Gretchen Hackard
@uhlaw2000.bsky.social
Christian who believes everyone (including those who do not believe like I do) deserves respect and dignity.
I also love Liverpool FC.
I also love Liverpool FC.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
Everyone could use some beauty in their life, so please enjoy these images of the Northern Lights taken by our friends.
The Northern Lights were spectacular tonight. They actually danced over our heads.
September 15, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Everyone could use some beauty in their life, so please enjoy these images of the Northern Lights taken by our friends.
Somehow I feel like this humor is right up @scalzi.com 's alley.
September 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Somehow I feel like this humor is right up @scalzi.com 's alley.
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Something folks are missing here: this raid wasn’t about “illegals taking American jobs.” It was about ICE storming the Hyundai–LG battery plant in Georgia, part of a $7.6B Metaplant project that isn’t even operational yet.
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September 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Something folks are missing here: this raid wasn’t about “illegals taking American jobs.” It was about ICE storming the Hyundai–LG battery plant in Georgia, part of a $7.6B Metaplant project that isn’t even operational yet.
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Live your life so your attorney never has to file a brief with the topic heading "the meaning of prostitution has changed over time"
Diddy dockets: Just now, Combs' lawyers filed reply for a new trial, incl "The Meaning of 'Prostitution' Has Changed Over Time" &"Combs Was Producing Amateur Porn" - Inner City Press story, with 30 page filing, coming next
September 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Live your life so your attorney never has to file a brief with the topic heading "the meaning of prostitution has changed over time"
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If Trump is actually ill, I truly hope that he's getting the best medical attention that RFK Jr. can offer.
August 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
If Trump is actually ill, I truly hope that he's getting the best medical attention that RFK Jr. can offer.
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Here’s what was NOT released today:
- the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ
- the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed
- communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison
- the Epstein files
- the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ
- the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed
- communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison
- the Epstein files
August 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Here’s what was NOT released today:
- the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ
- the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed
- communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison
- the Epstein files
- the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ
- the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed
- communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison
- the Epstein files
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🚨🚨🚨NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS HAS CANCELED ALL FY26 LITERARY FELLOWSHIPS PLEASE HOLLER AT ME IF YOU ARE A WRITER WHO GOT THE EMAIL TODAY🚨🚨🚨
if anyone else got this email please ping me! ArtsWatch might want me to cover this
August 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
🚨🚨🚨NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS HAS CANCELED ALL FY26 LITERARY FELLOWSHIPS PLEASE HOLLER AT ME IF YOU ARE A WRITER WHO GOT THE EMAIL TODAY🚨🚨🚨
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"Make strangers welcome in this land. Let them keep their languages and their customs, for weak and fragile is the realm which is based on a single language or on a single set of customs.”
— Saint Stephen of Hungary, in letter to his son Imre, 1036 AD.
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— Saint Stephen of Hungary, in letter to his son Imre, 1036 AD.
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August 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
"Make strangers welcome in this land. Let them keep their languages and their customs, for weak and fragile is the realm which is based on a single language or on a single set of customs.”
— Saint Stephen of Hungary, in letter to his son Imre, 1036 AD.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
— Saint Stephen of Hungary, in letter to his son Imre, 1036 AD.
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Multiple heads of state cleared their schedules after this Putin-Trump meeting.
These are people with real shit to do in their home countries.
I don't think flattery is on the table anymore. I think this has finally registered as an all-hands-on-deck global crisis.
They are wearing *suits*.
These are people with real shit to do in their home countries.
I don't think flattery is on the table anymore. I think this has finally registered as an all-hands-on-deck global crisis.
They are wearing *suits*.
August 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Multiple heads of state cleared their schedules after this Putin-Trump meeting.
These are people with real shit to do in their home countries.
I don't think flattery is on the table anymore. I think this has finally registered as an all-hands-on-deck global crisis.
They are wearing *suits*.
These are people with real shit to do in their home countries.
I don't think flattery is on the table anymore. I think this has finally registered as an all-hands-on-deck global crisis.
They are wearing *suits*.
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People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.
August 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.
What a waste of time and oxygen
August 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
What a waste of time and oxygen
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And here is Nu America: the 250th anniversary summed up by a tawdry, classless, low intelligence wannabe showman.
White House to Hold UFC Fight on U.S.'s 250th Birthday — TIME
The event will be the first-ever professional mixed-martial arts fight at the White House.
apple.news
August 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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She herself may not be aware of it, but my grandma is 106 years old today. Wow...
(Picture from last November)
(Picture from last November)
August 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
She herself may not be aware of it, but my grandma is 106 years old today. Wow...
(Picture from last November)
(Picture from last November)
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Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring.
And then that guy was "silenced" forever.
And now we will just not talk about anything else until they...
#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files
And then that guy was "silenced" forever.
And now we will just not talk about anything else until they...
#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files
August 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring.
And then that guy was "silenced" forever.
And now we will just not talk about anything else until they...
#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files
And then that guy was "silenced" forever.
And now we will just not talk about anything else until they...
#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files
My friend has been caregiving for her husband since his heart attack in May, and they are struggling with medical expenses, living expenses, and not being able to work. She does sell some crafts and has an Amazon affiliate account to try to bring income, but they could really use some help.
August 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
My friend has been caregiving for her husband since his heart attack in May, and they are struggling with medical expenses, living expenses, and not being able to work. She does sell some crafts and has an Amazon affiliate account to try to bring income, but they could really use some help.
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We are at or near full employment. There are at least 7.5 million undocumented workers. There are not 7.5 million Americans ready, willing, and able to take those jobs, so positions will go unfilled.
That means businesses will close, the economy will shrink, and Americans will *lose* jobs.
That means businesses will close, the economy will shrink, and Americans will *lose* jobs.
Rep. Greg Steube: "As more and more illegals are deported from our nation, it'll give the opportunity for more citizens of our country to take these jobs."
August 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We are at or near full employment. There are at least 7.5 million undocumented workers. There are not 7.5 million Americans ready, willing, and able to take those jobs, so positions will go unfilled.
That means businesses will close, the economy will shrink, and Americans will *lose* jobs.
That means businesses will close, the economy will shrink, and Americans will *lose* jobs.
I cannot speak for the whole of Christianity, but many of us, myself included, regret and sincerely apologize for the harms that have been done to marginalized communities, including LGBTQ+ people. It is horrific that people are so cruel in the name of "faith."
take it up with the people who turned your faith into a gun and pointed it at my friends, not my friends who get wary when you fucking swing it around
August 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I cannot speak for the whole of Christianity, but many of us, myself included, regret and sincerely apologize for the harms that have been done to marginalized communities, including LGBTQ+ people. It is horrific that people are so cruel in the name of "faith."
For my friends and family in the Minneapolis area...
This is neat: there's a website that archives public meeting summaries and *pays* people to go to the meetings to take notes and upload them. (I think you have to do a training first. They pay $20/hour.)
minneapolis.documenters.org
minneapolis.documenters.org
Documenters.org: Making Local Government More Accountable
All the info you need on public meetings in your town, in one easy-to-search place. Get TRAINED and PAID to hold your local government accountable. Powered by City Bureau.
minneapolis.documenters.org
August 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
For my friends and family in the Minneapolis area...
This is callous.
AI gets really basic things wrong about even people who are in the public eye. How the fuck is AI going to write about your loved one, a person it doesn’t know and has no real information about?
New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg
August 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is callous.
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It's so crazy we live in a world where female athletes are striking for better wages and dodging sex toys being thrown at them, while trans athletes are being accused of evil scheming so they can play women's sports, which pays well and is highly dignified. It's almost like someone's full of shit
August 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
It's so crazy we live in a world where female athletes are striking for better wages and dodging sex toys being thrown at them, while trans athletes are being accused of evil scheming so they can play women's sports, which pays well and is highly dignified. It's almost like someone's full of shit
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EXCLUSIVE: @timmiller.bsky.social spoke to Andry as he shared his journey through U.S. detention that led to imprisonment in El Salvador. He speaks about abuse, survival, and rebuilding his life through faith and his hope for the future.
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySs...
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySs...
August 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
EXCLUSIVE: @timmiller.bsky.social spoke to Andry as he shared his journey through U.S. detention that led to imprisonment in El Salvador. He speaks about abuse, survival, and rebuilding his life through faith and his hope for the future.
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySs...
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySs...