Stanley Chin 𓆏
@pandatree.bsky.social
Native plants, indie rock, lgbtqia+ advocate. Kill your lawns! Get in the moshpit! Protect trans kids! Trans rights are human rights!!! FROGS TOGETHER STRONG!
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Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner’s best friends have released a statement honoring them to the Associated Press:
December 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner’s best friends have released a statement honoring them to the Associated Press:
"There'll be scary ghost stories/
And tales of the glories of/
Christmases long, long ago"
And tales of the glories of/
Christmases long, long ago"
With Christmas drawing near, it's time to share my annual thread of Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve...
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Starting, somewhat self-servingly, with my own THE DEAD OF WINTER, which is now available to watch on Amazon Prime as part of this ShortsTV compilation:
watch.amazon.co.uk/detail?gti=a...
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Starting, somewhat self-servingly, with my own THE DEAD OF WINTER, which is now available to watch on Amazon Prime as part of this ShortsTV compilation:
watch.amazon.co.uk/detail?gti=a...
December 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"There'll be scary ghost stories/
And tales of the glories of/
Christmases long, long ago"
And tales of the glories of/
Christmases long, long ago"
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This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
(1) the Democratic Party is not a serious opposition party. (2) Trans rights are human rights.
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
December 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
(1) the Democratic Party is not a serious opposition party. (2) Trans rights are human rights.
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In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake.
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake.
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
& Brandi Carlile and Allison Russell at Steve Earle's annual John Henry benefit for Keswell School, covering Red Girt Girl -- make a joyful sound. www.instagram.com/reel/DSNq4Uy...
Women of Americana on Instagram: "@brandicarlile & @allisonrussellmusic offered up a stunning acoustic take on @emmylouharrisofficial’s “Red Dirt Girl” at last night’s 11th Annual John Henry’s Friends...
2,355 likes, 35 comments - womenofamericana on December 13, 2025: "@brandicarlile & @allisonrussellmusic offered up a stunning acoustic take on @emmylouharrisofficial’s “Red Dirt Girl” at last night’s...
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December 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
& Brandi Carlile and Allison Russell at Steve Earle's annual John Henry benefit for Keswell School, covering Red Girt Girl -- make a joyful sound. www.instagram.com/reel/DSNq4Uy...
Lucy, Martha, Rufus and Loudon did Merle Haggard's If We Make It Through December on Kimmel last week, an evergreen as it were. youtu.be/vxx2i9hkHKE
The Wainwrights – If We Make It Through December
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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December 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Lucy, Martha, Rufus and Loudon did Merle Haggard's If We Make It Through December on Kimmel last week, an evergreen as it were. youtu.be/vxx2i9hkHKE
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University.
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University.
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
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The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The RFK, jr effect.
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apart from the sheer inconceivable horror of the El Fasher massacre and its attendant horrors itself, the thing I'm feeling depressed about is that it probably won't matter.
these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about
these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about
60,000 is the *low end* estimate.
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
December 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
apart from the sheer inconceivable horror of the El Fasher massacre and its attendant horrors itself, the thing I'm feeling depressed about is that it probably won't matter.
these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about
these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about
and because u can go to 50 shows and still have regrets, a playlist of shows I had tickets for or otherwise could have gone to but didn't or couldn't or whatever anyway anxiety & FOMO rules, ok. tidal.com/playlist/cfb...
shows I regret missing 2025
Playlist - shows I regret missing 2025 - 21 items
tidal.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
and because u can go to 50 shows and still have regrets, a playlist of shows I had tickets for or otherwise could have gone to but didn't or couldn't or whatever anyway anxiety & FOMO rules, ok. tidal.com/playlist/cfb...
Made a playlist of all the acts I saw this year, mostly clubs around DC, a couple of fests (All Thing Go, High Water). 93 bands? tidal.com/playlist/126...
shows I am glad I saw 2025
Playlist - shows I am glad I saw 2025 - 93 items
tidal.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Made a playlist of all the acts I saw this year, mostly clubs around DC, a couple of fests (All Thing Go, High Water). 93 bands? tidal.com/playlist/126...
Just your annual reminder that Burl Ives the Snowman was a rat who named names, including Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, for HUAC so he could get off the blacklist. www.smolko.ly/blog/extra-s...
Extra stuff #2: Burl Ives: Beloved Snowman or Despised Stool Pigeon?
We have two chapters in Atomic Tunes about folk musicians, but we couldn't quite squeeze this section in, about Burl Ives and Pete Seeger. Thanks to his role as wise old Sam the Snowman in the...
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December 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Just your annual reminder that Burl Ives the Snowman was a rat who named names, including Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, for HUAC so he could get off the blacklist. www.smolko.ly/blog/extra-s...
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ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
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HUGE. Judge Xinis grants the writ of habeas corpus and orders that the government "SHALL release [Kilmar] Abrego Garcia from ICE custody immediately."
December 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
HUGE. Judge Xinis grants the writ of habeas corpus and orders that the government "SHALL release [Kilmar] Abrego Garcia from ICE custody immediately."
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Rep. Ramirez: “You lie with impunity. You reject checks and balances, and you ignore Congress and the courts. Your options are limited. Either you're going to resign, Trump's going to fire you, or you will be impeached.”
December 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Rep. Ramirez: “You lie with impunity. You reject checks and balances, and you ignore Congress and the courts. Your options are limited. Either you're going to resign, Trump's going to fire you, or you will be impeached.”
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10/10 In other words, Congress was perfectly capable of passing legislation—bipartisan legislation, even!—to address major national problems WHEN majority party leadership was willing to allow that to happen. And that happened when Democrats had agenda-setting power. /Fin/
December 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
10/10 In other words, Congress was perfectly capable of passing legislation—bipartisan legislation, even!—to address major national problems WHEN majority party leadership was willing to allow that to happen. And that happened when Democrats had agenda-setting power. /Fin/
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A woman in her 50s
Why tf does she have "marks" on her neck?
"Tincher 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 5 hours."
Agents threatened to pull over and pepper spray her.
Why tf does she have "marks" on her neck?
"Tincher 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 5 hours."
Agents threatened to pull over and pepper spray her.
A Minneapolis woman & American citizen was arrested early Tuesday after confronting ICE officers over the arrests of three neighbors in north Minneapolis. She appears to be the first observer arrested since ICE launched a Twin Cities immigration surge last week. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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 11:33 PM
A woman in her 50s
Why tf does she have "marks" on her neck?
"Tincher 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 5 hours."
Agents threatened to pull over and pepper spray her.
Why tf does she have "marks" on her neck?
"Tincher 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 5 hours."
Agents threatened to pull over and pepper spray her.
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Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
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growing problem for the dems is that their voters want progressive candidates but the party leadership generally doesn't. so there's no structure to identify and vet good progressive candidates until it's too late.
The noisiest Dem primary so far is probably Maine Senate, and here for instance I think it’s useful to see that despite all the bad publicity Platner still appears to be the favorite:
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
growing problem for the dems is that their voters want progressive candidates but the party leadership generally doesn't. so there's no structure to identify and vet good progressive candidates until it's too late.
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The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
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"Because working people have been shunted into defined contribution, self-funded retirement schemes, their futures are wedded to stock market returns in a way that people in similarly wealthy democracies find unimaginable." Inequality in the US is obscene. My thoughts:
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
The case for a 100% tax bracket for billionaires
I was looking through my photos, stumbled upon this image, and realized that I had to get out a seasonal newsletter today with a wish for 2025. Caption....
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December 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"Because working people have been shunted into defined contribution, self-funded retirement schemes, their futures are wedded to stock market returns in a way that people in similarly wealthy democracies find unimaginable." Inequality in the US is obscene. My thoughts:
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
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If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
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DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚