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Inveterate reader and unfortunately, occasional 🦊 News watcher. Slava 🇺🇦. 🏳️🌈
with his new brain
Scarecrow gets frustrated with
Lion’s twittering
#DailyHaikuPrompt (Twittering, Scarecrow)
#haiku #senryu
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a folded paper
slides into an envelope
tucking in my thoughts
#senryu
Republicans think releasing the Jack Smith deposition on New Year's Eve will make it get lost in the fray. Prove them wrong by spreading the word; here are some key takeaways to get us started. www.rawstory.com/jack-smith-2...
31.12.2025 22:04 — 👍 935 🔁 599 💬 19 📌 11
Here’s the Apple podcast link:
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Some of you may be too young to have appreciated Bruce's 41 shots: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQMq... - if yes, you should listen to it. And you should know that the NYPD and NJ cops pitched a MAJOR FIT over it.
31.01.2026 20:17 — 👍 385 🔁 113 💬 12 📌 0
Interview from 2022 on a lot of things that ended up being in the Epstein files. Conversation between me and Nick Bryant, who wrote about the Franklin scandal before Epstein. The pedophile trafficking/government rings go back many decades.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJgD...
A close-up composite photograph of the Eiffel Tower's intricate iron lattice structure under a clear blue sky, focusing on the first-floor level where the historic frieze of 72 male scientists' and engineers' names (engraved by Gustave Eiffel in 1889) is prominently displayed in large gold letters on a horizontal band encircling the tower. The main image shows part of the tower's arched supports and the balcony railing. The inset zoomed-in detail at the bottom is an illustration showing the engraved band with the women's names to be added onto the Eiffel Tower with JAMIN, GUYOT, CURIE, and others in uppercase gold lettering on the iron beam. This image illustrates the current appearance of the Eiffel Tower's first-floor frieze and serves as a visual reference for the ongoing "Hypatia" project (announced in 2025–2026 by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and a commission including Femmes & Sciences association), which proposed adding a new matching strip of 72 women scientists' names (French or France-linked pioneers from the 18th century to modern times) directly above the existing frieze. The proposed additions—featuring luminaries like Marie Curie (already noted but emphasized for her legacy), Irène Joliot-Curie, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Angélique du Coudray, Sophie Germain, and others—would be engraved in the same gold uppercase style, font size (about 60 cm high), and architectural placement to achieve symbolic gender equality and honor women's overlooked contributions to science, spanning fields from physics and mathematics to medicine and botany. As of January 31, 2026, the list has been unveiled and is awaiting final approvals for engraving (goal of Q1 2027). #EiffelTower #HypatiaProject #FemmesEtSciences
By early 2027 (goal), the names of 72 notable women scientists, technologists, engineers, mathematicians, inventors, physicians, explorers & more will be added to a new golden frieze on all 4 sides of the Eiffel Tower directly above the 72 men listed since its original 1889 opening.
#WomenInSTEM
Come for @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social stay for Ben Terris
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#GOP OBSTRUCTION #FAILING
Legislative Impasse & Mechanics of the Six-Bill Minibus
The current structural standoff is defined by the strategic decision of the House of Representatives to bundle the Department of Homeland Security appropriations with five other major funding measures into a single...
#GregOlear #BrookeHarrington’s ‘Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism’ is discussed.
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One of the best conversations about the psychology of the super rich that I have ever heard. (Think ‘Succession.’)
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Bruce Sprimgsteen’s newest, ‘Streets of Minnepolis.’💔
youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
A powerful and upsetting piece about the nightmare of being sexually assaulted by Matt Lauer and trying to find some justice afterward.
28.01.2026 23:43 — 👍 161 🔁 32 💬 2 📌 3
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Please take a moment to listen to Professor Timothy Snyder: Thoughts on MN laws, language & leadership. It is in how we trust the law, use the right language, and respect the real leaders, that we will get out of this & become a better country.
#ProudBlue
#Voices4Victory
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
27.01.2026 16:45 — 👍 17304 🔁 6934 💬 503 📌 331After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
27.01.2026 20:17 — 👍 8099 🔁 3995 💬 229 📌 136
My friend Susan wrote & recorded this great protest song. 🎵
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An overpass occupied by people with signs, and a large banner between them that says, "Come for one, face us all." Because Fuck ICE, that's why. This is not my photo. I don't know who it belongs to.
Just outside Seattle on I-5 🤘
27.01.2026 22:35 — 👍 3227 🔁 682 💬 13 📌 17
Release all the UNREDACTED Epstein/Trump files NOW!
27.01.2026 21:51 — 👍 256 🔁 104 💬 7 📌 5Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.
27.01.2026 22:52 — 👍 6906 🔁 2277 💬 76 📌 122Yes no one would guess that the capital of Oklahoma is Oklahoma City or the capital of Indiana is Indianapolis. These states are Very Mysterious.
27.01.2026 15:06 — 👍 131 🔁 12 💬 13 📌 0✝️
weaponization
of dumb
blondes
#bondi #leavitt #senryu
a hoarfrost
covers the pasture
fox footprints
#DailyHaikuPrompt (Hoarfrost, Pasture)
#haiku
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
25.01.2026 22:39 — 👍 28778 🔁 10734 💬 42 📌 982
Superior Achievement in a Novel Baker, Kylie Lee — Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng (MIRA / Hodder & Stoughton) Chapman, Clay McLeod — Wake Up and Open Your Eyes (Quirk Books) Hendrix, Grady — Witchcraft for Wayward Girls (Berkley) Hill, Joe — King Sorrow (William Morrow) Jones, Stephen Graham — The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Saga Press) Kraus, Daniel — Angel Down (Atria Books) Moreno-Garcia, Silvia — The Bewitching (Del Rey) Piper, Hailey — A Game in Yellow (Saga Press) Tingle, Chuck — Lucky Day (Tor Nightfire) Wagner, Wendy N. — Girl in the Creek (Tor Nightfire)
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Castro, V. — The Pink Agave Motel & Other Stories (CLASH Books) Chapman, Clay McLeod — Acquired Taste (Titan Books) Files, Gemma — Little Horn: Stories (Shortwave) Guignard, Eric J. — A Graveside Gallery: Tales of Ghosts and Dark Matters (Cemetery Dance) Langan, John — Lost in The Dark and Other Excursions (Word Horde) Ntumy, Cheryl S. — Black Friday: Stories from Africa (Flame Tree Press) Piper, Hailey — Teenage Girls Can Be Demons (Titan Books) Regan, M. — stories in the minor key (Sobelo) Robertson, Andrew — InHUMANities (The Great Lakes Horror Company) Tantlinger, Sara — Cyanide Constellations (Dark Matter INK)
The Bram Stoker Award preliminary ballot for this year just went out, and congratulations to everyone whose work appears on it, be it under their name or their editor!!
Also TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS and A GAME IN YELLOW whaaat 🤩😭
Thank you New Mexico for giving us a real representative n Congress. Melanie Stansbury is fearless.
26.01.2026 14:47 — 👍 1421 🔁 349 💬 43 📌 12I keep thinking about the Noem letter demanding voter records from Minnesota - sent literally hours after Pretti was murdered - because they clearly saw the threat of more murders as leverage against the state
26.01.2026 16:49 — 👍 290 🔁 62 💬 6 📌 1
