Hawthorne
@hawthornep.bsky.social
Old American trans guy living in Portugal. I like science, reading, writing, eating, traveling, and adventuring (sometimes DnD), with my wife :)
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McGovern: Seriously, we were worried. We actually started handing out missing person posters. Nobody has seen you for eight weeks. But, hey, I'm glad that you are ok. I'm glad you survived your nice, two-month paid vacation
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
McGovern: Seriously, we were worried. We actually started handing out missing person posters. Nobody has seen you for eight weeks. But, hey, I'm glad that you are ok. I'm glad you survived your nice, two-month paid vacation
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My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time.
No more hiding behind election terms.
No more hiding behind election terms.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time.
No more hiding behind election terms.
No more hiding behind election terms.
You've got to be kidding me.
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
You've got to be kidding me.
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Today the Supreme Court granted review in an important case for the outcome of the 2026 elections. At stake is the fate of tens or even hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots. No one is covering this as completely as Democracy Docket. Please support its work by subscribing today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Today the Supreme Court granted review in an important case for the outcome of the 2026 elections. At stake is the fate of tens or even hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots. No one is covering this as completely as Democracy Docket. Please support its work by subscribing today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
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#GVerse MoveOn calls for Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov to step down from leadership.
“Around 80% of MoveOn members that the group surveyed said that Schumer should quit his leadership position.”
It is time to let someone else take the wheel & lead!
“Around 80% of MoveOn members that the group surveyed said that Schumer should quit his leadership position.”
It is time to let someone else take the wheel & lead!
Progressive group MoveOn calls on Schumer to step aside
"Inexplicably, some Senate Democrats, under Leader Schumer's watch, decided to surrender."
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
#GVerse MoveOn calls for Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov to step down from leadership.
“Around 80% of MoveOn members that the group surveyed said that Schumer should quit his leadership position.”
It is time to let someone else take the wheel & lead!
“Around 80% of MoveOn members that the group surveyed said that Schumer should quit his leadership position.”
It is time to let someone else take the wheel & lead!
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Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
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In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
I guess they decided that that would just be slightly TOO MUCH CHAOS?!
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I guess they decided that that would just be slightly TOO MUCH CHAOS?!
Since January, D.C. plastic surgeons have seen a wave of 45/47 insiders asking for the "Mar-a-Lago face" look. It's a situation Dr. Kulkarni calls "filler blindness." If you add more and more product to your face and are surrounded by people who do the same, "you lose sight of anatomic normalcy."
D.C. plastic surgeons see surge in "Mar‑a‑Lago face" requests from Trump insiders
"[They] want to look like they had something done."
www.axios.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Since January, D.C. plastic surgeons have seen a wave of 45/47 insiders asking for the "Mar-a-Lago face" look. It's a situation Dr. Kulkarni calls "filler blindness." If you add more and more product to your face and are surrounded by people who do the same, "you lose sight of anatomic normalcy."
Todd Blanche: the DOJ won't refer matters to state bars until completing its own review. He said we'll "do everything we can" to take "activist bars … out of the picture."
This Includes paying for outside counsel for DOJ attorneys fighting bar complaints.
www.axios.com/2025/11/09/d...
This Includes paying for outside counsel for DOJ attorneys fighting bar complaints.
www.axios.com/2025/11/09/d...
Deputy AG declares "war" on judges, vows to strip bar associations' power
The statements are the latest escalation in the DOJ's comments about judges.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Todd Blanche: the DOJ won't refer matters to state bars until completing its own review. He said we'll "do everything we can" to take "activist bars … out of the picture."
This Includes paying for outside counsel for DOJ attorneys fighting bar complaints.
www.axios.com/2025/11/09/d...
This Includes paying for outside counsel for DOJ attorneys fighting bar complaints.
www.axios.com/2025/11/09/d...
I showed ChatGPT5 how to do something faster, then it tried to convince me that IT thought of it. I think it was trained to be a gaslighting narcissist.
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I showed ChatGPT5 how to do something faster, then it tried to convince me that IT thought of it. I think it was trained to be a gaslighting narcissist.
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Mar-a-Lago guests wearing tuxedos and gowns dined on filet, scallops and dessert. Meanwhile, he prevented 1 in 8 Americans from getting food.
As Millions Of Americans Lose SNAP Benefits, Trump Keeps The Party Going At Mar-A-Lago
Mar-a-Lago guests wearing tuxedos and gowns dined on filet, scallops and dessert. Meanwhile, 1 in 8 Americans are without critical federal food benefits.
www.huffpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Mar-a-Lago guests wearing tuxedos and gowns dined on filet, scallops and dessert. Meanwhile, he prevented 1 in 8 Americans from getting food.
An FYI, If you are protesting, plan to photograph ICE or Border patrol officers while they are accosting, kidnapping someone, or any other activities, DO NOT have expensive or irreplaceable items ON YOUR PERSON. If you are detained or arrested, those items WILL DISAPPEAR. ICE is not to be trusted.
ICE is keeping folks' jewelry, passports, valuables. What you need to know.
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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November 9, 2025 at 4:53 AM
An FYI, If you are protesting, plan to photograph ICE or Border patrol officers while they are accosting, kidnapping someone, or any other activities, DO NOT have expensive or irreplaceable items ON YOUR PERSON. If you are detained or arrested, those items WILL DISAPPEAR. ICE is not to be trusted.
They are CHEAP BASTARDS. They think the government OWES them housing WHILE WHINING about people taking advantage of the system!
“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
"Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."
www.publicnotice.co
November 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
They are CHEAP BASTARDS. They think the government OWES them housing WHILE WHINING about people taking advantage of the system!
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I don’t think “The Simple-minded, Sociopathic Wheezing Orange Gargoyle Stadium” is a good name for a sports venue.
November 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I don’t think “The Simple-minded, Sociopathic Wheezing Orange Gargoyle Stadium” is a good name for a sports venue.
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Let the prosecutions begin . . .
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Let the prosecutions begin . . .
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Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.
November 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.
45/47's DEI HAPPENED FIRST. The hypocrisy of Trump’s reimagined NASA is on full display, in other words. His first administration actively sold the program as a way to specifically “land the first woman” on the Moon by 2024 in a 2020 press release, as NASA Watch points out.
White House Mocks NASA Commitment to Sending Women and Minorities to Moon... Which Was Made by the First Trump Administration
The White House mocked the space agency's since-abandoned commitment to sending the first woman and first person of color to the Moon.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
45/47's DEI HAPPENED FIRST. The hypocrisy of Trump’s reimagined NASA is on full display, in other words. His first administration actively sold the program as a way to specifically “land the first woman” on the Moon by 2024 in a 2020 press release, as NASA Watch points out.
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This is acting like a pure money laundering operation. They reported losing another $54 million last quarter. It has never made money. Investor money is just flying out the back door faster than in comes in to enrich a lot of shysters and grifters.
November 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This is acting like a pure money laundering operation. They reported losing another $54 million last quarter. It has never made money. Investor money is just flying out the back door faster than in comes in to enrich a lot of shysters and grifters.
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Senate Democrats have a common-sense compromise: Let’s extend the ACA enhanced tax credits at the current levels for a year, and start a bipartisan working group to find real, long-term solutions to our country’s health care crisis.
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Senate Democrats have a common-sense compromise: Let’s extend the ACA enhanced tax credits at the current levels for a year, and start a bipartisan working group to find real, long-term solutions to our country’s health care crisis.
The NONPARTISAN EMPLOYEES are not to be used to broadcast the REGIME'S political bias in their EMAILS or THEIR OUT OF OFFICE MESSAGES.
employees by sending politically charged emails through their work accounts that placed blame on Democrats for the government shutdown.
Memorandum & Opinion – #25 in AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-03553) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION regarding 24 Order granting Plaintiff's 9 Motion for Summary Judgment, denying Defendants' 15 Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment. See full Memorandum Opinion for details. Signe...
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November 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The NONPARTISAN EMPLOYEES are not to be used to broadcast the REGIME'S political bias in their EMAILS or THEIR OUT OF OFFICE MESSAGES.