Renee (paix120)
@paix120.bsky.social
Christian. Feminist. Anti-Fascist. Democrat. Works with data. Lives in Virginia. ADHD. Has a veggie garden & some aquariums.
Please remind me to go read a long-bookmarked post (and I often share them), so my bookmarks don't stay out-of-sight-out-of-mind.
Please remind me to go read a long-bookmarked post (and I often share them), so my bookmarks don't stay out-of-sight-out-of-mind.
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The government is very deliberately NOT trying to deport Mr. Abrego Garcia. Since August, he has been asking them to deport him to Costa Rica, yet the Trump admin keeps refusing to do it (and lying about why) because they want to send him to Africa to punish him. Here's how Judge Xinis summed it up.
December 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The government is very deliberately NOT trying to deport Mr. Abrego Garcia. Since August, he has been asking them to deport him to Costa Rica, yet the Trump admin keeps refusing to do it (and lying about why) because they want to send him to Africa to punish him. Here's how Judge Xinis summed it up.
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i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.
A Mennonite group in my town still protests the treatment of Palestinians regularly. Today, they were caroling at the farmer's market.
www.instagram.com/p/DSDd9jbiTV...
www.instagram.com/p/DSDd9jbiTV...
December 14, 2025 at 5:35 AM
A Mennonite group in my town still protests the treatment of Palestinians regularly. Today, they were caroling at the farmer's market.
www.instagram.com/p/DSDd9jbiTV...
www.instagram.com/p/DSDd9jbiTV...
Abusing children is worse than "abusing sacred imagery", just ask Jesus.
Supporters of the displays say the Bible is on their side, but critics call the scenes sacrilegious and politically divisive, accusing the churches of abusing sacred imagery. n.pr/4rTabaD
Church Nativity scenes add zip ties and gas masks to protest immigration raids
Supporters of the displays say the Bible is on their side, but critics call the scenes sacrilegious and politically divisive, accusing the churches of abusing sacred imagery.
n.pr
December 14, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Abusing children is worse than "abusing sacred imagery", just ask Jesus.
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Here's a link to the text (with more info) if anyone needs it www.wnyc.org/story/breaki...
The Breaking News Consumer's Handbook | On the Media | WNYC
Rampant misreporting following shootings and other breaking news events is so predictable that we unintentionally developed a formula for covering them.
www.wnyc.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Here's a link to the text (with more info) if anyone needs it www.wnyc.org/story/breaki...
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On the accelerating crisis of vaccine preventable disease, the significance of the drop in vaccination rates, and how this relates to differing responses across the US. This week, an entire school district in Iowa closed to stop a measles outbreak, while hundreds are in quarantine in South Carolina.
The signal in the noise: pertussis, measles & the cost of anti-vaccine rhetoric — Jessica Kant
In the year 2000, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that measles, a deadly and highly infectious disease which disproportionately harms children, was successfully declared eliminated. Tw...
jessk.org
December 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
On the accelerating crisis of vaccine preventable disease, the significance of the drop in vaccination rates, and how this relates to differing responses across the US. This week, an entire school district in Iowa closed to stop a measles outbreak, while hundreds are in quarantine in South Carolina.
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This article is sympathetic towards ICE but still a good read because it's clear that Minneapolis and Saint Paul are doing AMAZING work (with a little assistance from our weather).
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
ICE operation shows the difficulty of immigration arrests amid pushback in frigid Minnesota
NBC News was granted exclusive access to accompany Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as they tried to arrest targets in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
www.nbcnews.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas.
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
Fort Bliss Declarations - December 2025 | American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
December 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas.
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
My God
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:45 AM
My God
Quite a list!
Here are the top 10 most popular post-1945 American authors at the Seattle Public Library over the last 20 years.
December 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Quite a list!
What percentage of America's wealth is sitting on each of these beams?
Should one set of people really have *that* much more money than the other?
Should one set of people really have *that* much more money than the other?
It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.
December 12, 2025 at 6:59 AM
What percentage of America's wealth is sitting on each of these beams?
Should one set of people really have *that* much more money than the other?
Should one set of people really have *that* much more money than the other?
Calling it the "Charlie Kirk Freedom of Speech Plaza" while suppressing Black voices. Says so much.
The Trump Administration forced DC to obliterate and repave Black Lives Matter Plaza. Now Nancy Mace wants to rename it after Charlie Kirk. If it passes, DC residents will have a new place to spit and urinate in public.
If passed, H.R. 6578 — the "Charlie Kirk Freedom of Speech Plaza Act" — could stir new tensions between the District and the Trump administration over the name of the intersection at 16th Street NW between H and K streets.
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Calling it the "Charlie Kirk Freedom of Speech Plaza" while suppressing Black voices. Says so much.
When I say AI is moving too far too fast, and being pushed into the hands of too many people while still untested and unregulated, creating dangers, I'm not being "anti AI", I'm being anti shit like this:
New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.
AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show
New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.
www.nbcnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
When I say AI is moving too far too fast, and being pushed into the hands of too many people while still untested and unregulated, creating dangers, I'm not being "anti AI", I'm being anti shit like this:
From Social Media to Biometrics (including DNA)...
Bye Bye US tourism.
(Someone is making $$$, though. Probably Palantir.)
Bye Bye US tourism.
(Someone is making $$$, though. Probably Palantir.)
Under this new proposal, if you're a European who wants to visit New York City for a vacation, you now have to turn over a TON of information to the United States government, which they will keep forever.
The days of just showing a passport will be long gone.
The days of just showing a passport will be long gone.
December 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
From Social Media to Biometrics (including DNA)...
Bye Bye US tourism.
(Someone is making $$$, though. Probably Palantir.)
Bye Bye US tourism.
(Someone is making $$$, though. Probably Palantir.)
Cutting services to save on personnel costs definitely isn't helping USPS make any more money.
This is the post office open the latest on Saturdays in Harrisonburg, VA. I don't see any open after 5 on weekdays, either. The Harrisonburg area has over 140,000 people.
This is the post office open the latest on Saturdays in Harrisonburg, VA. I don't see any open after 5 on weekdays, either. The Harrisonburg area has over 140,000 people.
December 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Cutting services to save on personnel costs definitely isn't helping USPS make any more money.
This is the post office open the latest on Saturdays in Harrisonburg, VA. I don't see any open after 5 on weekdays, either. The Harrisonburg area has over 140,000 people.
This is the post office open the latest on Saturdays in Harrisonburg, VA. I don't see any open after 5 on weekdays, either. The Harrisonburg area has over 140,000 people.
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Know someone who likes crochet and irreverent humor? My friend Lisa, social media "Crochentertainer", wrote a book!
geni.us/SnarkyCrochet
geni.us/SnarkyCrochet
Snarky Crochet: Irreverent Patterns, Jokes & Puns for Silly Stitchers
Pre-order your copy now!
geni.us
December 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Know someone who likes crochet and irreverent humor? My friend Lisa, social media "Crochentertainer", wrote a book!
geni.us/SnarkyCrochet
geni.us/SnarkyCrochet
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A huge night for Democrats:
—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
A huge night for Democrats:
—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
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“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
OK this cracked me up
December 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
OK this cracked me up
The speed with which Google search has dropped from one of my most-valued tools to one of the most frustrating and less-useful is astonishing. I'm sure it's not good for advertisers and content creators.
Is the beloved Search that made $$$$$ on its way to the graveyard?
killedbygoogle.com
Is the beloved Search that made $$$$$ on its way to the graveyard?
killedbygoogle.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The speed with which Google search has dropped from one of my most-valued tools to one of the most frustrating and less-useful is astonishing. I'm sure it's not good for advertisers and content creators.
Is the beloved Search that made $$$$$ on its way to the graveyard?
killedbygoogle.com
Is the beloved Search that made $$$$$ on its way to the graveyard?
killedbygoogle.com
Just another example: Trump doesn't give a shit about America or Americans, or anything he professes to care about.
It's all bullshit. And he's for sale, which means America is for sale.
It's all bullshit. And he's for sale, which means America is for sale.
POLITICO: You pardoned the former president of Honduras even though he was convicted in a massive intl drug trafficking scheme. How is that 0 tolerance on drug trafficking?
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
December 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Just another example: Trump doesn't give a shit about America or Americans, or anything he professes to care about.
It's all bullshit. And he's for sale, which means America is for sale.
It's all bullshit. And he's for sale, which means America is for sale.
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How is that a reasonable answer?
POLITICO: You pardoned the former president of Honduras even though he was convicted in a massive intl drug trafficking scheme. How is that 0 tolerance on drug trafficking?
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
December 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
How is that a reasonable answer?
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Very worried we are in for more of these cases, as trust in health institutions continues to plummet and we see the general discourse in nutrition devolve in the most extreme version of good/bad thinking that we've ever seen.
A 5-month-old baby died, & 3 surviving children, ages 2, 4, & 5, had to be hospitalized with rickets, osteopenia, vitamin D deficiency, & significant developmental delays bc their parents put them on “alkaline diets.”
Anyone saying alkalization has health benefits is a murderous liar & a charlatan.
Anyone saying alkalization has health benefits is a murderous liar & a charlatan.
December 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Very worried we are in for more of these cases, as trust in health institutions continues to plummet and we see the general discourse in nutrition devolve in the most extreme version of good/bad thinking that we've ever seen.