Ysolde Nichols
ysolde.bsky.social
Ysolde Nichols
@ysolde.bsky.social
Married to an ADHD Superman Barista
Have 2 adorable 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛
I’m a Music Logic Teacher
Very politically minded and interested in US, UK, NZ, Canada, Ukraine, even Australia, where I live.
I love coffee and astronomy and music and art and freedom and democracy
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December 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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I've loved Sigourney Weaver ever since one of my all-time favorite movies, ALIEN. Couldn't resist going all fanboy on her yesterday & asking for a photo. She told me she's now in the cast of The Mandalorian. Talk about bad timing: she's now in that galaxy far, far away, years after I checked out! 💔
December 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Gov. Pritzker on redistricting in Indiana: “Members of the Indiana legislature are being threatened. Their lives are being threatened, and it's being egged on by the President…He's trying to cheat.”
December 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Well, that’s not very nice.
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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"Basically, you proved that I'm clairvoyant."

@kfile.bsky.social talks Pete Hegseth’s past comments on military law and unlawful orders with @samsteindc.bsky.social:
December 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Angus: But what Trump wants is to bring back the 19th-century gunboat diplomacy of the Monroe Doctrine, where he’s effectively declaring that North America and South America will be run by the US. In that worldview, Canada becomes a vassal state… that’s not going to happen.
December 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Gov. Pritzker: “Together, we’re sending a message to Donald Trump, to Kristi Noem, to Gregory Bovino, and anyone else seeking to terrorize our people. Your divisiveness and your brutality are not welcome here.”
December 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Remember this as Trump and Big Tech lobbyists try to block AI regulation at both the state and federal level.
EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.

It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.

Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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By the way: Ukrainians see the exposure of the big corruption scheme as a sign that Ukraine is actually fighting corruption.
Ukraine Stands Firm
Attacks on its infrastructure and a major corruption scandal have rocked the country. But President Trump is wrong that Ukraine is destined for defeat.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Firing over 100 immigration judges.

Arresting immigrants outside of their immigration hearings.

Pausing asylum decisions.

And now? Cancelling citizenship ceremonies, the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen.

Just remember that Trump never cared about "legal immigration."
December 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Judge Pillard is right. Time to go en banc.
December 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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James Garfield was murdered by a man who thought he deserved a government job. Chester Arthur—once a machine politician—responded by helping create civil service reform.

Today’s GOP wants to undo that progress and return to patronage politics.

open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
The GOP’s War on Civil Service: A Rejection of Its Own History
A look at how Garfield’s murder and Arthur’s unexpected courage created modern civil service protections—and why today’s GOP is trying to dismantle them.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Someone told me to watch this SNL sketch about America’s “media-opoly.”

It feels eerily prophetic given the Warner Bros/Netflix/Paramount merger saga. Watch.
December 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Painting black on black…

‘Out of the Darkness II’, acrylic on linen.
December 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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For any Dimension 20 nerds out there, we WILL be bringing the dome to Capitol Hill if I win.
December 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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“It confirms what we already knew — this was not about public safety, it’s about stoking chaos and fear and terrorizing communities,” said state Sen. Royce Duplessis.
Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown
Records reviewed by the AP show that few of those arrested have criminal histories beyond traffic violations.
www.nola.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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The Epstein Files STILL have not been released.

If he wasn’t in them.

He’d have released them.
December 9, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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And now they’re calling for public hangings. I think we should invoke the French way of dealing with oligarchs. Chopity Chop motherfuckers!

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Palantir co-founder calls for public hangings to show ‘masculine leadership’
‘If I’m in charge later, we won’t just have a three strikes law. We will quickly try and hang men after three violent crimes,’ Lonsdale wrote on X
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Hilarious… how the trumpers constantly bitch about cancel-culture… while their dear leader CANCELS AMERICA.

Or did they “suicide” the country?
I can’t tell anymore.
December 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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If everything were on the up and up, the Republican-led Congress would be passing budgets, overseeing agencies, and serving constituents, not taking long breaks.

Checks on the president, SCOTUS, and the cabinet would actually exist.

Governance > photo ops.
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December 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM