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Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?
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Library mensch. Warning: pre-coffee posts will be cliché-ridden. Folklore is more fun when you are not living it.  Opinions, when offered, are mine. The lies are what will destroy us. THERE IS NO PLANET B. @ratgrrl on @mstdn.social
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dennycarter.bsky.social
Jamelle was cooking.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform. If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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getwired.com
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
ratgrrl.bsky.social
It's great when people in positions of high standing use their entire work email signature when writing to their pedophile buddy for advice on dealing with sex crime charges.
dangaristo.bsky.social Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 1d
In Feb. 2018 following the first Buzzfeed article, Krauss emailed Epstein.

Krauss: "I wonder if I will ever really recover.. I wish they would indict Trump or something right now.."

Epstein, providing more advice: "break the charges into ludicrous. ogling. jokes. . etc. ."
Epstein email to Krauss, Krauss discussing stepping down
November 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
ratgrrl.bsky.social
The future is cooked
thehackernews.com/2025/11/chin...
Chinese Hackers Use Anthropic's AI to Launch Automated Cyber Espionage Campaign
Chinese state hackers used Anthropic’s Claude AI to automate 30 global cyberattacks in 2025.
thehackernews.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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woollyhare.bsky.social
A little trio of my needle felt animals, Albert the dog, Ginger the Fox and Marzipan the Elephant, all off on a big adventure to one of my collectors in East Asia. I’m very happy that they are staying together, as friends. #needlefelting
Three little woollen needle felted animals, styled simply like little toys, are placed on a wooden shelf with a rough plaster wall background. On the left, is a jolly looking yellow elephant, who had knobbly knees and slightly bent legs, as if he is dancing. He wears a little crown and onemof nis knees has a tiny darn stitched onto it. On the right, facing the elephant, is a lively fox, with a big tail and his head pointing into the air, as if sniffing. Behind them is an old musical box, on which stands a small dog, quite stout and brave looking, like a pug, wearing a big red collar which has a tiny gold heart dangling from it.
November 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
ratgrrl.bsky.social
Looks like Sarah Kendzior's @sarahkendzior.bsky.social account is back
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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glengrambo.bsky.social
The Aurora was out last night, and while it wasn’t as intense as the previous night, it still had its moments!
#Aurora
The Aurora Borealis puts on a light show straight overhead. The reds, magentas, blues and greens are shooting out in a starburst pattern
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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robertmackey.bsky.social
It's easy to get inured to the crazy, but this is Trump referring to the main exterior window of the East Room, a part of the White House that has been there since 1800, as "a knock-out panel," a construction term for a temporary part of a wall designed to be easily demolished to allow for expansion
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump: "Right behind me by the way, in about 2 years from now, is a much bigger room. This will be the entrance. That's a knockout panel. It looks pretty nice right now but it'll look a lot better in a little while... The future entrance to something that's really become very popular, the ballroom."
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
ratgrrl.bsky.social
I have this book and it's even more beautiful in person!
bernoid.bsky.social Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 1d
My nature journal Secrets of a Devon Wood is available to buy in @Waterstones if you're on the hunt for a gift for a nature lover. There's some signed copies in the Newton Abbot branch.
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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spacenewsinc.bsky.social
New Glenn launches NASA’s ESCAPADE Mars mission, lands booster

Blue Origin successfully launched a NASA Mars mission on the second flight of its New Glenn booster Nov. 13, landing the vehicle’s first stage in the process.
New Glenn launches NASA’s ESCAPADE Mars mission, lands booster
Blue Origin successfully launched a NASA Mars mission on the second flight of its New Glenn booster Nov. 13, landing the vehicle’s first stage in the process.
spacenews.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
New York Times front pages

L: Epstein emails re Trump

R: Hillary Clinton emails
NYT front page with a large four column width central photo of wildfires and a single column width story and header on the right titled “EPSTEIN'S EMAILS SUGGESTED TRUMP KNEW OF CONDUCT WHITE HOUSE DENIES IT” NYT front page with a large, four column width photo of Hillary Clinton spanning and a two column with headline and story at the top “NEW EMAILS JOLT CLINTON CAMPAIGN IN RACE'S LAST DAYS F.B.I. Looks at Messages Found During Inquiry Into Weiner's Texts”
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
Really enjoyed working on a few mech illustrations for this…
warhammerweekly.bsky.social Vincent Venturella @warhammerweekly.bsky.social · 1d
TOMORROW! - Our newest issue of SNARL drops. In the newest issue, we have a complete 1-1 mech fighting game called Chrome Rangers! If you love the idea of an anime-inspired game and fighting with your big stompy robots, this is the game for you!
November 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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cpsc.gov
We didn't get to wish anyone a Happy Halloween this year, but there's no time to fall off a ladder like the present when you are taking down your Halloween decorations.
A house on a hilltop backlit by spooky red light. It is shining through the windows. A single ladder stands menacingly in front of the house. The scene looks like a horror movie poster. The text reads: Fall into fall. Night of the unsecured ladder. Always place your ladder on a firm, flat surface. Make sure you have a spotter to help prevent falls.
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
ratgrrl.bsky.social
It's good to have a rule about avoiding people with psychotic punctuation tendencies.
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
We’re going to need a bigger little treat
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
"Wilson, though, took note of a citywide vote in favor of new taxes on high-paying companies for publicly funded and owned housing and saw an opening. She declared her run for mayor shortly after."

Good to be running this/any experiment to get more housing.
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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mommunism.bsky.social
Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
I was suspended from BlueSky for defending the honor of Johnny Cash. I wish I were joking. In early October, I referenced the "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die" lyric of "Folsom Prison Blues" in response to a terrible Wall Street Journal article saying that Johnny Cash was uncool. I quote-tweeted the article and everyone understood the reference. There was no outcry. I stand by my assessment that Johnny Cash is cool. I do not like being the subject of so much attention, especially when I cannot see the discussion. But the BlueSky admins are now claiming that I wrote a post saying, out of nowhere, "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die". They are not posting a screenshot of the actual tweet, which shows that I am quote-tweeting an article about Johnny Cash, and that my post is obviously not a threat but a play on "Folsom Prison Blues." BlueSky is lying and saying I posted this line on November 10. I did not. I posted it in early October, when the WS) article came out. You can see that they are lying about the date from this page showing my last BlueSky tweets: I was not given any explanation for my suspension the first two times l inquired. Later I was told it was for the "Folsom Prison Blues" reference, and I asked for clarification but did not receive it. I thought it might be a prank until a reporter reached out this morning and confirmed it. BlueSky's behavior is bizarre and unwarranted. I have lost access to friends and all my posts and photos. I am incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support here on Substack and also on BlueSky - though I cannot see it, because I am suspended. To quote another Johnny Cash song: "I ain't never done nothin' to nobody/ I ain't never got nothin from nobody, no time/ And until I get somethin' from somebody, sometime, I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time." As for BlueSky...
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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bcfinucane.bsky.social
Oh, I see a law professor who suggested that the US maritime strikes are somehow legal also gets a mention in today’s Epstein disclosures.
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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whitehouse.senate.gov
All of the times I’ve wondered what Putin had on Trump, and now we find out Jeffrey Epstein was talking to Putin’s ambassador about Trump.
Jeffrey Epstein claimed he gave Russians insight into Trump
Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions.
www.politico.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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darthbluesky.bsky.social
starting to think the trump administration is a little bit reluctant to have the epstein files released

it is just a feeling i am getting
helenkennedy.bsky.social Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d
My god (sorry I’m late on a bunch of this stuff. But wow!)

According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.
From the New York Times story on the pressure campaign to get Republicans to reverse their epstein vote Top officials met in the White House Situation Room on Wednesday with Representative Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican who is backing an effort to force a House vote on whether to demand the release of the files. She was summoned to sit down with top Justice Department and F.B.I. officials, according to two people familiar with the matter. One of the people said the session included Attorney General Pam Bondi and F.B.I. Director Kash Patel. Both people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment on the private discussions.
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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weirdmedieval.bsky.social
hey gang
November 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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destrolisher.bsky.social
You've heard of the Oxford Comma, now get ready for the Evil Comma
November 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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atypicaltiff.bsky.social
The #mantis path to self-actualization:

Sever on instinct
the head from your bad lover
then origami unfold
steel-like layers, serrated edges,
into sentient grass.
Spend the sunny hours praying.
Be at peace
with the consummation of your rage,
a knife in heaven.

#whistpr
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM