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@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. ;-)

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ICE seizes 11-year-old to force dadโ€™s deportation โ€” despite torture risk President Donald Trump is trying to deport a Russian man who passed the U.S. screening process for asylum. The U.S. government has also taken away his son. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at t...

www.rawstory.com/trump-deport...

07.08.2025 21:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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?

07.08.2025 20:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Hegseth: Confederate Monument to Return to Arlington

Hegseth: Confederate Monument to Return to Arlington

Trumpโ€™s Pentagon is lugging a Confederate monument back into Arlington because nothing screams โ€œpatriotโ€ like worshiping traitors. Meanwhile, ICE buses are stuffed with brown families while he sneers that their homelands are โ€œshithole countries.โ€

07.08.2025 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Lynx could thrive in Northumberland with most in area supporting return, study finds Release of 20 lynx over several years into Kielder Forest area would create population of about 50 animals

Lauren Harrison, sheep farmer, Hadrianโ€™s Wall, said:

โ€œI saw in Europe that itโ€™s 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/...

07.08.2025 16:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It also imitates Russian baroque & what we've seen of Epstein's NY interior.

07.08.2025 17:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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For Leaseโ€: The Quiet Collapse of Americaโ€™s Office Parks - Get Ready for "Too Big To Fail" 2.0 It started with a morning run. I was on a recent work trip to the Lansing, Michigan area, staying at a hotel nestled in a tidy suburban office parkโ€”the kind that was booming a couple decades ago, with...

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... For Leaseโ€: The Quiet Collapse of Americaโ€™s Office Parks - Get Ready for "Too Big To Fail" 2.0

07.08.2025 16:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Omits: "Boring"

07.08.2025 17:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They really are trying to provoke another civil war, aren't they?

07.08.2025 17:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How is the pupper doing?

07.08.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is actually happening! ๐Ÿ˜Š The Predatory Sea featured alongside some great titles, like Jordan Smith's The Invention of Rum. Thank you, @pennpress.bsky.social! ๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธ

07.08.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Before the world knew what was coming, Sigrid Schultz was already sounding the alarm.

She told the truth when it was inconvenient. Dangerous. Unwelcome.

Thatโ€™s the heart of The Dragon from Chicago.๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธ

๐Ÿ”— https://www.pameladtoler.com/books/

07.08.2025 15:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is absolutely criminal.

07.08.2025 15:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

im 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Actually, yes, srsly.

07.08.2025 16:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Senate Dems Investigate UnitedHealth Scheme to Slash Nursing Home Care Expenses UnitedHealth brought in $34 billion in profits in 2024, far more than any other health care company in the US.

Sens. 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 56    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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ICE is openly copying Patriot Front now.

Oh wait, they're the same guys!

07.08.2025 15:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

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. Heโ€™s now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.

07.08.2025 13:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7705    ๐Ÿ” 4828    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 558    ๐Ÿ“Œ 478

Man, all minority communities said was โ€œplease 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1146    ๐Ÿ” 294    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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"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
๐ŸŽฅ Nini Gabritchidze/Civil.ge

06.08.2025 17:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 289    ๐Ÿ” 69    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

Sheesh, thought this was just typical U.S. performative masculinity. Et tu, UK?

07.08.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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For Leaseโ€: The Quiet Collapse of Americaโ€™s Office Parks - Get Ready for "Too Big To Fail" 2.0 It started with a morning run. I was on a recent work trip to the Lansing, Michigan area, staying at a hotel nestled in a tidy suburban office parkโ€”the kind that was booming a couple decades ago, with...

Original reportage, much more to this than the headline alone indicates. Pending collapse in commercial real estate?

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

07.08.2025 15:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ICE Is Pressuring People in Custody to Self-Deport. Many Are Giving Up. A promise of $1,000 and a free plane ride home tempts many who've grown weary of being locked up in crowded detention centers.

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Jasmine Crockett, AOC and...difficult choice. Jamie Raskin?

Oh, you meant DC _comics_. Ha ha.

07.08.2025 13:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Confederacy of sadists.

07.08.2025 13:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The 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.

07.08.2025 13:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4546    ๐Ÿ” 1497    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 204    ๐Ÿ“Œ 78

Awwwwwww.....

07.08.2025 13:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Him and Gillibrand both.

07.08.2025 02:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And 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.

07.08.2025 02:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

07.08.2025 02:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

06.08.2025 10:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 856    ๐Ÿ” 297    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 36

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