R. S. Doiel
@rsdoiel.bsky.social
I am a human. I wrote music and prose. I write software for libraries and archives.
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Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally.
Just like it’s still the department of defense
Just like it’s still the department of defense
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally.
Just like it’s still the department of defense
Just like it’s still the department of defense
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I think Asha Rangappa is right — they are lining up the external and internal enemies. Or trying to. This is very risky and will almost certainly blow up in their faces.
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
December 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I think Asha Rangappa is right — they are lining up the external and internal enemies. Or trying to. This is very risky and will almost certainly blow up in their faces.
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Denaturalizing U.S. citizens is abhorrent. There a whole gross history to this that we should not repeat. 👀⚖️
Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship, internal documents obtained by The New York Times show, marking an aggressive new phase in President Trump’s immigration crackdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Denaturalizing U.S. citizens is abhorrent. There a whole gross history to this that we should not repeat. 👀⚖️
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Trump:
Whine whine blame blame blame blame it’s always everyone else’s fault.
Why even cover this
Whine whine blame blame blame blame it’s always everyone else’s fault.
Why even cover this
December 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Trump:
Whine whine blame blame blame blame it’s always everyone else’s fault.
Why even cover this
Whine whine blame blame blame blame it’s always everyone else’s fault.
Why even cover this
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73% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to govt data.
Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”
As ICE terrorizes cities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of Trump's major donors are private prison corporations.
Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”
As ICE terrorizes cities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of Trump's major donors are private prison corporations.
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
73% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to govt data.
Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”
As ICE terrorizes cities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of Trump's major donors are private prison corporations.
Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”
As ICE terrorizes cities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of Trump's major donors are private prison corporations.
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"We have known since the calculations of Nobel prize-winning physical chemist Svante Arrhenius in the 1890s of the impact increasing CO2 would have on temperature," Hayhoe said, citing scientific literature from 1896.
YES - 1896. That's how long we've known.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
YES - 1896. That's how long we've known.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
December 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"We have known since the calculations of Nobel prize-winning physical chemist Svante Arrhenius in the 1890s of the impact increasing CO2 would have on temperature," Hayhoe said, citing scientific literature from 1896.
YES - 1896. That's how long we've known.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
YES - 1896. That's how long we've known.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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House Democrats have introduced War Powers Resolutions to block further military assaults on Venezuela. We’re expecting a House vote this week, so call your representative ASAP and demand that they vote YES to check the regime’s lawless violence: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
December 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
House Democrats have introduced War Powers Resolutions to block further military assaults on Venezuela. We’re expecting a House vote this week, so call your representative ASAP and demand that they vote YES to check the regime’s lawless violence: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science
Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.
www.nature.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
Twisted. Sad times.
December 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Twisted. Sad times.
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Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.
December 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.
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To those thinking Russia is winning in Ukraine:
Imagine if when we invaded Iraq, we were almost four years into it, only occupied 20 percent, and lost a million men.
Not a soul would call that “winning.”
Imagine if when we invaded Iraq, we were almost four years into it, only occupied 20 percent, and lost a million men.
Not a soul would call that “winning.”
December 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
To those thinking Russia is winning in Ukraine:
Imagine if when we invaded Iraq, we were almost four years into it, only occupied 20 percent, and lost a million men.
Not a soul would call that “winning.”
Imagine if when we invaded Iraq, we were almost four years into it, only occupied 20 percent, and lost a million men.
Not a soul would call that “winning.”
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The third time in 2 months that the official DHS account has tweeted a Nazi term which means "ethnic cleansing" of all people of color from America and Europe.
December 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The third time in 2 months that the official DHS account has tweeted a Nazi term which means "ethnic cleansing" of all people of color from America and Europe.
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Pepsi allegedly gave Walmart discounts on its products, while charging other retailers higher prices.
Biden's FTC filed a complaint. Trump's FTC later dropped it.
This is a prime example of how monopoly-like power takes away our freedom of choice. Lina Khan explains.
Biden's FTC filed a complaint. Trump's FTC later dropped it.
This is a prime example of how monopoly-like power takes away our freedom of choice. Lina Khan explains.
The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)
Robert Reich
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Pepsi allegedly gave Walmart discounts on its products, while charging other retailers higher prices.
Biden's FTC filed a complaint. Trump's FTC later dropped it.
This is a prime example of how monopoly-like power takes away our freedom of choice. Lina Khan explains.
Biden's FTC filed a complaint. Trump's FTC later dropped it.
This is a prime example of how monopoly-like power takes away our freedom of choice. Lina Khan explains.
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How AI Coding Agents Hid a Timebomb in Our App acusti.ca/blog/2025/12...
How AI Coding Agents Hid a Timebomb in Our App | acusti.ca
acusti.ca
December 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
How AI Coding Agents Hid a Timebomb in Our App acusti.ca/blog/2025/12...
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With more cooking and more distractions this season, kitchen fires are one of the most common holiday hazards.
Watch this video to see how to handle a grease fire.
Stay close, stay alert, and keep your celebrations safe. 🎄
#CALFIRE #HolidaySafety #GreaseFire #KitchenFireSafety #StayFireReady
Watch this video to see how to handle a grease fire.
Stay close, stay alert, and keep your celebrations safe. 🎄
#CALFIRE #HolidaySafety #GreaseFire #KitchenFireSafety #StayFireReady
December 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
With more cooking and more distractions this season, kitchen fires are one of the most common holiday hazards.
Watch this video to see how to handle a grease fire.
Stay close, stay alert, and keep your celebrations safe. 🎄
#CALFIRE #HolidaySafety #GreaseFire #KitchenFireSafety #StayFireReady
Watch this video to see how to handle a grease fire.
Stay close, stay alert, and keep your celebrations safe. 🎄
#CALFIRE #HolidaySafety #GreaseFire #KitchenFireSafety #StayFireReady
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Today's abysmal jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy.
What's required is investment in working people — and better wages.
When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs.
Remember this.
What's required is investment in working people — and better wages.
When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs.
Remember this.
December 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Today's abysmal jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy.
What's required is investment in working people — and better wages.
When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs.
Remember this.
What's required is investment in working people — and better wages.
When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs.
Remember this.
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1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.
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After taking over housing and healthcare, private equity is now buying up software used by volunteer fire departments — making it even harder for rural communities to respond to emergencies.
The only winners from private equity's price-gouging spree are wealthy investors.
The only winners from private equity's price-gouging spree are wealthy investors.
Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
After taking over housing and healthcare, private equity is now buying up software used by volunteer fire departments — making it even harder for rural communities to respond to emergencies.
The only winners from private equity's price-gouging spree are wealthy investors.
The only winners from private equity's price-gouging spree are wealthy investors.
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Old here who remembers: I had to get my newspaper-publisher boss to sign for my first credit card in 1975.
If you don't believe this can happen, women didn't have the legal right to have their own credit cards without needing a male co-signer until 1974, when the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) was passed, a landmark law that made it illegal to discriminate in lending based on sex or marital status.
The regime is attempting to make it legal for banks and credit card companies to discriminate against women and minorities, making credit access harder. There's just 1 day left to comment. Reject this premise based on the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. Comment here: tr.ee/I9k7aFPzg3
December 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Old here who remembers: I had to get my newspaper-publisher boss to sign for my first credit card in 1975.
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One citizen said that federal agents in Idaho pointed guns at her children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a truck and zip-tied her.
The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find
Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, an investigation by Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents, contradicting the Trump adminis...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
One citizen said that federal agents in Idaho pointed guns at her children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a truck and zip-tied her.
The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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Turns out allowing pesticide companies to put PFAS and forever chemicals on our food is a really, really bad idea.
December 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Turns out allowing pesticide companies to put PFAS and forever chemicals on our food is a really, really bad idea.
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"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
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In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
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It's not just me that says that our social web should be connected by RSS.
Cory Doctorow said it.
Molly White said it.
And last week Ben Werdmuller said it.
If they all did it, we'd have all the freedom we could ever want.
So what's holding it up?
Links in first reply.
Cory Doctorow said it.
Molly White said it.
And last week Ben Werdmuller said it.
If they all did it, we'd have all the freedom we could ever want.
So what's holding it up?
Links in first reply.
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It's not just me that says that our social web should be connected by RSS.
Cory Doctorow said it.
Molly White said it.
And last week Ben Werdmuller said it.
If they all did it, we'd have all the freedom we could ever want.
So what's holding it up?
Links in first reply.
Cory Doctorow said it.
Molly White said it.
And last week Ben Werdmuller said it.
If they all did it, we'd have all the freedom we could ever want.
So what's holding it up?
Links in first reply.
Interesting.
As an avid observer of algorithms I think I’ve figured out part of what happened here.
FB now explicitly looks for and directs posts you’re opposed to into your feed, to rage-bait engagement.
So now my posts are being actively boosted into people’s feeds of who reject climate. Ha! 😄😵💫
FB now explicitly looks for and directs posts you’re opposed to into your feed, to rage-bait engagement.
So now my posts are being actively boosted into people’s feeds of who reject climate. Ha! 😄😵💫
In 2018, Meta decided “clean energy” and “climate change” were politically sensitive topics, and demanded that I - a climate scientist - register as a political org to post and boost posts on them.
I refused, and my page has been shadow banned since then. For 7 years. Until this week, that is 😳
I refused, and my page has been shadow banned since then. For 7 years. Until this week, that is 😳
December 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Interesting.