Subverting Expectations
@drsmart.bsky.social
Woman owned online & pop-up bookstore. 📚 She/her
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents?
Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?
Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?
January 25, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents?
Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?
Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
All regime mouthpieces who have lied about the murder of VA nurse Alex Pretti must resign immediately. All DHS officials and agents involved must be prosecuted.
January 24, 2026 at 8:42 PM
All regime mouthpieces who have lied about the murder of VA nurse Alex Pretti must resign immediately. All DHS officials and agents involved must be prosecuted.
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
The video is harrowing.
6-8 ICE agents piled on Pretti.
One of them starts pistol-whipping him in the face.
Then a shot rings out.
The one with the gun unloads repeatedly into Pretti.
Then a 2nd ICE shooter stepped back from his lifeless body and shot him 5-6 more times.
Absolute savagery.
6-8 ICE agents piled on Pretti.
One of them starts pistol-whipping him in the face.
Then a shot rings out.
The one with the gun unloads repeatedly into Pretti.
Then a 2nd ICE shooter stepped back from his lifeless body and shot him 5-6 more times.
Absolute savagery.
January 25, 2026 at 12:13 AM
The video is harrowing.
6-8 ICE agents piled on Pretti.
One of them starts pistol-whipping him in the face.
Then a shot rings out.
The one with the gun unloads repeatedly into Pretti.
Then a 2nd ICE shooter stepped back from his lifeless body and shot him 5-6 more times.
Absolute savagery.
6-8 ICE agents piled on Pretti.
One of them starts pistol-whipping him in the face.
Then a shot rings out.
The one with the gun unloads repeatedly into Pretti.
Then a 2nd ICE shooter stepped back from his lifeless body and shot him 5-6 more times.
Absolute savagery.
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
Indeed.
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
January 24, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Indeed.
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
In the meantime...
📢 Surely the N Rifle Ass wants to hear from citizens that a white male licensed gun owner & federal employee in a Repub admimistration, exercising his 2A rights, was murdered in the street in broad daylight before multiple witnesses who have video evidence.
📢 Surely the N Rifle Ass wants to hear from citizens that a white male licensed gun owner & federal employee in a Repub admimistration, exercising his 2A rights, was murdered in the street in broad daylight before multiple witnesses who have video evidence.
January 24, 2026 at 10:00 PM
In the meantime...
📢 Surely the N Rifle Ass wants to hear from citizens that a white male licensed gun owner & federal employee in a Repub admimistration, exercising his 2A rights, was murdered in the street in broad daylight before multiple witnesses who have video evidence.
📢 Surely the N Rifle Ass wants to hear from citizens that a white male licensed gun owner & federal employee in a Repub admimistration, exercising his 2A rights, was murdered in the street in broad daylight before multiple witnesses who have video evidence.
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
Anyways, if you want someone in office who cares about other people and has the track record to prove it, and is ALSO an inveterate shitposter committed to using his powers for good, I’m, uh, running for CA State Assembly District 72 against a MAGA diehard.
January 20, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Anyways, if you want someone in office who cares about other people and has the track record to prove it, and is ALSO an inveterate shitposter committed to using his powers for good, I’m, uh, running for CA State Assembly District 72 against a MAGA diehard.
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
Jones: All you do is keep people fearful because you get paid 45 million a year to keep people fearful so they don’t pay attention to the CEOS taking their healthcare. You don’t care about the American people. You want them to be afraid of immigrants because all you have is fear.
January 21, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Jones: All you do is keep people fearful because you get paid 45 million a year to keep people fearful so they don’t pay attention to the CEOS taking their healthcare. You don’t care about the American people. You want them to be afraid of immigrants because all you have is fear.
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
Look, there are two things killing bookstores, and neither one is ebooks.
One is rent.
The other is *waves hands vaguely* everything costing too damn much.
One is rent.
The other is *waves hands vaguely* everything costing too damn much.
January 19, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Look, there are two things killing bookstores, and neither one is ebooks.
One is rent.
The other is *waves hands vaguely* everything costing too damn much.
One is rent.
The other is *waves hands vaguely* everything costing too damn much.
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
Moulton: I have an idea for ICE funding: zero. That’s what ICE needs.
January 20, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Moulton: I have an idea for ICE funding: zero. That’s what ICE needs.
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
Ellison: This is the essence of dictatorship. It’s the essence of it. And we’ve got to get over the idea that this couldn’t happen here. Not only could it happen here—it’s happening here.
January 19, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Ellison: This is the essence of dictatorship. It’s the essence of it. And we’ve got to get over the idea that this couldn’t happen here. Not only could it happen here—it’s happening here.
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
These elected Dems still don’t get it. @booker.senate.gov
January 17, 2026 at 11:34 PM
These elected Dems still don’t get it. @booker.senate.gov
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis
January 16, 2026 at 4:18 PM
damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
i think powell's response here is a demonstration of the folly of the idea that democratic accountability requires presidential control. what if the president is not acting in the public interest? you want independent agencies to be able to push back and pursue their *congressional mandate*
Powell, showing more guts than almost any GOP legislators:
"The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President."
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
"The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President."
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
January 12, 2026 at 1:43 AM
i think powell's response here is a demonstration of the folly of the idea that democratic accountability requires presidential control. what if the president is not acting in the public interest? you want independent agencies to be able to push back and pursue their *congressional mandate*
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."
January 9, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
You can’t "lone wolf" your way to 93%.
January 9, 2026 at 12:20 AM
You can’t "lone wolf" your way to 93%.
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America.
January 9, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America.
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
They need to be charged criminally at this point. At the state level. No pardons.
Her vehicle's right front panel cleared the ICE agent who didn't open fire until after he was at the side of her vehicle. He used deadly force on a fleeing individual, which is against DHS policy. This is murder. He needs to be arrested.
January 8, 2026 at 2:24 AM
They need to be charged criminally at this point. At the state level. No pardons.
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
Walz: "Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever. I don't want to be right about this, but I said if they do this they're gonna create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is gonna get killed. And they did it."
January 7, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Walz: "Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever. I don't want to be right about this, but I said if they do this they're gonna create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is gonna get killed. And they did it."
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."
January 6, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
Here in the Midwest, data centers threaten to suck up fresh water from our Great Lakes. Just one of may examples includes a Microsoft plant now under construction near Racine, WI that is expected to use upwards of 8 MILLION gallons a day. A day! That is not okay.
Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
December 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Here in the Midwest, data centers threaten to suck up fresh water from our Great Lakes. Just one of may examples includes a Microsoft plant now under construction near Racine, WI that is expected to use upwards of 8 MILLION gallons a day. A day! That is not okay.
Reposted by Subverting Expectations
Actually, it’s worse than this
Not only was Musk completely ignorant of what USAID did and how many lives it saved
He also called it a “criminal organization” that “needs to die”
And Trump-being even MORE stupid and ignorant-let him kill it
Not only was Musk completely ignorant of what USAID did and how many lives it saved
He also called it a “criminal organization” that “needs to die”
And Trump-being even MORE stupid and ignorant-let him kill it
December 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Actually, it’s worse than this
Not only was Musk completely ignorant of what USAID did and how many lives it saved
He also called it a “criminal organization” that “needs to die”
And Trump-being even MORE stupid and ignorant-let him kill it
Not only was Musk completely ignorant of what USAID did and how many lives it saved
He also called it a “criminal organization” that “needs to die”
And Trump-being even MORE stupid and ignorant-let him kill it