Painting of At Belvedere House young artists expressed something about what it would've been like for Mary Molesworth to be stolen into marriage to a cruel and jealous tyrant at age 16. The "Wicked Earl" Robert Rockfort locked her away from anyone else for 31 years until his death. The painting portrays her in despair.

Previous painting of Mary Molesworth in a group with two other paintings portraying her as an older woman also in despair over her life under the captivity of the wicked earl, Robert Rockfort.

Image of a "NO KINGS IRELAND" sticker held in front of the jealousy wall, an 18th century folly built for Robert Rochfort in c. 1760 at Belvedere house, Ireland.

At Belvedere House Ireland young artists expressed something about what it would've been like to be stolen into marriage to a cruel and jealous tyrant at age 16 and locked away from anyone else for 31 years until his death.

Untracked photo of the milky way near cygnus looking almost straight up with an illuminated tree in the upper right of the photo.

Canoe, swimming platform and stars looking north with reflection of stars in the lake.

Photo of constellations near Corona Borealis with the "Blaze star" T corona borealis to the left side of this constellation with a blurry silhouette of a fir tree on the left side of the photo.

Annotated photo of constellations near Corona Borealis with the "Blaze star" T corona borealis to the left side of this constellation with a blurry silhouette of a fir tree on the left side of the photo.

Under their current leadership I was reluctant to mention my un-european vacation on FB or IG but it was a good trip. I wonder if BluSky compresses the stars out of astronomy photos as thoroughly as FB and IG do?

‪emptywheel‬
‪@emptywheel.bsky.social‬
· 5h
Paul Manafort: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump.
George Papadopolous: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump.
Mike Flynn: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump.
Roger Stone: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump.

Next up, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe Reveal Putin "Was Counting on a Trump Win" - emptywheel Thanks to Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe, we now know that according to a reliable but ambiguous intelligence fragment, CIA got intelligence that said Putin approved the DNC hack-and-leak campaign "...

Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe Reveal Putin "Was Counting on a Trump Win"

www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/25/t...

Deaf, mute and terrified: ICE arrests DACA recipient and ships him to Texas Javier Diaz Santana, who is deaf and communicates using sign language, was swept up in a federal immigration raid at his job in Temple City. He could not communicate in handcuffs. His attorney says U.S. agents "don’t care whether you stand and produce documents or run.”

The government is legally required to provide people in its custody disability accommodations — but ICE shouldn’t be arresting and deporting DACA recipients and people with legal status to begin with.

I think both of these things are true, but is there a different valence to calling what Trump is doing "a mafia state" as compared to "fascism"?

I wonder if using the former term will highlight the corruption more easily?

Paul Manafort: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump.
George Papadopolous: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump.
Mike Flynn: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump.
Roger Stone: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump.

Next up, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Tell Congress: No Troops on Our Streets President Trump has deployed thousands of National Guard and federal troops into our communities. Tell Congress: No troops on our streets.

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to deploy 2,000 National Guard troops to ICE detention centers nationwide.

Demand Congress prevent this dangerous abuse of power NOW.

The Problem With Ghislaine Maxwell As a Witness Genuine cooperation between the Justice Department and Epstein’s convicted accomplice is possible, but there are so many ways it could go wrong.

This nails it by @eliehonig.bsky.social — Ghislaine is a monster and sexual criminal; the girls she abused are the victims, not her. That Trump is cynically using her to get out of a jam should tell you all you need to know about him nymag.com/intelligence...

grok (after it parsed sensitive, personal and classified files this administration has been feeding it.)

You & Medhi Hassan have too much patience "debating" Putin's bots & demented useful idiots. I'd start with challenging then to find something #Doe174 was right and truthful about in the past 48hours. And No, admitted liar entertainment network FoxNews can't serve as fact checker.

By pressuring #CocaCola into switching from U.S. farm-sourced corn-syrup to Philippine-sourced cane sugar, he succeeds in bringing this former U.S. colony to the trade negotiating table. 🤣 #ArtOfTheDeal!

YouTube video by Jubilee 1 Progressive vs 20 Far-Right Conservatives (ft. Mehdi Hasan)

This @mehdirhasan.bsky.social video really is worth watching.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...

The Secrets about Russia's Influence Operation that Tulsi Gabbard Is Still Keeping from Us - emptywheel At least as part of her information operation, Tulsi Gabbard released a newly declassified version of the 2017 Intelligence Assessment on the 2016 Russian attack.

The Secrets about Russia's Influence Operation that Tulsi Gabbard Is Still Keeping from Us

www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/19/t...

Technically, this is dated. But I feel like this still isn't getting the focus it deserves.

Whether or not we learn Trump was raping Epstein's girls, his super power is failing him and it's driving him nuts.

Op-ed: ‘Even God cannot hear us here’: What I witnessed inside an ICE women’s prison - The Tufts Daily On a Tuesday in March, I had spent most of my day working on my dissertation proposal and started to feel exhausted and hungry. It was the holy month of Ramadan, and I was fasting. Once finished, I qu...

Rümeysa Öztürk was detained by ICE for her op-ed in the Tufts Daily.

Now, the student newspaper is sharing her first public account of her experiences of being forced to live in cramped, unsanitary conditions and having her medical and religious needs ignored.

Seriously, holy hell.

Virtually every mainstream outlet has flubbed this limited hangout.

Chuck Grassley Complicit in Sending Dozens of Innocent Men to a Concentration Camp - emptywheel Chuck Grassley is protecting a guy, Emil Bove, who gave an order to unload dozens of innocent men into a concentration camp. Worse, he is cheating to promote him to a lifetime appointment.

Chuck Grassley Complicit in Sending Dozens of Innocent Men to a Concentration Camp

www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/17/c...

Skateboards and Livestreams: DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’ DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.

The Department of Homeland Security is telling police to treat mundane activities like skateboarding or live-streaming at a protest as "violent tactics."

This is disturbing, dangerous, and could easily lead to excessive force against people who are simply exercising their First Amendment rights.

I was trying to find a 1990s Sarasota event where a Bircher was the most moderate when I found that they were embedded in the PTA for decades:
digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcont...

The stormchasers I follow on the dead bird site are warning of flash floods in central Texas and most of Oklahoma. Vince Waelti: "Prepare to avoid travel, prepare to evacuate, and follow local alerts. Share this WIDELY to save lives!

Someday everyone will always have been against this. Peacefully opposing a cult of violence is slow and never easy but we shall overcome someday.

If there is a bright "woke" center to the universe, he is the farthest man from it.

Grok, please show an example of the opposite of "woke."

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.

Here's something I hadn't thought of, AI bots are out there scraping the web for tidbits to plagiarize and call their own. The requests can easily overwhelm small and private web hosts. So, you send them into a maze of twisty little passages, all alike… 😉

www.404media.co/the-open-sou...

P.S. Someone suggested archivebox.io when I was looking for a way to archive public info that is being deleted from public .gov pages.

Let me know how this works out. I have a budget VPS cloud host that I'm afraid to turn on very often. Amazn and other big hosting providers aren't very transparent on where the border is between their "free" tier and their "you'll have to sell your house" tier.

A fractured faith picked up from the most prolific tweeters and the cognitive dissociation necessary to argue against a windfarm in Scotland while trying to get permission to build a wall against climate change in Ireland.

A Daily Reid - Maga Republicans to non-billionaire Americans: 'drop dead' The party of the super rich has long needed the right clown to fool mainly white Americans into giving up the 20th century. They found him in Donald Trump.

To paraphrase before-times Kanye West: Donald Trump … doesn’t care … about white people (or anyone else who isn’t a billionaire or fossil fuel company…) open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...