🌠🐻 Margaret Abberley🌻🧩

YouTube video by Denver After Dark Intolerable Acts

A little late night contemplation on what is our collective trip wire for intolerable.

I remember one of my tripwires… when a constituent told me rape could be a blessing from GOD (if a kid was made). That is not just intolerable. It’s damn evil.

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Please read this from FCC Commissioner @agomezfcc.bsky.social to understand what is about to happen at CBS. The network’s content will now be fully-controlled by the Trump Administration.

A $200 million ballroom, and now this. He doesn’t ever plan on leaving.

White House scrambles to walk back gold bar tariff amid frenzy from traders President Donald Trump's administration caused an uproar of panic from traders when it appeared to apply new tariffs to the importation of gold bars — and is now scrambling to clarify there will be an exemption, Bloomberg News reported Friday."Industry figures had understood that bars would be exemp...

President Donald Trump's administration caused an uproar of panic from traders when it appeared to apply new tariffs to the importation of gold bars — and is now scrambling to clarify there will be an exemption, Bloomberg News reported Friday.

Really frustrating seeing journalists continue using “peace deal.” This is such an insult to Ukrainians. What “peace deal” implies is rewarding a terrorist state committing genocide and an illegal invasion by an aggressor.

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Trump's Confederacy rises again The Lost Cause doesn't seem all that lost anymore.

"This embrace of Lost Cause propaganda is more than just a quirk. It’s MAGA policy. The perversion of Civil War history is of a piece with the Big Lie about the 2020 election, which Trump still insists he won, and the January 6 attack on the Capitol." — @playtyperguy.com

A quick little search on the good old Google tells me this fucker ran against AG James.

If you still do the bad place.

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The Horror, the Horror: Yevgeny “Putin’s Butcher” Prigozhin, the Mr. Kurtz of Russia (with Candace Rondeaux) Podcast Episode · Prevail with Greg Olear · 06/17/2025 · 1h 9m

I had the pleasure of speaking to the brilliant @candacerondeaux.bsky.social, author of the superb new book "Putin's Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos," which I can't recommend highly enough...

On Lawfare Daily, @jshermcyber.bsky.social sits down with @candacerondeaux.bsky.social to discuss Yevgeny Prigozhin and his founding of the Wagner Group, Wagner and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and more.

Ghislaine Maxwell: The head of an international sex trafficking syndicate for the 1%, not of prostitutes but of children.
🔹️How many never spoke?
🔹️How many are already dead?
🔹️How many were paid off?
🔹️How many are threatened?
🔹️How many are insane?
🔹️How many still tied up?
🔹️How many have disappeared?

Here in Mississippi the state’s public broadcasting network, MPB, plans to eliminate PBS and NPR programming. https://mississippitoday.org/2025/08/08/how-mississippi-public-broadcasting-is-navigating-budget-cuts/

What do we know about the Covid-19 virus five years on? As the virus continues to evolve, experts assess its latest variants, seasonal prevalence and levels of vaccine uptake

"What do we know about the Covid-19 virus 5 years on?"

"The growing body of research suggesting that for several months after a Covid infection, people become more vulnerable to other infections and there can be lingering effects on the heart, cardiovascular system and the brain."

#COVIDisNotOVER

Statement on the Passing of Former FBI Director William H. Webster The FBI sends our prayers and condolences to the family of William H. Webster, former FBI Director, who passed away earlier today. He was a dedicated public servant who spent over 60 years in service to our country, including in the U.S. Navy, as a federal judge, director of the CIA, and his term as our Director from 1978-1987. We are grateful for his life and legacy and wish his family, friends, and colleagues peace and comfort during this time.

Former CIA and FBI Director (and Amherst College Grad) William Webster passed. It wasn't very long ago that he was trying to convince Chuck Grassley to reject Kash Patel.

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YouTube video by Katie Phang Yikes! Florida JUMPS Onto Texas’ POWER Grab SCHEME

Ron DeSantis tells Abbott: “Hold my beer!” as he hops on the mid-decade gerrymandering train & calls for a new census.

My latest on the recent Fla. Supreme Ct. decision that empowers DeSantis & why you should pay attention to your state court judges.

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Putin gave Witkoff award to give a senior CIA official whose son was killed in Ukraine while fighting alongside Russians.

The Order of Lenin, was meant for Juliane Gallina, whose son, Michael Gloss, was killed in 2024.

CIA Gallina, dep dir for digital innovation. 🚩
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Trump ❤️ Putin
Putin poisoned Litvinenko because he published how Putin is a pedo and likes boys.
#EpsteinFiles

#GamerGate Milo! That's his name! Putin ❤️ Milo, well, when he was younger.

👇 Putin in America 🧵

We are negotiating with a murderous dictator.

Our admin is allowing him in our country.

We cannot be this.

This is great.
Keep it up.

Take photos of national park signs now, before they’re whitewashed

It's amazing how Trump and his buddies are basically the Menendez brothers: they killed their country, took her money and are now spending it on themselves like rappers

Apollo 13 moon mission leader James Lovell dies at 97 CHICAGO — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Il.....

Jim Lovell wasn't just an astronaut or a commander; he was a hero.

His courage and quick thinking inspired Americans to dream and explore all the way from our planet to the bright stars.

Thinking of his loved ones today. May his memory be a blessing.

Trump’s use of emergency powers for policy and governing priorities rather than truly unexpected and serious crises is the short road to American autocracy. The GOP Congress will not stop him. Has the US Supreme Court realized that if they don’t, he will likely eliminate their significance as well?

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Kash fired the FBI SAC for his own neighborhood.

Feds face Freedom of Information lawsuit seeking release of Epstein files Democracy Forward asked a federal judge to order the expedited release of records before a potential pardon for Epstein collaborator Ghislaine Maxwell.

The Department of Justice faces a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed Friday over its handling of the Epstein files. @ryanknappy.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/feds-face-fr...

TEXAS REP. @crockett.house.gov: “There is no morality. There is nothing but lawlessness… If we’re going to preserve our democracy in this moment this is the way we are going to have to engage in this fight.”

Just know that it may not be spectrum, i.e., it could well be BUT sometimes that mix you described accompanies other forms of neurodiversity -- esp. with the clinical depression. I can't/don't diagnose, simply have done a LOT of reading in this space. The stresses of being misconstrued are real.

So let's step back & see what Putin got today:
1: No promised sanctions/tariffs
2: Another week delay
3: Legitimacy
4: Meeting Trump, excluding Zelenskyy, to get his "deal" accepted first
5: Avoiding arrest on war crime charges

What Putin failed to get:
1: Nothing

#FartOfADeal

AFT, AAUP Leaders Respond to Trump’s Higher Education Admissions Directive WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten, AFT Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick Ingram and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following statements in response t...

This EO isn't about ensuring fairness but about taking away opportunity for all by going backward to make higher education a special entitlement for some. It is an attempt to chill 60 years’ worth of efforts to create a just and inclusive society. www.aft.org/press-releas...

And, also, that sense of having lived one's life into adulthood w.o diagnosis and how that affects mental health, social dynamics, etc., which is why your remarks brought it to mind.

I was a little over 2yo. My earliest memories are when Ford was in office.