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Some Random Susan

@anysusan.bsky.social

Just a girl living in a world where I want everyone to leave Greenland alone for God’s sake

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

JD Vance and Peter Thiel are running a sustained operation out of the White House designed to acquire Greenland, either voluntarily or by force. Thiel has laid out plans for what he intends to do with the island nation in past writings. It doesn't entail the consent of the Greenlanders for anything.

November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM

Some Random Susan

@anysusan.bsky.social

All of this. And don’t even get me started on JD’s involvement in that company buying up American FARMLAND and selling it to foreign investors

civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...

Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 4d

Someone is buying up American starter homes and pricing you out. But it’s not who you’ve been told. #EconSky #Housing #PolSky #RonanFarrow

November 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM

Some Random Susan

@anysusan.bsky.social

Ah yes this brings back fond memories of the grassroots Autistic-led hashtag Autism$peaks campaign

Hoo boy that got loud and it was glorious

Catbus and stuffing 🍂🍁🍃 @hayao.lol · 1h

underrated feature of old twitter was people with a decent following being able to bully brands into acting right

November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM

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RiotGrlErin

@riotgrlerin.bsky.social

soylent green but with muppets: thread

A green and happy looking Oscar the Grouch.

Easter Moss Cake or some shit that looks just like Oscar.

November 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM

Some Random Susan

@anysusan.bsky.social

I have read a lot of recipes in my life but I never ever seen culinary chaos like this

Elizabeth Potter Graham, JD @elizabethpgraham.bsky.social · 10h

I looked drummies up. It looks bad.
gracefoods.com/recipe-a-z/r...

Grace Corned Beef Drummies

gracefoods.com

November 25, 2025 at 4:55 AM

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Zach Dorfman

@zachsdorfman.bsky.social

Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12h

Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas

Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack

www.ft.com

November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM

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Kelly Knox

@kelly-knox.com

narrator: 50 years ago...

me: [nods] in 1945

narrator: in 1975...

me: what

November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM

Some Random Susan

@anysusan.bsky.social

Rule of law! Rule of law!

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21h

1/Judge Cameron Currie dismisses the Comey prosecution because Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed US Atty.

November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM

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Chris Geidner

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

I know people are going to revel in the schadenfreude here, but this is really just an admission—given how close the House is split—that they’re just mad it didn’t work. Fewer than a dozen House GOPers could change America tomorrow. That they’re not proves this is just about losing, not principles.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:

@punchbowlnews.bsky.social

November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Some Random Susan

@anysusan.bsky.social

To be clear this is eugenicist thinking, to portray death as a better outcome than getting stuck with a child requiring medical intervention and support.

This is the same rationale that ultimately leads to abandoning “undesirable” infants out in the wilderness to die.

❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 22h

And man, when people say RFK Junior and his ilk are the vanguard of a death cult, sometimes that sort of criticism seems hyperbolic but then—holy shit, this celebration of death (and planning for concealing it) is brazen and explicit

Both Norris-Clark and Saldaya's children survived. But Saldaya, who taught her followers to always have a "death plan", had considered what she'd say to the authorities if a child of hers died after they yere born. She'd pretend the baby was stillborn. "I would certainly lie?" Saldaya told her students in 2023. "If my baby was born alive, then died, and then I involved the police - that baby was born dead."
If a child died in a freebirth, Saldaya also taught her students not to "kneejerk" call 911: "Dead is dead." If grieving families chose to illegally bury their children on their land, Saldaya passed on advice once given to her by an underground midwife: "Dig a little deeper."

"This idea of death being bad is not really something I believe is true," Norris-Clark said
"But that doesn't mean I think it's not a big deal." She acknowledged she'd never lost a newborn baby of her own. "It's a terrible thing, yeah," she said. "And also, not 'bad', you know?"

November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM

Some Random Susan

@anysusan.bsky.social

Safety Director of Gateway Community church in Webster, TX posed as ICE agent to extort woman

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

Church employee in Texas allegedly posed as ICE agent to extort woman

Man arrested in Houston is alleged to have used fake ID to demand $400 from woman who had given him massage

www.theguardian.com

November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM

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Lance Parkin

@lanceparkin.bsky.social

I think we need to call out the science fiction writers who thought that billionaires would fund sexy android replicas of some lost lover.

Metropolis would hit differently if Rotwang builds a machine and all it does is say 'Joh Fredersen, your eyebrows are weird. You must have a small dick'.

Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 1d

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM

Some Random Susan

@anysusan.bsky.social

The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness Charlie Brown

November 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM

Some Random Susan

@anysusan.bsky.social

This feels worse than the run-up to Iraq.

Mr Gone @mrgone66.bsky.social · 1d

apnews.com/article/vene...
Airlines cancel flights to Venezuela after terrorist USA's FAA warns of worsening security, military activity

Airlines cancel flights to Venezuela after FAA warns of worsening security, military activity

International airlines are canceling flights to Venezuela after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration warned pilots about security risks and increased military activity.

apnews.com

November 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM

Some Random Susan

@anysusan.bsky.social

This thread renews my hope for humankind.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

Dale Partridge on Twitter writes: "Feminist media is BIG mad about me saying that women shouldn’t wear underwear (leggings and sports bras) as outerwear.

As Pearl says, “It’s amazing how hard women will fight to be naked.”

Immodest ladies, read 1 Tim. 2:9, repent, and follow Christ."

Attached are two images.

Image 1 headline: “Outraged pastor slams worker at quaint coffee shop for wearing ‘sinful’ leggings and sports bra in front of kids”

Image 2 headline: “‘Make sin shameful again’: Pastor sparks row after sports bra complaint”

November 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM

Some Random Susan

@anysusan.bsky.social

The vindictive persecution of this man is undeniable.

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1d

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers inform a federal judge about the Washington Post's bombshell: The government's claim that Costa Rica will no longer accept Abrego has been exposed as a lie.

More evidence—"if any were needed"—of vindictive prosecution.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia respectfully submits this supplemental notice to provide the Court with additional facts relevant to his motion to dismiss for vindictive and selective prosecution. Recent developments in Mr. Abrego’s habeas case before Judge Xinis, concerning the government’s misrepresentations about whether Costa Rica would accept Mr. Abrego upon his removal, make crystal clear that the government is willing to mislead the courts and defy court orders intended to shed light on its conduct, all in service of punishing Mr. Abrego. This provides further proof—if any were needed—of the government’s vindictiveness toward Mr. Abrego and underscores the need for discovery into the motivations of the high-level officials who initiated this prosecution and are ultimately responsible for the government’s misrepresentations regarding Mr. Abrego’s third-country removal."

November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM

Some Random Susan

@anysusan.bsky.social

Anti-ICE activists in CA bought up all the ice scrapers at Home Depot and then immediately lined up to return them to bring the entire store to a standstill.

Well done everyone, mad respect
#ICEScrapers #ICEout

[hikikomori] @hikiko-mori.bsky.social · 1d

En Monrovia, California, un grupo de activistas colapsa las cajas de Home Depot comprando rascadores de hielo a 17 céntimos.

Home Depot es una gran superficie de materiales de construcción donde compra mucha gente indocumentada. Han colaborado con ICE y su propietario financió la campaña de Trump.

November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM

Some Random Susan

@anysusan.bsky.social

After 30+ years of cooking Thanksgiving dinners my controversial take is this:

- Eat what you and your family love, to hell with what other people do

- Happy beats exhausted every time

- Store bought is fine. Maybe you didn’t make it, but you still made it possible.

- Life is short, enjoy it.

ceej @ceej.online · 1d

the “thanksgiving food is bad” discourse raises its ugly head every year, but the truth remains that thanksgiving food can be amazing as long as you know how to cook. the problem is we’re throwing a few million sunday drivers directly into a grand prix

Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is unfair to turkey. turkey is good but hard to cook well because it is so damn big. turkey *parts* are great but lack the esthetic appeal of a centerpiece bird.

November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM

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Max Berger

@maxberger.bsky.social

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM

Some Random Susan

@anysusan.bsky.social

This is terrifying.

T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's domestic Gestapo raided a job site, then handcuffed a US citizen born in Raleigh NC -- even after being shown the guy's REAL ID, which is only available to US citizens and LPRs

CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism

www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...

Excerpt from the linked news story. Text reads:

Fernando Vazquez doesn't understand why Border Patrol agents took him into custody
Tuesday.

Agents from Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) pinned him to a gate at his Cary worksite, handcuffed him and pulled his wallet out. They saw his N.C. REAL ID. But Vazquez, 18, said they still kept him in handcuffs and ushered him into the back of a gray Chevy Tahoe. He sat next to another worker in his early 20s who was crying.

Excerpt from the linked news story. Text reads:

'I was in shock'

Vazquez was born in Raleigh and lives in Apex.

His parents are from Mexico, and he works with his dad as a landscaper. He graduated from Vernon Malone College and Career Academy in Raleigh. He was detained close to his former middle school, Reedy Creek.

Excerpt from the linked news story. Text reads:

Vazquez said he saw eight agents — four from the Tahoe, and four from a Ford Explorer or Chevy Suburban. Agents put him in the back of the Tahoe and drove off.

"I was in shock, basically," Vazquez said.

While in the car, a different Latino agent asked Vazquez where he was from.

"Here," Vazquez told him.

"NO, where were you born?" the agent asked.

Vazquez told him he was born in Raleigh.

He said the agent got angry and cussed him out.

Excerpt from the linked news story. Text reads:

The agents eventually allowed Vazquez out of their SUV, and he caught a video of them removing his handcuffs and throwing his wallet out of the car, its contents scattering on the ground. The video has over 5 million views on TikTok.

November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM

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Joyce White Vance

@joycewhitevance.bsky.social

It’s official. @dougjones.bsky.social will run against Tommy Tuberville for Alabama governor. www.al.com/life/2025/11...

Doug Jones will enter 2026 Alabama governor’s race

Campaign paperwork is to be filed this week.

www.al.com

November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM

Some Random Susan

@anysusan.bsky.social

Once in a generation political talent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?

MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them

November 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM

Some Random Susan

@anysusan.bsky.social

Gordon Getty told members of a private email list that inlcuded Jeffrey Epstein that he believed Trump is a sociopath, psychopath or Mach[ievellian]

www.forbes.com/sites/monica...