Raven Onthill
@ravenonthill.bsky.social
Just a dilettante amateur political science bird who lives in the US Pacific Northwest. If you want to know what I think, try my blogs at adviceunasked.blogspot.com and shinycroak.blogspot.com.
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LOLOLOL!!!! "Without complaining"??? Trump???
There has never been a bigger whiner sore loser in the history of the world! Nobody's ever seen anything like it!
There has never been a bigger whiner sore loser in the history of the world! Nobody's ever seen anything like it!
Trump: "If we die, we must die and we as men we die without complaining."
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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I think voters at large will very likely have trouble remembering details of chuck schumer selling out the aca by nov 2026. also I think in the next three months you're gonna see a lot of unlikely folks stopping by the dsa table at various no kings events
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I think voters at large will very likely have trouble remembering details of chuck schumer selling out the aca by nov 2026. also I think in the next three months you're gonna see a lot of unlikely folks stopping by the dsa table at various no kings events
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We tell the story of American heroes: LTG Hal & Julie Moore, GEN Cavazos, LTG Gregg, LTC Charity Adams, GEN Ike Eisenhower, SGT Henry Johnson, CWO Novesel, COL Van Barfoot & Dr Mary Walker.
Not Confederates who chose treason to fight for slavery.
Not Confederates who chose treason to fight for slavery.
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
We tell the story of American heroes: LTG Hal & Julie Moore, GEN Cavazos, LTG Gregg, LTC Charity Adams, GEN Ike Eisenhower, SGT Henry Johnson, CWO Novesel, COL Van Barfoot & Dr Mary Walker.
Not Confederates who chose treason to fight for slavery.
Not Confederates who chose treason to fight for slavery.
@driftglass.bsky.social the razor in the apple.
Whether it's calling trans women "biological males" or being nonchalant about climate change or trying to yes-and the agenda of anti-migrant activists or essentially believing unions are evil I always look at these people and go "why do you think we're friends just because we have common enemies?"
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
@driftglass.bsky.social the razor in the apple.
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I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
It's not only media firms. Commercial financing through public ownership is destroying productive businesses because buying up and looting firms makes money, and there is no securities regulation anymore to stop it.
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It's not only media firms. Commercial financing through public ownership is destroying productive businesses because buying up and looting firms makes money, and there is no securities regulation anymore to stop it.
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Please, do not take advice from this man on how to improve retail tenant occupancy in downtown Chicago. That’d be like taking his advice on how to run a university, or a casino, or, well, how to run anything at all basically.
Will Trump Tower's Riverfront Retail Space Ever Get A Tenant?
The infamous tower's massive commercial space has sat vacant for 16 years, becoming the longest-running retail vacancy Downtown. A new effort to lease the space is underway, but many remain skeptical.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Please, do not take advice from this man on how to improve retail tenant occupancy in downtown Chicago. That’d be like taking his advice on how to run a university, or a casino, or, well, how to run anything at all basically.
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USAID is still gone, no other country has shown either the will or the ability to fill in the services whose disappearance is going to kill millions of people, and no one in the media or political class cares that we are going to kill more people than the Holocaust before this is over 👍
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
USAID is still gone, no other country has shown either the will or the ability to fill in the services whose disappearance is going to kill millions of people, and no one in the media or political class cares that we are going to kill more people than the Holocaust before this is over 👍
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One of the more depressing aspects of this cave-o-rama is that it's revived the tiresome navel-gazing and self-flaggelation that we had finally managed to get beyond. "The discourse" is right back to Groundhog day.
It's not the most important reason for being pissed but it's up there.
It's not the most important reason for being pissed but it's up there.
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
One of the more depressing aspects of this cave-o-rama is that it's revived the tiresome navel-gazing and self-flaggelation that we had finally managed to get beyond. "The discourse" is right back to Groundhog day.
It's not the most important reason for being pissed but it's up there.
It's not the most important reason for being pissed but it's up there.
When Trump is gone I think I know what to do with his ballroom…
Trump on Newsom: "He did something even worse than that. He's now taking a big section of Palisades or some area and he's gonna build low income income where they used to have luxury housing."
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
When Trump is gone I think I know what to do with his ballroom…
Apparently the problem was not Schumer but the group of senators who caved. Is there any way for the Senate Democrats to restore party discipline?
the caucus gets how this is *worse* right? if you're just going around Schumer, what's the point of leadership
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Apparently the problem was not Schumer but the group of senators who caved. Is there any way for the Senate Democrats to restore party discipline?
Holy fkng shit!
In a now deleted post, China’s consul general in Osaka said he’s left with no choice but to cut off the “filthy head” of Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi because of her pledge to use Japan’s military to defend Taiwan if the Chinese invade the island. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/pol...
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Holy fkng shit!
Maybe dump Schumer, definitely dump Durbin (he's retiring anyway), but let's keep Jeffries.
Q: So Dr Oz said that--
JEFFRIES: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr Oz seriously.
JEFFRIES: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr Oz seriously.
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Maybe dump Schumer, definitely dump Durbin (he's retiring anyway), but let's keep Jeffries.
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Yeah, I think this was a Durbin thing
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Yeah, I think this was a Durbin thing
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I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
what did ruth mean when she said her steakhouse was "chris"
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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I don't know when I'll write it up, but among the things Rudy Giuliani got pardoned for is destroying the lives of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I don't know when I'll write it up, but among the things Rudy Giuliani got pardoned for is destroying the lives of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.
This man is delusional.
Florida’s surgeon general, Joseph A. Ladapo, said reporters from the Washington Post and the Atlantic "represent forces who are working toward the enslavement of humanity.”
“I saw reporters from The Washington Post and the Atlantic that represent these forces that — I have nothing against them, to be clear — they represent forces who are working toward the enslavement of humanity,” Ladapo said.
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This man is delusional.
These are not lightweights; air traffic controllers are highly skilled and can find other work. Pressuring them is likely to make matters worse.
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
These are not lightweights; air traffic controllers are highly skilled and can find other work. Pressuring them is likely to make matters worse.
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I am very impressed by all the Bluesky liberals who are apparently so deeply embedded inside private senate Dem strategy sessions that they can state with absolute authority that ALL DEMS WERE IN ON IT!
PRIMARY EVERYBODY!
VOTE 3RD PARTY OR NOT AT ALL!
PRIMARY EVERYBODY!
VOTE 3RD PARTY OR NOT AT ALL!
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I am very impressed by all the Bluesky liberals who are apparently so deeply embedded inside private senate Dem strategy sessions that they can state with absolute authority that ALL DEMS WERE IN ON IT!
PRIMARY EVERYBODY!
VOTE 3RD PARTY OR NOT AT ALL!
PRIMARY EVERYBODY!
VOTE 3RD PARTY OR NOT AT ALL!
Even very modest levels of privation are too much for some Senators; as soon as it reached them, they caved. (This probably also applies to GOP Senators.) It's a compelling argument against having rich, powerful mostly men as Senators and also why it is that the people are leading; most of us know
I keep reading different takes on the shutdown cave, turning the bones over and over for hidden meaning, and no, the fuckers just wanted to get the planes going again.
My conspiracy brain is that Senate Dems are playing this so Johnson calls the house back into session and is forced to seat Grijalva, then the underwear gnomes something-something bill fails in the House, but before that, oops! Epstein vote!
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Even very modest levels of privation are too much for some Senators; as soon as it reached them, they caved. (This probably also applies to GOP Senators.) It's a compelling argument against having rich, powerful mostly men as Senators and also why it is that the people are leading; most of us know
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I can't help but notice those accounts whining loudest about "DEMS CAVING AGAIN AS USUAL" are mostly privileged white men, backed up by a bunch of privileged white women.
You know, the people least likely to be affected either way.
Curious.
You know, the people least likely to be affected either way.
Curious.
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I can't help but notice those accounts whining loudest about "DEMS CAVING AGAIN AS USUAL" are mostly privileged white men, backed up by a bunch of privileged white women.
You know, the people least likely to be affected either way.
Curious.
You know, the people least likely to be affected either way.
Curious.
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There are too many rich white cis gays for whom marriage is *the* issue for the right to actually want to poke that bear
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
There are too many rich white cis gays for whom marriage is *the* issue for the right to actually want to poke that bear
They lost the Biden expansion, not the original legislation. That's important.
I can’t stop thinking about how the ACA is one of the most impactful pieces of legislation in my lifetime.
And they just let them throw it away.
I know it’s been long enough that a lot of people don’t remember (or weren’t alive), but I haven’t forgotten what it was like Before.
And they just let them throw it away.
I know it’s been long enough that a lot of people don’t remember (or weren’t alive), but I haven’t forgotten what it was like Before.
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
They lost the Biden expansion, not the original legislation. That's important.