@pickles-mom.bsky.social
Ph.D. Geologist, presently image analyst. Empty nester watching news unfold with trepidation.
The “deal” deprives Ukraine of everything it has won by withstanding Russian aggression and defending the borders of Europe.
It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness.
It’s the end of post WWII American power.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
"Even within the confines of the cultish Trump administration, there was an acute level of self-awareness about how much of a knock [the Epstein] vote has been to the president’s iron-fisted control over his party."
Good reporting from @swin24.bsky.social and team:
zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...
A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
Funniest part of this is that he’s saying the shutdown is a disaster for Republicans, which seems a touch off message but okay who am I to argue
05.11.2025 03:29 — 👍 1161 🔁 146 💬 51 📌 4Thinking about sending a reporter to Teterboro Airport to watch all the oligarchs fleeing.
05.11.2025 02:54 — 👍 1362 🔁 144 💬 47 📌 6Good news: Turns out that plutocrats are not as competent as we thought.
05.11.2025 03:00 — 👍 767 🔁 60 💬 15 📌 1Lawrence: One of the examples you've put out is in Speaker Mike Johnson's Louisiana district, a 60 year old couple earning 82,000 a year. Their health care premiums will rise by almost $20,000 by 300% because of what their congressman is doing.
01.10.2025 05:00 — 👍 10050 🔁 4557 💬 246 📌 200Another five homes collapsed Tuesday in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, the latest incident in what has become a common sight in recent years along the state’s erosion-plagued coast. https://wapo.st/46wNil0
01.10.2025 09:00 — 👍 81 🔁 20 💬 23 📌 17
"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents."
30.09.2025 21:34 — 👍 1386 🔁 700 💬 102 📌 123FYI. If the Govt shuts down, everyone stays in town including the president but you’re just bored with nothing to do because it’s all messaging and negotiations.
GREAT TIME TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
The midterms are bearing down on Trump and he can feel it. The looming shut down is phase one in Trump’s quickening towards total dictatorship.
His poor health prevents him from having a patient 10 year plan like other dictators .
Wow, I'm speechless 😨
So if civilian-dressed dudes like these two, who refused to identify themselves until after the slam-down, manhandle and try to restrain you, would you defend yourself, resulting in a dangerous situation, or would you allow them to take you down thinking they could be feds?
Hegseth is putting all of the American generals and admirals from around the world into a single room. Why might Hegseth do such an extraordinary thing? Here I discuss four possible reasons.
snyder.substack.com/p/hegseth-pu...
Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district.
The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps."
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...
NEW: There are big problems with the Comey indictment. It is vague and based on an obvious misquoting of Comey’s testimony. Moreover, the case could fall apart over just one word. Check out my latest article.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
NEW
WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.
This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there
26.09.2025 00:40 — 👍 26562 🔁 7419 💬 529 📌 356
This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) told reporters this about the decisive 218th signature for House discharge petition seeking to force release of Epstein case files:
"The House leaders and some of the powers that be in DC are in full panic right now"
Trump's tariff and mass deportation policies have created an extraordinary crisis in the farm economy. Rather than fixing it in his China negotiations Trump did a smash and grab for him and his buddies by getting TikTok. It's pure Robber Barron stuff, and a wild betrayal of farmers across the US.
25.09.2025 11:19 — 👍 207 🔁 78 💬 13 📌 3
Trump crossed a red line. He announced plans to designate U.S. groups as terrorist organizations. I know what he’s really trying to do.
www.treason.io/p/read-trump...
BREAKING: Trump signs executive order designating antifa as a “domestic terrorist org.”
Not good. I was part of convos like this in Trump 1.0. He’ll use this as the justification to go after “Dems” as “terrorists.”
Here’s what happens next:
www.treason.io/p/read-trump...
Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Even top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump administration’s firing of numerous senior leaders this year.
Reproducing this article here, because it's important.
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Read the IG report on the McCabe leak controversy for which Comey might be indicted, and you'll see that there's no case here and that any prosecution would be the weaponization of the DOJ to serve Trump's revenge fantasy. I mean, no case at all. Not even close.
static01.nyt.com/files/2018/u...
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
@kenklippenstein.bsky.social with the receipts, actually talking to the shooter's friends.
Surprise! Not the left, or even MAGA. Another white kid who spent countless hours online and "was an edgelord who wanted someone to get blamed … to rile people up.”
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Russian and Chinese bots are stoking “violence” online in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination.
12.09.2025 10:30 — 👍 91 🔁 40 💬 19 📌 4
Mehtab Syed, a Muslim Pakistani American woman, was the 'legendary' special agent in charge of Utah's FBI division.
Experienced, highly qualified, and respected by her peers.
Kash Patel fired her last month.
Now look at the mess.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
