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).
she/her
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:
Scoop by @natashabertrand.bsky.social
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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.
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I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
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fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
@fortune.com #NYC
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fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
December 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
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Playing the "if this were a Democrat" game is tired I know but my God if this were a Democrat it would be the only story we'd hear until 2042. www.thedailybeast.com/don-jrs-fund...
Don Jr.’s Fund to Cash In on $620M Magnet Deal With Pentagon
Never mind that his father views magnets as an almost existential source of confusion, Trump Jr. is on track to benefit from them with the latest contract handed to a company he backs.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Playing the "if this were a Democrat" game is tired I know but my God if this were a Democrat it would be the only story we'd hear until 2042. www.thedailybeast.com/don-jrs-fund...
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"She can be heard screaming as agents attempt to handcuff her. 'I’m a U.S. citizen, please help me,' she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. 'This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?'”
Gift link:
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Gift link:
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
December 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"She can be heard screaming as agents attempt to handcuff her. 'I’m a U.S. citizen, please help me,' she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. 'This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?'”
Gift link:
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Gift link:
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Congresspeople shouldn’t have more trading access than the officers and employees of publicly traded companies. It’s insane.
Rep. Roger Williams defends members of Congress trading stocks: "I think we gotta be careful that we don't limit Congresspeople to where they can do nothing ... from a financial standpoint, it's not easy being up in Congress."
December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Congresspeople shouldn’t have more trading access than the officers and employees of publicly traded companies. It’s insane.
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A report by the Pentagon's internal watchdog into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of Signal could be made public this week, a source familiar with the matter told CBS News
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A report by the Pentagon's internal watchdog into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of Signal could be made public this week, a source familiar with the matter told CBS News
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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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Wow.
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Wow.
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
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Wow. More details re: the DOJ’s claim that former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez (JOH)—pardoned by Trump before all the votes have been counted in the current Honduran presidential election—used drug money to bribe election officials to commit election fraud in 2013 & 2017.
21/ The DOJ alleged: “Just like in 2013, Juan Orlando used that drug $$$ to bribe election officials & manipulate the vote count to fraudulently win the [2017] election—including by shutting down the computer system of the agency responsible 4 counting the votes” www.robertmazur.com/wp-content/u...
www.robertmazur.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Wow. More details re: the DOJ’s claim that former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez (JOH)—pardoned by Trump before all the votes have been counted in the current Honduran presidential election—used drug money to bribe election officials to commit election fraud in 2013 & 2017.
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Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
December 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
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He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
You’d think someone would at least try to kick him under the table to wake him up.
Possibly related: maybe his docs took him off stimulants because of whatever they didn’t find during his perfect cardiac MRI
Possibly related: maybe his docs took him off stimulants because of whatever they didn’t find during his perfect cardiac MRI
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
You’d think someone would at least try to kick him under the table to wake him up.
Possibly related: maybe his docs took him off stimulants because of whatever they didn’t find during his perfect cardiac MRI
Possibly related: maybe his docs took him off stimulants because of whatever they didn’t find during his perfect cardiac MRI
Husband: hey um why did you…
Me: FOG OF WAR
Me: FOG OF WAR
December 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Husband: hey um why did you…
Me: FOG OF WAR
Me: FOG OF WAR