PatMalan
@patmalan.bsky.social
Textile artist, dog lover and quiet activist. I'm just one silver thread, but together with threads of many origins, we form an invincible cloth. #Bramily Speaking out is our only option!
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"I feel like I have this front row seat to the destruction of our democracy. We are seeing it in real time with a president who is asking us to do things that are illegal and harmful to the American public." @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
Jenna Norton was placed on administrative leave from NIH
Jenna Norton was placed on administrative leave from NIH
Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave. n.pr/4oFYdPL
She criticized President Trump during the shutdown. Now she's been put on leave
Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave.
n.pr
November 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"I feel like I have this front row seat to the destruction of our democracy. We are seeing it in real time with a president who is asking us to do things that are illegal and harmful to the American public." @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
Jenna Norton was placed on administrative leave from NIH
Jenna Norton was placed on administrative leave from NIH
While we wait for the epstein files, let's explore how maga will try to neutralize the facts. Tim Miller at the Bulwark. 👏👏
youtu.be/3ToBlvZZxJ4?...
youtu.be/3ToBlvZZxJ4?...
Megyn Kelly is a Deeply Broken Person
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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November 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
While we wait for the epstein files, let's explore how maga will try to neutralize the facts. Tim Miller at the Bulwark. 👏👏
youtu.be/3ToBlvZZxJ4?...
youtu.be/3ToBlvZZxJ4?...
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The right can’t decide if it's okay to hate Jews
The right can’t decide if it's okay to hate Jews
The fallout from Nick Fuentes's appearance on Tucker Carlson continues.
www.motherjones.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The right can’t decide if it's okay to hate Jews
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So proud of my friend and fellow Welsh Pembroke Corgi owner @andrewfeinberg.com for asking this question:
“What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"
“What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
So proud of my friend and fellow Welsh Pembroke Corgi owner @andrewfeinberg.com for asking this question:
“What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"
“What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"
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Trump’s problem is that so many Americans — including his MAGA base — believed that he’d expose a powerful global elite.
But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump may actually be part of that global elite.
Expect him to lash out as the walls close in.
But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump may actually be part of that global elite.
Expect him to lash out as the walls close in.
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Trump’s problem is that so many Americans — including his MAGA base — believed that he’d expose a powerful global elite.
But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump may actually be part of that global elite.
Expect him to lash out as the walls close in.
But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump may actually be part of that global elite.
Expect him to lash out as the walls close in.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social , have you done a comparison to Dickensian era economic policy and outcomes? It sure feels like we are heading to workhouses, indentured type work, and streets full of hungry children.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
42 Million People Are Enrolled in SNAP. Who Are They?
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social , have you done a comparison to Dickensian era economic policy and outcomes? It sure feels like we are heading to workhouses, indentured type work, and streets full of hungry children.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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The cruelty is the point.
Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago spent nearly two months in ICE detention—despite having protection under DACA—until a federal judge ruled that the government had no reason to keep her in custody and ordered her release.
DHS is still vowing to "explore every available option to remove" her. My latest:
DHS is still vowing to "explore every available option to remove" her. My latest:
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
www.motherjones.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The cruelty is the point.
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AOC: How can we, as members of congress, Republican or Democrat, vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people? That is what this legislation does. In fact, Senator Graham said he was going to seek well over $1 million from the American people, from this.
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
AOC: How can we, as members of congress, Republican or Democrat, vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people? That is what this legislation does. In fact, Senator Graham said he was going to seek well over $1 million from the American people, from this.
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The fix is in.
Ghislaine Maxwell, transferred to a club med prison after Trump's lawyer met with her (and she likely spilled what she knows about Trump), is now being waited on "hand and foot" by guards and is getting her commutation application ready with help from the warden.
Ghislaine Maxwell, transferred to a club med prison after Trump's lawyer met with her (and she likely spilled what she knows about Trump), is now being waited on "hand and foot" by guards and is getting her commutation application ready with help from the warden.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The fix is in.
Ghislaine Maxwell, transferred to a club med prison after Trump's lawyer met with her (and she likely spilled what she knows about Trump), is now being waited on "hand and foot" by guards and is getting her commutation application ready with help from the warden.
Ghislaine Maxwell, transferred to a club med prison after Trump's lawyer met with her (and she likely spilled what she knows about Trump), is now being waited on "hand and foot" by guards and is getting her commutation application ready with help from the warden.
Anyone still supporting trump is fully complicit. Anyone voting to suppress the epstein files is part of the web of sexual predators and sex trafficking in this country. They are all guilty by association. SHAME!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Trump Ramps Up Pressure on G.O.P. to Thwart Epstein Vote
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Anyone still supporting trump is fully complicit. Anyone voting to suppress the epstein files is part of the web of sexual predators and sex trafficking in this country. They are all guilty by association. SHAME!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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McGovern: Seriously, we were worried. We actually started handing out missing person posters. Nobody has seen you for eight weeks. But, hey, I'm glad that you are ok. I'm glad you survived your nice, two-month paid vacation
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
McGovern: Seriously, we were worried. We actually started handing out missing person posters. Nobody has seen you for eight weeks. But, hey, I'm glad that you are ok. I'm glad you survived your nice, two-month paid vacation
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AT MOST WE TEAR GAS AND ZIP TIE THEM AND ALSO ANYONE OVER 2 IS NOT A CHILD AND
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
AT MOST WE TEAR GAS AND ZIP TIE THEM AND ALSO ANYONE OVER 2 IS NOT A CHILD AND
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A little bit of history worth knowing. If it’s history, they are trying to wipe it out, to make room for the absurd tales of eternal innocence that bring fascism and bloodshed closer.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 AM
A little bit of history worth knowing. If it’s history, they are trying to wipe it out, to make room for the absurd tales of eternal innocence that bring fascism and bloodshed closer.
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"Those who enter the service do so for a variety of reasons....Most of the thousands I spoke with during my time in uniform cited as one of their reasons for joining that they felt compelled to serve something larger than themselves."
www.thebulwark.com/p/who-we-cho...
www.thebulwark.com/p/who-we-cho...
Who We Choose to Be: A Reflection on the Character of Veterans
A shared culture of service.
www.thebulwark.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"Those who enter the service do so for a variety of reasons....Most of the thousands I spoke with during my time in uniform cited as one of their reasons for joining that they felt compelled to serve something larger than themselves."
www.thebulwark.com/p/who-we-cho...
www.thebulwark.com/p/who-we-cho...
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It’s time, isn’t it?! 🤚
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s time, isn’t it?! 🤚
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DO NOT BE DISTRACTED & STAY LOUD!!!
TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared
TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared
DO NOT BE DISTRACTED & STAY LOUD!!!
TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared
TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
DO NOT BE DISTRACTED & STAY LOUD!!!
TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared
TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared
Show me the typical person earning, say, $60k annual, busting to work and take care of the family, who has time or skills to "negotiate" the fees for a broken leg, a pregnancy, cancer, or anything else. And of course, there is no one to negotiate with on the medical side anyway. Idiocy!
Trump: I want the money to go into an account for people where the people buy their own insurance. They will feel like entrepreneurs. Call it Trumpcare… anything but Obamacare. Obamacare is a disaster just like he was.
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Show me the typical person earning, say, $60k annual, busting to work and take care of the family, who has time or skills to "negotiate" the fees for a broken leg, a pregnancy, cancer, or anything else. And of course, there is no one to negotiate with on the medical side anyway. Idiocy!
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"The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable."
—Federal judge Mark Wolf explaining why he has resigned, giving up his lifetime appointment
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
—Federal judge Mark Wolf explaining why he has resigned, giving up his lifetime appointment
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
"The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable."
—Federal judge Mark Wolf explaining why he has resigned, giving up his lifetime appointment
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
—Federal judge Mark Wolf explaining why he has resigned, giving up his lifetime appointment
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Newsom Slams ‘Pathetic’ Shutdown Deal as ‘Surrender’
Gavin Newsom and other prominent Democrats are blasting the Senate’s tentative deal to end the government shutdown.
www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-newsom...
Gavin Newsom and other prominent Democrats are blasting the Senate’s tentative deal to end the government shutdown.
www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-newsom...
Newsom Slams ‘Pathetic’ Shutdown Deal as ‘Surrender’
Gavin Newsom and other prominent Democrats are blasting the Senate’s tentative deal to end the government shutdown.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Newsom Slams ‘Pathetic’ Shutdown Deal as ‘Surrender’
Gavin Newsom and other prominent Democrats are blasting the Senate’s tentative deal to end the government shutdown.
www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-newsom...
Gavin Newsom and other prominent Democrats are blasting the Senate’s tentative deal to end the government shutdown.
www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-newsom...
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NEWS: Late last night Trump ordered once again by court to pay full SNAP to hungry people: “The record here shows that the government sat on its hands for nearly a month, unprepared to make partial payments.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
NEWS: Late last night Trump ordered once again by court to pay full SNAP to hungry people: “The record here shows that the government sat on its hands for nearly a month, unprepared to make partial payments.”
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Okay, so I did it. In honor of Sandwich Guy, on what should be the last day of his trial, I figured out the chords. And so, with apologies to the late and great Bob Marley, I banged out this quick and (very) rough rendition of "I Threw the Sandwich." 🤣
November 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Okay, so I did it. In honor of Sandwich Guy, on what should be the last day of his trial, I figured out the chords. And so, with apologies to the late and great Bob Marley, I banged out this quick and (very) rough rendition of "I Threw the Sandwich." 🤣
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"These breaks come in addition to the roughly $4 trillion package of tax cuts that President Trump signed into law in July..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"These breaks come in addition to the roughly $4 trillion package of tax cuts that President Trump signed into law in July..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...