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Jeanne Holder
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DEI hired in 1980, David Taylor Naval Systems Research Center, Annapolis MD, retired civil servant GS12 electronic technician. 33 years service for Naval Surface Warfare Center. Proud whistle blower of safety violations and damaged Navy equipment in Idaho
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Jeanne Holder @jeanneholder.bsky.social · May 20
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life
and my children’s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their…
Toddler child smelling the lilacs in Lilac City, Manito Park, Spokane WA When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. Wendell Berry
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helenkennedy.bsky.social
So…prices are down but also you should buy less?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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johnedwinmason.bsky.social
It's impossible to pick the best photo book of 2025. But it's easy to identify the most important: "In Light and Shadow: A Photographic History from Indigenous America," edited by Brian Adams & Sarah Stacke. It's a sweeping history of Native photographers in the Americas—an overdue first.
New book highlights work of Indigenous photographers from the past and present | State of Art
"In Light and Shadow" shows the contributions of Indigenous photographers from around the Americas since the dawn of the medium.
alaskapublic.org
December 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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fiona-webster22.bsky.social
Tom Nichols describes Pete Hagueseth as "a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case."

Gift link.
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
www.theatlantic.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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mcpli.bsky.social
Canada will create an accelerated immigration pathway for U.S. H-1B visa holders.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...
‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H-1B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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fuckcancer56.bsky.social
The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark, via @anneapplebaum.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark
For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.
www.theatlantic.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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helenkennedy.bsky.social
Oh man. That would haunt me.
December 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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taniel.bsky.social
RESULTS: Democrat Tim Keller has won reelection as mayor of Albuquerque.

He defeats a former Republican sheriff, who took issue with Keller's executive order that limited collaboration with ICE.

And that's not all: Liberal faction seizes majority a city council.
December 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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taniel.bsky.social
A huge night for Democrats:

—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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atrupar.com
needless to say this is a sick way for a man to talk about his employee, let alone one who is more than 50 years younger than him
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
Trump on Karoline Leavitt: "That beautiful face and those lips that don't stop like a little machine gun"
December 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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muellershewrote.com
BREAKING: At one point, the Pentagon considered sending boat strike survivors to CECOT torture prison in El Salvador to avoid discovery in US courts. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
This is UNACCEPTABLE. Slot has destroyed this team, and the back office is behaving abominably.

Saleh is GOLD. Mismanaging him is a firing offense for Slot. What a disgrace.
December 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
Where?…..WHERE IS THE RAVENS DEFENSE???*

*A question once unheard of
December 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
I’ve tried with this guy. I really have.
jacob-redman.bsky.social Jacob Redman @jacob-redman.bsky.social · 5d
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
What kills me about this post and repost is that Anthony already cleared them both on this point in his excellent co-authored piece in the Cornell Law Review (online) just this summer. But Ilan is seeking a name for himself. And Barnett…well…
publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...
December 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
Listen, ending your elite Reverse Uno with, “I’m praying for him,” is cold as ice.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
BARTIROMO: Have you considered switching parties?

CUELLAR: Look, I'm a Democrat

BARTIROMO: Okay, but Trump is out with a new Truth Social saying saying, "next time, no more Mr Nice Guy"

CUELLAR: I was at church this morning praying for the president
December 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
Good.
December 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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justinelliott.bsky.social
NEW:

Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Update on one of the 29 wars Trump says he personally ended.
December 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Is It Too Late?
No. But We Must Better Understand the Nature of the Battle
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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mostlymammoths.bsky.social
"Many of those with the biggest platforms know very little about race, so they protect their status as experts by insisting that race is not the issue." @sifill.bsky.social
Screenshot of text: And so here we are. The agenda has been laid bare for any sentient person to see. It is a the literal hijacking of our democracy. The truth of this project and its danger have been the clanging bells that could easily have been heard by those best-positioned to derail it. But it so happens that those most positioned to have headed off this moment of Constitution-defying, democracy-defying, collapse have refused to believe it. I confess this bothers me. Because we are late. Perhaps too late. Far too many leaders (including those in law, journalism, and business) have wasted precious time - pretending that this or that justice is an “institutionalist.” Insisting that support for Trump was stoked by “economic anxiety,” that it’s “class,” rather than white supremacist panic and moral collapse. Pretending that Trump was a “disrupter” rather than a destroyer of norms, of decency, of law. Indulging the fantasy of bipartisan solutions with a political party that has fully submitted itself to authoritarianism. Hoping that the MAGA fever will “break” in time. Counting on the business community to “wake-up” once the economy tanks, or the effects of the tariffs kick in. Refusing to see what is right before our eyes.
December 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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lavidagata.bsky.social
This by @sifill.bsky.social is outstanding: a must-read and must-act upon piece on the direness of the threat to democracy. And yes, we’ve been sounding the alarms but the level of attacks is intensifying.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
We have heard Trump's racism before and repeatedly. But something about the intensity of his ugly remarks in the Oval Office that day - the hate, the actual hate we could hear in his voice seemed newly sinister. The hideous sneer when he called Somali Americans "garbage." The momentum that seemed to seize him when, having used the word "garbage," he used it repeatedly - to describe Rep. Omar, and then also to describe "her friends." The casualness with which he insisted that they "shouldn't be allowed to be in this country," or to serve in Congress, and his petulant insistance that, "we don't want them here,", sounding like the Twilight Zone's soulless 6 year-old, Anthony Fremont who, when confronted by people he didn't like simply "wished them into the cornfield." To top it off, the Administration announced that the National Parks Service will end free admission on Martin Luther King Day and Juneteenth. Instead June 14th, President Trump's birthday (and Flag Day) will now be a free admission day at national parks. We are in the midst of a full-blown effort to execute an anti-democracy project that seeks to nullify the legal, social, economic and educational apparatus designed to undergird the foundation of a multiracial democracy. The assault on the 14th Amendment has not generated the kind of moral panic that politicians, journalists, and tech bros successfully created over their claims of First Amendment abuses several years ago. They claimed that the scorn, disparagement, and condemnation they received for posting sexist, racist, and even fascist commentary or for making fascist gestures in public resulted in “cancellation." Obviously the First Amendment doesn't protect against people deciding that you are an odious person for publicly posting opinions that embrace eugenicist or misogynistic views, but their outrage was enough to put universities, media platforms, and corporations back on their heels. It was a nasty bit of political manipulation to be sure, but it was effective. And so here we are. The agenda has been laid bare for any sentient person to see. It is a the literal hijacking of our democracy. The truth of this project and its danger have been the clanging bell that could easily have been heard by those best-positioned to derail it. But it so happens that those most positioned to have headed off this moment of Constitution-defying, democracy-defying, collapse have refused to believe it. I confess this bothers me. Because we are late. Perhaps too late. Far too many leaders (including those in law, journalism, and business) have wasted precious time - pretending that this or that justice is an "institutionalist." Insisting that support for Trump was stoked by "economic anxiety," that it's "class," rather than white supremacist panic and moral collapse. Pretending that Trump was a "disrupter" rather than a destroyer of norms, of decency, of law. Indulging the fantasy of bipartisan solutions with a political party that has fully submitted itself to authoritarianism. Hoping that the MAGA fever will "break" in time. Counting on the business community to "wake-up" once the economy tanks, or the effects of the tariffs kick in. Refusing to see what is right before our eyes. This is an oligarchic and authoritarian takeover of our democracy, yes. But it is fueled by white supremacist ideology. That is the seductive messaging through which so many have been lured into participating in this national betrayal. We can continue cutting off the many heads of the hydra. Or we can get to the source.
December 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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jedbrown.org
Yes! It's great to see @timnitgebru.bsky.social and @xriskology.bsky.social's TESCREAL work contextualized here. We can't effectively organize without a clear-eyed shared reality of what these people are trying to achieve and how they wield power.
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
AI scientists like Timnit Gebru and Emil Torres warned years ago about how tech leaders in Silicon Valley had become captured by the “religion” of longtermism, and how closely aligned longtermism is with traditional Anglo-American eugenics. They were treated as extremists and conspiracy theorists Today the white supremacist views of many of the wealthiest and politically ambitious tech billionaires is on display almost daily. The recent release of some of the Epstein emails and files has confirmed the explicit nature of some of these connections.
December 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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wentrogue.bsky.social
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”

Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
Breaking on MS NOW:

Trump-appointed federal judge Emil Bove, one of Trump's former personal lawyers, is attending Trump's rally tonight in Pennsylvania.
December 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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ewong.bsky.social
NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM