Serene Dipity
@serenedip.bsky.social
Cafeteria Mennonite. Analyst.
Don't tell me what to do.
Don't tell me what to do.
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
Donald Trump would have deported Baby Jesus back to King Herod.
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Donald Trump would have deported Baby Jesus back to King Herod.
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"The Free-Living Bureaucrat" by Michael Lewis in the @washingtonpost.com wins this year's Communications Award for documenting the life-saving role the FDA plays in ensuring safe and affective emerging treatments. Give it a read: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int... #TropMed25
Opinion | The free-living bureaucrat
Michael Lewis on Heather Stone of the Food and Drug Administration.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"The Free-Living Bureaucrat" by Michael Lewis in the @washingtonpost.com wins this year's Communications Award for documenting the life-saving role the FDA plays in ensuring safe and affective emerging treatments. Give it a read: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int... #TropMed25
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After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...
ICE again prevents Chicago Catholics from bringing Eucharist to immigrant detainees
More than 2,000 faithful gathered to pray outside the Broadview ICE Detention Center Nov. 1, but the group's main request — to bring Communion to detainees — was rejected by federal immigration offici...
www.ncronline.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...
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I’m watching the World Series. I’m taking part o the Stanford prison experiment. I’m at the combination World Series/Stanford prison experiment
October 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I’m watching the World Series. I’m taking part o the Stanford prison experiment. I’m at the combination World Series/Stanford prison experiment
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Life is hard and short no matter what, and there’s nothing of any ultimate importance to be gained for oneself by making things worse for others.
Show me a man who wants to dominate others to make himself feel better and all I’ll see is a child who’s never seen or felt pain up close himself.
Show me a man who wants to dominate others to make himself feel better and all I’ll see is a child who’s never seen or felt pain up close himself.
October 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Life is hard and short no matter what, and there’s nothing of any ultimate importance to be gained for oneself by making things worse for others.
Show me a man who wants to dominate others to make himself feel better and all I’ll see is a child who’s never seen or felt pain up close himself.
Show me a man who wants to dominate others to make himself feel better and all I’ll see is a child who’s never seen or felt pain up close himself.
This is outrageous. Where are the GOP religious freedom advocates?
In a stunning development, Donald Trump and JD Vance have allowed ICE to start targeting Catholic parishes during Mass.
In Anti-Catholic Crusade, Trump's ICE Targets Holy Mass in Chicago
Worshippers fled in fear as immigration agents appeared outside St. Jerome’s — part of Trump’s new campaign against Catholic parishes nationwide.
open.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is outrageous. Where are the GOP religious freedom advocates?
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One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.
October 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.
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The Kavanaugh Stop
In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'
The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.
chicago.suntimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The Kavanaugh Stop
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Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
Bessent States That Trump Might Announce a National Housing Emergency This Fall to Tackle Increasing Prices and Falling Supply
September 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
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I am one of these faces.
I certainly do feel like my life has been turned upside down multiple times this year, but I will always love my #NIHMOSAIC family and I am so glad we have people like @jeremymberg.bsky.social fighting for us ❤️
I certainly do feel like my life has been turned upside down multiple times this year, but I will always love my #NIHMOSAIC family and I am so glad we have people like @jeremymberg.bsky.social fighting for us ❤️
August 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I am one of these faces.
I certainly do feel like my life has been turned upside down multiple times this year, but I will always love my #NIHMOSAIC family and I am so glad we have people like @jeremymberg.bsky.social fighting for us ❤️
I certainly do feel like my life has been turned upside down multiple times this year, but I will always love my #NIHMOSAIC family and I am so glad we have people like @jeremymberg.bsky.social fighting for us ❤️
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This is terrible advice. If 1950s movies taught me anything, it's that you need to eat them before they eat you. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/fda-w...
FDA warns public not to eat possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart
The FDA is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137.
abcnews.go.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This is terrible advice. If 1950s movies taught me anything, it's that you need to eat them before they eat you. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/fda-w...
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I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
August 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
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Trump's little green men are invading cities across the nation.
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
August 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Trump's little green men are invading cities across the nation.
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The now common federal use of secret police who hide their faces, won't identify their agency, don't wear badges and cover up license plates is indistinguishable from tactics used by dictatorships.
Any Republican pre 2015 would have been horrified.
Any Republican pre 2015 would have been horrified.
No agency insignia at all on their uniforms, so this is likely not DEA or ATF or FBI or Border Patrol. So probably it’s DHS, most likely ICE.
And yeah, the comment about “liberal” is really telling. These guys are wildly unprofessional.
And yeah, the comment about “liberal” is really telling. These guys are wildly unprofessional.
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
August 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The now common federal use of secret police who hide their faces, won't identify their agency, don't wear badges and cover up license plates is indistinguishable from tactics used by dictatorships.
Any Republican pre 2015 would have been horrified.
Any Republican pre 2015 would have been horrified.
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that summit could've been an email
August 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
that summit could've been an email
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He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
DC Union Station tonight. Unreal.
August 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
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When I was back home I spent an afternoon volunteering at the food bank my mom helps run. It’s in a mid sized Midwestern city. It was pretty eye opening. These are people who are really reliant on the social safety net that the BBB slashed. Here’s a list of observations 1/x
August 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
When I was back home I spent an afternoon volunteering at the food bank my mom helps run. It’s in a mid sized Midwestern city. It was pretty eye opening. These are people who are really reliant on the social safety net that the BBB slashed. Here’s a list of observations 1/x
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Avashai Margalit’s The Decent Society argues that a civilised society is one that avoids humiliating its citizens. Judith Shklar makes a similar point about cruelty. It’s as if governments around the world have chosen to take these not as warnings but as goals.
August 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Avashai Margalit’s The Decent Society argues that a civilised society is one that avoids humiliating its citizens. Judith Shklar makes a similar point about cruelty. It’s as if governments around the world have chosen to take these not as warnings but as goals.
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If you’re an immigrant with legal status who’s committed 0 crimes you can be sent to a torture prison where you’ll be raped and dehumanized.
If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.
If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.
August 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If you’re an immigrant with legal status who’s committed 0 crimes you can be sent to a torture prison where you’ll be raped and dehumanized.
If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.
If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.
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I think the idea that “The President is simultaneously an institution beyond the reach of criminal law and also a private person who can file $10 billion defamation suits when he dislikes a news article” is not very sensible.
July 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I think the idea that “The President is simultaneously an institution beyond the reach of criminal law and also a private person who can file $10 billion defamation suits when he dislikes a news article” is not very sensible.
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I mean…wasn’t it the hugest biggest scandal ever when Biden (as a private citizen) asked Twitter to heed its moderation standards regarding Hunter Biden ?
Wow Trump said the same thing all over again. Now it must be true.
July 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I mean…wasn’t it the hugest biggest scandal ever when Biden (as a private citizen) asked Twitter to heed its moderation standards regarding Hunter Biden ?
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🚨NEW: When ICE raided a Californian farm yesterday, they snatched & disappeared a disabled US veteran who was in his car.
They smashed his window, peppered sprayed him & dragged him to the floor.
Listen to his wife & sister here, distraught. No-one will tell them where he is.
(🎥 ABC 7 News)
They smashed his window, peppered sprayed him & dragged him to the floor.
Listen to his wife & sister here, distraught. No-one will tell them where he is.
(🎥 ABC 7 News)
July 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
🚨NEW: When ICE raided a Californian farm yesterday, they snatched & disappeared a disabled US veteran who was in his car.
They smashed his window, peppered sprayed him & dragged him to the floor.
Listen to his wife & sister here, distraught. No-one will tell them where he is.
(🎥 ABC 7 News)
They smashed his window, peppered sprayed him & dragged him to the floor.
Listen to his wife & sister here, distraught. No-one will tell them where he is.
(🎥 ABC 7 News)
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There are still men in a concentration camp in El Salvador. It seems quite likely Trump will send more people there. We cannot let that fact fall into the memory hole.
June 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
There are still men in a concentration camp in El Salvador. It seems quite likely Trump will send more people there. We cannot let that fact fall into the memory hole.
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We're tired of the false information and wrote this letter to the NIH director Jay Bhattacharya. FACT: clinical trials have been halted. With real ethical impacts. Is this what Americans want to be known for? Let's see what the director says.
June 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We're tired of the false information and wrote this letter to the NIH director Jay Bhattacharya. FACT: clinical trials have been halted. With real ethical impacts. Is this what Americans want to be known for? Let's see what the director says.