Some Random Susan
@anysusan.bsky.social
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100% artisanal handcrafted human musings of a brain born in Massachusetts, now living in New Hampshire (really).
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100% artisanal handcrafted human musings of a brain born in Massachusetts, now living in New Hampshire (really).
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It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
O what could possibly go wrong here?
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
O what could possibly go wrong here?
Sigh.
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Sigh.
Lord, YES
next year I’d like to hear less “you’re so resilient” and more “you just got *more* good news?”
December 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Lord, YES
We’re just speed-running the destruction of the American military from within now
jesus christ
December 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We’re just speed-running the destruction of the American military from within now
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Another thing is that way too many people don’t understand that even during the worst periods of the most appalling despotisms that they’ve read about a significant number of people could still live relatively “normal” lives
It did and it is. Including but certainly not limited to the sky high dictator caricature levels of corruption. Trump and his gang have made the Marcos family look small time in a very short period of time. You can claim American exceptionalism exists. Emphasis on claim
I think one of the biggest reasons it’s happening here is that many people still believe it can’t happen here.
December 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Another thing is that way too many people don’t understand that even during the worst periods of the most appalling despotisms that they’ve read about a significant number of people could still live relatively “normal” lives
It’s dark times and bitter hearts in America.
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It’s dark times and bitter hearts in America.
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It’s well known among reporters that Trump answers his cell phone. If you can get the number, he picks up.
Not the most important thing, but how is it that a Pro Publica reporter (frankly, any reporter) can call the President of the United States and he just... picks up the phone?
Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. 🤔
December 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It’s well known among reporters that Trump answers his cell phone. If you can get the number, he picks up.
So what exactly do they /do/ with the Santa juice?
The bones of Santa have been leaking liquid for 1,700 years.
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
So what exactly do they /do/ with the Santa juice?
Yeah been waiting for this
December 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Yeah been waiting for this
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"This is not the child I ordered" drives right-wing healthcare. They'd rather have a dead kid than a kid that makes them challenge their preconceptions of the world.
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
December 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"This is not the child I ordered" drives right-wing healthcare. They'd rather have a dead kid than a kid that makes them challenge their preconceptions of the world.
Yikes
#BREAKING Tsunami of up to three metres (10 feet) expected to hit Japan's Pacific coast, meteorological agency says, after 7.6-magnitude quake hits
December 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Yikes
Nerds I worked with thirty years ago were waxing nostalgic about feudalism in 1995.
No one paid attention or took them seriously, and honestly I really miss that about the 90s
No one paid attention or took them seriously, and honestly I really miss that about the 90s
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Nerds I worked with thirty years ago were waxing nostalgic about feudalism in 1995.
No one paid attention or took them seriously, and honestly I really miss that about the 90s
No one paid attention or took them seriously, and honestly I really miss that about the 90s
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Routine naturalization ceremonies scheduled for this month in Putnam, Dutchess and Ulster counties to welcome new U.S. citizens were abruptly canceled last week by the federal government, surprising local officials. buff.ly/8emFeDU
Citizen Ceremonies Canceled
Dutchess, Putnam clerks say they have new dates for next year
buff.ly
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Routine naturalization ceremonies scheduled for this month in Putnam, Dutchess and Ulster counties to welcome new U.S. citizens were abruptly canceled last week by the federal government, surprising local officials. buff.ly/8emFeDU
Well, on this, he is correct.
Tom Nichols: “This ongoing game show of ‘strike a boat every day’ […] is making us into worse people — every one of us, whether we’re in uniform or just ordinary citizens. It is spiritually and morally corrosive on every level.”
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Well, on this, he is correct.
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Fun to see a senior Russian official accessing X through a VPN (because it’s banned in Russia) and the criticise the EU for interfering in a Twitter Poll (when the Kremlin fixes Russian elections and interferes in Moldova, Romania and Czechia just in the last few months)
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Fun to see a senior Russian official accessing X through a VPN (because it’s banned in Russia) and the criticise the EU for interfering in a Twitter Poll (when the Kremlin fixes Russian elections and interferes in Moldova, Romania and Czechia just in the last few months)
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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 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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.
The epistles that would explode out of the apostle Paul over this take would scorch the earth.
You think the Galatians got a tongue-lashing? Hoo boy that’d be a love tap by comparison.
You think the Galatians got a tongue-lashing? Hoo boy that’d be a love tap by comparison.
“She compared these strikes to a story in the Bible, when Jesus healed someone on a Sunday, contradicting religious rules that forbid work on that day. Some laws are worth breaking for the betterment of mankind, she said, just like the biblical story was trying to show.”
Not the onion.
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The epistles that would explode out of the apostle Paul over this take would scorch the earth.
You think the Galatians got a tongue-lashing? Hoo boy that’d be a love tap by comparison.
You think the Galatians got a tongue-lashing? Hoo boy that’d be a love tap by comparison.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
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BREAKING : Here’s Kristi Noem’s declaration for Judge Boasberg’s potential contempt proceeding, admitting she gave the order to send planes on to El Salvador.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...
December 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
BREAKING : Here’s Kristi Noem’s declaration for Judge Boasberg’s potential contempt proceeding, admitting she gave the order to send planes on to El Salvador.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...
Ok you had me at Jarlsberg and Portishead, which reveals more about me than I am typically comfortable sharing.
December 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Ok you had me at Jarlsberg and Portishead, which reveals more about me than I am typically comfortable sharing.
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This is just some petty and cruel shit. I was very proud to serve alongside Rachel Levine. She has more leadership, integrity, and expertise in her little finger than the entire RFK HHS crew does all together. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is just some petty and cruel shit. I was very proud to serve alongside Rachel Levine. She has more leadership, integrity, and expertise in her little finger than the entire RFK HHS crew does all together. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Good God Almighty.
How is U.S. military killing these 11 people keeping drugs (fentanyl) out of the United States?
USG knew the drugs (cocaine) were headed to Suriname.
Yes, that's the OTHER DIRECTION.
Read what Bradley-Caine told lawmakers:
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USG knew the drugs (cocaine) were headed to Suriname.
Yes, that's the OTHER DIRECTION.
Read what Bradley-Caine told lawmakers:
Scoop by @natashabertrand.bsky.social
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Exclusive: Boat at center of double-tap strike controversy was meeting vessel headed to Suriname, admiral told lawmakers | CNN Politics
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east ...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Good God Almighty.