Puck the Fairy
@puckfairy.bsky.social
words are my playthings
hard to miss with velcro, one of the most useful inventions of the last century ... makes such a sexy sound on release
hard to miss with velcro, one of the most useful inventions of the last century ... makes such a sexy sound on release
The grift never ends
NEW from PP:
You know how Krista Noem has been bottlenecking disaster relief?
Turns out, you can get them greenlit —if you‘re a Noem donor!
After donor asked, Noem quickly cleared project.
Then she flew to town and dined at French bistro with the donor.
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
You know how Krista Noem has been bottlenecking disaster relief?
Turns out, you can get them greenlit —if you‘re a Noem donor!
After donor asked, Noem quickly cleared project.
Then she flew to town and dined at French bistro with the donor.
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened
The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noe...
www.propublica.org
September 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The grift never ends
Line from one of my drafts, poem not completed, maybe within the decade?
"The veiled moon shone and night-birds sang their pity"
View of sunlight and shadow, photo by @mitch-cullin.bsky.social (title unknown)
"The veiled moon shone and night-birds sang their pity"
View of sunlight and shadow, photo by @mitch-cullin.bsky.social (title unknown)
August 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Line from one of my drafts, poem not completed, maybe within the decade?
"The veiled moon shone and night-birds sang their pity"
View of sunlight and shadow, photo by @mitch-cullin.bsky.social (title unknown)
"The veiled moon shone and night-birds sang their pity"
View of sunlight and shadow, photo by @mitch-cullin.bsky.social (title unknown)
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Sign the petition at ChuckChuckSchumer.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Sign the petition at ChuckChuckSchumer.com
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This is a mission everyone should be able to get behind. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families. No effort must be spared to bring them home:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/
March 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
This is a mission everyone should be able to get behind. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families. No effort must be spared to bring them home:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/
Genius, utter genius
Have y'all seen this?
Have y’all seen this?
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
youtube.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Genius, utter genius
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NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership
This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny
This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny
No More Female 4-Stars: Franchetti Firing Leaves Top Ranks Filled by Men
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's first female chief, last week without any clear explanation -- part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint...
www.military.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership
This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny
This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny
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🚨 BREAKING: OMG! JD Vance ended up fleeing to an undisclosed location after being met by hundreds of furious protesters in Vermont on Saturday, according to Fox News. What a snowflake!
The backlash is real.
The backlash is real.
March 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🚨 BREAKING: OMG! JD Vance ended up fleeing to an undisclosed location after being met by hundreds of furious protesters in Vermont on Saturday, according to Fox News. What a snowflake!
The backlash is real.
The backlash is real.
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If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public.
If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.
If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.
DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion
The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines…
propub.li
March 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public.
If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.
If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.
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Spy produced a major 1991 exposé titled "How Donald Trump Fooled the Media, Used the Media to Fool the Banks, Used the Banks to Fool the Bondholders, and Used the Bondholders to Pay For the Yachts and Mansions and Mistresses" in which we learn Chase and Citibank admitted they never audited Trump 5/x
November 4, 2024 at 3:43 AM
Spy produced a major 1991 exposé titled "How Donald Trump Fooled the Media, Used the Media to Fool the Banks, Used the Banks to Fool the Bondholders, and Used the Bondholders to Pay For the Yachts and Mansions and Mistresses" in which we learn Chase and Citibank admitted they never audited Trump 5/x
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THIS is why Elon Musk and his DOGE cabal should be hauled before Congress to answer questions:
www.wired.com/story/treasu...
www.wired.com/story/treasu...
The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist.
www.wired.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
THIS is why Elon Musk and his DOGE cabal should be hauled before Congress to answer questions:
www.wired.com/story/treasu...
www.wired.com/story/treasu...
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SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
wrd.cm
February 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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Hey @washingtonpost.com you say your new Kash Patel story has "not previously been reported."
Wrong, we at @motherjones.com scooped you and had this out earlier today.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Feel free to correct.
Wrong, we at @motherjones.com scooped you and had this out earlier today.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Feel free to correct.
February 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Hey @washingtonpost.com you say your new Kash Patel story has "not previously been reported."
Wrong, we at @motherjones.com scooped you and had this out earlier today.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Feel free to correct.
Wrong, we at @motherjones.com scooped you and had this out earlier today.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Feel free to correct.
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www.npr.org/2025/01/04/n...
What billionaire snowflakes look like ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
What billionaire snowflakes look like ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed
Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
www.npr.org
January 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
www.npr.org/2025/01/04/n...
What billionaire snowflakes look like ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
What billionaire snowflakes look like ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
Ralph Fiennes monologues viral ‘demure’ video
YouTube video by CNN
youtu.be
January 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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These three analyses by @noahshachtman.bsky.social, Alice Marwick and @joshtpm.bsky.social are really terrific. Also note what digital strategist Rob Flaherty said about the Harris campaign media strategy versus Trump's: www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Kamala Harris’ digital chief on Democrats ‘losing hold of culture’ | Semafor
Deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty discusses Harris’ 2024 media strategy.
www.semafor.com
December 16, 2024 at 10:52 PM
These three analyses by @noahshachtman.bsky.social, Alice Marwick and @joshtpm.bsky.social are really terrific. Also note what digital strategist Rob Flaherty said about the Harris campaign media strategy versus Trump's: www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Powerful, and heartbreaking, multimedia reporting on the consequences of the shrinking Aral Sea
apps.npr.org/aral-sea-shr...
apps.npr.org/aral-sea-shr...
Central Asia’s Ticking Time Bomb: Water
The Aral Sea has nearly disappeared over the last 60 years. Now, its source rivers are depleting.
apps.npr.org
December 8, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Powerful, and heartbreaking, multimedia reporting on the consequences of the shrinking Aral Sea
apps.npr.org/aral-sea-shr...
apps.npr.org/aral-sea-shr...
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Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.
December 4, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.
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Elon Musk got rid of timestamps on the latest update of X bc he doesn’t want people to know when he’s in a K hole at 3:30a replying “lol” to shitpost memes
December 4, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Elon Musk got rid of timestamps on the latest update of X bc he doesn’t want people to know when he’s in a K hole at 3:30a replying “lol” to shitpost memes
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PSA: If the guy you want to be our next SECRETARY OF DEFENSE needs his mommy to go on tv to say he’s a good boy, he sure as shit shouldn’t be anywhere the fuck near the job of overseeing our armed forces.
Like are you even fucking kidding with this shit? Do you hear yourselves?
Like are you even fucking kidding with this shit? Do you hear yourselves?
December 4, 2024 at 7:28 PM
PSA: If the guy you want to be our next SECRETARY OF DEFENSE needs his mommy to go on tv to say he’s a good boy, he sure as shit shouldn’t be anywhere the fuck near the job of overseeing our armed forces.
Like are you even fucking kidding with this shit? Do you hear yourselves?
Like are you even fucking kidding with this shit? Do you hear yourselves?
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QUESTION: Hannity says Joe Biden lied when he said he would never pardon Hunter. But Hannity is divorced. So when he vowed to stay with his wife until death did them part, was he lying, or did circumstances change?
December 3, 2024 at 4:05 AM
QUESTION: Hannity says Joe Biden lied when he said he would never pardon Hunter. But Hannity is divorced. So when he vowed to stay with his wife until death did them part, was he lying, or did circumstances change?
Celestial sights in December, above the cacophony below
www.forbes.com/sites/jamiec...
www.forbes.com/sites/jamiec...
See The ‘Christmas Star,’ Northern Lights And A ‘Cold Moon’: December’s Night Sky
December's night sky offers Venus and a crescent moon shining together as the planet emerge after sunset and a “Cold Beaver Moon” rises.
www.forbes.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Celestial sights in December, above the cacophony below
www.forbes.com/sites/jamiec...
www.forbes.com/sites/jamiec...
🙄🙄🙄
December 3, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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