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Expertise, research, and knowledge. How refreshing.
profsaunders.bsky.social Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 2d
🧵Day 3 and we have a new meaning for "running Venezuela," courtesy of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, who is in charge of Venezuela as well as the National Archives. We're going to insist they do what's in the US national interest. Time for some principal-agent theory. 1/
From State Dept transcript of Rubio appearance on This Week w/ George Stephanopolous: SECRETARY RUBIO: Well, we’re not going to judge moving forward based simply on what’s said in press conferences. We want to see action here at the end of the day. Rhetoric is one thing. You see rhetoric for a lot of different reasons. There’s a lot of different reasons why people go on TV and say certain things in these countries, especially 15 hours or 12 hours after the person who used to be in charge of the regime is now in handcuffs and on his way to New York. So what I will say is, moving forward, it’s very simple. We’re not going to be reactive here to statements at press conferences or what people say in a certain interview or what some media post – some media post somewhere. What we are going to react to is very simple: What do you do? Not what you’re saying in public – what happens? What happens next? Do the drugs stop coming? Are the changes made? Is Iran expelled? Is Hizballah no longer able and Iran no longer able to operate against our interests from Venezuela? Does the migration pattern stop? Do the drug trafficking boats end? Do you deal with the ELN and the FARC, two narcoterrorist organizations who control territory and operate with impunity from the territory of Venezuela against the interests of Colombia and the United States? These are the things we want addressed. If they are addressed, that’s how we’ll judge it. If they’re not addressed, that’s how we’ll judge it. QUESTION: And what happens if they’re not addressed?
January 5, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?" Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸" Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City." Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
"America is an oil company with an army."

—George Carlin
January 4, 2026 at 7:21 PM
lineaus.bsky.social
“The full wrath of American justice.” What happened to this?
January 3, 2026 at 4:36 PM
lineaus.bsky.social
Me today.
January 3, 2026 at 3:36 AM
lineaus.bsky.social
Sorry, I just took a picture while watching the parade on tv. Wasn’t paying too much attention to the fancies (I’m a string band gal).
January 2, 2026 at 1:29 AM
lineaus.bsky.social
Happy New Year from Philly!
The Mummers Parade, the longest-running folk parade in the country.
January 1, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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artologica.net
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
lineaus.bsky.social
Immigrants are America. Value everyone who has come here and shared their food and culture and dreams and energy in our incredible melting pot of a country. Wishing you a new year that is happier than the current one. Fin.
January 1, 2026 at 1:44 AM
lineaus.bsky.social
She tweaked the recipe and now hers is the one we will use going forward. Like all American families, we are descendants of people from many countries—Wales, Syria, England, Italy, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Israel/Palestine. 3/4
January 1, 2026 at 1:44 AM
lineaus.bsky.social
My aunt, the daughter of Syrian immigrants, married into our Welsh-American family and took up the mantle of baking the cookies. As she got older, her lesbian daughter-in-law, who is Italian-American, baked with her to learn the technique (rolling out the dough, baking on a griddle). 2/4
January 1, 2026 at 1:44 AM
lineaus.bsky.social
This is a story about Welsh cookies with the not-very-original theme that we are all immigrants. My Great Aunt Bessie, the daughter of immigrants, made delicious Welsh cookies (or Welsh cakes, to some). 1/4
January 1, 2026 at 1:44 AM
lineaus.bsky.social
My HS gym teacher went to the prom with Michael Landon.
December 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
lineaus.bsky.social
I rode in an elevator the Jesse Jackson
December 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A morbidly inclined sheep, who likes to hang around in graveyards, detests parties and owns original pressings of the entire classic run of Leonard Cohen LPs from 1967-1974.
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
lineaus.bsky.social
Cymru am byth!
December 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
lineaus.bsky.social
This is a better link than the last one.
bcdreyer.social Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 11d
A cool thing about "The House I Live In" is that its lyrics were written by Abel Meeropol, best known for (a) writing the lyrics for the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit," recorded by Billie Holiday, and (b) adopting Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's orphaned sons.
The House I Live In
YouTube video by Library of Congress
www.youtube.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
lineaus.bsky.social
The “Seven Social Sins,” enumerated by Anglican priest Frederick Donaldson and promoted by Mahatma Gandhi:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Religion without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
December 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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The NYT asked me to write about Christmas in the Trump economy, but also assigned too many holiday columns so mine didn't make it in. But here it is! The Hallmark Christmas movie you didn't ask for: www.elizabethspiers.com/a-hallmark-c...
A Hallmark Christmas, Through the Dark Lens of the Trump Economy
A lump of coal from President Scrooge [The NYT assigned me a column about Christmas and affordability in the Trump economy but also assigned approximately four million other columns for the holidays ...
www.elizabethspiers.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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dicknixon.bsky.social
This may interest some of you.
wychstreet.bsky.social Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 14d
In London a time comes every day where the ghosts get their own back. It's often subtle but always undeniable, and it's strongest in autumn & winter.

If you're ever at loose ends on Christmas Eve, pay respects at St Michael's Cornhill. Because here, down the alley, was Scrooge's counting house.
1 The church, rather ugly Victorian gothic 2 Down the alley at the side, the Victorian lamp of the Jampot at left 3 Up the alley, with the Jampot lamp and door
December 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
lineaus.bsky.social
As did Mr Magoo’s Christmas Carol. (I’m not showing my age, am I?)
December 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
lineaus.bsky.social
On this Hanukkah, let us hope that light truly does triumph over darkness. 🙏
December 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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liftforever67.bsky.social
Get a heated toilet seat they said.
It's the best thing ever they said.

#FridayVibes 😼
#Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
December 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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dean.bsky.social
Listening to playback of Carole King's Tapestry:

James Taylor, engineer Hank Cicalo, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, producer Lou Adler
📷 Jim McCrary, 1971

The album won the 1972 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
youtube.com/watch?v=SyQ-...
Listening to playback, as the engineer adjusts levels
December 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM