Rebecca
@litster.bsky.social
Retired Archivist. Gardening these days. Lover of the best partner ever, two Kittehs, and our Democracy: = > ÷ 🇺🇦 klaatu barada nikto
So this is a volunteer corn plant that popped up in my garden bed. I'm fairly certain it's a bird drop, but I want to see it through to harvest just because. #plantfromseeds #growfoodnotlawns #bloomscrolling
August 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
So this is a volunteer corn plant that popped up in my garden bed. I'm fairly certain it's a bird drop, but I want to see it through to harvest just because. #plantfromseeds #growfoodnotlawns #bloomscrolling
It is a thing of beauty and I can't wait to taste it when it's ready. #growfromseed #growfruitandveg
July 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It is a thing of beauty and I can't wait to taste it when it's ready. #growfromseed #growfruitandveg
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Just wow! Can we appreciate the fact that a team from Mexico is in Texas helping with the search and rescue. 👏🏽
July 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Just wow! Can we appreciate the fact that a team from Mexico is in Texas helping with the search and rescue. 👏🏽
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This would be a good moment for Virginia Democrats to see if the Republican Party of Virginia is willing to condemn senseless violence in our streets, or only violence against white American-born Christians.
I kid! We know the answer. The exercise would be useless.
I kid! We know the answer. The exercise would be useless.
June 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This would be a good moment for Virginia Democrats to see if the Republican Party of Virginia is willing to condemn senseless violence in our streets, or only violence against white American-born Christians.
I kid! We know the answer. The exercise would be useless.
I kid! We know the answer. The exercise would be useless.
Just wow.
A Virginia guy hunted a Latino man, cornered him, questioned him, and then shot him and his friend, because he assumed the guy was an undocumented immigrant. He was radicalized by Fox News etc. and, of course, Trump. www.wric.com/news/local-n...
![“[Cornett] then described his anger at illegal immigration, telling the detective that he was ‘pissed’ about undocumented migrants receiving welfare funds, phones and health insurance, and that he had ‘driven around before with the same thought,'” court documents state. “[He] later asked the detective whether he could be ‘charged for [his] thoughts,’ and went on to explain that he fantasized about flying an Apache helicopter gunship to the border and firing on undocumented migrants traveling into the United States in order ‘to deter’ other undocumented migrants from attempting to cross the border.”
Cornett’s housemates also told detectives that he was “kind of obsessed” with cable news stories about undocumented immigrants entering the United States.
Notably, neither victim was identified as an undocumented immigrant within court documents.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7vmqlqtvqkkmuegzp7efeptu/bafkreigkmknd4ea23irjxqw2l6kdma7jloi73fzrnenhnq4fkqohzkijwa@jpeg)
June 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Just wow.
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We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.
June 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.
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160 years ago, the last known enslaved people learned of their emancipation.
Today is historic and should be celebrated, but we can’t forget about the fight against the systemic injustices continuing to affect Black Americans. 🧵
Today is historic and should be celebrated, but we can’t forget about the fight against the systemic injustices continuing to affect Black Americans. 🧵
June 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
160 years ago, the last known enslaved people learned of their emancipation.
Today is historic and should be celebrated, but we can’t forget about the fight against the systemic injustices continuing to affect Black Americans. 🧵
Today is historic and should be celebrated, but we can’t forget about the fight against the systemic injustices continuing to affect Black Americans. 🧵
Call your Senators to vote no:
Senate version prohibits judges from blocking the White House via a preliminary injunction and/or a restraining order unless: plaintiffs put down $$$ as a security bond.
theintercept.com/2025/06/17/s...
Senate version prohibits judges from blocking the White House via a preliminary injunction and/or a restraining order unless: plaintiffs put down $$$ as a security bond.
theintercept.com/2025/06/17/s...
Under GOP Budget Bill, You’d Have to Be Rich to Sue the Trump Administration
Courts couldn’t issue injunctions or restraining orders against the government unless plaintiffs pay for a security bond.
theintercept.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Call your Senators to vote no:
Senate version prohibits judges from blocking the White House via a preliminary injunction and/or a restraining order unless: plaintiffs put down $$$ as a security bond.
theintercept.com/2025/06/17/s...
Senate version prohibits judges from blocking the White House via a preliminary injunction and/or a restraining order unless: plaintiffs put down $$$ as a security bond.
theintercept.com/2025/06/17/s...
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Sophie and Colin Hortman, the children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, issued a statement, asking people to do an act of kindness to honor their parents’ memory. “Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear.”
minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/17/c...
minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/17/c...
Children of Melissa and Mark Hortman release statement on their deaths • Minnesota Reformer
Sophie and Colin Hortman, the children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, issued a statement Monday calling on people to honor their parents’ legacy by doing “something, whether big or sma...
minnesotareformer.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Sophie and Colin Hortman, the children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, issued a statement, asking people to do an act of kindness to honor their parents’ memory. “Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear.”
minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/17/c...
minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/17/c...
June 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.
We will hold this administration accountable.
We will hold this administration accountable.
June 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.
We will hold this administration accountable.
We will hold this administration accountable.
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NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL.
Thank you Senator Padilla for defending your constituents and showing exactly what Kristi Noem and this administration stand for.
Thank you Senator Padilla for defending your constituents and showing exactly what Kristi Noem and this administration stand for.
Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)
June 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL.
Thank you Senator Padilla for defending your constituents and showing exactly what Kristi Noem and this administration stand for.
Thank you Senator Padilla for defending your constituents and showing exactly what Kristi Noem and this administration stand for.
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This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.
June 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.
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This is a BFD. Rand Paul and Tom Massie have been calling out Miller's gulag numbers for several weeks; it got them both disinvited from the White House picnic.
And now Ron Johnson is joining in?
And now Ron Johnson is joining in?
June 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is a BFD. Rand Paul and Tom Massie have been calling out Miller's gulag numbers for several weeks; it got them both disinvited from the White House picnic.
And now Ron Johnson is joining in?
And now Ron Johnson is joining in?
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A bunch of retired senior military officers, including Michael Hayden, are seeking to submit an amicus opposing Trump's use of Marines and Guard to invade CA.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
June 12, 2025 at 6:59 AM
A bunch of retired senior military officers, including Michael Hayden, are seeking to submit an amicus opposing Trump's use of Marines and Guard to invade CA.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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🚨BREAKING: A senior official in DHS held a briefing for a far-right anti-voting group on Thursday, according to an email sent by the group. The virtual meeting was to discuss how a database run by the department can be used to verify the citizenship status of registered voters.
DHS Said to Brief Cleta Mitchell's Group on Citizenship Checks for Voting
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
🚨BREAKING: A senior official in DHS held a briefing for a far-right anti-voting group on Thursday, according to an email sent by the group. The virtual meeting was to discuss how a database run by the department can be used to verify the citizenship status of registered voters.
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We can't let this story die. This is seriously crazy.
June 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
We can't let this story die. This is seriously crazy.
She's right. And she's a fighter.
Crockett: I know that there’s been some conversations about what’s going on in LA and they want to say that it’s riots because they didn’t want people to keep talking about the Epstein files
June 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
She's right. And she's a fighter.
My word, I need something happy to look at for just a minute. Rusty is enjoying life for everyone at the moment. Rusty is also a killer, he's no pussycat. Be like Rusty. #weluvkittehs #cats #adoptastray
June 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
My word, I need something happy to look at for just a minute. Rusty is enjoying life for everyone at the moment. Rusty is also a killer, he's no pussycat. Be like Rusty. #weluvkittehs #cats #adoptastray
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Need a little good news? This is a small thing in light of all that is going on around us but as we are learning, when it comes to keeping the Republic, process can matter as much as substance. joycevance.substack.com/p/cameras-in...
Cameras in the Courts?
If you’ve been around Civil Discourse for more than a minute, you know I take issue with the federal courts’ failure to allow cameras in courtrooms, especially with new technology that’s available.
joycevance.substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Need a little good news? This is a small thing in light of all that is going on around us but as we are learning, when it comes to keeping the Republic, process can matter as much as substance. joycevance.substack.com/p/cameras-in...
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I joined Nicolle Wallace to discuss Trump's weaponization of the Justice Department to indict political opponents like Rep. LaMonica McIver, the military’s deployment in Los Angeles and the president’s weekend birthday parade.
I hope you watch, learn and share.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnZC...
I hope you watch, learn and share.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnZC...
Trump’s Threats to Arrest Democratic Officials is the Authoritarian Playbook
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
www.youtube.com
June 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I joined Nicolle Wallace to discuss Trump's weaponization of the Justice Department to indict political opponents like Rep. LaMonica McIver, the military’s deployment in Los Angeles and the president’s weekend birthday parade.
I hope you watch, learn and share.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnZC...
I hope you watch, learn and share.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnZC...
June 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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A unanimous Supreme Court rules that a family whose house was wrongly raided by law enforcement can sue.
Supreme Court says family can sue over wrong-house raid
A unanimous Supreme Court said a family whose house was wrongly raided by law enforcement can sue.
n.pr
June 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
A unanimous Supreme Court rules that a family whose house was wrongly raided by law enforcement can sue.
Really interesting read.
Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage
Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage
Time to stop giving cold storage the cold shoulder
Feature The future of archival data storage is tape, more tape, and then possibly glass-based tech, with DNA and other molecular tech still a distant prospect.…
dlvr.it
June 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Really interesting read.