Tracy Wise
@frauwise.bsky.social
Writer. Focused on the present moment in the US & around the world. Supporter of liberal democracy. Personal account. *opinions my own* re-posts=look at this (vs approval)
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Tracy Wise
@frauwise.bsky.social
· Mar 1
So grateful to #TheFriendsofSmileyPublicLibrary, @typeeighteenbooks.bsky.social (w/o a publisher, no book!), and @frugalfrigate.bsky.social for a wonderful book launch event on Feb. 26. Between 40-50 people came and books for sale sold out!
#community #reading #BookSky 💙📚📚💙
MADAME SOREL'S LODGER
#community #reading #BookSky 💙📚📚💙
MADAME SOREL'S LODGER
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Indeed...it was interesting to watch John Oliver's excellent piece tonight on Trump's de-funding of public media, and then immediately segue into the first episode of Ken Burns' latest opus.
Tonight's PBS premiere of Ken Burns' new series "The American Revolution" doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding for public broadcasting in the US. The message is clear: "We are still here." 🧵 www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/m...
November 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Indeed...it was interesting to watch John Oliver's excellent piece tonight on Trump's de-funding of public media, and then immediately segue into the first episode of Ken Burns' latest opus.
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Politicians have always done this. Vote to defund public media but never miss the premiere or fail to shake everyone's hand.
Burns and his team have held advance screenings of "The American Revolution" across the country, including in DC. Kerger described GOP lawmakers who voted against PBS $$$ waiting in line to shake his hand:
November 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Politicians have always done this. Vote to defund public media but never miss the premiere or fail to shake everyone's hand.
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cbp has been very active lots of places without bovino present, la and memphis are just two of 'em.
November 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
cbp has been very active lots of places without bovino present, la and memphis are just two of 'em.
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The Harvard Crimson has ID'ed and published the name of a well-known economist who was the subject of emails between Larry Summers and Epstein.
Born in China, she did her B.A. – Ph.D. at Harvard.
The code name that Summers and Epstein used in their emails about her was "peril." What a vile pig.
Born in China, she did her B.A. – Ph.D. at Harvard.
The code name that Summers and Epstein used in their emails about her was "peril." What a vile pig.
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The Harvard Crimson has ID'ed and published the name of a well-known economist who was the subject of emails between Larry Summers and Epstein.
Born in China, she did her B.A. – Ph.D. at Harvard.
The code name that Summers and Epstein used in their emails about her was "peril." What a vile pig.
Born in China, she did her B.A. – Ph.D. at Harvard.
The code name that Summers and Epstein used in their emails about her was "peril." What a vile pig.
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Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.
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I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. There’s no vote required if he wants to release them!
The only reason the house was voting was because he refused.
This is an obviously cynical ploy and major news outlets are running whole pieces without pointing this out. He could release them tonight.
The only reason the house was voting was because he refused.
This is an obviously cynical ploy and major news outlets are running whole pieces without pointing this out. He could release them tonight.
If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.
November 17, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.
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this is going to unleash more state-based repression on Kashmir & terror against Indian Muslims.
Kashmir, like Palestine, is an occupied territory controlled in parts by India, Pakistan, & China. In 2019, Indian-occupied Kashmir’s “autonomy” was abrogated & India shut down internet for over a year.
Kashmir, like Palestine, is an occupied territory controlled in parts by India, Pakistan, & China. In 2019, Indian-occupied Kashmir’s “autonomy” was abrogated & India shut down internet for over a year.
JUST IN: India arrests suspect accused of planning last week's deadly car bombing near Delhi's Red Fort
India arrests Kashmir resident in connection with deadly Red Fort bomb attack | CNN
India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday said it had arrested a man accused of helping plan last week’s deadly car bombing near Delhi’s Red Fort, which killed at least 10 people and injur...
www.cnn.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
this is going to unleash more state-based repression on Kashmir & terror against Indian Muslims.
Kashmir, like Palestine, is an occupied territory controlled in parts by India, Pakistan, & China. In 2019, Indian-occupied Kashmir’s “autonomy” was abrogated & India shut down internet for over a year.
Kashmir, like Palestine, is an occupied territory controlled in parts by India, Pakistan, & China. In 2019, Indian-occupied Kashmir’s “autonomy” was abrogated & India shut down internet for over a year.
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Chris Murphy: "The fact of the matter is if you don't put constraints on Donald Trump's illegality, this democracy isn't going to be here next November. It isn't going to be here in 2028. So Democrats, yes, have to draw firm moral lines in the sand right now."
November 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Chris Murphy: "The fact of the matter is if you don't put constraints on Donald Trump's illegality, this democracy isn't going to be here next November. It isn't going to be here in 2028. So Democrats, yes, have to draw firm moral lines in the sand right now."
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Trump has executed another three civilians in a small boat off Venezuela. Death toll now stands at 83.
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Trump has executed another three civilians in a small boat off Venezuela. Death toll now stands at 83.
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The housing market in Northern Virginia is on the verge of collapsing. Neighbors are selling due to job loss & there are “for sale” signs everywhere. We need Congress to fight for us but @beyer.house.gov took $350k+ from Bank of America & other donations from real estate developers. #RetireBeyer
November 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The housing market in Northern Virginia is on the verge of collapsing. Neighbors are selling due to job loss & there are “for sale” signs everywhere. We need Congress to fight for us but @beyer.house.gov took $350k+ from Bank of America & other donations from real estate developers. #RetireBeyer
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I can reassure the New York Times that networks of mutual protection, and misogynist retaliation efforts that benefit abusive men at the expense of the young women they prey upon, are very much still intact post-Me Too.
This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I can reassure the New York Times that networks of mutual protection, and misogynist retaliation efforts that benefit abusive men at the expense of the young women they prey upon, are very much still intact post-Me Too.
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Mass shooting:
3 dead including the shooter and 1 injured in shooting in South Gate, California.
3 dead including the shooter and 1 injured in shooting in South Gate, California.
November 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Mass shooting:
3 dead including the shooter and 1 injured in shooting in South Gate, California.
3 dead including the shooter and 1 injured in shooting in South Gate, California.
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One of Trump's objectives seems to have been to provoke a violent reaction from the public. Despite the provocations of CBD and ICE, the public has been nonviolent.
As we reported previously at @zeteo.com, one of the things that made Trump so keen to deploy U.S. troops to Chicago when he did was because he kept seeing coverage of him bumping the brakes the previous time, and didn’t want to give Pritzker a “win” after Illinois Dems mounted heavy resistance
Is this losing? Feels like losing
November 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
One of Trump's objectives seems to have been to provoke a violent reaction from the public. Despite the provocations of CBD and ICE, the public has been nonviolent.
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Sure hope some reporters digs into what happened here- cause on face value it’s really bad
The new Bari Weiss CBS, ladies and gents.
Margaret Brennan to Tom Suozzi: "Can you explain the focus this past week in the House by Democrats on the Jeffrey Epstein files? Is this a tactic to distract from the failure to extract healthcare changes?"
November 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Sure hope some reporters digs into what happened here- cause on face value it’s really bad
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It is interesting to me how the media seems far less interested in Trump's Murder Memo than you'd expect. Only a few reporters seem to be even trying to get a hold of it, and very few commentators are talking about it. Contrast that with Bush's torture memo, which was a national obsession. Weird.
Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
Trump Boat Bombings Take Dark, Unnerving Turn with Leaked Memo Stunner
A new Trump administration memo argues that those carrying out the boat attacks can’t be prosecuted. Why? Because the administration says so!
newrepublic.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It is interesting to me how the media seems far less interested in Trump's Murder Memo than you'd expect. Only a few reporters seem to be even trying to get a hold of it, and very few commentators are talking about it. Contrast that with Bush's torture memo, which was a national obsession. Weird.
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More than a half million people in Manila attend a rally, organized by a controversial evangelical Philippines-based church, to demand accountability for a flood-control corruption scandal. www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstor...
INC: Luneta rally calls for concrete actions vs corruption, not gov't downfall
The three-day protest organized by the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) is focused on demanding concrete actions against corruption, particularly linked to anomalous flood control projects, and is not aimed at...
www.gmanetwork.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
More than a half million people in Manila attend a rally, organized by a controversial evangelical Philippines-based church, to demand accountability for a flood-control corruption scandal. www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstor...
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Hundreds of thousands rally in Manila over Philippines flood-control corruption scandal #AssociatedPress
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Hundreds of thousands rally in Manila over Philippines flood-control corruption scandal
twp.ai
November 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Hundreds of thousands rally in Manila over Philippines flood-control corruption scandal #AssociatedPress
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Remember those national guard troops sent to Chicago by Texas Gov Greg Abbott? They went home after sitting at a suburban training facility doing nothing for a month. Abbott's little stunt cost taxpayers at least $12M. What an abuse of power.
wgntv.com/news/wgn-inv...
wgntv.com/news/wgn-inv...
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Remember those national guard troops sent to Chicago by Texas Gov Greg Abbott? They went home after sitting at a suburban training facility doing nothing for a month. Abbott's little stunt cost taxpayers at least $12M. What an abuse of power.
wgntv.com/news/wgn-inv...
wgntv.com/news/wgn-inv...
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Right wing screeching about the “war on Christianity” never includes complaints about secret police raiding houses of worship to rip families apart (or, for that matter, bombing churches in Palestine)
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Right wing screeching about the “war on Christianity” never includes complaints about secret police raiding houses of worship to rip families apart (or, for that matter, bombing churches in Palestine)
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Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor
Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
My social media is wall-to-wall love for the incomparable Alice Wong, and I need more words. What captures sadness and/also affection for a community that knows what's been lost?
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor
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"'Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia,' he said
Rhodes added that he’d like to see Trump 'order us all to come together in our counties under his command'...”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Rhodes added that he’d like to see Trump 'order us all to come together in our counties under his command'...”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
With a Trump pardon in hand, Stewart Rhodes says he’s ‘rebuilding’ the Oath Keepers
After vowing to bring back his group, Rhodes added that he’d like to see the president “order us all to come together ... under his command.”
www.ms.now
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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The Republican Party should be disbanded. Americans are not imbecilic morons. We have fought, bled and died for our country. Using tax payer dollars and official USG channels to insult us is pathetic and shows a contempt for the public that has no place in a nation built by those sacrifices.
November 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The Republican Party should be disbanded. Americans are not imbecilic morons. We have fought, bled and died for our country. Using tax payer dollars and official USG channels to insult us is pathetic and shows a contempt for the public that has no place in a nation built by those sacrifices.
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Every “encroachment” in conservative parties in recent years has been worse than the last. The GOP has kept getting more and more far-right extremist. And Fuentes’ white-nationalist nazis are the worst yet.
Republicans are at odds about how to handle the white-nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes’s encroachment into their ranks, @alibreland.bsky.social writes. He asked Fuentes about being the center of a crisis in American conservatism:
The Nick Fuentes Spiral
The reckoning with the white-nationalist influencer’s rise is only getting messier.
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Every “encroachment” in conservative parties in recent years has been worse than the last. The GOP has kept getting more and more far-right extremist. And Fuentes’ white-nationalist nazis are the worst yet.