Colleen "Nightmare Woman" Ennen
@abitunsettling.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, project manager, bookworm, history nerd, dog parent, Midwesterner, sometimes witch, future ghost.
Recent work in The Lit Pub, Breadcrumbs, Moonbirds, LUMINA, and "The Haunted Quill" (Megara Publishing).
She/hers.
Recent work in The Lit Pub, Breadcrumbs, Moonbirds, LUMINA, and "The Haunted Quill" (Megara Publishing).
She/hers.
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I'm OK with Democrats going on Fox News to counter misinformation and debate the conservative hosts or moderators. Going on Fox News to slam another Democrat should get you stripped of your committee assignments and DCCC funding.
Rep Gillen has since deleted this tweet. Just incredible how much she looks like a generic R here
June 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I'm OK with Democrats going on Fox News to counter misinformation and debate the conservative hosts or moderators. Going on Fox News to slam another Democrat should get you stripped of your committee assignments and DCCC funding.
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IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
People who know how to figure these things: is it more environmentally conscious to get a new electric car OR to just hang on to your old, gas-run car?
June 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
People who know how to figure these things: is it more environmentally conscious to get a new electric car OR to just hang on to your old, gas-run car?
“Vote Blue No Matter Who*”
(*unless the “Blue” in question is even a little left of center, then, no, we must kill our own)
(*unless the “Blue” in question is even a little left of center, then, no, we must kill our own)
June 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“Vote Blue No Matter Who*”
(*unless the “Blue” in question is even a little left of center, then, no, we must kill our own)
(*unless the “Blue” in question is even a little left of center, then, no, we must kill our own)
Humans are deeply weird, like, why do I have a whole cupboard of lovely coffee mugs but only ever use one old and chipped Christmas mug?
Seriously, the handful of times a year I am compelled for whatever reason to use another mug, I am psychologically unsettled for the whole day.
Seriously, the handful of times a year I am compelled for whatever reason to use another mug, I am psychologically unsettled for the whole day.
June 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Humans are deeply weird, like, why do I have a whole cupboard of lovely coffee mugs but only ever use one old and chipped Christmas mug?
Seriously, the handful of times a year I am compelled for whatever reason to use another mug, I am psychologically unsettled for the whole day.
Seriously, the handful of times a year I am compelled for whatever reason to use another mug, I am psychologically unsettled for the whole day.
Probably the single most valuable thing a rich person could spend their money on would be paying someone to follow them around and tell them when they are being a little bitch.
Near limitless ROI. Best investment they’d ever make in their lives in terms of grief and mess and losses avoided.
Near limitless ROI. Best investment they’d ever make in their lives in terms of grief and mess and losses avoided.
June 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Probably the single most valuable thing a rich person could spend their money on would be paying someone to follow them around and tell them when they are being a little bitch.
Near limitless ROI. Best investment they’d ever make in their lives in terms of grief and mess and losses avoided.
Near limitless ROI. Best investment they’d ever make in their lives in terms of grief and mess and losses avoided.
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This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."
Suspect showed few signs of political extremism before lawmaker shootings
Friends and associates say Vance Boelter, who was apprehended late Sunday and charged with murdering a state lawmaker and her husband, was mild-mannered and did not appear to be fixated on politics.
www.startribune.com
June 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."
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What pundits think a broken information environment means: dumb yokels in Ohio spend all day on TikTok and believe in Jewish space lasers
What a broken information environment actually means: dumb pundits in NYC and DC spend all day on X and believe Harris ran on trans sports & late term abortions
What a broken information environment actually means: dumb pundits in NYC and DC spend all day on X and believe Harris ran on trans sports & late term abortions
this is the greatest sign that no one actually paid attention to the kamala campaign but just took media cues from right-coded smear campaigns about what it stood for
June 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
What pundits think a broken information environment means: dumb yokels in Ohio spend all day on TikTok and believe in Jewish space lasers
What a broken information environment actually means: dumb pundits in NYC and DC spend all day on X and believe Harris ran on trans sports & late term abortions
What a broken information environment actually means: dumb pundits in NYC and DC spend all day on X and believe Harris ran on trans sports & late term abortions
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30 seconds of searching reveals that the only donation made by the current CBO Director — a George W. Bush political appointee appointed to run the CBO by bipartisan congressional leadership — was to a Republican.
June 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
30 seconds of searching reveals that the only donation made by the current CBO Director — a George W. Bush political appointee appointed to run the CBO by bipartisan congressional leadership — was to a Republican.
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The Madness of King Gorge
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
April 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The Madness of King Gorge
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A lot of people still think you sound insane when you say things like “Gamergate and 4-Chan culture is why America is now being run by the dumbest fascists imaginable”. We’ll get there one day!
I think some of us can completely explain this right now, but it is going to sound really crazy until we can invent a few new fields of study first
In 100 years we are going to get a definite explanation for how the dawn of The Information Age resulted in the dumbest people imaginable running the country
April 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
A lot of people still think you sound insane when you say things like “Gamergate and 4-Chan culture is why America is now being run by the dumbest fascists imaginable”. We’ll get there one day!
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Just a heads up for all the people still living in the delusion that the election in 2028 is going to be free and fair… trump and the Republicans are setting up a system that will put them in power until they are removed from power by force. No amount of disbelief on your part stops that reality.
President Trump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a third term in the White House, which is prohibited by the Constitution under the 22nd Amendment, saying in an exclusive interview with NBC News that there were methods for doing so and clarifying that he was “not joking.”
Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so
President Donald Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call that he was “not joking” about a third term, adding that “it is far too early to think about it.”
nbcnews.to
March 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Just a heads up for all the people still living in the delusion that the election in 2028 is going to be free and fair… trump and the Republicans are setting up a system that will put them in power until they are removed from power by force. No amount of disbelief on your part stops that reality.
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thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning:
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
March 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning:
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
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Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
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it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
March 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
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The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
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Gawd, it’s like suddenly you need “evidence” to imprison people. What a hassle.
Fox host Rachel Campos-Duffy bemoans the fact the Trump admin is expected "to somehow prove that [those sent to El Salvador mega prison] are gang members"
"They're trying to create another hurdle"
"They're trying to create another hurdle"
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Gawd, it’s like suddenly you need “evidence” to imprison people. What a hassle.
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holy shit www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
holy shit www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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All of these can be true:
1. A small contingent of Gaza protestors have antisemitic views.
2. The protests overall are driven by opposition to mass murder, not antisemitism.
3. Conservatives are using "campus antisemitism" as a cudgel to imprison protestors & delegitimize universities
1. A small contingent of Gaza protestors have antisemitic views.
2. The protests overall are driven by opposition to mass murder, not antisemitism.
3. Conservatives are using "campus antisemitism" as a cudgel to imprison protestors & delegitimize universities
March 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
All of these can be true:
1. A small contingent of Gaza protestors have antisemitic views.
2. The protests overall are driven by opposition to mass murder, not antisemitism.
3. Conservatives are using "campus antisemitism" as a cudgel to imprison protestors & delegitimize universities
1. A small contingent of Gaza protestors have antisemitic views.
2. The protests overall are driven by opposition to mass murder, not antisemitism.
3. Conservatives are using "campus antisemitism" as a cudgel to imprison protestors & delegitimize universities
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The richest man in the world and de-facto co-president is giving Nazi salutes, why are we still hearing about poorly worded signs at campus protests
March 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The richest man in the world and de-facto co-president is giving Nazi salutes, why are we still hearing about poorly worded signs at campus protests
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Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
kffhealthnews.org
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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“The people being subjected to an annihilation campaign need to get better at optics” I know this is just like a chess game to you or whatever but to anyone normal with eyeballs you look like a complete fucking ghoul
February 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“The people being subjected to an annihilation campaign need to get better at optics” I know this is just like a chess game to you or whatever but to anyone normal with eyeballs you look like a complete fucking ghoul
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I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI
January 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI
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"The NeverEnding Story" by Marcel Proust
January 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
"The NeverEnding Story" by Marcel Proust