JT Spartz
@jtspartz.bsky.social
Writer / Editor. Songwriter. Treading lightly on Dakota + Ho-Chunk ancestral lands, Upper Midwest, USA. Formerly: organic whole-grains baker, social worker, hardware store clerk, delivery-truck driver, professor of environmental communication. MA. PhD.
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Every accusation is a confession.
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Every accusation is a confession.
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Looking forward to seeing a matching hoodie / sweat-pants set where the shirt says “Sean Duffy can…” and the backside of the pants says “…kiss my ass.” Better still if the “brand” is Airport Chic or some such poke in the eye to the worst Secretary of Transportation ever. What a joke.
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Looking forward to seeing a matching hoodie / sweat-pants set where the shirt says “Sean Duffy can…” and the backside of the pants says “…kiss my ass.” Better still if the “brand” is Airport Chic or some such poke in the eye to the worst Secretary of Transportation ever. What a joke.
Funny how Lake Mendota is often touted as the “most studied lake in the world” and yet this whole cache remained unknown for so long. You never know what you’ll find!!!
Archeologists in Wisconsin found an ancient canoe that is over 5,000 years old!! The discovery was in a canoe “parking lot” along a popular waterway and trail system.
Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake 'parking lot'
Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Funny how Lake Mendota is often touted as the “most studied lake in the world” and yet this whole cache remained unknown for so long. You never know what you’ll find!!!
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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After the close of a disappointing U.N. climate summit in Brazil, "I'm extremely angry," says @brandoncwu.bsky.social. "We need a fossil fuel phase-out. We need it as fast as possible. It has to start in the Global North."
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/24/cop30_final_agreement_fossil_fuels
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/24/cop30_final_agreement_fossil_fuels
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
After the close of a disappointing U.N. climate summit in Brazil, "I'm extremely angry," says @brandoncwu.bsky.social. "We need a fossil fuel phase-out. We need it as fast as possible. It has to start in the Global North."
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/24/cop30_final_agreement_fossil_fuels
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/24/cop30_final_agreement_fossil_fuels
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The memes write themselves:
Fire Breaks Out at COP30 Climate Talks in Brazil
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The memes write themselves:
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Thanks to staff of the Harvard Crimson for demonstrating the importance of local, community journalism (and for running a wiser, more informative, and more righteous editorial department than the Washington Post's). www.thecrimson.com/thread/2025/...
Amid Epstein Fallout, Summers Retreats | News | The Harvard Crimson
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Thanks to staff of the Harvard Crimson for demonstrating the importance of local, community journalism (and for running a wiser, more informative, and more righteous editorial department than the Washington Post's). www.thecrimson.com/thread/2025/...
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This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.
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Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
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Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman.
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman.
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Pope Leo XIV on Monday urged countries at UN climate talks to take “concrete actions” to stop climate change that is threatening the planet, telling them humans are failing in their response to global warming and that God’s creation “is crying out in floods, droughts, storms and relentless heat.”
Pope Leo XIV calls for urgent climate action and says God’s creation is ‘crying out’
Pope Leo XIV on Monday urged countries at United Nations climate talks to take “concrete actions” to stop climate change that is threatening the planet.
trib.al
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Pope Leo XIV on Monday urged countries at UN climate talks to take “concrete actions” to stop climate change that is threatening the planet, telling them humans are failing in their response to global warming and that God’s creation “is crying out in floods, droughts, storms and relentless heat.”
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Clearly Brendan Carr hasn't learned from the Jimmy Kimmel debacle.
By reposting Trump's threats toward Seth Meyers, Carr is showing once again that he lacks all credibility.
Free Press' statement: https://www.freepress.net/news/fccs-carr-makes-familiar-moves-censor-nbcs-seth-meyers
By reposting Trump's threats toward Seth Meyers, Carr is showing once again that he lacks all credibility.
Free Press' statement: https://www.freepress.net/news/fccs-carr-makes-familiar-moves-censor-nbcs-seth-meyers
FCC's Carr Makes Familiar Moves to Censor NBC’s Seth Meyers
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr continues to abuse his powers to silence dissenting voices in the media.
www.freepress.net
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Clearly Brendan Carr hasn't learned from the Jimmy Kimmel debacle.
By reposting Trump's threats toward Seth Meyers, Carr is showing once again that he lacks all credibility.
Free Press' statement: https://www.freepress.net/news/fccs-carr-makes-familiar-moves-censor-nbcs-seth-meyers
By reposting Trump's threats toward Seth Meyers, Carr is showing once again that he lacks all credibility.
Free Press' statement: https://www.freepress.net/news/fccs-carr-makes-familiar-moves-censor-nbcs-seth-meyers
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
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November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
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At COP30, rich countries undermine true climate aid to the Global South by using loans, creative accounting, weak pledges, and private investments that fall short of promised support and worsen debt for those facing the climate crisis.
Rich Countries at COP30 Are Robbing the Global South of Climate Financing
Loans, accounting tricks, private investment, and meager pledges undermine a key tool for addressing climate crisis.
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
At COP30, rich countries undermine true climate aid to the Global South by using loans, creative accounting, weak pledges, and private investments that fall short of promised support and worsen debt for those facing the climate crisis.
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Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Aurora as seen from Madison, WI. Nov. 11, 2025.
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Aurora as seen from Madison, WI. Nov. 11, 2025.
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Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...
Grist opens applications for new rural reporting grants on climate and environmental justice
Applicants can request up to $5,000 per project.
grist.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...
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I’ve said this b4, but here’s a little inside baseball from a former Republican: Back in my GOP days, we Republicans would privately laugh at how Democrats would never go to the mat to win. We always knew Democrats wouldn’t fight to the death politically.
Last night proved Republicans right again.
Last night proved Republicans right again.
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I’ve said this b4, but here’s a little inside baseball from a former Republican: Back in my GOP days, we Republicans would privately laugh at how Democrats would never go to the mat to win. We always knew Democrats wouldn’t fight to the death politically.
Last night proved Republicans right again.
Last night proved Republicans right again.
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Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential.
www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
www.reuters.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential.
www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
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The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.
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The Clinton/Obama/Biden/Pelosi era of Democratic politics has reached it's end. We need to move on. Someone tell Chuck Schumer.
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Clinton/Obama/Biden/Pelosi era of Democratic politics has reached it's end. We need to move on. Someone tell Chuck Schumer.
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For those who don’t know, Lina Khan gave tech bros hell AND her ass to kiss when she was FTC chair. She was busting monopolies left and right. Gave Amazon and Meta the finger too.
This is an EXCELLENT addition to his team.
This is an EXCELLENT addition to his team.
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team | TechCrunch
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
techcrunch.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
For those who don’t know, Lina Khan gave tech bros hell AND her ass to kiss when she was FTC chair. She was busting monopolies left and right. Gave Amazon and Meta the finger too.
This is an EXCELLENT addition to his team.
This is an EXCELLENT addition to his team.