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.
Incredible bravery. Praying for everyone who was hurt or injured, and the families and witnesses.
The hero of Bondi: Ahmed el Ahmed, a 43 year old fruit shop owner from Sutherland. He grabbed the gun off one of the terrorists shooting at Jews during a Hanukkah celebration.
Ahmed was then shot in the leg and shoulder by another terrorist. He’s being treated in the hospital and expected to be OK.
Ahmed was then shot in the leg and shoulder by another terrorist. He’s being treated in the hospital and expected to be OK.
December 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Incredible bravery. Praying for everyone who was hurt or injured, and the families and witnesses.
And even if there were a scene like that, it's not representative of the direction of TV in general.
December 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
And even if there were a scene like that, it's not representative of the direction of TV in general.
I recently finished reading The Power, but haven't watched the show. That's the only thing I can think of that would even be close in theme, but I have no idea whether there's a scene like that in the show. And it's not exactly a "women power all good" story.
December 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I recently finished reading The Power, but haven't watched the show. That's the only thing I can think of that would even be close in theme, but I have no idea whether there's a scene like that in the show. And it's not exactly a "women power all good" story.
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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...
To them, they are America.
December 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
To them, they are America.
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...
I'm not seeing these numbers in other publications, yet, so let me know if you do
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I'm not seeing these numbers in other publications, yet, so let me know if you do
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!
Bye bye tourism money
December 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Bye bye tourism money
It would cost them a lot less than buying the social media sites
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
It would cost them a lot less than buying the social media sites
(And not evenly, in any of the categories. A Zuckerberg or Musk would hold way more than $30, while people at the lowest end held nothing. In fact, they owe money.)
December 12, 2025 at 7:24 AM
(And not evenly, in any of the categories. A Zuckerberg or Musk would hold way more than $30, while people at the lowest end held nothing. In fact, they owe money.)
The top 1% of Americans own about 30% of the collective wealth of all Americans.
So, to simulate this disparity (hopefully I did this right):
If you had 100 people in a room and $100, 1 guy would get $30, the next 9 people get $4 each, and the remaining $34 gets split among the other 90 people.
So, to simulate this disparity (hopefully I did this right):
If you had 100 people in a room and $100, 1 guy would get $30, the next 9 people get $4 each, and the remaining $34 gets split among the other 90 people.
December 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
The top 1% of Americans own about 30% of the collective wealth of all Americans.
So, to simulate this disparity (hopefully I did this right):
If you had 100 people in a room and $100, 1 guy would get $30, the next 9 people get $4 each, and the remaining $34 gets split among the other 90 people.
So, to simulate this disparity (hopefully I did this right):
If you had 100 people in a room and $100, 1 guy would get $30, the next 9 people get $4 each, and the remaining $34 gets split among the other 90 people.
Sorry, I don't usually repost images without alt text. The images in the post quoted at the top are...
Left: Time magazine Person of the Year 2025, Architects of AI, sitting on a beam like the old "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" photo
Right: The original "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" photo
Left: Time magazine Person of the Year 2025, Architects of AI, sitting on a beam like the old "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" photo
Right: The original "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" photo
December 12, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Sorry, I don't usually repost images without alt text. The images in the post quoted at the top are...
Left: Time magazine Person of the Year 2025, Architects of AI, sitting on a beam like the old "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" photo
Right: The original "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" photo
Left: Time magazine Person of the Year 2025, Architects of AI, sitting on a beam like the old "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" photo
Right: The original "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" photo
"5 of the 8 people selected — Musk, Zuckerberg, Huang, Altman and Su — are already billionaires with a collective fortune of $870 billion, based on [estimates] by Forbes magazine. Much of the wealth has been accumulated during the past three years of AI fever."
apnews.com/article/time...
apnews.com/article/time...
Time magazine names 'Architects of AI' as its person of the year for 2025
The “Architects of AI” were named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2025. The magazine on Thursday cited 2025 as the year when the potential of artificial intelligence “roared into view” with no ...
apnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:05 AM
"5 of the 8 people selected — Musk, Zuckerberg, Huang, Altman and Su — are already billionaires with a collective fortune of $870 billion, based on [estimates] by Forbes magazine. Much of the wealth has been accumulated during the past three years of AI fever."
apnews.com/article/time...
apnews.com/article/time...
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?