@paigeridder.bsky.social
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A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
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Some experts expressed disagreement about whether the President can fly by flapping his arms very fast
December 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Some experts expressed disagreement about whether the President can fly by flapping his arms very fast
Hearing Trump talk about Somali immigrants in Minnesota is so upsetting. Fuck him and the whole crowd of racists standing behind him who said nothing. Leave Minnesotans alone!
December 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Hearing Trump talk about Somali immigrants in Minnesota is so upsetting. Fuck him and the whole crowd of racists standing behind him who said nothing. Leave Minnesotans alone!
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THE ACCURACY
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
THE ACCURACY
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there once was a whale in nantucket
who had sadly kicked the bucket
you set that right
with some dynamite
because sometimes you just say fuck it
who had sadly kicked the bucket
you set that right
with some dynamite
because sometimes you just say fuck it
A dead sperm whale has washed up on Nantucket for the first time in decades. It’s too big to move — at least until officials figure out a plan.
Dead Sperm Whale on Nantucket Is Too Big to Move, for Now
A local nonprofit said the 52-ton mammal is “far too big, awkward and heavy to remove.” A town official later said it could be dragged out to sea by Thanksgiving.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
there once was a whale in nantucket
who had sadly kicked the bucket
you set that right
with some dynamite
because sometimes you just say fuck it
who had sadly kicked the bucket
you set that right
with some dynamite
because sometimes you just say fuck it
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enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
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Dressed up like you’re in patrol in Fallujah, passing some retired banker from Myers Park out to pick up birdseed.
November 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Dressed up like you’re in patrol in Fallujah, passing some retired banker from Myers Park out to pick up birdseed.
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1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵
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Keep coming back to Summers’ annoyance that this female mentee he’s trying to sleep with “takes her presentation very seriously.” To men like this—to a lot of men—women’s intellectual or professional ambition is an irritating presumption that they condescend to tolerate.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Keep coming back to Summers’ annoyance that this female mentee he’s trying to sleep with “takes her presentation very seriously.” To men like this—to a lot of men—women’s intellectual or professional ambition is an irritating presumption that they condescend to tolerate.
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The Epstein case against Trump is as if everyone is looking at a 500 piece puzzle with 2 pieces missing and pretending they can't make out the picture for certain.
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The Epstein case against Trump is as if everyone is looking at a 500 piece puzzle with 2 pieces missing and pretending they can't make out the picture for certain.
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just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car
he was married at the time
he was married at the time
"All they could do to distract from the Schumer shutdown cover-up is leak Epstein emails ... What a sleazy leak."
Jesse Watters attacks Democrats for releasing Epstein emails
www.mediamatters.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car
he was married at the time
he was married at the time
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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This is the most obscenely wealthy, grotesquely cruel, offensively under qualified and incompetent, outrageously & blatantly corrupt, callously indifferent, brazenly self-serving, shamelessly deceitful administration in our country’s history. A hollow gold-plated autocracy destined to collapse.
October 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is the most obscenely wealthy, grotesquely cruel, offensively under qualified and incompetent, outrageously & blatantly corrupt, callously indifferent, brazenly self-serving, shamelessly deceitful administration in our country’s history. A hollow gold-plated autocracy destined to collapse.
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you know this guy had to have made a huge number of enemies for oklahoma republicans to want to take him down (serves him right, he sucks)
THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST
Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.
Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.
Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
you know this guy had to have made a huge number of enemies for oklahoma republicans to want to take him down (serves him right, he sucks)
RFK Jr’s hatred for autistic people is so palpable. Really wish he would just STFU.
RFK Jr: I've never seen a case of full-blown autism in a 70-year-old man. You're only seeing it in the kids. It's an epidemic.
September 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
RFK Jr’s hatred for autistic people is so palpable. Really wish he would just STFU.
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This was not in self defense and drug smuggling is not a capital offense. These are extrajudicial killings — mass murder on the high seas illegally ordered by the President of the United States. US service personnel do not get to play judge, jury, and executioner.
September 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This was not in self defense and drug smuggling is not a capital offense. These are extrajudicial killings — mass murder on the high seas illegally ordered by the President of the United States. US service personnel do not get to play judge, jury, and executioner.
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Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back.
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
August 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back.
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
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🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight.
In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well.
Here are from two of the resignations:
In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well.
Here are from two of the resignations:
August 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight.
In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well.
Here are from two of the resignations:
In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well.
Here are from two of the resignations:
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I just finished "There Is No Place for Us" by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social It's a modern, non-fiction, "The Jungle", about the purposely designed-to-fail housing system in this country - an unholy abomination of government & corporations - and the resulting dystopia www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in Ameri…
Through the unforgettable stories of five Atlanta famil…
www.goodreads.com
August 17, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I just finished "There Is No Place for Us" by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social It's a modern, non-fiction, "The Jungle", about the purposely designed-to-fail housing system in this country - an unholy abomination of government & corporations - and the resulting dystopia www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
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Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
July 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
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"As I was filming, people came to me and said: look at your forehead. There were three green laser dots on my head: private armed U.S. contractors who were guarding the site were pointing their weapons at my head. One spoke through a loudspeaker, in English: 'No filming allowed.'"
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
By Anas Baba
By Anas Baba
Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
n.pr
July 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"As I was filming, people came to me and said: look at your forehead. There were three green laser dots on my head: private armed U.S. contractors who were guarding the site were pointing their weapons at my head. One spoke through a loudspeaker, in English: 'No filming allowed.'"
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The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results
On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
January 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results
On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
What the hell is happening!?! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Migrants may have been deported to South Sudan despite court orders, lawyers say
Lawyers for the migrants say they were given abrupt notice Monday evening regarding their clients’ removal to South Sudan, a war-torn nation facing a hunger crisis.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
What the hell is happening!?! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...