Kathryn Brightbill ✒️
@kebrightbill.bsky.social
Sometimes writer, focusing on the religious right & homeschool movement history | UF Law & Covenant College alum | Manatee Dems
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Because of the price of eggs, I give you the classic Great Depression-era recipe for Crazy Cake, both in the original chocolate and vanilla versions. No eggs, no milk, all deliciousness.
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What I mean is -- there's not just one investigation, but many now, both in government and outside of it, and that just makes a scandal snowball.
It'll churn up unrelated materials -- think Nixon's tax returns and the "I'm not a crook" spin -- and just keep deepening the sense that they're dirty.
It'll churn up unrelated materials -- think Nixon's tax returns and the "I'm not a crook" spin -- and just keep deepening the sense that they're dirty.
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
What I mean is -- there's not just one investigation, but many now, both in government and outside of it, and that just makes a scandal snowball.
It'll churn up unrelated materials -- think Nixon's tax returns and the "I'm not a crook" spin -- and just keep deepening the sense that they're dirty.
It'll churn up unrelated materials -- think Nixon's tax returns and the "I'm not a crook" spin -- and just keep deepening the sense that they're dirty.
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The Epstein scandal has reached that tipping point where material is coming out from multiple sources at different times.
Like Watergate, there’s no way to shut it all off anymore.
Like Watergate, there’s no way to shut it all off anymore.
Epstein had a tiny & ‘extremely deformed’ fruit-shaped penis, victim says
House Oversight Committee releases photos with blurred faces.
House Oversight Committee releases photos with blurred faces.
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The Epstein scandal has reached that tipping point where material is coming out from multiple sources at different times.
Like Watergate, there’s no way to shut it all off anymore.
Like Watergate, there’s no way to shut it all off anymore.
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Until someone is responsible for a growing and invasive population of inbred hippos terrorizing the countryside, they're no Escobar.
FBI Director Kash Patel described Canadian former snowboarder Ryan Wedding as a 'modern-day iteration of Pablo Escobar'.
US raises reward for ex-Olympian turned drug lord, as 7 arrested in Canada
FBI Director Kash Patel described Canadian former snowboarder Ryan Wedding as a 'modern-day iteration of Pablo Escobar'.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Until someone is responsible for a growing and invasive population of inbred hippos terrorizing the countryside, they're no Escobar.
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it would be unthinkably irresponsible for waymo to *not* plan for a fatal crash involving one of their vehicles, like, complete abdication of responsibility
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
it would be unthinkably irresponsible for waymo to *not* plan for a fatal crash involving one of their vehicles, like, complete abdication of responsibility
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these comments, in context outside of a fucking popcrave snippet, to me, do not seem at all unreasonable, and seem more responsible than most tech CEO comments i've read in recent years on most topics, though every headline on this is deliberately inflammatory.
Society will accept a death caused by a robotaxi, Waymo co-CEO says
"We don't say 'whether.' We say 'when,'" the executive said.
www.sfgate.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
these comments, in context outside of a fucking popcrave snippet, to me, do not seem at all unreasonable, and seem more responsible than most tech CEO comments i've read in recent years on most topics, though every headline on this is deliberately inflammatory.
We love to see an outlook like this
NHC Atlantic Outlook update for Thu, 20 Nov 2025 05:10:33 UTC
Additional Details Here.
Additional Details Here.
November 20, 2025 at 5:28 AM
We love to see an outlook like this
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Had Neal Stephenson been aware of furries snowcrash would have been a better novel
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Had Neal Stephenson been aware of furries snowcrash would have been a better novel
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The Washington Post, everyone!
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The Washington Post, everyone!
This take is to justify buying from sweatshops. Because that's how you do solidarity, by demanding the actual working class abroad toil in poverty in dangerous sweatshops so you can buy plastic from Shein rather than rewear clothes. Workers of the world unite, but fuck the workers in China, I guess.
The middle class is the working class.
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This take is to justify buying from sweatshops. Because that's how you do solidarity, by demanding the actual working class abroad toil in poverty in dangerous sweatshops so you can buy plastic from Shein rather than rewear clothes. Workers of the world unite, but fuck the workers in China, I guess.
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people just dumping everything before the epstein files get released
The infamous flop has released its long-unseen final eight episodes for free, allowing U.S. Friends diehards to watch the spinoff's full run for the first time.
Friends Spinoff Joey Releases 8 'New' Episodes Online — Nearly 20 Years Later - TVLine
www.tvline.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
people just dumping everything before the epstein files get released
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Getting legacy media to give air time to actual scientists who can communicate - and there are plenty out there - is incredibly difficult; and they are then set up against cranks whose opinions are supposedly the same value as years of scholarship
Scientists are partly to blame by not learning to effectively communicate in lay language on modern communication channels. That information void is then ripe for disinformation to fill.
Embed lay comms & accessibility skills into academia.
Embed lay comms & accessibility skills into academia.
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Getting legacy media to give air time to actual scientists who can communicate - and there are plenty out there - is incredibly difficult; and they are then set up against cranks whose opinions are supposedly the same value as years of scholarship
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the polls were stubbornly not moving much for a long time but they're moving now
November 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
the polls were stubbornly not moving much for a long time but they're moving now
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bringing back shame and consequences would not by any means be the ballgame, but it would certainly be something
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
bringing back shame and consequences would not by any means be the ballgame, but it would certainly be something
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Europe should help Ukraine for their own good and because it's the right thing to do, but also because it would influence Trump to help Ukraine. The stronger Ukraine is on the battlefield, the more Trump will see them as a winner and take their side. Then it would take some pressure off Europe.
100% of this - on both sides - is to influence Trump. Neither side has any interest in talking to the other, because it's pointless. Putin doesn't want to end the war and Ze knows that, so why bother talking to him.
Trump doesn't give a shit about either country. He wants to back the "winner."
Trump doesn't give a shit about either country. He wants to back the "winner."
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Europe should help Ukraine for their own good and because it's the right thing to do, but also because it would influence Trump to help Ukraine. The stronger Ukraine is on the battlefield, the more Trump will see them as a winner and take their side. Then it would take some pressure off Europe.
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Literally just lectured about this!
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
Oh, I don’t know. Our rivers no longer catch on fire and our air is far less poisonous than it used to be, even in smog bowls like Los Angeles. And I think those are good things.
If there’s no shale gas then there’s no shale gas, but I still think environmentalism is basically bad and politicians should focus more on material prosperity.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Literally just lectured about this!
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
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Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
We're getting more data from Hurricane Melissa, including the strongest wind gust ever recorded by a dropsonde.
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Record-breaking winds confirmed for Hurricane Melissa | NCAR & UCAR News
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November 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
We're getting more data from Hurricane Melissa, including the strongest wind gust ever recorded by a dropsonde.
news.ucar.edu/133047/recor...
news.ucar.edu/133047/recor...
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I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
Basically everyone who sews was screaming from the rooftops that there was no way Shein wasn't produced under these conditions, but nobody wanted to listen because they felt like they deserved new clothes every week.
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Basically everyone who sews was screaming from the rooftops that there was no way Shein wasn't produced under these conditions, but nobody wanted to listen because they felt like they deserved new clothes every week.
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Now that we have plenty of real data, seems extremely conclusive that the idea the way the shutdown ended would lead people to feel better about Trump or less likely to support Democrats was pretty much nonsense
Fox News (Beacon/Shaw) poll | 11/14-11/17 RV
President Trump approval
Disapprove 58% (+4)
Approve 41% (-5)
(change since last poll)
www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 58% (+4)
Approve 41% (-5)
(change since last poll)
www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...
Fox News Poll: Voters say White House is doing more harm than good on economy
Trump's approval hits new lows as 76% view economy negatively in latest Fox News poll. Rising costs for groceries, utilities spark voter dissatisfaction nationwide.
www.foxnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Now that we have plenty of real data, seems extremely conclusive that the idea the way the shutdown ended would lead people to feel better about Trump or less likely to support Democrats was pretty much nonsense
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"We all committed our lives to the idea that is America--we will hold true to that oath and the American people."
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 AM
"We all committed our lives to the idea that is America--we will hold true to that oath and the American people."
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washington generals meet with harlem globetrotters to discuss washington generals game strategy
Trump says he and New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani will meet in the Oval Office on Friday.
November 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM
washington generals meet with harlem globetrotters to discuss washington generals game strategy
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Lol this guy can eat shit. Not Alex. The dipshit senator. The 8-ft tall hoodie loser with pajama shorts on.
I present my review of "Unfettered," John Fetterman's memoir. In between petty grievances about doing his job, Fetterman asserts that he's feeling good.
Two days after "Unfettered" came out, Fetterman fell directly on his face from ventricular fibrillation, a life-threatening heart rhythm disorder.
Two days after "Unfettered" came out, Fetterman fell directly on his face from ventricular fibrillation, a life-threatening heart rhythm disorder.
John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure | Defector
John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that he’s turned a corner and has everything under control. Fetterman was a “stubborn asshole” (his words), he was clinically depressed, he wa...
defector.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Lol this guy can eat shit. Not Alex. The dipshit senator. The 8-ft tall hoodie loser with pajama shorts on.