Jude
@saintjude.bsky.social
I love nature and art. Dark-eyed juncos and McKay's buntings. Native plants, mushing, reading, writing, watercolor, glitter, and art messes. Justice.
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Republicans fought release of Epstein materials every step of the way, are now refusing to release the second strike boat video, and won’t let Jack Smith testify in public. They constantly hide everything they are doing from the American people.
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Republicans fought release of Epstein materials every step of the way, are now refusing to release the second strike boat video, and won’t let Jack Smith testify in public. They constantly hide everything they are doing from the American people.
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Massive AI data centers are driving up electricity rates across the country.
But communities are pushing back—including Lewiston, whose city council just unanimously rejected a $300 million facility.
One councilor said the proposal yielded “by far” the most constituent feedback he’s ever received.
But communities are pushing back—including Lewiston, whose city council just unanimously rejected a $300 million facility.
One councilor said the proposal yielded “by far” the most constituent feedback he’s ever received.
Lewiston votes down AI data center after public outcry
One councilor said the data center proposal for Bates Mill No. 3 yielded 'by far' the most public feedback he's received on a single issue.
www.pressherald.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Massive AI data centers are driving up electricity rates across the country.
But communities are pushing back—including Lewiston, whose city council just unanimously rejected a $300 million facility.
One councilor said the proposal yielded “by far” the most constituent feedback he’s ever received.
But communities are pushing back—including Lewiston, whose city council just unanimously rejected a $300 million facility.
One councilor said the proposal yielded “by far” the most constituent feedback he’s ever received.
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FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The science behind gender-affirming care has been endorsed by every major medical organization. This isn't about science or medicine. It's about the discomfort many non-trans people feel over the *existence* of trans people.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday. n.pr/44xQKdD
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz to announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
n.pr
December 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The science behind gender-affirming care has been endorsed by every major medical organization. This isn't about science or medicine. It's about the discomfort many non-trans people feel over the *existence* of trans people.
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"3.5% rule" "60% of nonviolent protests succeed"
You may have heard these cited as fact. But they stem from a single dubious source.
In the first in a series @thefreeradical.org debunks these, showing how they're propaganda to erase the power of militant, riotous revolt and peddle passive protest:
You may have heard these cited as fact. But they stem from a single dubious source.
In the first in a series @thefreeradical.org debunks these, showing how they're propaganda to erase the power of militant, riotous revolt and peddle passive protest:
Liberation is a Riot, Part 1: Debunking the Sanitized Nonviolence Myth
Based on shoddy research, bad history and outright lies, status quo propaganda portrays a sanitized version of ‘nonviolent’ protest as the only option, to damaging effect. It’s time to debunk it, and ...
transnews.network
December 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"3.5% rule" "60% of nonviolent protests succeed"
You may have heard these cited as fact. But they stem from a single dubious source.
In the first in a series @thefreeradical.org debunks these, showing how they're propaganda to erase the power of militant, riotous revolt and peddle passive protest:
You may have heard these cited as fact. But they stem from a single dubious source.
In the first in a series @thefreeradical.org debunks these, showing how they're propaganda to erase the power of militant, riotous revolt and peddle passive protest:
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Separately, Trump has diverted military housing funds for his campaign to terrorize immigrants. He's not looking out for the troops. He's trying to con them.
$2B in Pentagon funds diverted to immigration operations, congressional Democrats say
Democrats review finds that $2 Billion in Pentagon Funds has been diverted to fund military operations on border and other immigration operations.
abcnews.go.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Separately, Trump has diverted military housing funds for his campaign to terrorize immigrants. He's not looking out for the troops. He's trying to con them.
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‘Just one example of how quickly AI is changing our lives’
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
‘Just one example of how quickly AI is changing our lives’
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"Crockett’s detractors have to be more honest about their misgivings. Because while there are reasons to prefer Talarico, the only reasons to be fatalistic about her candidacy lie in racial and gendered assumptions," writes @brianbeutler.bsky.social. www.offmessage.net/p/the-unspok...
The Unspoken Assumptions Driving The Jasmine Crockett Freakout
Inside the mailbag: Gavin Newsom ... James Talarico ... Hotel gyms
www.offmessage.net
December 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"Crockett’s detractors have to be more honest about their misgivings. Because while there are reasons to prefer Talarico, the only reasons to be fatalistic about her candidacy lie in racial and gendered assumptions," writes @brianbeutler.bsky.social. www.offmessage.net/p/the-unspok...
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"30 years after the development of the public internet, journalism is still offering a largely 20th-century product insufficient and ill-suited to the 21st century."
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
December 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"30 years after the development of the public internet, journalism is still offering a largely 20th-century product insufficient and ill-suited to the 21st century."
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
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The first question at every White House press conference should be “is the president still alive?”
December 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The first question at every White House press conference should be “is the president still alive?”
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This is the equivalent of your boss throwing you a pizza party and telling you it came out of your bonus money
WaPo reports they're raiding housing funds for the $1,776 bonus. cc @mikeblack114.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is the equivalent of your boss throwing you a pizza party and telling you it came out of your bonus money
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Millions of Americans don’t care if Trump raises their grocery prices, cancels TV shows and gives their grandkids measles as long as he makes them feel they’re better than everyone else because they’re white and heterosexual.
December 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Millions of Americans don’t care if Trump raises their grocery prices, cancels TV shows and gives their grandkids measles as long as he makes them feel they’re better than everyone else because they’re white and heterosexual.
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“Nothing more than his pants were unzipped”
WILSON COUNTY school board member Donnie Self (R) denies ordering chicken with his genitals out- on video. Victim said it’s not the 1st time, but his lawyer says his pants were just unzipped. He won’t resign. www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...
WILSON COUNTY school board member Donnie Self (R) denies ordering chicken with his genitals out- on video. Victim said it’s not the 1st time, but his lawyer says his pants were just unzipped. He won’t resign. www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...
December 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“Nothing more than his pants were unzipped”
WILSON COUNTY school board member Donnie Self (R) denies ordering chicken with his genitals out- on video. Victim said it’s not the 1st time, but his lawyer says his pants were just unzipped. He won’t resign. www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...
WILSON COUNTY school board member Donnie Self (R) denies ordering chicken with his genitals out- on video. Victim said it’s not the 1st time, but his lawyer says his pants were just unzipped. He won’t resign. www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...
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Always apt: “The former official said he doesn't think Trump is playing 'the sort of three-dimensional chess people ascribe to decisions like this. More often than not he's just eating the pieces.'"
All due respect to everyone, but you all are overthinking it with all the "Actually this was supposed to be about Venezuela" speculation. He did a rambling speech because this is what he thinks is genius comms and what they think will help them on the numbers, that's it.
December 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Always apt: “The former official said he doesn't think Trump is playing 'the sort of three-dimensional chess people ascribe to decisions like this. More often than not he's just eating the pieces.'"
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REP. @crockett.house.gov: “Speaker Johnson loves to run when things get tough. That's not leadership, that’s cowardice. We are supposed to be in till Friday. He has decided that our last day is going to be tomorrow.” (Epstein files deadline is Friday)
December 18, 2025 at 5:05 AM
REP. @crockett.house.gov: “Speaker Johnson loves to run when things get tough. That's not leadership, that’s cowardice. We are supposed to be in till Friday. He has decided that our last day is going to be tomorrow.” (Epstein files deadline is Friday)
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Excellent piece.
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Excellent piece.
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One of the hardest challenges for a small hyperlocal news site is covering a huge breaking story that is also being covered by much larger media outlets — in this case, The Boston Globe. Here's how @brooklinenews.bsky.social is reporting on the killing of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro.
As homicide investigation continues, neighbors, colleagues gather to remember 'extraordinary' Brookline scientist - Brookline.News
Nuno Loureiro was shot and killed at his Gibbs Street home on Monday night.
brookline.news
December 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
One of the hardest challenges for a small hyperlocal news site is covering a huge breaking story that is also being covered by much larger media outlets — in this case, The Boston Globe. Here's how @brooklinenews.bsky.social is reporting on the killing of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro.
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Excerpts of former Special Counsel Jack Smith's closed-door statement to House Judiciary Committee just now:
"If asked whether to prosecute a former President based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether the President was a Republican or Democrat"
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"If asked whether to prosecute a former President based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether the President was a Republican or Democrat"
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December 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Excerpts of former Special Counsel Jack Smith's closed-door statement to House Judiciary Committee just now:
"If asked whether to prosecute a former President based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether the President was a Republican or Democrat"
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"If asked whether to prosecute a former President based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether the President was a Republican or Democrat"
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Ex-Trump lawyer John Dowd defends Jack Smith:
"Smith was once my adversary in a high-profile investigation of a Republican client. In that investigation, Smith proved himself to be fair, impartial and fearlessly committed to the facts … [R]ecent attacks on Smith are motivated by partisan politics."
"Smith was once my adversary in a high-profile investigation of a Republican client. In that investigation, Smith proved himself to be fair, impartial and fearlessly committed to the facts … [R]ecent attacks on Smith are motivated by partisan politics."
Opinion | I'm Trump's former lawyer. Jack Smith should be celebrated, not vilified.
John Dowd: Jack Smith was once my adversary in a high-profile investigation of a Republican client. Smith was fair, impartial and fearlessly committed to the facts and the law.
www.ms.now
December 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Ex-Trump lawyer John Dowd defends Jack Smith:
"Smith was once my adversary in a high-profile investigation of a Republican client. In that investigation, Smith proved himself to be fair, impartial and fearlessly committed to the facts … [R]ecent attacks on Smith are motivated by partisan politics."
"Smith was once my adversary in a high-profile investigation of a Republican client. In that investigation, Smith proved himself to be fair, impartial and fearlessly committed to the facts … [R]ecent attacks on Smith are motivated by partisan politics."
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When Mike Johnson was asked if he'd lost control of the House, I'm surprised he didn't say, "What House? I haven't heard anything about any House. I'm busy with the people's work and don't follow every twist and turn in the news about something called the House."
REPORTER: “Have you lost control of the House?”
SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: “I have not lost control of the House.”
SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: “I have not lost control of the House.”
December 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
When Mike Johnson was asked if he'd lost control of the House, I'm surprised he didn't say, "What House? I haven't heard anything about any House. I'm busy with the people's work and don't follow every twist and turn in the news about something called the House."
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Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?
December 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?
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“Chairman Jordan made an excellent decision in not allowing Jack Smith to testify publicly, because had he done so, it would have been absolutely devastating to the President and all the president's men,” says @raskin.house.gov. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in a 'criminal scheme' to overturn 2020 election
Smith testified about his investigations into Trump during a closed-door hearing with members of the House Judiciary Committee.
www.nbcnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
“Chairman Jordan made an excellent decision in not allowing Jack Smith to testify publicly, because had he done so, it would have been absolutely devastating to the President and all the president's men,” says @raskin.house.gov. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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The person that the President's Chief of Staff described as "a right-wing absolute zealot" is our de facto President for domestic affairs. From @jamellebouie.net
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
December 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The person that the President's Chief of Staff described as "a right-wing absolute zealot" is our de facto President for domestic affairs. From @jamellebouie.net
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...