Courtsy
@thabotage.bsky.social
Trying to live a life full of whimsical fuckery
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Logic Lover | Data Devotee | Rampant Reader | Baking Buff | Mischief Maven | Tattooed Tangent Taker | Cartoon Connoisseur
Married Childfree Cat Lady 😻💙🐢
Proud Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Go Ducks! 💚💛
Logic Lover | Data Devotee | Rampant Reader | Baking Buff | Mischief Maven | Tattooed Tangent Taker | Cartoon Connoisseur
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Courtsy
@thabotage.bsky.social
· Nov 9
As an introduction, may I present our 4 kitties (L to R): Sasica, Stoney, Fiddleford, and Angelica
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Duffy: "We have 40k deaths a year on roads. We want to make it safer, Newsom is making it more dangerous. We pulled money from him -- almost $200 million-- but if they don't come into compliance, we will eventually pull their ability to issue commercial driver's licenses to anybody in California."
January 23, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Duffy: "We have 40k deaths a year on roads. We want to make it safer, Newsom is making it more dangerous. We pulled money from him -- almost $200 million-- but if they don't come into compliance, we will eventually pull their ability to issue commercial driver's licenses to anybody in California."
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U.S. military decides Black engineers aren’t worth recruiting—because nothing says “excellence in STEM” like systemic exclusion.
atlantablackstar.com/2025/02/12/u...
atlantablackstar.com/2025/02/12/u...
January 23, 2026 at 1:45 PM
U.S. military decides Black engineers aren’t worth recruiting—because nothing says “excellence in STEM” like systemic exclusion.
atlantablackstar.com/2025/02/12/u...
atlantablackstar.com/2025/02/12/u...
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So over 5 years later Trump is suddenly suing for this and we are supposed to believe this has nothing to do with Jamie Dimon recently stating that he will not donate to Trump’s ballroom?
January 23, 2026 at 12:27 PM
So over 5 years later Trump is suddenly suing for this and we are supposed to believe this has nothing to do with Jamie Dimon recently stating that he will not donate to Trump’s ballroom?
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2/ICE is arguing that if they think a non-citizen for whom there is a final order of deportation is in a house, they can blow right past the 4th Amendment, take the doors off the house if they aren’t admitted voluntarily & go in. But the 4th Amendment doesn’t change just because ICE says so.
January 23, 2026 at 1:51 PM
2/ICE is arguing that if they think a non-citizen for whom there is a final order of deportation is in a house, they can blow right past the 4th Amendment, take the doors off the house if they aren’t admitted voluntarily & go in. But the 4th Amendment doesn’t change just because ICE says so.
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1/ICE, contrary to longstanding 4th Amendment jurisprudence, now says it can enter people’s homes without a judicial warrant; an administrative warrant suffices. That's a form signed by a gov't employee who can be fired if they displease the president. It’s not difficult to see the problem here.
Breaking the Fourth Amendment
Last night, we learned from a report in the Associated Press that ICE, contrary to longstanding Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, is taking the position that it can enter people’s homes without a judici...
joycevance.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:48 PM
1/ICE, contrary to longstanding 4th Amendment jurisprudence, now says it can enter people’s homes without a judicial warrant; an administrative warrant suffices. That's a form signed by a gov't employee who can be fired if they displease the president. It’s not difficult to see the problem here.
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Trump is dynamiting through National Park property and critical jaguar habitat in Arizona's San Rafael Valley to construct 27 miles of border wall.
December 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Trump is dynamiting through National Park property and critical jaguar habitat in Arizona's San Rafael Valley to construct 27 miles of border wall.
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To all marveling at photos of NYT columnist David Brooks dining with Jeffrey Epstein, 2 years after Epstein finished his sentence for procuring a child for prostitution, here's what it was: the 2011 "Edge Billionaire's Dinner". Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos were there too. 1/
www.edge.org/event/the-ed...
www.edge.org/event/the-ed...
December 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
To all marveling at photos of NYT columnist David Brooks dining with Jeffrey Epstein, 2 years after Epstein finished his sentence for procuring a child for prostitution, here's what it was: the 2011 "Edge Billionaire's Dinner". Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos were there too. 1/
www.edge.org/event/the-ed...
www.edge.org/event/the-ed...
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“Hostility to traditional views on religion” can trigger a federal investigation.
Sure, sure. It’s fun to say things.
Sure, sure. It’s fun to say things.
Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation
December 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“Hostility to traditional views on religion” can trigger a federal investigation.
Sure, sure. It’s fun to say things.
Sure, sure. It’s fun to say things.
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This is horrific. RFK Jr’s CDC is funding a study in Guinea-Bissau which would involve deliberately withholding the hepatitis B vaccine from hundreds of newborn infants, putting them at great risk of death. They want to repeat Tuskegee.
CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study by controversial Danish researchers
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This is horrific. RFK Jr’s CDC is funding a study in Guinea-Bissau which would involve deliberately withholding the hepatitis B vaccine from hundreds of newborn infants, putting them at great risk of death. They want to repeat Tuskegee.
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How fascism works
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
How fascism works
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After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"
December 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
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That is patently false: not only do immigrants score better than native-born Americans in tests, the mere presence of immigrants improve test scores for all students, when factoring in white flight
sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
That is patently false: not only do immigrants score better than native-born Americans in tests, the mere presence of immigrants improve test scores for all students, when factoring in white flight
sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
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It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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People on board the boat were said to have survived an initial strike and were killed in a follow-up attack. Officials said the boat appeared to have turned back toward shore. Three sources, including Sen. Rand Paul said the boat was attacked by one or more drones.
theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u...
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September 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
People on board the boat were said to have survived an initial strike and were killed in a follow-up attack. Officials said the boat appeared to have turned back toward shore. Three sources, including Sen. Rand Paul said the boat was attacked by one or more drones.
theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u...
theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u...
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The AP didn’t used to be known for saucy headlines, but that whole Gulf of Mexico thing must have unleashed their AhFuckIt gene.
apnews.com/article/dona...
apnews.com/article/dona...
December 1, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The AP didn’t used to be known for saucy headlines, but that whole Gulf of Mexico thing must have unleashed their AhFuckIt gene.
apnews.com/article/dona...
apnews.com/article/dona...
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Who does this benefit other than the major airline CEOs?
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Who does this benefit other than the major airline CEOs?
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CNN: Epstein survivors presser
BBC: Epstein survivors presser
MSNBC (yes we’re still calling it that): Epstein survivors presser
FOX: “Progressives vs. Schumer”🙃
BBC: Epstein survivors presser
MSNBC (yes we’re still calling it that): Epstein survivors presser
FOX: “Progressives vs. Schumer”🙃
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
CNN: Epstein survivors presser
BBC: Epstein survivors presser
MSNBC (yes we’re still calling it that): Epstein survivors presser
FOX: “Progressives vs. Schumer”🙃
BBC: Epstein survivors presser
MSNBC (yes we’re still calling it that): Epstein survivors presser
FOX: “Progressives vs. Schumer”🙃
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With the Epstein Files dominating political news, Trump is doubling down on rigging maps.
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
With the Epstein Files dominating political news, Trump is doubling down on rigging maps.
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Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."
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NEW: The White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation.
“It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said.
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
“It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said.
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
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 3:02 PM
NEW: The White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation.
“It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said.
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
“It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said.
www.propublica.org/article/andr...