Susan Taylor
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Kingsley: “Our intelligence absolutely confirms who these people are."
@houlahan.house.gov: “If there is intelligence that ‘absolutely confirms’ this — present it."
Kingsley: 🦗🦗🦗(those are crickets)
theintercept.com/2025/12/04/b...
@houlahan.house.gov: “If there is intelligence that ‘absolutely confirms’ this — present it."
Kingsley: 🦗🦗🦗(those are crickets)
theintercept.com/2025/12/04/b...
Pentagon Claims It “Absolutely” Knows Who It Killed in Boat Strikes. Prove It, Lawmaker Says.
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan said, “If there is intelligence to ‘absolutely confirm’ this, the Congress is ready to receive it.”
theintercept.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Kingsley: “Our intelligence absolutely confirms who these people are."
@houlahan.house.gov: “If there is intelligence that ‘absolutely confirms’ this — present it."
Kingsley: 🦗🦗🦗(those are crickets)
theintercept.com/2025/12/04/b...
@houlahan.house.gov: “If there is intelligence that ‘absolutely confirms’ this — present it."
Kingsley: 🦗🦗🦗(those are crickets)
theintercept.com/2025/12/04/b...
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On Kawara, I Got Up..., 1977
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135334
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135334
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
On Kawara, I Got Up..., 1977
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135334
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135334
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Bumper sticker combo spotted today:
- US Army medic logo
- “Weapons of war don’t belong on our streets”
- US Army medic logo
- “Weapons of war don’t belong on our streets”
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Bumper sticker combo spotted today:
- US Army medic logo
- “Weapons of war don’t belong on our streets”
- US Army medic logo
- “Weapons of war don’t belong on our streets”
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Breaking news: President Trump replaced the architect he handpicked to design his $300 million White House ballroom.
It is unclear whether he was fired or resigned.
It is unclear whether he was fired or resigned.
Trump hires new White House ballroom architect
Although the two had clashed over the size of the project, the decisive factor was the small firm’s limited capacity to handle such an enormous project.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Breaking news: President Trump replaced the architect he handpicked to design his $300 million White House ballroom.
It is unclear whether he was fired or resigned.
It is unclear whether he was fired or resigned.
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JD Vance Begins To Suspect There Another Group Chat
JD Vance Begins To Suspect There Another Group Chat
PALM BEACH, FL—Noticing everyone else’s phone simultaneously buzzing throughout a meeting, Vice President-elect JD Vance began to suspect there was another group chat among Trump’s senior staff that h...
theonion.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
JD Vance Begins To Suspect There Another Group Chat
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I have been thinking about this for months. What's the point of Cassidy being a senator, a doctor, and now in the case of hepatitis-B, a gastroenterologist? What good is power if he doesn't use it to stop what's coming and roll back damage done? Even if it takes impeachment articles against Kennedy?
That last point. Cassidy really has enormous leverage if he wants to use it. He would win this fight. Worst case is he winds up losing a primary and spends his 70s (he's 68 now) as a hero to millions. He'll likely never have as much influence over anything again as he has over this right now.
ACIP may end universal Hep B vaccination today.
Hep B prevention is Cassidy's passion, as he made clear during RFK Jr's confirmation hearings.
But let's not forget... his vote to confirm RFK Jr. got us into this mess!
He needs to use every lever of power he has in the Senate to fix it.
Hep B prevention is Cassidy's passion, as he made clear during RFK Jr's confirmation hearings.
But let's not forget... his vote to confirm RFK Jr. got us into this mess!
He needs to use every lever of power he has in the Senate to fix it.
December 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I have been thinking about this for months. What's the point of Cassidy being a senator, a doctor, and now in the case of hepatitis-B, a gastroenterologist? What good is power if he doesn't use it to stop what's coming and roll back damage done? Even if it takes impeachment articles against Kennedy?
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Student organizations have put out statements of support and have planned demonstrations after Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice Magazines were suspended.
From @alabamareflector.com:
From @alabamareflector.com:
University of Alabama suspends magazines focused on Black and women students
Student organizations have put out statements of support and have planned demonstrations following Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice Magazines were suspended.
19thnews.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Student organizations have put out statements of support and have planned demonstrations after Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice Magazines were suspended.
From @alabamareflector.com:
From @alabamareflector.com:
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The postal service is not a business, measuring it by revenue is the wrong frame for understanding its worth.
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The postal service is not a business, measuring it by revenue is the wrong frame for understanding its worth.
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Really weird to see the DOJ press conference framing the arrest in the January 6 pipe bomb case as a victory in Trump's efforts to pacify DC.
Noteworthy that nobody mentioned the date the bombs were placed and found.
Noteworthy that nobody mentioned the date the bombs were placed and found.
December 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Really weird to see the DOJ press conference framing the arrest in the January 6 pipe bomb case as a victory in Trump's efforts to pacify DC.
Noteworthy that nobody mentioned the date the bombs were placed and found.
Noteworthy that nobody mentioned the date the bombs were placed and found.
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I wrote about the right wing push to repeal the 19th Amendment, and the mainstreaming of forms of misogyny that were once confined to the political fringe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote | Moira Donegan
Calls for disenfranchisement rest on a single assumption: that women’s citizenship is partial and conditional
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I wrote about the right wing push to repeal the 19th Amendment, and the mainstreaming of forms of misogyny that were once confined to the political fringe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Nauseatingly brilliant piece by @moiradonegan.bsky.social
"Sexism may be the world’s oldest prejudice and its first unjust hierarchy, but it is continually innovating, adapting to new technologies and the most recent rhetorical needs of male supremacy."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Sexism may be the world’s oldest prejudice and its first unjust hierarchy, but it is continually innovating, adapting to new technologies and the most recent rhetorical needs of male supremacy."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote | Moira Donegan
Calls for disenfranchisement rest on a single assumption: that women’s citizenship is partial and conditional
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Nauseatingly brilliant piece by @moiradonegan.bsky.social
"Sexism may be the world’s oldest prejudice and its first unjust hierarchy, but it is continually innovating, adapting to new technologies and the most recent rhetorical needs of male supremacy."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Sexism may be the world’s oldest prejudice and its first unjust hierarchy, but it is continually innovating, adapting to new technologies and the most recent rhetorical needs of male supremacy."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When it comes to money-losing tech revolutionaries, OpenAI is in a class by itself.
(via Deutsche)
@weisenthal.bsky.social
(via Deutsche)
@weisenthal.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
When it comes to money-losing tech revolutionaries, OpenAI is in a class by itself.
(via Deutsche)
@weisenthal.bsky.social
(via Deutsche)
@weisenthal.bsky.social
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The only garbage here is what’s coming out of his mouth
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The only garbage here is what’s coming out of his mouth
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Institutionalized regression in consumer protection.
Next, they’ll make seat belts optional in the name of “choice”. 🤡
Next, they’ll make seat belts optional in the name of “choice”. 🤡
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Institutionalized regression in consumer protection.
Next, they’ll make seat belts optional in the name of “choice”. 🤡
Next, they’ll make seat belts optional in the name of “choice”. 🤡
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“Adding to the headwinds is U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has said the virus should be allowed to burn through flocks so that farmers can identify birds with natural immunity”
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.
After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.
Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.
After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.
Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“Adding to the headwinds is U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has said the virus should be allowed to burn through flocks so that farmers can identify birds with natural immunity”
Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
December 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
I suggest readers also watch the NYT video by Jack Conte (Patreon) if you want to see into the possibilities beyond currently aimed algorithms.
@jackconte.bsky.social
@jackconte.bsky.social
It’s okay if you’ve listened to Steely Dan 42,031 times this year. Really. In 2023, Nancy Walecki reported on Spotify Wrapped and the algorithms that define our digital lives:
Spotify Doesn’t Know Who You Are
It’s okay if you’ve listened to Steely Dan 42,031 times this year. Really.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I suggest readers also watch the NYT video by Jack Conte (Patreon) if you want to see into the possibilities beyond currently aimed algorithms.
@jackconte.bsky.social
@jackconte.bsky.social
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This ad is part of our $1 MILLION advertising blitz, calling out 16 Senate Democrats who voted to confirm Trump judges who refuse to tell the truth about the 2020 election and J6. We're running ads in PA, NH, ME, and nationally because if senators won't take a stand, we will.
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This ad is part of our $1 MILLION advertising blitz, calling out 16 Senate Democrats who voted to confirm Trump judges who refuse to tell the truth about the 2020 election and J6. We're running ads in PA, NH, ME, and nationally because if senators won't take a stand, we will.
This looks fab! Anyone read it yet?
Nonfiction Chapter Book Series Shines a Light on Muslim Community buff.ly/jGzYMx0
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This looks fab! Anyone read it yet?
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“All I ask at the end is that readers offer themselves grace—and learn the practice of self-forgiveness”: Chanel Miller on her new middle grade novel ‘The Moon Without Stars’ buff.ly/34mlDDJ
December 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
“All I ask at the end is that readers offer themselves grace—and learn the practice of self-forgiveness”: Chanel Miller on her new middle grade novel ‘The Moon Without Stars’ buff.ly/34mlDDJ
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A kid’s book press had to tell Pete Hegseth to not depict their turtle committing murder | @literaryhub.bsky.social
A kid’s book press had to tell Pete Hegseth to not depict their turtle committing murder.
If you’re a fan of Kids Can Press or Canadian writer Paulette Bourgeois’s Franklin the Turtle, you may have come across this statement on social media yesterday: Why is a kids book publisher…
buff.ly
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A kid’s book press had to tell Pete Hegseth to not depict their turtle committing murder | @literaryhub.bsky.social
Thanks to Lit Hub for alllllll you do!
lithub.com/100-notable-...
lithub.com/100-notable-...
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
lithub.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thanks to Lit Hub for alllllll you do!
lithub.com/100-notable-...
lithub.com/100-notable-...
Housing First works! There is TONS of evidence.
In the ’90s, a group of advocates helped prove the merits of Housing First when they found stable homes for New Yorkers living in a train tunnel. The effort defied longtime stereotypes about homelessness—and was hugely effective. Now Trump wants to end it.
https://bit.ly/3MyV31Y
https://bit.ly/3MyV31Y
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Housing First works! There is TONS of evidence.
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Late last night, a federal court judge issued a ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration from continuing to carry out indiscriminate immigration arrests in Washington, D.C.
www.courthousenews.com/judge-orders...
www.courthousenews.com/judge-orders...
Judge orders Trump administration to halt warrantless immigration arrests in District of Columbia
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell emphasized the fact that an immigration status violation is a civil, not criminal violation, and said viewing all immigrants as criminals was legally “plain wrong.”
www.courthousenews.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Late last night, a federal court judge issued a ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration from continuing to carry out indiscriminate immigration arrests in Washington, D.C.
www.courthousenews.com/judge-orders...
www.courthousenews.com/judge-orders...
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Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.