Sarah
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Sarah
@tahtah.bsky.social
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Retired Child Psychiatric nurse. Huge fan D W Winnicott. Daughter of Holocaust survivor. Anti-capitalist. Old. Love: What’s left of nature, music of all kinds, art, great fiction, smart and ethical independent journalists, dogs, cats & a few other people
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🚨November 25th - December 2nd we cut the billionaires off from our $.
He’s consistent tho
Don’t ask a president to intervene for YOU!
For ME, of course it’s valid.
He has to make sure he’s in friendly company.
He can’t unhear the “Shame! Shame! Shame!”
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Latest entry in my "Masked Men" series, screenshots from everyday people's vids of ICE agents, heavily edited to suggest the fantasies of power, fear & sadism operating on the other side of the mask. Here, an agent looks on as another attacks 57-yr-old protester Franci Stagi in Durango, CO.
Could use a person-sized version
Don’t rank a Republican!
@mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social is the Republican candidate!

Rank Democrats:
#Davis
#Fateh
#Hampton
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Very much worth a listen as you prepare to vote this upcoming Tuesday. Even if you only have a few minutes, do yourself a favor and give a listen to some expert advice. millcityhall.com/episodes/202...
Mill City Hall: The Story of Jacob Frey, Part 1
millcityhall.com
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EUGENE DANIELS: “You said diversity can be a weakness. What did you mean?”

CUOMO: “Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan.”

EUGENE: “I’m Eugene.” 🤦🏻‍♂️

(Jonathan is the other Black host. SNL’s writers have nothing on Cuomo!)
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Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.
Straight up terrorists
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A partial list of what Bovino does not have to tell a federal judge happened today:
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston
BREAKING: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who led a series of raids across Chicago, Evanston and Skokie on Friday, does not have to report every weekday at 6 p.m. in person to the federal judge who has tried to rein in federal agents’ use of force, an appeals court ruled. @wttw.bsky.social
Appeals Court Rules Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Does Not Have to Check In Every Day With Federal Judge
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who led a series of raids across Chicago, Evanston and Skokie on Friday, does not have to report every weekday at 6 p.m. in person to the federal judge who has tried t...
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What do they do - threaten them with death, make them sign and NDA and give them $100?

Can’t any reporter find them?
How 14 year olds doing nothing wrong aren’t children, but 35 year old Hitler-lovers are “just kids”
FBI: "We didn't zip tie children."

REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old."

FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."
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AI WILL BE USED TO [REDACT] YOU

"Our product is used on occasion to kill people"
- Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx3k...
AI WILL BE USED TO [REDACT] YOU
YouTube video by Full Slack
www.youtube.com
Wow
Did you make them???
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2025 State of the Climate Report: on the brink

The last few years have seen surface temperature, ocean temperature, and sea ice extent records broken by extraordinary margins plus the largest coral bleaching event ever recorded, affecting 84%.

22 of 34 planetary vital signs are at record levels.
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer
academic.oup.com
Why do Minneapolis Dems not seem to realize that Frey is the REPUBLICAN in this race?
I lived through the Satanic Panic in the child therapy world (at Yale of all places!) in the late 80’s early 90’s…
It was a trip.
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I have a new piece up at The American Scholar on a little discussed facet of the Salem Witch Panic:

Cotton Mather didn’t start out a fire-breathing zealot condemning witches; he spent the first half of 1692 urging caution and restraint.

What changed his mind?
The Conspiracist Cotton Mather - The American Scholar
The zealot who oversaw the Salem Witch Trials initially voiced restraint—what changed?
theamericanscholar.org
JD Vance: There’s absolutely nothing wrong with

Being a xénophobe
Being a racist
Being a Nazi (especially if you’re “a boy”)
Throwing your wife and children under the bus
Lying to the American people

#VancyPants
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For my newsletter, I took a deeper look at the electoral record of WelcomePAC, a centrist group that produced that 352 page document advising Democrats to moderate once again.

Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
Fire The Consultants
The Democratic party must move on from the same old stale, carefully poll-tested politics and get back to solving voters' problems. There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Democra...
www.burnsnotice.com