@proteusfinnerty.bsky.social
A work in progress, and a big fan of the question mark. Working on trust issues but willing to share some details by request. Placing hope in community and the arts at present.
03.11.2025 15:34 — 👍 31 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
This sucks. Teen Vogue has been a real bright spot in political media. I hope the excellent journalists there find a home quickly.
03.11.2025 20:45 — 👍 477 🔁 108 💬 14 📌 1Trump’s approval rating hit a new low—37%—while 63% now disapprove of his presidency.
A majority of Americans say he’s abusing power: 61% believe he’s overreached with executive authority, and 57% say his deportation campaign has gone too far.
The backlash is building 💪
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Last year, the DOJ criticized Memphis police for using minor infractions as a pretext to search people for serious crimes. Under Trump’s crackdown, it’s happening again. @wendicthomas.bsky.social @katieburgess.bsky.social @mlk50.com
03.11.2025 13:29 — 👍 222 🔁 78 💬 1 📌 3
Backstory: americansongwriter.com/the-ozzy-osb...
02.11.2025 23:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
This kind of line should only be in a horror film, not a news brief.
I feel so bad because usually you’d hope the us governent would do something, but the people in charge revel in this.
Jeffries: "Why have House Republicans remained on a taxpayer funded vacation for the last 6 weeks? Of course they are unserious as it relates to reopening the government. Why has Trump spent more time on the golf course, including this weekend, than he has talking to Democrats on Capitol Hill?"
02.11.2025 14:29 — 👍 2385 🔁 718 💬 110 📌 21Does anyone know of a place to search and sort through public zotero collections - eg www.zotero.org/groups/48789... and www.zotero.org/groups/52433... #library?
30.10.2025 18:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mike Johnson has spent his entire career trying to end SNAP and affordable insurance. Now he thinks Dems have a Sophies Choice. Save heath care for 20-30 million Americans or save SNAP benefits for 42 million. Johnson is salivating at the thought of inflicting so much pain on so many. #ProudBlue
29.10.2025 19:05 — 👍 207 🔁 99 💬 28 📌 4Congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social, who was indicted today for protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility: "We've been punched, dragged, thrown, shot with pepper balls, tear gassed, rubber bullets from snipers on roofs going into local businesses windows."
30.10.2025 00:47 — 👍 5516 🔁 1936 💬 108 📌 67This sums it up. She deserves a Grammy. 👻
30.10.2025 02:21 — 👍 64 🔁 44 💬 1 📌 0This is exactly why I was screaming in the spring for everyone who is a naturalized citizen to check their status at SSA, and get their status corrected if it was wrong. It is NOT always an automatic thing. 😬😬😬
30.10.2025 11:36 — 👍 106 🔁 55 💬 5 📌 1
U.S. Senate Democrats urged Republican leaders Wednesday to pass a bill to extend critical food assistance for the most vulnerable Americans during the ongoing government shutdown.
via @jennifershutt.bsky.social @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/food...
Alexander Furnas <zfurnas@gmail.com> 3:11 PM (4 minutes ago) to john.faulk, thomas.ryan, sumner.waring, bcc: Amy, bcc: George Dear Mr. Faulk, Mr. Ryan, and Mr. Waring, My mother is buried in Rosehill Cemetery, a Dignity property in Chicago, which your company manages. My father also holds a reserved plot there. I was deeply disturbed to learn that today, armed and masked federal agents were using the cemetery grounds as a staging area for immigration enforcement operations in the surrounding community. I want to be clear: I do not expect SCI or Dignity to take political positions. What I do expect is that you uphold the dignity, sanctity, and safety of the spaces entrusted to your care. Cemeteries are sacred ground—places of mourning, reflection, and remembrance. Allowing armed, unidentified agents in unmarked vehicles to occupy that space desecrates it. It frightens visitors, community members, and employees alike, and it betrays the trust of the families who have chosen Rosehill as their loved ones’ final resting place. As a private entity, SCI and Dignity have the legal right to prohibit ICE, CBP, and other federal enforcement personnel from using your property for such operations without a judicial warrant. I urge you to exercise that right and to adopt clear policies ensuring that no government agency may use any cemetery grounds under your management for enforcement or staging purposes. Doing so is not a political act—it is a moral and professional obligation to the deceased, their families, and your own staff. Many of those interred at Rosehill, and the families who visit them, are immigrants themselves. To allow their resting place to be used in acts that terrorize the living descendants of immigrant communities is a profound moral failure. I ask that you take immediate steps to ensure that this never happens again and communicate publicly your commitment to protecting the sanctity of these grounds. I am requesting a written response outlining yo…
my letter to the CEO, President, and COO of Services Corporation International, the owner of Dignity Memorial, which manages the cemetery in which my mom is buried that was being used as an ICE staging ground this afternoon.
29.10.2025 20:17 — 👍 436 🔁 148 💬 16 📌 10Breaking on MSNBC:
Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.
The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings. n.pr/4ntG3PR
29.10.2025 14:57 — 👍 985 🔁 600 💬 132 📌 137
Rachel Maddow, the most influential host on MSNBC, called out parent company Comcast on Monday night for being among the corporations that contributed financially to the White House’s expensive East Wing ballroom construction project. This is nothing more than bribery of an elected official.
28.10.2025 17:31 — 👍 39 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0The federal emergency funds are intended to be used to fund programs like SNAP during a shut down.
Refusing to release these funds is a choice by the president to intentionally starve Americans.
#Pinks
Tiktok creator: cynicalurbanhomesteader
Trump’s “war on drugs” has now killed at least 57 people and Colombia’s Deputy Foreign Minister tells the BBC the U.S. strikes were “disproportionate and outside international law.” No trial. No defense. Just death.
#TrumpWarCrimes #BBCNews
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
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Can't wait to hear how Rs and MAGA blame Dems for this.
#TrumpShutdown
#RepublicanShutdown
#Healthcare
The most terrified people in the world about Trump’s upcoming summit with Xi are the Taiwanese. With good reason.
26.10.2025 16:29 — 👍 1592 🔁 286 💬 60 📌 13My understanding is the law says to use the contingency fund. Time to enforce it, governors.
26.10.2025 15:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0USDA is legally required to use the contingency funds on SNAP benefits for November.
In July, President Trump and Congressional Republicans enacted the largest cuts to SNAP in history.
The reason they aren't planning on providing SNAP benefits is that they don't want to.
This is such a great callout…
Does your Christian church have a plan to help the community when SNAP benefits don’t go out in November?
If not, you’re at the wrong church.
Tell everyone you know in Massachusetts. www.mass.gov/info-details...
25.10.2025 18:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
DO NOT BE DISTRACTED!!!
TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.
