Alice
@ahp-bb.bsky.social
Wife, mother and grandma. Late Boomer. Recently Retired. Hiker, gardener, reader. Lover of the arts, history, and nature.
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." Isaac Asimov
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." Isaac Asimov
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Alice
@ahp-bb.bsky.social
· Oct 3
Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security
Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy
www.eff.org
Posting to share and for me to read later...
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Ahhhh… So Trump took billions from troop housing and gave it to them as “bonuses” - Got it. A con artist to the end.
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
December 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Ahhhh… So Trump took billions from troop housing and gave it to them as “bonuses” - Got it. A con artist to the end.
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
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“.. Trump’s $1,776 checks for more than a million troops .. come from Congressionally-allocated reconciliation funds intended to subsidize housing allowances for service members, a senior administration official confirmed.”
@defenseone.bsky.social
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
@defenseone.bsky.social
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
December 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“.. Trump’s $1,776 checks for more than a million troops .. come from Congressionally-allocated reconciliation funds intended to subsidize housing allowances for service members, a senior administration official confirmed.”
@defenseone.bsky.social
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
@defenseone.bsky.social
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
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It feels like I've run out of things to say about the Democrats.
When we're almost a full year into this and they're still voting for Trump's nominees, I'm not sure how you can make the case that the party is salvageable.
When we're almost a full year into this and they're still voting for Trump's nominees, I'm not sure how you can make the case that the party is salvageable.
December 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It feels like I've run out of things to say about the Democrats.
When we're almost a full year into this and they're still voting for Trump's nominees, I'm not sure how you can make the case that the party is salvageable.
When we're almost a full year into this and they're still voting for Trump's nominees, I'm not sure how you can make the case that the party is salvageable.
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those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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🤔 @stevescalise.bsky.social : “He wants all Americans on government-run health care. It’s failed everywhere it’s been tried.”
UM NO IT HASN’T, STEVE. EVERY WEALTHY COUNTRY HAS UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE BUT US. #MedicareForAllNOW
(“Everyone on Medicaid is what Dems are doing” — if only!)
UM NO IT HASN’T, STEVE. EVERY WEALTHY COUNTRY HAS UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE BUT US. #MedicareForAllNOW
(“Everyone on Medicaid is what Dems are doing” — if only!)
December 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🤔 @stevescalise.bsky.social : “He wants all Americans on government-run health care. It’s failed everywhere it’s been tried.”
UM NO IT HASN’T, STEVE. EVERY WEALTHY COUNTRY HAS UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE BUT US. #MedicareForAllNOW
(“Everyone on Medicaid is what Dems are doing” — if only!)
UM NO IT HASN’T, STEVE. EVERY WEALTHY COUNTRY HAS UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE BUT US. #MedicareForAllNOW
(“Everyone on Medicaid is what Dems are doing” — if only!)
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"Tariffs are 'national security!'"
"The ballroom is 'national security!'"
"Suing the BBC is 'national security!'"
"Slaughtering Venezuelan fishermen is 'national security!'"
"Torturing day laborers is 'national security!'"
NONE of this is "national security" but it is Naziism 101.
"The ballroom is 'national security!'"
"Suing the BBC is 'national security!'"
"Slaughtering Venezuelan fishermen is 'national security!'"
"Torturing day laborers is 'national security!'"
NONE of this is "national security" but it is Naziism 101.
Bessent claims that if SCOTUS rules against Trump on tariffs "they will be ruling against national security"
December 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"Tariffs are 'national security!'"
"The ballroom is 'national security!'"
"Suing the BBC is 'national security!'"
"Slaughtering Venezuelan fishermen is 'national security!'"
"Torturing day laborers is 'national security!'"
NONE of this is "national security" but it is Naziism 101.
"The ballroom is 'national security!'"
"Suing the BBC is 'national security!'"
"Slaughtering Venezuelan fishermen is 'national security!'"
"Torturing day laborers is 'national security!'"
NONE of this is "national security" but it is Naziism 101.
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It all matters, yes, but this matters more than Susie Wiles, matters more, even, than the travel ban; more than all of Trump’s wars actual & looming (Venezuela, Ukraine, Somalia, Gaza) combined. It’s like the Cuban Missile Crisis, only U.S. is aiming it missiles at everyone, starting with itself.
December 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
It all matters, yes, but this matters more than Susie Wiles, matters more, even, than the travel ban; more than all of Trump’s wars actual & looming (Venezuela, Ukraine, Somalia, Gaza) combined. It’s like the Cuban Missile Crisis, only U.S. is aiming it missiles at everyone, starting with itself.
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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
The little orange bars on the right are what Trump is calling “the greatest economy in history.”
I love her.
From @pabloreports.bsky.social : “Were you satisfied with the answers you got in the classified Venezuela briefing?”
🔥 Rep. @aoc.bsky.social : “OH HELL NO. That was a joke. That was not a serious intelligence briefing, it was the communication of opinion.”
🔥 Rep. @aoc.bsky.social : “OH HELL NO. That was a joke. That was not a serious intelligence briefing, it was the communication of opinion.”
December 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I love her.
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very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime
Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.
December 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime
Wow.
Pro-wrestling legend Mick Foley announced this morning that he's parting ways with WWE over the organization's "close relationship with Donald Trump," saying the president's "incredibly cruel comments in the wake of Rob Reiner’s death is the final straw for me."
December 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Wow.
Does this article seem like it was AI generated? It's just so awkwardly written.....
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...
Nick Reiner’s Struggles With Drugs Left His Parents ‘Desperate’
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Does this article seem like it was AI generated? It's just so awkwardly written.....
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...
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Opinion | Trump’s crude remarks about Rob Reiner are unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.
December 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Opinion | Trump’s crude remarks about Rob Reiner are unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.
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As I've said before, the worst thing about what Trump says/does isn't what it says about him, it's what it says about -us-.
December 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
As I've said before, the worst thing about what Trump says/does isn't what it says about him, it's what it says about -us-.
December 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sounds about right.
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Feverishly working on this
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Feverishly working on this
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
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“They were like the insurrectionists we saw pictures of at the Capitol”
A Minnesota couple describing their encounter with ICE:
A Minnesota couple describing their encounter with ICE:
December 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
“They were like the insurrectionists we saw pictures of at the Capitol”
A Minnesota couple describing their encounter with ICE:
A Minnesota couple describing their encounter with ICE:
Oh no.
“The LA Fire Department said a man and a woman were found deceased inside, approximately 78 and 68 years old.”
Rob Reiner is 78. His wife, Michele Singer, is in her 60s.
www.nbclosangeles.com/investigatio...
Rob Reiner is 78. His wife, Michele Singer, is in her 60s.
www.nbclosangeles.com/investigatio...
2 found dead at Brentwood mansion that belongs to director Rob Reiner
A man and woman were found dead inside a home in Brentwood that records and neighbors tie to director Rob Reiner.
www.nbclosangeles.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Oh no.
Oh God. 😔
One of the victims of the antisemitic massacre in Australia was a Holocaust survivor. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Holocaust survivor, London-born rabbi and 10-year-old girl among victims of Bondi beach terror attack
At least 16 people including one of the alleged gunmen died at the shooting in Sydney on Sunday, aged between 10 and 87
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Oh God. 😔
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This thread is a ridiculous delight.
Today is the 5 year anniversary to when I slowly started losing my mind during the pandemic and began dressing up as works of art.
As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky?
This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862
As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky?
This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862
December 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
This thread is a ridiculous delight.
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LOL
There are people out there reenacting the Bayeux Tapestry and I wish so hard I were one of them.
December 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
LOL
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Americans who die young from preventable infectious diseases are only making the rest of us stronger.
by RFK Jr.
by RFK Jr.
December 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Americans who die young from preventable infectious diseases are only making the rest of us stronger.
by RFK Jr.
by RFK Jr.