Carolyn Ostrander
@clow.bsky.social
Poet. Editor, The Comstock Review. Rhet/Comp & Historiography. Rural Studies. Linguistics. Multimodal/ Multilingual Acquisition. Disability/Deaf Studies. Educational Equity & Access. Best endorsement to date: my GP reports "Patient is a good historian"
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What really means is:
1. You *aren’t* dumb as rocks. But you’re not necessarily smart.
2. Somehow managed to convince everyone that you’re sober. You have no foreign friends. You aren’t old enough to run up a lot of credit card debt.
3. Helps to be Mormon.
1. You *aren’t* dumb as rocks. But you’re not necessarily smart.
2. Somehow managed to convince everyone that you’re sober. You have no foreign friends. You aren’t old enough to run up a lot of credit card debt.
3. Helps to be Mormon.
January 29, 2026 at 4:50 PM
What really means is:
1. You *aren’t* dumb as rocks. But you’re not necessarily smart.
2. Somehow managed to convince everyone that you’re sober. You have no foreign friends. You aren’t old enough to run up a lot of credit card debt.
3. Helps to be Mormon.
1. You *aren’t* dumb as rocks. But you’re not necessarily smart.
2. Somehow managed to convince everyone that you’re sober. You have no foreign friends. You aren’t old enough to run up a lot of credit card debt.
3. Helps to be Mormon.
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*Granddad voice* I think she's on drugs
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (one of 7 Democrats who just voted to fund DHS) defends her stance.
Argues funding for ICE "is not the question." Instead, Senate Democrats have leverage for various demands.
"I think they could negotiate to replace Noem with someone that doesn't skirt the filibuster."
Argues funding for ICE "is not the question." Instead, Senate Democrats have leverage for various demands.
"I think they could negotiate to replace Noem with someone that doesn't skirt the filibuster."
January 29, 2026 at 5:37 PM
*Granddad voice* I think she's on drugs
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Good post that, if anything, understates the - I'll be charitable here and assume ignorance - truly radical misunderstanding of international copyright law underlying this bonkers 5th Cir decision.
Guest Blog Post: A Volcanic Opinion in the Fifth Circuit Destabilizes International Copyright Law—Vetter v. Resnik #LongRead
blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...
By Prof. Tyler Ochoa
blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...
By Prof. Tyler Ochoa
A Volcanic Opinion in the Fifth Circuit Destabilizes International Copyright Law—Vetter v. Resnik (Guest Blog Post) - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa [Eric’s note: this is another Long Read post from Prof. Ochoa, clocking in at over 10k words.] Territoriality is a fundamental principle of international intellectual prop...
blog.ericgoldman.org
January 29, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Good post that, if anything, understates the - I'll be charitable here and assume ignorance - truly radical misunderstanding of international copyright law underlying this bonkers 5th Cir decision.
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Oh, that's not remotely problematic at all.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a bulk popcorn order to place.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a bulk popcorn order to place.
Google’s new world AI model tool let me generate a bunch of Nintendo-inspired games. Including one featuring Link with a paraglider! Gift link: www.theverge.com/news/869726/...
January 29, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Oh, that's not remotely problematic at all.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a bulk popcorn order to place.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a bulk popcorn order to place.
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honestly shoutout to this reporter to trying this with famously-litigious Nintendo IP and then publishing it
January 29, 2026 at 6:02 PM
honestly shoutout to this reporter to trying this with famously-litigious Nintendo IP and then publishing it
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A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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You know that metaphor for messing up? The one involving the pooch? If it involved real dogs instead of metaphorical ones, the 5th Circuitnl would have a lot of puppies on the way.
January 29, 2026 at 6:10 PM
You know that metaphor for messing up? The one involving the pooch? If it involved real dogs instead of metaphorical ones, the 5th Circuitnl would have a lot of puppies on the way.
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This is insanity
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
www.pressherald.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:12 PM
This is insanity
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He wasting these people money
The company announced it was ending production of its higher-end Model S and Model Y, and turning that production space over to making humanoid robots.
Tesla profits slumped 46% last year, as it lost its crown as the top EV seller
The company announced it was ending production of its higher-end Model S and Model Y, and turning that production space over to making humanoid robots.
n.pr
January 29, 2026 at 6:13 PM
He wasting these people money
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Fun fact: April Ghueder is the youngest person we’ve ever endorsed.
We backed her just months after her 18th birthday. Because leadership isn’t about waiting your turn, it’s about showing up when your community needs you.
If this sparked something in you… you might be next.
We backed her just months after her 18th birthday. Because leadership isn’t about waiting your turn, it’s about showing up when your community needs you.
If this sparked something in you… you might be next.
January 29, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Fun fact: April Ghueder is the youngest person we’ve ever endorsed.
We backed her just months after her 18th birthday. Because leadership isn’t about waiting your turn, it’s about showing up when your community needs you.
If this sparked something in you… you might be next.
We backed her just months after her 18th birthday. Because leadership isn’t about waiting your turn, it’s about showing up when your community needs you.
If this sparked something in you… you might be next.
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The 5th circuit says that a law that lets copyright owners revoke assignments and licenses after a couple of decades have passed applies to the global copyright, not just the American copyright. Which is actually kinda good for creators. Except that it doesn't work like that.
January 29, 2026 at 7:23 PM
The 5th circuit says that a law that lets copyright owners revoke assignments and licenses after a couple of decades have passed applies to the global copyright, not just the American copyright. Which is actually kinda good for creators. Except that it doesn't work like that.
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Their leadership also refers to that restaurant as existing in a theater of war they’ve been deployed to
ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?
January 29, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Their leadership also refers to that restaurant as existing in a theater of war they’ve been deployed to
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people who even when Renee Good was murdered wanted to not be political are bringing anti ICE politics into their spaces because now it's too close, now they feel like they're in the poem.
January 29, 2026 at 10:07 PM
people who even when Renee Good was murdered wanted to not be political are bringing anti ICE politics into their spaces because now it's too close, now they feel like they're in the poem.
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Red state open carry marches in support of Pretti do not mean those people are suddenly allies, but it is a shift in the Overton window.
January 29, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Red state open carry marches in support of Pretti do not mean those people are suddenly allies, but it is a shift in the Overton window.
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but that car went into the lake a warning - don't be a race traitor, it won't save you. go back to college up north. get out of Mississippi. or you'll die too.
January 29, 2026 at 9:59 PM
but that car went into the lake a warning - don't be a race traitor, it won't save you. go back to college up north. get out of Mississippi. or you'll die too.
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they do not like the optics one bit now that they shot a legally carrying white man. even the base doesn't like that.
January 29, 2026 at 9:52 PM
they do not like the optics one bit now that they shot a legally carrying white man. even the base doesn't like that.
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scholars and survivors of the civil rights movement broadly agree that killing those two white kids in Mississippi – even as they smeared them as outside agitators and made antisemitic comments about the Jewish victim – was one of several turning points, when that car came out of the water.
January 29, 2026 at 9:55 PM
scholars and survivors of the civil rights movement broadly agree that killing those two white kids in Mississippi – even as they smeared them as outside agitators and made antisemitic comments about the Jewish victim – was one of several turning points, when that car came out of the water.
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we're supposed to see the empty cars , the empty food carts and flower stands, the absence of our neighbors - for immigrants and people of color, a warning, and for whites, a "nothing to see here, don't kick up a fuss." the white people kicking up a fuss anyway has them scared.
Every law enforcement agency in America knows how to manage the car after an arrest at a traffic stop. The Trump DHS leaves them open on the road like that to terrorize the rest of us. A nationwide policy.
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 9:50 PM
we're supposed to see the empty cars , the empty food carts and flower stands, the absence of our neighbors - for immigrants and people of color, a warning, and for whites, a "nothing to see here, don't kick up a fuss." the white people kicking up a fuss anyway has them scared.
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For those tracking which murderers were taking orders directly from Greg Bovino, here's a good shot (at 29:20).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIi6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIi6...
January 29, 2026 at 10:15 PM
For those tracking which murderers were taking orders directly from Greg Bovino, here's a good shot (at 29:20).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIi6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIi6...
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and forgive us our doomscrolling as we do not forgive those who fill our scrolling with doom
give us this day, our daily dread
honey bunches of doom
January 29, 2026 at 10:39 PM
and forgive us our doomscrolling as we do not forgive those who fill our scrolling with doom
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On the one hand, Brooke Rollins has allowed rat shit in our Pringles.
On the other hand, the curiously politicized People Magazine is reporting that where it might get seen.
people.com/thousands-of...
On the other hand, the curiously politicized People Magazine is reporting that where it might get seen.
people.com/thousands-of...
Pringles, Nutella, Cheerios Among Thousands of Products Recalled for Exposure to Rodent Waste
The company is urging consumers who purchased the affected products to “destroy the products as soon as possible,” per the recall announcement
people.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:59 PM
On the one hand, Brooke Rollins has allowed rat shit in our Pringles.
On the other hand, the curiously politicized People Magazine is reporting that where it might get seen.
people.com/thousands-of...
On the other hand, the curiously politicized People Magazine is reporting that where it might get seen.
people.com/thousands-of...
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Lauren boebert?
Instead of renting a hotel room for 2 hours I hear amorous couples are booking tickets to see MELANIA for complete privacy
January 29, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Lauren boebert?
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@drsarteschi.bsky.social I stumbled across this on Reddit, I don’t think I’ve seen sovcit nonsense on restaurant receipts before. Is this some magic “I don’t have to pay this credit card charge I just signed for” thing?
January 29, 2026 at 9:25 PM
@drsarteschi.bsky.social I stumbled across this on Reddit, I don’t think I’ve seen sovcit nonsense on restaurant receipts before. Is this some magic “I don’t have to pay this credit card charge I just signed for” thing?
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You are all ABSOLUTELY entitled to your correct opinion that Chuck Schumer's messaging sucks.
But don't waste your time whining while he bought you two weeks. Bc this is legislative success.
But don't waste your time whining while he bought you two weeks. Bc this is legislative success.
🚨 The Senate has agreed to a deal to vote on 5/6 full appropriations bills and replace the DHS funding measure with a 2-week stopgap bill, per multiple sources. That gives time to negotiate on the Dem demands for ICE and CBP restraints.
January 29, 2026 at 11:15 PM
You are all ABSOLUTELY entitled to your correct opinion that Chuck Schumer's messaging sucks.
But don't waste your time whining while he bought you two weeks. Bc this is legislative success.
But don't waste your time whining while he bought you two weeks. Bc this is legislative success.