SparkleTea
@sparkletea.bsky.social
Experiencing cognitive dissonance. Attorney. Gen Jones (Google it). Avid fan of integrity and democracy. #Leguminati. #TheFive8. Live music fan. San Francisco. Jewish American woman. Would rather be watching Doctor Who or reading GRRM but DOTUS happened.
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SparkleTea
@sparkletea.bsky.social
· Nov 23
It is, and has been for a while, primarily all about our inability to educate enough of us about how disinformation campaigns work.
It's time to reshare The Rules. I had hoped to retire these long ago, but no.
Please share widely. Tell everyone. Let's teach critical thinking again. >>
It's time to reshare The Rules. I had hoped to retire these long ago, but no.
Please share widely. Tell everyone. Let's teach critical thinking again. >>
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January 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Grateful Dead - Mason's Children (12-28-69)
YouTube video by LongStrangeTrip710
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January 5, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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This is what oligarchy looks like.
January 5, 2026 at 6:41 PM
This is what oligarchy looks like.
Nailed it
@jvl.bsky.social with all the questions and conspiracy theories you have about the invasion of Venezuela.
Only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/was-venezu...
Only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/was-venezu...
Was Venezuela an Inside Job?
All the questions and conspiracy theories you have about America's hottest new invasion.
www.thebulwark.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Nailed it
According to common sense too
According to this reporting, Trump will keep the popular Venezuelan resistance leader Maria Machado from power in Venezuela because she not he won the Nobel Prize.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. plan to ‘run’ Venezuela clouded in confusion
In Washington and Caracas, the vision for administering Venezuela in the weeks and months ahead appears uncertain and stubbornly complex.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:16 PM
According to common sense too
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I now wonder whether pardoning the drug running former Honduran President wasn’t Trump showing Maduro he too would get a pardon if he left the country, kept his allies and not the opposition in power, and gave Trump the oil.
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bsky.app/profile/adam...
January 5, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I now wonder whether pardoning the drug running former Honduran President wasn’t Trump showing Maduro he too would get a pardon if he left the country, kept his allies and not the opposition in power, and gave Trump the oil.
bsky.app/profile/adam...
bsky.app/profile/adam...
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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It is truly insane to me that our system has the means to end this insanity but the people who can effect it refuse to…even though we are now at a point where in cannot possibly be in their own interest to keep supporting this shitshow
January 5, 2026 at 4:56 PM
It is truly insane to me that our system has the means to end this insanity but the people who can effect it refuse to…even though we are now at a point where in cannot possibly be in their own interest to keep supporting this shitshow
The cognitive dissonance makes my head hurt
DOTUS says he is immune frim prosecution
And yet he claims the right to grab the leader of a foreign country, denying that right to that leader
Who among us doesn’t think other foreign leaders break US laws?
Why does DOTUS get to decide?
DOTUS says he is immune frim prosecution
And yet he claims the right to grab the leader of a foreign country, denying that right to that leader
Who among us doesn’t think other foreign leaders break US laws?
Why does DOTUS get to decide?
January 5, 2026 at 5:08 PM
The cognitive dissonance makes my head hurt
DOTUS says he is immune frim prosecution
And yet he claims the right to grab the leader of a foreign country, denying that right to that leader
Who among us doesn’t think other foreign leaders break US laws?
Why does DOTUS get to decide?
DOTUS says he is immune frim prosecution
And yet he claims the right to grab the leader of a foreign country, denying that right to that leader
Who among us doesn’t think other foreign leaders break US laws?
Why does DOTUS get to decide?
We had a No Kings march on a weekend and then DOTUS tore down the East Wing
We had a several million-page Epstein document dump on NYE and then DOTUS invaded an oil-rich country and snatched its leader
DOTUS destroys to get headlines.
#PayAttention
This is how propaganda works
We had a several million-page Epstein document dump on NYE and then DOTUS invaded an oil-rich country and snatched its leader
DOTUS destroys to get headlines.
#PayAttention
This is how propaganda works
January 5, 2026 at 4:38 PM
We had a No Kings march on a weekend and then DOTUS tore down the East Wing
We had a several million-page Epstein document dump on NYE and then DOTUS invaded an oil-rich country and snatched its leader
DOTUS destroys to get headlines.
#PayAttention
This is how propaganda works
We had a several million-page Epstein document dump on NYE and then DOTUS invaded an oil-rich country and snatched its leader
DOTUS destroys to get headlines.
#PayAttention
This is how propaganda works
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And that's interesting bc @wendysiegelman.bsky.social found this weird Devin Nunes deal that picked up a failed CITGO bid.
bsky.app/profile/wend...
bsky.app/profile/wend...
Devin Nunes and others linked to Trump Media & Technology Group (Truth Social owner) recently became officers and investors of a company soon after it made an unsuccessful $10 billion bid for the US assets of Venezuelan-state-owned Citgo Petroleum. My latest:
Devin Nunes and others linked to Trump Media became officers of a company soon after it made an unsuccessful $10 billion bid for Venezuelan-state-owned Citgo Petroleum’s U.S. assets
Devin Nunes and others linked to Trump Media recently became officers and investors of a company soon after it made an unsuccessful $10 billion bid for Venezuelan-state-owned Citgo.
newstracs.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:33 PM
And that's interesting bc @wendysiegelman.bsky.social found this weird Devin Nunes deal that picked up a failed CITGO bid.
bsky.app/profile/wend...
bsky.app/profile/wend...
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The Prime Minister of Greenland Jens-Frederik Nielsen to the United States:
“Enough is enough.”
“Enough is enough.”
January 4, 2026 at 10:36 PM
The Prime Minister of Greenland Jens-Frederik Nielsen to the United States:
“Enough is enough.”
“Enough is enough.”
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NEW: Source familiar with the Epstein files release tells me that Congress has yet to receive the Justice Department’s explanation for the Epstein files redactions.
This is another violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
This is another violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
January 4, 2026 at 5:53 PM
NEW: Source familiar with the Epstein files release tells me that Congress has yet to receive the Justice Department’s explanation for the Epstein files redactions.
This is another violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
This is another violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
January 4, 2026 at 5:04 AM
It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
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The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply.
I want to make sure this is very clear.
I want to make sure this is very clear.
January 4, 2026 at 6:18 PM
The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply.
I want to make sure this is very clear.
I want to make sure this is very clear.
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With this regime anything is possible…
January 4, 2026 at 5:40 AM
With this regime anything is possible…
All car interiors should have buttons
Or physical dials. Something we operate by feel.
Or physical dials. Something we operate by feel.
January 4, 2026 at 3:43 AM
All car interiors should have buttons
Or physical dials. Something we operate by feel.
Or physical dials. Something we operate by feel.
He keeps practically falling asleep on his feet
January 3, 2026 at 5:07 PM
He keeps practically falling asleep on his feet
Oh he’s just making things up
This is like the East Wing
Boy those Epstein files must be super bad.
This is like the East Wing
Boy those Epstein files must be super bad.
January 3, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Oh he’s just making things up
This is like the East Wing
Boy those Epstein files must be super bad.
This is like the East Wing
Boy those Epstein files must be super bad.
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Some men will invade sovereign nations rather than refraining from raping teens
January 3, 2026 at 6:53 AM
Some men will invade sovereign nations rather than refraining from raping teens
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While the Senate is asking Trump why they started a war to kidnap a foreign leader perhaps they might also ask why Trump freed a former foreign leader convicted of the same kind of crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM
While the Senate is asking Trump why they started a war to kidnap a foreign leader perhaps they might also ask why Trump freed a former foreign leader convicted of the same kind of crimes.
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U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee was not notified ahead of U.S. airstrikes on Venezuela, source tells CNN
January 3, 2026 at 9:04 AM
U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee was not notified ahead of U.S. airstrikes on Venezuela, source tells CNN
I'm pretty sure he didn't try to wake up the gang of eight before he did this
January 3, 2026 at 10:44 AM
I'm pretty sure he didn't try to wake up the gang of eight before he did this
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Articles of Impeachment.
Now.
Now.
January 3, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Articles of Impeachment.
Now.
Now.
So
What does DOTUS get from Argentina? Aren't they into crypto or something
What does DOTUS get from Argentina? Aren't they into crypto or something
UPDATE
Argentina’s president Javier Milei, who has long had a confrontational and hostile relationship with Nicolás Maduro, is celebrating the news that Maduro has been captured by U.S. forces and taken out of Venezuela.
Argentina’s president Javier Milei, who has long had a confrontational and hostile relationship with Nicolás Maduro, is celebrating the news that Maduro has been captured by U.S. forces and taken out of Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 10:39 AM
So
What does DOTUS get from Argentina? Aren't they into crypto or something
What does DOTUS get from Argentina? Aren't they into crypto or something