Joan Weinzettle
@shadesofviolet.bsky.social
LA artist/Eagle Rock
here to read the paper
mostly mute
here to read the paper
mostly mute
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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Fintan O'Toole had a good story about the way Trump turns on people in NYRB. With shout out to Shakespeare!
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Like ‘Being Friends with a Hurricane’ | Fintan O’Toole
For the fixers, enablers, and vassals who surround Donald Trump, the rewards of his friendship are not worth the risks.
www.nybooks.com
July 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Fintan O'Toole had a good story about the way Trump turns on people in NYRB. With shout out to Shakespeare!
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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I am sick to my fucking stomach in ways that I can’t even articulate right now. I can barely type because—while it may be my eyes that are dripping tears, it is my actual soul that is crying. A gutteral and visceral reaction from deep down that anyone with any humanity left in them, should feel…
Egregious human rights violations from what is supposed to be a civilized country. Just sickening.
Trump and his administration are depraved.
apnews.com/article/alli...
Trump and his administration are depraved.
apnews.com/article/alli...
Detained immigrants at 'Alligator Alcatraz' say there are worms in food and wastewater on the floor
People held at the brand new Florida immigration detention center that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” say worms turn up in the food, toilets don’t flush and floors flood with fecal waste.
apnews.com
July 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I am sick to my fucking stomach in ways that I can’t even articulate right now. I can barely type because—while it may be my eyes that are dripping tears, it is my actual soul that is crying. A gutteral and visceral reaction from deep down that anyone with any humanity left in them, should feel…
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I spend a lot of time contemplating what's happening politically and trying to interpret/make sense of it. But I also take time off for pleasure. And then come back to the work. We're all in the fog of civil war, and it behooves us to go to whatever gives us back the clearer, bigger vision.
July 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I spend a lot of time contemplating what's happening politically and trying to interpret/make sense of it. But I also take time off for pleasure. And then come back to the work. We're all in the fog of civil war, and it behooves us to go to whatever gives us back the clearer, bigger vision.
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REPORTER: Will you commit to include California in any disaster aid package?
MIKE JOHNSON: We've not seen the formal disaster relief request from California yet
REPORTER: The formal request was sent to your office in February
July 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
REPORTER: Will you commit to include California in any disaster aid package?
MIKE JOHNSON: We've not seen the formal disaster relief request from California yet
REPORTER: The formal request was sent to your office in February
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A 24-year study of more than 1.2 million Danish children was just released which shows no link between aluminum in vaccines & an increased risk of 50 chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases, allergies & autism.
July 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A 24-year study of more than 1.2 million Danish children was just released which shows no link between aluminum in vaccines & an increased risk of 50 chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases, allergies & autism.
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This is the group giving Trump names of students to deport, now revealing that their enemies list includes the majority of American Jews as well.
You know, in case you thought this was actually about “fighting antisemitism.”
You know, in case you thought this was actually about “fighting antisemitism.”
Betar USA, the far-right pro-Israel group with connections in the Trump administration, making it official by stating that "the real enemies of the nationalist state of Israel are the rootless cosmopolitan progressive Hollywood Jews."
Reinventing antisemitism from first principles.
Reinventing antisemitism from first principles.
July 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is the group giving Trump names of students to deport, now revealing that their enemies list includes the majority of American Jews as well.
You know, in case you thought this was actually about “fighting antisemitism.”
You know, in case you thought this was actually about “fighting antisemitism.”
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It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed.
Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning
The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. When I was a kid, there was a popular phrase--"what if they had a war and no one came?" What if we ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed.
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FIRST: "The Epstein list is on my desk waiting for review."
NEXT: "The Epstein list doesn't even exist."
NOW: "Oh, wait, the Epstein list DOES exist after all, but it was written by Biden, Obama, and Hillary, so if the name 'Donald Trump' appears on it, you know it's a hoax."
NEXT: "The Epstein list doesn't even exist."
NOW: "Oh, wait, the Epstein list DOES exist after all, but it was written by Biden, Obama, and Hillary, so if the name 'Donald Trump' appears on it, you know it's a hoax."
July 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
FIRST: "The Epstein list is on my desk waiting for review."
NEXT: "The Epstein list doesn't even exist."
NOW: "Oh, wait, the Epstein list DOES exist after all, but it was written by Biden, Obama, and Hillary, so if the name 'Donald Trump' appears on it, you know it's a hoax."
NEXT: "The Epstein list doesn't even exist."
NOW: "Oh, wait, the Epstein list DOES exist after all, but it was written by Biden, Obama, and Hillary, so if the name 'Donald Trump' appears on it, you know it's a hoax."
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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
July 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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What's outrageous is that the United States now has a Gestapo/Secret-Police and that objecting to that ominous fact is even questioned.
July 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
What's outrageous is that the United States now has a Gestapo/Secret-Police and that objecting to that ominous fact is even questioned.
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what, specifically is the goal here? what does this actually accomplish?
700 diplomats at State are set to be laid off. This amounts to 60% of all foreign service officer currently based in DC. 60%!
State Department to Soon Begin Mass Layoffs www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
State Department to Soon Begin Mass Layoffs www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
State Department to Soon Begin Mass Layoffs
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
what, specifically is the goal here? what does this actually accomplish?
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She understands her role is not just to write for history but to sound the alarm, to rouse the public. “I am actually heartened that people are focused on the court and the work that we’re doing on the state of the government,” she said.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Undaunted in calling out the worst Supreme Court in modern times
KBJ won’t allow accept its pretense of impartiality
open.substack.com
July 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
She understands her role is not just to write for history but to sound the alarm, to rouse the public. “I am actually heartened that people are focused on the court and the work that we’re doing on the state of the government,” she said.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.
The Machine Stops
The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.
www.newyorker.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.
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If the bomb happy warrior in the White House were ever to get a Nobel peace prize, it would render that award meaningless for evermore.
July 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM
If the bomb happy warrior in the White House were ever to get a Nobel peace prize, it would render that award meaningless for evermore.
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The thing to understand is that district court judges have to follow the law and Supreme Court Justices get to just make up the law.
July 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The thing to understand is that district court judges have to follow the law and Supreme Court Justices get to just make up the law.
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Wallace: “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” says the guy who’s still talking about his 2020 election loss.
July 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Wallace: “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” says the guy who’s still talking about his 2020 election loss.
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You’d think a concentration camp built in 3 days in a Florida swamp would be up to code.
July 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
You’d think a concentration camp built in 3 days in a Florida swamp would be up to code.
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The builders behind Alligator Alcatraz and other detention sites are top DeSantis donors.
They scored no-bid or “emergency” contracts worth tens of millions—while funneling cash into his political machine.
Pay-to-play isn’t just speculation—it’s backed by the paper trail.
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They scored no-bid or “emergency” contracts worth tens of millions—while funneling cash into his political machine.
Pay-to-play isn’t just speculation—it’s backed by the paper trail.
🧵
July 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The builders behind Alligator Alcatraz and other detention sites are top DeSantis donors.
They scored no-bid or “emergency” contracts worth tens of millions—while funneling cash into his political machine.
Pay-to-play isn’t just speculation—it’s backed by the paper trail.
🧵
They scored no-bid or “emergency” contracts worth tens of millions—while funneling cash into his political machine.
Pay-to-play isn’t just speculation—it’s backed by the paper trail.
🧵
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I'm not gonna lie, y'all: even nearly a decade into this, it still feels surreal that a sitting POTUS can do one long, bizarre stream-of-consciousness ramble about whatever silly shit happens to pop into his head on national television, and political media still shrug their shoulders + write it up.
July 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I'm not gonna lie, y'all: even nearly a decade into this, it still feels surreal that a sitting POTUS can do one long, bizarre stream-of-consciousness ramble about whatever silly shit happens to pop into his head on national television, and political media still shrug their shoulders + write it up.
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So LM get this straight…
Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for trafficking girls to… nobody?
No client list, even though AG Pam Bondi literally said it was sitting on her desk.
2,000 names in the little black book, but the court sealed it and the media shut up.
Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for trafficking girls to… nobody?
No client list, even though AG Pam Bondi literally said it was sitting on her desk.
2,000 names in the little black book, but the court sealed it and the media shut up.
July 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
So LM get this straight…
Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for trafficking girls to… nobody?
No client list, even though AG Pam Bondi literally said it was sitting on her desk.
2,000 names in the little black book, but the court sealed it and the media shut up.
Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for trafficking girls to… nobody?
No client list, even though AG Pam Bondi literally said it was sitting on her desk.
2,000 names in the little black book, but the court sealed it and the media shut up.
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The IRS announced that churches and other houses of worship are now allowed to endorse political candidates to their congregations, effectively carving out an exemption to the longstanding ban on political activity by tax-exempt nonprofits.
July 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The IRS announced that churches and other houses of worship are now allowed to endorse political candidates to their congregations, effectively carving out an exemption to the longstanding ban on political activity by tax-exempt nonprofits.
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July 6, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
"Molly Taft at Wired confirmed that NWS published flash flood warnings but safety officials didn’t send out public warnings until hours later."
So many things here to read as always ... GOP are destroying our nation one day at a time ...
"Molly Taft at Wired confirmed that NWS published flash flood warnings but safety officials didn’t send out public warnings until hours later."
So many things here to read as always ... GOP are destroying our nation one day at a time ...
July 6, 2025
At least 80 people are dead and more than 40 are still missing in Central Texas after almost a foot (30 centimeters) of rain caused flash floods overnight on Friday.
open.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
July 6, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
"Molly Taft at Wired confirmed that NWS published flash flood warnings but safety officials didn’t send out public warnings until hours later."
So many things here to read as always ... GOP are destroying our nation one day at a time ...
"Molly Taft at Wired confirmed that NWS published flash flood warnings but safety officials didn’t send out public warnings until hours later."
So many things here to read as always ... GOP are destroying our nation one day at a time ...