Lily
@occultsoup.bsky.social
Wife, mother, cook, reader of esoteric and mundane tomes. Occasional agent of chaos. Queer in every sense of the word. She/They
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Dear Those In The Back,
This is not a bug of the system; the system is functioning as designed because the system is born of and perpetuates white supremacy.
Yours in abolition,
Emma
P.S. Abolish ICE
This is not a bug of the system; the system is functioning as designed because the system is born of and perpetuates white supremacy.
Yours in abolition,
Emma
P.S. Abolish ICE
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Dear Those In The Back,
This is not a bug of the system; the system is functioning as designed because the system is born of and perpetuates white supremacy.
Yours in abolition,
Emma
P.S. Abolish ICE
This is not a bug of the system; the system is functioning as designed because the system is born of and perpetuates white supremacy.
Yours in abolition,
Emma
P.S. Abolish ICE
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There's a weird collective self-justification among reporters on this beat that their job is not to push back but to be stoic in order to observe an endlessly fascinating natural phenomenon. It's all nonsense. He is a public servant. Demand decency, and slap back hard and fast when you don't get it.
I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
There's a weird collective self-justification among reporters on this beat that their job is not to push back but to be stoic in order to observe an endlessly fascinating natural phenomenon. It's all nonsense. He is a public servant. Demand decency, and slap back hard and fast when you don't get it.
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Santa Fe is the first city in the U.S. to directly link wages to housing affordability, aiming to counter high rents.
Santa Fe tackles rental rates with first-in-US minimum wage approach
Santa Fe is the first city in the U.S. to directly link wages to housing affordability, aiming to counter high rents.
bit.ly
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Santa Fe is the first city in the U.S. to directly link wages to housing affordability, aiming to counter high rents.
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The journalists should do a collective "boo" or "shame" every time he does that.
Trump and his lackeys can either throw a tantrum and kick out the whole group or he can stop doing that shit because of how embarrassing it is to have an entire room call him out live on camera.
Trump and his lackeys can either throw a tantrum and kick out the whole group or he can stop doing that shit because of how embarrassing it is to have an entire room call him out live on camera.
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Someone has to challenge them to do it. I repeat my offer:
bsky.app/profile/dbon...
bsky.app/profile/dbon...
Dems want my money? Fine.
$1000 to the first Dem to go on a Sunday show and use their WHOLE segment to pointedly accuse the host, the show staff, & the network of platforming obvious lies, being goddamn cowards, and totally WHIFFING ON THE BIGGEST STORY in U.S. history in 25 (if not 250) years.
$1000 to the first Dem to go on a Sunday show and use their WHOLE segment to pointedly accuse the host, the show staff, & the network of platforming obvious lies, being goddamn cowards, and totally WHIFFING ON THE BIGGEST STORY in U.S. history in 25 (if not 250) years.
November 28, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Someone has to challenge them to do it. I repeat my offer:
bsky.app/profile/dbon...
bsky.app/profile/dbon...
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Whiteness is just so weird
Lying is its main function
So funny anecdote about a foster family I was with...
They were German but changed their name to something polish after that whole ww2 thing
But the story thst stands out the most to me was the grandma.
So. She was born circa 1910
Lying is its main function
So funny anecdote about a foster family I was with...
They were German but changed their name to something polish after that whole ww2 thing
But the story thst stands out the most to me was the grandma.
So. She was born circa 1910
November 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Whiteness is just so weird
Lying is its main function
So funny anecdote about a foster family I was with...
They were German but changed their name to something polish after that whole ww2 thing
But the story thst stands out the most to me was the grandma.
So. She was born circa 1910
Lying is its main function
So funny anecdote about a foster family I was with...
They were German but changed their name to something polish after that whole ww2 thing
But the story thst stands out the most to me was the grandma.
So. She was born circa 1910
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
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shoutout to all my fellow queers for whom family of origin sucks around holidays (and those of us who are still working on finding that found family). everything is pretty bad right now but being queer is still fucking amazing and you are amazing and not alone and i love you and am grateful for you
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
shoutout to all my fellow queers for whom family of origin sucks around holidays (and those of us who are still working on finding that found family). everything is pretty bad right now but being queer is still fucking amazing and you are amazing and not alone and i love you and am grateful for you
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this one slaps
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
this one slaps
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Keith Olbermann needs to stop being so gleeful that the teenager he was banging grew up into a shithead. You're like the literal only person who doesn't get to be mad at her right now.
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Keith Olbermann needs to stop being so gleeful that the teenager he was banging grew up into a shithead. You're like the literal only person who doesn't get to be mad at her right now.
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My latest, about @siembranc.bsky.social and how they organized in North Carolina to counter Operation Charlotte's Web and Border Patrol's latest anti-immigrant crackdown, co-published in @thenation.com and @southernstudies.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
How North Carolina Rose Up Against Trump’s Latest Anti-Immigrant Crackdown
“Operation Charlotte’s Web” may mobilize North Carolina’s working-class Latino members and allies to shift the political balance of power at the local, state, and national levels.
www.thenation.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
My latest, about @siembranc.bsky.social and how they organized in North Carolina to counter Operation Charlotte's Web and Border Patrol's latest anti-immigrant crackdown, co-published in @thenation.com and @southernstudies.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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SCOOP—In August, nearly 200 current/former FEMA staffers published the Katrina Declaration, a whistleblower letter detailing all the dangers posed by current leadership.
All current employees were put on indefinite leave, and now I've learned one has been fired in violation of federal protections:
All current employees were put on indefinite leave, and now I've learned one has been fired in violation of federal protections:
FEMA employee terminated for signing whistleblower letter
It appears to be a major violation of federal whistleblower protections and constitutional rights.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
SCOOP—In August, nearly 200 current/former FEMA staffers published the Katrina Declaration, a whistleblower letter detailing all the dangers posed by current leadership.
All current employees were put on indefinite leave, and now I've learned one has been fired in violation of federal protections:
All current employees were put on indefinite leave, and now I've learned one has been fired in violation of federal protections:
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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...
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timeline cleaning
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
timeline cleaning
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The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
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I don’t know who is ready to hear this but people don’t have to add value
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
May 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I don’t know who is ready to hear this but people don’t have to add value
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
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Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
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If you can understand why a Hispanic ICE agent with a deportation quota will not save you....
Then you can understand why a Black cop with an arrest quota, cannot save you either.
The racism is in the system, not the individual.
The individual is just a part, working within that system.
Then you can understand why a Black cop with an arrest quota, cannot save you either.
The racism is in the system, not the individual.
The individual is just a part, working within that system.
If you try to push on the individual responsibility And interpersonal racism of the cop?
Then you will end up hiring a bunch of Black cops... who will work within the same racist system, and the outcome will not change.🤷🏿♂️
Eg, a city going from 400 to 800 cops, but 200 of the new cops are Black.🤦🏿♂️
Then you will end up hiring a bunch of Black cops... who will work within the same racist system, and the outcome will not change.🤷🏿♂️
Eg, a city going from 400 to 800 cops, but 200 of the new cops are Black.🤦🏿♂️
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If you can understand why a Hispanic ICE agent with a deportation quota will not save you....
Then you can understand why a Black cop with an arrest quota, cannot save you either.
The racism is in the system, not the individual.
The individual is just a part, working within that system.
Then you can understand why a Black cop with an arrest quota, cannot save you either.
The racism is in the system, not the individual.
The individual is just a part, working within that system.
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I remain convinced DOGE was a massive, planetary scale data exfiltration scheme and that Palantir has it all now
Musk's people infiltrated the GSA technology arm early on and demanded root-level access to computer systems, trying to circumvent normal security procedures. Here's one example where they pushed so hard they forced someone to resign rather than give in.
Why did they do this?
Why did they do this?
Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public
A worker resigned in protest rather than giving Thomas Shedd access to Notify.gov, which they said would allow him to see "all personally identifiable information moving through the Notiy system, incl...
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I remain convinced DOGE was a massive, planetary scale data exfiltration scheme and that Palantir has it all now
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dems in congress shouldn't stop talking about how noem must resign and face consequences for this atrocity
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 AM
dems in congress shouldn't stop talking about how noem must resign and face consequences for this atrocity
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"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
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the brothers statement makes me think it was him. “my only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of my son” sounds like a preemptive defense of his actions, not a response to his sons mom being scooped up by the secret police
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
the brothers statement makes me think it was him. “my only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of my son” sounds like a preemptive defense of his actions, not a response to his sons mom being scooped up by the secret police