Azi Raphael
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Azi Raphael
@moonglaive90.bsky.social
Started out with art, then ran an anime convention, and somehow ended up studying astro/biophysics. 🤷‍♀️

Was moonglaive on Twitter.

💛🖤🤍💜 ~ 🖤🩶🤍💜
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You really have to be working overtime to write this post.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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The roadside 'flight diverters' cut monarch deaths by about 50 percent.
Texas' new 'butterfly nets' are saving monarchs from becoming roadkill
The roadside 'flight diverters' cut monarch deaths by about 50 percent.
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Since I'm having a difficult time reading things today to a second day of PEM:

"I find that there's nothing more terrifying than ignorance, for it is comforting like nothing else in this world, it cannot be cured by anything less than the will to fix it, and it can never be recovered once lost."
This is one of my favorite lines I've ever written. It really makes me feel like The Hayseed Knight is an important game, when my confidence wavers.

store.steampowered.com/app/1332990/...

#thehayseedknight
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Let's talk about the Canadian govt and "Indigenous-washing"

Rachel Gilmore has an excellent breakdown of how the Ksi Lisims LNG project actually benefits Texas-owned Western LNG

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TikTok - Make Your Day
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November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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In a court victory from the 2021 resistance to Line 3 pipeline construction in MN, a federal appeals court ruled that police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance.

unicornriot.ninja/2025/federal...
Federal Court Ruling Limits Police Qualified Immunity in Line 3 Excessive Force Case - UNICORN RIOT
Police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance, a federal appeals court ruled on Sept. 17.
unicornriot.ninja
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.

www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say
A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers...
www.wsaw.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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A two-year study released today finds gerrymandering in NC resulted in reduced access to healthcare services.

The authors say the findings could offer a new strategy to fight gerrymandering in court.

More: spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triangle-... #ncpol
Study finds N.C. gerrymandering results in less health care access
A new study released Thursday finds gerrymandering in North Carolina resulted in reduced access to health care services.
spectrumlocalnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Great Red Spot & Great Red Spot Jr.
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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US customers: contrary to what you might have heard, art and books from the UK are still TARIFF-FREE! Plus, all import duties are pre-paid by me, so you WON’T have to pay any extra!
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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A Washington state trial court has shot down local municipalities’ effort to keep ALPR data secret, making it clear that the public has a right to these records even when the government uses a third-party vendor to conduct surveillance and store personal data. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Washington Court Rules That Data Captured on Flock Safety Cameras Are
A Washington state trial court has shot down local municipalities’ effort to keep automated license plate reader (ALPR) data secret.The Skagit County Superior Court in Washington rejected the attempt
www.eff.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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According to a source, Jenna Norton, who led a letter criticizing Trump's decimation of the NIH (see below), has been placed on administrative leave. She's the first at NIH to be put on leave, joining EPA officials who criticized Trump policies.
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
NIH scientists publish letter criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research
The letter addresses the termination of 2,100 research grants valued at more than $12 billion and some of the human costs that have resulted, such as cutting off medication regimens to participants in...
www.pbs.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."

Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Chicago Public Media and the Sun-Times have filed a motion to intervene in order to get access to the walk-through video of the ICE facility yesterday:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
Intervene – #70 in Moreno Gonzalez v. Noem, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (N.D. Ill., 1:25-cv-13323) – CourtListener.com
MOTION by Intervenor Parties Chicago Sun-Times Media, Inc., Chicago Public Media, Inc. to intervene CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA, INC.S, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES MEDIA, INC.S, EMERGENCY MOTION TO INTERVENE FOR THE L...
www.courtlistener.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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They’re not enforcing the laws; they’re the ones breaking them
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:

ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings

“Big tech has made their choice”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Capitol Hill continues to have a strong anti-Trump sign game. Spotted this one on a short walk today.
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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So, you holdouts ready to bail yet?
#noai
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users

(via THR)
November 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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a “Space Force”, if you will
we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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"Our transgender, intersex, and nonbinary beloveds offer a singular gift. They invite us to witness our broken world through the knowledge that, when we lead in truth and love, nothing is beyond transformation."
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The US put a lot of time and money into stratifying society, splintering the general public into isolated groups* and then tried intentionally to propagandize everyone with individualism so that we wouldn't recognize social/collective crimes and then hold authorities responsible for their actions.
along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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People who make primary source documents easily accessible to the public are the best

Thank you @paulgp.com
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM