caughtmereading
@caughtmereading.bsky.social
School Librarian, book hoarder, tree hugger.
"Let me play the fool:
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,
And let my liver rather heat with wine
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans."
"Let me play the fool:
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,
And let my liver rather heat with wine
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans."
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I wish I enjoyed doing anything as much as trump loves trying to crash the economy for no reason. He just loves doing it. Can’t get enough of it. He’s thriving
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Trump Resumes Effort to Destroy Economy
Donald Trump threatened to impose big tariffs on Apple products, unless the company moves production to the U.S., and the European Union.
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May 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I wish I enjoyed doing anything as much as trump loves trying to crash the economy for no reason. He just loves doing it. Can’t get enough of it. He’s thriving
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so much for Freedom and Democracy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
so much for Freedom and Democracy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
When is someone going to address the President's Adderall addiction. www.addictioncenter.com/stimulants/a...
Adderall Symptoms And Warning Signs
The symptoms and warning signs of an Adderall addiction typically include unusually high energy, insomnia, and loss of appetite.
www.addictioncenter.com
May 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
When is someone going to address the President's Adderall addiction. www.addictioncenter.com/stimulants/a...
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New Jersey teenager charged with arson in Pinelands wildfire reut.rs/4lLCOna
April 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
New Jersey teenager charged with arson in Pinelands wildfire reut.rs/4lLCOna
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Abrego Garcia & MS-13. What do we know?
The allegation seems to stem from double hearsay in a document authored by a later suspended detective.
By me, in @lawfare .
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/abre...
The allegation seems to stem from double hearsay in a document authored by a later suspended detective.
By me, in @lawfare .
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/abre...
April 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Abrego Garcia & MS-13. What do we know?
The allegation seems to stem from double hearsay in a document authored by a later suspended detective.
By me, in @lawfare .
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/abre...
The allegation seems to stem from double hearsay in a document authored by a later suspended detective.
By me, in @lawfare .
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/abre...
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Thank you Harvard!
ALL other universities need to take note!
Harvard Refuses To Give In To Trump Administration Demands
www.huffpost.com/entry/harvar...
ALL other universities need to take note!
Harvard Refuses To Give In To Trump Administration Demands
www.huffpost.com/entry/harvar...
Harvard Refuses To Give In To Trump Administration Demands
The university said it would "not surrender its independence" or "relinquish its constitutional rights" despite billions being at risk.
www.huffpost.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Thank you Harvard!
ALL other universities need to take note!
Harvard Refuses To Give In To Trump Administration Demands
www.huffpost.com/entry/harvar...
ALL other universities need to take note!
Harvard Refuses To Give In To Trump Administration Demands
www.huffpost.com/entry/harvar...
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@studentsdemand.bsky.social pushed for a bill to restrict access to semi-automatic guns. “The purpose of these devices,” students write, “is to kill as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time.”On Thursday, CO Gov. Jared Polis signed it into law.
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Meet the Students Fighting to Stop the Sale of High-Capacity Guns — and Winning
No one should be able to fire off 41 rounds in 30 seconds.
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April 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
@studentsdemand.bsky.social pushed for a bill to restrict access to semi-automatic guns. “The purpose of these devices,” students write, “is to kill as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time.”On Thursday, CO Gov. Jared Polis signed it into law.
Read more here ⤵️
Read more here ⤵️
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@jonvhickey.bsky.social’s TBR includes work by Katie Kitamura, Denis Johnson, Kyle Edwards, and more!
The Annotated Nightstand: What Jon Hickey Is Reading Now, and Next
The American government and its white citizens have made it a centuries-long project to destroy these tribes through violent physical and cultural genocide most explicit in massacres and “Ind…
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April 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
@jonvhickey.bsky.social’s TBR includes work by Katie Kitamura, Denis Johnson, Kyle Edwards, and more!
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Glad the Times is focusing on this. This is the throughline with most of DOGE. Beyond firing tons of people, playing culture warrior, the throughline everywhere is getting access to data and building cross-govt systems to link it together. data is power.
The US government holds a tremendous amount of data about US citizens. Now,
The Trump administration is trying to access that data and link it together.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
The Trump administration is trying to access that data and link it together.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You
Databases that Elon Musk’s team is trying to access include more than 300 personal details about members of the U.S. public.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Glad the Times is focusing on this. This is the throughline with most of DOGE. Beyond firing tons of people, playing culture warrior, the throughline everywhere is getting access to data and building cross-govt systems to link it together. data is power.
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2,500-Year-Old Dagger Found by Metal Detectorists Could Be Evidence of a ‘Solar Cult’ https://twp.ai/4imVok
2,500-Year-Old Dagger Found by Metal Detectorists Could Be Evidence of a ‘Solar Cult’
Imagine exploring the beach while on a peaceful walk with your loved one when you stumble upon a 2,500-year-old dagger.
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April 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
2,500-Year-Old Dagger Found by Metal Detectorists Could Be Evidence of a ‘Solar Cult’ https://twp.ai/4imVok
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The public still deserves to know the full extent of the damage DOGE has wrought — with or without Elon Musk at the helm.
americanoversight.org/doge-suffers...
americanoversight.org/doge-suffers...
DOGE Suffers Another Setback, American Oversight Wins Court Order Forcing Preservation of Records - American Oversight
The court ordered DOGE to preserve all records that may be responsive to our FOIA requests, and rejected DOGE’s arguments that its belated steps to preserve certain records fulfill its legal obligatio...
americanoversight.org
April 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The public still deserves to know the full extent of the damage DOGE has wrought — with or without Elon Musk at the helm.
americanoversight.org/doge-suffers...
americanoversight.org/doge-suffers...
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if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The manufactured nostalgia of Trump’s tariffs
Those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation.
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April 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Thank you, internet.
April 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Thank you, internet.
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You would think a singular moron, obsessed with grievance and incapable of ever admitting error, would not be enough to destroy what was just three month ago the healthiest economy on the face of the Earth. But no, the Republican Party, replete with devoted submorons, still has his back.
April 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
You would think a singular moron, obsessed with grievance and incapable of ever admitting error, would not be enough to destroy what was just three month ago the healthiest economy on the face of the Earth. But no, the Republican Party, replete with devoted submorons, still has his back.
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'Path of lawlessness': Reagan-appointed judge buries Trump DOJ in scathing ruling https://twp.ai/4imIyt
'Path of lawlessness': Reagan-appointed judge buries Trump DOJ in scathing ruling
Over the weekend, a Justice Department attorney was put on administrative leave after acknowledging in court that he'd never been given a "satisfactory" answer for why the U.S. government couldn't return a wrongfully deported immigrant from Venezuela who had been residing in Maryland. Now, the 4th...
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April 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
'Path of lawlessness': Reagan-appointed judge buries Trump DOJ in scathing ruling https://twp.ai/4imIyt
Trump filed a brief w/SCOTUS to fight the return of the person they kidnapped & imprisoned in El Salvador, even though they admit it was an error. When will they start tossing us out of helicopters?
April 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Trump filed a brief w/SCOTUS to fight the return of the person they kidnapped & imprisoned in El Salvador, even though they admit it was an error. When will they start tossing us out of helicopters?
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Elon Musk targeted FEMA. Storm-battered communities are paying a price.
Musk Targeted FEMA. Disaster-Stricken Communities Are Paying a Price.
A FEMA funding freeze illustrates the extraordinary power of Elon Musk and DOGE, who have made claims of undue benefits for undocumented immigrants and spurred swift action by federal officials.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Elon Musk targeted FEMA. Storm-battered communities are paying a price.
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The incompetence of this administration is staggering.
Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public
A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
www.wired.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The incompetence of this administration is staggering.
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'Born of fire, carved by ice, finessed with wind, water and snow, the massif is a terrain shaped by what Nan Shepherd—in this slender masterpiece about the region—calls “the elementals”'
Robert Macfarlane on The Living Mountain, writing in @literaryhub.bsky.social
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Robert Macfarlane on The Living Mountain, writing in @literaryhub.bsky.social
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Robert Macfarlane on the Beauty and Urgency of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain
The Cairngorm Mountains of north-east Scotland are Britain’s Arctic. In winter, storm winds of up to 170 miles per hour rasp the upper shires of the range, avalanches scour its slopes and northern …
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March 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
'Born of fire, carved by ice, finessed with wind, water and snow, the massif is a terrain shaped by what Nan Shepherd—in this slender masterpiece about the region—calls “the elementals”'
Robert Macfarlane on The Living Mountain, writing in @literaryhub.bsky.social
lithub.com/robert-macfa...
Robert Macfarlane on The Living Mountain, writing in @literaryhub.bsky.social
lithub.com/robert-macfa...