Cassandra
@impossiblebird.bsky.social
Everything is exhausting, but I’m still trying!
Librocubicularist GenXer who digs nature and fancies a fine fabric. Still covid conscious in New England. She/her
Watch ‘Our Flag Means Death’ 🏴☠️💖 if u haven’t
Librocubicularist GenXer who digs nature and fancies a fine fabric. Still covid conscious in New England. She/her
Watch ‘Our Flag Means Death’ 🏴☠️💖 if u haven’t
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this should be obvious but the reason Trump is working desperately against Epstein transparency is because he's guilty
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
this should be obvious but the reason Trump is working desperately against Epstein transparency is because he's guilty
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BREAKING: (Gift) New Epstein emails reveal that Epstein claimed he had kompromat on President Trump. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
New Epstein emails claim Trump ‘spent hours’ with victim
Democrats on the House Oversight say the emails provide evidence of a cover-up by the White House
www.miamiherald.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
BREAKING: (Gift) New Epstein emails reveal that Epstein claimed he had kompromat on President Trump. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean:
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean:
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
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These kinds of things happened two decades ago under the last Republican president. A lot of people made a lot of short term money. Then it all came crashing down and his successor had to clean up a huge mess. Here we go again.
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
These kinds of things happened two decades ago under the last Republican president. A lot of people made a lot of short term money. Then it all came crashing down and his successor had to clean up a huge mess. Here we go again.
Wtaf
Despite new EU transparency laws, researchers are still blocked from vital social media data, while corporations buy the same information freely, argues Brandon Silverman. The result: a two-tier system that shields platforms from scrutiny and weakens democratic oversight.
Why Commercial Tools Can Scrape Social Media But Researchers Can't | TechPolicy.Press
Brandon Silverman explains how researchers face barriers to social media data under the DSA, while corporations can buy full access.
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Wtaf
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The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.
Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."
October 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.
Oh
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Oh
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BERNIE ON THE *DEAL* with Centrist Dems: “That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
BERNIE ON THE *DEAL* with Centrist Dems: “That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.”
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New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
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And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
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He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
Are we winning yet?
Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves — The Wall Street Journal
Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of tariffs it has levied
apple.news
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Are we winning yet?
These damn billionaires could be investing in clean energy, gardens on roofs, and so much more to improve our lives
At least the robber barons gave us the Met, Carnegie Hall, etc
These diseased individuals who can’t seem to fill the hole in them instead spend their time/$$$ making our lives worse
At least the robber barons gave us the Met, Carnegie Hall, etc
These diseased individuals who can’t seem to fill the hole in them instead spend their time/$$$ making our lives worse
I imagine @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social will be getting the usual abuse for speaking out - solidarity with her and all those fighting against hate manipulated by the wealthy right gleefully creating a distracting wedge issue
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
These damn billionaires could be investing in clean energy, gardens on roofs, and so much more to improve our lives
At least the robber barons gave us the Met, Carnegie Hall, etc
These diseased individuals who can’t seem to fill the hole in them instead spend their time/$$$ making our lives worse
At least the robber barons gave us the Met, Carnegie Hall, etc
These diseased individuals who can’t seem to fill the hole in them instead spend their time/$$$ making our lives worse
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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This. @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @jbf1755.bsky.social do in a podcast what 20 years of Sunday morning shows have failed to do: discuss current events in an informed historic context and proposed actionable ways forward.
Well worth listening to.
And thank you, Professors.
Well worth listening to.
And thank you, Professors.
What the Heck Just Happened?
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This. @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @jbf1755.bsky.social do in a podcast what 20 years of Sunday morning shows have failed to do: discuss current events in an informed historic context and proposed actionable ways forward.
Well worth listening to.
And thank you, Professors.
Well worth listening to.
And thank you, Professors.
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Trumpers have established a secret police infrastructure in which growing fear and terror in targeted communities is the goal, not just a byproduct, of "enforcement" operations.
Read this factual local story about an ICE operation in Syracuse, N.Y. at centralcurrent.org
Local officials, citizens, and families of detainees are shut out of information and are left with little but mystery.
The government shutdown is used as an excuse.
centralcurrent.org/who-knows-wh...
Local officials, citizens, and families of detainees are shut out of information and are left with little but mystery.
The government shutdown is used as an excuse.
centralcurrent.org/who-knows-wh...
Who knows when ICE comes to town?
When a group of men were taken from a Syracuse city street, it took nearly two weeks to know who’d grabbed them.
centralcurrent.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Trumpers have established a secret police infrastructure in which growing fear and terror in targeted communities is the goal, not just a byproduct, of "enforcement" operations.
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As the public discusses Dick Cheney’s death last week, we encourage you to read Frida Berrigan’s 2003 investigation, explaining Halliburton's profits from war—and how Cheney’s “deferred compensation” blurred lines between public office and private gain.
Halliburton’s Axis of Influence
Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.
inthesetimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
As the public discusses Dick Cheney’s death last week, we encourage you to read Frida Berrigan’s 2003 investigation, explaining Halliburton's profits from war—and how Cheney’s “deferred compensation” blurred lines between public office and private gain.
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In the midst of all that we are facing, I want us to think about who we are being told to look to for understanding in this moment, who is being propped up as the voice of wisdom, and ask how right were they in predicting this, a year ago, 5, 8 years ago, and then ask why they are being centered now
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In the midst of all that we are facing, I want us to think about who we are being told to look to for understanding in this moment, who is being propped up as the voice of wisdom, and ask how right were they in predicting this, a year ago, 5, 8 years ago, and then ask why they are being centered now
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So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
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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 3:41 AM
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.
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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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But yeah so sorry you feel that the girlie pops are too woke at work, New York Times.
Please lmk in the comments what I missed. Like: my mental health in my teens & 20’s, the Rose Garden, etc
Please lmk in the comments what I missed. Like: my mental health in my teens & 20’s, the Rose Garden, etc
November 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
But yeah so sorry you feel that the girlie pops are too woke at work, New York Times.
Please lmk in the comments what I missed. Like: my mental health in my teens & 20’s, the Rose Garden, etc
Please lmk in the comments what I missed. Like: my mental health in my teens & 20’s, the Rose Garden, etc
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I had to look for myself to verify, but it does appear that Walmart has gone Nazi.
www.walmart.com/ip/Paper-Bea...
Not that anyone is surprised.
united4respect.org/reports/walm...
www.walmart.com/ip/Paper-Bea...
Not that anyone is surprised.
united4respect.org/reports/walm...
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I had to look for myself to verify, but it does appear that Walmart has gone Nazi.
www.walmart.com/ip/Paper-Bea...
Not that anyone is surprised.
united4respect.org/reports/walm...
www.walmart.com/ip/Paper-Bea...
Not that anyone is surprised.
united4respect.org/reports/walm...
War criminals running our government.
GÜIRIA, Venezuela (AP) — One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
War criminals running our government.
Is wearing a mask really all that hard?
I still do, and I get that it’s not ideal. But neither is getting sick or infecting the vulnerable.
Isn’t it worth that to save our babies and grandparents?
It doesn’t have to be all or nothing, every little bit counts. But certainly in crowded spaces.
I still do, and I get that it’s not ideal. But neither is getting sick or infecting the vulnerable.
Isn’t it worth that to save our babies and grandparents?
It doesn’t have to be all or nothing, every little bit counts. But certainly in crowded spaces.
Now do deaths.
It is shocking to me that despite learning that significantly less people (mostly our kids and grandparents) died in the US from the flu while we were all wearing masks, no one bothers to wear a mask.
It is shocking to me that despite learning that significantly less people (mostly our kids and grandparents) died in the US from the flu while we were all wearing masks, no one bothers to wear a mask.
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Is wearing a mask really all that hard?
I still do, and I get that it’s not ideal. But neither is getting sick or infecting the vulnerable.
Isn’t it worth that to save our babies and grandparents?
It doesn’t have to be all or nothing, every little bit counts. But certainly in crowded spaces.
I still do, and I get that it’s not ideal. But neither is getting sick or infecting the vulnerable.
Isn’t it worth that to save our babies and grandparents?
It doesn’t have to be all or nothing, every little bit counts. But certainly in crowded spaces.
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Jeffries: "These Republicans have tried to repeal the ACA more than 70 different times. They're not acting in good faith in dealing w/healthcare crisis they're visiting on the American people. This is the same group who just enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in history in their big ugly bill."
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Jeffries: "These Republicans have tried to repeal the ACA more than 70 different times. They're not acting in good faith in dealing w/healthcare crisis they're visiting on the American people. This is the same group who just enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in history in their big ugly bill."
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www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMtS3gD9/
Can someone, ANYONE, explain to me why the Dem
Machine is not ALL IN and completely behind this excellent candidate for TN-7 Cong?
Why aren’t we, as a team, doing everything possible to help her win?
Not only does she help ensure release of the Epstein files, she is
Can someone, ANYONE, explain to me why the Dem
Machine is not ALL IN and completely behind this excellent candidate for TN-7 Cong?
Why aren’t we, as a team, doing everything possible to help her win?
Not only does she help ensure release of the Epstein files, she is
TikTok video by Rep. Aftyn Behn
www.tiktok.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMtS3gD9/
Can someone, ANYONE, explain to me why the Dem
Machine is not ALL IN and completely behind this excellent candidate for TN-7 Cong?
Why aren’t we, as a team, doing everything possible to help her win?
Not only does she help ensure release of the Epstein files, she is
Can someone, ANYONE, explain to me why the Dem
Machine is not ALL IN and completely behind this excellent candidate for TN-7 Cong?
Why aren’t we, as a team, doing everything possible to help her win?
Not only does she help ensure release of the Epstein files, she is