Hot Squirrel Summer
banner
fbird55.bsky.social
Hot Squirrel Summer
@fbird55.bsky.social
If you haven’t watched Andor, now’s probably a good time.
Breaking News: President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell protests in Minneapolis after an ICE agent killed a woman there last week.
Live Updates: Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act After Anti-ICE Protests in Minneapolis
nyti.ms
January 15, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
they abolished the department of education, we do not need a trojan horse to abolish ice we can just do it
January 12, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
If there are *any* Democrats in Congress who will still vote to keep funding this administration when it is using that money to terrorize our cities and refusing to allow congressional representatives their clear right to observe their activities, then those reps need to be primaried into retirement
I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building.

Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.

The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.

@zeteo.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
Well this is cool.
“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
January 10, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
Belatedly watching Mamdani inauguration& Jumaane Williams speech: “That’s the thing about uncertainty- anything can happen. But also, anything *can* happen. We could make NY more affordable, more safe and more just. We could, we can, and we have to try.” That’s it, y’all. That’s radical pragmatism.
January 2, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
There are multiple national political commentators who earnestly predicted that Eric Adams would be a legitimate presidential candidate and a national figurehead of the Democratic party by now and those commentators still have careers somehow.
January 2, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Welcoming with open arms this new phase of manosphere influencers thinking they can hang with professional fighters.

I worked in French Guiana and would see pro MMA fighters in the Cayenne airport now and then. They’re a lot bigger in person than they look on screen 😂. Hope this trend continues.
Video: Arlovski Brawls With Influencers Backstage At Paul vs. Joshua
Video: Former UFC Heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski threw around Jack Doherty’s whole crew last night backstage at the Joshua vs. Paul boxing match.
www.mmamania.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
All I want for Christmas this year is to decide which right wing influencer has to fight Anthony Joshua next.
December 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
I think it's important not to misunderstand what these social media platforms are. They are not public arenas where we bravely take on reactionary forces in honorable combat. They are apps that expose you to stress and thereby simulate the feeling of having done something useful
December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
The people should be demanding Congress to join the International Criminal Court.
December 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail
December 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
My favorite think about Hegseth’s comments on the war crimes is the idea that the fog of war is a physical fog that makes it hard to see things on a video from a remote location.
December 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Every Dem consultant pushing the party to the right to “win swing votes” for the last several decades should be immediately fired.
Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ?

TRUMP: I would. I really would.
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Reposted by Hot Squirrel Summer
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM