise their top tax rates way higher.
www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...
www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...
The first sentence tells you Carlos Jimenez, the man shot by ICE goons, is a better man and a more valuable member of the community than any of those ICE guys ever will be: “Leaving his home in Ontario to work at a food bank Thursday morning…”
US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The first sentence tells you Carlos Jimenez, the man shot by ICE goons, is a better man and a more valuable member of the community than any of those ICE guys ever will be: “Leaving his home in Ontario to work at a food bank Thursday morning…”
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From my book THEY KNEW, written in 2021, on Trump's plans. This is what's happening now.
November 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
From my book THEY KNEW, written in 2021, on Trump's plans. This is what's happening now.
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I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
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If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.
someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
November 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.
Succinct and clear about why “centrism” isn’t the answer:
“The current regime’s commitment to democracy itself is practically nonexistent. If the Democrats lose the next election, it will not be because their Republican opponents seemed like the more centrist option.”
-Dave Karpf
“The current regime’s commitment to democracy itself is practically nonexistent. If the Democrats lose the next election, it will not be because their Republican opponents seemed like the more centrist option.”
-Dave Karpf
Dave Karpf takes apart analyses/arguments claiming the solution to the Democrats’ woes is more centrist messaging.
My favorite thing as a writer is when I start ranting about something on Bluesky, get it all out of my system, and then turn it into a real piece of writing.
On that note: hey, it’s me, heckling centrist Dems in the New Republic!
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
On that note: hey, it’s me, heckling centrist Dems in the New Republic!
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
October 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Succinct and clear about why “centrism” isn’t the answer:
“The current regime’s commitment to democracy itself is practically nonexistent. If the Democrats lose the next election, it will not be because their Republican opponents seemed like the more centrist option.”
-Dave Karpf
“The current regime’s commitment to democracy itself is practically nonexistent. If the Democrats lose the next election, it will not be because their Republican opponents seemed like the more centrist option.”
-Dave Karpf
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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The bottom line, and what I'm getting at, is that the price of admission to the Republican Party today is lying in the service of the dictator, like something out of Orwell's 1984; in this case, lying about the past.
Here's the rest of the doc for those who are interested.
Here's the rest of the doc for those who are interested.
October 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The bottom line, and what I'm getting at, is that the price of admission to the Republican Party today is lying in the service of the dictator, like something out of Orwell's 1984; in this case, lying about the past.
Here's the rest of the doc for those who are interested.
Here's the rest of the doc for those who are interested.
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This is insanely illegal and incredibly fucking dangerous.
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This is insanely illegal and incredibly fucking dangerous.