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Sharkhand
@sharkhand.bsky.social
cynical & political elasmobranch; 3x lawyer; weird left low war den mother; with all its sham, drudgery & broken dreams it’s still a beautiful world
It ought be lost on people that without the sins of empire the fascists would not have created their martyr to perpetuate the sins of empire.
20 year-old National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from her gunshot wounds. May she rest in peace.
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with

2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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😢 MELIA will spend her second Thanksgiving at the shelter. She wants a home for Christmas. She can live with cats, no dogs. Low traffic home, adult only. Needs training. Please adopt her. 😢

Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
[email protected]
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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It’s been a while since we skipped merrily into a war and became bogged down in death and war crimes. I guess that every generation must destroy its political capital on an unnecessary botched war now.
TRUMP ON VENEZUELA: WE'LL BE STARTING TO STOP THEM ON LAND SOON
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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deep respect to anyone expecting the Stranger Thing finale(s) to be in any way satisfying, your optimism is a rare and beautiful thing
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Oxford Circus rush hour, 2018

He just looked up and smiled quietly.

#streetphotography
November 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Hubs dragged me out for an early morning icy walk. But there were otters!
November 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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“An infant in Kentucky who was unvaccinated against pertussis, or whooping cough, has died, marking the third death from the deadly bacteria in the state this year. Before 2025, Kentucky had last recorded an infant whooping cough death in 2018.”
Third infant in Kentucky dies of whooping cough as national cases stay high for second year in a row
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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It's easy to be numb because it's par for the course nowadays, but repeatedly calling a reporter who asks a reasonable question "stupid" is conduct unbecoming for a small-town mayor, let alone the President of the United States.

The press exists to play a watchdog role, not be a supplicant.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Safe topics for your family Thanksgiving:
-Hamas
-Everyone’s weight, net worth
-Lives that matter
-Only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun
-Who AI will replace first
-Who controls a woman’s body
-Sydney Sweeney ads
-Best ethnicity
-The Jews, general or specific
-Trump hot?
November 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
night babies!!
I know it may be hard to find something to be thankful for this year, but remember, there are always cats.
November 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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For the third time, Israeli Jews crossed further into occupied Syria, past the Israeli-occupied Golan into the rest of Israeli occupied Syria, and attempted to establish a settlement.
Settler activists cross into Syria, are returned by IDF after brief pursuit | The Times of Israel
www.timesofisrael.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Although he was from Khost, the DC shooter was a veteran of the CIA’s Kandahar CTPT surrogate unit, known in the early years as the QSF or KSF and later as NSU-03.

Here is a 2021 WaPo story I wrote about 03’s escape from Kandahar into collapsing Kabul, where they helped secure the HKIA evacuation.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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everyone: we just want streets to be safe to walk near, especially around schools

ontario: best we can do is street signs so big they fully obscure schoolchildren
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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"U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra has said that when Donald Trump calls upon Canada to become the 51st American state, it is a compliment and a term of endearment. Do you personally..."

Disagree - It's insulting: 78%
Agree - It's a compliment: 11%

Narrative / Nov 14, 2025 / n=1231 / Online
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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My friend Jake (that’s Dr. Beck to you!) on the crisis in Texas universities.

www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
Professor: Texas used to have universities
Former Texas Tech professor takes issue with the actions of Texas universities to restrict what topics can be discussed. Doing so makes them something other...
www.dallasnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Americans, 2024: I generally remember pre-COVID being better than post-COVID and blocked out 2020. Let's do pre-COVID again.

Americans, 2025: So it turns out that Trump was not the reason things felt better pre-COVID, and Biden was not the reason things felt worse after.
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan

“The units had been trained for nighttime raids targeting suspected Taliban members, & were accused by human rights groups of widespread killings of civilians.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan, a Childhood Friend Said
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
They got their horst wessel they were planning on so they can invoke martial law under the insurrection act.
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Burnout by design: what can you do to avoid it?
Burnout by design: what can you do to avoid it?
Focus on relentless growth may seem good for the bottom line, but it can be self-defeating
www.irishtimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM