A.E.
@aediggins.bsky.social
Writer, Artist, musician, avid reader. likes long walks on the beach and in dark, creepy castles anywhere. Currently working on my first novel and some other things. On Social Media hiatus until 2026. Or permanent hiatus if things go well.
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All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page:
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
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Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
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But that one white guy couldn’t get a job in Hollywood because woke!!!!
December 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
But that one white guy couldn’t get a job in Hollywood because woke!!!!
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The right has a long history of developing positions that were consider off the wall and then transforming them into mainstream ones.
December 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The right has a long history of developing positions that were consider off the wall and then transforming them into mainstream ones.
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"Everywhere I went in Chicago, there were community members patrolling streets, following government agents, warning victims, and pushing back any way they could — and always, the whistles around their necks, the sign you’re around allies."
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War at Home
A record of ICE’s assault on immigrants and the people’s resistance.
hammerandhope.org
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Everywhere I went in Chicago, there were community members patrolling streets, following government agents, warning victims, and pushing back any way they could — and always, the whistles around their necks, the sign you’re around allies."
(via @hammerandhope.bsky.social)
(via @hammerandhope.bsky.social)
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Anyway the single best check on your espoused prescriptions for social change is whether you yourself are doing what you say others need to do. It's extremely clarifying and usually very humbling.
December 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Anyway the single best check on your espoused prescriptions for social change is whether you yourself are doing what you say others need to do. It's extremely clarifying and usually very humbling.
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“New York City’s syndromic surveillance system, which collects information about every patient who visits an emergency room, reported 9,857 visits for “influenza-like illness” last week. That was higher than in the worst weeks of the 2017-18 or 2024-25 flu seasons, both ranked as “high severity”
Flu Cases Climb to Highest Levels in New York City in a Decade
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“New York City’s syndromic surveillance system, which collects information about every patient who visits an emergency room, reported 9,857 visits for “influenza-like illness” last week. That was higher than in the worst weeks of the 2017-18 or 2024-25 flu seasons, both ranked as “high severity”
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Every Sunday, protesters from Florida and beyond go to the notorious immigration jail and advocate for its closure
The protesters showing up every week to shut down ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: ‘We will end this’
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Every Sunday, protesters from Florida and beyond go to the notorious immigration jail and advocate for its closure
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A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.
Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area | CNN
A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and c...
www.cnn.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.
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I appreciated reading this. inthesetimes.com/article/figh...
Fighting Anti-Queer Backlash with Citizen Archivists
Queer archivist groups like Invisible Histories and the Queer Zine Archive Project are preserving queer history and making it accessible in the face of the federal government's erasure. You can do the...
inthesetimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I appreciated reading this. inthesetimes.com/article/figh...
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It’s day 25 of the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities.
The surge continues. Neighbors were kidnapped today outside grocery stores and going about their regular errands.
We continue to see heavy ICE activity throughout the metro area. Stay alert - we know many kidnappings happen very fast.
The surge continues. Neighbors were kidnapped today outside grocery stores and going about their regular errands.
We continue to see heavy ICE activity throughout the metro area. Stay alert - we know many kidnappings happen very fast.
December 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
It’s day 25 of the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities.
The surge continues. Neighbors were kidnapped today outside grocery stores and going about their regular errands.
We continue to see heavy ICE activity throughout the metro area. Stay alert - we know many kidnappings happen very fast.
The surge continues. Neighbors were kidnapped today outside grocery stores and going about their regular errands.
We continue to see heavy ICE activity throughout the metro area. Stay alert - we know many kidnappings happen very fast.
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Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
December 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
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The fascists aren't having fun. [yes I remind you of this weekly because it is true].
December 27, 2025 at 3:57 AM
The fascists aren't having fun. [yes I remind you of this weekly because it is true].
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The back stacks of Houghton Library were filled with boxes of un/barely cataloged c19th pamphlets. Many of boxes have something written on them thematically like "spirit mediums."
The message here is the coolest things that wont be digitized, IME, are unknown to the archivists too!
The message here is the coolest things that wont be digitized, IME, are unknown to the archivists too!
Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.
I live in the heart of California gold country. One of the richest mines ever in CA is nearby. Opened circa 1860 closed 1942. A local foundation has preserved the records on site. I know not a stitch has been digitized and am confident no more than 2 pro historians have ever been in there.
December 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The back stacks of Houghton Library were filled with boxes of un/barely cataloged c19th pamphlets. Many of boxes have something written on them thematically like "spirit mediums."
The message here is the coolest things that wont be digitized, IME, are unknown to the archivists too!
The message here is the coolest things that wont be digitized, IME, are unknown to the archivists too!
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I feel once again compelled to emphasis the digitizing in the literal scanning sense is fairly unimportant if it is not accompanied with metadata providing context for discovery. Both humans and AI will make things up when they don't know what they are looking at.
December 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I feel once again compelled to emphasis the digitizing in the literal scanning sense is fairly unimportant if it is not accompanied with metadata providing context for discovery. Both humans and AI will make things up when they don't know what they are looking at.
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Today’s delight - www.tiktok.com/@5wcvb/video...
A New Bedford interior designer is passionate about his hobby, rehabbing itty-bitty abodes. 🏠 Nathaniel Ellis, owner of Flip This Dollhouse, invites his customers to dream big, but think small. How to...
TikTok video by WCVB Channel 5 Boston
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December 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Today’s delight - www.tiktok.com/@5wcvb/video...
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"They pulled her out of Clinton High and moved to Los Angeles at the urging of an uncle of hers who lived there. After finishing school, she began a long career as a pediatric nurse in California."
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"They pulled her out of Clinton High and moved to Los Angeles at the urging of an uncle of hers who lived there. After finishing school, she began a long career as a pediatric nurse in California."
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
December 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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on some level you have to stand in awe of the gall it takes to use this tone about someone people are angry at for suppressing a story about a concentration camp
December 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
on some level you have to stand in awe of the gall it takes to use this tone about someone people are angry at for suppressing a story about a concentration camp
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How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
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one of the major problems with our political system is that in liberal world u need four Harvard degrees to even so much as touch a campaign trail meanwhile in right wing world it basically takes less than nothing for a simple lumpen-grifter to ascend to chud Valhalla
December 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
one of the major problems with our political system is that in liberal world u need four Harvard degrees to even so much as touch a campaign trail meanwhile in right wing world it basically takes less than nothing for a simple lumpen-grifter to ascend to chud Valhalla
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You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.
December 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.
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Excited this piece exists. Honored to be included! @theguardian.com
Want to learn more and get involved? Get a copy of my book Let’s Move the Needle.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Want to learn more and get involved? Get a copy of my book Let’s Move the Needle.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Weapons of mass construction’: the US ‘craftivists’ using yarn to fight back against Trump
Fiber artists across the US are using their craft to protest against everything from national guard deployments to rollbacks on abortion rights
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Excited this piece exists. Honored to be included! @theguardian.com
Want to learn more and get involved? Get a copy of my book Let’s Move the Needle.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Want to learn more and get involved? Get a copy of my book Let’s Move the Needle.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...
December 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...
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Forget even prosecuted. The party will NOT defund ICE. And most of their voters will be fine with this if they return to power. I don't think this is defeatist in the least. To me, it's reality. You would expect to see something different right now if they were going to act differently in power.
We shouldn’t be doomer defeatists about these things, but we also shouldn’t go in ignorant. These ICE thugs tearing families apart are more likely to remain in their jobs than be prosecuted based on everything we know about the Democratic Party.
December 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Forget even prosecuted. The party will NOT defund ICE. And most of their voters will be fine with this if they return to power. I don't think this is defeatist in the least. To me, it's reality. You would expect to see something different right now if they were going to act differently in power.