Silverwing

Silverwing

@silverwing33.bsky.social

I'm very into politics (I'm left wing) and a disability activist. I curate political news stories. You can also find me on tumblr, Flipboard and tiktok: silverwing2522

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I get that the media is slow to catch up with things. I'm in the media, I am slow to catch up with things. But the week Reform's crowd looks like this, the BBC chooses _this week_ to go live to Farage's endless remarks on the budget; makes absolutely no sense

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social

By all accounts this is what most of the recent Reform media events have looked like. Bubble well and truly burst

I very much agree! I mean, we have general elections every 4 years BECAUSE of democracy, so its wild that theyre arguing that its undemocratic to have another vote about the EU

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

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Alaska authorities strongly oppose the Trump DOJ’s attempted “interference” in the election. This is significant because there were concerns the state—which sought to DQ the second Sullivan—would take the same side. But it didn’t. Quite the contrary. buff.ly/EJHtDpX

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🚨 FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA VOTERS! More than 7K voters had their registrations flagged over questions about their residential addresses, & the ACLU is raising serious concerns about errors. Check your voter status NOW. If it says “Challenged,” contact Fulton County Elections.

And now i huge much of them are in danger of that health insurance removed under trump and his admin, citing "fraud" as the reason. Except that their idea of "fraud" is ppl not making claims or going to a doctor for a while.

Meidas Sassy™ 🐬@filosia.bsky.social

Because of President Obama... (... And 20 million Americans got health insurance) 💙❤️💙

Also a sign for message of whats going to come for Trump sooner or later

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

GUARDIAN: “Lula’s win is bad news for Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year sentence for that botched power grab… also a blow for Donald Trump, the Bolsonaro clan’s most important international ally.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

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“They’ll say he’s bragging about making money while people are suffering.” Trump brags about how much money oil companies are making and belittles the idea that Americans are suffering from higher prices🤔

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Venues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Disgusting Ad: ‘People Don’t Want Him There’ Businesses have begun pulling out of Vivek Ramaswamy’s bus tour with other GOP candidates. ‘It’s that damn ad,’ a top Ohio Republican tells Zeteo.

zeteo.comVenues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Disgusting Ad: ‘People Don’t Want Him There’Businesses have begun pulling out of Vivek Ramaswamy’s bus tour with other GOP candidates. ‘It’s that damn ad,’ a top Ohio Republican tells Zeteo.

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I’m in Ohio… THIS is blowing up around here. Ohio’s excited! Btw: Same general area, Trump had a rally in Youngstown. He had 3,000 in a 7,000 venue. They tarped off the empty areas. VOTE! VOTE EARLY! Vote Amy Acton & Sherrod Brown

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No one should ever tell Zelensky and the Ukrainian people to give up. Great job. #USDemocracy

News to Remember@moments2remember.link

OMSK IS BURNING! 🔥 Ukraine has just hit the Omsk oil refinery—Russia’s largest fuel production facility, located 2500 km. away from Ukraine’s borders. This is HUGE.

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⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ Today, we revisit the story of a young US Army soldier whose life was tragically cut short. Happy heavenly 97th birthday, Pvt. Garland W. Beach. 🪖 Thank you for your service.🙏🏽 We salute you.🫡🇺🇲 #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory bsky.app/profile/edds...

Eddie Smith@eddsmitty.bsky.social

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 This is Pvt. Garland W. Beach. You won't find him in a history book. He was one of 115,000 troops who took part in Project Longhorn—a Cold War training exercise that turned deadly. Pull up a seat 🪑, my friends.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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What exactly is the White House planning to do leading up to the midterm elections that would necessitate a mass pardon for junior staffers?

The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com

New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers. https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff

now THAT is what i'd want to be livestreamed!

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

i really do think that a successful impeachment and removal of hegseth is a live possibility if dems win the senate. he is a genuine disaster.

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Thrilled to share that the UK edition of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out now from @canongate.co.uk. Though based in Atlanta, the forces pushing working people into homelessness extend far beyond the US. So, too, does the growing movement fighting for safe, dignified housing as a fundamental right.

The riots in France has nothing to do with immigration. She's parroting false information. Isnt there a law about that now?...

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social

The fall in immigration is mutilating Healey’s Budget iandunt.substack.com/p/the-fall-i...

Wildlife rehabilitation centres could help and look at where they could find a new home from them. Theres probably areas around the world that could benefit from having a small mink population 🤷‍♀️

Stefan@baysguy.bsky.social

What about the mink?

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This is not how American democracy should function. It’s getting worse every election, not better. I know constitutional amendments are difficult, but it seems like there should be a bipartisan supermajority of citizens who say enough with this stuff.

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Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comMilitary Boards Are Defying Orders and Letting Trans Troops Serve (Gift Article)The service members at Navy and Marine Corps hearings are finding ways to keep trans troops in uniform.

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"Debate" has been corrupted by codifying it into a competitive sport imo; at this point it is rarely a method for good faith actors to hit upon best solutions or refine a shared reality; it's mostly a vector for bad faith actors to keep failed and destructive ideas in perpetual zombie currency.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

it's understandable to think of constructive debate as an ideal and then to figure that *any* debate is therefore a step towards political values and virtues. but I think most debates, particularly in the social media age, make conversations and outlooks worse than where they started

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nobody stopped Musk before he broke the state monopoly on violence, so now either he goes or the nation-state does

Techmeme@techmeme.com

Ukraine says the abrupt throttling of US-funded Starshield grounded dozens of drones mid-flight, costing one unit $1M+, and halted some strikes for three days (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Most disturbing thing in this article was finding out the Halo OST composer is not just a republican but runs a discord that had a surprising number of neo-Nazis in it with little action taken until the press acted.

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I’m a sucker for this kind of storytelling and Jeremy is exceptional with it. It’s just pure distilled *curiosity* about the world just outside our doorstep. I believe, once all is said and done, that curiosity is probably all life is about.

Jeremy Markovich@ncrabbithole.com

A million North Carolinians have voted in this year’s election. One of them—just one!—cast a ballot from Antarctica. I found him. And I found out how he did it. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/one-person...