Cheryl
@pleasantprincess.bsky.social
I read, walk and cuddle tiny dogs, and am strangely in love with hot yoga. No DMs.
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November 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This pretty closely tracks national statistics, although the employers might differ state to state.
Work requirements for SNAP recipients are political nonsense anyway. Less than 45% of recipients are over 18 and under 60.
Basically, blame employers for not paying a living wage.
Work requirements for SNAP recipients are political nonsense anyway. Less than 45% of recipients are over 18 and under 60.
Basically, blame employers for not paying a living wage.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This pretty closely tracks national statistics, although the employers might differ state to state.
Work requirements for SNAP recipients are political nonsense anyway. Less than 45% of recipients are over 18 and under 60.
Basically, blame employers for not paying a living wage.
Work requirements for SNAP recipients are political nonsense anyway. Less than 45% of recipients are over 18 and under 60.
Basically, blame employers for not paying a living wage.
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Look, every single “deal” reached by a university with the Trump administration is a moral stain that will be seen with deep embarrassment once we’re through this. But for Northwestern to do this now, when the administration is visibly weakened, is even more shameful and inexcusable.
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Look, every single “deal” reached by a university with the Trump administration is a moral stain that will be seen with deep embarrassment once we’re through this. But for Northwestern to do this now, when the administration is visibly weakened, is even more shameful and inexcusable.
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This is one advantage of having the historical memory of authoritarianism, as I have from Brazil: you know that, when the regime is gone, the people who collaborated and acquiesced look terrible in retrospect. It may look reasonable and justifiable now, but believe me, it will age like milk.
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This is one advantage of having the historical memory of authoritarianism, as I have from Brazil: you know that, when the regime is gone, the people who collaborated and acquiesced look terrible in retrospect. It may look reasonable and justifiable now, but believe me, it will age like milk.
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Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
This is the second largest payout from a private university to the Trump admin yet, second only to Columbia’s $200m
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
Every time an American institution/law firm capitulates, it gives Trump life and further corrupts his rotting administration.
There are no terse excuses for moral cowardice, gullibility, and breach of fiduciary duty.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Every time an American institution/law firm capitulates, it gives Trump life and further corrupts his rotting administration.
This is my surprised face.
"Hacked materials from....the Heritage Foundation show that applicants to a Project 2025-branded effort to create a talent pool for the Trump administration cited the influence of Nazi political theorists and other far-right thinkers on their political views."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Leaked files show far-right influences among Project 2025 applicants
Applicants reportedly cited Nazi theorists and other extremists as inspiration for Trump administration roles
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
This is my surprised face.
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"Hacked materials from....the Heritage Foundation show that applicants to a Project 2025-branded effort to create a talent pool for the Trump administration cited the influence of Nazi political theorists and other far-right thinkers on their political views."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Leaked files show far-right influences among Project 2025 applicants
Applicants reportedly cited Nazi theorists and other extremists as inspiration for Trump administration roles
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
"Hacked materials from....the Heritage Foundation show that applicants to a Project 2025-branded effort to create a talent pool for the Trump administration cited the influence of Nazi political theorists and other far-right thinkers on their political views."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’m not saying anything particularly smart or new here: A press that runs on sensationalism is just a rolled out red carpet waiting for any fascist weirdo who prints money for “both sides” by saying and doing crazy things all day.
there's no way to explain our politics without the media being overwhelmingly complicit
Now only did White House pool reporters not stick up for their colleague who Trump repeatedly called “stupid” but you can hear them thanking Trump a few minutes later after he ended the Q&A. Sad stuff.
November 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I’m not saying anything particularly smart or new here: A press that runs on sensationalism is just a rolled out red carpet waiting for any fascist weirdo who prints money for “both sides” by saying and doing crazy things all day.
It's his fault. Why does he get to announce it too?
Sarah Beckstrom, one of the two National Guard members shot near the White House on Wednesday, has died, President Donald Trump announced.
Donald Trump Announces National Guard Member Sarah Beckstrom Dead After DC Shooting
Sarah Beckstrom, one of the two National Guard members shot near the White House on Wednesday, has died, President Donald Trump announced.
www.newsweek.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It's his fault. Why does he get to announce it too?
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his grandson was apparently in the audience and I will now crumble into dust
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
his grandson was apparently in the audience and I will now crumble into dust
Great idea. Along with an invitation to go do something else if they can't do their jobs as reporters
Can someone show the White House Press Corpse a montage of the reporters who covered previous administrations, the ones who weren't complete cowards?
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Great idea. Along with an invitation to go do something else if they can't do their jobs as reporters
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His favorite show is on. The National Dog Show. He waits all year for this.
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
His favorite show is on. The National Dog Show. He waits all year for this.
This hurts my brain. Using something that works is somehow wrong?
If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This hurts my brain. Using something that works is somehow wrong?
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Without using AI, somebody needs to make a big naturals turkey dinner picture for us all to send each other around here
November 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Without using AI, somebody needs to make a big naturals turkey dinner picture for us all to send each other around here
I'm hoping this is fake news. Sort of. The less charitable impulse is salty.
Sad news.
If you weren't invited to the Mar-A-Lago Thanksgiving dinner, this is what you're missing.
Yes, this actually is what they serve their guests.😬
If you weren't invited to the Mar-A-Lago Thanksgiving dinner, this is what you're missing.
Yes, this actually is what they serve their guests.😬
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm hoping this is fake news. Sort of. The less charitable impulse is salty.
TIL moment. Maybe you too would like to read about a writer who could say this in the 1990s, when other writers were promoting a very different and inaccutate view of Silicon Valley: "...these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“
Clearly prescient.
Clearly prescient.
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
TIL moment. Maybe you too would like to read about a writer who could say this in the 1990s, when other writers were promoting a very different and inaccutate view of Silicon Valley: "...these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“
Clearly prescient.
Clearly prescient.
Happy Thanksgiving.
What do you get when you mix the best selling single of the king of pop with the lately departed queen of MAGA?
This is what we get: a parody of Billie Jean about #mtg #maga #marjorietaylorgreene 🎶🕺
youtu.be/Xr0_HN9KNCs
This is what we get: a parody of Billie Jean about #mtg #maga #marjorietaylorgreene 🎶🕺
youtu.be/Xr0_HN9KNCs
"MTG Has Broken Cover" - Marsh Family parody of "Billie Jean" by MJ about Marjorie Taylor Greene
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Happy Thanksgiving.
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
If Vance and a Russian are saying it, that's a pretty reliable indicator that it's a lie.
There is never any daylight between the positions of Russia and JD Vance.
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
If Vance and a Russian are saying it, that's a pretty reliable indicator that it's a lie.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
My first thought, actually.
I'm wondering if Kegseth is hell-bent on going after Mark Kelly because he outranked him. Small men do that kind of thing.
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
My first thought, actually.
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I was like, why did I gain hundreds of followers, and then I saw this
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I was like, why did I gain hundreds of followers, and then I saw this