Cassandra in the 305
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"Why Not?"
Trapeze Artist
#Poetry is an act—
An act of peace.
~pablo
Night has allowed the freed soul to escape from rage to composedness
🎧
https://youtu.be/WbBNzw5YVjk?si=CbrzeAfH6J1PYq5U
Trapeze Artist
#Poetry is an act—
An act of peace.
~pablo
Night has allowed the freed soul to escape from rage to composedness
🎧
https://youtu.be/WbBNzw5YVjk?si=CbrzeAfH6J1PYq5U
Pinned
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The Phoenix Declaration, written by the Heritage Foundation, is indoctrination dressed up in slick words, it's white Christian-supremacist ideology tied to #Project2025
And this article does NOT list all the items in the declaration. (🔗 to "Phoenix Declaration" is the first response to this post)
And this article does NOT list all the items in the declaration. (🔗 to "Phoenix Declaration" is the first response to this post)
Florida’s school system first to adopt controversial group’s ‘Phoenix Declaration’; critics say it’s indoctrination
The Florida Department of Education on Thursday unanimously approved a new set of guiding principles for the state’s education system, known as “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Educati...
www.news4jax.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The Phoenix Declaration, written by the Heritage Foundation, is indoctrination dressed up in slick words, it's white Christian-supremacist ideology tied to #Project2025
And this article does NOT list all the items in the declaration. (🔗 to "Phoenix Declaration" is the first response to this post)
And this article does NOT list all the items in the declaration. (🔗 to "Phoenix Declaration" is the first response to this post)
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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"This assault on higher education is best understood as a means of destroying a locus of political opposition."
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"This assault on higher education is best understood as a means of destroying a locus of political opposition."
"We adjourned when Trump wanted us to adjourn and we come back whenever Trump gives the okay, or the directive, to come back and what we consider is what his agenda is,” said Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA). Congress is “blatantly subjugating itself to executive authority.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"We adjourned when Trump wanted us to adjourn and we come back whenever Trump gives the okay, or the directive, to come back and what we consider is what his agenda is,” said Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA). Congress is “blatantly subjugating itself to executive authority.”
Good article. READ.
Hamas quietly reasserts control in Gaza as post-war talks grind on - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Good article. READ.
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Important to remember that on top of the fascism and incompetence, everybody in the Trump admin is also stealing everything they can as quickly as possible.
NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
Kristi Noem-Tied Firm Secretly Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Campaign
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Important to remember that on top of the fascism and incompetence, everybody in the Trump admin is also stealing everything they can as quickly as possible.
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Citizens United unleashed a flood of corporate money in politics. State trigger laws can prepare the ground for real reform when the Court changes course. bit.ly/3Xsczat
State Legislatures Can Push Back Against Citizens United
State lawmakers can fight the influence of big money in politics by passing trigger laws that would go into effect if the Supreme Court’s misguided ruling is reversed.
www.brennancenter.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Citizens United unleashed a flood of corporate money in politics. State trigger laws can prepare the ground for real reform when the Court changes course. bit.ly/3Xsczat
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I am contractually obligated to add that Jay Powell chairs the Fed because Trump felt Janet Yellen was too short for the job. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I am contractually obligated to add that Jay Powell chairs the Fed because Trump felt Janet Yellen was too short for the job. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...
The Phoenix Declaration, written by the Heritage Foundation, is indoctrination dressed up in slick words, it's white Christian-supremacist ideology tied to #Project2025
And this article does NOT list all the items in the declaration. (🔗 to "Phoenix Declaration" is the first response to this post)
And this article does NOT list all the items in the declaration. (🔗 to "Phoenix Declaration" is the first response to this post)
Florida’s school system first to adopt controversial group’s ‘Phoenix Declaration’; critics say it’s indoctrination
The Florida Department of Education on Thursday unanimously approved a new set of guiding principles for the state’s education system, known as “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Educati...
www.news4jax.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The Phoenix Declaration, written by the Heritage Foundation, is indoctrination dressed up in slick words, it's white Christian-supremacist ideology tied to #Project2025
And this article does NOT list all the items in the declaration. (🔗 to "Phoenix Declaration" is the first response to this post)
And this article does NOT list all the items in the declaration. (🔗 to "Phoenix Declaration" is the first response to this post)
Light pollution is no small thing. And it's not just about whether you can see the aurora borealis or the stars.
Science has shown that artificial light at night has negative and deadly effects on many creatures, including amphibians, birds, mammals, insects, and plants.
Deadly effects on these creatures and plants means deadly effects on humans too.
READ. Article link here
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darksky.org/resources/wh...
Deadly effects on these creatures and plants means deadly effects on humans too.
READ. Article link here
🔗
darksky.org/resources/wh...
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Light pollution is no small thing. And it's not just about whether you can see the aurora borealis or the stars.
Hot take: proper regulation would allow necessary Dark Skies where endangered critters live, which would give them the possibility of survival
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Hot take: proper regulation would allow necessary Dark Skies where endangered critters live, which would give them the possibility of survival
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Are you telling me that we *already* have two "missing tape" stories *this week* when all of Watergate only had one?!
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Are you telling me that we *already* have two "missing tape" stories *this week* when all of Watergate only had one?!
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What you say when someone says a false “X” is simply “Y is true.”
You ignore the X. Bc if you engage directly w the X, what the average person often remembers is “wasn’t there some debate abt X vs Y?” not “I was told it was Y, not X.”
You ignore the X. Bc if you engage directly w the X, what the average person often remembers is “wasn’t there some debate abt X vs Y?” not “I was told it was Y, not X.”
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
What you say when someone says a false “X” is simply “Y is true.”
You ignore the X. Bc if you engage directly w the X, what the average person often remembers is “wasn’t there some debate abt X vs Y?” not “I was told it was Y, not X.”
You ignore the X. Bc if you engage directly w the X, what the average person often remembers is “wasn’t there some debate abt X vs Y?” not “I was told it was Y, not X.”
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Even if it were true, "taking jobs from Americans" is not a criminal offense that calls for committing human right abuses against said person and potentially renditioning them to third countries with poor human rights records
"This person is undocumented" does not mean "this person has ZERO rights"
"This person is undocumented" does not mean "this person has ZERO rights"
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Even if it were true, "taking jobs from Americans" is not a criminal offense that calls for committing human right abuses against said person and potentially renditioning them to third countries with poor human rights records
"This person is undocumented" does not mean "this person has ZERO rights"
"This person is undocumented" does not mean "this person has ZERO rights"
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Could not the city of Portland and its residents sue the crap out of FOX???
www.propublica.org/article/port...
www.propublica.org/article/port...
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Could not the city of Portland and its residents sue the crap out of FOX???
www.propublica.org/article/port...
www.propublica.org/article/port...
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Does this surprise anyone? As a society, we established the legal age of consent because lots of creepy old men want to have sex with pubescent girls. It’s gross and damaging, so we’ve made it criminal. But, there’s always that one guy (or gal) who wants to argue b/c g-g-grandma got married at 13.
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Does this surprise anyone? As a society, we established the legal age of consent because lots of creepy old men want to have sex with pubescent girls. It’s gross and damaging, so we’ve made it criminal. But, there’s always that one guy (or gal) who wants to argue b/c g-g-grandma got married at 13.
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Well, he's certainly innovating in the arena of both-sides-ism:
"Many of the protesters who assaulted police officers in the summer of 2020, for example, did so with the same ethical certitude as those who stormed the Capitol in January 2021."
"Many of the protesters who assaulted police officers in the summer of 2020, for example, did so with the same ethical certitude as those who stormed the Capitol in January 2021."
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Well, he's certainly innovating in the arena of both-sides-ism:
"Many of the protesters who assaulted police officers in the summer of 2020, for example, did so with the same ethical certitude as those who stormed the Capitol in January 2021."
"Many of the protesters who assaulted police officers in the summer of 2020, for example, did so with the same ethical certitude as those who stormed the Capitol in January 2021."
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See my recent @lawfaremedia.org piece on indictment of a purported Texas "antifa cell" and how these terrorism statutes work. Rubio's actions mean that anyone who provides "material support"—defined *very* broadly—to these foreign groups has committed a felony.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
Rubio is working on legal grounds to persecute antifa. Four foreign groups are now Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) and they hope to designate them FTOs. Only one is actually an antifascist group: Hungary has previously focused on Antifa Ost (Hammerbande).
www.state.gov/releases/202...
www.state.gov/releases/202...
Designations of Antifa Ost and Three Other Violent Antifa Groups - United States Department of State
Today, the Department of State announces the designation of Antifa Ost, Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front, Armed Proletarian Justice, and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense...
www.state.gov
November 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
See my recent @lawfaremedia.org piece on indictment of a purported Texas "antifa cell" and how these terrorism statutes work. Rubio's actions mean that anyone who provides "material support"—defined *very* broadly—to these foreign groups has committed a felony.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
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The real money is in prisoner transport, which is happening daily on an epic scale.
November 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The real money is in prisoner transport, which is happening daily on an epic scale.
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The climate crisis. Accelerating.😢
Meanwhile, @governor.ny.gov Kathy Hochul approved a giant fracked gas pipeline for Trump and is delaying enforcement of the NY state law ending oil & gas in new buildings. Two body blows for our future. And she’s raising our bills, too! 😡
Meanwhile, @governor.ny.gov Kathy Hochul approved a giant fracked gas pipeline for Trump and is delaying enforcement of the NY state law ending oil & gas in new buildings. Two body blows for our future. And she’s raising our bills, too! 😡
CRAZY NOVEMBER SUMMER
Hundreds of records in Morocco,Algeria,Spain,France,Germany,Switzerland etc
Only Italy was skipped from any record in the area.
36C in Algeria,29.1 in France,23.5 Switzerland,22.3 Germany
20C up to 1500m asl ! Even some tropical nights
Absolutely crazy.
TBC
Hundreds of records in Morocco,Algeria,Spain,France,Germany,Switzerland etc
Only Italy was skipped from any record in the area.
36C in Algeria,29.1 in France,23.5 Switzerland,22.3 Germany
20C up to 1500m asl ! Even some tropical nights
Absolutely crazy.
TBC
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The climate crisis. Accelerating.😢
Meanwhile, @governor.ny.gov Kathy Hochul approved a giant fracked gas pipeline for Trump and is delaying enforcement of the NY state law ending oil & gas in new buildings. Two body blows for our future. And she’s raising our bills, too! 😡
Meanwhile, @governor.ny.gov Kathy Hochul approved a giant fracked gas pipeline for Trump and is delaying enforcement of the NY state law ending oil & gas in new buildings. Two body blows for our future. And she’s raising our bills, too! 😡
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The admin does believe in subsidized housing for wealthy aides like Stephen Miller.
He's taking a military home during a supply shortfall, while our ED, Jose Vasquez, notes that "service members are lining up at food banks."
This is a choice. And it's wrong.
https://bit.ly/4hLhj4z
He's taking a military home during a supply shortfall, while our ED, Jose Vasquez, notes that "service members are lining up at food banks."
This is a choice. And it's wrong.
https://bit.ly/4hLhj4z
Stephen Miller Scores Free Military House in ‘Trump Green Zone’
The White House aide now joins a growing list of Trump cabinet secretaries who have also moved into military homes.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The admin does believe in subsidized housing for wealthy aides like Stephen Miller.
He's taking a military home during a supply shortfall, while our ED, Jose Vasquez, notes that "service members are lining up at food banks."
This is a choice. And it's wrong.
https://bit.ly/4hLhj4z
He's taking a military home during a supply shortfall, while our ED, Jose Vasquez, notes that "service members are lining up at food banks."
This is a choice. And it's wrong.
https://bit.ly/4hLhj4z
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Trump is again threatening to use the military against Americans, vowing to send "more than the National Guard".
As our organizer, Ed, told TheGrio: "It's all a game to him... He has no idea what it means to put your life on the line... and it's evident in everything that he's doing."
#Veterans
As our organizer, Ed, told TheGrio: "It's all a game to him... He has no idea what it means to put your life on the line... and it's evident in everything that he's doing."
#Veterans
Trump threatens to send ‘more than the National Guard’ into US cities: ‘He desperately wants to seem strong’
Trump escalated threats to send troops to U.S. cities, telling military troops that he is prepared to send "more than the National Guard."
thegrio.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Trump is again threatening to use the military against Americans, vowing to send "more than the National Guard".
As our organizer, Ed, told TheGrio: "It's all a game to him... He has no idea what it means to put your life on the line... and it's evident in everything that he's doing."
#Veterans
As our organizer, Ed, told TheGrio: "It's all a game to him... He has no idea what it means to put your life on the line... and it's evident in everything that he's doing."
#Veterans
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How we do pensions and retirement income in this country is predicated on a few assumptions, one of which is that old people have minimal housing costs and/or security of tenure. It's not happening anymore, and will get worse.
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/the-other-...
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/the-other-...
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
How we do pensions and retirement income in this country is predicated on a few assumptions, one of which is that old people have minimal housing costs and/or security of tenure. It's not happening anymore, and will get worse.
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/the-other-...
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/the-other-...
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Read this thread. And then remind yourself that this country's sorry excuse for a "leader" is a draft-dodging racist cowardly piece of shit who thinks heroism was him playing dressup and marching around at his fancy military school for boys.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Read this thread. And then remind yourself that this country's sorry excuse for a "leader" is a draft-dodging racist cowardly piece of shit who thinks heroism was him playing dressup and marching around at his fancy military school for boys.
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I can't imagine being on SNAP and having to give up my dogs because I can't afford to feed them either. Please find your local pet pantry and bring a bag of food or monetary donation. Animals are people too.
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I can't imagine being on SNAP and having to give up my dogs because I can't afford to feed them either. Please find your local pet pantry and bring a bag of food or monetary donation. Animals are people too.