Avedon Carol (in that order)
@avedonsays.bsky.social
Old-school blogger, and grumpy with it.
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I think about this tweet a lot
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I think about this tweet a lot
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Here's Reeves telling us how bad child poverty is, that kids go to bed hungry, wake up in cold homes & end up in hospital with respiratory problems, all because of child poverty.
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Here's Reeves telling us how bad child poverty is, that kids go to bed hungry, wake up in cold homes & end up in hospital with respiratory problems, all because of child poverty.
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
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John Roberts made his life's work the destruction of democracy. This has been obvious for years. But it completely eluded the Democrats, their donors, and most of the legal community. It was actively supported by Rs, their donors, and the media their donors control.
Trump needed Roberts to win—and Trump’s victory came just in time for Roberts.
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
John Roberts made his life's work the destruction of democracy. This has been obvious for years. But it completely eluded the Democrats, their donors, and most of the legal community. It was actively supported by Rs, their donors, and the media their donors control.
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Throw cares away
It's that time of year again! And nothing starts the season off like " The Carol of the Bells ", so here's a nice flash-mob version from ...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
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NYT: "Some describe it as extortion while others prefer to use a mob euphemism for extortion"
The so-called Grey Lady is worthless.
The so-called Grey Lady is worthless.
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
NYT: "Some describe it as extortion while others prefer to use a mob euphemism for extortion"
The so-called Grey Lady is worthless.
The so-called Grey Lady is worthless.
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Be careful, Elon. Literally every prominent Democrat has been compared to Hitler or called a Nazi. Many of the people caught up in your dragnet will be your allies. 1/6
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Be careful, Elon. Literally every prominent Democrat has been compared to Hitler or called a Nazi. Many of the people caught up in your dragnet will be your allies. 1/6
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The masterminds behind Bush-Cheney extraordinary rendition campaign never stood in the dock in the U.S. or The Netherlands for "outsourcing torture." I despair that those Shanghaiing undocumented immigrants off to African hell-hole prisons won’t either.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The masterminds behind Bush-Cheney extraordinary rendition campaign never stood in the dock in the U.S. or The Netherlands for "outsourcing torture." I despair that those Shanghaiing undocumented immigrants off to African hell-hole prisons won’t either.
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We've already known since the 1940s that you need to have high top marginal rates, strict antimonopoly laws, and a generous welfare state to prevent the rise of fascism, because rich guys will always fund the rise of fascism. So why did the Clintons jump on board with the Kochs?
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
We've already known since the 1940s that you need to have high top marginal rates, strict antimonopoly laws, and a generous welfare state to prevent the rise of fascism, because rich guys will always fund the rise of fascism. So why did the Clintons jump on board with the Kochs?
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This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
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Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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By rabid weevils. Starting with toes.
If this ends the way I suspect it will, jail will not be sufficient for the AI Bros. The moderate position is demanding they be eaten.
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
By rabid weevils. Starting with toes.
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The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
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BUTNER, N.C. (AP) — H. Rap Brown, one of the most vocal leaders of the Black Power movement, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the killing of a Georgia sheriff’s deputy. He was 82.
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
BUTNER, N.C. (AP) — H. Rap Brown, one of the most vocal leaders of the Black Power movement, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the killing of a Georgia sheriff’s deputy. He was 82.
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Huey Long died 90 years ago today after an assassin shot him in the Louisiana State Capitol two days earlier.
“The same mill that grinds out the extra rich is the same mill that will grind out the extra poor…”
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“The same mill that grinds out the extra rich is the same mill that will grind out the extra poor…”
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September 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Huey Long died 90 years ago today after an assassin shot him in the Louisiana State Capitol two days earlier.
“The same mill that grinds out the extra rich is the same mill that will grind out the extra poor…”
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“The same mill that grinds out the extra rich is the same mill that will grind out the extra poor…”
www.hueylong.com/programs/sha...
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Everybody's crying justice, just as long as it's business first
Here's a picture of my Second Life avatar in a sexy gown, just to spice things up. I hope no one's forgotten that Common Dreams is about a...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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It's all out in the open.
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It's all out in the open.
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ESQUIRE: “ICE is hiring literally anybody, and it’s terrifying… people who flunk the exam, criminal records… yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night.”
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November 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
ESQUIRE: “ICE is hiring literally anybody, and it’s terrifying… people who flunk the exam, criminal records… yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night.”
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The hegemonic politics around policing has been, is, and will remain the major stumbling block of this moment for so many.
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 AM
The hegemonic politics around policing has been, is, and will remain the major stumbling block of this moment for so many.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad