Billy Poer
@thepoerlefty.bsky.social
Progressive
Free Palestine
No LGB w/o TQ+
He/Him
Free Palestine
No LGB w/o TQ+
He/Him
Literally came back after a minute just to say all the Janet Mills/DNC hate is reaching so many outside spheres and BlueSky specifically leading the charge is my favorite thing. #PlatnerForMaine
October 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Literally came back after a minute just to say all the Janet Mills/DNC hate is reaching so many outside spheres and BlueSky specifically leading the charge is my favorite thing. #PlatnerForMaine
SOCIALISM IS IN YALL ZOHRAN FOR MAYORRRR
June 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
SOCIALISM IS IN YALL ZOHRAN FOR MAYORRRR
Reposted by Billy Poer
LAPD when they think nobody is watching
June 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
LAPD when they think nobody is watching
Reposted by Billy Poer
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
Reposted by Billy Poer
At this point "Abolish ICE and prosecute every officer who helped with deportations" is the moderate path
April 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
At this point "Abolish ICE and prosecute every officer who helped with deportations" is the moderate path
Reposted by Billy Poer
Every accusation is a confession. Really makes me wonder about WinRed.
April 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Every accusation is a confession. Really makes me wonder about WinRed.
Reposted by Billy Poer
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
Reposted by Billy Poer
incredibly important that he and everyone else frame it that way. we do need to fight for Abrego Garcia but we also cannot let that be the end of resistance against this lawless historic crime occurring at the behest of a Republican junta.
Van Hollen: "This case is not only about one man, as important as that is. It is about protecting fundamental freedoms and the fundamental principle in the Constitution for due process that protects everyone who resides in America."
April 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
incredibly important that he and everyone else frame it that way. we do need to fight for Abrego Garcia but we also cannot let that be the end of resistance against this lawless historic crime occurring at the behest of a Republican junta.
Reposted by Billy Poer
They won't let Chris Van Hollen in there, but they will admit Republican members of Congress to pose for propaganda pictures using inmates as a backdrop.
Speaking now from El Salvador, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says he was denied access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia by El Salvador leaders. And was denied a phone call to him
Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"
Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"
April 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
They won't let Chris Van Hollen in there, but they will admit Republican members of Congress to pose for propaganda pictures using inmates as a backdrop.
We need more of this. The admin is lying through their teeth and once the truth about Garcia is revealed there will be nowhere for the admin to hide.
Speaking now from El Salvador, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says he was denied access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia by El Salvador leaders. And was denied a phone call to him
Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"
Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"
April 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
We need more of this. The admin is lying through their teeth and once the truth about Garcia is revealed there will be nowhere for the admin to hide.
Reposted by Billy Poer
An important read today, as the UK sees one of its most serious miscarriages of justice, in decades. Trans ppl have equal rights under the European Convention on Human Rights. A bad day for British ppl, & the politicisation of the rule of law.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
The UK supreme court today ruled that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refer to biological sex.
Trump's Executive Order 14168, issued on 20 January, similarly proclaims to be ‘Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government’.
Judith Butler: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Trump's Executive Order 14168, issued on 20 January, similarly proclaims to be ‘Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government’.
Judith Butler: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Judith Butler · This Is Wrong: Executive Order 14168
When diversity, equity and inclusion become ‘threats’ to the order of society, progressive politics in general is...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
An important read today, as the UK sees one of its most serious miscarriages of justice, in decades. Trans ppl have equal rights under the European Convention on Human Rights. A bad day for British ppl, & the politicisation of the rule of law.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Trans women are women. Period.
April 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Trans women are women. Period.
Reposted by Billy Poer
The reason the conservative intelligentsia has spent decades pretending that societal shifts in cultural attitudes are the same as state coercion is to justify the use of state coercion against the elements of society they disapprove of.
Here's one of the many clarifying passages in the White House (notionally GSA) letter. It demands Harvard set up a system of political commissars who will enforce hiring and admissions set asides for MAGA luminaries and high school red hats.
April 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The reason the conservative intelligentsia has spent decades pretending that societal shifts in cultural attitudes are the same as state coercion is to justify the use of state coercion against the elements of society they disapprove of.
Reposted by Billy Poer
12 Dem Senators and 48 Dem House members voted for the Laken Riley Act—allowing US Govt to deport immigrants on the mere accusation of a crime.
As you see those 60 Dems complain about Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, or Kilmar Abrego Garcia, among many more—please know they enabled this fascism.
As you see those 60 Dems complain about Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, or Kilmar Abrego Garcia, among many more—please know they enabled this fascism.
April 15, 2025 at 3:46 AM
12 Dem Senators and 48 Dem House members voted for the Laken Riley Act—allowing US Govt to deport immigrants on the mere accusation of a crime.
As you see those 60 Dems complain about Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, or Kilmar Abrego Garcia, among many more—please know they enabled this fascism.
As you see those 60 Dems complain about Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, or Kilmar Abrego Garcia, among many more—please know they enabled this fascism.
So I think this recession/depression is going to really show us who all the evil people are at least
April 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
So I think this recession/depression is going to really show us who all the evil people are at least
Reposted by Billy Poer
BREAKING: Everything.
April 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
BREAKING: Everything.
Reposted by Billy Poer
if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually
April 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually
Reposted by Billy Poer
the truth of the matter is the old constitutional order is dead already. most people just don't know it yet and some will refuse to believe it up until someone marches them past the dead bodies and makes them reckon with the world we live in rather than the fantasies they choose to inhabit
Trump v. US is increasingly looking like a historically catastrophic Supreme Court ruling
Dred Scott, Plessy, Lochner, Korematsu-level bad
except on this one there may be no lever to with which to pull back
Dred Scott, Plessy, Lochner, Korematsu-level bad
except on this one there may be no lever to with which to pull back
March 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
the truth of the matter is the old constitutional order is dead already. most people just don't know it yet and some will refuse to believe it up until someone marches them past the dead bodies and makes them reckon with the world we live in rather than the fantasies they choose to inhabit
Reposted by Billy Poer
the entire political project of the american right is to create a hierarchy with protected in-groups and punished out-groups. there is no moral nor political upside in meeting them half way on any of those out-groups. the only people in a bubble are those who deny that hierarchy is their agenda
March 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
the entire political project of the american right is to create a hierarchy with protected in-groups and punished out-groups. there is no moral nor political upside in meeting them half way on any of those out-groups. the only people in a bubble are those who deny that hierarchy is their agenda
Reposted by Billy Poer
Reposted by Billy Poer
Reposted by Billy Poer
At least four people have DIED in ICE detention facilities. They are killing people in our name.
Migrants found dead at Krome Detention Center in Miami, due to possible starvation and dehydration.
The facility, which was a detention facility prior to it being converted for ICE use, has a max capacity of 500.
The facility, which was a detention facility prior to it being converted for ICE use, has a max capacity of 500.
‘They are being treated like dogs': Families concerned over living conditions at Krome Detention Center
Family members of detainees being held at Krome Detention Center are speaking out about the alleged harsh conditions of the facility.
www.nbcmiami.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
At least four people have DIED in ICE detention facilities. They are killing people in our name.
He said this would happen and look what they did. The apartheid state must be dissolved for any peace to be achieved.
Israeli settlers beat up Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the documentary film No Other Land, in the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses. He was then detained by the Israeli military.
Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers, detained by army
Israeli settlers beat up Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the documentary film No Other Land, in the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses. He was then detained by the Israel...
www.npr.org
March 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
He said this would happen and look what they did. The apartheid state must be dissolved for any peace to be achieved.
Reposted by Billy Poer
Some of "us" need to remember what NEVER AGAIN means... 🤬👀🙅🏼♀️
March 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Some of "us" need to remember what NEVER AGAIN means... 🤬👀🙅🏼♀️
Reposted by Billy Poer
Trump is already defying the courts.
He has no more right to defy a district court than the Supreme Court.
Essentially saying all lower court rulings are optional for Trump is legally incorrect and irresponsible.
He has no more right to defy a district court than the Supreme Court.
Essentially saying all lower court rulings are optional for Trump is legally incorrect and irresponsible.
Schumer: "If he defies the Supreme Court, then we are in uncharted territory ... our entire democracy is at risk. I believe that if Donald Trump should defy the courts, the public will rise up. Democrats will fight it in every single way ... autocrats only succeed if the public lets them."
March 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Trump is already defying the courts.
He has no more right to defy a district court than the Supreme Court.
Essentially saying all lower court rulings are optional for Trump is legally incorrect and irresponsible.
He has no more right to defy a district court than the Supreme Court.
Essentially saying all lower court rulings are optional for Trump is legally incorrect and irresponsible.