Doug Ramsdell
@dimmsdale.bsky.social
happy to be here. audiobook narrator. Owns (or is owned by) numerous woodwind instruments. Kindness and justice kind of a big deal.
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All in on boycotting the financiers of fascism say I, or ain't, as it suits you! #AintBuyingIt
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
All in on boycotting the financiers of fascism say I, or ain't, as it suits you! #AintBuyingIt
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On tonight’s episode: Pam Bondi lunges at Lindsey Halligan: "You ruined my James Comey revenge!" Halligan yells, “You were the idiot who let the statute of limitations run!” A drunk Jeanine Pirro pushes them apart. Pam snarls at Pirro: “I’m not through with you, Miss Can’t Get a Fucken Indictment!”
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
On tonight’s episode: Pam Bondi lunges at Lindsey Halligan: "You ruined my James Comey revenge!" Halligan yells, “You were the idiot who let the statute of limitations run!” A drunk Jeanine Pirro pushes them apart. Pam snarls at Pirro: “I’m not through with you, Miss Can’t Get a Fucken Indictment!”
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I am ready to go beyond implication and say after reading the facts here that one of the most recognizable people working in the White House almost certainly had ICE arrest her nephew's mother as a favor to her brother
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I am ready to go beyond implication and say after reading the facts here that one of the most recognizable people working in the White House almost certainly had ICE arrest her nephew's mother as a favor to her brother
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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.
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 4:29 PM
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
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If they want to slow down the Trump administration, Democrats should begin promising this *now*
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 4:53 PM
If they want to slow down the Trump administration, Democrats should begin promising this *now*
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Day #311 #proudblue #pinks
He worked 87 days this whole year & he is overwhelmed?
The GO☭ are so weak. They talk big. They sat strong words to hold their position. Yet, they are overwhelmed by 87 days of controversy they create!
Try being a nurse during covid?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
He worked 87 days this whole year & he is overwhelmed?
The GO☭ are so weak. They talk big. They sat strong words to hold their position. Yet, they are overwhelmed by 87 days of controversy they create!
Try being a nurse during covid?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Day #311 #proudblue #pinks
He worked 87 days this whole year & he is overwhelmed?
The GO☭ are so weak. They talk big. They sat strong words to hold their position. Yet, they are overwhelmed by 87 days of controversy they create!
Try being a nurse during covid?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
He worked 87 days this whole year & he is overwhelmed?
The GO☭ are so weak. They talk big. They sat strong words to hold their position. Yet, they are overwhelmed by 87 days of controversy they create!
Try being a nurse during covid?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Starting to think that in the same way targeted boycotts seem to be working on pro-Trump companies, we need to be calling out BY NAME the centrist message consultants whose vested interest seems to be short-circuiting TRULY effective messaging to keep their exorbitant fees coming. NAME AND SHAME!!
I'm actually a bit shocked that a national Democrat with eyes on '28 hasn't called out Vance for his cowardice on Fuentes and the Groypers.
Maybe I'm naive. Or perhaps they have centrist pollsters in their frontal lobes preventing them from being the first to take a stand that matters.
Maybe I'm naive. Or perhaps they have centrist pollsters in their frontal lobes preventing them from being the first to take a stand that matters.
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Starting to think that in the same way targeted boycotts seem to be working on pro-Trump companies, we need to be calling out BY NAME the centrist message consultants whose vested interest seems to be short-circuiting TRULY effective messaging to keep their exorbitant fees coming. NAME AND SHAME!!
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Hugely useful
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit
Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Hugely useful
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Once again, I'll be spending the Thanksgiving holiday volunteering at the Ted Cruz Home for the Morally Unpleasant
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Once again, I'll be spending the Thanksgiving holiday volunteering at the Ted Cruz Home for the Morally Unpleasant
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How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
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Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.
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And now 600,000 people are dead. bsky.app/profile/dedi...
600,000 dead. 400,000 of them children. This is the tally of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest people.
#USDemocracy
youtu.be/7x4ZHWjDcf4?...
#USDemocracy
youtu.be/7x4ZHWjDcf4?...
Trump DOGE cuts caused 600,000 deaths this year, fmr. USAID official says
YouTube video by MS NOW
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
And now 600,000 people are dead. bsky.app/profile/dedi...
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Here's the recipe.
November 26, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Here's the recipe.
((((PANG))))
@erinbiba.bsky.social: here you go for your pie discourse.
The peanut butter cup pie. Natural peanut butter mousse on dark chocolate graham cracker crust sealed with a dark chocolate ganache and then covered with dark chocolate ganache.
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
((((PANG))))
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War for Ukraine Day 1,370 update has posted.
Balloon Juice - War for Ukraine Day 1,370: We Should All Dare To Call It Conspiracy!
I am fried, so I’m going to try to keep this as short as possible. We now know that Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Special Envoy (de facto) Plenipotentiary, conspired with Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s senior natsec ...
balloon-juice.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
War for Ukraine Day 1,370 update has posted.
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The worst is this poor little toy can't tell the difference between a US AG, a US Supreme Court Justice, which is quite literally the but-for difference, and a Brazilian judge w/investigatory powers.
It's like gravity doesn't exist with these snot nosed Roberts-freaks.
It's like gravity doesn't exist with these snot nosed Roberts-freaks.
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The worst is this poor little toy can't tell the difference between a US AG, a US Supreme Court Justice, which is quite literally the but-for difference, and a Brazilian judge w/investigatory powers.
It's like gravity doesn't exist with these snot nosed Roberts-freaks.
It's like gravity doesn't exist with these snot nosed Roberts-freaks.
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This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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American public opinion is largely generated by foreigners who make money by lying to Americans over unregulated social media. Out of respect to those entrepreneurial foreigners, we will continue to treat their commodified fictions as one side of a reasoned American debate.
-The Editorial Board
-The Editorial Board
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
American public opinion is largely generated by foreigners who make money by lying to Americans over unregulated social media. Out of respect to those entrepreneurial foreigners, we will continue to treat their commodified fictions as one side of a reasoned American debate.
-The Editorial Board
-The Editorial Board
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If I can give you 1 thing that I have learned on my Lupus, cancer, chronic illness and pain and other medical journeys, it would be: we must always have hope. Even in the midst of the darkness and pain, when you are feeling alone and unable to speak because it hurts we must always find the light. 🙏💜
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
If I can give you 1 thing that I have learned on my Lupus, cancer, chronic illness and pain and other medical journeys, it would be: we must always have hope. Even in the midst of the darkness and pain, when you are feeling alone and unable to speak because it hurts we must always find the light. 🙏💜