verybookish.bsky.social
@verybookish.bsky.social
Queer, fatty, scifi geek. Introvert, socialist, atheist, pacifist. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Reposted
17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Reposted
This isn’t a “peace plan.” It’s a blueprint for Ukraine’s capitulation. If implemented, it would turn this pro-Western, democratic nation, which has been courageously resisting Russian aggression since 2014, into a Kremlin colony. wapo.st/3XcRot6
Opinion | Ukraine needs Russia’s frozen $200 billion immediately, Europe
With Trump seeking Kyiv’s capitulation to Russia, now is the moment for decisive European action.
wapo.st
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Reposted
The Polish prime minister reacts
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Reposted
There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.

We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.

We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Reposted
I wish people would sue them for enabling this.
Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated. Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Reposted
Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Reposted
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Reposted
everlasting shame on all these people
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Reposted
USians: "Ask your representatives to make sure the White House follows the law. Remember, Congress made the Department of Education. Congress is in charge of okaying any changes to the Department of Education. Congress needs to stand up to the White House to protect the Department of Education."
Today, the White House said it would get rid of most of the Department of Education (ED). Everyone has the right to a good education — and we need to protect that right. Tell your Congresspeople we will not let this attack on disability rights continue! autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/what...
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Reposted
BREAKING: Congress Votes to Release the Jeffrey Epstein Files, Humiliating Trump:

A Trump official admits, “We lost this one badly.”
zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...
BREAKING: Congress Votes to Release the Jeffrey Epstein Files, Humiliating Trump
It’s an embarrassment for Trump, who had promised to release the Epstein files before then calling the scandal a “hoax.” A Trump official admits, “We lost this one badly.”
zeteo.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Reposted
Epstein Scandal is the biggest ongoing political cover up in modern times.

Don't let Trump gaslight you.

He's all over the files. Also, why is Maxwell in a minimum security camp?
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Reposted
This must happen.
We're primarying John Fetterman.

Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians.

We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reposted
It’s crazy that the President understands health care so little that he thinks this even approaches the already low “concepts of a plan” bar.
Trump: "THE ONLY HEALTHCARE I'LL SUPPORT OR APPROVE IS SENDING MONEY DIRECTLY BACK TO THE PEOPLE W/ NOTHING GOING TO THE BIG, FAT, RICH INSURANCE COMPANIES, WHO HAVE RIPPED OFF AMERICA LONG ENOUGH. THE PEOPLE WILL BE ALLOWED TO NEGOTIATE & BUY THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, INSURANCE. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!"
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Reposted
Holidays are coming up, a perfect time to remind your MAGA family members that Epstein is only part of the story, Trump has been importing foreign sex traffickers and giving them special protection.

Then ask, "so did Trump bring the Tate brothers here as a replacement for Epstein's services?"
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Reposted
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.

Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”

He will continue teaching.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Reposted
THIS IS BIG

For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Reposted
Trump purports he is "cleaning up" the US by deporting criminals, but is in fact deporting law abiding grandmas and hard-working people who contribute to society (not gang members). And he is releasing ACTUAL CRIMINALS back onto our streets to commit more crime. Party of law and order, my ass.
Reminder that the Jan. 6 insurrectionists Trump pardoned went on to commit even more crimes - including deadly drunk driving, threats and plots to kill public officials, and multiple child sex offenses.

Trump knowingly unleashed these dangerous people back into our communities.
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Reposted
The symbolism is screaming
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Reposted
this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Reposted
Security cameras caught this Border Patrol agent ditching a loaded gun behind a tree at a restaurant parking lot. Is this standard training for Bovino's Border Patrol agents?
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Reposted
Good morning.

This is your reminder to get to the gym so that you can beat up racists if you have to.
November 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Reposted
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Reposted
Americans really have no idea how badly things are going or much of what is actually happening outside of the increasingly sealed American unreality state. The increasingly clear collapse of collective sense making is breaking containment fully.
JD Vance's steady assertion of hostile claims against Greenland, which rarely ever rate a mention in US newspapers, are front page news across northern Europe.
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
My mom’s tortie curled up in a basket. #cats
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM