Avice Meehan
@avicea.bsky.social
Substitute teacher; volunteer community journalist; science, data and knitting geek; fan of protecting voters and the right to vote; sometime quilter. Norfolk terriers rule. Always, fight the will to be dreary.
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You're in the Trump administration, or you're a Republican in Congress. You consider yourself a decent person. You lack the nerve directly to contradict Trump. But you COULD post your own comment on Rob Reiner to make clear Trump wasn't speaking for you.
Has anyone done this?
Has anyone done this?
December 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
You're in the Trump administration, or you're a Republican in Congress. You consider yourself a decent person. You lack the nerve directly to contradict Trump. But you COULD post your own comment on Rob Reiner to make clear Trump wasn't speaking for you.
Has anyone done this?
Has anyone done this?
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Fact-check: true
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Fact-check: true
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If you have a bank account in your country or use U.S. technology, as most of us do, this will 100% affect you and your loved ones now and well into the foreseeable future. And this is why #Digitalsovereignty should be a goal for every democratic government if they are serious about freedom.
"‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock Intl Criminal Court judge out of daily life. Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards or access everyday services (Uber, Alexa, Ticketmaster...) in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary." www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If you have a bank account in your country or use U.S. technology, as most of us do, this will 100% affect you and your loved ones now and well into the foreseeable future. And this is why #Digitalsovereignty should be a goal for every democratic government if they are serious about freedom.
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"Tucker Carlson has asserted: 'I don’t know a single happily married woman who’s liberal. Not one.'" www.liberalcurrents.com/marriage-mis...
Marriage, Misogyny, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Right Is Offering a Morally Barren Vision of the Family
Liberals cannot allow the right to monopolize the discourse on virtue and the good life or they will cede space to their rigid and hierarchical visions.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
"Tucker Carlson has asserted: 'I don’t know a single happily married woman who’s liberal. Not one.'" www.liberalcurrents.com/marriage-mis...
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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
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The US government is now a mafia organization.
December 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The US government is now a mafia organization.
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🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge rules the Department of Homeland Security must release Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration custody effective immediately. More to come.
Background:
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/kilmar-abrego-garcia-justice-department-extra-judicial-statements/
Background:
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/kilmar-abrego-garcia-justice-department-extra-judicial-statements/
December 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge rules the Department of Homeland Security must release Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration custody effective immediately. More to come.
Background:
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/kilmar-abrego-garcia-justice-department-extra-judicial-statements/
Background:
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/kilmar-abrego-garcia-justice-department-extra-judicial-statements/
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"I will not be quiet. Not speaking out — it equals resignation."
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the importance of standing up to Trump and his enablers:
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the importance of standing up to Trump and his enablers:
December 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"I will not be quiet. Not speaking out — it equals resignation."
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the importance of standing up to Trump and his enablers:
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the importance of standing up to Trump and his enablers:
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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
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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.”
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December 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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.”
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I’ve been saying this since last December and constantly am accused of being a groupie or something.
Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.
December 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I’ve been saying this since last December and constantly am accused of being a groupie or something.
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Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
@pkrugman.bsky.social: So American victims of natural disasters are being abandoned by Trump. That abandonment reflects his personal cruelty and that of those around him, as well as the ideological allegiance to cruelty among the libertarian tech broligarchy….Trump to disaster victims…: Drop dead.
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
@pkrugman.bsky.social: So American victims of natural disasters are being abandoned by Trump. That abandonment reflects his personal cruelty and that of those around him, as well as the ideological allegiance to cruelty among the libertarian tech broligarchy….Trump to disaster victims…: Drop dead.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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New from 404 Media: Flock is using overseas gig workers to build its surveillance AI. Flock has cameras in thousands of communities around the US which can detect vehicles and people. We found gig workers in the Philippines are reviewing footage to classify people
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI
Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using worke...
www.404media.co
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New from 404 Media: Flock is using overseas gig workers to build its surveillance AI. Flock has cameras in thousands of communities around the US which can detect vehicles and people. We found gig workers in the Philippines are reviewing footage to classify people
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
One of today’s must reads, IMHO.
Even if it ends up being a box-office flop, Rush Hour 4 would still be a bargain—because producing this movie is a cheap way to extract something much, much more valuable from the president.
The latest of edition of Receipts from @crampell.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/49UjIYN
The latest of edition of Receipts from @crampell.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/49UjIYN
Why a Jackie Chan Sequel Says a Whole Lot About Trump’s Economy
Kung-fu corruption.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
One of today’s must reads, IMHO.
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Worth remembering now
Protest by the United States Against Attacks by Japanese Naval Forces on Survivors of Torpedoed American Merchant Vessels June 1944
"The United States Government protests most emphatically against this inhuman form of warfare ..."
Protest by the United States Against Attacks by Japanese Naval Forces on Survivors of Torpedoed American Merchant Vessels June 1944
"The United States Government protests most emphatically against this inhuman form of warfare ..."
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Worth remembering now
Protest by the United States Against Attacks by Japanese Naval Forces on Survivors of Torpedoed American Merchant Vessels June 1944
"The United States Government protests most emphatically against this inhuman form of warfare ..."
Protest by the United States Against Attacks by Japanese Naval Forces on Survivors of Torpedoed American Merchant Vessels June 1944
"The United States Government protests most emphatically against this inhuman form of warfare ..."
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PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I just finished reading this excellent piece by @aselrod.bsky.social about the link between purity culture and rape culture. We still have a lot of work to do to create a fair and equal society for women. Check it out for yourself at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I just finished reading this excellent piece by @aselrod.bsky.social about the link between purity culture and rape culture. We still have a lot of work to do to create a fair and equal society for women. Check it out for yourself at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
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The war in Sudan has become a humanitarian catastrophe, with an estimated death toll in the hundreds of thousands. More than ten million have been internally and externally displaced. An expert in the region discusses the conflict and its repercussions. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Kr6BM9
How the Conflict in Sudan Became a Humanitarian Catastrophe
After a coup devolved into open warfare, countries across the region have pursued their own policy and commercial interests by backing one side or the other.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The war in Sudan has become a humanitarian catastrophe, with an estimated death toll in the hundreds of thousands. More than ten million have been internally and externally displaced. An expert in the region discusses the conflict and its repercussions. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Kr6BM9
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This little piggy has no intention of staying quiet. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
"Quiet Piggy!"
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November 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
This little piggy has no intention of staying quiet. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Wow.
"We are hearing the administration say they intend to investigate various Dems who were friends with Epstein. I beg you President Trump -- please stop making this political. It is not about you. Show some class. I voted for you, but your behavior on this issue has been a national embarrassment."
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Wow.
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The emerging mission in the Caribbean looks less like enhanced interdiction and far more like the early shaping operations for regime-change in Venezuela. Just say no. ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/no-venezue...
No, Venezuela Is Not a ‘Small Latin American Country’
And talk of a quick invasion and easy ‘regime change’ is dangerously misleading.
www.thebulwark.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The emerging mission in the Caribbean looks less like enhanced interdiction and far more like the early shaping operations for regime-change in Venezuela. Just say no. ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/no-venezue...