FormerGregSamsa
@formergregsamsa.bsky.social
All phenomena are fleeting. He/him. For those who don't know me from other social media sites: Waffles (Waf) is the name of our dog, not the name of my husband. [Update: Waf was. Marlowe is now our dog's name, not my husband's. Waf is now a name for love.]
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These two quotes really really *really* make it look like ICE was used to “resolve”’ a custody dispute.
![Michael Leavitt released a statement to media outlets on Tuesday evening saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u37ojtrgyezq2haj2awk622j/bafkreiegpexbyrargqiayaisaup2i7s4toxrz5wmzi44n2j4aqs2amfi6u@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
These two quotes really really *really* make it look like ICE was used to “resolve”’ a custody dispute.
OMG ok Google. You get 1 point for this, which does not by a longshot get you out of the negative hell you're in. Tiny Chef can't redeem you but he can make you slightly less evil for one day.
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
OMG ok Google. You get 1 point for this, which does not by a longshot get you out of the negative hell you're in. Tiny Chef can't redeem you but he can make you slightly less evil for one day.
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Two things:
-ICE claims Bruna Ferreira was previously arrested for battery. Her lawyer disputes this.
-A source close to Karoline Leavitt claims the son has never lived with his mom.
-ICE claims Bruna Ferreira was previously arrested for battery. Her lawyer disputes this.
-A source close to Karoline Leavitt claims the son has never lived with his mom.
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Two things:
-ICE claims Bruna Ferreira was previously arrested for battery. Her lawyer disputes this.
-A source close to Karoline Leavitt claims the son has never lived with his mom.
-ICE claims Bruna Ferreira was previously arrested for battery. Her lawyer disputes this.
-A source close to Karoline Leavitt claims the son has never lived with his mom.
This sounds like the beginning of a riddle.
So the mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew was just picked up by ICE.
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
This sounds like the beginning of a riddle.
Does Trump not realize it is himself up for sale and not Ukraine?
Q: Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you?
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Does Trump not realize it is himself up for sale and not Ukraine?
With all the pie discussion, I'm reminded of a favorite thing an elderly friend used to say about overcomplicated thinking: "But it's pie-simple." Reading the pie discourse, I'm seeing how wrong he was to say things were 'pie-simple' and that obviously overthinking things was the correct way to go.
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 AM
With all the pie discussion, I'm reminded of a favorite thing an elderly friend used to say about overcomplicated thinking: "But it's pie-simple." Reading the pie discourse, I'm seeing how wrong he was to say things were 'pie-simple' and that obviously overthinking things was the correct way to go.
So now they can play solitaire on desktop computers rather than Candy Crush on their phones. Neat.
An old subway newsstand has been reinvented as an NYPD outpost on a platform at the West Fourth Street station in Manhattan.
Old Newsstand With a New Beat: Police Set Up Shop at West Fourth
NYPD officers are now stationed at the former kiosk on the northbound platform on the A, C, E lines.
www.thecity.nyc
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
So now they can play solitaire on desktop computers rather than Candy Crush on their phones. Neat.
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
There is no light on the train and I sorta like it
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
There is no light on the train and I sorta like it
How does one sit in an audience listening to Bari Weiss and not laugh uproariously at everything she says?
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
How does one sit in an audience listening to Bari Weiss and not laugh uproariously at everything she says?
So, @chkenginelight.bsky.social, we've come to this. Or sunk to this.
A lot of you MST3K nerds like "The Final Sacrifice" more than I do, so you may want to fund this:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/rea...
@optimstie.bsky.social , care to give it a signal boost?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/rea...
@optimstie.bsky.social , care to give it a signal boost?
Coming soon: The Making of THE FINAL SACRIFICE
The Flying Dutchman Tells All: After years of wild rumors & speculation, the director of this MST3K classic comes clean!
www.kickstarter.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
So, @chkenginelight.bsky.social, we've come to this. Or sunk to this.
Maybe it is because I was talking about him earlier, but this reminds me of the interview Larry King did with late-stage Marlon Brando.
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Maybe it is because I was talking about him earlier, but this reminds me of the interview Larry King did with late-stage Marlon Brando.
Okay so we're heading into the Search for Spock portion of Trump's rewatch of the Star Trek movies while he's half-asleep I take it.
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Okay so we're heading into the Search for Spock portion of Trump's rewatch of the Star Trek movies while he's half-asleep I take it.
Fargo, FarCry, FarCycle
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Fargo, FarCry, FarCycle
Two things: I assume that's his daughter? Also, this guy has resting Troll-guy face.
Offer Vince Shlomi said the assassination of Charlie Kirk inspired him to run for office.
‘ShamWow’ guy running for Texas House seat
Offer Vince Shlomi, commonly known as the “ShamWow guy” after his series of towel informercials, is running for a House seat in Texas with a pitch to “soak up the swamp,” according to primary…
www.kxan.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Two things: I assume that's his daughter? Also, this guy has resting Troll-guy face.
Look up Hugh Thompson jr, lady.
Leavitt: "They were suggesting to the 1.3 million active duty service members in the military that if you think an order is illegal, you don't have to follow. That's actually against the uniform code of military justice."
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Look up Hugh Thompson jr, lady.
The point isn’t to punish Mark Kelly—tho they will try—but to make an example out of him. They want a military cowed by Trump.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The point isn’t to punish Mark Kelly—tho they will try—but to make an example out of him. They want a military cowed by Trump.
Venezuela is the new Poland.
It’s like the people behind the Fyre Festival decided to throw a little war
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Venezuela is the new Poland.
Not the point, but I worked at a restaurant years ago and got a call around the holidays asking if we offered a service to fry turkeys. I laughed bc it had never occurred to me anyone would want a turkey deep-fried. Like, it's supposed to be the healthy meat, right? But here we are, decades later.
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Not the point, but I worked at a restaurant years ago and got a call around the holidays asking if we offered a service to fry turkeys. I laughed bc it had never occurred to me anyone would want a turkey deep-fried. Like, it's supposed to be the healthy meat, right? But here we are, decades later.
It will never not be funny to me that for a while the Harry Potter play ran in two parts on separate alternating nights and many people paid $$$ to see parts 1 and 2, and then one day the producers were like, 'Oh, we can edit it into one part' and the play is still running.
Ugh I hate when I happen to be walking down 43rd as the Harry Potter play gets out and I have to bypass the fucking loser convention of literal adults dressed up in Gryffindor robes.
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It will never not be funny to me that for a while the Harry Potter play ran in two parts on separate alternating nights and many people paid $$$ to see parts 1 and 2, and then one day the producers were like, 'Oh, we can edit it into one part' and the play is still running.
Galactus urging people to use toothpicks reminds me of eating my grandmother's layer cakes: you always had to be wary of toothpicks. It made eating the cake an adventure in choking and peritonitis.
Stan Lee was notorious for not giving any fucks about licensing no matter how off-model or goofy so long as the check cleared.
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Galactus urging people to use toothpicks reminds me of eating my grandmother's layer cakes: you always had to be wary of toothpicks. It made eating the cake an adventure in choking and peritonitis.
C'mon. Stop trying to make 'felch' happen.
we’re like 36 hours from “add a felch ruin a movie.”
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
C'mon. Stop trying to make 'felch' happen.
Still reading the Mark Twain bio and I gotta say: he spent years paying back debt taken on because of a harebrained scheme to get rich quick. Is relieved to have paid it off. Then immediately goes for another harebrained scheme. Twain was closer to Lucy Ricardo than we like to admit.
November 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Still reading the Mark Twain bio and I gotta say: he spent years paying back debt taken on because of a harebrained scheme to get rich quick. Is relieved to have paid it off. Then immediately goes for another harebrained scheme. Twain was closer to Lucy Ricardo than we like to admit.