Island of Reil
@islandofreil.bsky.social
Old, tired intersectional social democrat. She/her. Not actively seeking followers but you can follow if you want.
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In the Holocaust, Nazis captured my grandpa’s sister Sheinale (Yiddish for "beautiful") & her family & executed them in a forest in Lithuania. Their bodies are in an unmarked forest grave.
In contrast, Covid vaccines saved an estimated 20 million lives in their 1st year of use.
See the difference?
In contrast, Covid vaccines saved an estimated 20 million lives in their 1st year of use.
See the difference?
Just when I thought I'd seen it all........
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December 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
In the Holocaust, Nazis captured my grandpa’s sister Sheinale (Yiddish for "beautiful") & her family & executed them in a forest in Lithuania. Their bodies are in an unmarked forest grave.
In contrast, Covid vaccines saved an estimated 20 million lives in their 1st year of use.
See the difference?
In contrast, Covid vaccines saved an estimated 20 million lives in their 1st year of use.
See the difference?
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No doubt he had mental health problems if he was doing CIA stuff in Afghanistan. But did he just snap and attack 2 random people in military uniforms? Severe PTSD??
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
National guard shooting suspect spent ‘weeks on end’ in isolation, emails show
Mental health of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who is charged with murder, had reportedly been unravelling for years
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
No doubt he had mental health problems if he was doing CIA stuff in Afghanistan. But did he just snap and attack 2 random people in military uniforms? Severe PTSD??
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This doesn’t explain why a father of 5 who’s worked with the US government for a decade drove across the country and attacked 2 random National Guardsmen but I suspect the clownshow that is the current US government is not capable of investigating his motives. www.dropsitenews.com/p/national-g...
Locals Say National Guard Shooter Was Imprisoned in Afghanistan After “Zero Unit” Killings
Before D.C. shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal attacked two National Guard members last week, he was part of a CIA-backed unit that killed many Afghans.
www.dropsitenews.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This doesn’t explain why a father of 5 who’s worked with the US government for a decade drove across the country and attacked 2 random National Guardsmen but I suspect the clownshow that is the current US government is not capable of investigating his motives. www.dropsitenews.com/p/national-g...
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I have *never* seen a Toynbee Tile in LA before
![A Toynbee Tile, well embedded in the asphalt near Alamo Drafthouse in DTLA, reading House of Hades / The Resurrection / Of Toynbee’s Ideas / In Society / To Punish [something or other, it’s pretty beat up]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kqqqm4rtbbwi4pnoptlgxqoe/bafkreic4excxt2bofet5enjfup65nwjlwpeqlwb3pf5vzqxaa3ty5wmxbm@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I have *never* seen a Toynbee Tile in LA before
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being ruled by tiny men bereft of both curiosity and the ability to feel wonder is a terrible fate
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
being ruled by tiny men bereft of both curiosity and the ability to feel wonder is a terrible fate
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Thank you, Rep. Chu @chu.house.gov, for supporting impeachment.
Will you bring Articles to the floor for these reckless and unconstitutional actions?
Will you bring Articles to the floor for these reckless and unconstitutional actions?
The Trump administration's strikes in Venezuela were ordered without Congress, without transparency, and without any justification to the public. These actions are reckless, unconstitutional, and dangerous for our national security.
December 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Thank you, Rep. Chu @chu.house.gov, for supporting impeachment.
Will you bring Articles to the floor for these reckless and unconstitutional actions?
Will you bring Articles to the floor for these reckless and unconstitutional actions?
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A quick mari tonight as quite tired
Her attempt at a Christmas tree I think
Her attempt at a Christmas tree I think
December 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
A quick mari tonight as quite tired
Her attempt at a Christmas tree I think
Her attempt at a Christmas tree I think
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someone had attitude this morning
December 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
someone had attitude this morning
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Genuinely curious if they do not want to do this because if they did then everyone would realize they could do this to Trump just as easily.
December 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Genuinely curious if they do not want to do this because if they did then everyone would realize they could do this to Trump just as easily.
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That's also consistent with my observation that universities often side against the less powerful and vulnerable party in situations of conflict.
universities will do everything to protect their faculty/instructors when they're middle aged+ men sexually harassing and/or professionally exploiting their students and junior colleagues but not otherwise
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU has placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after receiving a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
That's also consistent with my observation that universities often side against the less powerful and vulnerable party in situations of conflict.
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It's almost a familiar storyline by now.
1. An "egregious" violation of a students' rights by a teacher.
2. It turns out to be run of the mill bad work by the student.
3. It turns out to have been provoked or amplified by a huge network of right wingers.
4. Targeting trans people
Missing anything?
1. An "egregious" violation of a students' rights by a teacher.
2. It turns out to be run of the mill bad work by the student.
3. It turns out to have been provoked or amplified by a huge network of right wingers.
4. Targeting trans people
Missing anything?
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It's almost a familiar storyline by now.
1. An "egregious" violation of a students' rights by a teacher.
2. It turns out to be run of the mill bad work by the student.
3. It turns out to have been provoked or amplified by a huge network of right wingers.
4. Targeting trans people
Missing anything?
1. An "egregious" violation of a students' rights by a teacher.
2. It turns out to be run of the mill bad work by the student.
3. It turns out to have been provoked or amplified by a huge network of right wingers.
4. Targeting trans people
Missing anything?
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Or in other words, MBS got almost everything he wanted without giving anything away, and therefore he won't just give everything away for free now.
December 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Or in other words, MBS got almost everything he wanted without giving anything away, and therefore he won't just give everything away for free now.
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“We’re in the countdown to impeachment. I intend to bring articles of impeachment to REMOVE this president who is normalizing violations of the Constitution."
Thank you, @algreen.house.gov! History will remember your leadership and courage at this critical moment. ImpeachTrumpAgain.org/#action
Thank you, @algreen.house.gov! History will remember your leadership and courage at this critical moment. ImpeachTrumpAgain.org/#action
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“We’re in the countdown to impeachment. I intend to bring articles of impeachment to REMOVE this president who is normalizing violations of the Constitution."
Thank you, @algreen.house.gov! History will remember your leadership and courage at this critical moment. ImpeachTrumpAgain.org/#action
Thank you, @algreen.house.gov! History will remember your leadership and courage at this critical moment. ImpeachTrumpAgain.org/#action
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5. Warrior 🦋
"I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella. And I have never known defeat."
#eldenring #fromsoftware #malenia #ink #chillinktober
"I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella. And I have never known defeat."
#eldenring #fromsoftware #malenia #ink #chillinktober
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
5. Warrior 🦋
"I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella. And I have never known defeat."
#eldenring #fromsoftware #malenia #ink #chillinktober
"I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella. And I have never known defeat."
#eldenring #fromsoftware #malenia #ink #chillinktober
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a conundrum: i have to have my workroom door open bc it's cold and i need the heat from the rest of the house in here, but that allows cat entrance and donut keeps barging in to try to eat my strawberry plant.
December 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
a conundrum: i have to have my workroom door open bc it's cold and i need the heat from the rest of the house in here, but that allows cat entrance and donut keeps barging in to try to eat my strawberry plant.
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Any single representative, under Rule IX of the House rules, can bring a privileged motion of articles of impeachment and force a floor vote within 2 days.
Al Green already did that earlier this year, and Jeffries whipped Dems to help kill it.
Al Green already did that earlier this year, and Jeffries whipped Dems to help kill it.
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Any single representative, under Rule IX of the House rules, can bring a privileged motion of articles of impeachment and force a floor vote within 2 days.
Al Green already did that earlier this year, and Jeffries whipped Dems to help kill it.
Al Green already did that earlier this year, and Jeffries whipped Dems to help kill it.
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And this is the party people keep fantasizing is going to do Nuremberg trials
December 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
And this is the party people keep fantasizing is going to do Nuremberg trials
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And I'm just here to tell everyone to also stop giving money to Mark Kelly. My Senator will be doing absolutely nothing except cashing your checks.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
December 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
And I'm just here to tell everyone to also stop giving money to Mark Kelly. My Senator will be doing absolutely nothing except cashing your checks.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
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Translation: I am protecting a drunk murderer.
December 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Translation: I am protecting a drunk murderer.
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So if this bill were to become a law, these people would automatically become denaturalized since they categorically can not comply with this law.
I wonder if this is by design.
I wonder if this is by design.
December 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
So if this bill were to become a law, these people would automatically become denaturalized since they categorically can not comply with this law.
I wonder if this is by design.
I wonder if this is by design.
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All indigenous communities also hold dual citizenship.
And we all know his dislike for them.
And we all know his dislike for them.
December 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
All indigenous communities also hold dual citizenship.
And we all know his dislike for them.
And we all know his dislike for them.
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To note just one of the many problems with this idea, there are multiple that countries do not permit you to relinquish citizenship — and some of those countries also have jus sanguinis laws that make someone a citizen even if they were born in the U.S. and never left.
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, just introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship. The bill says that to “preserve the integrity of national citizenship, allegiance to the United States must be undivided.” It’s called the Exclusive Citizenship Act.
December 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
To note just one of the many problems with this idea, there are multiple that countries do not permit you to relinquish citizenship — and some of those countries also have jus sanguinis laws that make someone a citizen even if they were born in the U.S. and never left.
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On this #WorldAIDSDay, watch David Weissman's WE WERE HERE (2011). One of the most moving and cathartic films made yet about the AIDS crisis—now playing on the Criterion Channel.
December 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
On this #WorldAIDSDay, watch David Weissman's WE WERE HERE (2011). One of the most moving and cathartic films made yet about the AIDS crisis—now playing on the Criterion Channel.
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Apropos of not much, in the 1st year of my PhD at Leeds I was TAing and gave a student a 46 or something for a very, very poor essay. One of the other grad students, who I think fancied her, told her that was too low a mark and on that basis she complained to Seiriol Morgan, the head of 1st year. 1/
December 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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