Laura Fitton she/her
@pistachio.bsky.social
Just another Dummy?
Pinned
we’re not here to be better THAN other people
we’re here to be better TO other people
we’re here to be better TO other people
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Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords
This is evil.
www.thegodpodcast.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
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An important part of arresting the consolidation of authoritarianism is convincing corporations and institutions that Trump will eventually be out of power and at that point they’ll face consequences for their actions and by that standard this is a good sign
Jamie Dimon says JPM hasn't given to the ballroom because "anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful about how anything is perceived." Adds "And also how the next DOJ is going to deal with."
thehill.com/business/559...
thehill.com/business/559...
thehill.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:17 AM
An important part of arresting the consolidation of authoritarianism is convincing corporations and institutions that Trump will eventually be out of power and at that point they’ll face consequences for their actions and by that standard this is a good sign
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I'm flummoxed by the underground movement to rehab cancelled figures. There's a rumor that a studio head is planning to begin bringing cancelled people back. It's bananas. The industry has contracted, leaving writers, directors and actors scrambling for work and we're making space for sex criminals?
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm flummoxed by the underground movement to rehab cancelled figures. There's a rumor that a studio head is planning to begin bringing cancelled people back. It's bananas. The industry has contracted, leaving writers, directors and actors scrambling for work and we're making space for sex criminals?
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I hope if you're shopping today, you stop by a local indie bookstore. Here's my list of my favorite 25 books from this past year, some old, some new, fiction, history, and current events — something for almost anyone on your list (and, of course, yourself!): www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/my-favorit...
My favorite books of 2025
25 books that changed the way I look at the world this year
www.doomsdayscenario.co
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I hope if you're shopping today, you stop by a local indie bookstore. Here's my list of my favorite 25 books from this past year, some old, some new, fiction, history, and current events — something for almost anyone on your list (and, of course, yourself!): www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/my-favorit...
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Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…
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"The world is clamoring for more electrons. It’s getting them from solar and wind. Between January and September, the two clean-energy sources grew fast enough to more than offset all new demand worldwide." www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... @ember-energy.org data via @danmccarthy.bsky.social 🔌💡
Chart: Solar and wind are meeting — and exceeding — new power demand
Through September, the two clean-energy sources outpaced growth in power demand. That trend needs to accelerate for the world to phase out fossil fuels.
www.canarymedia.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"The world is clamoring for more electrons. It’s getting them from solar and wind. Between January and September, the two clean-energy sources grew fast enough to more than offset all new demand worldwide." www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... @ember-energy.org data via @danmccarthy.bsky.social 🔌💡
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This is great to hear, and I hope encouraging to other institutions
Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.
Majority of Harvard’s Research Funding Has Been Restored
As of Tuesday, Harvard University had recouped most of the federal research funding it lost when the Trump administration froze its access to grants earlier this year, multiple local news organization...
www.insidehighered.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is great to hear, and I hope encouraging to other institutions
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🎯
Start w/ SEMION MOGILEVICH and find out why Mueller called him FBI’s number 1 most wanted and subsequently dropped from list. It’s bigger than these predators. Money laundering, weapons trade, sex trafficking, drug trafficking. Blackmailing powerful men caught preying. Institutions implicated.
Start w/ SEMION MOGILEVICH and find out why Mueller called him FBI’s number 1 most wanted and subsequently dropped from list. It’s bigger than these predators. Money laundering, weapons trade, sex trafficking, drug trafficking. Blackmailing powerful men caught preying. Institutions implicated.
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
🎯
Start w/ SEMION MOGILEVICH and find out why Mueller called him FBI’s number 1 most wanted and subsequently dropped from list. It’s bigger than these predators. Money laundering, weapons trade, sex trafficking, drug trafficking. Blackmailing powerful men caught preying. Institutions implicated.
Start w/ SEMION MOGILEVICH and find out why Mueller called him FBI’s number 1 most wanted and subsequently dropped from list. It’s bigger than these predators. Money laundering, weapons trade, sex trafficking, drug trafficking. Blackmailing powerful men caught preying. Institutions implicated.
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🪡 In 2024 things didn’t end as well, but we still ran through the finish line.
Our team made 32 MILLION direct voter contacts, talking to young voters about the stakes of the election and why turning out was critical. We organized around the country — and did our best to win.
Our team made 32 MILLION direct voter contacts, talking to young voters about the stakes of the election and why turning out was critical. We organized around the country — and did our best to win.
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
🪡 In 2024 things didn’t end as well, but we still ran through the finish line.
Our team made 32 MILLION direct voter contacts, talking to young voters about the stakes of the election and why turning out was critical. We organized around the country — and did our best to win.
Our team made 32 MILLION direct voter contacts, talking to young voters about the stakes of the election and why turning out was critical. We organized around the country — and did our best to win.
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I donate to VOT bc they are smart, tireless young voting activists reaching out to their peers--they know & believe in young voters because they *are* young voters & some of them are doing the work before they can even vote! Don't moan about the youth, be inspired by them & throw some $ their way.
Folks often ask why I’m constantly fundraising on here, so if I may, let me introduce you to some of the wonderful work that @votersoftomorrow.org does.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I donate to VOT bc they are smart, tireless young voting activists reaching out to their peers--they know & believe in young voters because they *are* young voters & some of them are doing the work before they can even vote! Don't moan about the youth, be inspired by them & throw some $ their way.
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Stephen Miller is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. His great-grandparents inhabited the Pale of Settlement (western Russia where Jews were allowed to live) and escaped Russian pogroms and the Holocaust. All the same racist, xenophobic, ignorant things he is saying were said about his own family.
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Stephen Miller is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. His great-grandparents inhabited the Pale of Settlement (western Russia where Jews were allowed to live) and escaped Russian pogroms and the Holocaust. All the same racist, xenophobic, ignorant things he is saying were said about his own family.
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
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Also? Stop believing the swill they spout about trans people, if we were such an existential threat you wouldn't need all of this right wing media and social media engineering to convince you of it, transphobia is all some billionaire ghouls' pet hate that they're boiling your brains to adopt.
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Also? Stop believing the swill they spout about trans people, if we were such an existential threat you wouldn't need all of this right wing media and social media engineering to convince you of it, transphobia is all some billionaire ghouls' pet hate that they're boiling your brains to adopt.
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
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Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Gender-affirming care saves lives
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Maybe tune in to PBS NewsHour tonight to see this excellent piece on how front-line hunger-fighters like @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social are taking on the rising tide of hunger across the US, from urban centers to rural & tribal communities. Consider helping! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUvU...
Budgets blown and inventory drained, food banks are struggling to feed their neighbors
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Maybe tune in to PBS NewsHour tonight to see this excellent piece on how front-line hunger-fighters like @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social are taking on the rising tide of hunger across the US, from urban centers to rural & tribal communities. Consider helping! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUvU...
before people start thought piecing on the moral degradation in this convo - consider these folks always thought and talked like this
it’s just that now they feel confident and safe doing it in public
it’s just that now they feel confident and safe doing it in public
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
before people start thought piecing on the moral degradation in this convo - consider these folks always thought and talked like this
it’s just that now they feel confident and safe doing it in public
it’s just that now they feel confident and safe doing it in public
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The last of reggae's founding fathers. Rest in Power, Jimmy Cliff. youtu.be/ck1ZiRXmRN4?...
Jimmy Cliff - Guns of Brixton
YouTube video by ReggaeNeration
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November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The last of reggae's founding fathers. Rest in Power, Jimmy Cliff. youtu.be/ck1ZiRXmRN4?...
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Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy.
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy.
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Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
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Good morning with good news: China's electric heavy trucks sales skyrocket, bad news for diesel and LNG demand.
EV heavy truck market share surged to 22% in first half of 2025 from 9% in 2024! EV market share jumped 139%.
EVs were 28% of sales in August 2025!
apnews.com/article/chin... #energysky
EV heavy truck market share surged to 22% in first half of 2025 from 9% in 2024! EV market share jumped 139%.
EVs were 28% of sales in August 2025!
apnews.com/article/chin... #energysky
China's diesel trucks are shifting to electric. That could change global LNG and diesel demand
China is rapidly replacing its aging diesel trucks with electric models, signaling a major shift in the world’s largest vehicle market.
apnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Good morning with good news: China's electric heavy trucks sales skyrocket, bad news for diesel and LNG demand.
EV heavy truck market share surged to 22% in first half of 2025 from 9% in 2024! EV market share jumped 139%.
EVs were 28% of sales in August 2025!
apnews.com/article/chin... #energysky
EV heavy truck market share surged to 22% in first half of 2025 from 9% in 2024! EV market share jumped 139%.
EVs were 28% of sales in August 2025!
apnews.com/article/chin... #energysky
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Home Depot on defense for their horrific enabling of ICE crimes. That means Ain't Buying It boycott is already working and it's not even Thanksgiving yet!
www.newsweek.com/home-depot-i...
www.newsweek.com/home-depot-i...
Home Depot speaks out about ICE involvement as boycott calls grow
The retailer's premises have become a key target of immigration enforcement activities in recent months.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Home Depot on defense for their horrific enabling of ICE crimes. That means Ain't Buying It boycott is already working and it's not even Thanksgiving yet!
www.newsweek.com/home-depot-i...
www.newsweek.com/home-depot-i...
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BUY NOTHING this Friday from Amazon, Target and Home Depot (at least!). #WeaintBuyingIt
This Black Friday weekend we are going to send a message to corporations that enable Trump and the MAGA agenda: #WeAintBuyingIt
😠 Are you sick of corporations enabling this administration by ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & chasing tax breaks?
❌💲 From Thanksgiving morning through nighttime Cyber Monday, BUY NOTHING from Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. Join us & spread the word! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫
❌💲 From Thanksgiving morning through nighttime Cyber Monday, BUY NOTHING from Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. Join us & spread the word! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
BUY NOTHING this Friday from Amazon, Target and Home Depot (at least!). #WeaintBuyingIt
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As somebody situated in that exact cultural space at that time, this is *mind blowingly accurate.* The landscape is SO different, it feels like remembering a parallel universe.
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
As somebody situated in that exact cultural space at that time, this is *mind blowingly accurate.* The landscape is SO different, it feels like remembering a parallel universe.