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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 11h

I'm sure Stephen Miller excretes something closer to the mouth acid the aliens have in Alien when he speaks

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I saw this only in the Guardian earlier. The lack of coverage by nationwide media is shocking, but represents a typical disregard for gun violence when it occurs in a largely black town. And, it doesn't fit the Admin's "violent blue cities/states" narrative.

Six people dead in shootings during two separate Mississippi homecoming gatherings

Sixteen people were also injured in attack that occurred after high school football game in small city of Leland

www.theguardian.com

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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 1d

Omgomgomg

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 2d

This from somebody who chronically appears in clothes he seems to have lifted from 4 different strangers that he had a person surviving only on menthols and red bulls bedazzle.

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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 2d

Why shit on SUNY Albany, though? They're not one of the Ivy League schools capitulating to Trump, for example.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

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POLITICO
By DANIEL LIPPMAN
10/09/2025 08:22 PM EDT
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room.
Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 3d

It's so obvious CNN is just lubing up for the Ellison takeover

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 4d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 4d

Bondi must release the Epstein files and then resign

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 4d

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

jessica.substack.com

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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 5d

"Ultrahuman" is just a lazy rebranding of Nietzsche's Übermensch

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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 5d

@jcsalterego.bsky.social, first you make the news, then you make the weather

Heads-up NHC Tracking 'Future Jerry' In The Atlantic (headline)

A projection of a possible hurricane path toward land is on the right of the headline

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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 6d

Leo's character: fumbling, freaking out, & clueless about activism & efforts with which he is so out-of-touch that he is oblivious to the practical, immediate activities of actual activists (to del Toro & others smoothly operating with urgency) around him = chef's kiss

So well-shot & acted by all

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 8d

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 8d

I see that "did [person he's sneeringly insulting] even say thanks?" has become a whole platform for JD Vance

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: A 20-year federal prosecutor, fired abruptly this week even as he lead case against Abbey Gate bomber, warns his colleagues: the Trump administration is sacrificing national security to purge Trump's perceived adversaries.

w/ @dnlbrns

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 9d

Trump's spiritual advisor Robert Morris being taken to prison for child sex abuse.

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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 9d

Stephen King continues to show that he must have been doing something right all these years 👏
@stephenking.bsky.social

FOX8 WGHP @myfox8.com · 9d

Stephen King named most banned author in United States schools

Some 87 titles among King’s oeuvre, which includes “The Stand,” “It” and “The Shining,” were banned 206 times during the school year.

myfox8.com

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 10d

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year, according to three people familiar with the matter and a dismissal notice reviewed by MSNBC.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

Kash Patel fires FBI agent trainee for displaying gay pride flag

The FBI employee was fired on the first day of the government shutdown as President Trump threatened more terminations.

www.msnbc.com

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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 10d

A must-read, somber analysis of how our rights are under attack by the gov & the public.

"no citizen who simply settles for being a consumer of democracy should expect to have a real democracy"

Author @tressiemcphd.bsky.social cited @marisakabas.bsky.social
(Gift)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

www.nytimes.com

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 11d

Hard to blame the Democrats for the shutdown when you're in charge of all 3 branches of government, plus the Supreme Court.

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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 11d

Green energy is not just our best bet at a good future; it's the only choice that could be better (than alternates) for the other occupants of the planet as well.

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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 11d

We have loss a giant in the work of preserving and defending the natural world and all that occupy it.

Rest easy, Dr. Jane Goodall 💚

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 11d

Johnson has already handed over everything to Daddy and acts like this is a reasonable position.

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