Superhero Knitter Krysten Ritter
@knitindustrie.bsky.social
NO WAR. Enthusiastic—if middling—ice skater. Philosophy adjunct. he/him
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Vampires attack report (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) [Young Republicans]
YouTube video by mvdm Vict.
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Just watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), so let me spread some Halloween cheer:
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The destruction of the enterprise of US academic science has been one of the most confounding aspects of a hugely confounding year. My @statnews.com colleagues are writing about the consequences for individuals & the country.
You want to read this series.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
You want to read this series.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
American Science, Shattered
An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that
www.statnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The destruction of the enterprise of US academic science has been one of the most confounding aspects of a hugely confounding year. My @statnews.com colleagues are writing about the consequences for individuals & the country.
You want to read this series.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
You want to read this series.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
Computer: tell me what I would like to hear, call it the news!
The Washington Post is launching a personalized AI podcast, saying users will be able to "shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology."
December 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Computer: tell me what I would like to hear, call it the news!
“My I AM NOT ENRON shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt!!”
You've probably heard recently that NVIDIA is claiming it's not Enron - and it's right! But it's very strange that at the end of November it decided to tell short sellers, in detail, that it isn't Enron, WorldCom or Lucent, in a massive four-page note.
www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-...
www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-...
December 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“My I AM NOT ENRON shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt!!”
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To review:
Sincerely : formal
Best : neutral
All the best : positive
All the very best : can we be friends???
Regards : from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee
Sincerely : formal
Best : neutral
All the best : positive
All the very best : can we be friends???
Regards : from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
To review:
Sincerely : formal
Best : neutral
All the best : positive
All the very best : can we be friends???
Regards : from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee
Sincerely : formal
Best : neutral
All the best : positive
All the very best : can we be friends???
Regards : from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee
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JUST IN: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Snell just confirmed, at the prodding of U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling, that this motion for dismissal followed a "no bill" from a grand jury.
That means the grand jury refused to indict.
That means the grand jury refused to indict.
U.S. prosecutors in Chicago are dropping another case tied to Operation Midway Blitz, "without prejudice."
It's USA v. Nathan Griffin. Below is the motion, followed by excerpts from the complaint.
The feds don't say why they're dropping it, but they had until today to secure an indictment.
It's USA v. Nathan Griffin. Below is the motion, followed by excerpts from the complaint.
The feds don't say why they're dropping it, but they had until today to secure an indictment.
December 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
JUST IN: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Snell just confirmed, at the prodding of U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling, that this motion for dismissal followed a "no bill" from a grand jury.
That means the grand jury refused to indict.
That means the grand jury refused to indict.
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ILLINOIS: “residents can sue federal immigration agents if they believe their civil rights were violated after @GovPritzker enacted a new law… restricts immigration enforcement efforts outside of state courthouses and lets plaintiffs sue for damages.” www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
December 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
ILLINOIS: “residents can sue federal immigration agents if they believe their civil rights were violated after @GovPritzker enacted a new law… restricts immigration enforcement efforts outside of state courthouses and lets plaintiffs sue for damages.” www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
![Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit
December 9, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.
During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.
Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.
Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pwsjq3xnal6auzgeqho4ecw7/bafkreiafbjju65esvo6htynkkl6or6muv4qqhwo5fghkkbyvclgnxxmchy@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
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Josh Marshall is absolutely right about this as a matter of constitutional restoration BUT ALSO
You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.
You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.
“Supreme Court reform is now the sine qua non of any reformist program in the United States, any program to re-implant/re-secure civic democracy in the United States”
-- @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
-- @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything
I’ve become something of a broken record on this. But repetition sometimes...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Josh Marshall is absolutely right about this as a matter of constitutional restoration BUT ALSO
You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.
You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.
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New from Michael Miller and me at @thejop.bsky.social: Evidence that, in most areas that were affected by the decision, the Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act in 2013 (Shelby County v Holder) increased the racial turnout gap. A thread...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
December 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
New from Michael Miller and me at @thejop.bsky.social: Evidence that, in most areas that were affected by the decision, the Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act in 2013 (Shelby County v Holder) increased the racial turnout gap. A thread...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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She could not resign, as she did not hold the office at all.
Breaking News: Alina Habba resigned as U.S. attorney in New Jersey after a panel of federal judges ruled last week that she was serving in the position unlawfully.
Alina Habba, a Trump Loyalist, Resigns as New Jersey’s Top Prosecutor
Ms. Habba resigned on Monday, after a federal appeals court last week found she had been serving as U.S. attorney unlawfully.
nyti.ms
December 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
She could not resign, as she did not hold the office at all.
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Miller knows that public opinion may grind his initiatives to a halt soon, but that Dems are generally too ineffectual to truly roll anything back. So he wants someone who will go all the way, as fast as possible, before they're stopped.
That Miller reportedly wants Noem gone because she's not being aggressive enough really shows how high on their own supply these guys are. What they're doing is already historically unpopular, and they want to do it even harder.
i am skeptical trump would actually go through with this, even if miller wants it, but i am even *more* skeptical of the idea that youngkin would take the job.
December 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Miller knows that public opinion may grind his initiatives to a halt soon, but that Dems are generally too ineffectual to truly roll anything back. So he wants someone who will go all the way, as fast as possible, before they're stopped.
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"At which point we're going to blow them out of the fucking skies."
Melania Trump: "Santa's reindeer -- Rudolph, Dasher, Comet, all of them -- they're resting in the North Pole. They need to save all of their energy for their great flight around the world on Christmas Eve. Santa told me they're snuggling beneath warm, fluffy blankets."
December 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"At which point we're going to blow them out of the fucking skies."
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The GOP regime is evil in ways the United States has not seen for decades. Everyone associated with the GOP will carry the stench of bigotry for the rest of their lives. Maybe their cellmates will tolerate it, but free Americans should not.
Immigrants "plucked out" of U.S. citizenship line moments before oath ceremony boingboing.net/2025/12/08/i...
Immigrants "plucked out" of U.S. citizenship line moments before oath ceremony
Immigration officers pulled approved applicants from Boston citizenship ceremony based on country of origin lists.
boingboing.net
December 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The GOP regime is evil in ways the United States has not seen for decades. Everyone associated with the GOP will carry the stench of bigotry for the rest of their lives. Maybe their cellmates will tolerate it, but free Americans should not.
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The Roberts Court is a weapon forged against the Constitution as written and amended, especially but not exclusively the Reconstruction Amendments, and either the amendments are legitimate or the court is but they both can't be. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
Supreme Court Agrees to Review Trump Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The Roberts Court is a weapon forged against the Constitution as written and amended, especially but not exclusively the Reconstruction Amendments, and either the amendments are legitimate or the court is but they both can't be. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
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Trump just out here admitting in writing to selling pardons like it's nothing...America is so done. 😡😭
Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
December 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Trump just out here admitting in writing to selling pardons like it's nothing...America is so done. 😡😭
Growing up, my (Polish) grandmother used to make three types of xmas cookies. I have recipes for 2/3, but no one in my family actually knows what the third is called. They are kind of like Chrusciki/Faworki, but are more ornate, like a Mexican buñuelo—they looked like snowflakes. Any leads? #baking
December 8, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Growing up, my (Polish) grandmother used to make three types of xmas cookies. I have recipes for 2/3, but no one in my family actually knows what the third is called. They are kind of like Chrusciki/Faworki, but are more ornate, like a Mexican buñuelo—they looked like snowflakes. Any leads? #baking
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bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
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Given that Republicans have been saying for over a decade that they believe “politics is downstream from culture,” we should probably assume that the fascist cultural products the administration is putting out are authentic expressions of their politics.
December 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Given that Republicans have been saying for over a decade that they believe “politics is downstream from culture,” we should probably assume that the fascist cultural products the administration is putting out are authentic expressions of their politics.
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Again, if this is a legitimate reason to kill someone (it isn’t), then there was nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And we know that can’t be right, because the USMCJ cites the killing of shipwrecked people **as its prototypical example** of an unlawful order.
4/ Even worse on these officials account, it seems if the third view is correct, that was a reason to kill the survivors.
You read that right, and I am not exaggerating.⤵️
A shipwrecked person beckoning others to come rescue them is a basis for killing them.
You read that right, and I am not exaggerating.⤵️
A shipwrecked person beckoning others to come rescue them is a basis for killing them.
December 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Again, if this is a legitimate reason to kill someone (it isn’t), then there was nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And we know that can’t be right, because the USMCJ cites the killing of shipwrecked people **as its prototypical example** of an unlawful order.
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I received an "F" on my dental school paper for writing "the tooth fairy takes 'em while you sleep" and now I'm suing the school for religious discrimination
December 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I received an "F" on my dental school paper for writing "the tooth fairy takes 'em while you sleep" and now I'm suing the school for religious discrimination
I remember sitting shotgun in my dad’s car in early 2007 while the radio said “the housing market just keeps going up, up, up—will the bubble ever pop?”
Wall Street banks expect US stocks to post another year of double-digit gains in 2026, defying recent investor jitters over Big Tech companies’ huge spending plans and a potential bubble in the artificial intelligence sector on.ft.com/3MhLjcw
December 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I remember sitting shotgun in my dad’s car in early 2007 while the radio said “the housing market just keeps going up, up, up—will the bubble ever pop?”
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Democrats can retaliate against these GOP gerrymanders with new maps in Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, & Virginia.
They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana.
Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this
They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana.
Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this
December 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Democrats can retaliate against these GOP gerrymanders with new maps in Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, & Virginia.
They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana.
Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this
They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana.
Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this
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The Supreme Court majority has decided that they are the fact-finders, and the facts are what they want them to be, and quite frankly if District Courts disagree, they can pound sand because they're not the ones in charge.
They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.
They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.
December 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The Supreme Court majority has decided that they are the fact-finders, and the facts are what they want them to be, and quite frankly if District Courts disagree, they can pound sand because they're not the ones in charge.
They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.
They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.
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They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
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the economic success of the U.S. is significantly built on the land grant universities and in particular their excellent agricultural science tradition.
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
the economic success of the U.S. is significantly built on the land grant universities and in particular their excellent agricultural science tradition.