emlyn
@emlyne.bsky.social
Sometime historian and translator. Beginning weaver and genealogist. Academia ambivalent. Basset hound doter. Also mother of two humans, mostly grown, and blissfully happy wife of one
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This is part of the tragedy of a surrender now. It invites more pain and suffering by emboldening the regime. Why should they listen to a weak opposition?
Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is part of the tragedy of a surrender now. It invites more pain and suffering by emboldening the regime. Why should they listen to a weak opposition?
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Have R senators? (Like me?) Call Schumer’s office to tell him you will never donate to another D senate campaign again as long as he’s Senate leader. Tell him this deal is a shameful joke and a betrayal.
(202) 224-6542
(202) 224-6542
I just did this and if nothing else it was cathartic. I said I would make it my life’s mission to make sure there’s a primary challenger for any D involved in this deal, it’s fucking embarrassing.
So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Have R senators? (Like me?) Call Schumer’s office to tell him you will never donate to another D senate campaign again as long as he’s Senate leader. Tell him this deal is a shameful joke and a betrayal.
(202) 224-6542
(202) 224-6542
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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40 days of shutdown for nothing. WTF man are we really doing this?
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
40 days of shutdown for nothing. WTF man are we really doing this?
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I'm the spouse of an air traffic controller and I could not be more livid at the news that Dems might cave. I called and left voicemails for my Dem senators. If my family can hold the fucking line, so can they.
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I'm the spouse of an air traffic controller and I could not be more livid at the news that Dems might cave. I called and left voicemails for my Dem senators. If my family can hold the fucking line, so can they.
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Photos of the Feds with weapons out taken by @chicagotribune.com photographers yesterday @briancassella.bsky.social @mandophotos.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Photos of the Feds with weapons out taken by @chicagotribune.com photographers yesterday @briancassella.bsky.social @mandophotos.bsky.social
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ICE is completely out of control
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
ICE is completely out of control
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This is 100% not someone who has been trained to use a gun. He's waving it around nervously. This is insane
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is 100% not someone who has been trained to use a gun. He's waving it around nervously. This is insane
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Luna thinks she’s a jungle cat
#caturday #cats #tabbycat #pets #photography #catsofbluesky #BNW #nature #EastCoastKin #BNWmacro #BlackandWhite
#PhotographersUnited #ArtYear #thelittlethings #PhotoOfTheDay
#caturday #cats #tabbycat #pets #photography #catsofbluesky #BNW #nature #EastCoastKin #BNWmacro #BlackandWhite
#PhotographersUnited #ArtYear #thelittlethings #PhotoOfTheDay
September 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Luna thinks she’s a jungle cat
#caturday #cats #tabbycat #pets #photography #catsofbluesky #BNW #nature #EastCoastKin #BNWmacro #BlackandWhite
#PhotographersUnited #ArtYear #thelittlethings #PhotoOfTheDay
#caturday #cats #tabbycat #pets #photography #catsofbluesky #BNW #nature #EastCoastKin #BNWmacro #BlackandWhite
#PhotographersUnited #ArtYear #thelittlethings #PhotoOfTheDay
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
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They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
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I do not understand why Ross Douthat, of all people, is considered a thinker the Times’s audience should listen to and read.
November 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I do not understand why Ross Douthat, of all people, is considered a thinker the Times’s audience should listen to and read.
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if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
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I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out.
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out.
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:
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Excellent o(pi)nion piece by @barbmcquade.bsky.social. It thoroughly digests the dispositive legal and factual issues, and tastefully establishes why the case had no meat to it, and why the jury didn't swallow it. It's a must(ard)-read.
Sandwich verdict wasn’t jury nullification. It was failure to prove the required “reasonable fear of physical injury” in a case where the agent was wearing A BULLETPROOF VEST. The only crime was the waste of resources on this case. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The sandwich thrower was wrong. But Jeanine Pirro was, too.
To establish a forcible assault, jurors were required to find that Dunn caused “reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.” That allegation was laughable.
www.msnbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Excellent o(pi)nion piece by @barbmcquade.bsky.social. It thoroughly digests the dispositive legal and factual issues, and tastefully establishes why the case had no meat to it, and why the jury didn't swallow it. It's a must(ard)-read.
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oh my god
“The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin.”
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
November 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
oh my god
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Lol
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Lol
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Trump order states to stop
feeding the hungry.
feeding the hungry.
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Trump order states to stop
feeding the hungry.
feeding the hungry.
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It is embarassing that only a news outlet from the UK has an accurate headline while our local papers keep saying "reports" without specifying a liar made that report.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago
Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
It is embarassing that only a news outlet from the UK has an accurate headline while our local papers keep saying "reports" without specifying a liar made that report.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I would honestly pay any amount of money to see him argue this case in front of SCOTUS himself. I genuinely want him to explain, at length in a public forum, what he thinks tariffs are and how they work.
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I would honestly pay any amount of money to see him argue this case in front of SCOTUS himself. I genuinely want him to explain, at length in a public forum, what he thinks tariffs are and how they work.
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"A movement, especially one that verges on an outright cult of personality, is defined by its leader, not by its rank and file. And when the leader is lawless and depraved, then efforts to contain his influence while preserving his power are doomed to fail." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/o...
Opinion | Cruelty, Bigotry and Rage. What’s Not to Like?
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"A movement, especially one that verges on an outright cult of personality, is defined by its leader, not by its rank and file. And when the leader is lawless and depraved, then efforts to contain his influence while preserving his power are doomed to fail." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/o...
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🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the POS 34x convicted felon, DEADLY INSURRECTIONIST, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Donald Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the POS 34x convicted felon, DEADLY INSURRECTIONIST, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Donald Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
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It’s not a coincidence that Trump is simultaneously flaunting a gilded White House and lavish parties at Mar-a-Lago while also making life harder for those who are not wealthy.
He doesn’t fear the poor and enjoys our hardship.
Our suffering pairs with his gluttonous appetites better than any wine.
He doesn’t fear the poor and enjoys our hardship.
Our suffering pairs with his gluttonous appetites better than any wine.
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It’s not a coincidence that Trump is simultaneously flaunting a gilded White House and lavish parties at Mar-a-Lago while also making life harder for those who are not wealthy.
He doesn’t fear the poor and enjoys our hardship.
Our suffering pairs with his gluttonous appetites better than any wine.
He doesn’t fear the poor and enjoys our hardship.
Our suffering pairs with his gluttonous appetites better than any wine.
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Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight
Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
n.pr
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.