Sharon
@othesharon.bsky.social
I don't really know what I'm doing anymore.
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KFF’s @larrylevitt.bsky.social advises signing up now, because once enrollment open ends you won’t have another chance.
You can sign as a hedge, in case a deal is passed, and decide to drop out later if there’s no deal.
You can sign as a hedge, in case a deal is passed, and decide to drop out later if there’s no deal.
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
KFF’s @larrylevitt.bsky.social advises signing up now, because once enrollment open ends you won’t have another chance.
You can sign as a hedge, in case a deal is passed, and decide to drop out later if there’s no deal.
You can sign as a hedge, in case a deal is passed, and decide to drop out later if there’s no deal.
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like if you validate your idea by doing it completely unsustainably you haven't validated anything. "I validated my business plan by selling dollar bills for 50 cents" no you didn't
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
like if you validate your idea by doing it completely unsustainably you haven't validated anything. "I validated my business plan by selling dollar bills for 50 cents" no you didn't
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I may sound like a broken record on this but that's the nature of trauma: every one of these children will be traumatized for life. For life.
My own separation from my mother via immigration was just about the gentlest imaginable version... and it's still the central truth of my adult life. I'm 60.
My own separation from my mother via immigration was just about the gentlest imaginable version... and it's still the central truth of my adult life. I'm 60.
NEW: Today we published a new investigation into something happening largely out of view: immigrant kids getting separated from their families and placed in federal shelters, in some cases after something as mundane as a traffic stop🧵 1/
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I may sound like a broken record on this but that's the nature of trauma: every one of these children will be traumatized for life. For life.
My own separation from my mother via immigration was just about the gentlest imaginable version... and it's still the central truth of my adult life. I'm 60.
My own separation from my mother via immigration was just about the gentlest imaginable version... and it's still the central truth of my adult life. I'm 60.
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Fear is contagious, but so is courage. I remain steadfast in my oath to the Constitution and am grateful to those across the nation who stand with us. Don't give up the ship.
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Fear is contagious, but so is courage. I remain steadfast in my oath to the Constitution and am grateful to those across the nation who stand with us. Don't give up the ship.
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It’s really twisted that our country is run by a gang that considers it treason to object to the unlawful.
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It’s really twisted that our country is run by a gang that considers it treason to object to the unlawful.
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this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time
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Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.
We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation.
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.
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New in PN: @mattgertz.bsky.social on the Orbanization of the press
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
The Orbanization of the American press
"The really unnerving thing is Trump using state power to influence who a company gets sold to," Matt Gertz tells us.
www.publicnotice.co
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
New in PN: @mattgertz.bsky.social on the Orbanization of the press
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
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It's so annoying that there's no way to opt in for machine learning (helpful) and opt out of LLMs (privacy-busting, privilege issues, unhelpful). AI shouldn't mean all or nothing!
November 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It's so annoying that there's no way to opt in for machine learning (helpful) and opt out of LLMs (privacy-busting, privilege issues, unhelpful). AI shouldn't mean all or nothing!
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so a recap is lying a second time
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
so a recap is lying a second time
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ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
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A new Washington Post exclusive reveals that the Trump Administration is reclassifying “symbols of hate” as “potentially divisive” for the Coast Guard. Follow @onoffensepod.bsky.social for more on resisting authoritarianism.
WaPo gift link: wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
WaPo gift link: wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
A new Washington Post exclusive reveals that the Trump Administration is reclassifying “symbols of hate” as “potentially divisive” for the Coast Guard. Follow @onoffensepod.bsky.social for more on resisting authoritarianism.
WaPo gift link: wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
WaPo gift link: wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
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They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
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It's not a sophisticated reaction, but my response to both "quiet, piggy" and the Coast Guard okaying swastikas and nooses is a deep sadness that the compassion we're working so hard to foster in our children will not just be challenged by schoolyard bullies but by the highest levels of society.
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It's not a sophisticated reaction, but my response to both "quiet, piggy" and the Coast Guard okaying swastikas and nooses is a deep sadness that the compassion we're working so hard to foster in our children will not just be challenged by schoolyard bullies but by the highest levels of society.
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When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!
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Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
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I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed?
The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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I won't start ranting about it because I just get myself worked up, but quickly: I literally can not think of an investment of public funds that has a higher return than *cleaning the indoor air in schools*. It's so easy, so cheap, & has such HUGE payoff. Criminal that we basically don't do it.
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I won't start ranting about it because I just get myself worked up, but quickly: I literally can not think of an investment of public funds that has a higher return than *cleaning the indoor air in schools*. It's so easy, so cheap, & has such HUGE payoff. Criminal that we basically don't do it.
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NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
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IF YOU LIVE IN TN-07, WHAT IS YOUR PLAN TO VOTE???
Early voting is open NOW through Nov 26th.
Election day is Dec 2nd.
The numbers to a Behn victory are there...but only if we Get Out The Vote!
#AftynFTW
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Get in the fight: www.standupforscience.net/tennesseans-...
Early voting is open NOW through Nov 26th.
Election day is Dec 2nd.
The numbers to a Behn victory are there...but only if we Get Out The Vote!
#AftynFTW
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Get in the fight: www.standupforscience.net/tennesseans-...
SUFS Supports Aftyn Behn for TN-07 — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
The Stand Up For Science movement is growing because of you. Let's get more momentum going!
www.standupforscience.net
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
IF YOU LIVE IN TN-07, WHAT IS YOUR PLAN TO VOTE???
Early voting is open NOW through Nov 26th.
Election day is Dec 2nd.
The numbers to a Behn victory are there...but only if we Get Out The Vote!
#AftynFTW
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Get in the fight: www.standupforscience.net/tennesseans-...
Early voting is open NOW through Nov 26th.
Election day is Dec 2nd.
The numbers to a Behn victory are there...but only if we Get Out The Vote!
#AftynFTW
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Get in the fight: www.standupforscience.net/tennesseans-...
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We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
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This morning on NPR a reporter referred to the exploited children in the Jeffrey Epstein case as "underage women."
In other situations, where young boys have been exploited, I don't think I have ever once heard those children referred to as "underage men."
In other situations, where young boys have been exploited, I don't think I have ever once heard those children referred to as "underage men."
November 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
This morning on NPR a reporter referred to the exploited children in the Jeffrey Epstein case as "underage women."
In other situations, where young boys have been exploited, I don't think I have ever once heard those children referred to as "underage men."
In other situations, where young boys have been exploited, I don't think I have ever once heard those children referred to as "underage men."
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On the contrary: they have found Jesus, but have simply failed to recognize him
November 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
On the contrary: they have found Jesus, but have simply failed to recognize him
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November 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
When you make your gift of $100 or more to Bread for the World, I’ll match it dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $500,000, and send you a special Xmas package.
Imagine, as an extended family of caring (and traveling) people, together we can empower Bread's work with $1,000,000!
Imagine, as an extended family of caring (and traveling) people, together we can empower Bread's work with $1,000,000!