Tony Somogyi 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇪🇺
@tonysomo.bsky.social
Father, grandfather, humanist, life long Democrat, Physician, with wide ranging interests in literature, science, art and nature.
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This article opens with a 3-year-old forced to represent herself in court. We live in a fundamentally sick country.
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
This article opens with a 3-year-old forced to represent herself in court. We live in a fundamentally sick country.
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Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱
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The results of a very close election in Ontario County are finally in. A Democrat has unseated the incumbent Republican for Canandaigua NY town supervisor.
Don Cotter won over Jared Simpson by just 12 votes. www.whec.com/top-news/dem...
Don Cotter won over Jared Simpson by just 12 votes. www.whec.com/top-news/dem...
Democrat Don Cotter wins Canandaigua town supervisor race by narrow margin
ONTARIO COUNTY, N.Y. — The results of a very close election in Ontario County are finally in. A Democrat has unseated the incumbent Republican for Canandaigua town supervisor.Don Cotter won over Jared...
www.whec.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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This is a really good piece!
(though I am once again begging people to move off Substack)
(though I am once again begging people to move off Substack)
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This is a really good piece!
(though I am once again begging people to move off Substack)
(though I am once again begging people to move off Substack)
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Under Trump, America is committing war crimes. But under Biden, there were irritating student protests at a college I did not attend. I have never felt more politically homeless.
December 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Under Trump, America is committing war crimes. But under Biden, there were irritating student protests at a college I did not attend. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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it’s what a depraved society looks like — being a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” is accepted and amplified into a cultural norm, not a breach of norms
There is something so deeply disturbing about this:
Just the NYTimes checking in with ordinary Americans about whether the government killing people it accuses of a crime with no trial is okay or not.
That combo of quote and photo alone is some straight-up dark @stephenking.bsky.social fantasy
Just the NYTimes checking in with ordinary Americans about whether the government killing people it accuses of a crime with no trial is okay or not.
That combo of quote and photo alone is some straight-up dark @stephenking.bsky.social fantasy
December 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
it’s what a depraved society looks like — being a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” is accepted and amplified into a cultural norm, not a breach of norms
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Culturally normal is a dog whistle.
Gavin Newsom Urges Democrats to Be ‘More Culturally Normal’
YouTube video by The New York Times
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Culturally normal is a dog whistle.
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By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Fuck. Jake. Tapper.
Biden never slept through meetings but Jake Tapper wrote a whole book about how he was too old.
December 6, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Fuck. Jake. Tapper.
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“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.“
We’ll take the Statue of Liberty & these new U.S. citizens.
You can keep Stephen Miller and Donald Trump, and their small, cruel, heartless racism.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
We’ll take the Statue of Liberty & these new U.S. citizens.
You can keep Stephen Miller and Donald Trump, and their small, cruel, heartless racism.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.“
We’ll take the Statue of Liberty & these new U.S. citizens.
You can keep Stephen Miller and Donald Trump, and their small, cruel, heartless racism.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
We’ll take the Statue of Liberty & these new U.S. citizens.
You can keep Stephen Miller and Donald Trump, and their small, cruel, heartless racism.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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Prof Tim Snyder’s Shadow Cabinet would be a way for Democrats to capture the media narrative.
A periodic presser with economic data, DOGE impact, anti-science consequences & a tally of Trump & family/sycophants corruption would be quite powerful.
It might even instruct the “low information” voters.
A periodic presser with economic data, DOGE impact, anti-science consequences & a tally of Trump & family/sycophants corruption would be quite powerful.
It might even instruct the “low information” voters.
December 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Prof Tim Snyder’s Shadow Cabinet would be a way for Democrats to capture the media narrative.
A periodic presser with economic data, DOGE impact, anti-science consequences & a tally of Trump & family/sycophants corruption would be quite powerful.
It might even instruct the “low information” voters.
A periodic presser with economic data, DOGE impact, anti-science consequences & a tally of Trump & family/sycophants corruption would be quite powerful.
It might even instruct the “low information” voters.
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We stand with you!
December 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
We stand with you!
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Never, ever in my life would i have thought the USA would have a criminally corrupt government that is actively attacking its people. Yet here we are with tRump and the Republicans.
December 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Never, ever in my life would i have thought the USA would have a criminally corrupt government that is actively attacking its people. Yet here we are with tRump and the Republicans.
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@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
December 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
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The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs has selected three artists — Ifeoma Ebo, Stephen Kwok, and Mauricio Higuera — to be embedded across public agencies over the next year as part of a municipal residency program.
NYC Announces Three New Public Artists in Residence
Ifeoma Ebo, Stephen Kwok, and Mauricio Higuera will bring “creative problem solving” to three public agencies.
hyperallergic.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs has selected three artists — Ifeoma Ebo, Stephen Kwok, and Mauricio Higuera — to be embedded across public agencies over the next year as part of a municipal residency program.
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I've been saying this for a year now: the Democrats have missed a gigantic political opportunity--and, at this point, have failed in an ethical obligation--to create a shadow-government health department that dispenses medically accurate information, guidance, and advice.
WATCH: A CDC panel voted to end the recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, despite a 99% drop in cases since in the 30 years since it was implemented. Chris Hayes and Brandy Zadrozny react. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6REM...
CDC Panel ends recommendation for newborn hepatitis B shot
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I've been saying this for a year now: the Democrats have missed a gigantic political opportunity--and, at this point, have failed in an ethical obligation--to create a shadow-government health department that dispenses medically accurate information, guidance, and advice.
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When our government and "business leaders" insist on trading with illegal entities in the occupied territories, this - and much worse - is what they are endorsing, funding, and seeking to profit from.
#Ireland
#Ireland
NEW | Israel’s settlers and army crushed Palestine’s 2025 olive harvest. Farmers were barred from their groves, hit with 167 settler attacks, and locked out of 25,000 dunams. Output collapsed to just 7–8k tonnes — the worst in decades — deepening hardship and accelerating land theft.
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
When our government and "business leaders" insist on trading with illegal entities in the occupied territories, this - and much worse - is what they are endorsing, funding, and seeking to profit from.
#Ireland
#Ireland
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TODAY, here at the @ascbiology.bsky.social annual meeting, Philadelphia Convention Center.
Our sessions starts at 1pm ET!
Our sessions starts at 1pm ET!
I will be discussing #ScienceUnderSiege at the special presidential session on "The Rising Tide of Science Denial" at the annual @ascbiology.bsky.social meeting in Philadelphia on Saturday Dec 6: www.ascb.org/cellbio2025/...
December 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
TODAY, here at the @ascbiology.bsky.social annual meeting, Philadelphia Convention Center.
Our sessions starts at 1pm ET!
Our sessions starts at 1pm ET!
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A new report from Amnesty International, found that the Everglades detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz punished detainees in "The Box"—a 2x2 foot outdoor cage where victims are shackled, exposed to sweltering heat and swarms of insects, and denied water in a calculated act of torture.
December 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A new report from Amnesty International, found that the Everglades detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz punished detainees in "The Box"—a 2x2 foot outdoor cage where victims are shackled, exposed to sweltering heat and swarms of insects, and denied water in a calculated act of torture.
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Ahead of Monday's SCOTUS arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, any decision that allows the president to "ignore the checks and balances" would mean the president can act as a kind of "mob boss-like figure," @lmillerkaralunas.bsky.social to @rollcall.com. #[bit.ly/3MiUEkh
Supreme Court to hear oral arguments on Rebecca Slaughter firing - Roll Call
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday over President Donald Trump’s decision to fire Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter.
rollcall.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Ahead of Monday's SCOTUS arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, any decision that allows the president to "ignore the checks and balances" would mean the president can act as a kind of "mob boss-like figure," @lmillerkaralunas.bsky.social to @rollcall.com. #[bit.ly/3MiUEkh
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This is extremely true
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is extremely true