Christine Versen
@cversen.bsky.social
Always listening for crows.
Taking sidewalks seriously.
Here with you to get through rough currents. 🩵💙✨
Taking sidewalks seriously.
Here with you to get through rough currents. 🩵💙✨
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Chuck Schumer cannot agree to any deal that does not include, at minimum, a one year extension of the ACA credits.
A pinky promise from John Thune is meaningless.
A pinky promise from John Thune is meaningless.
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Chuck Schumer cannot agree to any deal that does not include, at minimum, a one year extension of the ACA credits.
A pinky promise from John Thune is meaningless.
A pinky promise from John Thune is meaningless.
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This little bird survived a volcanic eruption!
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This little bird survived a volcanic eruption!
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
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It’s a blue tsunami everywhere.
Tariffs poll lower than syphillis.
MAGA controls all three branches of government and shut it all down to strip millions of health care and hide the Epstein files.
Everything is worse than it was a year ago.
Americans are FINALLY waking up.
Tariffs poll lower than syphillis.
MAGA controls all three branches of government and shut it all down to strip millions of health care and hide the Epstein files.
Everything is worse than it was a year ago.
Americans are FINALLY waking up.
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
It’s a blue tsunami everywhere.
Tariffs poll lower than syphillis.
MAGA controls all three branches of government and shut it all down to strip millions of health care and hide the Epstein files.
Everything is worse than it was a year ago.
Americans are FINALLY waking up.
Tariffs poll lower than syphillis.
MAGA controls all three branches of government and shut it all down to strip millions of health care and hide the Epstein files.
Everything is worse than it was a year ago.
Americans are FINALLY waking up.
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A lot of Very Serious People will be pretending to be confused about What This All Means as a way to avoid the simple inconvenient reality: Voters like it when candidates are kind sincere non-weirdos who are passionate about big popular ideas that will actually help real people.
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
A lot of Very Serious People will be pretending to be confused about What This All Means as a way to avoid the simple inconvenient reality: Voters like it when candidates are kind sincere non-weirdos who are passionate about big popular ideas that will actually help real people.
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BREAKING
Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City mayor’s race.
Mamdani will make history as the first Muslim and first South Asian to serve as mayor of New York City.
He will also be the first immigrant in nearly 140 years to serve as mayor of New York City.
Per Decision Desk HQ.
Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City mayor’s race.
Mamdani will make history as the first Muslim and first South Asian to serve as mayor of New York City.
He will also be the first immigrant in nearly 140 years to serve as mayor of New York City.
Per Decision Desk HQ.
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
BREAKING
Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City mayor’s race.
Mamdani will make history as the first Muslim and first South Asian to serve as mayor of New York City.
He will also be the first immigrant in nearly 140 years to serve as mayor of New York City.
Per Decision Desk HQ.
Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City mayor’s race.
Mamdani will make history as the first Muslim and first South Asian to serve as mayor of New York City.
He will also be the first immigrant in nearly 140 years to serve as mayor of New York City.
Per Decision Desk HQ.
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Made a table showing how many households, kids, seniors and people with disabilities used SNAP last year in districts currently represented by Republicans. www.pbump.net/o/heres-how-...
Here’s how many people use SNAP in Republicans’ districts
President Trump has announced (on social media, naturally) that his administration will continue to withhold Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds during the government shutdown despi...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Made a table showing how many households, kids, seniors and people with disabilities used SNAP last year in districts currently represented by Republicans. www.pbump.net/o/heres-how-...
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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
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Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
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CRYING
I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
October 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
CRYING
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Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
August 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
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Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
August 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
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Finally, a united nation.
August 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Finally, a united nation.
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There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.
July 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.
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A new report by Human Rights Watch and partner nonprofits released today confirms that migrants at the downtown Miami ICE facility were indeed shackled with hands tied behind their backs, forced to kneel, and made to eat from styrofoam plates “like dogs.”
“You Feel Like Your Life is Over”
The 92-page report, “‘You Feel Like Your Life is Over’: Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025,” documents that people detained at Krome North Service Proc...
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July 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A new report by Human Rights Watch and partner nonprofits released today confirms that migrants at the downtown Miami ICE facility were indeed shackled with hands tied behind their backs, forced to kneel, and made to eat from styrofoam plates “like dogs.”
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For no reason at all, just want to say I'm proud of my work over my nearly 10 years at @npr.org and of the work of so many of my colleagues and our member station partners.
Here's a list of things I've loved over the years.
Here's a list of things I've loved over the years.
July 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
For no reason at all, just want to say I'm proud of my work over my nearly 10 years at @npr.org and of the work of so many of my colleagues and our member station partners.
Here's a list of things I've loved over the years.
Here's a list of things I've loved over the years.
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1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year
This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.
popular.info
July 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
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This is patently false.
DHS has authority to question and search people coming into the country at points of entry.
But ICE may not detain and question anyone without reasonable suspicion — and certainly not based on their physical appearance alone.
This lawlessness must stop.
DHS has authority to question and search people coming into the country at points of entry.
But ICE may not detain and question anyone without reasonable suspicion — and certainly not based on their physical appearance alone.
This lawlessness must stop.
July 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is patently false.
DHS has authority to question and search people coming into the country at points of entry.
But ICE may not detain and question anyone without reasonable suspicion — and certainly not based on their physical appearance alone.
This lawlessness must stop.
DHS has authority to question and search people coming into the country at points of entry.
But ICE may not detain and question anyone without reasonable suspicion — and certainly not based on their physical appearance alone.
This lawlessness must stop.
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Welcome to the resistance
July 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Welcome to the resistance
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This is a lie (as usual). While I disagree with the decision, IT LEAVES THE INJUNCTIONS OF THE BIRTHRIGHT EO IN PLACE, just narrows them to the plaintiffs. And it does not limit nationwide class actions, which will be filed to achieve the identical outcomes. The EO remains unconstitutional.
June 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is a lie (as usual). While I disagree with the decision, IT LEAVES THE INJUNCTIONS OF THE BIRTHRIGHT EO IN PLACE, just narrows them to the plaintiffs. And it does not limit nationwide class actions, which will be filed to achieve the identical outcomes. The EO remains unconstitutional.
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Federal and local law enforcement wearing masks is just plain unamerican. It’s a cowards move, and shows the fact that the kinds of deportations happening and the methods are, shameful and unpopular.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy
Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy
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June 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Federal and local law enforcement wearing masks is just plain unamerican. It’s a cowards move, and shows the fact that the kinds of deportations happening and the methods are, shameful and unpopular.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...