MulletBraid
@mulletbraid.bsky.social
Writer, singer, cat lover, pissed-off daughter of patriot parents who defeated the Nazis the first time. Fan of NK Jemisin, CJ Cherryh and Martha Wells as well as the hero of our time, Ukraine's President Zelenksyy. Blocks most bots.
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MulletBraid
@mulletbraid.bsky.social
· Nov 18
A Dubious Hope
Opal's father is making her miserable on the doomed generation ship the New Hope. When a telepathic alien asks, she agrees to be its translator, but reluctantly. It's a lifetime job, she's only thirte...
www.limfic.com
An anxious teen and an impulsive, hibernation-damaged soldier struggle to help their generation ship community deal with the fallout and potential of an alien rescue. www.limfic.com/book/a-dubio...
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RIGHT . They want us to “save journalism” but they don’t want to admit in anyway how complicit journalism was
A year ago, politicians were openly giving Nazi salutes and advocating for Nazi sympathizers, and the NYT said: The meaning of these gestures is unclear. So the bar for journalists (and their legal team) is on the floor.
February 11, 2026 at 1:49 PM
RIGHT . They want us to “save journalism” but they don’t want to admit in anyway how complicit journalism was
Whose report? Based on what? After 47 fires everyone who gave out (truthful) bad news, we're supposed to believe this? Bullshit.
Breaking News: U.S. employers added 130,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate fell to 4.3%, in a stronger-than-expected report.
Jobs Report Live Updates: U.S. Hiring Starts the Year at a Strong Pace
The unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent and the economy added 130,000 jobs in January, federal data showed.
nyti.ms
February 12, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Whose report? Based on what? After 47 fires everyone who gave out (truthful) bad news, we're supposed to believe this? Bullshit.
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Oh so now they suddenly found pictures of Black people ?
Breaking News: U.S. employers added 130,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate fell to 4.3%, in a stronger-than-expected report.
Jobs Report Live Updates: U.S. Hiring Starts the Year at a Strong Pace
The unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent and the economy added 130,000 jobs in January, federal data showed.
nyti.ms
February 11, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Oh so now they suddenly found pictures of Black people ?
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Removing AI and trying to rehire and re integrate designers for public communication alone would fix so much
February 11, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Removing AI and trying to rehire and re integrate designers for public communication alone would fix so much
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Where’s that post about how the citizens didn’t know that Rome had fallen until nobody showed up to repair the bridges?
@chadbourn.bsky.social there's a pilots' chat forum where they're discussing this & exchanging information. pilotsofamerica.com
general consensus is that it's bizarre & unprecedented. & incredibly poorly handled b/c it was issued with no notice, such that passengers arrived to a closed airport.
general consensus is that it's bizarre & unprecedented. & incredibly poorly handled b/c it was issued with no notice, such that passengers arrived to a closed airport.
February 11, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Where’s that post about how the citizens didn’t know that Rome had fallen until nobody showed up to repair the bridges?
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Sorry what??? WHAT??
The FAA is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport, for “special security reasons."
The FAA's notice did not provide additional details.
The FAA's notice did not provide additional details.
FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights
The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.
bit.ly
February 11, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Sorry what??? WHAT??
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Feels .... prescient? momentus? important... finding this now?
“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”
Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered in Manhattan
The Merchant's House is the first landmarked building in Manhattan.
ny1.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Feels .... prescient? momentus? important... finding this now?
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The look of disdain from Bondi just confirms everything this administration is about.
@raskin.house.gov is on 🔥
@raskin.house.gov is on 🔥
February 11, 2026 at 3:28 PM
The look of disdain from Bondi just confirms everything this administration is about.
@raskin.house.gov is on 🔥
@raskin.house.gov is on 🔥
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THIS ⤵️
A reminder: The Attorney General of the United States should be the people's lawyer, not the president's personal attorney. The Department of Justice should act to protect the public, not the occupant of the Oval Office and his political allies.
February 11, 2026 at 4:14 PM
THIS ⤵️
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They've never forgiven what happened to Nixon when he tried it.
the U.S. right wing conducted a massively-successful 50+ year propaganda campaign to impregnate the culture with the lie that all fact-based criticism of their unpopular policies has an inherent bias and should be discarded
our feckless consolidated corporate press was generally happy to oblige
our feckless consolidated corporate press was generally happy to oblige
The Media Is Biased… Against the Left
Mehdi brings receipts on the glaring absence of progressive voices not just on Bari Weiss’s CBS News but across so-called “liberal” media, and makes the case for independent media.
zeteo.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:25 PM
They've never forgiven what happened to Nixon when he tried it.
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This is what it is like to try to vote by mail in Alabama, which you can only do with a valid excuse. You also have to fill out a ballot application to get a ballot.
bsky.app/profile/most...
bsky.app/profile/most...
If you plan to vote absentee (which technically you are not allowed to do without a valid reason: illness, work schedule, out of state, etc) make sure you have a copy of a valid ID and also access to either a notary or two witnesses.
February 10, 2026 at 11:11 PM
This is what it is like to try to vote by mail in Alabama, which you can only do with a valid excuse. You also have to fill out a ballot application to get a ballot.
bsky.app/profile/most...
bsky.app/profile/most...
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Want to support me without spending a dime? Request my books at your library! The library pays for their copy so I still get paid and you get to read it for free! Best part, others can enjoy it after you! 🌈📚 #booksky
February 11, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Want to support me without spending a dime? Request my books at your library! The library pays for their copy so I still get paid and you get to read it for free! Best part, others can enjoy it after you! 🌈📚 #booksky
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Girls are bad at math but also only men can write sweeping narrative non fiction pieces for Important Magazines.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
the people who spread the “female brains are bad at math and spatial reasoning” lies should be tried at the Hague
Another fun wrinkle from that period (that might still exist): I was good at math and loved it and then my geometry teacher told me that I'd probably struggle because female brains were bad at spatial thinking. I kept loving math & being good at it but assumed that would end so I ended it first.
February 11, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Girls are bad at math but also only men can write sweeping narrative non fiction pieces for Important Magazines.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
Sigh. Yeah. It's worth a repost--adorable!--but I too thought it was recent.
Doggo is fine but I hate that this is actually from 2022. I just feel like the world of facts is separating and leaving the world we live in, even on small things. www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-...
Ski race halted as dog breaks from owner and evades marshal to sprint down slope
The World Cup Super-G event in Bormio was 'interrupted' in bizarre fashion on Thursday when a dog escaped from its owner, evaded officials, and hared down the track
www.mirror.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Sigh. Yeah. It's worth a repost--adorable!--but I too thought it was recent.
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This is what they've done.
Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart.
www.propublica.org/article/habe...
www.propublica.org/article/habe...
February 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
This is what they've done.
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also don’t let this local fascism make us forget that all the while attempted genocide has been and is still happening in Gaza
it feels too much for a single brain
and it is
that’s why it needs us all
every small thought and action counts
don’t buy into that there is one best way to care
🖤🦷
it feels too much for a single brain
and it is
that’s why it needs us all
every small thought and action counts
don’t buy into that there is one best way to care
🖤🦷
February 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM
also don’t let this local fascism make us forget that all the while attempted genocide has been and is still happening in Gaza
it feels too much for a single brain
and it is
that’s why it needs us all
every small thought and action counts
don’t buy into that there is one best way to care
🖤🦷
it feels too much for a single brain
and it is
that’s why it needs us all
every small thought and action counts
don’t buy into that there is one best way to care
🖤🦷
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"My daddy took me to Pedo Island but he took me with him when he left" is one hell of a vacation tshirt.
February 10, 2026 at 9:09 PM
"My daddy took me to Pedo Island but he took me with him when he left" is one hell of a vacation tshirt.
The Hague. Every goddamn one of those fuckers.
Every day this administration hits a new low. The Hague for every person involved in this.
www.latintimes.com/four-haitian...
www.latintimes.com/four-haitian...
February 11, 2026 at 1:45 AM
The Hague. Every goddamn one of those fuckers.
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this does not "spark fresh questions" this piles on additional evidence to what we already know. WHAT POSSIBLE QUESTIONS COULD BE RAISED BY THIS OTHER THAN WHY HAVEN'T WE STOPPED IT YET?? comemierdas
"Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents descended on the crowd in military-style gear and herded them into a confined area."
Feds zip-tied a 14-year-old girl during Idaho raid, sparking fresh questions about ICE tactics
A 14-year-old girl said she was "crying" and "struggling to breathe" when law enforcement officers herded her onto a racetrack with other detainees and zip-tied her hands.
www.cbsnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:26 PM
this does not "spark fresh questions" this piles on additional evidence to what we already know. WHAT POSSIBLE QUESTIONS COULD BE RAISED BY THIS OTHER THAN WHY HAVEN'T WE STOPPED IT YET?? comemierdas
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NEIGHBORS, PREPARE TO PROTEST.
One of the properties ICE is leasing is in Tukwila, WA at Riverfront Technical Park.
NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
February 10, 2026 at 7:06 PM
NEIGHBORS, PREPARE TO PROTEST.
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@salinas.house.gov here is a role model. Can Oregon have a taste of this fire?
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
February 10, 2026 at 5:27 PM
@salinas.house.gov here is a role model. Can Oregon have a taste of this fire?
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This is unsurprising. "AI" is just another middle-man between you and your work.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 7:25 PM
This is unsurprising. "AI" is just another middle-man between you and your work.
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February 10, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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BET
"This hearing is just the start of a reckoning of the Trump administration and its weaponization of DHS against American citizens," Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the top Dem on the panel, says at the start of this hearing.
February 10, 2026 at 7:34 PM
BET
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My Iranian adoptee friend who is in the removal process by DHS is the anonymous adoptee in this story. Her fears have come true. 🥚💔
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can't remember
Thousands of US adoptees do not have citizenship despite being brought to the country as babies decades ago. Now many fear deportation.
www.bbc.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:43 AM
My Iranian adoptee friend who is in the removal process by DHS is the anonymous adoptee in this story. Her fears have come true. 🥚💔
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...