@richardbowles.bsky.social
Queer Progressive Christian pastor, Resistance Theologian, Managing Editor of Impact Magazine, writer, and cat-dad. 🏳️🌈🇵🇸He/Him/His.
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
10.11.2025 16:53 — 👍 15971 🔁 4387 💬 1812 📌 498BREAKING:
Trump has just issued pardons to dozens of conservatives who tried to overturn the 2020 election results, including: Mark Meadows, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn, and more — per pardon attorney Ed Martin.
Yeah, the same was true for me when I first heard it back in the day.
10.11.2025 05:18 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0To my trans friends: I see you. The regime cannot change who you are. You determine who you are. No Supreme Court ruling can change your identity. You are beautiful, beloved, and trans. No regime can take away the truth.
10.11.2025 05:08 — 👍 33 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
60-40 C-SPAN vote screen
Under Schumer's leadership, eight Democrats (Cortez Masto, Durbin, Fetterman, Hassan, Kaine, King, Rosen, & Shaheen) joined the Republicans in moving forward a bill to reopen the government without ACA subsidies—Dems' stated key aim—or any other real concessions from the status before the shutdown.
10.11.2025 03:58 — 👍 1111 🔁 393 💬 70 📌 82Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
10.11.2025 01:25 — 👍 16247 🔁 5325 💬 414 📌 290
Dear Democratic Senators: if you vote for this selling out of the ACA it will be the end of your careers. Depend upon it. You are there to defend this country against Trump and the fascists, not collude with them. If you become Quislings, you will forever REMAIN Quislings
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Thank YOU!
09.11.2025 06:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Take stock of everything that is failing us right now.
When the moment comes, don’t seek to restore + improve those institutions.
We should replace them.
It’s heartbreaking.
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Chaos erupted in Little Village.
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The public-facing side of American conservative politics more or less amounts to crashing out constantly about a bunch of shit that either you or the weird liars you listen to uncritically have made up. The non-public part, from what we've seen of the chat logs and such, is somehow much worse.
03.11.2025 23:17 — 👍 2051 🔁 414 💬 15 📌 5Even if the Republican controlled federal government had allowed the $6 billion contingency reserve to be used to fund SNAP benefits it wouldn’t have been enough to completely fund SNAP
Let that sink in, The Trump administration made a conscious choice to starve millions of Americans.
I think that there may be a miscommunication. Precedent has shown that the regime is determined to circumvent the law. We want to plan for that eventuality productively. But by discouraging that communication by labeling it “fatalist,” it feels like shutting the conversation down.
25.10.2025 16:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Given what Miller’s threat to arrest Pritzker for seditious conspiracy, I ask again:
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Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
21.10.2025 18:58 — 👍 17343 🔁 6369 💬 356 📌 312
After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
19.10.2025 13:15 — 👍 2734 🔁 808 💬 40 📌 75Just found out today that I’ve been accepted for ordination in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)!
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ICE agents surrounded, seized, and zip-tied a U.S. citizen who had just finished working a double shift because she didn’t “look” American to them.
She had her U.S. passport on her when she was detained, yet she was interrogated for an hour. trib.al/hDC7Vgv
(between the No Kings logo and an image of a hand holding a sign that reads “REJECTING KINGS SINCE 1776”) Wear yellow. Show up. Show out. Saturday, October 18th. nokings.org
On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑
13.10.2025 21:58 — 👍 1567 🔁 678 💬 160 📌 106a russ vought special
11.10.2025 16:57 — 👍 6506 🔁 1998 💬 218 📌 66ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.
Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.
He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.
Houston, Texas
When this is all over, we’re going to need a plaque OR SOMETHING to memorialize good folks like this neighbor.
10.10.2025 23:10 — 👍 34 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.
07.10.2025 01:06 — 👍 1996 🔁 598 💬 33 📌 19I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
05.10.2025 18:02 — 👍 5637 🔁 1252 💬 95 📌 29ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)
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Trump during the campaign: I never even heard of Project 2025, don’t know anything about it, don’t know who is involved.
Trump today:
