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@starrymessenger.bsky.social
Artist, adjunct, art teacher, labor, socialist, star wars, reylo, AI hater, she/her
Had a mild stroke 2/12/2025. Excuse the brain fog. Check your BP ladies 🫀
(DNI: minors, fintech, traders, OF, antis, “refined gentlemen” pls do not follow)
Had a mild stroke 2/12/2025. Excuse the brain fog. Check your BP ladies 🫀
(DNI: minors, fintech, traders, OF, antis, “refined gentlemen” pls do not follow)
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The Trump-loving media heirs who own Pittsburgh’s most storied newspaper, with a history tracing back over 125 years, are shuttering publication of its Pulitzer Prize–winning newsroom.
Trumpy Owners Close Major City’s Pulitzer-Winning Newspaper
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is the region’s largest newspaper.
trib.al
January 7, 2026 at 10:54 PM
The Trump-loving media heirs who own Pittsburgh’s most storied newspaper, with a history tracing back over 125 years, are shuttering publication of its Pulitzer Prize–winning newsroom.
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I won’t mince words!
ICE acts like a terrorist organization and should be removed from all cities and shutdown.
The man who shot and killed an unarmed citizen should be immediately arrested and charged for murder.
Everyone should be outraged by this crime. (And it’s not their first).
ICE acts like a terrorist organization and should be removed from all cities and shutdown.
The man who shot and killed an unarmed citizen should be immediately arrested and charged for murder.
Everyone should be outraged by this crime. (And it’s not their first).
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
“They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”
www.advocate.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:26 PM
I won’t mince words!
ICE acts like a terrorist organization and should be removed from all cities and shutdown.
The man who shot and killed an unarmed citizen should be immediately arrested and charged for murder.
Everyone should be outraged by this crime. (And it’s not their first).
ICE acts like a terrorist organization and should be removed from all cities and shutdown.
The man who shot and killed an unarmed citizen should be immediately arrested and charged for murder.
Everyone should be outraged by this crime. (And it’s not their first).
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FALSE!
Parks is not a firefighting agency and does not direct fire response. By law, the Los Angeles City Fire Department (not the state) is the responding agency
According to Trump’s U.S. DOJ, the fire was intentionally set by an out-of-state arsonist who was arrested in Florida
Parks is not a firefighting agency and does not direct fire response. By law, the Los Angeles City Fire Department (not the state) is the responding agency
According to Trump’s U.S. DOJ, the fire was intentionally set by an out-of-state arsonist who was arrested in Florida
January 7, 2026 at 9:39 PM
FALSE!
Parks is not a firefighting agency and does not direct fire response. By law, the Los Angeles City Fire Department (not the state) is the responding agency
According to Trump’s U.S. DOJ, the fire was intentionally set by an out-of-state arsonist who was arrested in Florida
Parks is not a firefighting agency and does not direct fire response. By law, the Los Angeles City Fire Department (not the state) is the responding agency
According to Trump’s U.S. DOJ, the fire was intentionally set by an out-of-state arsonist who was arrested in Florida
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Thanks to Trump and Vance, Californians in Plumas County will see an increase in their health care payments each month!
January 7, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Thanks to Trump and Vance, Californians in Plumas County will see an increase in their health care payments each month!
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Artists and festival organizers can apply for one-time grants to support their work and strengthen the arts culture of Berkeley.
berkeleyca.gov/commu...
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Artists and festival organizers can apply for arts grants | City of Berkeley
Webinars start on Jan. 7: Learn more about applying, guidelines, and eligibility. Grant deadlines are March 4 and March 11. Artists and festival organizers can apply for one-time grants to support their work and strengthen the arts culture of Berkeley.These grants fund individual artists to create new work and festival organizers to put on events.Applicants for each category can attend separately designed webinars, starting January 7, to learn about guidelines, eligibility, and how to apply.
berkeleyca.gov
January 6, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Artists and festival organizers can apply for one-time grants to support their work and strengthen the arts culture of Berkeley.
berkeleyca.gov/commu...
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Very big deal, she has a legitimate shot to flip the seat, maybe better than any Dem other than NC or ME
www.axios.com/2026/01/06/m...
www.axios.com/2026/01/06/m...
Scoop: Mary Peltola prepares for Alaska Senate race
Schumer wants to recruit his way out of a bad map
www.axios.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Very big deal, she has a legitimate shot to flip the seat, maybe better than any Dem other than NC or ME
www.axios.com/2026/01/06/m...
www.axios.com/2026/01/06/m...
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Not crazy to say there was a much clearer criminal case against MBS, who ordered the murder of an American newspaper columnist, than there is against Maduro.
BARTIROMO: With all due respect, I think the goal here is to stop the drug and human trafficking into America, and I don't think Saudi Arabia is sending fentanyl into America
RAND PAUL: Well, neither does Venezuela
RAND PAUL: Well, neither does Venezuela
January 6, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Not crazy to say there was a much clearer criminal case against MBS, who ordered the murder of an American newspaper columnist, than there is against Maduro.
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January 6 in History
Wrote this two years ago: “If the insurrectionist-in-chief returns to power without ever facing any real consequences and while explicitly declaring his intent to establish a vindictive autocracy, then January 6 will have been successful.”
And here we are.
Wrote this two years ago: “If the insurrectionist-in-chief returns to power without ever facing any real consequences and while explicitly declaring his intent to establish a vindictive autocracy, then January 6 will have been successful.”
And here we are.
January 6 in History
Was it a key moment in the republic’s eventual demise or a milestone on the road to democracy’s ultimate triumph? The meaning of January 6 is yet to be determined
steady.page
January 6, 2026 at 3:22 PM
January 6 in History
Wrote this two years ago: “If the insurrectionist-in-chief returns to power without ever facing any real consequences and while explicitly declaring his intent to establish a vindictive autocracy, then January 6 will have been successful.”
And here we are.
Wrote this two years ago: “If the insurrectionist-in-chief returns to power without ever facing any real consequences and while explicitly declaring his intent to establish a vindictive autocracy, then January 6 will have been successful.”
And here we are.
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Focusing on the futuristic tech that appears in sci-fi without paying attention to the actual point of the story is a big mistake, says Annalee Newitz
How not to misread science fiction
Focusing on the futuristic tech that appears in sci-fi without paying attention to the actual point of the story is a big mistake, says Annalee Newitz
www.newscientist.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Focusing on the futuristic tech that appears in sci-fi without paying attention to the actual point of the story is a big mistake, says Annalee Newitz
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#UCDavisIPN affiliate Richard Maddock published a meta-analysis that identified a difference in brain choline levels in people with anxiety versus those without. Maddock's team found that brain choline levels in people with anxiety were 8% lower than their non-anxious peers.
Read the paper here:
Read the paper here:
Transdiagnostic reduction in cortical choline-containing compounds in anxiety disorders: a 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy meta-analysis - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Transdiagnostic reduction in cortical choline-containing compounds in anxiety disorders: a 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy meta-analysis
www.nature.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:59 PM
#UCDavisIPN affiliate Richard Maddock published a meta-analysis that identified a difference in brain choline levels in people with anxiety versus those without. Maddock's team found that brain choline levels in people with anxiety were 8% lower than their non-anxious peers.
Read the paper here:
Read the paper here:
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Petty
And outrageous
And outrageous
Pete Hegseth says the military has started administrative actions against Sen. Mark Kelly — for his video saying that service members should refuse illegal orders — that could result in a reduction in his retirement rank and military pension.
January 5, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Petty
And outrageous
And outrageous
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‘Sh*t’ art is better than no art
January 5, 2026 at 5:13 PM
‘Sh*t’ art is better than no art
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Kentucky State Police charged a woman with "fetal homicide" after she allegedly used abortion pills bought online—despite the fact that the statute explicitly exempts pregnant people from charges. But her mugshot is all over the internet including People fucking magazine
www.wkyt.com/2026/01/02/k...
www.wkyt.com/2026/01/02/k...
Anti-abortion advocates: our bans exempt women from prosecution
Cops: oh we have other laws we can charge them under, and we’ll call fetuses “infants”
www.fox10tv.com/2026/01/02/w... h/t @kelciemmorris.bsky.social
Cops: oh we have other laws we can charge them under, and we’ll call fetuses “infants”
www.fox10tv.com/2026/01/02/w... h/t @kelciemmorris.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Kentucky State Police charged a woman with "fetal homicide" after she allegedly used abortion pills bought online—despite the fact that the statute explicitly exempts pregnant people from charges. But her mugshot is all over the internet including People fucking magazine
www.wkyt.com/2026/01/02/k...
www.wkyt.com/2026/01/02/k...
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The grok troll-porn story is the perfect awful example: it’s not just a shitty thing happening there, it’s clearly a beta test for an attempt to broadly scare women (and likely others) off the internet. Musk is showroom-flooring the IRL culture he wants on there.
January 5, 2026 at 3:54 PM
The grok troll-porn story is the perfect awful example: it’s not just a shitty thing happening there, it’s clearly a beta test for an attempt to broadly scare women (and likely others) off the internet. Musk is showroom-flooring the IRL culture he wants on there.
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ONE MILLION U.S. citizens DIED because he fumbled COVID! He tried to overthrow the government on January 6, 2021! How could the stakes not have been properly described. What else Needed to be described? This is some white shit I will NEVER understand.
November 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
ONE MILLION U.S. citizens DIED because he fumbled COVID! He tried to overthrow the government on January 6, 2021! How could the stakes not have been properly described. What else Needed to be described? This is some white shit I will NEVER understand.
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2/2 🏺Or maybe leap forward 400 years to 5th Century, early Anglo-Saxon Britain, with Post Roman Pottery, why the wheels fell off. Don't forget to #Archaeology #Pottery #Anglo-Saxon #History #GBPT #PotteryThrowdown youtu.be/m__v8u6vQoQ?...
Post Roman Pottery Why the wheels fell off
YouTube video by PottedHistory
youtu.be
January 5, 2026 at 1:16 PM
2/2 🏺Or maybe leap forward 400 years to 5th Century, early Anglo-Saxon Britain, with Post Roman Pottery, why the wheels fell off. Don't forget to #Archaeology #Pottery #Anglo-Saxon #History #GBPT #PotteryThrowdown youtu.be/m__v8u6vQoQ?...
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it can be hard to keep track within the cast of thousands but ashley is one of elon musk’s babymamas
Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead
January 5, 2026 at 12:25 PM
it can be hard to keep track within the cast of thousands but ashley is one of elon musk’s babymamas
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Trans Philadelphians are outraged after a South Street boutique received a warning from the FDA for selling breast binders. Plus, survivors of the Bristol nursing home say they smelled gas for hours.
A federal warning’s ‘chilling effect’ | Morning Newsletter
www.inquirer.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Trans Philadelphians are outraged after a South Street boutique received a warning from the FDA for selling breast binders. Plus, survivors of the Bristol nursing home say they smelled gas for hours.
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From iron age tunnels to YouTube: Time Team’s ‘extraordinary’ digital renaissance
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
#Archaeology #TimeTeam
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#Archaeology #TimeTeam
From iron age tunnels to YouTube: Time Team’s ‘extraordinary’ digital renaissance
Three decades after its modest beginnings on Channel 4, the TV juggernaut now has its own channel and global subscribers
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:41 AM
From iron age tunnels to YouTube: Time Team’s ‘extraordinary’ digital renaissance
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
#Archaeology #TimeTeam
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#Archaeology #TimeTeam
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North Atlantic #Orca appear to be expanding from harassing #yachts to going after #commercialvessels
North Atlantic warning: orcas now targeting commercial vessels in what experts call coordinated assaults share.google/kwy5wy9eIc33...
North Atlantic warning: orcas now targeting commercial vessels in what experts call coordinated assaults share.google/kwy5wy9eIc33...
North Atlantic warning: orcas now targeting commercial vessels in what experts call coordinated assaults
The wind drops, the radar hums softly, and the crew relaxes a fraction as the cargo ship cuts a clean path through the water. Then the first shudder runs
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January 4, 2026 at 2:12 AM
North Atlantic #Orca appear to be expanding from harassing #yachts to going after #commercialvessels
North Atlantic warning: orcas now targeting commercial vessels in what experts call coordinated assaults share.google/kwy5wy9eIc33...
North Atlantic warning: orcas now targeting commercial vessels in what experts call coordinated assaults share.google/kwy5wy9eIc33...
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Love this from Guillermo del Toro
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
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One of the first police officers to respond to the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, goes on trial Monday on charges that he failed to protect children during the attack. n.pr/494xdUS
Trial begins for officer accused of failing to protect children during Uvalde shooting
One of the first police officers to respond to the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, goes on trial Monday on charges that he failed to protect children during the attack.
n.pr
January 5, 2026 at 8:29 AM
One of the first police officers to respond to the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, goes on trial Monday on charges that he failed to protect children during the attack. n.pr/494xdUS
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I am very nervous about Greenland. The escalation of threats is so concerning. And I haven’t seen one credible thing to quell my fears.
January 4, 2026 at 9:57 PM
I am very nervous about Greenland. The escalation of threats is so concerning. And I haven’t seen one credible thing to quell my fears.
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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The thing to understand about "papers please" fascism is that they don't actually care if you have your papers. They abduct whoever they please and do whatever they want with them.
April 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The thing to understand about "papers please" fascism is that they don't actually care if you have your papers. They abduct whoever they please and do whatever they want with them.