Carleen
@carleenml.bsky.social
Primarily progressive politics and books. "You are living an exciting new chapter in the book on tape of your life." -Moira Rose
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Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
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I know this won’t get a lot of attention beyond “well it’s New Hampshire, what did you expect” but I want you all to know there are a lot of kids and families of color here and we all deserve better than this kind of garbage representation
Leaked Signal chat shows NH House education chair advocating whites-only schools
The group chat allegedly shows NH House Education Committee Chair Kristin Noble suggesting test scores would rise if students were split into white and
granitepostnews.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:43 AM
I know this won’t get a lot of attention beyond “well it’s New Hampshire, what did you expect” but I want you all to know there are a lot of kids and families of color here and we all deserve better than this kind of garbage representation
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“Trump wants” “Trump threatens” “Trump promises” ….these are not powers that belong to his office, but because Congress has relegated itself to background noise, nobody even acknowledges that this isn’t how our government was designed to work
January 15, 2026 at 1:13 AM
“Trump wants” “Trump threatens” “Trump promises” ….these are not powers that belong to his office, but because Congress has relegated itself to background noise, nobody even acknowledges that this isn’t how our government was designed to work
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That's a perfect example of how "performative" has become MEANINGLESS. POLITICS IS SUPPOSED TO INCLUDE A PERFORMANCE. PERFORMATIVE POLITICS IS NECESSARY. I truly despise these fucking so called 'moderates.'
January 15, 2026 at 1:43 AM
That's a perfect example of how "performative" has become MEANINGLESS. POLITICS IS SUPPOSED TO INCLUDE A PERFORMANCE. PERFORMATIVE POLITICS IS NECESSARY. I truly despise these fucking so called 'moderates.'
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Importantly, the history of anti-trans discrimination isnt just history
The scholars' brief shows the link between a dark past that Amy Coney Barrett can no longer plausibly deny, and a darkening future that she & her conservative colleagues are helping to create
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trans...
The scholars' brief shows the link between a dark past that Amy Coney Barrett can no longer plausibly deny, and a darkening future that she & her conservative colleagues are helping to create
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trans...
This Is the History of Anti-Trans Bigotry Amy Coney Barrett Doesn’t Want to Talk About
Barrett thinks transgender people have been subjected to “relatively little” discrimination. This amicus brief aims to set the record straight.
ballsandstrikes.org
January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Importantly, the history of anti-trans discrimination isnt just history
The scholars' brief shows the link between a dark past that Amy Coney Barrett can no longer plausibly deny, and a darkening future that she & her conservative colleagues are helping to create
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trans...
The scholars' brief shows the link between a dark past that Amy Coney Barrett can no longer plausibly deny, and a darkening future that she & her conservative colleagues are helping to create
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trans...
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NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
December 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
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You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
December 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
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Methinks the Atlantic has it backwards. Canadians are the heroes; CBS and Weiss are the treacherous ones. And America is making itself look far worse than "silly." I salute Global TV.
The @theatlantic.com claims that Canadians will use "treachery" to make America and its media look "silly".
No, we are a democratic people who hate thugs and their pusillanimous enablers.
Deal with it.
No, we are a democratic people who hate thugs and their pusillanimous enablers.
Deal with it.
December 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Methinks the Atlantic has it backwards. Canadians are the heroes; CBS and Weiss are the treacherous ones. And America is making itself look far worse than "silly." I salute Global TV.
This is real and more terrifying by the day.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
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Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard, Alain Resnais, 1956)
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Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard, Alain Resnais, 1956)
December 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is real and more terrifying by the day.
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Reporter: We have 3 videos, 2 breathalyzers, 4 bartenders, and a minivan full of nuns attesting to how the driver was drunk and reckless when he hit the school bus.
Weiss; What did the driver say.
Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times.
Weiss: I’m killing your story.
Weiss; What did the driver say.
Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times.
Weiss: I’m killing your story.
December 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Reporter: We have 3 videos, 2 breathalyzers, 4 bartenders, and a minivan full of nuns attesting to how the driver was drunk and reckless when he hit the school bus.
Weiss; What did the driver say.
Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times.
Weiss: I’m killing your story.
Weiss; What did the driver say.
Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times.
Weiss: I’m killing your story.
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People are dying inside American concentration camps right now.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
Exclusive: 911 calls from migrant detention center highlight dire conditions
About 90 emergency 911 calls have been made from the Camp East Montana immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, during the 15 weeks since it opened.
www.elpasotimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
People are dying inside American concentration camps right now.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
Love her SO much. Truth!
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Love her SO much. Truth!
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when someone seems to suddenly and inexplicably jump on the maga train, you will almost never be wrong in assuming it’s about money
minaj is on the verge of having her $20M home forcibly sold by the court to cover a $500K debt, in case you wonder what’s going on here
Nicki Minaj: “For young men, don’t be Newscum (Gavin Newsom) .. Dear young men, you have amazing role models like our handsome, dashing president...”
December 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
when someone seems to suddenly and inexplicably jump on the maga train, you will almost never be wrong in assuming it’s about money
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Their plan, to the degree you can say they have a plan, is working. It’s going to be catastrophic and it’s going to kill a large number of people for no reason other than the strong conservative Christian belief that the poor deserve to suffer and die for the sin of their poverty.
December 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Their plan, to the degree you can say they have a plan, is working. It’s going to be catastrophic and it’s going to kill a large number of people for no reason other than the strong conservative Christian belief that the poor deserve to suffer and die for the sin of their poverty.
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I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering.
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering.
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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- Pope Leo X in 1517, after being told about Martin Luther.
WTF is a “Christian influencer?”
December 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
- Pope Leo X in 1517, after being told about Martin Luther.
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This is 1: Exactly what they promised not to do and
2: What I've come to expect every time the GOP has the chance.
I've watching/using the VA for 30+ years. Dems build it up, GOP screams how "Dems hate America, and spit on our Veterans" and then cut services.
2: What I've come to expect every time the GOP has the chance.
I've watching/using the VA for 30+ years. Dems build it up, GOP screams how "Dems hate America, and spit on our Veterans" and then cut services.
Exclusive: The Department of Veterans Affairs will abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, mostly unfilled jobs.
The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees.
The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees.
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This is 1: Exactly what they promised not to do and
2: What I've come to expect every time the GOP has the chance.
I've watching/using the VA for 30+ years. Dems build it up, GOP screams how "Dems hate America, and spit on our Veterans" and then cut services.
2: What I've come to expect every time the GOP has the chance.
I've watching/using the VA for 30+ years. Dems build it up, GOP screams how "Dems hate America, and spit on our Veterans" and then cut services.
welcome back, Library Cabinet Wine Advent Calendar. *these are a few of my favorite things* 🎵
December 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
welcome back, Library Cabinet Wine Advent Calendar. *these are a few of my favorite things* 🎵
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bosses love ai because they are not very smart and not very creative
December 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
bosses love ai because they are not very smart and not very creative
the other day in the grocery store I realized what was always 'a pound of coffee' can (I am old) is now 10 oz. It took me minutes to recover and keep going.
December 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
the other day in the grocery store I realized what was always 'a pound of coffee' can (I am old) is now 10 oz. It took me minutes to recover and keep going.
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‼️Just in case not everyone has seen this. A beautiful expression of the English language.
December 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
‼️Just in case not everyone has seen this. A beautiful expression of the English language.
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People need to boycott the US right now.
Don’t wait for these demands to go into place.
Don’t go for the World Cup. Don’t go for the Olympics.
Don’t go to Disney or Vegas or Broadway.
It’s not safe, and your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism.
Vote with your dollar.
Don’t wait for these demands to go into place.
Don’t go for the World Cup. Don’t go for the Olympics.
Don’t go to Disney or Vegas or Broadway.
It’s not safe, and your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism.
Vote with your dollar.
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
People need to boycott the US right now.
Don’t wait for these demands to go into place.
Don’t go for the World Cup. Don’t go for the Olympics.
Don’t go to Disney or Vegas or Broadway.
It’s not safe, and your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism.
Vote with your dollar.
Don’t wait for these demands to go into place.
Don’t go for the World Cup. Don’t go for the Olympics.
Don’t go to Disney or Vegas or Broadway.
It’s not safe, and your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism.
Vote with your dollar.
I know everyone is sharing this, but there's a reason. It's insane. And amazing reporting. REAL reporting!!
Every detail about this story is absolutely insane but even in its broadest sense it is wild that a guy known for collaborating with white nationalists, promoting Pizzagate, spreading foreign state disinformation -- the list goes on and on -- is acting as a henchman for Pentagon officials.
We discovered a Goodreads page linked to the email address of a top Pentagon official featuring pornographic books about “Asian wife sharing.”
The story gets wilder from there.
The story gets wilder from there.
December 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I know everyone is sharing this, but there's a reason. It's insane. And amazing reporting. REAL reporting!!