PyxelPye 📎
@pyxelpye.bsky.social
Boomer, old hippie, former art therapist, reader, tea drinker, atheist, science nerd, liberal AF, MI dweller. I swear like a sailor. INFJ. No bio=no follow. She/her. 🟦🟧
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
Frida Kahlo
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
Frida Kahlo
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He'll start a war to:
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
December 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
He'll start a war to:
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
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I forgot about that time when Venezuela invaded the North Dakota oilfields
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I forgot about that time when Venezuela invaded the North Dakota oilfields
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Trump’s Rob Reiner comment was low even for him, but it’s the week of Epstein Files release and Affordable Care deadline, so look for more stupid Trump stuff to distract you from that.
Epstein. Health care. Eye on the ball.
Epstein. Health care. Eye on the ball.
December 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Trump’s Rob Reiner comment was low even for him, but it’s the week of Epstein Files release and Affordable Care deadline, so look for more stupid Trump stuff to distract you from that.
Epstein. Health care. Eye on the ball.
Epstein. Health care. Eye on the ball.
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Thoughts and prayers to all you anti-gay conservative Christian men, like Mike Johnson and Lindsey Graham.
December 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Thoughts and prayers to all you anti-gay conservative Christian men, like Mike Johnson and Lindsey Graham.
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"If I'm sounding more worried to you than I've sounded in months, it's because I am."
youtu.be/Ah2xMufLbS8
youtu.be/Ah2xMufLbS8
Justin Wolfers: These Jobs Numbers Look Like the Start of an Economic Slump
What happens when job growth nearly flatlines, unemployment rises, and the Fed starts quietly worrying about recession?
Economist Justin Wolfers breaks down a tricky but pivotal US jobs report that…
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"If I'm sounding more worried to you than I've sounded in months, it's because I am."
youtu.be/Ah2xMufLbS8
youtu.be/Ah2xMufLbS8
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As data centers pop up in every corner of the country, their electricity demands are spiking rates for everyone.
But why on Earth should you be covering the electricity bill of a billion-dollar tech giant?
This week, @warren.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov, & I are asking big tech just that.
But why on Earth should you be covering the electricity bill of a billion-dollar tech giant?
This week, @warren.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov, & I are asking big tech just that.
Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
As data centers pop up in every corner of the country, their electricity demands are spiking rates for everyone.
But why on Earth should you be covering the electricity bill of a billion-dollar tech giant?
This week, @warren.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov, & I are asking big tech just that.
But why on Earth should you be covering the electricity bill of a billion-dollar tech giant?
This week, @warren.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov, & I are asking big tech just that.
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Words DO MATTER.
This is deeply moving.
This is deeply moving.
December 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Words DO MATTER.
This is deeply moving.
This is deeply moving.
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Leslie Jones on how she'd react to Trump calling her piggy 🤣
December 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Leslie Jones on how she'd react to Trump calling her piggy 🤣
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One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
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Apparently the WH Chief of Staff has been the victim of having her own words printed in a story.
December 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Apparently the WH Chief of Staff has been the victim of having her own words printed in a story.
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2025 is almost over—let's recognize some art that rose about the rest. 🧵🏆
December 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
2025 is almost over—let's recognize some art that rose about the rest. 🧵🏆
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The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
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 10:37 AM
The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
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🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration escalated its effort to punish a sitting U.S. senator for protected political speech Monday, formally converting the Pentagon’s review of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) into an official Command Investigation under military law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Admin Intensifies Military Probe Against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, Launches Command Investigation
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration escalated its effort to punish a sitting U.S. senator for protected political speech Monday, formally converting the Pentagon’s review of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) into an official Command Investigation under military law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “We have to pray not only with our lips but with our actions… Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade, without doing all we can to stop it, is broken and in need of moral repair.”
December 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “We have to pray not only with our lips but with our actions… Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade, without doing all we can to stop it, is broken and in need of moral repair.”
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Dial M for metaphor.
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Dial M for metaphor.
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There is never a day that goes by anymore that we don't learn of a new disgusting, vile, inhumane actions of the billionaire governing class.
Had a sheet cake to celebrate starving people, and killing people off with a cholera pandemic in Sudan. Where there's an active genocide.
#SheShed
Had a sheet cake to celebrate starving people, and killing people off with a cholera pandemic in Sudan. Where there's an active genocide.
#SheShed
December 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
There is never a day that goes by anymore that we don't learn of a new disgusting, vile, inhumane actions of the billionaire governing class.
Had a sheet cake to celebrate starving people, and killing people off with a cholera pandemic in Sudan. Where there's an active genocide.
#SheShed
Had a sheet cake to celebrate starving people, and killing people off with a cholera pandemic in Sudan. Where there's an active genocide.
#SheShed
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"Today, the Trump meme coin has lost 88% of its value...
"First Lady Melania Trump’s meme coin suffered even steeper losses. Today it’s worth just 11 cents, which means anyone who bought at the top and held on has lost 99% of their investment..."
www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/b...
"First Lady Melania Trump’s meme coin suffered even steeper losses. Today it’s worth just 11 cents, which means anyone who bought at the top and held on has lost 99% of their investment..."
www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/b...
These Trump bets boomed. Now they’re huge busts | CNN Business
Donald Trump’s return to the White House set off a gold rush on Wall Street and in the crypto world.
www.cnn.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"Today, the Trump meme coin has lost 88% of its value...
"First Lady Melania Trump’s meme coin suffered even steeper losses. Today it’s worth just 11 cents, which means anyone who bought at the top and held on has lost 99% of their investment..."
www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/b...
"First Lady Melania Trump’s meme coin suffered even steeper losses. Today it’s worth just 11 cents, which means anyone who bought at the top and held on has lost 99% of their investment..."
www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/b...
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Instead of responding only with thoughts and prayers, Australia will respond with laws and regulations. Because, unlike the United States, it values the lives of its citizens over any sick adulation of firearms.
The 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to immediate, sweeping, bipartisan gun law reforms.
The 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to immediate, sweeping, bipartisan gun law reforms.
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
Gunshots ripped through a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, killing at least 12 people
www.irishtimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Instead of responding only with thoughts and prayers, Australia will respond with laws and regulations. Because, unlike the United States, it values the lives of its citizens over any sick adulation of firearms.
The 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to immediate, sweeping, bipartisan gun law reforms.
The 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to immediate, sweeping, bipartisan gun law reforms.
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CNN: Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) on Trump’s post on Rob Reiner:
“I’d expect to hear something like this from a drunk guy at a bar, not the President of the United States. Can the President be presidential?”
“I’d expect to hear something like this from a drunk guy at a bar, not the President of the United States. Can the President be presidential?”
December 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
CNN: Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) on Trump’s post on Rob Reiner:
“I’d expect to hear something like this from a drunk guy at a bar, not the President of the United States. Can the President be presidential?”
“I’d expect to hear something like this from a drunk guy at a bar, not the President of the United States. Can the President be presidential?”
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texas literally has assigned armed state troopers to guard the ladies room.
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...
Enforcement of Texas’ bathroom bill draws challenges
In its first week, one group’s test of the new restrictions was met with ID checks at women’s restrooms at the Capitol while the Austin City Council moved to circumvent the law's intent.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
texas literally has assigned armed state troopers to guard the ladies room.
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...
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turns out you can actually have the right policy response to a crisis as long as you're not in the United States
apnews.com/article/aust...
apnews.com/article/aust...
Australia to tighten gun laws after Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre
Australian leaders have promised to immediately overhaul already-tough gun control laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
apnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
turns out you can actually have the right policy response to a crisis as long as you're not in the United States
apnews.com/article/aust...
apnews.com/article/aust...
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Real reporting:
“ProPublica journalists hiked and boated across…the epicenter of South Sudan’s outbreak…to interview families that the U.S. cut off from help. We collected medical files, diaries, meeting notes and photographs documenting cholera’s devastation after essential services stopped.”
“ProPublica journalists hiked and boated across…the epicenter of South Sudan’s outbreak…to interview families that the U.S. cut off from help. We collected medical files, diaries, meeting notes and photographs documenting cholera’s devastation after essential services stopped.”
Rubio has repeatedly insisted the govt is restarting life-saving foreign aid.
My colleagues found that’s bullshit.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
My colleagues found that’s bullshit.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Real reporting:
“ProPublica journalists hiked and boated across…the epicenter of South Sudan’s outbreak…to interview families that the U.S. cut off from help. We collected medical files, diaries, meeting notes and photographs documenting cholera’s devastation after essential services stopped.”
“ProPublica journalists hiked and boated across…the epicenter of South Sudan’s outbreak…to interview families that the U.S. cut off from help. We collected medical files, diaries, meeting notes and photographs documenting cholera’s devastation after essential services stopped.”
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JUST IN: U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling orders U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Luis Uribe detained following charges that he used his gun and badge to rape multiple women.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling just took the bench for a detention hearing in the case of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Luis Uribe, who prosecutors have called a "serial rapist."
O'Hare-based Border Protection officer sexually abused, robbed women at gunpoint, indictment claims
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
December 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
JUST IN: U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling orders U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Luis Uribe detained following charges that he used his gun and badge to rape multiple women.