Usdi Crittenden
@lilusdi.bsky.social
Same doofus as on twitter. Ndn anarcho-judaism. Non-dirtbag leftist. Unemployed cell/molecular biologist with a powerful rage for health misinfo. Wants to see pictures of your pets. Wondering how long I can make a descri
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Usdi Crittenden
@lilusdi.bsky.social
· May 20
In-progress thread of my own Palestinian-made gift sources!
I definitely am seconding the recommendation of Canaan brand and Handmade Palestine (which is run by a delightful couple in Ramallah), but would also like to recommend the Al-Ard brand (run by the Anabtawi family) for their oils and foods. You can shop at alardproducts.com or look in your local
My policy on sharing campaigns:
I will automatically consider gfm campaigns to be legitimate. @mommunism.bsky.social has touched on this before, and I've seen it firsthand with a friend who is trying to help his fiance escape Russia: gfm heavily vets all campaigns. They often err on the side of
I will automatically consider gfm campaigns to be legitimate. @mommunism.bsky.social has touched on this before, and I've seen it firsthand with a friend who is trying to help his fiance escape Russia: gfm heavily vets all campaigns. They often err on the side of
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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The son lives with Leavitt’s brother and his wife. The ex was in the US under DACA protections, but was in the process of getting legal status. Conveniently for the brother, she’s now been arrested and may be deported just before she was about to obtain legal residency status.
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The son lives with Leavitt’s brother and his wife. The ex was in the US under DACA protections, but was in the process of getting legal status. Conveniently for the brother, she’s now been arrested and may be deported just before she was about to obtain legal residency status.
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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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A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
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God I love the goofy way a ferret hops around instead of running when they’re really happy or excited
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
God I love the goofy way a ferret hops around instead of running when they’re really happy or excited
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The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
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remember, Salvation Army is a big NOPE
use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups
use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
remember, Salvation Army is a big NOPE
use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups
use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups
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Christians I beg you please stop naming your organizations Hebrew words
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Christians I beg you please stop naming your organizations Hebrew words
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
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- Reminder: RSF publicly agreed to truce earlier this month, then carried out drone strikes on 4 cities.
- Announcement also comes 1 day after SAF commander Burhan dismissed Quad's proposal & accused them of "seeking to divide Sudan, abolish the army."
#KeepEyesOnSudan
- Announcement also comes 1 day after SAF commander Burhan dismissed Quad's proposal & accused them of "seeking to divide Sudan, abolish the army."
#KeepEyesOnSudan
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM
- Reminder: RSF publicly agreed to truce earlier this month, then carried out drone strikes on 4 cities.
- Announcement also comes 1 day after SAF commander Burhan dismissed Quad's proposal & accused them of "seeking to divide Sudan, abolish the army."
#KeepEyesOnSudan
- Announcement also comes 1 day after SAF commander Burhan dismissed Quad's proposal & accused them of "seeking to divide Sudan, abolish the army."
#KeepEyesOnSudan
Doing this will cause a massive explosion of hot oil, resulting in severe burns and even death. Listen to the experts and put the oil jugs back on the shelf.
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 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Doing this will cause a massive explosion of hot oil, resulting in severe burns and even death. Listen to the experts and put the oil jugs back on the shelf.
For those of you considering deep-frying your turkeys: don't.
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
For those of you considering deep-frying your turkeys: don't.
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Eastern OR, part of the "American Redoubt" of secessionist christian nationalists:
"For a growing number of people, it's the designated point of retreat when the American economy hits the fan. When banks fail, the government declares martial law, the power grid goes down."
"For a growing number of people, it's the designated point of retreat when the American economy hits the fan. When banks fail, the government declares martial law, the power grid goes down."
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Eastern OR, part of the "American Redoubt" of secessionist christian nationalists:
"For a growing number of people, it's the designated point of retreat when the American economy hits the fan. When banks fail, the government declares martial law, the power grid goes down."
"For a growing number of people, it's the designated point of retreat when the American economy hits the fan. When banks fail, the government declares martial law, the power grid goes down."
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Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
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i'm not enron. don't put it in the newspaper that i'm enron.
it's happening dot gif
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
i'm not enron. don't put it in the newspaper that i'm enron.
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I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
Soy curls always sound like the perfect meal option, but then I make them and I'm like. Oh now I have to eat them
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Soy curls always sound like the perfect meal option, but then I make them and I'm like. Oh now I have to eat them
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Things almost every culture has in common:
• some sort of dumpling
• history of misogyny
• some sort of dumpling
• history of misogyny
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Things almost every culture has in common:
• some sort of dumpling
• history of misogyny
• some sort of dumpling
• history of misogyny
Limiting dilutions are just homeopathy for cells
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Limiting dilutions are just homeopathy for cells
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Dave is now facing two misdemeanors for doing his job.
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Dave is now facing two misdemeanors for doing his job.