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Miguel Mallet
@miguelmallet.bsky.social
writer, teacher, partner, parent
writes at https://howstoriestellus.substack.com/
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Just like Gwaihir the Windlord,
Sings a song, sounds like he's singin'
"SCREAAAACH, baby SCREAACH baby SCREACH.

-Steve Nicks
-The Age of Seven Rings
i can’t stop picturing a scenario where stevie nicks watches the scene where gandalf jumps onto an eagle and she gets soooo fucking jelly
December 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Being cruel to others . Especially if they have more power
1. What is the dumbest thing people take pride in?
December 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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December 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Um… @nycschools.bsky.social employees use Teams… can we talk about this????
This article asks, "whether this is open to abuse", but imo, the very existence and implementation of this tech *IS* abuse.

No matter how "restricted" it is. No matter how little an employer uses it.

This is a level of surveillance that is inherently abusive.
microsoft promised to "empower every user" and google to "revolutionise knowledge and technological innovation" but in reality what they have given us is an invasive surveillance dystopian nightmare hard to escape

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
December 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.
December 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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I attribute part of that man sitting in the WH now to people who edit his history to starting with The Apprentice. His public resume is edited so that it looks like he hasn't been failing since the 80s. He was selling himself to rappers for attention way back in the 90s.
Tr*mp started his career in the public eye by pretending to fire people from fake jobs. Now he’s worked his way up to being in charge of an administration that has murdered* at least 86 people. What do you think is next?

*It’s not a war crime, since we’re not at war. It’s just murder.
December 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Everything is a FUCKING joke now
FIFA President Gianni Infantino awards Trump the inaugural 2025 FIFA Peace Prize

This new award was created days after Trump failed to win the Nobel.

His own “Department of War” is being accused of murdering survivors hanging off a shipwreck.

Peace? Not really.
December 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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If he can rewrite the Constitution by executive order, then we might as well not have a constitution
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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ICE fired a munition at Rep. Adelita Grijalva as she demanded answers during a raid in her own community. No warning. No accountability. Just armored agents treating Tucson like a war zone. If they’ll fire at a Congresswoman on camera, imagine what they do to everyone else. Sick MFers.
December 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Convincing many ordinary Americans that it would cost them less to abandon democracy at home and abroad was one of Trump's most effective and personally profitable tricks.

#GiftLink #GiftArticle
Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Americans don't want to spend money on overseas wars or nation-building. So Trump lied during his decade-plus-long campaign, presenting himself as an anti-interventionist.

Now he's increasing the military budget to all-time highs and threatening war around the globe while cutting domestic programs
Trump’s Budget: Starving Everything Except the Military
Donald Trump’s federal budget for 2026 would funnel more money to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security — and proposes deep cuts to almost everything else.
jacobin.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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The idea that they want only legal immigration was a lie from the start.
Routine naturalization ceremonies scheduled for this month in Putnam, Dutchess and Ulster counties to welcome new U.S. citizens were abruptly canceled last week by the federal government, surprising local officials.   buff.ly/8emFeDU
Citizen Ceremonies Canceled
Dutchess, Putnam clerks say they have new dates for next year 
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Chris Hayes: Trump keeps justifying the killing of more than 80 men on boats in the Caribbean as a way to save Americans from drugs, but just this week he pardoned a man who helped traffic more than 500 tons of cocaine into the U.S.
‘500 tons of cocaine’: Trump pardons trafficker who helped flood U.S. with drugs 
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Founding fathers can’t be blamed for not writing a constitution strong enough to curb the actions of a malignant narsisistic psychopath felon backed by a whole cabinet of incompetent sycophants propped up by a bought & payed for Supreme Court
But the Republicans can for not rebelling now #Epstein
December 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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US citizen chased by federal agents in New Orleans says she was targeted because ‘I’m brown’ - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US citizen chased by federal agents in New Orleans says she was targeted because ‘I’m brown’
Home security videos shows Jacelynn Guzman, 23, telling masked officers following her to ‘leave me alone’
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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mixed emotions being in a room of hundreds of people who want to know what to do if they see ICE on the streets of NYC: proud and hopeful that so many are willing to put their bodies on the line; deeply disturbed that it’s come to this.
December 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Rich NYers Threaten to Leave. Then They Find Out How Hard That Is. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n... so weird this is an evergreen story AFTER progressives are elected but never before—& never reference their own stories about the the billionaires who made these threats & yet have not moved?
Rich New Yorkers Threaten to Leave. Then They Find Out How Hard That Is.
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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I will never get the logic of ” the coerced labour of my ancestors and my own labour built this country therefore I will defend and be patriotic to the existence of this country even if this country is on stolen land and is illegitimate”
December 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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gofund.me/8e5750db
I have been harassed by the family of my rap*st via court and threats of court. Still in debt from the events + medical bills, and after events if anyone can help it’s greatly appreciated, if you cannot help please re-share. 🩷
Donate to The battle with my rapist and gaining my life back, organized by Kaitlin Kal Lee
Hi I’m a rape and abuse survivor. For those who have helped in the … Kaitlin Kal Lee needs your support for The battle with my rapist and gaining my life back
gofund.me
August 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Exactly this! It me even be more accurate to say that we're *encouraging* this.
December 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM