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Dr Vandermast
@drvandermast.bsky.social
Writer of this and that. Reader of the other.
Not a doctor, and my name isn't Vandermast.
https://tinyurl.com/jasonmillshq
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I write stupid books for your pleasure. 🙂

📙 The Bible in Limericks

📓 The Calm Before The Storm: a prequel to The Tempest

📗 Pride and Prejudice in Sonnets,

📚Several other sonnet projects

📘 Fantasy stories and poems

📚 #ttrpg material

More here:
tinyurl.com/jasonmillsbooks
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Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."
January 10, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
www.forbes.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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This is absolutely what happened.
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
January 10, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Just like that the Epstein Files are out of the news cycle. Call your Congress Members and remind them that we are still expecting The Epstein Files To Be Released
January 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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The Surinam toad has one of the strangest birth methods in the animal kingdom. Babies erupt from a cluster of tiny holes in their mother’s back.
January 10, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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What are you reading this weekend?
January 9, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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SHOCK CELL PHONE VIDEO: Renee Good's final words to her murderer: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.”

ICE agent Jonathan Ross after shooting and killing her seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.”

Via Alpha News
January 9, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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On January 7th, 2026, ICE agents murdered Renee Nicole Good by shooting her in the head through her car window. She was a poet and writer, a wife, and a mother of three.

Here is the full poem from Amanda Gorman's Facebook page:

Amanda Gorman is in Minneapolis, MN, United States
@aclumn.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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No words.

💔

#Justice4Renee
🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific.

They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him.

Stop the lies.
January 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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Sent this out via the newsletter earlier and no one really responded to it, so here it is. Someone said writing a poem wasn't an act of resistance, likening it to a fart in the wind; true, but I didn't write this as an act of resistance. I wrote it because I didn't know how else to process it all.
January 9, 2026 at 2:21 AM
GREAT SONGS YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF!

youtu.be/cVsUVj0ENhY?...
Hunters & Collectors - Holy Grail (Official Video)
YouTube video by HuntersCollectorVEVO
youtu.be
January 9, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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I thought it might be nice to give away my last 2 signed hardbacks of my novel 1983, with two lovely linocut hares by my mum.

All you have to do to enter is repost this (& leave a reply).

The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”.
Extract in the replies.
January 9, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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I-94 and Wilson, Chicago, IL
January 8, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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I’d forgotten this lovely little book - sadly now withdrawn from public sale and from all the libraries. I must have one of the few copies left
January 9, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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PTSD from prior incident with a car? That supports the defense because the officer fired because he apparently had a false belief influenced by prior acts and had no current ability to properly evaluate the need for deadly force. He should never have been on this job.
January 8, 2026 at 6:46 PM
One of my stories inhabits this cool anthology. 😀

The Science Fiction Tarot: Luminous Symbols of All the Tomorrows to Come

www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Fict...
January 8, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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White to move and mate in 2. #chess
January 8, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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This is not the law.
January 8, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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Something to consider: We know what happened in Minneapolis today because dozens of people filmed it. If we let this shooting make us afraid to document, it will paradoxically makes us easier to kill and more likely to be murdered.
January 8, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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I don't think some people realize what the President already making it plain he considers it a justified shooting is really going to mean.
January 8, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Replies off, naturally.
January 8, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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White to move.

Puzzle "Need To Know Endgame Mating" from chess.com. #ChessPuzzles
January 8, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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I can’t stop thinking about Renee Nicole Good. My heart physically hurts. How absolutely senseless. How tragic.

Here is an excerpt from a poem of hers, and the link to the full poem. 🤍

poets.org/2020-on-lear...
January 8, 2026 at 3:17 PM