@cfun.bsky.social
Inveterate traveler, voracious reader, museum lover, amateur historian
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This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
BFFs - 🦏🦓
Tytan, is starting to find his feet - settling into his new home. Helping him every step of the way is Notty the zebra - who survived a similar heartbreaking past. Now inseparable - drinking their bottles side by side and sleeping in adjacent stables: swt.bio/tytan
November 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
BFFs - 🦏🦓
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This 💔
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This 💔
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A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
I miss decency.
Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath?
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I miss decency.
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Before Thursday’s ruling limiting the feds’ use of force, the Homeland Security secretary encouraged the Border Patrol chief to go hard at protesters opposing Chicago’s deportation blitz.
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Transcript: How Kristi Noem and Gregory Bovino defend effort to ‘hammer’ protesters
Before Thursday's ruling limiting the feds’ use of force, the Homeland Security secretary encouraged the Border Patrol chief to go hard at protesters opposing Chicago’s deportation blitz.
trib.al
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Before Thursday’s ruling limiting the feds’ use of force, the Homeland Security secretary encouraged the Border Patrol chief to go hard at protesters opposing Chicago’s deportation blitz.
trib.al/p7wWM9H
trib.al/p7wWM9H
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actual communism
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
actual communism
Sweet 🦏
This brave little black rhino has a heartbreaking story - his mother fatally fell off a cliff, and for two days, the tiny baby gave his rescuers the run round. Now he’s safe at our Nairobi Nursery where he has found the love of a new human family. Discover Tytan’s full rescue story: swt.bio/tytan
November 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Sweet 🦏
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Worth a thousand words and whatnot. And just a reminder from Uncle George. It's never too late to admit your ass got played.
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Worth a thousand words and whatnot. And just a reminder from Uncle George. It's never too late to admit your ass got played.
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Sandwich guy walks. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced a single misdemeanor after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Sandwich guy walks. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSforShadow
Napping cats on Goree Island prefer shade.
Posing cat wants me to hurry up and take the pic so he can nap in the shade
#WeekSforShadow
Napping cats on Goree Island prefer shade.
Posing cat wants me to hurry up and take the pic so he can nap in the shade
November 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSforShadow
Napping cats on Goree Island prefer shade.
Posing cat wants me to hurry up and take the pic so he can nap in the shade
#WeekSforShadow
Napping cats on Goree Island prefer shade.
Posing cat wants me to hurry up and take the pic so he can nap in the shade
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A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.
On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back
Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.
newrepublic.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.
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Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekRforRock
Memorial for the opening of the South African Jewish Museum in Cape Town displayed in the courtyard by the entrance to the museum
#WeekRforRock
Memorial for the opening of the South African Jewish Museum in Cape Town displayed in the courtyard by the entrance to the museum
October 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekRforRock
Memorial for the opening of the South African Jewish Museum in Cape Town displayed in the courtyard by the entrance to the museum
#WeekRforRock
Memorial for the opening of the South African Jewish Museum in Cape Town displayed in the courtyard by the entrance to the museum
Stop shopping at Amazon - it’s not that hard
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Stop shopping at Amazon - it’s not that hard
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Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success
October 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success
Shameful - haven’t been paid in 4 weeks
There should never be shame in needing help from a food pantry. But this is gut-wrenching: working every day, not getting paid for weeks, and needing a food pantry you didn’t need before.
What’s shameful is that this is completely avoidable. Republicans need to get back to DC and negotiate.
What’s shameful is that this is completely avoidable. Republicans need to get back to DC and negotiate.
October 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Shameful - haven’t been paid in 4 weeks
October 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Let this sink in…
“At least one expert now predicting this could trigger greatest hunger catastrophe in the U.S. since the Great Depression.”
📌 The Dept of Agriculture posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid won’t go out on November 1.
“At least one expert now predicting this could trigger greatest hunger catastrophe in the U.S. since the Great Depression.”
📌 The Dept of Agriculture posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid won’t go out on November 1.
October 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Let this sink in…
“At least one expert now predicting this could trigger greatest hunger catastrophe in the U.S. since the Great Depression.”
📌 The Dept of Agriculture posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid won’t go out on November 1.
“At least one expert now predicting this could trigger greatest hunger catastrophe in the U.S. since the Great Depression.”
📌 The Dept of Agriculture posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid won’t go out on November 1.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
“by many first timers”
At the food pantry I volunteer at we were absolutely swamped today and by many first timers. We ran out of whole categories of food. Please donate cash to your local organization if you at all can.
October 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
“by many first timers”
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekQforQuiet
Purple Adobe Lavender Farm, Abiquiu, New Mexico
You can sit in a lavender Adirondack chair under the shelter and listen to the quiet
#WeekQforQuiet
Purple Adobe Lavender Farm, Abiquiu, New Mexico
You can sit in a lavender Adirondack chair under the shelter and listen to the quiet
October 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekQforQuiet
Purple Adobe Lavender Farm, Abiquiu, New Mexico
You can sit in a lavender Adirondack chair under the shelter and listen to the quiet
#WeekQforQuiet
Purple Adobe Lavender Farm, Abiquiu, New Mexico
You can sit in a lavender Adirondack chair under the shelter and listen to the quiet