eileen
@espiegler.bsky.social
Former journalist who still writes, edits, designs. Geek who loves art, music, words, what you do with them. I'm on Threads too @_eileenie_ for now.
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There were Columbine survivors at Virginia Tech in 2007. This has been our reality for 20 years
Absolutely broken violent society, with no accountability for leaders who do not give a f about human life.
December 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
There were Columbine survivors at Virginia Tech in 2007. This has been our reality for 20 years
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America has the most marketized health care system, with co-pays and HSAs already in place to patients to act like consumers. And we have the most expensive system with poor outcomes.
Ron Johnson: "Obamacare has caused this consolidation. The solution is consumerism. Free market competition."
December 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
America has the most marketized health care system, with co-pays and HSAs already in place to patients to act like consumers. And we have the most expensive system with poor outcomes.
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📽️ WATCH: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, which led to 18 million hens being killed and a spike in egg prices, the Department of Agriculture didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne.
But ProPublica did.
@natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD
But ProPublica did.
@natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD
December 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
📽️ WATCH: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, which led to 18 million hens being killed and a spike in egg prices, the Department of Agriculture didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne.
But ProPublica did.
@natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD
But ProPublica did.
@natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD
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Want to get a sense of how bad the Trump economy is getting? Bean producers are now marketing "new recipes inspired by cooking strategies from the Depression" which ofc @axios.com is hyping as a "bean boom." 😏 www.axios.com/newsletters/...
December 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Want to get a sense of how bad the Trump economy is getting? Bean producers are now marketing "new recipes inspired by cooking strategies from the Depression" which ofc @axios.com is hyping as a "bean boom." 😏 www.axios.com/newsletters/...
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NEW: The Trump administration's new National Security Strategy is worse than you may have heard. It turns Trump's racism, corruption, and appeasement into official US policy. For my OUR LAND newsletter, I gave it a read so you don't have to.
link.motherjones.com/public/43021...
link.motherjones.com/public/43021...
December 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
NEW: The Trump administration's new National Security Strategy is worse than you may have heard. It turns Trump's racism, corruption, and appeasement into official US policy. For my OUR LAND newsletter, I gave it a read so you don't have to.
link.motherjones.com/public/43021...
link.motherjones.com/public/43021...
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The pause on immigration benefits for all nationals of 19 countries has turned the lives of many Americans and their relatives upside down.
He was days from becoming a U.S. citizen. Then came the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown
The pause on immigration benefits for all nationals of 19 countries has turned the lives of many Americans and their relatives upside down.
bit.ly
December 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The pause on immigration benefits for all nationals of 19 countries has turned the lives of many Americans and their relatives upside down.
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Fort Bliss
Maddow has the history
During WWII it was a prison camp for people of Japanese descent
No other criteria or investigation
Children, elderly, disabled nobody was excluded from this prison if their lineage was Japanese
Schools hid this, nobody mentioned it anywhere
47 loves it
Maddow has the history
During WWII it was a prison camp for people of Japanese descent
No other criteria or investigation
Children, elderly, disabled nobody was excluded from this prison if their lineage was Japanese
Schools hid this, nobody mentioned it anywhere
47 loves it
The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas.
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
Fort Bliss Declarations - December 2025 | American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
December 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Fort Bliss
Maddow has the history
During WWII it was a prison camp for people of Japanese descent
No other criteria or investigation
Children, elderly, disabled nobody was excluded from this prison if their lineage was Japanese
Schools hid this, nobody mentioned it anywhere
47 loves it
Maddow has the history
During WWII it was a prison camp for people of Japanese descent
No other criteria or investigation
Children, elderly, disabled nobody was excluded from this prison if their lineage was Japanese
Schools hid this, nobody mentioned it anywhere
47 loves it
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Saturday Morning Yikes
I wish I could tell you this is fake ...but it's true...this at a turning point usa event
BOBBY, THERE ARE ZERO AMERICAN PEOPLE LIVING TO 124 YEARS OF AGE
RFKJR is truly a Lunatic as bad as Dementia Don
He must be impeached or resign
Totally incompetent
I wish I could tell you this is fake ...but it's true...this at a turning point usa event
BOBBY, THERE ARE ZERO AMERICAN PEOPLE LIVING TO 124 YEARS OF AGE
RFKJR is truly a Lunatic as bad as Dementia Don
He must be impeached or resign
Totally incompetent
December 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Saturday Morning Yikes
I wish I could tell you this is fake ...but it's true...this at a turning point usa event
BOBBY, THERE ARE ZERO AMERICAN PEOPLE LIVING TO 124 YEARS OF AGE
RFKJR is truly a Lunatic as bad as Dementia Don
He must be impeached or resign
Totally incompetent
I wish I could tell you this is fake ...but it's true...this at a turning point usa event
BOBBY, THERE ARE ZERO AMERICAN PEOPLE LIVING TO 124 YEARS OF AGE
RFKJR is truly a Lunatic as bad as Dementia Don
He must be impeached or resign
Totally incompetent
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It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
If He Builds It, Tear It Down
Pendulums must swing.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
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Pure malice. And a reminder that they’re just as fanatical about the A part of DEIA.
Trump administration says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image
The Trump administration argues that providing real-time American Sign Language interpretation for events like White House press briefings would intrude on the president’s control over his public imag...
apnews.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Pure malice. And a reminder that they’re just as fanatical about the A part of DEIA.
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For some reason it was important for Kash to be in the middle of the 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team in the Oval Office. The man always works so hard at the FBI.
December 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
For some reason it was important for Kash to be in the middle of the 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team in the Oval Office. The man always works so hard at the FBI.
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“The howling we’ve seeing from the administration over the war crimes scandal shows how attacking the press can backfire. The ferocity with which they deny things in the eyes of actual skeptical reporters only shows that it’s a sore spot that needs more attention.”
Read this:
Read this:
New in PN: @kevinmkruse.bsky.social on Trump making Nixon look like a choir boy
"He’s following the Spiro Agnew playbook of browbeating the press, but the howling from the WH over the war crimes scandal shows how it can backfire. It only reveals sore spots that need more attention from reporters."
"He’s following the Spiro Agnew playbook of browbeating the press, but the howling from the WH over the war crimes scandal shows how it can backfire. It only reveals sore spots that need more attention from reporters."
Kevin Kruse on Trump making Nixon look like a choir boy
"Trump is engaged in a constant war with the media like we’ve never seen from a president before."
www.publicnotice.co
December 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“The howling we’ve seeing from the administration over the war crimes scandal shows how attacking the press can backfire. The ferocity with which they deny things in the eyes of actual skeptical reporters only shows that it’s a sore spot that needs more attention.”
Read this:
Read this:
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Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
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The Trump administration is doing this in our name
"’Officers have crushed detained people's testicles, slammed people to the ground, stomped on them and punched their faces’”
“‘The amount of violence that we have heard about officers using against detained people is creating a crisis situation’”
"’Officers have crushed detained people's testicles, slammed people to the ground, stomped on them and punched their faces’”
“‘The amount of violence that we have heard about officers using against detained people is creating a crisis situation’”
December 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The Trump administration is doing this in our name
"’Officers have crushed detained people's testicles, slammed people to the ground, stomped on them and punched their faces’”
“‘The amount of violence that we have heard about officers using against detained people is creating a crisis situation’”
"’Officers have crushed detained people's testicles, slammed people to the ground, stomped on them and punched their faces’”
“‘The amount of violence that we have heard about officers using against detained people is creating a crisis situation’”
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Democratic accountability (or just the threat of) can bring egalitarian change.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Utah repeals public employee collective bargaining ban, one of the most restrictive US labor laws
Repeal of law comes as state Republicans prepare to defend four US House seats under new congressional map
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Democratic accountability (or just the threat of) can bring egalitarian change.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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“It is all lunacy. Absolutely, it’s 100% nonsense,” said Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society about the claims made in Kory's book that chlorine dioxide is a miracle treatment for a wide range of ailments.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
By @megomatz.bsky.social
Senator Endorses Discredited Doctor’s Book on a Chemical He Claims Treats Everything From Autism to Cancer
Wisconsin's Ron Johnson has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. Now he's giving credence to assertions about the therapeutic powers of chlorine dioxide, a disinfectant and deodorizer. “It i...
www.propublica.org
December 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
“It is all lunacy. Absolutely, it’s 100% nonsense,” said Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society about the claims made in Kory's book that chlorine dioxide is a miracle treatment for a wide range of ailments.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
By @megomatz.bsky.social
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What no one is telling you about the "$1,000 added to Healthcare Savings Accounts" is that you can't use that money to pay for premium, and you only get if you have insurance.
So most people will just not get anything, including insurance.
So most people will just not get anything, including insurance.
December 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
What no one is telling you about the "$1,000 added to Healthcare Savings Accounts" is that you can't use that money to pay for premium, and you only get if you have insurance.
So most people will just not get anything, including insurance.
So most people will just not get anything, including insurance.
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If I were a reporter: Cool story, bro. Now answer the fucking question.
Q: Can you explain what's going on with the bandages on Trump's hand?
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
December 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
If I were a reporter: Cool story, bro. Now answer the fucking question.
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In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal
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It really must frustrate Trump and Putin that Zelenskyy is not corrupt.
December 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
It really must frustrate Trump and Putin that Zelenskyy is not corrupt.
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There’s no need to treat these people as anything but the sordid rabble of crooks and grifters and subnormal bigots that they are.
December 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
There’s no need to treat these people as anything but the sordid rabble of crooks and grifters and subnormal bigots that they are.
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As the Network State cult gets more scrutiny, founder Balaji Srinivasan has full meltdown. Just wait until my book comes out!
This guy was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and CTO at Coinbase. He is close with Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.
This guy was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and CTO at Coinbase. He is close with Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.
December 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
As the Network State cult gets more scrutiny, founder Balaji Srinivasan has full meltdown. Just wait until my book comes out!
This guy was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and CTO at Coinbase. He is close with Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.
This guy was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and CTO at Coinbase. He is close with Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.