@soandso66.bsky.social
The common good, transit, cats, dark skies, music, film, walking, biking. Lehigh Valley via Stamford, DMV, Philly, El Paso, Fabens. Previously obsessed with making radio collage in Allentown, mid 80’s through 90’s.
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Reading up on old Irish cats and really liking the names (from brehonacademy.org/purring-thro...)
Also like this bit "cats held a unique legal status that reflects their diverse roles in Irish life, including both practical and symbolic aspects."
Also like this bit "cats held a unique legal status that reflects their diverse roles in Irish life, including both practical and symbolic aspects."
November 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Reading up on old Irish cats and really liking the names (from brehonacademy.org/purring-thro...)
Also like this bit "cats held a unique legal status that reflects their diverse roles in Irish life, including both practical and symbolic aspects."
Also like this bit "cats held a unique legal status that reflects their diverse roles in Irish life, including both practical and symbolic aspects."
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the US is what rampant militarised populist nationalism looks like. Don't stop paying attention.
Below are just some of the actions that I added to the TrumpActionTracker this morning
www.trumpactiontracker.info
Below are just some of the actions that I added to the TrumpActionTracker this morning
www.trumpactiontracker.info
November 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
the US is what rampant militarised populist nationalism looks like. Don't stop paying attention.
Below are just some of the actions that I added to the TrumpActionTracker this morning
www.trumpactiontracker.info
Below are just some of the actions that I added to the TrumpActionTracker this morning
www.trumpactiontracker.info
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I think often of the time a bunch of murder victims’ families showed Trump treasured photos of their loved ones and he signed them
Q: Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I think often of the time a bunch of murder victims’ families showed Trump treasured photos of their loved ones and he signed them
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If Joe Biden had claimed that he redesigned the hulls of Coast Guard cutters, we'd be way over in 25th amendment territory.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
Trump during his Thanksgiving call with service members: "We're ordered a lot of Coast Guard cutters. Brand new, beautiful, the best machines in the world. I'm a looks person. I wanted the hull to be perfect. You know, I sort of redesigned the hull a little bit. The hulls. But we ordered a lot."
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
If Joe Biden had claimed that he redesigned the hulls of Coast Guard cutters, we'd be way over in 25th amendment territory.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
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‘So it's what happens when these helpers become gatekeepers, become so powerful that they usurp the relationship they're supposed to be facilitating. And it follows a characteristic pattern.’
Cory Doctorow on stage with the Nerve: ‘The web is five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four’
In our first live event, the author shares with Nerve co-founder Carole Cadwalladr his strong opinions on Facebook, Peter Thiel, AI – and what we can do to combat the enshittification of the internet
www.thenerve.news
November 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
‘So it's what happens when these helpers become gatekeepers, become so powerful that they usurp the relationship they're supposed to be facilitating. And it follows a characteristic pattern.’
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It's something that a grown man fascist would do.
Punishing all Afghanis for the crimes of one is not something a grown man president would do but here we are.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...
Trump administration pauses all immigration applications from Afghans after National Guard shooting in D.C.
Federal immigration authorities said Wednesday they have paused processing requests from Afghan nationals, after a man from Afghanistan was identified as the suspect in the D.C. National Guard shootin...
www.cbsnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It's something that a grown man fascist would do.
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As frustrating as it is that any progress women have made at the workplace & in the home, is constantly under attack by the Trump administration, it's just as baffling that there are women actively working to see their gender dragged backward, so they might continue to be awarded scraps from men.
A constant hostility toward women sits at the heart of Trump’s politics—and fascism, authoritarianism, and pretty much any organized form of oppression.
Quiet, Piggy
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
As frustrating as it is that any progress women have made at the workplace & in the home, is constantly under attack by the Trump administration, it's just as baffling that there are women actively working to see their gender dragged backward, so they might continue to be awarded scraps from men.
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This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
![“I was so happy when I got there [to Babson],” Lopez Belloza said. “I was just living the college life — going to events, going everywhere ... everything there was really great. I really loved the school."
She and her father also had a special shared aspiration. With her business degree, Lopez Belloza was going to help her father open his own tailor shop, they hoped.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u6ajzyiqzkzbppp2x2y7fpfu/bafkreib33kpkgmvas4z6avgq62styxbzrzuawjufqyddtoynqgbiwnhtzy@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
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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.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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.
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett: “Trump Turned ICE Into a Modern Slave Patrol — And People Are Dying” 😲
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Rep. Jasmine Crockett: “Trump Turned ICE Into a Modern Slave Patrol — And People Are Dying” 😲
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"Stupid person learning highly visible job in politics is difficult and stressful" is pretty much the "dog bites man" headline of this garbage admin.
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"Stupid person learning highly visible job in politics is difficult and stressful" is pretty much the "dog bites man" headline of this garbage admin.
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But the fact that CNN is amplifying it, shows how important NYT agenda setting is, and how much fault they deserve in this story being not covered for last 2 years as NYT was actively suppressing it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
But the fact that CNN is amplifying it, shows how important NYT agenda setting is, and how much fault they deserve in this story being not covered for last 2 years as NYT was actively suppressing it.
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Got to love how much praise NYT gets for one article, 2+ years late, that literally just rehashes things we all knew already but NYT has spent the last 2 years ignoring & denying & obfuscating.
The New York Times produced a detailed, data-driven report on President Trump showing signs of aging. The president, 79, responded by calling the female reporter who co-wrote the story “ugly.” https://cnn.it/48idUFL
November 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Got to love how much praise NYT gets for one article, 2+ years late, that literally just rehashes things we all knew already but NYT has spent the last 2 years ignoring & denying & obfuscating.
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Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
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A packed audience for the #NationalEmergencyBriefing this morning, listening to 9 experts give a hard-hitting and evidence-based view of the state of climate effects to MPs, Lords, and leaders across media, business and culture.
@nebriefing.bsky.social
@nebriefing.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
A packed audience for the #NationalEmergencyBriefing this morning, listening to 9 experts give a hard-hitting and evidence-based view of the state of climate effects to MPs, Lords, and leaders across media, business and culture.
@nebriefing.bsky.social
@nebriefing.bsky.social
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We have very few eel-related metaphors English now. But there used to be many more.
One of my favorites is from William Lisle’s 1631 play "The Faire Ætheopian" where he describes a procession of haughty maids as being “smug as Eeles."
Have you ever been that smug? Has anyone?
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One of my favorites is from William Lisle’s 1631 play "The Faire Ætheopian" where he describes a procession of haughty maids as being “smug as Eeles."
Have you ever been that smug? Has anyone?
🗃️🧪
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
We have very few eel-related metaphors English now. But there used to be many more.
One of my favorites is from William Lisle’s 1631 play "The Faire Ætheopian" where he describes a procession of haughty maids as being “smug as Eeles."
Have you ever been that smug? Has anyone?
🗃️🧪
One of my favorites is from William Lisle’s 1631 play "The Faire Ætheopian" where he describes a procession of haughty maids as being “smug as Eeles."
Have you ever been that smug? Has anyone?
🗃️🧪
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An annual reminder:
The cognitive & emotional toll of staying in contact with abusive family can be both significant & difficult to recognize.
There's a kind of social contract that abusive parents have violated. You owe them nothing. Nothing.
Thanksgiving doesn't change that.
The cognitive & emotional toll of staying in contact with abusive family can be both significant & difficult to recognize.
There's a kind of social contract that abusive parents have violated. You owe them nothing. Nothing.
Thanksgiving doesn't change that.
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
An annual reminder:
The cognitive & emotional toll of staying in contact with abusive family can be both significant & difficult to recognize.
There's a kind of social contract that abusive parents have violated. You owe them nothing. Nothing.
Thanksgiving doesn't change that.
The cognitive & emotional toll of staying in contact with abusive family can be both significant & difficult to recognize.
There's a kind of social contract that abusive parents have violated. You owe them nothing. Nothing.
Thanksgiving doesn't change that.
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MOM vs. GRANDMA
1:00 p.m. / Living Room
This first fight will center around generational trauma and fruit salad. It will set the tone for the rest of the event.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...
1:00 p.m. / Living Room
This first fight will center around generational trauma and fruit salad. It will set the tone for the rest of the event.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...
Your Family’s Thanksgiving Fight Schedule
Due to the overwhelming number of anticipated brawls this Thanksgiving, we decided to streamline your day with an Official Family Thanksgiving Figh...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
MOM vs. GRANDMA
1:00 p.m. / Living Room
This first fight will center around generational trauma and fruit salad. It will set the tone for the rest of the event.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...
1:00 p.m. / Living Room
This first fight will center around generational trauma and fruit salad. It will set the tone for the rest of the event.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...
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Professor Nathalie Seddon lays out the economic and moral case for protecting nature.
"We must treat nature as critical infrastructure, and treat it as kin. We must stop funding harm. We must cultivate a culture of care. The majority of the public strongly supports nature protection."
"We must treat nature as critical infrastructure, and treat it as kin. We must stop funding harm. We must cultivate a culture of care. The majority of the public strongly supports nature protection."
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Professor Nathalie Seddon lays out the economic and moral case for protecting nature.
"We must treat nature as critical infrastructure, and treat it as kin. We must stop funding harm. We must cultivate a culture of care. The majority of the public strongly supports nature protection."
"We must treat nature as critical infrastructure, and treat it as kin. We must stop funding harm. We must cultivate a culture of care. The majority of the public strongly supports nature protection."
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An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
ICE Detained an 18-Year-Old U.S. Citizen. This Is His Story.
YouTube video by The Hometown Holler
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
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A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
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The Washington Post is now exactly as reliable and trustworthy as the New York Post.
Proceed accordingly.
Proceed accordingly.
very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The Washington Post is now exactly as reliable and trustworthy as the New York Post.
Proceed accordingly.
Proceed accordingly.
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"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation."
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation."
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
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It’s not that complicated, people.
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It’s not that complicated, people.