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MishuPishu
@mishupishu.bsky.social
Here for the art and the unions and the films and the music and the pet lovers and progress and diversity and the joy of human expression.
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For anyone who wishes to know me. I'm a writer of fiction and essays who loves interacting with other writers and artists. Here's a novella I wrote, "The Devil's Breath", that I'm especially proud of. Enjoy!

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"The Devil's Breath" by Wade Pavlick
Excerpt from letter dated January 13, 1957:… I’ve been haunted from the moment I arrived in this place.  It’s different here, away from the movement in the city. There’s a quiet that I can’t quite gra...
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This is what fascism looks like.
Fifteen-year-old Miguel Vazquez was one of the people who took off running when federal agents arrived. “I thought, ‘Wait, why am I running? I’m a citizen,’” Vazquez said.

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ICE Agents Raid a Church With No Explanation
Operation “Charlotte’s Web” continues.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
This is what wage theft looks like.
November 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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I think I understand, deeply, what goes into this kind of sentence. Research, analysis, craft — this is a sentence where it all meets. This is just masterful.
November 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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it has sent me up a wall, honestly. i don’t care that he’s a piece of shit, this is known. i care that nobody stood up and said hey man first of all fuck you.
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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underrated bit of handwaving in the lizza blog
November 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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The Saudi Crown Prince had Khashoggi dismembered in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul.

Dismembered while still alive.

But Khashoggi gave his phone to his fiancee and went in with his Apple Watch recording.

His watch was connected to his phone.

It captured the gruesome audio of his brutal killing.
www.news.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Minnesota for soliciting sex from a minor
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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🙋🏻‍♀️ independent fact checker here!

Yes there are many freelance fact checkers and editors. But fact checking is not a priority for pubs. We were the first to be fired as the industry imploded

So there’s no desire to hire us, even independently

I work on books and am hired* paid directly by authors
Sort of a dumb question, but are there independent editors? Independent fact checkers?

And I get that the dollars (nonexistent) get split even more.

I know nothing about journalism other than as a consumer. Just wondering if theres a way to create collectives of independents with skills?
I worry about the emphasis on independent journalism we have right now because:

1) it’s not a sustainable business model to hold up an entire industry

2) they don’t have editors or fact checkers to provide checks and balances on their reporting

3) institutional journalism is still important
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is what fascism looks like.
NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public

www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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The Spirit by José Ladrönn.
June 30, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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I don’t think US taxpayers should subsidize treason against the United States
November 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
In an amazing moment of serendipity, I am listening to this very album right now.
The 1967 billboard for Love's Forever Changes album in West Hollywood. The original album art was by Bob Pepper.
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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we should do another "is he dead" day that could be fun
It’s been 28 hours since Trump’s last post on Truth Social. I don’t know if this is a record for a weekday in 2025, but I would guess it is.

There’s usually at least some filler content that’s random bullshit he clearly didn’t write, like links to articles about what a great job he’s doing.
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This is what protecting pedophiles looks like!
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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“I think the reason we don’t make those distinctions is because it’s really hard to explain the difference without sounding like a pedophile.”

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November 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Wild how every single member of the political and business elite went into full drooling fascism the second the prospect of consequences for abhorrent behavior started to seem possible
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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the shit sandwich but both slices of bread are also shit
November 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.

The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Here’s what is interesting about this answer: It is not a “no.” bsky.app/profile/just...
CBS News' Weijia Jiang: "Did the president ever spend hours at Jeffrey Epstein’s house with a victim?"

Karoline Leavitt: "These emails prove nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong."
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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2017: Jonathan Farkas emailing w/ Epstein about "seeing" someone, then mentioning his wife, Somers, who got an appointment from Trump to the White House Fellowship Commission.

Epstein warns Farkas about the other woman.

2025: Somers Farkas was confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Malta in October.
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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New reporting reveals that Jeffrey Epstein played a role in brokering security agreements for Israel, and enjoyed close relationships with powerful Israeli officials.
Epstein & Israel: Drop Site News Investigates Jeffrey Epstein’s Ties to Israeli Intelligence
A new series by Drop Site News looks at Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Israeli intelligence and how he secretly brokered numerous deals for Israeli intelligence. Drop Site revealed that Epstein had played ...
www.democracynow.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM