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· Aug 31
My bluesky is just a depressing muddle of reposts of depressing news, healthcare, and trans rights
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Lily's gorgeous ElfQuest lithographs are almost sold out. Don't miss out!
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The next in my 'Seasons of the World of Two Moons' Collection with @elfquest.bsky.social and Stands is Moonshade the tanner representing Autumn.
This limited edition lithograph collection is selling out! Order yours now from before they are gone 🍂
#artnouveau #elfquest #autumn #moonshade
This limited edition lithograph collection is selling out! Order yours now from before they are gone 🍂
#artnouveau #elfquest #autumn #moonshade
December 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Lily's gorgeous ElfQuest lithographs are almost sold out. Don't miss out!
Order: shopstands.com/collections/...
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Kelly notes it should send a shiver down the spine of any patriotic American that Trump and Hegseth would so corruptly abuse their power to come after him or anyone else this way. Kelly will not back down. Will you? Or will you also stand up for democracy? #EnoughIsEnough
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We learned the Pentagon is escalating its review of me into "an official command investigation"
YouTube video by Senator Mark Kelly
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December 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Kelly notes it should send a shiver down the spine of any patriotic American that Trump and Hegseth would so corruptly abuse their power to come after him or anyone else this way. Kelly will not back down. Will you? Or will you also stand up for democracy? #EnoughIsEnough
youtu.be/NyF9dZQu5K8?...
youtu.be/NyF9dZQu5K8?...
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The White House is not private property. It does not belong to Donald Trump. It belongs to the people.
I’m introducing legislation to protect the building’s historic character against the president’s bulldozer and Marie Antoinette ballroom.
I’m introducing legislation to protect the building’s historic character against the president’s bulldozer and Marie Antoinette ballroom.
Raskin to introduce bill to require review of White House renovation plans
Rep. Jamie Raskin wants to see White House construction like President Trump's ballroom project subjected to the same scrutiny as other federal projects.
www.cbsnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The White House is not private property. It does not belong to Donald Trump. It belongs to the people.
I’m introducing legislation to protect the building’s historic character against the president’s bulldozer and Marie Antoinette ballroom.
I’m introducing legislation to protect the building’s historic character against the president’s bulldozer and Marie Antoinette ballroom.
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As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing
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YES THIS
also FOMO goes right out the window, as in, sure, I could go out to all the hot spots OR I could lie here in bed with my iPad watching @dropout.tv with at least one cat dozing alongside, hmmmm, I guess the cool kids will just have to have fun without me
also FOMO goes right out the window, as in, sure, I could go out to all the hot spots OR I could lie here in bed with my iPad watching @dropout.tv with at least one cat dozing alongside, hmmmm, I guess the cool kids will just have to have fun without me
The best thing about middle age is not giving one single solitary fuck about being cool anymore.
December 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
YES THIS
also FOMO goes right out the window, as in, sure, I could go out to all the hot spots OR I could lie here in bed with my iPad watching @dropout.tv with at least one cat dozing alongside, hmmmm, I guess the cool kids will just have to have fun without me
also FOMO goes right out the window, as in, sure, I could go out to all the hot spots OR I could lie here in bed with my iPad watching @dropout.tv with at least one cat dozing alongside, hmmmm, I guess the cool kids will just have to have fun without me
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This is extremely important
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is extremely important
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In essence, there has been no growth in the jobs base since Trump proclaimed "Liberation Day." Trump gets a disastrous report card. But no economists are surprised by it. www.ft.com/content/17a1...
US unemployment rate hits four-year high of 4.6%
Jobless level for November indicates weakening labour market
www.ft.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
In essence, there has been no growth in the jobs base since Trump proclaimed "Liberation Day." Trump gets a disastrous report card. But no economists are surprised by it. www.ft.com/content/17a1...
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One reason the GOP is repeatedly terrible at managing the economy is that they believe public sector jobs aren’t real jobs, & they demonize/defund the govt - at both the state & federal levels - every time they hold power. Only difference this time is how wildly illegally they’ve done it via DOGE.
Federal government employment is down more than 270k since the start of the year amidst DOGE cuts—that's nearly 9% of the Fed workforce
The large drops in recent months are caused by many workers who've been on deferred resignation becoming officially unemployed
The large drops in recent months are caused by many workers who've been on deferred resignation becoming officially unemployed
December 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
One reason the GOP is repeatedly terrible at managing the economy is that they believe public sector jobs aren’t real jobs, & they demonize/defund the govt - at both the state & federal levels - every time they hold power. Only difference this time is how wildly illegally they’ve done it via DOGE.
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Don't you dare come for Dolly.
MAGA Fan Tries To Go After 'Creepy Creature' Dolly Parton—And People Are Not Having Any Of It
www.comicsands.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Don't you dare come for Dolly.
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Under Trump:
- The economy has slowed, heading towards recession now
- Inflation is rising, most things cost more
- His cutting of energy subsidies is driving up utility prices
- He's taken 100s of billions from health care/food assistance in a war on working people
- He's making measles great again
- The economy has slowed, heading towards recession now
- Inflation is rising, most things cost more
- His cutting of energy subsidies is driving up utility prices
- He's taken 100s of billions from health care/food assistance in a war on working people
- He's making measles great again
A few points here:
- Over 300,000 jobs on average were created each month of Biden Presidency
- In the last 3 months of his Presidency the average was 203,000
- Only 64,000 jobs were created last month, and the unemployment rate has risen from 4 to 4.6 under Trump
This Trump thing ain't working.
- Over 300,000 jobs on average were created each month of Biden Presidency
- In the last 3 months of his Presidency the average was 203,000
- Only 64,000 jobs were created last month, and the unemployment rate has risen from 4 to 4.6 under Trump
This Trump thing ain't working.
Are we in a recession?
Perhaps. Maybe. Hard to tell.
The Sahm Rule focuses on the 3-month average unemployment rate, and asking if it's risen half a point above its year-long low.
The low was 4.0% in January.
The latest (average of Sept & Nov, with Oct missing): 4.5%.
That's +0.5%.
Perhaps. Maybe. Hard to tell.
The Sahm Rule focuses on the 3-month average unemployment rate, and asking if it's risen half a point above its year-long low.
The low was 4.0% in January.
The latest (average of Sept & Nov, with Oct missing): 4.5%.
That's +0.5%.
December 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Under Trump:
- The economy has slowed, heading towards recession now
- Inflation is rising, most things cost more
- His cutting of energy subsidies is driving up utility prices
- He's taken 100s of billions from health care/food assistance in a war on working people
- He's making measles great again
- The economy has slowed, heading towards recession now
- Inflation is rising, most things cost more
- His cutting of energy subsidies is driving up utility prices
- He's taken 100s of billions from health care/food assistance in a war on working people
- He's making measles great again
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"Unprecedented" is signaling a lot of historical ignorance on the part of the writer.
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Battle of Blair Mountain - Wikipedia
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December 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"Unprecedented" is signaling a lot of historical ignorance on the part of the writer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...
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Earlier this year, Matt Yglesias and Hakeem Jeffries urged progressives to shut up about immigration and Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Yglesias said "bad groups" were pushing Dems left on immigration and would help Trump's numbers.
How did they get this so wrong? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
How did they get this so wrong? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
The cost of playing defense on immigration
What Matt Yglesias, Hakeem Jeffries, and Keir Starmer got wrong about the politics of immigration
www.gelliottmorris.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Earlier this year, Matt Yglesias and Hakeem Jeffries urged progressives to shut up about immigration and Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Yglesias said "bad groups" were pushing Dems left on immigration and would help Trump's numbers.
How did they get this so wrong? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
How did they get this so wrong? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
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people love to be like ‘blue states good! red states bad!’ but it is a fact that both new york senators voted in favor of this so 🤷♀️
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
people love to be like ‘blue states good! red states bad!’ but it is a fact that both new york senators voted in favor of this so 🤷♀️
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This is incredible news. Today, Virginia officials will unveil a statue of Barbara Johns at the Capitol to replace one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had stood for more than a century. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Statue of Black teen who fought segregation replaces Robert E. Lee at U.S. Capitol
Barbara Rose Johns was only 16 when she led a walkout in 1951 to protest horrendous conditions at her segregated high school for Black students in rural Farmville, Virginia.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This is incredible news. Today, Virginia officials will unveil a statue of Barbara Johns at the Capitol to replace one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had stood for more than a century. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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"Erica" shared a photo of a crew harvesting the last remaining grapes of the season in Mettler, CA. The styrofoam boxes indicate that they will be exported or sent directly to cold storage. #WeFeedYou
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"Erica" shared a photo of a crew harvesting the last remaining grapes of the season in Mettler, CA. The styrofoam boxes indicate that they will be exported or sent directly to cold storage. #WeFeedYou
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Habby birbdey to McQ! He is 1 yeer oldt. We starting de dey with tuney an eech get new peese of catnibb tissue paber fur owr faberit bockses #cats #catsofbluesky
December 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Habby birbdey to McQ! He is 1 yeer oldt. We starting de dey with tuney an eech get new peese of catnibb tissue paber fur owr faberit bockses #cats #catsofbluesky
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This really resonates - I was taught the same formal essay structures back in the day and as a result every time I see people claim some grammatical quirk is sure proof of LLM authorship I get nervous about writing anything in public.
This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
marcusolang.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This really resonates - I was taught the same formal essay structures back in the day and as a result every time I see people claim some grammatical quirk is sure proof of LLM authorship I get nervous about writing anything in public.
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the most wonderful time of the year just got a little more colorful!
it’s with much happiness in my heart that i share with you my new coloring ebook: meowy christmas 🎄
poorlycatdraw.gumroad.com/l/meowychris...
it’s with much happiness in my heart that i share with you my new coloring ebook: meowy christmas 🎄
poorlycatdraw.gumroad.com/l/meowychris...
December 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
the most wonderful time of the year just got a little more colorful!
it’s with much happiness in my heart that i share with you my new coloring ebook: meowy christmas 🎄
poorlycatdraw.gumroad.com/l/meowychris...
it’s with much happiness in my heart that i share with you my new coloring ebook: meowy christmas 🎄
poorlycatdraw.gumroad.com/l/meowychris...
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CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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So if you are going to share, I'd appreciate it if you would share the original report. 4/4 www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
So if you are going to share, I'd appreciate it if you would share the original report. 4/4 www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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This Day in Labor History: December 16, 1977. Eight women bank workers at Citizens National Bank in Willmar, Minnesota went on strike, charging sex discrimination they faced on the job. Let's talk about these brave women and their fight for justice!
December 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This Day in Labor History: December 16, 1977. Eight women bank workers at Citizens National Bank in Willmar, Minnesota went on strike, charging sex discrimination they faced on the job. Let's talk about these brave women and their fight for justice!
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This is what taking public safety seriously looks like. Meanwhile, in America…
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
n.pr
December 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is what taking public safety seriously looks like. Meanwhile, in America…
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Still two weeks to go in the year but I'm pretty sure this will end up being my most listened track of 2025:
youtu.be/QGsevnbItdU
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"How It's Done" Official Lyric Video | KPop Demon Hunters | Sony Animation
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Animation
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December 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Still two weeks to go in the year but I'm pretty sure this will end up being my most listened track of 2025:
youtu.be/QGsevnbItdU
youtu.be/QGsevnbItdU
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Premiums are going to double, triple or even quadruple for working families. House Democrats are fighting to stop this and extend the ACA tax credits.
www.cbsnews.com/news/aca-sub...
www.cbsnews.com/news/aca-sub...
With ACA subsidies set to lapse, millions of Americans face a painful spike in health plan costs
"I don't know how I'm going to pay for this," said one person with an Affordable Care Act plan that will cost her $1,100 a month starting in January.
www.cbsnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Premiums are going to double, triple or even quadruple for working families. House Democrats are fighting to stop this and extend the ACA tax credits.
www.cbsnews.com/news/aca-sub...
www.cbsnews.com/news/aca-sub...