wizard prang
wzrdprang.bsky.social
wizard prang
@wzrdprang.bsky.social
photographer, very big on disability rights, believer in Western Liberalism & democracy, not a fan of fascism, socially awkward/not intentionally obnoxious
He's getting fat & his socks are an abomination, but also an important clue about how he feels about the US.

He also confuses envy with disgust.
Kash gets emotional describing how he and his girlfriend deal with people on social media who criticize their relationship, but he says those people are just envious of the fact that they are both thriving and so successful.
December 17, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Jack Smith is testifying behind closed doors on Wednesday and there’s a lot to know about what the stakes are. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Jack Smith Testifies Before The House Judiciary Committee
Making sense of the circus
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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December 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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For years, this dude has believed that stealth planes are literally invisible.
Trump: "The only time anybody could see those planes was when those bomb chutes open up, because it becomes totally un-stealth. You're going in, you go like this. As soon as it goes like this, for some reason the plane is totally visible. Not good. I watched it happening. I watched it go bing bing"
December 17, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.

The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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FBI Director Patel is busy talking about his romance with his girlfriend on Katie Miller’s podcast at 6pm.
December 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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A professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home, and authorities have launched a homicide investigation
MIT Professor Fatally Shot At His Home, Police Launch Homicide Investigation
A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been fatally shot at his home near Boston and authorities say they have launched a homicide investigation.
www.huffpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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The little orange bars on the right are what Trump is calling “the greatest economy in history.”
December 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Okeeeee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) just said nobody is allowed to say in this hearing that Republicans never offered an alternative to the Affordable Care Act.

"I will gavel them down." 😂

(Republicans have unsuccessfully tried 70+ times to repeal and replace ACA.)
December 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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McGovern notes that 88% (!) of ACA growth has happened in states that Trump won.

"Now, through inaction, you are betraying your own constituents and voting to hurt the people who voted for you," he tells Republicans.
December 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Speaking of Jane Goodall, my favorite quote by her:

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
October 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Today is the 252nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party as @hcrichardson.bsky.social (HCR) pointed out in her Politics Chat. But it's Susie Wiles who is spilling the tea today.
December 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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He sounds exactly like what he is: a madman.
December 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.

Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Rick Scott to CNN: I get paid by the American people but I don't need to do ANYTHING FOR THEM!!! Just like when he STOLE MONEY from Medicare/Medicaid when he defrauded them with his nursing homes. Nursing home and rehab staff are often liars from what I witnessed.
Rick Scott is to public service

what Bernie Madoff was to investment advisors
December 17, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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@cnn.com Why does Rick Scott need an earpiece to be interviewed while sitting next to the person asking questions?
December 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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I love that Rick Scott is on CNN talking about all the waste and deception in the health care/insurance business. He really is an expert since his company paid a record $1.7 billion in fines for Medicare fraud.
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Since the core of Firefox is open source, there are a few projects like LibreWolf that package it without the Mozilla extracurriculars. I’m thinking I’m going that way once I get off my butt about
December 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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🌐🤴 Who needs a FireFox when you have WebBoy

💾 #discatte_preservation

archive.org/details/ibm-...
December 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The only hint in the CNN report that someone may have beat them to the story by nine months is a reference to Patriot Front founder Thomas Rousseau disputing "local media coverage." Here would have been an opportunity for CNN to credit our reporting, but no.... 3/
December 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Nothing more than perceived wealth that doesn’t exist for the purposes of taxes, but magically does for the purposes of leverage. Meanwhile, the rest of us pay real taxes on low wages and can’t leverage shit. The game is rigged. Tax the rich.
The world’s richest person just hit another major milestone thanks to the soaring valuation of his rocket maker SpaceX.

Full story: www.forbes.com/sites/mattdu... (Photo: Kevin Winter via Getty Images)
December 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.
December 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM