Kathryn Brightbill ✒️
@kebrightbill.bsky.social
Sometimes writer, focusing on the religious right & homeschool movement history | UF Law & Covenant College alum | Manatee Dems
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Because of the price of eggs, I give you the classic Great Depression-era recipe for Crazy Cake, both in the original chocolate and vanilla versions. No eggs, no milk, all deliciousness.
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Yep. I've been waiting for EU spooks to start reminding Trump that they've got their own capabilities.
Three things about the Witkoff tapes:
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Yep. I've been waiting for EU spooks to start reminding Trump that they've got their own capabilities.
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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mark kelly’s eyes rolling and showing dollar signs thinking about his 2028 presidential campaign
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
mark kelly’s eyes rolling and showing dollar signs thinking about his 2028 presidential campaign
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So they've had ubiquitous access to sports betting in Europe way longer than we have. Is this a normal thing there? If not, why?
"They will all suffer" | Texas man vowed to make Jeff Brohm's life miserable over $80,000 gambling loss, records show www.wdrb.com/sports/texas...
Texas man vowed to make Jeff Brohm’s life ‘miserable’ over $80K gambling loss, records show
The threats were specific, violent and deeply personal.
www.wdrb.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
So they've had ubiquitous access to sports betting in Europe way longer than we have. Is this a normal thing there? If not, why?
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Tinpot dictator shit. The troops learn in boot camp that they are OBLIGED to refuse illegal orders. They took an oath to the Constitution. Reminding them of that is patriotic.
NEW: FBI reached out to Capitol police to arrange interviews with Dems in video to troops
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Tinpot dictator shit. The troops learn in boot camp that they are OBLIGED to refuse illegal orders. They took an oath to the Constitution. Reminding them of that is patriotic.
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Trump has fully evolved into the mob boss he always wanted to be. Rich assholes come to him on the day of his daughter's wedding or whatever to beg him for favors and he puts a horse head in some other rich asshole's bed for them.
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Trump has fully evolved into the mob boss he always wanted to be. Rich assholes come to him on the day of his daughter's wedding or whatever to beg him for favors and he puts a horse head in some other rich asshole's bed for them.
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50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
Naughty Nuzzi cheated with a guy older than Mrs. Robinson just because he called her Liv. It sounds like he loved her like a rock. Just be glad there's no kodachrome.
by Maureen Dowd
Naughty Nuzzi cheated with a guy older than Mrs. Robinson just because he called her Liv. It sounds like he loved her like a rock. Just be glad there's no kodachrome.
by Maureen Dowd
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
Naughty Nuzzi cheated with a guy older than Mrs. Robinson just because he called her Liv. It sounds like he loved her like a rock. Just be glad there's no kodachrome.
by Maureen Dowd
Naughty Nuzzi cheated with a guy older than Mrs. Robinson just because he called her Liv. It sounds like he loved her like a rock. Just be glad there's no kodachrome.
by Maureen Dowd
Starting off the thanksgiving cooking with homemade evaporated milk. I make it because I react to the carrageenan that's in pretty much all commercial evaporated milk, but the homemade is better anyway because it's cooked down enough that it doesn't need added thickeners.
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Starting off the thanksgiving cooking with homemade evaporated milk. I make it because I react to the carrageenan that's in pretty much all commercial evaporated milk, but the homemade is better anyway because it's cooked down enough that it doesn't need added thickeners.
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crucially, "voters are fucking dipshit idiots" is not actually in conflict with "human beings are guided by ideas and beliefs". sometimes the ideas and beliefs are wrong and dumb and bad. they're still fervently held, and you cannot distract people from them w/ jangling keys or money
So many popular theories of politics are guided by open contempt for the electorate and nothing else. “Just give the dumb schmucks more treats and they’ll love you” - what if that’s wrong, actually? What if human beings are often guided by ideas and beliefs?
Obamacare should have included a provision where everybody gets mailed a $100 prepaid debit card every year they can use exclusively to purchase medications; dim Midwesterners who vote for President based on their opinion of the infield fly rule love that shit.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
crucially, "voters are fucking dipshit idiots" is not actually in conflict with "human beings are guided by ideas and beliefs". sometimes the ideas and beliefs are wrong and dumb and bad. they're still fervently held, and you cannot distract people from them w/ jangling keys or money
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WeLcOmE tO mY tWiStEd MiNd
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
WeLcOmE tO mY tWiStEd MiNd
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Talk about a sunny place full of shady people! This #Florida town for the super-rich is the setting for a long list of murder mysteries. crimereads.com/crime-and-th... via @crimereads.bsky.social
Crime and the City: Palm Beach
Palm Beach, Florida—across the Intracoastal Waterway to a community with a lot of billionaires, some upscale shopping and a generally monied atmosphere. What could go wrong? And of course, these po…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Talk about a sunny place full of shady people! This #Florida town for the super-rich is the setting for a long list of murder mysteries. crimereads.com/crime-and-th... via @crimereads.bsky.social
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posts like this can’t be understood without the knowledge that virtually every founder of New Age thinking was a white supremacist and a eugenicist who used spiritual/philosophical lexicon to launder their white supremacist eugenicist agenda
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
posts like this can’t be understood without the knowledge that virtually every founder of New Age thinking was a white supremacist and a eugenicist who used spiritual/philosophical lexicon to launder their white supremacist eugenicist agenda
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Russia has, since the independence of Ukraine, sought to control Ukrainian sovereignty. It’s not just going to go away because Donetsk and Luhansk get signed over to them.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Russia has, since the independence of Ukraine, sought to control Ukrainian sovereignty. It’s not just going to go away because Donetsk and Luhansk get signed over to them.
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I think it’s worth saying that assuming a ceasefire in place is reached in Ukraine—like with Israel and HAMAS in Gaza—it’ll merely be a temporary suspension in fighting that doesn’t resolve core tensions that created the conflict.
Russia isn’t going to stop wanting to erase Ukrainian sovereignty.
Russia isn’t going to stop wanting to erase Ukrainian sovereignty.
Makes you wonder what Vance will say if Trump orders a US military attack on Venezuela
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I think it’s worth saying that assuming a ceasefire in place is reached in Ukraine—like with Israel and HAMAS in Gaza—it’ll merely be a temporary suspension in fighting that doesn’t resolve core tensions that created the conflict.
Russia isn’t going to stop wanting to erase Ukrainian sovereignty.
Russia isn’t going to stop wanting to erase Ukrainian sovereignty.
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The best thing I learned from Macaulay Culkin at last night’s Home Alone screening is that his 4yo son loves the movie, thinks of himself as Kevin, and has no idea that that’s his dad. Culkin is attempting to hide that fact for as long as possible
a young boy is smiling and says `` i made my family disappear '' .
ALT: a young boy is smiling and says `` i made my family disappear '' .
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November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The best thing I learned from Macaulay Culkin at last night’s Home Alone screening is that his 4yo son loves the movie, thinks of himself as Kevin, and has no idea that that’s his dad. Culkin is attempting to hide that fact for as long as possible
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“The painting, titled ‘How to Disappear,’” is a detail that makes me want to dissociate like a protagonist Thom Yorke sang of: “I’m not here / this isn’t happening.”
I regret to inform you there is more Olivia Newzzi: the print VF will feature a nude portrait by artist Isabelle Brourman that is also destined for Art Basel Miami Beach. Notably, its inclusion appears be a surprise to VF staff. VF looking worse and worse here. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“The painting, titled ‘How to Disappear,’” is a detail that makes me want to dissociate like a protagonist Thom Yorke sang of: “I’m not here / this isn’t happening.”
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Inae Oh Pulling hazard duty to get to the bottom of why anybody would be attached to RFK Jr: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Inae Oh Pulling hazard duty to get to the bottom of why anybody would be attached to RFK Jr: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Oh hey, Jamaica is now competitive in bobsleigh, and won gold at the North American Cup
Jamaica achieves first-ever international bobsleigh triumph with four-man gold in Whistler
Canadians notch gold and silver in two-woman event, silver and bronze in four-man
www.piquenewsmagazine.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Oh hey, Jamaica is now competitive in bobsleigh, and won gold at the North American Cup
So Hegseth did Awana, eh? Funny thing is, Awana actually does what Hegseth is bitching about with the Scouts, and all of the activities that they cribbed from scouting are gender inclusive.
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
So Hegseth did Awana, eh? Funny thing is, Awana actually does what Hegseth is bitching about with the Scouts, and all of the activities that they cribbed from scouting are gender inclusive.
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Perhaps this helps explain why, when my son’s den was writing letters to thank soldiers for their service (as they do every year), it was recommended that the messages begin “Dear Warrior.” www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Perhaps this helps explain why, when my son’s den was writing letters to thank soldiers for their service (as they do every year), it was recommended that the messages begin “Dear Warrior.” www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
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The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
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I am mostly here in my armchair about this shit tbh. Can someone explain it to me like I'm five how one goes about lower rent and more tenants rights if there aren't enough places for people to live in
Zohran adding YIMBYs to his transition team is resulting in some absolutely incredible Left NIMBY crashouts over on Twitter. This is my favorite.
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I am mostly here in my armchair about this shit tbh. Can someone explain it to me like I'm five how one goes about lower rent and more tenants rights if there aren't enough places for people to live in
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"Does it make COVID exposure scarier, especially Long COVID? THEN IT'S PROBABLY TRUE. EVERYTHING IS MORE LIKELY TO BE TRUE IF IT'S BAD AND SCARY BECAUSE GOD HATES US, EVERYONE FREAK THE FUCK OUT"
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 AM
"Does it make COVID exposure scarier, especially Long COVID? THEN IT'S PROBABLY TRUE. EVERYTHING IS MORE LIKELY TO BE TRUE IF IT'S BAD AND SCARY BECAUSE GOD HATES US, EVERYONE FREAK THE FUCK OUT"