Barbara Oiler

"Trump has accused Democrats of threatening the country’s economy with socialism. Yet his administration has managed to wreck the country’s finances worse than any government in US history, without the excuse of an economic crisis or a successful major war." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

That Vivek Ramaswamy ad might end up being the worst own goal we've seen in a major race. Platforming the estranged mother of your opponent to attack her, only for everyone to discover that the mother protected the rapist of her 12-year-old daughter and stayed married to him, is beyond despicable.

Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

So the person who was assaulted gets manhandled by the cops, and the guy who attacked her gets to go about his day. Anyone still wondering why we say ACAB?

The Washington Sun reported last week that the White House has instructed the Justice Department to hold off on attacking abortion until after the midterms. After that, they’ve promised anti-abortion leaders, “the gloves will be off.” They are just getting started. But here’s the thing: so are we.

I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:

USPS in Utah dumped 300 mail-in ballots into a parking lot garbage bin. USPS’s current defense? “Laziness.”

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I don’t even know what to say anymore jessica.substack.com/p/her-baby-h...

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Pay attention, this is what the modern day Republican Party thinks of us women. He’s not some crazy outlier, he’s the norm, most of them are just smart enough to say it more subtly

Just be grateful for Donarrhea's astonishing incompetence.

The Buttigiegs have experienced a nightmare that should never have happened at all. I hope whoever is responsible is found and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Anyone who argues that Democrats should move to the right on their most popular political issue either has no understanding of abortion politics, or is anti-abortion themselves. In the case of yesterday's NYT op-ed—it appears to be both jessica.substack.com/p/new-york-t...

The manosphere is finally right: family courts are biased. Turns out, they’re biased against women. Studies show judges routinely excuse documented child abuse and rape because a guy put on a suit and acted nice for an hour. But do go on about your "oppression."

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Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.

The waiting period has already been ruled unconstitutional, but republicans don’t care. They are so obsessed with controlling women’s bodies there is no low they won’t stoop to

photo ID paired with a birth certificate, naturalization certificate, or similar document all presented in person. Don’t let them gaslight you. For most Americans, your Real ID (the one the government forced you to get) gets you through airport security. That’s it. Please help us spread the truth!

For anyone who wants to argue that this is too crazy to worry about, people thought the same thing about “abortion in the water” and look where we’re at now. Stop being cavalier about how insane these people are, and start doing whatever you can to stop them

I can't believe a sitting United States Senator assaulted a veteran.

After Renee Good was killed, career FBI agents were ordered to stand down from investigating her killing. Why? Kash Patel wanted to falsely spin Renee Good as a threat to law enforcement.

Don't let them try to pin this on the left or on racial or sexual minorities like they always try to do.

Worth remembering and noting.

Broken hearted 💔

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson died today at the age of 84. He was only the second Black person to seek a major party’s nomination for president. The Library's collections contain materials related to his life, activism and political career, including these shoelaces. 🧵

Special for my friends in the media! Before you use numbers from a new DHS “economic impact analysis” in reporting on a new Trump prison camp, please consider that these reports appear to be (to use a technical term) horseshit. Helpful explanation here: projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/federal-ec...

How Pam Bondi will be remembered in history.

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

Government records reviewed by ProPublica identify the two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

ALEX JEFFREY PRETTI. Gone, but never forgotten... #RIP_Alex 💔

"We are out there in every place they are, showing them that every person in this city is one of our own, that there is no such thing as other people’s children, that collectively we are not afraid of staring them in the eye," @erikhane.bsky.social writes from Minneapolis.

ICE is out of control.

Look at this letter a school in Hawaii sent home with kids … ICE shit..

“A bruise is internal bleeding” In case anyone was still taking CBS News(max) seriously

Keith Porter, Peace, Power. 🙏🏾

*Blows whistle repeatedly ICE is here on bluesky Act accordingly icegov.bsky.social

MAGA is trying to justify the Portland shooting by arguing that the people drove off after being shot, and that this somehow explains why the agents fled the scene. At the same time, federal agents are claiming the victims were “gang members” who attempted to run them over with a car.

WTF?!? It appears a new trend is starting. On Thursday, January 8, 2026, federal immigration agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shot a married couple in Portland, Oregon during a vehicle stop.

I’m laid up with the flu, but I had to peek my head out and say that this is *so* much worse than it seems. And it’s already pretty fucking bad! bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

"We’re stuck in a sort of mass political psychosis: with pundits and strategists advising Democrats to compromise on their most powerful and popular issue and Democrats acquiescing—forever hedging their language and refusing to go on offense." jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-b...

There's no bottom anymore. #GOP #USPol #Trump #MAGAts

Abortion bans have killed another woman in Texas. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Look up at the ones telling you to look down.