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@boendercarol.bsky.social
I really hate describing myself. But I'm glad to be here.
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It's the misogyny, stupid.
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In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
December 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
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It's Day 19 of the ICE occupation of MSP.
Today thousands of Minnesotans poured onto Lake Street to rally in support of our immigrant neighbors and against ICE.
Take a moment to look at this crowd of you and your neighbors rallying in below zero windchill.
📸 @roblevine82.bsky.social
Today thousands of Minnesotans poured onto Lake Street to rally in support of our immigrant neighbors and against ICE.
Take a moment to look at this crowd of you and your neighbors rallying in below zero windchill.
📸 @roblevine82.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
It's Day 19 of the ICE occupation of MSP.
Today thousands of Minnesotans poured onto Lake Street to rally in support of our immigrant neighbors and against ICE.
Take a moment to look at this crowd of you and your neighbors rallying in below zero windchill.
📸 @roblevine82.bsky.social
Today thousands of Minnesotans poured onto Lake Street to rally in support of our immigrant neighbors and against ICE.
Take a moment to look at this crowd of you and your neighbors rallying in below zero windchill.
📸 @roblevine82.bsky.social
Here's another form of redaction, the kind where you don't have to say it because everybody gets it
“Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
When It Happens
It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN.
It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Here's another form of redaction, the kind where you don't have to say it because everybody gets it
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Senate News: Republicans are trying to sneak a provision into their latest government funding bill that would make it easier to sell off public lands and national parks, and may have the votes to do it. If you care about protecting your public lands, now’s the time to make it known.
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Senate News: Republicans are trying to sneak a provision into their latest government funding bill that would make it easier to sell off public lands and national parks, and may have the votes to do it. If you care about protecting your public lands, now’s the time to make it known.
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I am so proud of the small group of people that has been grinding on this project for 10 years. Looks like there will finally be a ground-breaking in 2026 - thetriibe.com/2025/12/chic...
Chicago Torture Justice Memorial to be built in Washington Park • The TRiiBE
The long-awaited memorial will pay tribute to survivors and victims of police torture at the hands of the Chicago Police Department. Groundbreaking is expected in Spring 2026.
thetriibe.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I am so proud of the small group of people that has been grinding on this project for 10 years. Looks like there will finally be a ground-breaking in 2026 - thetriibe.com/2025/12/chic...
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This is, as far as I know, the only depiction of her in the clothing of Nazareth. Fun fact: that’s all silk appliqué!
I made fan art of Mary Queen of Palestine showing her in traditional Nazarene clothes
December 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This is, as far as I know, the only depiction of her in the clothing of Nazareth. Fun fact: that’s all silk appliqué!
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This devastating piece destroys the lie that no one died as the result of this administration's cuts to USAID.
In South Sudan countless people died from cholera after US cut off money, as @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy report
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
In South Sudan countless people died from cholera after US cut off money, as @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy report
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This devastating piece destroys the lie that no one died as the result of this administration's cuts to USAID.
In South Sudan countless people died from cholera after US cut off money, as @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy report
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
In South Sudan countless people died from cholera after US cut off money, as @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy report
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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Anyway, residents of most states only have until MONDAY NIGHT to enroll for coverage starting January 1st.
Read my 2026 #ACA Open Enrollment Guide for a TON of important information about how to #GetCovered:
acasignups.net/25/12/11/gro...
Read my 2026 #ACA Open Enrollment Guide for a TON of important information about how to #GetCovered:
acasignups.net/25/12/11/gro...
Grouching towards Enrollment: My 2026 ACA OEP Guide (Updated w/2 more tips!)
Almost exactly a year ago I began my 2025 ACA Open Enrollment Period guide with the following words: This is the best OEP ever for the ACA for several reasons: The expanded/enhanced premium subsidies ...
acasignups.net
December 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Anyway, residents of most states only have until MONDAY NIGHT to enroll for coverage starting January 1st.
Read my 2026 #ACA Open Enrollment Guide for a TON of important information about how to #GetCovered:
acasignups.net/25/12/11/gro...
Read my 2026 #ACA Open Enrollment Guide for a TON of important information about how to #GetCovered:
acasignups.net/25/12/11/gro...
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From 2005 to 2012, one CBP officer or agent was arrested for corruption, crimes, or misconduct EVERY SINGLE DAY. By 2019, it had slowed to just one every 35 hours. Still a huge problem:
“A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent allegedly used his gun and badge to force his way into hotel rooms and rob and sexually assault at least four prostitutes in Chicago’s suburbs in 2022, according to federal charges made public Tuesday.”
Border Patrol agent charged with robbing, raping women in Chicago suburbs in 2022
December 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
From 2005 to 2012, one CBP officer or agent was arrested for corruption, crimes, or misconduct EVERY SINGLE DAY. By 2019, it had slowed to just one every 35 hours. Still a huge problem:
You know when you kind of step in it and then afterwards want to make it go away but you know that whatever you do will only make it worse and you can't stop thinking about it. It me.
December 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
You know when you kind of step in it and then afterwards want to make it go away but you know that whatever you do will only make it worse and you can't stop thinking about it. It me.
I knew it. Things I used to buy but haven't in a while usually drop in price, and the things I get every time just get more pricey.
In May, Human Rights Watch released a report showing how gig platforms use opaque algorithms to erode workers' wages.
Now a new investigation finds Instacart is running AI price experiments: charging different people different prices for the *same* groceries, sometimes by more than 23%.
Read this:
Now a new investigation finds Instacart is running AI price experiments: charging different people different prices for the *same* groceries, sometimes by more than 23%.
Read this:
Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart’s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout - Groundwork Collaborative
groundworkcollaborative.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I knew it. Things I used to buy but haven't in a while usually drop in price, and the things I get every time just get more pricey.
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New Medicaid work requirements will take effect at the end of 2026 - it will FAIL sick people and cut off their care.
Tell HHS to recognize people with #MECFS and #LongCOVID as “medically frail” so our access to Medicaid is protected.
SIGN THE LETTER: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fr...
Tell HHS to recognize people with #MECFS and #LongCOVID as “medically frail” so our access to Medicaid is protected.
SIGN THE LETTER: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fr...
December 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
New Medicaid work requirements will take effect at the end of 2026 - it will FAIL sick people and cut off their care.
Tell HHS to recognize people with #MECFS and #LongCOVID as “medically frail” so our access to Medicaid is protected.
SIGN THE LETTER: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fr...
Tell HHS to recognize people with #MECFS and #LongCOVID as “medically frail” so our access to Medicaid is protected.
SIGN THE LETTER: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fr...
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Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
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~40% of Hepatitis B infections are caught in childhood. It is contagious enough that it can be spread just from sharing common household objects.
The chance of chronic infection (ie does not clear, and is associated with high rates of liver failure and cancer) ranges from 50%-90% in this age group.
The chance of chronic infection (ie does not clear, and is associated with high rates of liver failure and cancer) ranges from 50%-90% in this age group.
There’s a rumor that Kennedy’s revised, biased ACIP will move hepatitisB age up to 4, creating real access issues to parents that want to to protect babies and setting babies up for lifelong harm.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Kennedy's vaccine panel expected to recommend delaying hepatitis B shot in children
RFK Jr.'s hand-picked panel of vaccine advisors is expected to vote to delay the hepatitis B shot for newborns. Doctors warn that could fuel a return of a disease virtually eradicated in U.S. kids.
www.npr.org
September 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
~40% of Hepatitis B infections are caught in childhood. It is contagious enough that it can be spread just from sharing common household objects.
The chance of chronic infection (ie does not clear, and is associated with high rates of liver failure and cancer) ranges from 50%-90% in this age group.
The chance of chronic infection (ie does not clear, and is associated with high rates of liver failure and cancer) ranges from 50%-90% in this age group.
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Hey, welcome to my holiday shopping guide. Here you’d find my picks for literature, art, and music by Palestinian creatives. slimanmansour.com/product/symb...
Symbol of Hope, 1985 - Palestine art by Sliman Mansour
Symbol of Hope, 1985 , Browse through our collection and choose one of the many colorful and symbolic Palestine art prints and posters of Sliman Mansour
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December 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Hey, welcome to my holiday shopping guide. Here you’d find my picks for literature, art, and music by Palestinian creatives. slimanmansour.com/product/symb...
So now protection from rape is DEI
December 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
So now protection from rape is DEI
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That impact analysis has been done, by leading independent experts.
Here it is, open-access in the @thelancet.com —>
doi.org/10.1016/S014...
"The complete defunding of USAID would cause an estimated 2,450,000 all-age deaths annually."
Two. And a half. Million. Deaths. Each year.
Here it is, open-access in the @thelancet.com —>
doi.org/10.1016/S014...
"The complete defunding of USAID would cause an estimated 2,450,000 all-age deaths annually."
Two. And a half. Million. Deaths. Each year.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
That impact analysis has been done, by leading independent experts.
Here it is, open-access in the @thelancet.com —>
doi.org/10.1016/S014...
"The complete defunding of USAID would cause an estimated 2,450,000 all-age deaths annually."
Two. And a half. Million. Deaths. Each year.
Here it is, open-access in the @thelancet.com —>
doi.org/10.1016/S014...
"The complete defunding of USAID would cause an estimated 2,450,000 all-age deaths annually."
Two. And a half. Million. Deaths. Each year.
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This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year
Almost a quarter of a million more children around the world are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
Ooh new pictures of Pedof Isle
December 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Ooh new pictures of Pedof Isle
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The family of a Colombian man believed to have been killed in a US strike in the Caribbean has filed what’s believed to be the first complaint against such attacks with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
Colombian family files first known formal complaint over deadly US strike in Caribbean | CNN
The family of a Colombian man believed to have been killed in a US strike in the Caribbean has filed what’s believed to be the first complaint against such attacks with the Inter-American Commission o...
www.cnn.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The family of a Colombian man believed to have been killed in a US strike in the Caribbean has filed what’s believed to be the first complaint against such attacks with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
Spot on. Like the woman at Trump's first inauguration saying 'Now we can pray again.'
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Spot on. Like the woman at Trump's first inauguration saying 'Now we can pray again.'
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This is a knee-jerk, but WHY is Wells Fargo dumping their sustainability-focused portfolios?Was their creation just an accommodation to the woke left, & now that everyone feels free to be their worst selves, meh?
Please, share your ways to invest for retirement w/o funding planet destroyers.
Please, share your ways to invest for retirement w/o funding planet destroyers.
December 2, 2025 at 3:05 AM
This is a knee-jerk, but WHY is Wells Fargo dumping their sustainability-focused portfolios?Was their creation just an accommodation to the woke left, & now that everyone feels free to be their worst selves, meh?
Please, share your ways to invest for retirement w/o funding planet destroyers.
Please, share your ways to invest for retirement w/o funding planet destroyers.
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reverse advent calendar where I scream a little scream into each tiny box and close it up tight
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
reverse advent calendar where I scream a little scream into each tiny box and close it up tight
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December 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Consider a paid subscription — www.courtwatch.news/upgrade
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