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@carleenml.bsky.social

Primarily progressive politics and books. "You are living an exciting new chapter in the book on tape of your life." -Moira Rose

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Nothing that happens in this war matters more than the fact this is the worst violation of the Constitution in U.S. history, an illegal war crime

Unless Congress impeaches Trump this weekend, and it won’t, then we are a dictatorship, full stop

28.02.2026 08:08 β€” πŸ‘ 845    πŸ” 331    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 24

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

19.02.2026 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 10334    πŸ” 2287    πŸ’¬ 152    πŸ“Œ 68
tweet from @cliftonhowze on twitter

Last night at the #DataCenters meeting in Claremore, Darren Blanchard, who has attended most of these meetings around NE Oklahoma & has some pretty impressive FOIA/ORA skills, was arrested after going over his 3 min. allotted speaking time. First arrest I've seen at one of these.

tweet from @cliftonhowze on twitter Last night at the #DataCenters meeting in Claremore, Darren Blanchard, who has attended most of these meetings around NE Oklahoma & has some pretty impressive FOIA/ORA skills, was arrested after going over his 3 min. allotted speaking time. First arrest I've seen at one of these.

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

19.02.2026 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9750    πŸ” 3216    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 339

Warned about this briefly end of last year. Kinda worrying

www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

19.02.2026 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 467    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 3

my personal feelings about the writer is why I never opened the article. And here we are.

19.02.2026 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A plane living room. There is a big white couch, a bar (with a bottle of what may be whiskey on it), and multiple lounge chairs.

A plane living room. There is a big white couch, a bar (with a bottle of what may be whiskey on it), and multiple lounge chairs.

A double bedroom on the plane. There is a brown striped blanket on the bed.

A double bedroom on the plane. There is a brown striped blanket on the bed.

NBC has pics of the plane ICE Barbie needs to run her gulag.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

19.02.2026 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1101    πŸ” 536    πŸ’¬ 111    πŸ“Œ 64

Everything they've done has been variations on one theme: I take what & who I want, how & when I want. Men who use the bodies of children as objects with which to satisfy grotesque urges bc they know they're free to do so will feel even freer to plunder the nation & warehouse humans they don't like.

11.02.2026 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 313    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

At the protests in Boston on Jan 10, a state police helicopter hovered low enough over the crowd that it was hard to hear the speakers. None of the usual news helicopters were overhead.

I filed a public records request with @massstatepolice.bsky.social asking why.

bsky.app/profile/some...

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11.02.2026 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5
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ICE's Masks Are All a Lie Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America.

"Which is to say: Being an elementary school student in the United States is more deadly than being an ICE officer.

The leading cause of β€œon-duty death” of ICE officers? Covid." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

10.02.2026 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 168    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something β€œbetter.”

02.02.2026 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6507    πŸ” 2324    πŸ’¬ 363    πŸ“Œ 137

As a labor union representing independent media workers, we feel it's important to name that both Lemon and Fort are independent journalists, and that the targeting of independent journalists should be treated with the same gravity as the targeting of those with institutional backing.

30.01.2026 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 326    πŸ” 157    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
DreamHaven Books owner Greg Ketter emerging from a cloud of tear gas that ICE agents fired into the streets of Minneapolis.

DreamHaven Books owner Greg Ketter emerging from a cloud of tear gas that ICE agents fired into the streets of Minneapolis.

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will β€” now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

25.01.2026 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 16072    πŸ” 5216    πŸ’¬ 324    πŸ“Œ 249
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Leaked Signal chat shows NH House education chair advocating whites-only schools The group chat allegedly shows NH House Education Committee Chair Kristin Noble suggesting test scores would rise if students were split into white and

I know this won’t get a lot of attention beyond β€œwell it’s New Hampshire, what did you expect” but I want you all to know there are a lot of kids and families of color here and we all deserve better than this kind of garbage representation

15.01.2026 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3518    πŸ” 1431    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 111

β€œTrump wants” β€œTrump threatens” β€œTrump promises” ….these are not powers that belong to his office, but because Congress has relegated itself to background noise, nobody even acknowledges that this isn’t how our government was designed to work

15.01.2026 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 621    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0

That's a perfect example of how "performative" has become MEANINGLESS. POLITICS IS SUPPOSED TO INCLUDE A PERFORMANCE. PERFORMATIVE POLITICS IS NECESSARY. I truly despise these fucking so called 'moderates.'

15.01.2026 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 479    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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This Is the History of Anti-Trans Bigotry Amy Coney Barrett Doesn’t Want to Talk About Barrett thinks transgender people have been subjected to β€œrelatively little” discrimination. This amicus brief aims to set the record straight.

Importantly, the history of anti-trans discrimination isnt just history

The scholars' brief shows the link between a dark past that Amy Coney Barrett can no longer plausibly deny, and a darkening future that she & her conservative colleagues are helping to create
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trans...

12.01.2026 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

26.12.2025 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3539    πŸ” 592    πŸ’¬ 98    πŸ“Œ 60

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

26.12.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 5045    πŸ” 966    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 46

Methinks the Atlantic has it backwards. Canadians are the heroes; CBS and Weiss are the treacherous ones. And America is making itself look far worse than "silly." I salute Global TV.

26.12.2025 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 419    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 7

This is real and more terrifying by the day.

24.12.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Weiss told colleagues this weekend the piece β€” planned for Sunday night's show β€” could not run without an on-the-record comment from a Trump administration official. That's according to two people with knowledge of events at the network who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing job security.

Weiss told colleagues this weekend the piece β€” planned for Sunday night's show β€” could not run without an on-the-record comment from a Trump administration official. That's according to two people with knowledge of events at the network who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing job security.

Reporter: We have 3 videos, 2 breathalyzers, 4 bartenders, and a minivan full of nuns attesting to how the driver was drunk and reckless when he hit the school bus.

Weiss; What did the driver say.

Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times.

Weiss: I’m killing your story.

22.12.2025 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1863    πŸ” 449    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 19
Exclusive: 911 calls from migrant detention center highlight dire conditions About 90 emergency 911 calls have been made from the Camp East Montana immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, during the 15 weeks since it opened.

People are dying inside American concentration camps right now.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

22.12.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2375    πŸ” 1421    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 60

Love her SO much. Truth!

22.12.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

when someone seems to suddenly and inexplicably jump on the maga train, you will almost never be wrong in assuming it’s about money

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Their plan, to the degree you can say they have a plan, is working. It’s going to be catastrophic and it’s going to kill a large number of people for no reason other than the strong conservative Christian belief that the poor deserve to suffer and die for the sin of their poverty.

17.12.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 99    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering.
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

16.12.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5140    πŸ” 2281    πŸ’¬ 109    πŸ“Œ 175
A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.

A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.

BBC
'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Emily Atkinson
Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST
2 min read

A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed.

Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat.

Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.

BBC 'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed Emily Atkinson Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST 2 min read A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed. Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat. Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

14.12.2025 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 15675    πŸ” 5826    πŸ’¬ 278    πŸ“Œ 369

- Pope Leo X in 1517, after being told about Martin Luther.

15.12.2025 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 662    πŸ” 161    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

This is 1: Exactly what they promised not to do and

2: What I've come to expect every time the GOP has the chance.

I've watching/using the VA for 30+ years. Dems build it up, GOP screams how "Dems hate America, and spit on our Veterans" and then cut services.

14.12.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0