@ssheppard.bsky.social
Reprehensible maga colonialism.
Ugh.
And there ya have it…
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
January 3, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Reprehensible maga colonialism.
Reposted
Update: President Trump said the U.S. will run Venezuela until a "proper transition can take place," as he defended Saturday's military strikes that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.
Trump says U.S. will 'run' Venezuela and sell seized oil in remarks on the strikes
President Trump said the U.S. will run Venezuela until a "proper transition can take place," as he defended Saturday's military strikes that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.
n.pr
January 3, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Update: President Trump said the U.S. will run Venezuela until a "proper transition can take place," as he defended Saturday's military strikes that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.
Reposted
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
January 3, 2026 at 8:01 PM
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
Reposted
The military removal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on US drug charges comes after Trump has freed other figures connected to narcotics trafficking. n.pr/4skk4yB
Maduro's ouster on drug charges comes as Trump lets others free
The military removal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on US drug charges comes after Trump has freed other figures connected to narcotics trafficking.
n.pr
January 3, 2026 at 8:48 PM
The military removal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on US drug charges comes after Trump has freed other figures connected to narcotics trafficking. n.pr/4skk4yB
Reposted
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air
December 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air
Reposted
This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
Reposted
Happy Christmas to all our supporters. It is heartbreaking and shameful that this is the third December of apartheid Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. And the third year of no sanctions or end to Irish state complicity from our government. We will never stop fighting
December 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Happy Christmas to all our supporters. It is heartbreaking and shameful that this is the third December of apartheid Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. And the third year of no sanctions or end to Irish state complicity from our government. We will never stop fighting
Reposted
Food shortages, tents filled with sewage, and medical neglect are the grim norm at ICE's Fort Bliss detention center.
Every new facility that ICE rushes to open is destined to be plagued by the same inhumane conditions unless Congress takes action.
Every new facility that ICE rushes to open is destined to be plagued by the same inhumane conditions unless Congress takes action.
Immigrants Detained at Fort Bliss in Texas Report Abuse and Inhumane Conditions
Detained people at largest immigration detention facility in the country report accounts of physical and sexual abuse.
www.aclu.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Food shortages, tents filled with sewage, and medical neglect are the grim norm at ICE's Fort Bliss detention center.
Every new facility that ICE rushes to open is destined to be plagued by the same inhumane conditions unless Congress takes action.
Every new facility that ICE rushes to open is destined to be plagued by the same inhumane conditions unless Congress takes action.
Reposted
Please make sure every military member you know knows this.
Trump’s promise Wednesday to pay troops a “warrior dividend” bonus is actually a military housing stipend already approved by Congress, and not a generous new White House program.
Trump claims credit for military bonus that Congress already approved
The White House’s plans for a “warrior dividend” to reward troops this holiday season are actually housing assistance funds approved this summer.
www.politico.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Please make sure every military member you know knows this.
Reposted
Donald Trump’s televised speech last night was a “presidential address unworthy of the American people and the American nation and its democracy,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/e8RHbR3R
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Donald Trump’s televised speech last night was a “presidential address unworthy of the American people and the American nation and its democracy,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/e8RHbR3R
Reposted
Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.
www.propublica.org
December 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
Reposted
One of the most aggravating elements of the so-called debate over gun violence is the despicable falsehood pushed by Republicans and conservatives:
They are coming to confiscate your guns.
They are coming to confiscate your guns.
The most despicable lie from the guns-over-all gang
No, they're not coming for your guns.
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
One of the most aggravating elements of the so-called debate over gun violence is the despicable falsehood pushed by Republicans and conservatives:
They are coming to confiscate your guns.
They are coming to confiscate your guns.
Very clear.
After our last post, MAGA voices rushed to claim that Trump had nothing to do with the traffic stop involving Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s son, where federal agents demanded proof of his citizenship. Let’s be clear about why this is not a coincidence.
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Very clear.
Reposted
Here in Illinois, we're ensuring that all mothers have access to the full spectrum of maternal health care.
US News has recognized 23 Illinois hospitals as high-performing in its ranking of the Best Hospitals for Maternity Care.
It's a testament to the progress we've made here.
US News has recognized 23 Illinois hospitals as high-performing in its ranking of the Best Hospitals for Maternity Care.
It's a testament to the progress we've made here.
December 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Here in Illinois, we're ensuring that all mothers have access to the full spectrum of maternal health care.
US News has recognized 23 Illinois hospitals as high-performing in its ranking of the Best Hospitals for Maternity Care.
It's a testament to the progress we've made here.
US News has recognized 23 Illinois hospitals as high-performing in its ranking of the Best Hospitals for Maternity Care.
It's a testament to the progress we've made here.
Reposted
Pete Hegseth has got to go.
He has always been a racist, sexist transphobe — but now, it's been made clear that he is responsible for the illegal boat strikes that killed helpless civilians at sea who had not been charged or convicted of any crime. That is murder.
He has always been a racist, sexist transphobe — but now, it's been made clear that he is responsible for the illegal boat strikes that killed helpless civilians at sea who had not been charged or convicted of any crime. That is murder.
December 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Pete Hegseth has got to go.
He has always been a racist, sexist transphobe — but now, it's been made clear that he is responsible for the illegal boat strikes that killed helpless civilians at sea who had not been charged or convicted of any crime. That is murder.
He has always been a racist, sexist transphobe — but now, it's been made clear that he is responsible for the illegal boat strikes that killed helpless civilians at sea who had not been charged or convicted of any crime. That is murder.
Reposted
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Reposted
Shameful caving in to the US administration and corporate interests, a betrayal of the will of the majority of Irish people. The ICJ is clear, states have a legal obligation to end apartheid Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine #OccupiedTerritoriesBill
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Occupied Territories Bill strictly limited to goods, says Minister
Limitation would mean banning just a handful of products imported from Israeli-occupied territories
www.irishtimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Shameful caving in to the US administration and corporate interests, a betrayal of the will of the majority of Irish people. The ICJ is clear, states have a legal obligation to end apartheid Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine #OccupiedTerritoriesBill
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Reposted
As long as Spotify is taking money from ICE, they don’t need or deserve free advertising for Spotify Wrapped.
Stop using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop (and be on the lookout for Fascism Wrapped in Los Angeles, Austin, and NYC): indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
Stop using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop (and be on the lookout for Fascism Wrapped in Los Angeles, Austin, and NYC): indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
December 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
As long as Spotify is taking money from ICE, they don’t need or deserve free advertising for Spotify Wrapped.
Stop using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop (and be on the lookout for Fascism Wrapped in Los Angeles, Austin, and NYC): indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
Stop using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop (and be on the lookout for Fascism Wrapped in Los Angeles, Austin, and NYC): indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
Reposted
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
December 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
Reposted
Trump is now directly threatening Indiana lawmakers that if they refuse to pass his preferred gerrymander, he’ll strip the state of federal funding. Not metaphorically, literally.
December 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Trump is now directly threatening Indiana lawmakers that if they refuse to pass his preferred gerrymander, he’ll strip the state of federal funding. Not metaphorically, literally.
Reposted
Workers can’t afford the drive to work, but billionaires never pay for gas.
Stop calling it a “market correction.”
Call it what it is: extraction.
#TrumpInflationCrisis
Stop calling it a “market correction.”
Call it what it is: extraction.
#TrumpInflationCrisis
December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Workers can’t afford the drive to work, but billionaires never pay for gas.
Stop calling it a “market correction.”
Call it what it is: extraction.
#TrumpInflationCrisis
Stop calling it a “market correction.”
Call it what it is: extraction.
#TrumpInflationCrisis
Reposted
You don’t need to be a Democrat to know this is wrong — you just need a conscience. If you can hear what these people survived in ICE custody and feel no outrage, then we are not standing on the same side of right and wrong.
December 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
You don’t need to be a Democrat to know this is wrong — you just need a conscience. If you can hear what these people survived in ICE custody and feel no outrage, then we are not standing on the same side of right and wrong.
Reposted
More than two dozen Members of Congress showed up to my fifth shadow hearing on the horrific conditions in Trump’s ICE detention centers.
Thank you to everyone who spoke up — we will continue to shine a light on this injustice and inhumanity.
Thank you to everyone who spoke up — we will continue to shine a light on this injustice and inhumanity.
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
More than two dozen Members of Congress showed up to my fifth shadow hearing on the horrific conditions in Trump’s ICE detention centers.
Thank you to everyone who spoke up — we will continue to shine a light on this injustice and inhumanity.
Thank you to everyone who spoke up — we will continue to shine a light on this injustice and inhumanity.
Reposted
It's like they are actively trying to kill the tourist industry.
December 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It's like they are actively trying to kill the tourist industry.