Leona Caelestis
@leonacaelestis.bsky.social
Writer, radical witch, cat in human form
Gotta say, pretty much what I thought of after that Epstein email leak. Again, pretty sure his client list is not partisan or even just American.
If you think of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho as "America/neoliberalism personified", then the ending has a much grimmer interpretation than "he imagined it all": that he committed all these atrocities but the rest of world simply chose to turn a blind eye or covered it up for him. #booksky
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and looking at the camera .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and looking at the camera .
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November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Gotta say, pretty much what I thought of after that Epstein email leak. Again, pretty sure his client list is not partisan or even just American.
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Who in the UK government is in the files?
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
November 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Who in the UK government is in the files?
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The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
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New emails suggest Trump knew about conduct of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
New emails suggest Trump knew about conduct of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
In messages released by House Democrats, Epstein wrote Trump ‘spent hours at my house’ in the company of one of his sex-trafficked victims
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Damning new emails that suggest Donald Trump knew about the conduct of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released Wednesday, in which Epstein said “of course [Trump] knew about the girls” and which are likely to add pressure on the White House to release the so-called Epstein files.
In one of several messages released by Democrats on the House oversight committee and not publicly seen before, Epstein wrote to a contact in 2011 that Trump “spent hours at my house” in the company of one of the disgraced financier’s sex-trafficked victims. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New emails suggest Trump knew about conduct of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
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The decline of Swedish social democracy is an illuminating case study in why the Left is losing the working class. It also offers clues as to how the Left might win workers back.
How Sweden’s Social Democrats Abandoned the Working Class
The decline of Swedish social democracy is an illuminating case study in why the Left is losing the working class. It also offers clues as to how the Left might win workers back.
jacobin.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The decline of Swedish social democracy is an illuminating case study in why the Left is losing the working class. It also offers clues as to how the Left might win workers back.
Saw this Halloween fit in Shenzhen. I know we are already past the season but honestly? Fitting to our time. Depressingly fitting. Globally. Capitalism really fucks us all again and again.
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Saw this Halloween fit in Shenzhen. I know we are already past the season but honestly? Fitting to our time. Depressingly fitting. Globally. Capitalism really fucks us all again and again.
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be there or be square!
me:
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November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
be there or be square!
me:
me:
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
If you think of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho as "America/neoliberalism personified", then the ending has a much grimmer interpretation than "he imagined it all": that he committed all these atrocities but the rest of world simply chose to turn a blind eye or covered it up for him. #booksky
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and looking at the camera .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
If you think of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho as "America/neoliberalism personified", then the ending has a much grimmer interpretation than "he imagined it all": that he committed all these atrocities but the rest of world simply chose to turn a blind eye or covered it up for him. #booksky
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I’ve been writing an essay that includes a discussion of the obsession that Israeli settlers have with destroying olive trees. By coincidence I found a video from 3 days ago of them doing that again.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQwTJJH...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQwTJJH...
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I’ve been writing an essay that includes a discussion of the obsession that Israeli settlers have with destroying olive trees. By coincidence I found a video from 3 days ago of them doing that again.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQwTJJH...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQwTJJH...
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Community volunteers set out to track potential
ICE activity and alert residents to possible raids in Los Angeles.
The patrols reflect growing tensions between immigration enforcement and neighbourhoods determined to protect their own.
RON GOCHEZ
Leading member Unión del Barrio
ICE activity and alert residents to possible raids in Los Angeles.
The patrols reflect growing tensions between immigration enforcement and neighbourhoods determined to protect their own.
RON GOCHEZ
Leading member Unión del Barrio
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Community volunteers set out to track potential
ICE activity and alert residents to possible raids in Los Angeles.
The patrols reflect growing tensions between immigration enforcement and neighbourhoods determined to protect their own.
RON GOCHEZ
Leading member Unión del Barrio
ICE activity and alert residents to possible raids in Los Angeles.
The patrols reflect growing tensions between immigration enforcement and neighbourhoods determined to protect their own.
RON GOCHEZ
Leading member Unión del Barrio
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She operates on another level.
A phenomenal woman.
A phenomenal woman.
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
She operates on another level.
A phenomenal woman.
A phenomenal woman.
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Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
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@muhammadshehada.bsky.social chronicles the history of the decades-long siege on the people of Gaza.
The History of the Relentless, Decades-Long Siege on the People of Gaza
My first memory of Gaza is an airstrike. My second is an Israeli checkpoint. My third is of frequent demonstrations. And my fourth is of my overcrowded UNRWA school for Palestinian refugees. Gaza i…
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
@muhammadshehada.bsky.social chronicles the history of the decades-long siege on the people of Gaza.
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
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BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bbc-trump-row-gaza-genocide-whitewashing-israel-bias
BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal
The corporation stands at a crossroads. Down one path lies self-censorship and hollow apologies; down the other lies the public it was built to serve
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November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bbc-trump-row-gaza-genocide-whitewashing-israel-bias
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Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something
Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.
www.the-reframe.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
I'm surprised people still think it's a partisan issue AFTER EVERYTHING, as if Dems can't do it because they are not brave enough or have bad tactics. They serve the same belief system.
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
theonion.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I'm surprised people still think it's a partisan issue AFTER EVERYTHING, as if Dems can't do it because they are not brave enough or have bad tactics. They serve the same belief system.
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Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal.
Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.
Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.
One Day, Britain’s Monuments Will Fall
Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.
jacobin.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal.
Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.
Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.
A friend of mine studying PhD in a prestigious US university said they've lost four students this year, and 3 students plus 2 professors at another, majority of which said to be suicides. Very revealing of our times.
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A friend of mine studying PhD in a prestigious US university said they've lost four students this year, and 3 students plus 2 professors at another, majority of which said to be suicides. Very revealing of our times.
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'Genocide stopped only in media': Gaza endures daily bombings a month into truce - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/genocide-stopped-only-media-gaza-endures-daily-bombings-month-truce
'Genocide stopped only in media': Gaza endures daily bombings a month into truce
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>A month into the ceasefire in Gaza, almost nothing has changed for Manar Jendiya.</p>
<p>Originally from Gaza City, the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a> mother has remained displaced in Deir al-Balah since the truce took effect on 11 October, as most of her neighbourhood, Shujaiya, remains under <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a> control.</p>
<p>Two weeks into the agreement, Israeli forces heavily bombed the area where she was staying, forcing her to seek refuge elsewhere.</p>
<p>One of the attacks killed her sister.</p>
<p>“Her husband was killed earlier in the war, so she had been caring for her children alone,” Jendiya told Middle East Eye.</p>
<p>“When the attacks in Gaza City escalated and evacuation orders were issued repeatedly, she didn’t want to risk losing her children as well, so she sought refuge in a makeshift tent in central Gaza,” she added.</p>
<p>“She never imagined she would be killed here too, leaving her children without a mother or father.”</p>
<h3>Read more: <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/genocide-stopped-only-media-gaza-endures-daily-bombings-month-truce">Gaza endures daily bombings a month into truce</a></h3>
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November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
'Genocide stopped only in media': Gaza endures daily bombings a month into truce - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/genocide-stopped-only-media-gaza-endures-daily-bombings-month-truce