Pacawhimsyjayme
@pacawhimsyjayme.bsky.social
Alpaca loving nuno & needle felting fiber artist, fan of Outlander, MPC, books, Great Danes, Maine Coons, Cockatiels. Duranie. Fan of all shades of purple, gardening & talking about alpacas all the time. ADHD/depression. https://ko-fi.com/jaymehettinger
Dr says it's time for surgery to reopen my airway. I guess the surgery schedulers will be contacting me sometime in the next week to schedule me for surgery. Yippee
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Dr says it's time for surgery to reopen my airway. I guess the surgery schedulers will be contacting me sometime in the next week to schedule me for surgery. Yippee
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This is what America looks like without an Attorney General. This is what America looks like when the Justice Department is the President’s private law firm.
November 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This is what America looks like without an Attorney General. This is what America looks like when the Justice Department is the President’s private law firm.
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Why did it take several days for Trump’s “Quiet, Piggy” insult of a female reporter to gain traction in news coverage? Because it happened on a Friday night, when many journalists had started their weekend. And because, sadly, he's trained the media to think accepting his insults is part of the job.
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Why did it take several days for Trump’s “Quiet, Piggy” insult of a female reporter to gain traction in news coverage? Because it happened on a Friday night, when many journalists had started their weekend. And because, sadly, he's trained the media to think accepting his insults is part of the job.
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NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
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I don't resent poor people who use food stamps to buy another soft drink.
I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.
I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.
November 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I don't resent poor people who use food stamps to buy another soft drink.
I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.
I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.
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study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
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So Trump has posted about 20 photos of the refurbished Lincoln Bathroom, which should satisfy the needs of the unemployed and hungry. In addition to looking pretty crummy, I have some questions about this toilet, which will have a great view of the new ballroom and vice versa.
October 31, 2025 at 5:50 PM
So Trump has posted about 20 photos of the refurbished Lincoln Bathroom, which should satisfy the needs of the unemployed and hungry. In addition to looking pretty crummy, I have some questions about this toilet, which will have a great view of the new ballroom and vice versa.
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"Trump views propaganda as key to his political viability. Without it, he suspects the whole edifice would crumble."
@brianbeutler.bsky.social connects a lot of dots here, good rebuttal to Douthat's (feigned?) naivete about the Epstein saga
www.offmessage.net/p/you-dont-u...
@brianbeutler.bsky.social connects a lot of dots here, good rebuttal to Douthat's (feigned?) naivete about the Epstein saga
www.offmessage.net/p/you-dont-u...
You Don't, Under Any Circumstances, Have To Play Into Donald Trump's Hands
He has a terrible poker face, and keeps telling us what he believes his greatest vulnerabilities are.
www.offmessage.net
October 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Trump views propaganda as key to his political viability. Without it, he suspects the whole edifice would crumble."
@brianbeutler.bsky.social connects a lot of dots here, good rebuttal to Douthat's (feigned?) naivete about the Epstein saga
www.offmessage.net/p/you-dont-u...
@brianbeutler.bsky.social connects a lot of dots here, good rebuttal to Douthat's (feigned?) naivete about the Epstein saga
www.offmessage.net/p/you-dont-u...
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This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.
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For ... reasons, going to link to this post with a timeline that includes overt steps taken in September and October 2022 in Trump Jan6 investigation.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/15/w...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/15/w...
October 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
For ... reasons, going to link to this post with a timeline that includes overt steps taken in September and October 2022 in Trump Jan6 investigation.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/15/w...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/15/w...
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JD Vance’s family was on food assistance when he was growing up, but he doesn’t think your family deserves that safety net.
October 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
JD Vance’s family was on food assistance when he was growing up, but he doesn’t think your family deserves that safety net.
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SNAP benefits have amounted to about 1.5% of the federal budget. The fraud rate is under 1%.
42 million Americans, many of them elderly and disabled, depend on this food assistance through no fault of their own.
16 million are children.
42 million Americans, many of them elderly and disabled, depend on this food assistance through no fault of their own.
16 million are children.
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
SNAP benefits have amounted to about 1.5% of the federal budget. The fraud rate is under 1%.
42 million Americans, many of them elderly and disabled, depend on this food assistance through no fault of their own.
16 million are children.
42 million Americans, many of them elderly and disabled, depend on this food assistance through no fault of their own.
16 million are children.
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It's not the same point, but the argument that the Biden admin had "porous policies" is completely false. They had a number of very harsh policies aiming to limit migration, the problem was state capacity to carry them out and the sheer force of the push/pull factors during the post-COVID years.
knew immediately this would have an abysmal 'to be sure' paragraph
October 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It's not the same point, but the argument that the Biden admin had "porous policies" is completely false. They had a number of very harsh policies aiming to limit migration, the problem was state capacity to carry them out and the sheer force of the push/pull factors during the post-COVID years.
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Let this sink in…
“At least one expert now predicting this could trigger greatest hunger catastrophe in the U.S. since the Great Depression.”
📌 The Dept of Agriculture posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid won’t go out on November 1.
“At least one expert now predicting this could trigger greatest hunger catastrophe in the U.S. since the Great Depression.”
📌 The Dept of Agriculture posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid won’t go out on November 1.
October 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Let this sink in…
“At least one expert now predicting this could trigger greatest hunger catastrophe in the U.S. since the Great Depression.”
📌 The Dept of Agriculture posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid won’t go out on November 1.
“At least one expert now predicting this could trigger greatest hunger catastrophe in the U.S. since the Great Depression.”
📌 The Dept of Agriculture posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid won’t go out on November 1.
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Churches, charities & family are not a substitute for SNAP
They can help but they’re not accessible to everyone
They can’t scale up to support an influx of 42 million people
The government could easily fund SNAP, they’re choosing not to
They’re choosing to let people starve
They can help but they’re not accessible to everyone
They can’t scale up to support an influx of 42 million people
The government could easily fund SNAP, they’re choosing not to
They’re choosing to let people starve
October 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Churches, charities & family are not a substitute for SNAP
They can help but they’re not accessible to everyone
They can’t scale up to support an influx of 42 million people
The government could easily fund SNAP, they’re choosing not to
They’re choosing to let people starve
They can help but they’re not accessible to everyone
They can’t scale up to support an influx of 42 million people
The government could easily fund SNAP, they’re choosing not to
They’re choosing to let people starve
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That’s $500 million lost per day
Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in local economic activity. Without SNAP, that will mean a loss of $15 billion to the US economy just in November alone.
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
That’s $500 million lost per day
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SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
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Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion says the dean of UC Berkeley’s law school
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o... USC better not sign on to this nonsense.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o... USC better not sign on to this nonsense.
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion says the dean of UC Berkeley’s law school
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o... USC better not sign on to this nonsense.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o... USC better not sign on to this nonsense.
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Under court order, UC is forced to publicly release Trump’s $1.2-billion settlement proposal
www.latimes.com/california/s...
👏UCLA Faculty; here’s trump’s extortion letter to UCLA ucop.edu/communicatio... glad the court denied UC’s & UCLA’s claim that releasing this would do “irreparable harm”
www.latimes.com/california/s...
👏UCLA Faculty; here’s trump’s extortion letter to UCLA ucop.edu/communicatio... glad the court denied UC’s & UCLA’s claim that releasing this would do “irreparable harm”
Under court order, UC publicly releases Trump administration's $1.2-billion settlement proposal
The California Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from the University of California to block the release of a roughly $1.2-billion Trump UCLA settlement, leading UCLA to publish the document o...
www.latimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Under court order, UC is forced to publicly release Trump’s $1.2-billion settlement proposal
www.latimes.com/california/s...
👏UCLA Faculty; here’s trump’s extortion letter to UCLA ucop.edu/communicatio... glad the court denied UC’s & UCLA’s claim that releasing this would do “irreparable harm”
www.latimes.com/california/s...
👏UCLA Faculty; here’s trump’s extortion letter to UCLA ucop.edu/communicatio... glad the court denied UC’s & UCLA’s claim that releasing this would do “irreparable harm”
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?
Now you know.
Now you know.
October 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?
Now you know.
Now you know.
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Someone want to tell Mikey here that 86% of all SNAP benefits go to households that include a child, an elderly person, or a person with disabilities?
Or that almost 40% of SNAP recipients are children?
And that Whites account for 37% of SNAP recipients?
Or that almost 40% of SNAP recipients are children?
And that Whites account for 37% of SNAP recipients?
October 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Someone want to tell Mikey here that 86% of all SNAP benefits go to households that include a child, an elderly person, or a person with disabilities?
Or that almost 40% of SNAP recipients are children?
And that Whites account for 37% of SNAP recipients?
Or that almost 40% of SNAP recipients are children?
And that Whites account for 37% of SNAP recipients?
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Corporate media is utterly in the tank for Trump and complicit with fascism.
www.status.news/p/mark-thomp...
www.status.news/p/mark-thomp...
Mark Thompson’s D.C. Drop-In
CNN’s chief has Washington talking about his private meeting at the White House—following which he urged the network to ease up on coverage of Trump’s East Room demolition, Status has learned.
www.status.news
October 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Corporate media is utterly in the tank for Trump and complicit with fascism.
www.status.news/p/mark-thomp...
www.status.news/p/mark-thomp...
Foster babies sleeping
October 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Foster babies sleeping