@maryellen-rieck.bsky.social
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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court is going to hear West Virginia's effort to ban the state's only transgender athlete, 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson.
Win or lose, I need your help making sure Becky knows she's a hero for standing up for what's right
Win or lose, I need your help making sure Becky knows she's a hero for standing up for what's right
January 11, 2026 at 1:39 PM
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court is going to hear West Virginia's effort to ban the state's only transgender athlete, 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson.
Win or lose, I need your help making sure Becky knows she's a hero for standing up for what's right
Win or lose, I need your help making sure Becky knows she's a hero for standing up for what's right
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LETTERMAN: “.. CBS News is a wreck. It’s just gone. .. The integrity of CBS News .. has been trampled on, pissed on and eviscerated by these idiots that have taken it over.”
@letterman.bsky.social $PSKY
youtu.be/CHYksa07oQA?...
@letterman.bsky.social $PSKY
youtu.be/CHYksa07oQA?...
January 10, 2026 at 8:26 PM
LETTERMAN: “.. CBS News is a wreck. It’s just gone. .. The integrity of CBS News .. has been trampled on, pissed on and eviscerated by these idiots that have taken it over.”
@letterman.bsky.social $PSKY
youtu.be/CHYksa07oQA?...
@letterman.bsky.social $PSKY
youtu.be/CHYksa07oQA?...
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Here is the video message of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell regarding the Justice Department’s criminal investigation related to the Fed’s building renovations.
Watch it.
youtu.be/KckGHaBLSn4
Watch it.
youtu.be/KckGHaBLSn4
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
youtu.be
January 12, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Here is the video message of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell regarding the Justice Department’s criminal investigation related to the Fed’s building renovations.
Watch it.
youtu.be/KckGHaBLSn4
Watch it.
youtu.be/KckGHaBLSn4
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From Republicans breaking with Trump to a red state abortion ban going down, this week had some uplifting wins amid the heartbreaking headlines. If you need a reminder of the good still happening out there, this one’s for you.
Our Wins Of The Week
This week marked the end of the House tenure of Rep.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:00 PM
From Republicans breaking with Trump to a red state abortion ban going down, this week had some uplifting wins amid the heartbreaking headlines. If you need a reminder of the good still happening out there, this one’s for you.
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The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
January 11, 2026 at 3:19 PM
The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
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This message hits hard.
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This message hits hard.
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Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
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The soybean crisis may have been induced by tariffs, but it's the *culmination* of a lack of resiliency in the farm economy, with overdependence on exports and single crops and self-perpetuating bailouts. Great breakdown from Naomi Bethune:
prospect.org/politics/202...
prospect.org/politics/202...
America Bet the Farm on Soybeans. Then Came Trump.
Collapsing soybean exports reveal an agricultural sector rife with longstanding problems.
prospect.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The soybean crisis may have been induced by tariffs, but it's the *culmination* of a lack of resiliency in the farm economy, with overdependence on exports and single crops and self-perpetuating bailouts. Great breakdown from Naomi Bethune:
prospect.org/politics/202...
prospect.org/politics/202...
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You probably know little about the Institute of Education Sciences, but it's the research and data arm of the Dept of Education. Or it was, until Trump obliterated it. And if you don't have good data, you can't make good decisions. From our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social:
The Republican Plot to Destroy Education Research
Elon Musk and the Trump administration have gutted the Institute of Education Science.
prospect.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
You probably know little about the Institute of Education Sciences, but it's the research and data arm of the Dept of Education. Or it was, until Trump obliterated it. And if you don't have good data, you can't make good decisions. From our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social:
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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
October 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:
"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."
"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."
October 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:
"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."
"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."
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Wow. This really says it all.
Jeffries: In that Oval Office meeting, which lasted over an hour, the amount of time spent talking about health insurance for undocumented immigrants was less than 10 seconds. You know why? Because they know it’s a lie. They didn’t even bother to bring it up—because the cameras weren’t rolling.
October 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Wow. This really says it all.
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forced mourning is a RATINGS FLOP, folks
the sinclair charlie kirk tribute has 71K views nine days after it was supposed to preempt jimmy kimmel
by comparison, this antique toaster restoration video has 102K views after one day
by comparison, this antique toaster restoration video has 102K views after one day
111 Years Old Antique Toaster Restoration
YouTube video by Odd Tinkering
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
forced mourning is a RATINGS FLOP, folks
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I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.
September 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.
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“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”
-Elie Wiesel, an actual Nobel Peace Prize winner
-Elie Wiesel, an actual Nobel Peace Prize winner
I think I often get maddest when people say "oh I'd be sympathetic to (x) cause, if they'd just follow the rules" or "they're not doing themselves any favors acting that way".
Using hall monitor nerd shit to avoid taking a stance is functionally the same as taking the other side.
Using hall monitor nerd shit to avoid taking a stance is functionally the same as taking the other side.
September 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”
-Elie Wiesel, an actual Nobel Peace Prize winner
-Elie Wiesel, an actual Nobel Peace Prize winner
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Finally (for now): a story showing that the firing of US attorneys for not following orders did not begin with the Comey case. In July, a USA in CA told a
Border Patrol officer to adhere to a court order. She was fired *that day. *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Border Patrol officer to adhere to a court order. She was fired *that day. *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Finally (for now): a story showing that the firing of US attorneys for not following orders did not begin with the Comey case. In July, a USA in CA told a
Border Patrol officer to adhere to a court order. She was fired *that day. *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Border Patrol officer to adhere to a court order. She was fired *that day. *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
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Lots of excellent reporting and writing in the NYT today. Will post some, but I’m out of gift links.
First, and most importantly, the great Nikole Hannah-Jones on the lived experience of Black and queer people in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
First, and most importantly, the great Nikole Hannah-Jones on the lived experience of Black and queer people in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Lots of excellent reporting and writing in the NYT today. Will post some, but I’m out of gift links.
First, and most importantly, the great Nikole Hannah-Jones on the lived experience of Black and queer people in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
First, and most importantly, the great Nikole Hannah-Jones on the lived experience of Black and queer people in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
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Do you want to screen Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile in your town or city, unlike a cowardly major movie chain?
Email us at jeffreyepstein@theonion.com.
We'll allow you to screen it for free.
Yes, again, this is real.
Email us at jeffreyepstein@theonion.com.
We'll allow you to screen it for free.
Yes, again, this is real.
A very big Onion announcement:
The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece.
It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile.
It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd.
Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.
The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece.
It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile.
It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd.
Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.
September 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Do you want to screen Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile in your town or city, unlike a cowardly major movie chain?
Email us at jeffreyepstein@theonion.com.
We'll allow you to screen it for free.
Yes, again, this is real.
Email us at jeffreyepstein@theonion.com.
We'll allow you to screen it for free.
Yes, again, this is real.
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Another win for "Fuck you. Make me."
UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.
September 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Another win for "Fuck you. Make me."
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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100 children.
US Citizens.
The International Criminal Court needs to indict Stephen Miller for crimes against humanity.
US Citizens.
The International Criminal Court needs to indict Stephen Miller for crimes against humanity.
CNN has identified at least 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents after ICE deported them - including newborns.
As a parent I cannot imagine the horror of being separated from my child, but that trauma is even more acute for the innocent children left behind.
As a parent I cannot imagine the horror of being separated from my child, but that trauma is even more acute for the innocent children left behind.
September 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
100 children.
US Citizens.
The International Criminal Court needs to indict Stephen Miller for crimes against humanity.
US Citizens.
The International Criminal Court needs to indict Stephen Miller for crimes against humanity.
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i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended