Clio2
@clio2.bsky.social
Student of #polycrisis, with detours into history, nature, oddments. Degrees in philosophy, history of science. Former teacher, writer, editor, public communicator, journalist, contract researcher. Occasional fictioneer. No AI. ;-)
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You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.
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Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was born 193 years ago today: Nov. 26, 1832.
She was a doctor, Civil War surgeon, and women's dress reform advocate, but is best known as America's only female Medal of Honor recipient. Here's a great 2019 We're History article about her from author R.E. Fulton.
She was a doctor, Civil War surgeon, and women's dress reform advocate, but is best known as America's only female Medal of Honor recipient. Here's a great 2019 We're History article about her from author R.E. Fulton.
Dr. Mary E. Walker: “Clothes Make the (Wo)man”
“It is a shame that people who lead reforms in this world are not appreciated until after they are dead…”
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November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was born 193 years ago today: Nov. 26, 1832.
She was a doctor, Civil War surgeon, and women's dress reform advocate, but is best known as America's only female Medal of Honor recipient. Here's a great 2019 We're History article about her from author R.E. Fulton.
She was a doctor, Civil War surgeon, and women's dress reform advocate, but is best known as America's only female Medal of Honor recipient. Here's a great 2019 We're History article about her from author R.E. Fulton.
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A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
Would the band have preferred "brave and strong outbursts of misplaced anger”?
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Would the band have preferred "brave and strong outbursts of misplaced anger”?
"[O]nce you have been raped, self-love and self-agency or even the belief that you & your body are worth saving have been decimated...[Y]ou have an aura, a stamp of brokenness that...attracts more abusers who can smell your vulnerability...."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If Epstein’s survivors don’t receive justice that is a ticking time bomb | V (formerly Eve Ensler)
Millions of sexual violent survivors will not live a day longer with this torturous injustice
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
"[O]nce you have been raped, self-love and self-agency or even the belief that you & your body are worth saving have been decimated...[Y]ou have an aura, a stamp of brokenness that...attracts more abusers who can smell your vulnerability...."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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1. It would appear that in recent reporting, the BBC is now using the phrase "biological male who identifies as a woman" when they mean to talk about a transgender woman.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
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This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
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BBC Now Calling Trans Women 'Biological Males Who Identify As Women'
These stories come in the aftermath of allegations that a small but mighty cabal of “LGBT reporters” had somehow seized control of the BBC and “censored” right-wing views.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1. It would appear that in recent reporting, the BBC is now using the phrase "biological male who identifies as a woman" when they mean to talk about a transgender woman.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Does Benny Johnson have to split his Russian paycheck with that guy on his show?
www.npr.org/2024/09/05/n...
www.npr.org/2024/09/05/n...
How Russian operatives covertly hired U.S. influencers to create viral videos
Details in an indictment match Nashville-based Tenet Media, which offered lucrative paychecks to prominent right-wing influencers. The influencers say they were deceived.
www.npr.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Does Benny Johnson have to split his Russian paycheck with that guy on his show?
www.npr.org/2024/09/05/n...
www.npr.org/2024/09/05/n...
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Didn’t Jacob Wohl catch a criminal conviction for doing basically this?
In the #TN7 race, Matt Van Epps and Republicans have resorted to sending mailers as if they are a Democratic agency and intentionally giving the wrong date to get people out to vote.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Didn’t Jacob Wohl catch a criminal conviction for doing basically this?
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Collective, racist punishment.
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Collective, racist punishment.
I'm tired of this, that's a violation of everyone's constitutional rights.
November 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
The Trump regime is disappearing people to indefinite detention in third countries they’ve never been to, often giving them no chance to contest their deportation and breaking U.S. and international law.
Cruelty and inhumanity beyond belief.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Cruelty and inhumanity beyond belief.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
www.newyorker.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Notwithstanding court orders that this is illegal, DHS continues its policy of consciously targeting and shooting at journalists. bsky.app/profile/cing...
From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Notwithstanding court orders that this is illegal, DHS continues its policy of consciously targeting and shooting at journalists. bsky.app/profile/cing...
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#OnThisDay 1867 Lily Maxwell cast her vote at a by-election in Manchester, despite women being excluded from the parliamentary franchise. Find out more here: historyofparliament.com/2025/03/14/l...
‘A woman actually voted!’: Lily Maxwell and the Manchester by-election of November 1867 - The History of Parliament
More than half a century before the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918, Lily Maxwell, a Manchester shopkeeper, cast a parliamentary vote. Dr Kathryn Rix
historyofparliament.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
#OnThisDay 1867 Lily Maxwell cast her vote at a by-election in Manchester, despite women being excluded from the parliamentary franchise. Find out more here: historyofparliament.com/2025/03/14/l...
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Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and trump work for Putin.
That’s TREASON 💯
That’s TREASON 💯
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and trump work for Putin.
That’s TREASON 💯
That’s TREASON 💯
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The State Department has warned employees not to use government funds to mark Dec. 1 as World AIDS Day and to “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels.”
Trump administration won't observe World AIDS Day
A directive from the State Department assures that 2025 will be different from 2024, when President Biden hosted the first display of AIDS Memorial Quilt panels at the White House.
www.advocate.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The State Department has warned employees not to use government funds to mark Dec. 1 as World AIDS Day and to “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels.”
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I guess it’s a good thing we were so concerned about the right to speak our opinions being outlawed by a ruling class that we guaranteed it by making it the very first amendment in our Bill of Rights when we formed the country.
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I guess it’s a good thing we were so concerned about the right to speak our opinions being outlawed by a ruling class that we guaranteed it by making it the very first amendment in our Bill of Rights when we formed the country.
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Billionaire wealth extraction isn't capitalism it's oligarchy. When Musk profits from government contracts he controls, Bezos pays lower tax rates than nurses, and three people hold more wealth than half of Americans, you don't have an economy. You have a rigged wealth transfer system.
You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Billionaire wealth extraction isn't capitalism it's oligarchy. When Musk profits from government contracts he controls, Bezos pays lower tax rates than nurses, and three people hold more wealth than half of Americans, you don't have an economy. You have a rigged wealth transfer system.
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A few days ago ICE grabbed a British woman who was holding her 6 month old child.
Now they’ve deported a woman to Honduras who’s 8 month is left behind
She was at an appt for a work permit when they asked “is that your baby? Are you breastfeeding?”
She said “No” to breastfeeding and they took her
Now they’ve deported a woman to Honduras who’s 8 month is left behind
She was at an appt for a work permit when they asked “is that your baby? Are you breastfeeding?”
She said “No” to breastfeeding and they took her
Young mother deported from Minnesota to Honduras without her infant
After being deported from Minnesota last week, a young mother says she's back in Honduras without her 8-month-old child.
www.cbsnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"Two Trump-appointed judges just argued that the First Amendment stops where the president’s irritation begins."
I’m a Desert Storm veteran and former journalist. What happened in the courts yesterday and is NOT being covered. I’m asking you to read this and share it. Press freedom is on life support and the public needs to know. I am asking to please share this.
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Letters From the Edge: When Courts Become Collaborators: How Trump Judges Are Killing Press Freedom
Two Trump-appointed judges just argued that the First Amendment stops where the president’s irritation begins.
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
"Two Trump-appointed judges just argued that the First Amendment stops where the president’s irritation begins."
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Federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld an almost $1 million penalty against Trump and his attorneys for "sanctionable conduct" in a racketeering lawsuit they brought against Hillary Clinton and other Democrats over the 2016 election.
Federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld an almost $1 million penalty against Trump and his attorneys for "sanctionable conduct" in a racketeering lawsuit they brought against Hillary Clinton and other Democrats over the 2016 election.
Appeals court upholds $1M penalty against Trump over 'frivolous' Hillary Clinton lawsuit
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that Trump and his attorneys had engaged in "sanctionable conduct" with their suit against Clinton and others.
www.nbcnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld an almost $1 million penalty against Trump and his attorneys for "sanctionable conduct" in a racketeering lawsuit they brought against Hillary Clinton and other Democrats over the 2016 election.
Federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld an almost $1 million penalty against Trump and his attorneys for "sanctionable conduct" in a racketeering lawsuit they brought against Hillary Clinton and other Democrats over the 2016 election.
A MAGA city council member in Arizona and former Turning Point employee, Jeannette Garcia, is being SUED for offering a man a job in exchange for sex, and then KIDNAPPING his child.
MAGA official and ex-Turning Point employee accused of kidnapping 14-year-old
A MAGA city council member in Arizona and former Turning Point USA employee has been accused of offering an employee a job in exchange for sex and kidnapping his daughter. A lawsuit, which was filed b...
www.rawstory.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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So, int'l law says that nations can attack only in self-defense. (This provision was not even available to Israel in 2023 per Article 51 of the UN Charter, as it is the occupying power in Gaza; yet still.) Calling for merciless attack is the opposite of self-defense, I'd say.
While some pretend that Israel's conduct can singularly be pinned on Netanyahu, an Israeli lawmaker just called for merciless bombing of Gaza.
"We have no hostages [left]... We no longer have to be precise. We can attack without mercy. Merciless! MERCILESS!"
"We have no hostages [left]... We no longer have to be precise. We can attack without mercy. Merciless! MERCILESS!"
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
So, int'l law says that nations can attack only in self-defense. (This provision was not even available to Israel in 2023 per Article 51 of the UN Charter, as it is the occupying power in Gaza; yet still.) Calling for merciless attack is the opposite of self-defense, I'd say.