Ashley

#1 Bluesky post, past 7 days

I dare you to read it three times in a quiet comfortable space, then close your eyes and contemplate the reality of it

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

The details of what Israel is doing to Greta Thunberg are horrifying. Where are all the world leaders who were more than happy to do photo ops with her for years until she had the audacity to criticize neoliberalism or imperialism? Silence from Biden and Trudeau

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

This is why they’re deleting studies

This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions

A wild thing for the literal president, who uses the military as his plaything against his enemies, to say in a special address to the nation from behind the resolute desk, when a motive is not even known

Do not be bullied, cowed, or shamed by bad-faith right-wing actors and MAGA that are blaming "liberals" and everyone who isn't MAGA for Charlie Kirk.

Call them out for their hypocrisy. Go on offense. They are fine with political violence and mass shootings when it's against the rest of us.

Or maybe you could teach your kids to treat all people as deserving of respect and dignity. And maybe you could talk to your kids about homelessness, the unaffordability of housing and healthcare, the stigma around mental illness, and why it's not okay to call people crazy.

Anyone who tries to teach this about slavery to a child should be fired immediately.

More from Newsom’s press office.

No, JD, belonging in America does not depend on how many generations of your family have lived here. The values of this country matter - deeply - to who we are and what it means to be American.

A Real Place Deserves Real Rights Statehood for Washington, D.C., is a matter of justice.

"There really is one crucial, unbridgeable difference between Washingtonians and other Americans: You have more power than we do—a lot more power"
Statehood for DC!
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Hottest crime zone in Washington DC

‘Past The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death "In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...

NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s"

An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

We’re minutes away from trump giving private tours of Area 51 in the hopes of distracting from Epstein.

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: “You’ve got no rights.” He secretly recorded his brutal arrest.

@brontyman.bsky.social

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Shocking Video Captures Calm Police Officers Handling Situation Nonviolently

Bondi Fires First Replacement After Judges Reject Habba Appointment Read more here.

Another solid, well-respected DOJ prosecutor, sacrifed on the altar of Trumpism www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Women in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, including those who are pregnant or postpartum, are being violently detained, denied critical medical care, and subjected to inhumane treatment.

"Obviously, I wouldn’t be doing my kids any favors if I sent them out into the world not knowing how to sustain a gunshot wound to the chest." theonion.com/if-i-ta...

Please share if you're able; our young ones need to know:

You matter. And you are NEVER alone. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid

This is disgusting. Even in the era of no shame, it’s shameful. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."

h/t @msnbc.com

Hosted @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in Washington today!

The color coordination wasn’t planned. 😂🌹💫

This is illegal and violating so many civil rights it isn't even funny.

Court orders don't help when they aren't obeyed or ENFORCED.

Laws don't work when they are disregard and BROKEN.

This has to stop. People are going to die.

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.