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Erica Ruppert
@renfestklingon.bsky.social
Writer of weirdness, reader of everything
Power to the people
We hear a lot these days about how American democracy is doomed and the radical right will win. Maybe. But the beauty of our system is that it gives us people like Doris Miller.

Even better, it makes us people like Doris Miller.
December 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Promoted to cook after the Navy sent him on a publicity tour, Miller was assigned to a new ship, the USS Liscome Bay, which was struck by a Japanese torpedo on November 24, 1943. It sank within minutes, taking two thirds of the crew, including Miller, with it.
December 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It says it is “more than plausible” that “within a few decades at the latest” some European Nato members “will become majority non-European”.
December 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
On immigration, the strategy document appears to endorse the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which claims ethnic white European populations are deliberately being replaced by non-white peoples.
December 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
first by saying that there was no information in the files that would warrant an investigation of “uncharged third parties” and then by opening such investigations on Democrats to muddy the waters and possibly claim that she could not release the files because of ongoing investigations.
December 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Now the bipartisan lead sponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act from both chambers of Congress are calling out what looks to be Bondi’s attempt to shield Trump...
December 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
former president Bill Clinton, former treasury secretary Larry Summers, and investor Reid Hoffman. On July 7, an FBI memo said there was no new evidence to open new investigations “against uncharged third parties.”
December 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
asking for a briefing no later than Friday on what she has claimed is “new” material in the Epstein files that she said on November 14 had caused her to initiate investigations into connections between Jeffrey Epstein and...
December 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Well now I'm going to have THAT stuck in my head.
December 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
even contractors performing cleaning or maintenance jobs at facilities – and thousands more.
December 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
including doctors and nurses working in VA clinics, medical school students completing their clinical training at VA hospitals, scientists working in advancing medical research contracted by the department, volunteers working VA-related events...
December 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It is the second biggest federal department after the Pentagon and provides healthcare, financial and many other services to millions of US military veterans.
The broad and vague nature of the memo implies the information dragnet may target a range of non-citizens...
December 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM