Foxessa
@foxessa.bsky.social
Navigator of history's seas and caravan routes, following the money in human trafficking and slavery, past and present. Writer, historian, librarian, researcher. A result:
https://www.amazon.com/American-Slave-Coast-Slave-Breeding-Industry/dp/1613748205
https://www.amazon.com/American-Slave-Coast-Slave-Breeding-Industry/dp/1613748205
Christmas arrived at our park today, with the stringing of greenery and wreaths. Makes no difference to park's Squirrel Town Northwest.
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Christmas arrived at our park today, with the stringing of greenery and wreaths. Makes no difference to park's Squirrel Town Northwest.
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The @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social arts and culture transition committee for those who (like me) are into such matters:
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social arts and culture transition committee for those who (like me) are into such matters:
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I derive pleasure from the suffering of people who don't know what 'schadenfreude' means.
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I derive pleasure from the suffering of people who don't know what 'schadenfreude' means.
By the way, any of we US citizens who wish to send aid to Cuba, not only are we legally allowed to do so, but encouraged to.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
So it is busy here.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
So it is busy here.
U.S. says it will send $3 million in aid to Cuba in aftermath of Hurricane Melissa
The U.S. State Department is coordinating with the Catholic Church to send $3 million in humanitarian aid to Cuba following Hurricane Melissa. It’s unclear if Cuba will allow it.
www.miamiherald.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
By the way, any of we US citizens who wish to send aid to Cuba, not only are we legally allowed to do so, but encouraged to.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
So it is busy here.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
So it is busy here.
Highly recommend reading this - yes in the NYT, for the insights as to where we are, controlled by the Epstein Class, entirely global, entirely non-national. The true elite now.
Inside the Epstein Emails by Anand Giridharadas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Inside the Epstein Emails by Anand Giridharadas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Highly recommend reading this - yes in the NYT, for the insights as to where we are, controlled by the Epstein Class, entirely global, entirely non-national. The true elite now.
Inside the Epstein Emails by Anand Giridharadas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Inside the Epstein Emails by Anand Giridharadas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
We go out to dinner for the first time in a long time and come home to MTG resigning.
I can't even think how to process this. Surely ZM is thinking the same thing.
In times like this all we can do is take our loved one(s) in our arms and give thanks for them. They keep us sane.
I can't even think how to process this. Surely ZM is thinking the same thing.
In times like this all we can do is take our loved one(s) in our arms and give thanks for them. They keep us sane.
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
We go out to dinner for the first time in a long time and come home to MTG resigning.
I can't even think how to process this. Surely ZM is thinking the same thing.
In times like this all we can do is take our loved one(s) in our arms and give thanks for them. They keep us sane.
I can't even think how to process this. Surely ZM is thinking the same thing.
In times like this all we can do is take our loved one(s) in our arms and give thanks for them. They keep us sane.
This meet at the White House: how is it possible our nation never runs out of unbelievable twists and turns, and does them every single day, many times a day?
I noticed quite some time ago how much both that guy and the muskellunge yearned over Mamdani's riz, and
I noticed quite some time ago how much both that guy and the muskellunge yearned over Mamdani's riz, and
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This meet at the White House: how is it possible our nation never runs out of unbelievable twists and turns, and does them every single day, many times a day?
I noticed quite some time ago how much both that guy and the muskellunge yearned over Mamdani's riz, and
I noticed quite some time ago how much both that guy and the muskellunge yearned over Mamdani's riz, and
Watching Linklater's homage to Goddard and his Breathless, Nouvelle Vague Tuesday night was the best fun. From 1st beat to last, the film provided the experience of ballet's "ballon", that vision of effortless suspension in air, gravity's pull and power irrelevant.
November 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Watching Linklater's homage to Goddard and his Breathless, Nouvelle Vague Tuesday night was the best fun. From 1st beat to last, the film provided the experience of ballet's "ballon", that vision of effortless suspension in air, gravity's pull and power irrelevant.
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The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
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About time somebody reported on this. Chikungunya, dengue, Zika, oropouche, and more —insect-borne viruses are at a pandemic level in Cuba as Oriente struggles with hurricane damage in the absence of basic services.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
They just call it ‘the virus’: mosquito-borne illnesses heap misery on Cubans affected by Hurricane Melissa
A lack of clean water and medicines in the aftermath of the storm has led to a sharp rise in viruses such as chikungunya and dengue
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
About time somebody reported on this. Chikungunya, dengue, Zika, oropouche, and more —insect-borne viruses are at a pandemic level in Cuba as Oriente struggles with hurricane damage in the absence of basic services.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Our Mayor Elect, Zohran Mamdani, has been scheduled to a meet in D.C. with that guy. Does anyone else speculate, on the basis of that guy's behaviors this year, that guy may think he's talking with Kash Patel instead? After all everyone looks alike, doncha know!
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Our Mayor Elect, Zohran Mamdani, has been scheduled to a meet in D.C. with that guy. Does anyone else speculate, on the basis of that guy's behaviors this year, that guy may think he's talking with Kash Patel instead? After all everyone looks alike, doncha know!
Today is the 162nd anniversary of Lincoln delivering his Gettysburg Address, on a day of miserable weather, on a ground that literally stunk of death and the dead (bones, body parts even, coming out of shallow burials, and which most people could not hear.
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Today is the 162nd anniversary of Lincoln delivering his Gettysburg Address, on a day of miserable weather, on a ground that literally stunk of death and the dead (bones, body parts even, coming out of shallow burials, and which most people could not hear.
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Thank you. The lines are a riff on Du Fu, the towering Tang poet … who lived through a ruinous civil war.
Feels more like a gut punch this time (First read was over a decade ago).
#booksky📚 @guygavrielkay.bsky.social
#booksky📚 @guygavrielkay.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Thank you. The lines are a riff on Du Fu, the towering Tang poet … who lived through a ruinous civil war.
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Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.
Walked to our supermarket shortly before sunset. The color was gone by the time I was returning from the brief visit.
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Walked to our supermarket shortly before sunset. The color was gone by the time I was returning from the brief visit.
The bones on which the beauty of our community is built are being revealed as each day more of gorgeous clothes fall to the ground.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The bones on which the beauty of our community is built are being revealed as each day more of gorgeous clothes fall to the ground.
Yesterday was golden beauty. Tonight comes winter's preview. Even, perhaps 30 degrees, overnight.
But yesterday!
But yesterday!
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Yesterday was golden beauty. Tonight comes winter's preview. Even, perhaps 30 degrees, overnight.
But yesterday!
But yesterday!
Do others also find it hilarious both orange chaos demon and the muskellunge speak their thirst of Mamdani's capacity to light up a room, his charisma?
"... “You got to hand it to him, he does — he can light up a stage,” Musk said of Mamdani. “
futurism.com/future-socie...
"... “You got to hand it to him, he does — he can light up a stage,” Musk said of Mamdani. “
futurism.com/future-socie...
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Do others also find it hilarious both orange chaos demon and the muskellunge speak their thirst of Mamdani's capacity to light up a room, his charisma?
"... “You got to hand it to him, he does — he can light up a stage,” Musk said of Mamdani. “
futurism.com/future-socie...
"... “You got to hand it to him, he does — he can light up a stage,” Musk said of Mamdani. “
futurism.com/future-socie...
Photo by Addi, Postmambo's Moroccan producer, of another adored member of the team. Vaquero said, "it looks as though youbdoing sand divination." She says, "I was blessing Vaquero."
BTW, we are feeling a slight ease in tension, and accompanying hope here, today!
BTW, we are feeling a slight ease in tension, and accompanying hope here, today!
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Photo by Addi, Postmambo's Moroccan producer, of another adored member of the team. Vaquero said, "it looks as though youbdoing sand divination." She says, "I was blessing Vaquero."
BTW, we are feeling a slight ease in tension, and accompanying hope here, today!
BTW, we are feeling a slight ease in tension, and accompanying hope here, today!
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Baba Chokwe Lumumba used to say, "If you don't love the people sooner or later you'll betray the people."
Mayor Mamdani will face challenges. But his win will shake open new possibilities. What's clear is that he loves the people; he loves the city; he loves us. And that's the imperative start.
Mayor Mamdani will face challenges. But his win will shake open new possibilities. What's clear is that he loves the people; he loves the city; he loves us. And that's the imperative start.
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Baba Chokwe Lumumba used to say, "If you don't love the people sooner or later you'll betray the people."
Mayor Mamdani will face challenges. But his win will shake open new possibilities. What's clear is that he loves the people; he loves the city; he loves us. And that's the imperative start.
Mayor Mamdani will face challenges. But his win will shake open new possibilities. What's clear is that he loves the people; he loves the city; he loves us. And that's the imperative start.
What in hell is the muskellunge doing, 'endorsing' anyone for mayor of NYC? He doesn't live here. He hasn't lived here. He knows nothing of NYC. However, NYers know so much about the muskellunge they give him a big fat raspberry.
Record # of voters in this election including us.
Record # of voters in this election including us.
November 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
What in hell is the muskellunge doing, 'endorsing' anyone for mayor of NYC? He doesn't live here. He hasn't lived here. He knows nothing of NYC. However, NYers know so much about the muskellunge they give him a big fat raspberry.
Record # of voters in this election including us.
Record # of voters in this election including us.
New Yorker Magazine Cartoon from Guy Richards Smit:
“He got my vote when my in-laws threatened to leave the city if he wins.”
“He got my vote when my in-laws threatened to leave the city if he wins.”
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New Yorker Magazine Cartoon from Guy Richards Smit:
“He got my vote when my in-laws threatened to leave the city if he wins.”
“He got my vote when my in-laws threatened to leave the city if he wins.”
Apparently it has not occurred to Them that removing everyone from the US with "Spanish" heritage, who speaks Spanish because they don't belong in the US, and annexing Mexico as the 51st state is
November 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Apparently it has not occurred to Them that removing everyone from the US with "Spanish" heritage, who speaks Spanish because they don't belong in the US, and annexing Mexico as the 51st state is