Janet Quirion
@janetquirion.bsky.social
“To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool . . . To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.”
~ Octavia E. Butler,
Parable of the Talents
~ Octavia E. Butler,
Parable of the Talents
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
October 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?
June 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?
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This flew under the radar, but thanks to Trump's EPA cuts, Energy Star could shut down for good.
Energy Star isn't just a sticker on your appliances. It's an important program that saves consumers $40B/year.
So much for all that talk about "efficiency."
Energy Star isn't just a sticker on your appliances. It's an important program that saves consumers $40B/year.
So much for all that talk about "efficiency."
May 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This flew under the radar, but thanks to Trump's EPA cuts, Energy Star could shut down for good.
Energy Star isn't just a sticker on your appliances. It's an important program that saves consumers $40B/year.
So much for all that talk about "efficiency."
Energy Star isn't just a sticker on your appliances. It's an important program that saves consumers $40B/year.
So much for all that talk about "efficiency."
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why is every easter bunny costume terrifying? how come no one has figured out a better version?
April 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
why is every easter bunny costume terrifying? how come no one has figured out a better version?
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Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘
April 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘
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With Harvard, U Mass faculty, Princeton, Wesleyan, Rutgers faculty and others leading the way, academics are standing up to this lawless administration. Here is a pack of academics, former academics, and organizations worth following on Bluesky who are in this opposition
go.bsky.app/5hEmcTw
go.bsky.app/5hEmcTw
April 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
With Harvard, U Mass faculty, Princeton, Wesleyan, Rutgers faculty and others leading the way, academics are standing up to this lawless administration. Here is a pack of academics, former academics, and organizations worth following on Bluesky who are in this opposition
go.bsky.app/5hEmcTw
go.bsky.app/5hEmcTw
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If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
April 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
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1. A major bill protecting trans people just passed in Washington.
It makes insurers cover 12-month supplies of HRT which can be obtained at pharmacies, allowing trans people to stockpile medication to outlast supply disruptions.
The latest from S. Baum.
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It makes insurers cover 12-month supplies of HRT which can be obtained at pharmacies, allowing trans people to stockpile medication to outlast supply disruptions.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Washington State Passes Bill To Cover 12-Month Hormone Therapy Stockpiles
“The bill will alleviate a lot of suffering,” one Republican lawmaker said.
www.erininthemorning.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
1. A major bill protecting trans people just passed in Washington.
It makes insurers cover 12-month supplies of HRT which can be obtained at pharmacies, allowing trans people to stockpile medication to outlast supply disruptions.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
It makes insurers cover 12-month supplies of HRT which can be obtained at pharmacies, allowing trans people to stockpile medication to outlast supply disruptions.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
April 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
April 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
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The refusal to provide people due process before shipping them off to foreign prisons is criminal and intolerable. It must not be normalized. Everyone who believes in justice and America needs to speak up now.
April 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The refusal to provide people due process before shipping them off to foreign prisons is criminal and intolerable. It must not be normalized. Everyone who believes in justice and America needs to speak up now.
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This is notable from Timothy Snyder's review of 'KL'↑. (Also at https://archive.md/pnAOU)
I'll leave you to mull over the reverberations of these ↓↓ two sentences.
I'll leave you to mull over the reverberations of these ↓↓ two sentences.
April 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
This is notable from Timothy Snyder's review of 'KL'↑. (Also at https://archive.md/pnAOU)
I'll leave you to mull over the reverberations of these ↓↓ two sentences.
I'll leave you to mull over the reverberations of these ↓↓ two sentences.
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Reposting my review of Nikolaus Wachsmann’s superb history of the German concentration camp system, "KL." It’s a good time to read this book.
www.wsj.com/articles/mem...
www.wsj.com/articles/mem...
Memoirs of the Murdered
Timothy Snyder reviews “KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps” by Nikolaus Wachsmann.
www.wsj.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Reposting my review of Nikolaus Wachsmann’s superb history of the German concentration camp system, "KL." It’s a good time to read this book.
www.wsj.com/articles/mem...
www.wsj.com/articles/mem...
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4/4. My book "Black Earth" was all about this. I will try to write a summary tomorrow.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
4/4. My book "Black Earth" was all about this. I will try to write a summary tomorrow.
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3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
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2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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Sarah Kendzior's nonfiction is scarier than Stephen King's fiction.
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
@stephenking.bsky.social
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
@stephenking.bsky.social
"We have a class of megamillionaires who no longer need the United States to exist."
From my book THEY KNEW: www.sarahkendziorbooks.com
From my book THEY KNEW: www.sarahkendziorbooks.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Sarah Kendzior's nonfiction is scarier than Stephen King's fiction.
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
@stephenking.bsky.social
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
@stephenking.bsky.social
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Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."
April 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."
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Liberals these days do not want to talk about the fact that democracy is how we got to where we are. They blame SCOTUS or gerrymandering or money in politics, etc. All of that is a product of democracy too. Let's be honest with ourselves.
April 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Liberals these days do not want to talk about the fact that democracy is how we got to where we are. They blame SCOTUS or gerrymandering or money in politics, etc. All of that is a product of democracy too. Let's be honest with ourselves.
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The 2024 election had conditions in which voters chose between democracy and the rule of law, and the rule of law lost. And now, democracy -- the liberal kind that we want -- is dead and there's no telling when it will come back.
April 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The 2024 election had conditions in which voters chose between democracy and the rule of law, and the rule of law lost. And now, democracy -- the liberal kind that we want -- is dead and there's no telling when it will come back.
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Of course, the question is: what's the alternative. There is none. Democracy is the best humanity can do. But let's not talk about as if everyone understands what it is. It can be liberal. It can be illiberal. It can be authoritarian.
April 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Of course, the question is: what's the alternative. There is none. Democracy is the best humanity can do. But let's not talk about as if everyone understands what it is. It can be liberal. It can be illiberal. It can be authoritarian.
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I think Democrats should stop talking about democracy, not because voters zone out when they hear the subject, but because democracy is what delivered this hell. It is not the universal good Democrats, all of them, believe it to be.
April 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I think Democrats should stop talking about democracy, not because voters zone out when they hear the subject, but because democracy is what delivered this hell. It is not the universal good Democrats, all of them, believe it to be.