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untamespirit.bsky.social
Angtha Thar
@untamespirit.bsky.social
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Geek who stays on top on news and have a habit of reading/watching documentaries and play with cookies. Octavia Butler fan girl. Currently reading Sarah Kendzior. And don't worry, I'm not a bot and jerk-wad troll. She/her
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untamespirit.bsky.social
Here's one. It's my favorite because it explains how a lie can become powerful due to repetition. #booksky 📚
Beware: All too often. We say What we hear others say. We think What we're told that we think. We see What we're permitted to see. Worse! We see what we're told that we see. Repetition and pride are the keys to this. To hear and to see Even an obvious lie Again And again and again May be to say it, Almost by reflex Then to defend it Because we've said it And at last to embrace it Because we've defended it And because we cannot admit That we've embraced and defended An obvious lie. Thus, without thought, Without intent, We make Mere echoes Of ourselves- And we say What we hear others say.
November 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
I agree. One example: Covid #science 🧪 #booksky 📚
I have also read that the Pox was caused by accidentally coinciding climatic, economic, and sociological crises. It would be more honest to say that the Pox was caused by our own refusal to deal with obvious problems in those areas.
November 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Sorry #booksky 📚 and #academicsky it's been a while. Butler would continue with the parable series on how demagogues use their charisma to charm and trick their followers to self-destruction.
It seems inevitable that people who can't read are going to lear more toward judging candidates on the way they look and sound than on what they claim they stand for. Even people who can read and are educated are apt to pay more attention to good looks and seductive lies than they should. And no doubt the new picture ballots on the nets will give Jarret an even greater advantage.
November 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Logged in today and didn't expect Alice to die. RIP Alice 😭😢
Alice Wong in Human Resources
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
While @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was gone for a while, here's the Substack post on Trump and Epstein along with the excerpt from Hiding in Plain Sight
An excerpt of a 2020 interview about my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, which covers the relationship between Trump and Epstein, as well as the institutional complicity that let both of them thrive. Many of the details in my book are the same details reported now as “new”. This is why: I know there are a lot of people who trust me: I show my work, I footnote evervthing, I give examples, Im very concrete. But if you were just to repeat, to somebody who doesn't know anvthing about the situation. what's in this book, [they would] be like, That's completely wild! If that were true someone would have done something about it! And that's when vou get to the fundamental horror of the book: It's not that no one knows, it's that they all know. Most people in official power, they know. I'm not breaking news. The reason they don't want to talk about it is that they have failed to combat it. Sarah Kendzior
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Remembering what @sarahkendzior.bsky.social said about the government being shutdown a long time ago in 2016 at the end of October.
substack.com/app-link/pos...
Congress is shut down; Congress was already shut down. Congress shut down in 2016 after spending decades running on dying batteries until the invisible hand yanked them out for good. The mafia state was made plain; civics drowned in corrupt institutionalism. We were told to keep pretending representative government was real.
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Here's a clear explanation from @davelevitan.bsky.social on why the shutdown deal is bad.
The deal, which still needs to get through the House, would fund the government temporarily, reverse shutdown-enacted reductions in force (RIFs), and ensure federal employee back pay. It notably does not, however, include the extension of healthcare subsidies that was, it should be stressed, the entire argument on which Democrats had pinned their holdout. Instead, majority leader John Thune has agreed to hold a vote on the subsidies in December — all that pain for a shallow promise to hold a vote they will lose.
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
@truthout.org shows how Wall Street and NYC gave rise to Trump from last month. truthout.org/articles/the...
This “social welfare” economy of NYC came crashing down with a punch delivered by Wall Street in the 1970s. The 1975 fiscal crisis was the result of a collapsing municipal bond market and a severe economic depression. The city lost a whopping 500,000 manufacturing jobs between 1969 and 1975 as North American manufacturers moved plants out of cities and eventually out of the country. Both the depression and the market collapse were the result of actions by the “masters of the universe,” the Wall Street investors whose funds flowed to overseas investments rather than supporting domestic industry and the cities where they were rooted.
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
untamespirit.bsky.social
It's so funny that Cuomo was supposed to win until summer of this year. 🤣
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
untamespirit.bsky.social
From @kristencrowell.bsky.social and @rollingstone.com . Here's an excerpt on how the beautiful bill will be a nightmare for SNAP and states.
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
The law's cruelty doesn't end with benefit cuts. Beginning in 2027, the federal government will slash its share of SNAP's administrative costs from 50 percent to 25 percent, forcing states to cover the rest. Ten states, including California, New York, and North Carolina, rely on county governments to manage SNAP. Those counties serve 14.6 million people, or roughly one-third of all participants. In Alabama, nearly one in seven residents rely on the SNAP program to help them meet their basic needs. That shift will devastate local budgets. States and counties will be forced to either raise taxes, cut services, or both. SNAP offices will be overwhelmed, leading to longer processing times and fewer resources to help families navigate the system. People won't just lose benefits because of budget cuts; they'll lose them because the bureaucracy collapses under its own weight.
November 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Hey @runwithskizzers.bsky.social I wonder if you're a Peanuts fan and love waffle designs, especially around holiday seasons? 🧛🏿‍♀️🎃 #food 🍜
Dash vampire and jack o lantern snoopy waffle makers
October 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Hi #food 🍜 which Halloween peanuts waffle maker would you like?
Dash snoopy vampire and jack o lantern waffle makers
October 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
"I document the news of September 9, 2025, in case America is at a turning point. As we learned after 9/11, turning points have a way of dissolving into spin. Remember the recent past — and reclaim the stolen future."
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
I document the news of September 9, 2025, in case America is at a turning point. As we learned after 9/11, turning points have a way of dissolving into spin. Remember the recent past — and reclaim the stolen future.
September 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Celebrating first day of fall with pumpkin waffles 🎃 🧇 😋. #food 🍜
Pumpkin waffle on a plate
September 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Also remembering about @sarahkendzior.bsky.social saying about the rich and wealthy taking advantage of crises in Hiding in Plain Sight and/or They Knew (can't remember which book she said it or was it both?) #booksky 📚💙 #academicsky
If every crisis is also an opportunity, New York’s near-bankruptcy was an opening for elites to discipline a restive working class and to reconfigure the city’s political economy along market-friendly lines. When the dust settled on the fiscal crisis, New York’s social-democratic polity had been whittled down, its institutions weakened by austerity, and real estate and finance interests were more powerful than before. To this end, the geographer Samuel Stein has characterized what emerged in New York City in the mid- the fiscal crisis, New York’s social-democratic polity had been whittled down, its institutions weakened by austerity, and real estate and finance interests were more powerful than before. To this end, the geographer Samuel Stein has characterized what emerged in New York City in the mid-1970s as the “real estate state,” a political economic paradigm in which “land is a commodity and so is everything atop it; property rights are sacred and should never be impinged; a healthy real estate market is the measure of a healthy city; growth is… god.”
September 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Here's a fun easter egg from Duckduckgo, if you search for Labubu, you'll get a Labubu themed duck icon. #justforfun
Labubu on Duckduckgo engine with the Duck image being dressed like a Labubu.
September 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Thanks for the good news @bsky.app . Now I wish you can do folders for saved posts!
Jerry Chen's post and the announcement of saved post for bluesky.
September 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Got When the Reckoning Comes just in time for spooky season. When getting it, the book cover art looked very different than the one I saw online. #booksky 📚💙 #blacksky
Book cover of When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen
September 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Just read the transcript of @wajali.bsky.social 's latest chat with Dr.Patel and this is what I learned about the Bird Flu vaccine from Moderna. Was really surprised about that. #science 🧪
And right now, if you haven't paid attention, there's an all-out war on vaccines. This current administration has canceled the $800 million Moderna contract to build a vaccine for bird flu because, you know, even though bird flu has transferred to humans, who needs a vaccine? Of course, right, Kavita?
September 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Read this new @salon.com interview with Chauncey DeVega and Allan Lichtman. We underestimated the impact of misinformation and the propaganda machine of the right. www.salon.com/2025/08/30/d...
For the first time in over 40 years, I made a missed call when I predicted a Harris victory. My system presumes a reasonably rational, pragmatic electorate that makes decisions based upon real information. The 2024 election was the misinformation election. There was no way for the average voter, especially low-information voters, to make a rational decision because misinformation was everywhere. One example would be abortion rights. This was an issue that should have powered the Democrats to victory. Harris and the Democrats should have won by a landslide based on just that issue and the public’s great support for a woman’s right to have an abortion. Trump and the right-wing propaganda machine so distorted and confused the facts about where Harris and the Democrats stood on women’s reproductive rights that they were able to neutralize that advantage.
August 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
To know which states:
CVS will make the vaccines available nationwide if the advisory panel recommends them, Ms. Thibault said. But since the panel hasn’t yet made a decision, the company is holding off in states where it believes its pharmacists need a C.D.C. endorsement. Those states are Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia, along with the District of Columbia.
August 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Trying out the Peanuts cookbook
Peanuts holiday cookbook cover
August 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Here's an excerpt from @elienyc.bsky.social linking the racist law and order backlash of the 70s and 80s to Trump and Cuomo's formative years back in 2021 www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Soon-to-be-former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is one of those people who seems to think that aggression and bullying are the true hallmarks of the Empire State. Cuomo resigned much as he governed, which is to say he tried to impose his personal will onto the reality of the situation. This is a guy who wrote a book about defeating Covid-19 even as the virus still raged and his own cover-up of nursing home deaths was being investigated. He’s been known to call up political rivals and shout at them, and people who have worked for him talk of their fear of telling the governor anything he doesn’t want to hear.
August 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Got the news about Dobson's passing and decided to check back @swordsjew.bsky.social 's Wild Faith via Libby. Searched for his name and he is mentioned in CH 10 a lot. Was very disturbed at the top of pg 203. #booksky 📚💙
Pg 203 of Wild Faith
August 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Leatherhead was Sarah's David Bowie.
Hansen died of pancreatic cancer before Trump took office, autocracy spread worldwide, and climate catastrophes devastated the lands he loved. He died before a technofascist belief in human disposability became mainstreamed into global politics: an extinction racket that shuns even the pretense of valuing life.
August 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM