Ceil
@ceilck.bsky.social
FT data viz analyst; sandwich gen caregiver; mom looking for colleges. Married to a sweet guy and we have a sweet dog. I like weird, funny stuff, psychological horror & scotch.
Please come over & clean my house.
Please come over & clean my house.
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every goddamn time
Republican South Carolina state Rep. RJ May sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison today.
5 counts of distributing child sex abuse material.
He shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.
Moms of Liberty had named him its Legislator of the Year.
5 counts of distributing child sex abuse material.
He shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.
Moms of Liberty had named him its Legislator of the Year.
GOP lawmaker said trans people “harm” children. Now he's going to prison for child porn. - LGBTQ Nation
He was caught sharing hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:25 PM
every goddamn time
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The number of federal agents is "close to the total headcount of sworn officers among the region’s largest 10 law enforcement agencies and equals nearly one agent for every 1,000 of the Twin Cities’ 3.2 million residents."
www.startribune.com/how-ice-numb...
Via @jeffhargarten.bsky.social
www.startribune.com/how-ice-numb...
Via @jeffhargarten.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 3:50 PM
The number of federal agents is "close to the total headcount of sworn officers among the region’s largest 10 law enforcement agencies and equals nearly one agent for every 1,000 of the Twin Cities’ 3.2 million residents."
www.startribune.com/how-ice-numb...
Via @jeffhargarten.bsky.social
www.startribune.com/how-ice-numb...
Via @jeffhargarten.bsky.social
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If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
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This was my big concern with RFK Jr.'s fearmongering about autism: That it would lead to the rationalization of draconian quack "treatments" for autism. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies
The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.
arstechnica.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:33 PM
This was my big concern with RFK Jr.'s fearmongering about autism: That it would lead to the rationalization of draconian quack "treatments" for autism. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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This is what the average Minnesotan sounds like these days
It’s Stalingrad and we will outlast these motherfuckers
January 14, 2026 at 1:08 AM
This is what the average Minnesotan sounds like these days
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You know how people are like "well we should just have a general strike it's simple" and then us folks who've done labor stuff are like "cute yeah try pulling that off without unions"
Well
Well
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
inthesetimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:33 AM
You know how people are like "well we should just have a general strike it's simple" and then us folks who've done labor stuff are like "cute yeah try pulling that off without unions"
Well
Well
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The latter part of this tweet has gone under the radar but it's an alarming escalation. The Trump admin has already detained dozens of people with full refugee status, seemingly those who had not yet adjusted to green cards, and is detaining them in Texas and seeking to strip them of their status.
Update: Since Jan 9, there have been 12 ICE Air flights out of Minneapolis, MN—a jump from the typical 3 flights/week to Minneapolis. This surge is taking place as people with valid refugee status are being taken from their homes in MN & transferred to detention centers in TX.
January 14, 2026 at 2:27 AM
The latter part of this tweet has gone under the radar but it's an alarming escalation. The Trump admin has already detained dozens of people with full refugee status, seemingly those who had not yet adjusted to green cards, and is detaining them in Texas and seeking to strip them of their status.
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just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday
January 13, 2026 at 12:51 AM
just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday
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This is why they mask. It isn’t about safety. It’s because they know that if decent people learn what they do, they’ll be social outcasts.
According to Jonathan Ross’s unnamed neighbor in suburban Minneapolis, he told her in 2020 that he was a botanist.
people.com/ice-agent-jo...
people.com/ice-agent-jo...
Minneapolis ICE Shooter Told Longtime Neighbor He Was a Botanist: 'I Had No Idea He Was an ICE Agent' (Exclusive)
ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, once told neighbors he was a botanist, a woman who lives nearby tells PEOPLE. 'I had no idea he was an ICE agent,' she...
people.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:14 PM
This is why they mask. It isn’t about safety. It’s because they know that if decent people learn what they do, they’ll be social outcasts.
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Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
January 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
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If Tina Smith got 100,000 calls/emails demanding she abolish ICE, she would almost certainly support abolishing ICE.
That I feel confident saying.
That I feel confident saying.
January 13, 2026 at 6:19 AM
If Tina Smith got 100,000 calls/emails demanding she abolish ICE, she would almost certainly support abolishing ICE.
That I feel confident saying.
That I feel confident saying.
Conversely, even when I have to get up at 5:30am, somehow I'm always up until 2am.
I need retraining. Something.
I need retraining. Something.
January 13, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Conversely, even when I have to get up at 5:30am, somehow I'm always up until 2am.
I need retraining. Something.
I need retraining. Something.
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Well, would you look at this? I spotted a P-8 Poseidon — which is a modified 737 airframe — with no reg # coming out of dark mode in flight data I posted the day of the first boat strike.
January 13, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Well, would you look at this? I spotted a P-8 Poseidon — which is a modified 737 airframe — with no reg # coming out of dark mode in flight data I posted the day of the first boat strike.
The Navesink River in New Jersey was a sailboat playground in the summer, and a family ice rink in the winter. I spent many July 4ths on its banks watching fireworks. I walked many mornings across the bridge, watching the sun come up over its broad, calm, shining waters.
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.
Mine is the Patuxent.
Mine is the Patuxent.
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 AM
The Navesink River in New Jersey was a sailboat playground in the summer, and a family ice rink in the winter. I spent many July 4ths on its banks watching fireworks. I walked many mornings across the bridge, watching the sun come up over its broad, calm, shining waters.
A good, but frustrating, thread.
Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already:
If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder.
It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO.
/1
If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder.
It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO.
/1
January 13, 2026 at 5:45 AM
A good, but frustrating, thread.
Man. I used to try to figure out how to make a story engage multiple senses, and thought about doing something like this. (Not Pinterest. That's weird.)
I guess that's a mood-killer.
I guess that's a mood-killer.
What's the fastest y'all ever DNF'd a book? I recently put one down one paragraph into the foreword when the author suggested I go look at their Pinterest moodboard for the book and then go listen to their Spotify soundtrack for it. In the foreword!!
January 13, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Man. I used to try to figure out how to make a story engage multiple senses, and thought about doing something like this. (Not Pinterest. That's weird.)
I guess that's a mood-killer.
I guess that's a mood-killer.
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"You guys need to stop obstructing us, that's why that lesbian b*tch is dead!..They literally said, have you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch!"-2 ICE protesters arrested for legally following ICE tell our @jtcestkowski.bsky.social ICE slandered Renee Nicole Good. MORE⬇️
January 12, 2026 at 10:26 PM
"You guys need to stop obstructing us, that's why that lesbian b*tch is dead!..They literally said, have you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch!"-2 ICE protesters arrested for legally following ICE tell our @jtcestkowski.bsky.social ICE slandered Renee Nicole Good. MORE⬇️
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sometimes you don’t realize how bad the consultant slop democrats use is until AOC speaks like a normal human and actually empathizes with us
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:43 AM
sometimes you don’t realize how bad the consultant slop democrats use is until AOC speaks like a normal human and actually empathizes with us
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This video is the perfect encapsulation of the illegal, thuggish, unprovoked, violent conduct of ICE. Rep. @benniethompson.bsky.social, I trust that you and the House Homeland Security Committee will have interest in this.
January 13, 2026 at 2:19 AM
This video is the perfect encapsulation of the illegal, thuggish, unprovoked, violent conduct of ICE. Rep. @benniethompson.bsky.social, I trust that you and the House Homeland Security Committee will have interest in this.
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I wonder what previously unimaginable thing will happen today?
January 12, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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The one positive thing about fascism is that it buys its own press and will just do the most insane shit then shrug off how it looks.
January 12, 2026 at 6:15 AM
The one positive thing about fascism is that it buys its own press and will just do the most insane shit then shrug off how it looks.
You can click to see what the response is to, but I enjoy a high-quality, no-context reply from time to time.
His actual reaction was probably more like
“Excellent. This will teach the commies to steal our precious bodily fluids” and then he proceeds to swallow eighty raw oysters and headbutt a capybara.
“Excellent. This will teach the commies to steal our precious bodily fluids” and then he proceeds to swallow eighty raw oysters and headbutt a capybara.
January 12, 2026 at 6:57 AM
You can click to see what the response is to, but I enjoy a high-quality, no-context reply from time to time.
States should enact new laws that give them the ability to be a tax clearinghouse.
Whichever state you're in, or whichever state your company is headquartered in, you send all federal tax money owed to the state, and the state can forward as it sees fit on your behalf.
cc: @governor.ca.gov
Whichever state you're in, or whichever state your company is headquartered in, you send all federal tax money owed to the state, and the state can forward as it sees fit on your behalf.
cc: @governor.ca.gov
January 11, 2026 at 9:21 PM
States should enact new laws that give them the ability to be a tax clearinghouse.
Whichever state you're in, or whichever state your company is headquartered in, you send all federal tax money owed to the state, and the state can forward as it sees fit on your behalf.
cc: @governor.ca.gov
Whichever state you're in, or whichever state your company is headquartered in, you send all federal tax money owed to the state, and the state can forward as it sees fit on your behalf.
cc: @governor.ca.gov