Raven Onthill
@ravenonthill.bsky.social
Just a dilettante amateur political science bird who lives in the US Pacific Northwest. If you want to know what I think, try my blogs at adviceunasked.blogspot.com and shinycroak.blogspot.com.
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How did this slip through the editorial process?
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
How did this slip through the editorial process?
OMG. US troops on the ground?
“Land action” 🧐🤷♂️🤦♂️
President Donald Trump suggested that the United States is preparing to take new action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela, telling service members during a Thanksgiving call that efforts for strikes on land will be starting "very soon." https://cnn.it/487SPPL
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 AM
OMG. US troops on the ground?
The First Amendment is a local ordinance.
The lengths the British government will go to please the Israeli government.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Sally Rooney books may be pulled from UK, court told
Normal People author Sally Rooney's books may have to be withdrawn from sale and none of her new works published in the UK due to "uncertainty" caused by the ban on Palestine Action, the British High ...
www.rte.ie
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The First Amendment is a local ordinance.
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slapping this sticker on top of the nuzzi-lizza discourse
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
slapping this sticker on top of the nuzzi-lizza discourse
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This is too much Gender I don't think we can handle this rn
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This is too much Gender I don't think we can handle this rn
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To brethren from US, land of my birth: Happy Thanksgiving.
Give thanks. And pray for your compatriots, especially those w no home to go to tonight. My sibling is one of those.
Why, how, doesn’t matter today.
Despite all, you can choose a better, kinder, more just future for all.
Do it. FFS.
Give thanks. And pray for your compatriots, especially those w no home to go to tonight. My sibling is one of those.
Why, how, doesn’t matter today.
Despite all, you can choose a better, kinder, more just future for all.
Do it. FFS.
November 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
To brethren from US, land of my birth: Happy Thanksgiving.
Give thanks. And pray for your compatriots, especially those w no home to go to tonight. My sibling is one of those.
Why, how, doesn’t matter today.
Despite all, you can choose a better, kinder, more just future for all.
Do it. FFS.
Give thanks. And pray for your compatriots, especially those w no home to go to tonight. My sibling is one of those.
Why, how, doesn’t matter today.
Despite all, you can choose a better, kinder, more just future for all.
Do it. FFS.
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תִּכּוֹל לְקַבְּלָא כָּל רְעוּתָךְ בִּקְפֵילִין דְּלַעֲלִיזָה*
*פְּרָטָא לַעֲלִיזָה
*פְּרָטָא לַעֲלִיזָה
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
תִּכּוֹל לְקַבְּלָא כָּל רְעוּתָךְ בִּקְפֵילִין דְּלַעֲלִיזָה*
*פְּרָטָא לַעֲלִיזָה
*פְּרָטָא לַעֲלִיזָה
Why is it that when reactionaries turn to the glories of Rome it is always the Empire they glorify, not the Republic?
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Why is it that when reactionaries turn to the glories of Rome it is always the Empire they glorify, not the Republic?
My decision not to subscribe to Vox is vindicated. Damn these people! All the press is the yellow press anymore.
I think plenty of it speaks to the state of the media, but an obvious one is that Vox and Vanity Fair barely investigated her and that she managed to commit an unforgivable journalistic crime before getting a book deal and walking into another prestige job, while plenty of others are being laid off
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
My decision not to subscribe to Vox is vindicated. Damn these people! All the press is the yellow press anymore.
Reform the Supreme Court then give the job to the reformed Court. But that's going to be the hardest job.
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Reform the Supreme Court then give the job to the reformed Court. But that's going to be the hardest job.
The endless betrayals, even of life itself.
I seem to recall that one of the GOP's main criticisms of Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal was that he betrayed the Afghan allies and didn't allow enough of them to come to the US. They shouldn't be allowed to forget that.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/...
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The endless betrayals, even of life itself.
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It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
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I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
So Nuzzi was a snitch, on top of everything else.
our plans are measured in centuries
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
So Nuzzi was a snitch, on top of everything else.
Who is even going to apply for these H-2A visas? As the working conditions and pay get worse and worse, coming and doing the work becomes less and less attractive.
Why does this administration hate food?
Why does this administration hate food?
USDA quietly said Friday it will, after a century, end the Farm Labor Survey (FLS), the only wage survey of ag employers.
FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages.
#LaborDay #EconSky
www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...
FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages.
#LaborDay #EconSky
www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...
November 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Who is even going to apply for these H-2A visas? As the working conditions and pay get worse and worse, coming and doing the work becomes less and less attractive.
Why does this administration hate food?
Why does this administration hate food?
Slavery. It's the coming thing.
USDA quietly said Friday it will, after a century, end the Farm Labor Survey (FLS), the only wage survey of ag employers.
FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages.
#LaborDay #EconSky
www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...
FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages.
#LaborDay #EconSky
www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Slavery. It's the coming thing.
Correct. Which I think is the real reason behind MTG’s sudden resignation: the death threats to her & her family. People forget that Scavino is Trump’s conduit to the most extreme elements. Of finding their stuff to repost & posting in Trump’s voice at them. They have received the instructions. 1/
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Literal fucking.
Oh dang the article that started the avalanche of Biden Old push notifications from every major news outlet was written by a woman who was sleeping with a *different* presidential candidate *at the time*?
Now does everyone understand what I mean by "ratfucking operation"?
Now does everyone understand what I mean by "ratfucking operation"?
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Literal fucking.
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It was never going to be Mueller or Epstein or any well-laid plan crafted by the moral opposition. It was always going to be some ragingly on-tilt rando chasing a completely different objective coughing up proof the assassination attempt was staged with energy so divorced it blots out the sun
I started out a skeptic but I'm now fully sold on the idea that Ryan Lizza's revenge-porn blog will, as pure collateral damage, bring down the president of the United States
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
It was never going to be Mueller or Epstein or any well-laid plan crafted by the moral opposition. It was always going to be some ragingly on-tilt rando chasing a completely different objective coughing up proof the assassination attempt was staged with energy so divorced it blots out the sun
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Just want to reiterate: Lizza and Nuzzi's ethical lapses are not representative of the DC press corps, which includes a ton of tireless public interest reporters who actually care about holding powerful people accountable, including at trade pubs.
They deserve better owners and a better industry.
They deserve better owners and a better industry.
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Just want to reiterate: Lizza and Nuzzi's ethical lapses are not representative of the DC press corps, which includes a ton of tireless public interest reporters who actually care about holding powerful people accountable, including at trade pubs.
They deserve better owners and a better industry.
They deserve better owners and a better industry.
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I want to make an additional point here regarding the part of the reporting in the screen shot.
This is not surprising at all. It has been a hallmark of the influence operation that Russia has run on American white evangelical Christians for over fifteen years. 1/
This is not surprising at all. It has been a hallmark of the influence operation that Russia has run on American white evangelical Christians for over fifteen years. 1/
November 27, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I want to make an additional point here regarding the part of the reporting in the screen shot.
This is not surprising at all. It has been a hallmark of the influence operation that Russia has run on American white evangelical Christians for over fifteen years. 1/
This is not surprising at all. It has been a hallmark of the influence operation that Russia has run on American white evangelical Christians for over fifteen years. 1/
Lol!
As someone who has stolen boats, I am generally disappointed in the current discourse surrounding piracy.
November 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Lol!
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I keep thinking about all the talented, ethical journalists who have been out of work for ages and getting angry all over again
Because people are treating it like a juicy spectacle and not like a significant failure of journalism and a condemnation of the industry.
why is this in the NYT Cooking newsletter, of all places!!!!!
November 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I keep thinking about all the talented, ethical journalists who have been out of work for ages and getting angry all over again
What about ICE deporting itself, like, with a time machine back to Nazi Germany?
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
What about ICE deporting itself, like, with a time machine back to Nazi Germany?