@clio2.bsky.social
Student of #polycrisis, with detours into history, nature, oddments. Degrees in philosophy, history of science. Former teacher, writer, editor, public communicator, journalist, contract researcher. Occasional fictioneer. No AI. ;-)
Should I not ask what you were doing in there?
I saw one photo with the same kind of cheap, gold painted doodads encrusting walls & woodwork as now deface the Oval. Maybe it was the Trump Bedroom?
Hegseth: Confederate Monument to Return to Arlington
Trumpโs Pentagon is lugging a Confederate monument back into Arlington because nothing screams โpatriotโ like worshiping traitors. Meanwhile, ICE buses are stuffed with brown families while he sneers that their homelands are โshithole countries.โ
07.08.2025 16:51 โ ๐ 32 ๐ 19 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 2Lauren Harrison, sheep farmer, Hadrianโs Wall, said:
โI saw in Europe that itโs possible to live alongside lynx - risks to livestock minimal & there are positives. Tourism is an obvious one, but I also think a more balanced ecosystem is beneficial to farmers"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It also imitates Russian baroque & what we've seen of Epstein's NY interior.
07.08.2025 17:25 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... For Leaseโ: The Quiet Collapse of Americaโs Office Parks - Get Ready for "Too Big To Fail" 2.0
07.08.2025 16:59 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Omits: "Boring"
07.08.2025 17:22 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0They really are trying to provoke another civil war, aren't they?
07.08.2025 17:19 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0How is the pupper doing?
07.08.2025 16:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is actually happening! ๐ The Predatory Sea featured alongside some great titles, like Jordan Smith's The Invention of Rum. Thank you, @pennpress.bsky.social! ๐๏ธ
07.08.2025 14:00 โ ๐ 54 ๐ 18 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 2Before the world knew what was coming, Sigrid Schultz was already sounding the alarm.
She told the truth when it was inconvenient. Dangerous. Unwelcome.
Thatโs the heart of The Dragon from Chicago.๐๏ธ
๐ https://www.pameladtoler.com/books/
This is absolutely criminal.
07.08.2025 15:58 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0im sorry to say it but I'm now assuming that there is a video somewhere of david lammy doing something awful
07.08.2025 14:37 โ ๐ 33 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 0Actually, yes, srsly.
07.08.2025 16:05 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sens. Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren have launched an investigation into the most powerful corporation in the U.S. healthcare system, sounding alarm over allegations that UnitedHealth Group is incentivizing nursing homes to slash care expenses for patients insured by the company.
07.08.2025 16:00 โ ๐ 56 ๐ 30 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 5ICE is openly copying Patriot Front now.
Oh wait, they're the same guys!
NEW: Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, and yelling "kill 'em" as rioters attacked law enforcement. Heโs now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.
07.08.2025 13:22 โ ๐ 7705 ๐ 4828 ๐ฌ 558 ๐ 478Man, all minority communities said was โplease stop killing usโ and the Right wing got so mad, they ushered in full fascism and decided to destroy the planet.
06.08.2025 20:20 โ ๐ 1146 ๐ 294 ๐ฌ 26 ๐ 9"Slap the regime!" - another dynamic march in Tbilisi demands freedom for journalist Mzia Amaghlobeli, who was sentenced to two years in jail earlier today. Day 252 of #GeorgiaProtests
๐ฅ Nini Gabritchidze/Civil.ge
Sheesh, thought this was just typical U.S. performative masculinity. Et tu, UK?
07.08.2025 15:26 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Original reportage, much more to this than the headline alone indicates. Pending collapse in commercial real estate?
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
My latest for @capitalandmain.bsky.social: I watched several days of court hearings at Otay Mesa Detention Center. I saw most people giving up -- something I have never before seen in 9 years covering immigration courts.
06.08.2025 16:12 โ ๐ 30 ๐ 25 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Jasmine Crockett, AOC and...difficult choice. Jamie Raskin?
Oh, you meant DC _comics_. Ha ha.
Confederacy of sadists.
07.08.2025 13:14 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The billionaire CEO of the third richest company on the planet gives the President an actual block of gold so his company is exempted from US Government tariffs. And the whole thing is broadcast live on TV.
Anyone who can't see what is happening to this country is unsalvageable at this point.
Awwwwwww.....
07.08.2025 13:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Him and Gillibrand both.
07.08.2025 02:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0And she though he loved her. Loving =/= humiliating the person, in public on the "happiest day of her life" at that.
Every girl of 13 ought to be issued a copy of Auntie Wisdom's Little Book of Red Flags. I'd bet there were some in most cases, before this happened; it least it would help some.
Performative male dominance at its best.
Ladies, divorce is expensive; and for several reasons, that being just one:
There has never been a better time than 2025 to Not Get Married.
Silent prayers were held in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, marking 80 years since the atomic bombing of the city by the US on August 6, 1945.
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