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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 17m

Trump and everybody in the chain of command belong in the Hague.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 16h

its murder

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 16h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 1h

I read the article and looked at the photos. To a man, these are unattractive guys...I wonder whether self-hatred was what curdled their souls.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 3h

(AP) — The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by US officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last month […]

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 2h

Orwell was a brilliant essayist, but a bad novelist.

N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 2h

His short stories are wonderful.

N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 3h

And the person Jane Austen modeled Henry Tilney after was gay.

N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 12h

Can I post two "most" unhinged?
Well here goes:
Hardy's short stories are better than most* of his novels.

*Except for Mayor of C.

N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 13h

By the end of An American Tragedy (832 pages in the Signet edition) I was yelling, "Just put him in the chair and throw the switch!"

N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 13h

...read all but the last 20 pages or so--just to *punish* him.

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 13h

There are actually two endings. Dickens was pressured to change the ending to a happier one. Even the altered ending is somewhat ambiguous.
GE is actually my favorite among the works of an author I don't really relate to. The one I didn't finish was Copperfield. I was so mad at Dickens that i...->

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 13h

Just did it! Thanks for the heads up, and all your good work.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 1d

Even Newsmax wouldn't sign. Hilarious!

N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 1d

And hospitals' uncompensated care will thus skyrocket, at a time when the GOP is also gutting Medicaid, the program that is supposed to cover that.

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 1d

Peanut butter?

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Schmuck Schumer @schroedinger.bsky.social · 1d

I imagine the gov site I got this from won't be long for this world now. 20 inventions we wouldn't have without JPL, including cellphone cameras, home insulation, and baby formula. www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics...

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 2d

Terrible. Those eighties painters, sheesh.

N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 2d

Did this "debunking" take place before or after they paid close to a billion dollars for lying about the 2020 election?

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 2d

The 2nd Trump term gave us all a pay cut

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know. They say "asserted" and put the assertion in scare quotes. They're not amplifying it.

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 3d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 2d

We'll just have to agree to disagree about what constitutes tinkering, then.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 3d

Is it too much to hope they aren't made in China?