Laura Chapin

Changed my header profile photo again because I really like this one I took on Saturday at teamLab borderless/Mori Art Museum in Tokyo of a little girl enjoying the art. Bluesky crops it so here's the full photo.

What the fuck is this?

If you need to be begged to fight fascism you're not on the moral high ground, my guy.

Every time I open a news app or site and this story isn’t being discussed or featured prominently I feel like I’m losing my mind. Do not look away.

Checking in on the president's family today as war spreads across the world and the global economy crashes

Deceitful, despicable, desperate Pick your adjective

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Kristi Noem is out Writing her political obituary

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In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."

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Again, reporting the New York Times and other national outlets could have done had they not believed the Epstein story was tawdry and beneath them. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

The Post & Courier scoured court files, real-estate records, classified ads, local newspaper articles, parole and death records.

Much of it dates to the 1980s.

They also sent a reporter to the West Coast to retrace the victim’s and her mother’s accounts.

www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

This is an extraordinary reporting job by 2 Charleston journalists, meticulously fact-checking the Epstein victim who has accused Trump of abusive behavior.

Bottom line: Many details of what she told the FBI check out, though none relate directly to Trump.

www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

ICE Detention of Teen Musicians Roils Texas Mariachi Community Two brothers who were recognized by their congresswoman last year, along with their parents and younger brother, are facing deportation.

Two brothers from South Texas and their high school mariachi bandmates were recognized by their congresswoman last June for winning a state mariachi competition. Nine months later, the brothers, along with their parents and younger brother, are in ICE detention and facing deportation.

And a hell of lot less credit than Obama got for negotiating & securing the Iran nuclear deal.
The DC media establisment loves war and hates peace. bsky.app/profile/pgou...

feels telling about American foreign policy punditry that while many decry the aimlessness of Trump’s monstrously wrong Iran war there were far more outraged columns over the harm done to US power and influence and standing and interests and example when Biden rightly withdrew from Afghanistan.

I'm a monthly donor to @mississippifreepress.org . Take some stones to do solid journalism in Mississippi.

It takes @donnerkay.bsky.social, a woman from Mississippi, to write the column rapist-enabling women in DC like Maureen Dowd and Bari Weiss are too busy sucking up to patriarchy to do.

this was the IRA, which every senate democrat voted for and every senate republican voted against

Trump vetoed a bipartisan water project in Lauren Boebert's district as revenge on Colorado, the Dem run state backfilled it, and it won't make any difference.

i understand that rural democrats frequently have to run against the party and don’t even begrudge them that, but the idea that rural america gets left out of big, national democratic infrastructure initiatives is just typical rural grievance mongering

The slurs somehow have more agency than the Republicans.

The “NYT actually assigns agency to the people doing the thing” headline challenge remains unwon.

Guy who helped create the Tara Reade hoax knew Platner before Platner announced his Senate candidacy?

As I’ve said many times, a journalist who was a Russian asset might act exactly like Grim.

In those subsequent interviews, the woman described how Epstein trafficked her to several men, including Trump, in the 1980s. She was interviewed again by the FBI on Aug. 7, 2019, Aug. 20, 2019 and Oct. 16, 2019. In her second interview, she claimed that Epstein either flew or drove her from South Carolina to New York or New Jersey when she was between 13 and 15 years old. "She was introduced to someone with money, money...it was Donald Trump," the FBI report said. She recalled she was in a "very tall building with huge rooms" when she met Trump, whom she said immediately didn't like her because she was a "boy-gir!" - or tomboy. She claimed she was with Epstein and several other people who left her alone in the room with Trump. "Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be," she recalled Trump saying, according to the FBI report. She said he unzipped his pants and forced her head to his penis. She said she immediately bit him and Trump struck her, the report said. She told the FBI agents that she bit him because he "disgusted" her. In her third interview, she told agents she wanted to clarify how Trump reacted to her biting him, explaining that Trump "pulled her hair and punched her on the side of the head."

“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible – and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”

— @jkbjournalist.bsky.social on the Epstein victim who accused Trump of assault.

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teamLab borderless Tokyo

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

Percy sending home photos from Mars.

This is what we used to be, not privatized fragments of armed forces bombing girl’s schools by (and it’s by, dammit, not « on ») accident

Also, technology does't mean shit when you have the social skills of Evil Older Brother Chet.

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

Dude who tried to pass off a trust funder with a BMW as a working class populist against Jason Crow - who actually did grow up poor - has thoughts. Lots of thoughs. Deep. Thoughts.