Mme. Defarge’s Knitting Needles
@glasshoarder.bsky.social
Proud citizen of United States of Dunning-Kruger. Lapsed actor & playwright. Walking contradiction. Stained glass artist. Food grower and dog lover. New Yorker in the 80s = told you he was a grifter.
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*former ICE officer interviewing for a job a decade from now*
Interviewer: yeah is says here on your resume that you’re a piece of shit?
Interviewer: yeah is says here on your resume that you’re a piece of shit?
December 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
*former ICE officer interviewing for a job a decade from now*
Interviewer: yeah is says here on your resume that you’re a piece of shit?
Interviewer: yeah is says here on your resume that you’re a piece of shit?
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What did minimum wage get you each decade? In 2025, it buys you nothing but exhaustion.
There’s not a single place in America where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford even a modest 2-bedroom. Not one. That’s the economy we’re living in. #TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
There’s not a single place in America where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford even a modest 2-bedroom. Not one. That’s the economy we’re living in. #TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
December 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
What did minimum wage get you each decade? In 2025, it buys you nothing but exhaustion.
There’s not a single place in America where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford even a modest 2-bedroom. Not one. That’s the economy we’re living in. #TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
There’s not a single place in America where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford even a modest 2-bedroom. Not one. That’s the economy we’re living in. #TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
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These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
Not enough superlatives for the audiobook of Shirer’s “Rise & Fall of the Third Reich” narrated by the great Grover Gardener. Establishment players in Hitler’s rise to chancellor feel creepily familiar. So many were sure they could control him.
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Not enough superlatives for the audiobook of Shirer’s “Rise & Fall of the Third Reich” narrated by the great Grover Gardener. Establishment players in Hitler’s rise to chancellor feel creepily familiar. So many were sure they could control him.
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Sen. Roger Marshall, on MS NOW, says he doesn't know the "details" and can't comment on Trump's pardon of a former Honduran leader who was convicted of major drug trafficking. That's the go-to move by GOP lawmakers these days: ignorance of things that they're being paid to know about.
December 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Sen. Roger Marshall, on MS NOW, says he doesn't know the "details" and can't comment on Trump's pardon of a former Honduran leader who was convicted of major drug trafficking. That's the go-to move by GOP lawmakers these days: ignorance of things that they're being paid to know about.
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This is also what Trump's plan for "Freedom Cities" is about. A plot to give federal land to billionaires so they can create democracy-free zones without laws, regulations, or taxes.
A blueprint for a post-democracy world. Expect a big push toward creating these new Fascist Cities...soon.
A blueprint for a post-democracy world. Expect a big push toward creating these new Fascist Cities...soon.
Trump's pardon of Honduras' drug trafficker president is raising awareness of Prospera, the weird tech-ruled city he helped to create.
Prospera is #NetworkState, a scary cult of tech billionaires who plan to replace nation-states with privatized dystopias.
More:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iHl...
Prospera is #NetworkState, a scary cult of tech billionaires who plan to replace nation-states with privatized dystopias.
More:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iHl...
1. Tech Billionaires vs. Democracy: Elon Musk and the Rise of "Network States"
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This is also what Trump's plan for "Freedom Cities" is about. A plot to give federal land to billionaires so they can create democracy-free zones without laws, regulations, or taxes.
A blueprint for a post-democracy world. Expect a big push toward creating these new Fascist Cities...soon.
A blueprint for a post-democracy world. Expect a big push toward creating these new Fascist Cities...soon.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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I know we’ve moved on 781 times by now, but…
I still can’t believe he tore down half the White House
I still can’t believe he tore down half the White House
December 1, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I know we’ve moved on 781 times by now, but…
I still can’t believe he tore down half the White House
I still can’t believe he tore down half the White House
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
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“Strong floor, no ceiling” is absolutely the type of slogan that a focus group of swing voters will tell you they find appealing after it has been a whole hour and they just want to go home.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“Strong floor, no ceiling” is absolutely the type of slogan that a focus group of swing voters will tell you they find appealing after it has been a whole hour and they just want to go home.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
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For another thing, it's a fearful loser slogan. It's an extension of 35-40 years of loser Democratic politics in which all they care about is not being called commies by Republicans. Guess what: they're gonna call you commies anyway, so maybe fucking stand for something.
November 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
For another thing, it's a fearful loser slogan. It's an extension of 35-40 years of loser Democratic politics in which all they care about is not being called commies by Republicans. Guess what: they're gonna call you commies anyway, so maybe fucking stand for something.
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Message to the press:
The next time Trump calls one of your colleagues a derogatory name, don’t let it slide.
Follow up and demand an apology on the record or walk out.
His habitual rudeness is not “just Trump being Trump.”
It’s an attack on the profession, and you shouldn’t tolerate it.
The next time Trump calls one of your colleagues a derogatory name, don’t let it slide.
Follow up and demand an apology on the record or walk out.
His habitual rudeness is not “just Trump being Trump.”
It’s an attack on the profession, and you shouldn’t tolerate it.
November 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Message to the press:
The next time Trump calls one of your colleagues a derogatory name, don’t let it slide.
Follow up and demand an apology on the record or walk out.
His habitual rudeness is not “just Trump being Trump.”
It’s an attack on the profession, and you shouldn’t tolerate it.
The next time Trump calls one of your colleagues a derogatory name, don’t let it slide.
Follow up and demand an apology on the record or walk out.
His habitual rudeness is not “just Trump being Trump.”
It’s an attack on the profession, and you shouldn’t tolerate it.
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"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable Asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong."
~George Washington to Francis Adrian van der Kemp, May 28, 1788.
Image: Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, 1804. Public domain.
~George Washington to Francis Adrian van der Kemp, May 28, 1788.
Image: Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, 1804. Public domain.
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable Asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong."
~George Washington to Francis Adrian van der Kemp, May 28, 1788.
Image: Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, 1804. Public domain.
~George Washington to Francis Adrian van der Kemp, May 28, 1788.
Image: Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, 1804. Public domain.
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Oh nothing, just Trump making racist jokes and laughing at himself right after announcing the tragic death of a National Guard who was shot because him.
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Oh nothing, just Trump making racist jokes and laughing at himself right after announcing the tragic death of a National Guard who was shot because him.
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Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
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It is unsettling. What’s her name?
Deeply unsettled by this older photo of Mike Johnson with a beard.
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It is unsettling. What’s her name?
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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happy bday Spanish writer Lope de Vega, b.1562.
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy".
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy".
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
happy bday Spanish writer Lope de Vega, b.1562.
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy".
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy".
Prayers answered
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Prayers answered
I feel seen.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I feel seen.
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This administration seems unmoved by art.
There is no Shakespeare in their language, no Baldwin in their conscience, no Springsteen on their radios, no Swift in their playlists.
And when leaders feel nothing for beauty, it’s the soul of a nation that suffers.
There is no Shakespeare in their language, no Baldwin in their conscience, no Springsteen on their radios, no Swift in their playlists.
And when leaders feel nothing for beauty, it’s the soul of a nation that suffers.
May 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This administration seems unmoved by art.
There is no Shakespeare in their language, no Baldwin in their conscience, no Springsteen on their radios, no Swift in their playlists.
And when leaders feel nothing for beauty, it’s the soul of a nation that suffers.
There is no Shakespeare in their language, no Baldwin in their conscience, no Springsteen on their radios, no Swift in their playlists.
And when leaders feel nothing for beauty, it’s the soul of a nation that suffers.
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no sorry you’re right this technology is absolutely worth depleting our water supply
November 23, 2025 at 5:25 AM
no sorry you’re right this technology is absolutely worth depleting our water supply
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“Moscow still loves a loser: failed journalists, has-beens, also-rans, sex pests and disgruntled narcissists end up going to work for the Kremlin.”
macspaunday.substack.com/p/how-russia...
macspaunday.substack.com/p/how-russia...
How Russian Spies Infiltrate U.S. Institutions
Read a 1988 KGB textbook on how to recruit agents working for the U.S. government abroad.
macspaunday.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“Moscow still loves a loser: failed journalists, has-beens, also-rans, sex pests and disgruntled narcissists end up going to work for the Kremlin.”
macspaunday.substack.com/p/how-russia...
macspaunday.substack.com/p/how-russia...