Eleanor
@oleander0.bsky.social
Workplace anthropologist in tech, sociolinguist, editor; nature, art, and people lover. Intel Principal Engineer, retired. Former editor Information Technology & People. Currently academic copy editor.
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Happy Thanksgiving fam
a group of turkeys are laying on their backs on the ground
ALT: a group of turkeys are laying on their backs on the ground
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Happy Thanksgiving fam
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As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste nevadacurrent.com/2025/11/26/a...
As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste • Nevada Current
The U.S. government has caused massive food waste during President Donald Trump’s second term. Policies such as immigration raids, tariff changes and temporary and permanent cuts to food assistance pr...
nevadacurrent.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste nevadacurrent.com/2025/11/26/a...
The New Colossus
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The New Colossus
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
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‼️‼️ Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
‼️‼️ Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
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For scholars, even if you don’t want to take sides politically, if you want academic research to continue at any scale remotely like the present, there is only one party that will allow that
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
For scholars, even if you don’t want to take sides politically, if you want academic research to continue at any scale remotely like the present, there is only one party that will allow that
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Just a reminder:
The night Epstein "committed suicide".
-He was on suicide watch.
-The guards "fell asleep" and failed to complete more than 75 mandatory checks on him.
-The cameras monitoring him "stopped working"
-Prosecuting the guards was "deferred"
www.npr.org/2023/06/27/1...
The night Epstein "committed suicide".
-He was on suicide watch.
-The guards "fell asleep" and failed to complete more than 75 mandatory checks on him.
-The cameras monitoring him "stopped working"
-Prosecuting the guards was "deferred"
www.npr.org/2023/06/27/1...
Negligence, staff failures led to Jeffrey Epstein's suicide, a DOJ report says
The disgraced financier who was jailed for sex trafficking charges, killed himself at New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019. He died before standing trial.
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Just a reminder:
The night Epstein "committed suicide".
-He was on suicide watch.
-The guards "fell asleep" and failed to complete more than 75 mandatory checks on him.
-The cameras monitoring him "stopped working"
-Prosecuting the guards was "deferred"
www.npr.org/2023/06/27/1...
The night Epstein "committed suicide".
-He was on suicide watch.
-The guards "fell asleep" and failed to complete more than 75 mandatory checks on him.
-The cameras monitoring him "stopped working"
-Prosecuting the guards was "deferred"
www.npr.org/2023/06/27/1...
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We found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
We found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
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'This Is the Scandal': DHS Data Show ICE Mostly Targeting People With No Criminal Convictions www.commondreams.org/news/immigra...
'This Is the Scandal': DHS Data Show ICE Mostly Targeting People With No Criminal Convictions | Common Dreams
The libertarian Cato Institute further undermined the Trump administration's claims that it is targeting "the worst of the worst" with its violent immigration operations by publishing data about the c...
www.commondreams.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
'This Is the Scandal': DHS Data Show ICE Mostly Targeting People With No Criminal Convictions www.commondreams.org/news/immigra...
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Trump economics and Republican Party governance.
We Went to Arkansas. The Farm Crisis Will Shock You
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Trump economics and Republican Party governance.
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The United Nations General Assembly just voted to condemn torture. The United States was one of only three countries that voted against it.
(The other two were the U.S.-backed far-right governments of Argentina and Israel.)
(The other two were the U.S.-backed far-right governments of Argentina and Israel.)
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The United Nations General Assembly just voted to condemn torture. The United States was one of only three countries that voted against it.
(The other two were the U.S.-backed far-right governments of Argentina and Israel.)
(The other two were the U.S.-backed far-right governments of Argentina and Israel.)
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I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now.
I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system.
It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system.
It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now.
I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system.
It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system.
It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
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This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.
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@shawnforcongress.bsky.social is the Democrat running for that district. Show some love please
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
@shawnforcongress.bsky.social is the Democrat running for that district. Show some love please
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November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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NEW: This is one hell of an opening paragraph from Jim Comey's attorneys in his motion to get the grand jury materials in the case against him.
November 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
NEW: This is one hell of an opening paragraph from Jim Comey's attorneys in his motion to get the grand jury materials in the case against him.
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If a reasonable person would know the order is illegal, you MUST refuse.
Obedience is not absolute, duty to the Constitution is.
Oath is to defend the Constitution not a person
Yes. U.S. service members have a legal and moral obligation to disobey an illegal order.
Not just the right.
The DUTY.
Obedience is not absolute, duty to the Constitution is.
Oath is to defend the Constitution not a person
Yes. U.S. service members have a legal and moral obligation to disobey an illegal order.
Not just the right.
The DUTY.
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
If a reasonable person would know the order is illegal, you MUST refuse.
Obedience is not absolute, duty to the Constitution is.
Oath is to defend the Constitution not a person
Yes. U.S. service members have a legal and moral obligation to disobey an illegal order.
Not just the right.
The DUTY.
Obedience is not absolute, duty to the Constitution is.
Oath is to defend the Constitution not a person
Yes. U.S. service members have a legal and moral obligation to disobey an illegal order.
Not just the right.
The DUTY.
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Immigration accountability advocates today unveiled a sweeping new online “Wiki” built on the ICE List project, promising a central, searchable record tying individual immigration agents to raids, vehicles, local police partners, and the legal machinery behind U.S. immigration enforcement.
NEWS: ICE List Launches Wiki to Expose Enforcement Network
The Europe-based volunteer-built database links raids, agents, vehicles, and legal structures, aiming to break the cycle of official secrecy.
migrantinsider.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Immigration accountability advocates today unveiled a sweeping new online “Wiki” built on the ICE List project, promising a central, searchable record tying individual immigration agents to raids, vehicles, local police partners, and the legal machinery behind U.S. immigration enforcement.
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Pence rebukes Trump for his comments on Khashoggi's murder:
"I would not have made that statement... I think it's very important that we never cast aside our deep commitment to freedom, to freedom of the press. Had I been given the opportunity... that meeting would have gone a little different."
"I would not have made that statement... I think it's very important that we never cast aside our deep commitment to freedom, to freedom of the press. Had I been given the opportunity... that meeting would have gone a little different."
November 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Pence rebukes Trump for his comments on Khashoggi's murder:
"I would not have made that statement... I think it's very important that we never cast aside our deep commitment to freedom, to freedom of the press. Had I been given the opportunity... that meeting would have gone a little different."
"I would not have made that statement... I think it's very important that we never cast aside our deep commitment to freedom, to freedom of the press. Had I been given the opportunity... that meeting would have gone a little different."
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This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
