N.S. Dolkart, fraternal thorn
@nsdolkart.bsky.social
Author of cool fantasy stuff. Hebrew school teacher. Dad. Program Chair for Readercon, the Boston-area literary conference for speculative fiction. Now a town meeting rep and local access TV host too. Not a security guard, but I played one in an opera.
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The Stoughton Writers Group: Fantasy Novels with Noah Beit-Aharon
YouTube video by Stoughton Media Access Corporation
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Oh! By the way! I got interviewed about my fantasy novels! youtu.be/knXgBkMhA2s
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every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
I hate this. I hate that we live in a world where the risk of actual civil war is high enough that the known risks of gun ownership are outweighed for so many people by the risks of gun non-ownership.
The image of gun ownership in America has been white, rural and Republican, but that's been changing as more liberals and minorities have been buying guns, especially after the 2024 election.
More liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns out of fear
The image of gun ownership in America has been white, rural and Republican, but that's been changing as more liberals and minorities have been buying guns, especially after the 2024 election.
n.pr
November 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I hate this. I hate that we live in a world where the risk of actual civil war is high enough that the known risks of gun ownership are outweighed for so many people by the risks of gun non-ownership.
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Child marriage is heinous, but one thing I never see brought up in those discussions is that if you are under 18, you cannot file for divorce. If you are under 18 and married to an adult, they are your legal guardian and make decisions for you. That is not a partnership.
Most Minors Who Are Married Can't File for Divorce — Even if They Want To
The final installment of Wedlocked, our series about child marriage in the U.S., explores divorce.
www.teenvogue.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Child marriage is heinous, but one thing I never see brought up in those discussions is that if you are under 18, you cannot file for divorce. If you are under 18 and married to an adult, they are your legal guardian and make decisions for you. That is not a partnership.
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This really needs to be stressed, as it seems obvious Trump is going to let them vote to release it and then pretend his hands are tied.
He’s had the power to release them all along, and still does. It’s just his excuses that are changing.
He’s had the power to release them all along, and still does. It’s just his excuses that are changing.
The second paragraph of every article about Trump freeing House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files should make it clear that he could order them released himself and chooses not to.
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This really needs to be stressed, as it seems obvious Trump is going to let them vote to release it and then pretend his hands are tied.
He’s had the power to release them all along, and still does. It’s just his excuses that are changing.
He’s had the power to release them all along, and still does. It’s just his excuses that are changing.
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Things like this will become increasingly common as billionaires increasingly treat low earth orbit like their personal playground and garbage dump
The only craft docked at Tiangong space station has been damaged and “does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”
A Collision with Space Debris Leaves 3 Chinese Astronauts Stranded in Orbit
The only craft docked at Tiangong space station has been damaged and “does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”
wrd.cm
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Things like this will become increasingly common as billionaires increasingly treat low earth orbit like their personal playground and garbage dump
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Thomson Reuters, has a Foundation, focuses on press freedom, funds research, runs a ‘Trust’ conference …and also uses a data brokerage business that helps ICE boost its surveillance capabilities
The Reuters company is also one of the nation’s largest data brokers and they’re yet another corporation exploiting America’s lack of data privacy laws to power ICE surveillance.
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Thomson Reuters, has a Foundation, focuses on press freedom, funds research, runs a ‘Trust’ conference …and also uses a data brokerage business that helps ICE boost its surveillance capabilities
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
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Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
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The response to this sort of thing cant be ‘do it somewhere else’ or ‘put it in Detroit.’ It has to be ‘No.’
www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
5 takeaways: OpenAI & Oracle’s data center sparks clash between rural life, AI ambitions
The $7 billion project will transform 250 acres of farmland and require energy equivalent to a nuclear power plant to fuel OpenAI and Oracle's ambitions.
www.mlive.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The response to this sort of thing cant be ‘do it somewhere else’ or ‘put it in Detroit.’ It has to be ‘No.’
www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
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Is it bad if a sitting federal judge was (allegedly) part of a conspiracy to commit murder? It seems bad ....
OMFG-ex DOJ official (& now federal judge) Emil Bove was involved in the administration's plots to murder individuals via lethal strikes
"At a DOJ conference ... Bove told drug prosecutors the ... administration wasn't interested in interdicting ... Instead... the U.S. should "just sink the boats."
"At a DOJ conference ... Bove told drug prosecutors the ... administration wasn't interested in interdicting ... Instead... the U.S. should "just sink the boats."
November 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Is it bad if a sitting federal judge was (allegedly) part of a conspiracy to commit murder? It seems bad ....
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the police are defunding you
NEW: Chicago must borrow $283.3M to cover the soaring cost of lawsuits alleging CPD officers committed a wide range of misconduct as part of the city’s 2026 budget, Mayor Brandon Johnson said, calling the move "prudent." @wttw.bsky.social
Chicago Set to Borrow $283.3M to Resolve Police Misconduct Lawsuits
It will likely cost Chicago taxpayers approximately $52 million in interest to borrow that money and pay off during the next five years, according to estimates provided to the Chicago City Council by ...
news.wttw.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
the police are defunding you
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Jamie Raskin endorsed Mamdani while others in Democratic leadership did not, and also its incredibly obvious from the context he's telling a joke. People need to fucking look things up
I've seen multiple people QT this with "The party that couldn't endorse Zohran is endorsing MTG" and you guys gotta pay attention to what the party is actually doing before you get mad. Most Democrats have been enthusiastic about Zohran.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Jamie Raskin endorsed Mamdani while others in Democratic leadership did not, and also its incredibly obvious from the context he's telling a joke. People need to fucking look things up
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I think it was the CEO of Anthropic on Tyler Cowen's show saying how good exactly such a teddy bear would be. It is not good.
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I think it was the CEO of Anthropic on Tyler Cowen's show saying how good exactly such a teddy bear would be. It is not good.
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again I note how it’s fundamentally impossible to imagine the media going out of their way to pre-exonerate Hillary Clinton like this
Kate Bolduan: "The president has not been accused of any crimes or wrongdoing as it relates to Jeffrey Epstein or these files even with these emails being released. That's one thing we need to make clear. There's no accusations of any wrongdoing so far."
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
again I note how it’s fundamentally impossible to imagine the media going out of their way to pre-exonerate Hillary Clinton like this
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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She violated basic first principles of journalism by sleeping with a subject who was running for president. Let's promote her book, and oh btw as talented ethical journalists are being laid off left and right, we bypassed them, and hired her instead.
Oh and did we say buy her book already?
Oh and did we say buy her book already?
Vanity Fair's West Coast Editor Olivia Nuzzi was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
She violated basic first principles of journalism by sleeping with a subject who was running for president. Let's promote her book, and oh btw as talented ethical journalists are being laid off left and right, we bypassed them, and hired her instead.
Oh and did we say buy her book already?
Oh and did we say buy her book already?
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Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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You know you’re in good shape when you have your people out there going “isn’t unemployment relaxing?”
* WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC ADVISER HASSETT: THERE COULD BE A LITTLE BIT OF ALMOST QUIET TIME IN THE LABOR MARKET
@reuters.com #QuietTime
@reuters.com #QuietTime
November 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
You know you’re in good shape when you have your people out there going “isn’t unemployment relaxing?”
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i expect at some point we are going to see stephen miller make some sort of defense of nick fuentes that tries to minimize his detestation of u.s. support for israel but legitimizes his detestation of liberal american jewry
Surely my man Stephen Miller, principled defender of the Jewish people, will take a bold stand against this
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
i expect at some point we are going to see stephen miller make some sort of defense of nick fuentes that tries to minimize his detestation of u.s. support for israel but legitimizes his detestation of liberal american jewry
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I'm just going to take the other numbers off the 'Days Without Pedocon Theory Being Confirmed' board. They're never going to be used.
Online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has been getting noticeably less attention and follow-up from authorities, per NYT, as the DHS is overwhelmingly used for Stephen Miller’s immigration crusade
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
November 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I'm just going to take the other numbers off the 'Days Without Pedocon Theory Being Confirmed' board. They're never going to be used.
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What Israel is doing is horrific, so it's really hard to talk about. But the way I/P is talked about in America has so much antisemitism and orientalism baked into it. Plus the usual thing that foreign conflicts are just rhetorical devices for domestic disputes.
November 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
What Israel is doing is horrific, so it's really hard to talk about. But the way I/P is talked about in America has so much antisemitism and orientalism baked into it. Plus the usual thing that foreign conflicts are just rhetorical devices for domestic disputes.
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The Don’t Be A Lecherous Creep Challenge is just not that fucking hard, and unlike your intrusive thoughts, it’s entirely within your control. You just…don’t.
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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You get the feeling there was a conversation that went like this:
Todd: What are we going to do about Emil? He keeps advocating breaking the law? If we don't stop him we might have to, you know, arrest him.
Pam: I know! Let's get Trump to make him a life-time appointed judge.
Todd: What are we going to do about Emil? He keeps advocating breaking the law? If we don't stop him we might have to, you know, arrest him.
Pam: I know! Let's get Trump to make him a life-time appointed judge.
No surprise that Mr. "We May Need to Tell the Courts 'Fuck You'" was also pushing the administration's campaign of extrajudicial killings.
www.npr.org/2025/11/17/g...
www.npr.org/2025/11/17/g...
Justice Department official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boats
NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.
www.npr.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
You get the feeling there was a conversation that went like this:
Todd: What are we going to do about Emil? He keeps advocating breaking the law? If we don't stop him we might have to, you know, arrest him.
Pam: I know! Let's get Trump to make him a life-time appointed judge.
Todd: What are we going to do about Emil? He keeps advocating breaking the law? If we don't stop him we might have to, you know, arrest him.
Pam: I know! Let's get Trump to make him a life-time appointed judge.