norrieaga
@norrieaga.bsky.social
tidal mermaid/voracious reader/constant gardner/community builder she/her navigating
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Other than the clear top-of-alphabet favoritism in this list (9 out of 20 have names that start between A and C? Typical biased media) this is a great list. Subscribe to The Onion, too, obviously, but this is a very good way to spend your money on good people.
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My guide:
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Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Other than the clear top-of-alphabet favoritism in this list (9 out of 20 have names that start between A and C? Typical biased media) this is a great list. Subscribe to The Onion, too, obviously, but this is a very good way to spend your money on good people.
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This will forever be a heartbreak. Good people; taken. It’s gutting. 💔😞
"ICE is arresting the worst of the worst."
Everything this administration tells us is a lie.
Everything this administration tells us is a lie.
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This will forever be a heartbreak. Good people; taken. It’s gutting. 💔😞
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I wish all figures of authority cared about moms and babies. But some don’t. Some even want you to hurt. And those are the people who cast doubt on the vaccination miracle that has allowed so many of us to live longer and better.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I wish all figures of authority cared about moms and babies. But some don’t. Some even want you to hurt. And those are the people who cast doubt on the vaccination miracle that has allowed so many of us to live longer and better.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
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Served country.
Went to space.
Nursed wife through gunshot wound to the head.
Successfully ran for Senate.
Never abandoned morals or ethics.
What else does Pete need to know?
Went to space.
Nursed wife through gunshot wound to the head.
Successfully ran for Senate.
Never abandoned morals or ethics.
What else does Pete need to know?
Hegseth wants briefing on review of Senator Kelly's conduct by Dec 10, memo says reut.rs/3XP8InZ
Hegseth wants briefing on review of Senator Kelly's conduct by Dec 10, memo says
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday requested he be briefed by December 10 on the results of a review into "potentially unlawful" comments made by U.S. Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain.
reut.rs
November 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Served country.
Went to space.
Nursed wife through gunshot wound to the head.
Successfully ran for Senate.
Never abandoned morals or ethics.
What else does Pete need to know?
Went to space.
Nursed wife through gunshot wound to the head.
Successfully ran for Senate.
Never abandoned morals or ethics.
What else does Pete need to know?
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
This piece is really helpful for processing news
“Groceries,” and Other Secrets of Managing Donald Trump www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/23/g...
“Groceries,” and Other Secrets of Managing Donald Trump www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/23/g...
"Groceries," and Other Secrets of Managing Donald Trump - emptywheel
Three developments that have befuddled observers -- Trump's fawning praise of Zohran Mamdani, Kirill Dmitriev's latest success at manipulating Trump advisors, and Marjorie Taylor Greene's departure --...
www.emptywheel.net
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This piece is really helpful for processing news
“Groceries,” and Other Secrets of Managing Donald Trump www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/23/g...
“Groceries,” and Other Secrets of Managing Donald Trump www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/23/g...
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Yay for waste water management!
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yay for waste water management!
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Devastating. Alice Wong's work was a formative part of my disability journey & we worked on Disability Divest together. May @sfdirewolf.bsky.social memory be a blessing & revolution.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Devastating. Alice Wong's work was a formative part of my disability journey & we worked on Disability Divest together. May @sfdirewolf.bsky.social memory be a blessing & revolution.
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“Radically committed to a life of pleasure and joy.” www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51
The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social me...
www.npr.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“Radically committed to a life of pleasure and joy.” www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
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Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
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It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.
I just received my first piece of campaign mail for the MA-6 Essex Congressional seat that will be vacated by Seth Moulton,from his chief of staff.
For an idea of how popular Seth Moulton is around here..the letter never once says "Seth Moulton".
For an idea of how popular Seth Moulton is around here..the letter never once says "Seth Moulton".
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I just received my first piece of campaign mail for the MA-6 Essex Congressional seat that will be vacated by Seth Moulton,from his chief of staff.
For an idea of how popular Seth Moulton is around here..the letter never once says "Seth Moulton".
For an idea of how popular Seth Moulton is around here..the letter never once says "Seth Moulton".
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From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
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Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social - Democratic TN-7 nominee - pulls out the mechanical bull 🐂 to make the point that our politicians are owned by billionaires— who gave $2 MILLION to Van Epps(stein Files) in the GOP primary, for some mysterious reason.
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social - Democratic TN-7 nominee - pulls out the mechanical bull 🐂 to make the point that our politicians are owned by billionaires— who gave $2 MILLION to Van Epps(stein Files) in the GOP primary, for some mysterious reason.
"all politics is local" -Tip O'Neill
Feeling relieved in my city for the outcome of our mayoral and city council races. Go Beverly!
Excited for results in NYC! Lets go VA! Hey Mikie!
I'll wait til tomorrow to find out about prop 50.
Feeling relieved in my city for the outcome of our mayoral and city council races. Go Beverly!
Excited for results in NYC! Lets go VA! Hey Mikie!
I'll wait til tomorrow to find out about prop 50.
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
"all politics is local" -Tip O'Neill
Feeling relieved in my city for the outcome of our mayoral and city council races. Go Beverly!
Excited for results in NYC! Lets go VA! Hey Mikie!
I'll wait til tomorrow to find out about prop 50.
Feeling relieved in my city for the outcome of our mayoral and city council races. Go Beverly!
Excited for results in NYC! Lets go VA! Hey Mikie!
I'll wait til tomorrow to find out about prop 50.
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Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
Auburn University requires faculty to review courses to comply with anti-DEI law
Auburn's provost office posted a web site on how to comply with state and federal DEI mandates on Oct. 31.
www.al.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
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Tax. The. Rich!! And FTR. 🖕🏼
When billionaires lay off the people that made them rich, they celebrate by giving themselves a raise.
November 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Tax. The. Rich!! And FTR. 🖕🏼
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"... Rockwell’s son and other descendants wrote that the paintings had been used without the family’s authorization and that the artist would be “devastated” to see his work “marshalled for the cause of persecution toward immigrant communities and people of color.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a...
Norman Rockwell’s Family Condemns Homeland Security’s Use of His Work
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"... Rockwell’s son and other descendants wrote that the paintings had been used without the family’s authorization and that the artist would be “devastated” to see his work “marshalled for the cause of persecution toward immigrant communities and people of color.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a...
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U.S. Robert Gettleman is now giving his thoughts. He says, "I think the evidence has been pretty strong that this facility is no longer just a temporary holding facility. …
"It has really become a prison."
"It has really become a prison."
DOJ's Jana Brady steps up next but says she'll largely "rest on our brief that we filed."
She wants any TRO to not "interfere with the executive branch."
She wants any TRO to not "interfere with the executive branch."
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
U.S. Robert Gettleman is now giving his thoughts. He says, "I think the evidence has been pretty strong that this facility is no longer just a temporary holding facility. …
"It has really become a prison."
"It has really become a prison."
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CHICAGO: “My uncle was on his way home from getting groceries on his bike — they grabbed him and choked him and punched him… he’s a kind hardworking man. They’re racially profiling people.”
Trump’s ICE goons put an elderly man in the hospital and nearly choked him to death.
Trump’s ICE goons put an elderly man in the hospital and nearly choked him to death.
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
CHICAGO: “My uncle was on his way home from getting groceries on his bike — they grabbed him and choked him and punched him… he’s a kind hardworking man. They’re racially profiling people.”
Trump’s ICE goons put an elderly man in the hospital and nearly choked him to death.
Trump’s ICE goons put an elderly man in the hospital and nearly choked him to death.
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"we should run moderates in moderate areas" okay well what about in progressive areas "we should run moderates there too" I see, and who is "we" in this thought experiment
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"we should run moderates in moderate areas" okay well what about in progressive areas "we should run moderates there too" I see, and who is "we" in this thought experiment
Pablo Moreno Gonzalez is testifying in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman about the conditions inside the ICE facility in west suburban Broadview.
Gonzalez says he is 56 and was born in Mexico but has lived in Chicago for 35 years.
Gonzalez says he is 56 and was born in Mexico but has lived in Chicago for 35 years.
Pablo Moreno Gonzalez is on the witness stand. Will start a new thread for his testimony.
November 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM