Kalliope O
@kalliopeo.bsky.social
HRT started 10/14/2024
I love reading, I write, trying to beat Forbidden West, and a fan of Jesus but not church.
I love reading, I write, trying to beat Forbidden West, and a fan of Jesus but not church.
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Kalliope O
@kalliopeo.bsky.social
· Sep 29
I’ve lately felt inclined to opine on shit a lot less. I still read who I follow and I still occasionally check up on the clusterfuck my country is becoming.
I’m keeping more of my energy for longer fork writing and I feel like skeeting can take away from that.
I’m keeping more of my energy for longer fork writing and I feel like skeeting can take away from that.
Hegseth going full Geoffrey.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Hegseth going full Geoffrey.
As a general rule right now, the DNC should have a lawyer for every Democrat in Congress. It will not stop with six.
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
As a general rule right now, the DNC should have a lawyer for every Democrat in Congress. It will not stop with six.
We are so going under the bus again.
1. After the shutdown fight, Republicans promised Democrats a vote on extending enhanced ACA subsidies, which cover 20 million Americans.
Now, new reporting shows that Republican negotiators want to make a trans funding ban a requirement for the extension.
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Now, new reporting shows that Republican negotiators want to make a trans funding ban a requirement for the extension.
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Republicans Privately Pushing Anti-Trans Funding Ban For ACA Subsidy Deal After Shutdown Compromise
The proposal, which was first detailed in the Wall Street Journal, could harm transgender people even in blue states if it becomes part of the negotiated deal.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We are so going under the bus again.
So are we going to war against Venezuela on Thursday?
Kind of weird to say you support the troops and then deploy them right on the holidays when we aren’t under attack.
Seems like something only an asshole would do.
Kind of weird to say you support the troops and then deploy them right on the holidays when we aren’t under attack.
Seems like something only an asshole would do.
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
So are we going to war against Venezuela on Thursday?
Kind of weird to say you support the troops and then deploy them right on the holidays when we aren’t under attack.
Seems like something only an asshole would do.
Kind of weird to say you support the troops and then deploy them right on the holidays when we aren’t under attack.
Seems like something only an asshole would do.
Also don’t rely on the cloud or email. Those can fail too. An external dive or or pen drive is what you want.
Unsolicited artist advice of the day: if you're a freelancer with no back up devices or storage, remember to pick a few things up in the black Friday sales. Even a pen drive to back up your projects so if you have a catastrophic hard drive failure you wont lose everything..learn from my mistakes. 😅
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Also don’t rely on the cloud or email. Those can fail too. An external dive or or pen drive is what you want.
Week of thanksgiving and he’s about to send our troops into a new war. Without congressional approval.
Why aren’t we talking impeachment now?
Why aren’t we talking impeachment now?
Turkish Airlines joins suspension of flights to Venezuela after US warns of ‘heightened military activity’ www.turkishminute.com/2025/11/24/t...
Turkish Airlines joins suspension of flights to Venezuela after US warns of 'heightened military activity' - Turkish Minute
Turkish Airlines on Sunday announced a temporary suspension of flights to Venezuela after the US civil aviation regulator warned of dangers from "heightened military activity" amid a major buildup of...
www.turkishminute.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Week of thanksgiving and he’s about to send our troops into a new war. Without congressional approval.
Why aren’t we talking impeachment now?
Why aren’t we talking impeachment now?
Hegseth did not think this through. Shocker, I know. You’re going to try and court martial a former fighter pilot and astronaut? Good fucking luck. You may have just given Kelly a platform for a presidential campaign.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Hegseth did not think this through. Shocker, I know. You’re going to try and court martial a former fighter pilot and astronaut? Good fucking luck. You may have just given Kelly a platform for a presidential campaign.
Be thankful for migration attorneys when the family goes around asking what everyone is thankful for.
It's almost Thanksgiving! Got an ICE member coming for dinner at your house? No you don't! Can't stop them because you're not the one hosting? No problem. You can shun them, mock them, shame them, cough in their food. They get the weird chair. No weird chair? Make a weird chair.
November 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Be thankful for migration attorneys when the family goes around asking what everyone is thankful for.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Question: if this rad the plan all along, why even go through with their half-baked “report” earlier this year?
Waste of money.
Waste of money.
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Question: if this rad the plan all along, why even go through with their half-baked “report” earlier this year?
Waste of money.
Waste of money.
It’s not anywhere close to dead enough.
More right-wing figures are criticizing Trump’s economic decisions, foreign policies, and continued handling of the Epstein files. Some in right-wing media are declaring that the Trump-centric “MAGA movement” is “dead.”
Right-wing media figures are starting to declare “MAGA is dead”
A growing number of right-wing figures are criticizing President Donald Trump’s economic decisions, foreign policies, and continued handling of the Epstein files. Some in right-wing media are even dec...
www.mediamatters.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It’s not anywhere close to dead enough.
Ban it for the president and SCOTUS too
Stock trading by members of Congress could be banned in bipartisan push sourcenm.com/2025/11/19/r...
Stock trading by members of Congress could be banned in bipartisan push • Source New Mexico
WASHINGTON — At least 25 bills have been introduced this Congress to further limit lawmakers and their family members from trading individual stocks, and representatives across the aisle renewed press...
sourcenm.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Ban it for the president and SCOTUS too
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We shouldn't need a day of remembrance.
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We shouldn't need a day of remembrance.
Bone spurs don’t keep him from ballroom dancing. Weird right?
It is particularly galling that Trump is calling for the execution of people who actually served honorably in the military, while he took a bone spur exemption and famously boasted that his Vietnam was dodging syphilis in 70s New York.
Just a historically loathsome figure by any measure.
Just a historically loathsome figure by any measure.
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Bone spurs don’t keep him from ballroom dancing. Weird right?
Worth repeating: we all know these prosecutors fucked up.
What this judge wants to know is how badly.
It’s going to run into a “executive foreign policy power vs judicial oversight of domestic law,” at SCOTUS.
To rule against the judge means they lose power too. I don’t think they will.
What this judge wants to know is how badly.
It’s going to run into a “executive foreign policy power vs judicial oversight of domestic law,” at SCOTUS.
To rule against the judge means they lose power too. I don’t think they will.
BREAKING: Judge Boasberg says "justice requires" him to continue contempt inquiry into Trump admin.
“I certainly intend to find out what happened on that day,” Boasberg said of the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. He plans to begin hearings on Dec. 1.
New, at Law Dork:
“I certainly intend to find out what happened on that day,” Boasberg said of the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. He plans to begin hearings on Dec. 1.
New, at Law Dork:
Breaking: Judge Boasberg says "justice requires" him to continue contempt inquiry into Trump admin
“I certainly intend to find out what happened on that day,” Boasberg said of the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. He plans to begin hearings on Dec. 1.
www.lawdork.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Worth repeating: we all know these prosecutors fucked up.
What this judge wants to know is how badly.
It’s going to run into a “executive foreign policy power vs judicial oversight of domestic law,” at SCOTUS.
To rule against the judge means they lose power too. I don’t think they will.
What this judge wants to know is how badly.
It’s going to run into a “executive foreign policy power vs judicial oversight of domestic law,” at SCOTUS.
To rule against the judge means they lose power too. I don’t think they will.
Why stop at congress? Should presidents or members of SCOTUS be allowed?
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Why stop at congress? Should presidents or members of SCOTUS be allowed?
Also I watched the end of rascal does not dream of bunny girl while replacing the case.
I was mostly listening and the zingers they give each other are amazing.
I still am a little confused but that always happens when someone adds time travel to a story on me.
I was mostly listening and the zingers they give each other are amazing.
I still am a little confused but that always happens when someone adds time travel to a story on me.
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Also I watched the end of rascal does not dream of bunny girl while replacing the case.
I was mostly listening and the zingers they give each other are amazing.
I still am a little confused but that always happens when someone adds time travel to a story on me.
I was mostly listening and the zingers they give each other are amazing.
I still am a little confused but that always happens when someone adds time travel to a story on me.
Just spent the last five hours taking my pc apart to put in a case I bought half off this week.
I got all fans working but I can’t tell if I have the AIO running right. Will have to investigate more this weekend.
I was all AuDHD hyperfocus mode all evening. Felt good.
I got all fans working but I can’t tell if I have the AIO running right. Will have to investigate more this weekend.
I was all AuDHD hyperfocus mode all evening. Felt good.
November 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Just spent the last five hours taking my pc apart to put in a case I bought half off this week.
I got all fans working but I can’t tell if I have the AIO running right. Will have to investigate more this weekend.
I was all AuDHD hyperfocus mode all evening. Felt good.
I got all fans working but I can’t tell if I have the AIO running right. Will have to investigate more this weekend.
I was all AuDHD hyperfocus mode all evening. Felt good.
Maybe it’s petty but I want all those bribe gifts to be reclaimed for the White House if Trump leaves on 28.including the plaje
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Maybe it’s petty but I want all those bribe gifts to be reclaimed for the White House if Trump leaves on 28.including the plaje
Did no one in the WH think about how bad the optics of sitting down with a murderer while the top story of the day is Trumps proximity to a sec trafficking ring?
Im not a comms expert, but come the fuck on!
This only helps impeachment, which can’t happen soon enough.
Im not a comms expert, but come the fuck on!
This only helps impeachment, which can’t happen soon enough.
MOMENTS AGO: President Trump welcomes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to the White House
youtube.com/live/P41vBFo...
youtube.com/live/P41vBFo...
November 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Did no one in the WH think about how bad the optics of sitting down with a murderer while the top story of the day is Trumps proximity to a sec trafficking ring?
Im not a comms expert, but come the fuck on!
This only helps impeachment, which can’t happen soon enough.
Im not a comms expert, but come the fuck on!
This only helps impeachment, which can’t happen soon enough.
Tell me more!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Tell me more!
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Hrm. While I don't think we should outright dismiss apologies & attempts to change, it's going to take a lot more evidence of *actual* behavioral changes over time before we come anywhere close to trusting that she's being genuine though. She could start by apologizing directly to David Hogg.
BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
November 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hrm. While I don't think we should outright dismiss apologies & attempts to change, it's going to take a lot more evidence of *actual* behavioral changes over time before we come anywhere close to trusting that she's being genuine though. She could start by apologizing directly to David Hogg.
Narrator: they did not make a good choice
Republicans look to defuse the Obamacare time bomb they set
Republicans said they’d discuss Obamacare subsidies as soon as the government shutdown was over. They now have a choice to make.
Republicans said they’d discuss Obamacare subsidies as soon as the government shutdown was over. They now have a choice to make.
Republicans look to defuse the Obamacare time bomb they set
Republicans said they’d discuss Obamacare subsidies as soon as the government shutdown was over. They now have a choice to make.
www.ms.now
November 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Narrator: they did not make a good choice
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OMG! I just got off the plane in Asheville and RFK Jr. Was boarding and someone passed by him and said “quack”
November 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
OMG! I just got off the plane in Asheville and RFK Jr. Was boarding and someone passed by him and said “quack”