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@indigoace.bsky.social
Foul-mouthed yellow-dog Democrat, knitter from Illinois. She/her. Probably not that interesting. A student of mine once wrote on an evaluation, "She thinks she's funny, but she's not."
Please don't DM me.
Please don't DM me.
Pinned
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This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.
They're just taking an ax to the Civil Rights Act
Department of Justice Rule Restores Equal Protection for All in Civil Rights Enforcement
Today, the Justice Department issued a final rule updating its regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964. This rule ensures that our nation’s federal civil rights laws are firmly grounded...
www.justice.gov
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.
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Presumably Trump's next act of American global master strategy will be to appoint a horse as his chief envoy to Panama
December 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Presumably Trump's next act of American global master strategy will be to appoint a horse as his chief envoy to Panama
Our country has become a dystopian hellhole. I can hear our founding fathers spinning in their graves.
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was born in Maryland. She has a valid U.S. birth certificate, medical and immunization records, and sworn affidavits.
Yet, ICE claims her documents are “not authentic” and has held her in immigration detention for days.
Yet, ICE claims her documents are “not authentic” and has held her in immigration detention for days.
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Our country has become a dystopian hellhole. I can hear our founding fathers spinning in their graves.
Way back in the 70s there were 2 Saturday Night Live sketches. The first was a group of men discussing Women's Problems. The 2nd was women on Men's Problems ("They can't fake it.")
Can't imagine why I thought of this. 🤔
Can't imagine why I thought of this. 🤔
Bari Weiss' first outing was such a raging success (read: utter humiliation) that she's making it a series with the likes of JD Vance, Ross Douthat, and Steven Pinker and a debate over whether feminism is bad. @bankofamerica.bsky.social is sponsoring; time to leave.
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
CBS News Says Bari Weiss’ Town Halls Will Continue, With Sponsor, Despite Rough Start
CBS News will keep airing town halls and debates under the aegis of editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, despite lackluster ratings and ad support in her debut with Erika Kirk.
variety.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Way back in the 70s there were 2 Saturday Night Live sketches. The first was a group of men discussing Women's Problems. The 2nd was women on Men's Problems ("They can't fake it.")
Can't imagine why I thought of this. 🤔
Can't imagine why I thought of this. 🤔
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."
--Marie Shear
--Marie Shear
These pieces really do make it clear that it's not so much that men like this view chatbots as human women. It's that they don't actually view women as humans. We're flattery machines that are defective if we don't sufficiently flatter them.
December 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."
--Marie Shear
--Marie Shear
Did you know that Venezuela was one of the first countries we sent foreign aid? And we were the 2nd to recognize them as an independent nation (after Brazil). During the 19th century, Venezuela and the U.S. gave each other mutual most favored nation status.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
United States–Venezuela relations - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States–Venezuela_relations#19th_century
December 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Did you know that Venezuela was one of the first countries we sent foreign aid? And we were the 2nd to recognize them as an independent nation (after Brazil). During the 19th century, Venezuela and the U.S. gave each other mutual most favored nation status.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
Because the Democrats were busy fighting to make certain it first survived all the Republican attempts to kill it. The ACA/Obamacare could do with some fine-tuning, but Democrats only had 2 years Congressional majority since Trump regime pt. 1, and there wasn't time to do everything.
COLLINS: What do you say to people who say Republicans have had 15 years to change the ACA and they haven't done it?
RICK SCOTT: Why didn't Democrats fix it?
RICK SCOTT: Why didn't Democrats fix it?
December 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Because the Democrats were busy fighting to make certain it first survived all the Republican attempts to kill it. The ACA/Obamacare could do with some fine-tuning, but Democrats only had 2 years Congressional majority since Trump regime pt. 1, and there wasn't time to do everything.
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Republicans can’t govern.
December 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Republicans can’t govern.
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Dial M for metaphor.
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Dial M for metaphor.
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I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
December 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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If only there was a safe, cheap and effective way to halt its spread.
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
nbcnews.to
December 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
If only there was a safe, cheap and effective way to halt its spread.
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Great thread on the petty and stupid cruelty of the Trump admin, which makes their own lives more difficult for no reasons other than to hit vague goals of putting people into removal proceedings.
1/ One thing that I think is getting understandably overlooked in the coverage of immigration overenforcement is just how wasteful and inefficient ICE is being even when they aren't kidnapping and caging people who should be with their families.
Here's a quick example from my casefiles today:
Here's a quick example from my casefiles today:
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Great thread on the petty and stupid cruelty of the Trump admin, which makes their own lives more difficult for no reasons other than to hit vague goals of putting people into removal proceedings.
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please, i can’t handle any more innovation
December 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
please, i can’t handle any more innovation
Everything old is new again. Also, who will history judge more harshly, Roberts or Taney?
I've posted this image before, but it's still so relevant today: in this 1936 editorial cartoon for the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, artist Romare Bearden labeled the Supreme Court as "The Great Barrier to Equality"
December 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Everything old is new again. Also, who will history judge more harshly, Roberts or Taney?
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The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
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Found JDs childhood couch.
December 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Found JDs childhood couch.
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This⤵️
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This⤵️
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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So if all the people from “third world countries” should be banned from migrating to America because of a deadly shooting, what are we going to do about all the armed and alienated young white men?
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
So if all the people from “third world countries” should be banned from migrating to America because of a deadly shooting, what are we going to do about all the armed and alienated young white men?
Also, some of us are older & time goes by more quickly as we age, so we think we only got our phone a couple of years ago. Surely we can wait another year?
If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Also, some of us are older & time goes by more quickly as we age, so we think we only got our phone a couple of years ago. Surely we can wait another year?
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Donald Trump is so old, he was 16 when this picture of Ruby Bridges was taken in 1960.
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Donald Trump is so old, he was 16 when this picture of Ruby Bridges was taken in 1960.
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Today on Volts: I've had more requests to cover this than almost any other topic in the pod's history, so now, at long last, balcony solar! We dig into how "plug-in solar" took off in Europe & how it's making its way to the US, starting in Utah. Backyard DIY types rejoice!
What's the deal with balcony solar?
Cora Stryker joins me to explain how "plug-in" solar took Europe by storm and is finally, via Utah (?), making its way to America.
www.volts.wtf
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Today on Volts: I've had more requests to cover this than almost any other topic in the pod's history, so now, at long last, balcony solar! We dig into how "plug-in solar" took off in Europe & how it's making its way to the US, starting in Utah. Backyard DIY types rejoice!
Reposting because I uploaded the wrong image. 🤦🏻♀️
Anyway, this recipe for cranberry stewed apples works well. I add 1 teaspoon vanilla at the end because I have homemade vanilla extract on my kitchen counter.
Anyway, this recipe for cranberry stewed apples works well. I add 1 teaspoon vanilla at the end because I have homemade vanilla extract on my kitchen counter.
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Reposting because I uploaded the wrong image. 🤦🏻♀️
Anyway, this recipe for cranberry stewed apples works well. I add 1 teaspoon vanilla at the end because I have homemade vanilla extract on my kitchen counter.
Anyway, this recipe for cranberry stewed apples works well. I add 1 teaspoon vanilla at the end because I have homemade vanilla extract on my kitchen counter.
This thread is *awesome*. 10/10, no notes. ❤️
Dear Mr. DiGiorno,
Have you ever read one of those terrible literary novels that are, like, set at a small midwestern college, maybe somewhere in Ohio, and the plot is all about a professor whose marriage is falling apart, and then he has a tragically doomed 1/x
Have you ever read one of those terrible literary novels that are, like, set at a small midwestern college, maybe somewhere in Ohio, and the plot is all about a professor whose marriage is falling apart, and then he has a tragically doomed 1/x
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This thread is *awesome*. 10/10, no notes. ❤️