Megan Holsapple
@blackmooneyes.bsky.social
Northern Canadian originally from Maine. Writer, hiker, church selfie taker.
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Welker: Why did you take down the picture of Trump with young women?
Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them.
Welker: So those women with Trump were victims?
Blanche:
Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them.
Welker: So those women with Trump were victims?
Blanche:
December 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Welker: Why did you take down the picture of Trump with young women?
Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them.
Welker: So those women with Trump were victims?
Blanche:
Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them.
Welker: So those women with Trump were victims?
Blanche:
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“Coverups are difficult in free societies. They are routine for authoritarian governments. The Epstein coverup will be an indicator of how far we are down the road to authoritarianism. The success of such a coverup would take us much further down that road.”
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www.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-ep...
Why the Epstein Coverup Matters
In free societies, government coverups are difficult. In authoritarian ones, they’re routine.
www.thebulwark.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“Coverups are difficult in free societies. They are routine for authoritarian governments. The Epstein coverup will be an indicator of how far we are down the road to authoritarianism. The success of such a coverup would take us much further down that road.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-ep...
www.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-ep...
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"One of the big reasons why a lot of us grew up as conservatives is we were afraid that if you give too much power to the government, someone bad could come in and use it for their own personal gratification and empowerment," @gtconway.bsky.social says. "And here we are. This is exactly it."
December 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"One of the big reasons why a lot of us grew up as conservatives is we were afraid that if you give too much power to the government, someone bad could come in and use it for their own personal gratification and empowerment," @gtconway.bsky.social says. "And here we are. This is exactly it."
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Oh, really. You're writing a book, you say? Me, too! You're doing research, you say. Me, too! You know what I rely on to find primary sources and "piece them together"? My own brain. You know who "looks things up for me"? Me, that's who. You know who writes it, from beginning to end? Me.
December 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Oh, really. You're writing a book, you say? Me, too! You're doing research, you say. Me, too! You know what I rely on to find primary sources and "piece them together"? My own brain. You know who "looks things up for me"? Me, that's who. You know who writes it, from beginning to end? Me.
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Trump: A pigeon. Or a whale. Or a tiger. Whichever is more points.
Tester: (lowering a card bearing the letter “A”) I’ve … I’ve never seen a result like this
Trump: well I’m a very smart guy
Tester: (lowering a card bearing the letter “A”) I’ve … I’ve never seen a result like this
Trump: well I’m a very smart guy
December 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Trump: A pigeon. Or a whale. Or a tiger. Whichever is more points.
Tester: (lowering a card bearing the letter “A”) I’ve … I’ve never seen a result like this
Trump: well I’m a very smart guy
Tester: (lowering a card bearing the letter “A”) I’ve … I’ve never seen a result like this
Trump: well I’m a very smart guy
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You really think we’re as shitty as you by daring us with the Bill Clinton photos. We give a fuck about laws, not leaders. If Clinton fucked a kid, arrest him. If Walter fucking Cronkite turns out to have done some shit, burn all the memorials to him. We are not the same as you.
December 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
You really think we’re as shitty as you by daring us with the Bill Clinton photos. We give a fuck about laws, not leaders. If Clinton fucked a kid, arrest him. If Walter fucking Cronkite turns out to have done some shit, burn all the memorials to him. We are not the same as you.
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The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
December 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
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one of the core things liberals need to stop doing is acting like our positions are some kind of aberration. instead, let us just do as the right does - operating from a position of strength that yes, our positions are better, superior and more popular.
Everything Ronald Reagan did and wanted had to be treated as baseline political reality forever and ever, and everything that Democrats and liberals wanted to do they themselves treated like weird things we were unfairly imposing on Heartland Conservatives and at best had to beg them to accept it.
December 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
one of the core things liberals need to stop doing is acting like our positions are some kind of aberration. instead, let us just do as the right does - operating from a position of strength that yes, our positions are better, superior and more popular.
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So long, Substack! I've moved my newsletter, Kirk's Notes, to a new home with its own URL and everything. I wrote about that, along with some other plans for 2026: www.kirksnotes.com/p/new-home-n...
New Home, New Plans, New Year, NewsLETTER
Some big and small changes for 2026
www.kirksnotes.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
So long, Substack! I've moved my newsletter, Kirk's Notes, to a new home with its own URL and everything. I wrote about that, along with some other plans for 2026: www.kirksnotes.com/p/new-home-n...
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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This administration raises an interesting issue: how should Congress write laws going forward in order to ensure there are meaningful enforcement mechanisms when an Executive is not deterred by the mere fact that a particular action is illegal?
December 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This administration raises an interesting issue: how should Congress write laws going forward in order to ensure there are meaningful enforcement mechanisms when an Executive is not deterred by the mere fact that a particular action is illegal?
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Happy Holidays from the Yellowknife Community Foundation!
Our office will be closed from December 19th - 29th, but you can still reach us at [email protected] or 867-446-4527.
Year End Giving: yellowknifecf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate
Our office will be closed from December 19th - 29th, but you can still reach us at [email protected] or 867-446-4527.
Year End Giving: yellowknifecf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate
December 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Happy Holidays from the Yellowknife Community Foundation!
Our office will be closed from December 19th - 29th, but you can still reach us at [email protected] or 867-446-4527.
Year End Giving: yellowknifecf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate
Our office will be closed from December 19th - 29th, but you can still reach us at [email protected] or 867-446-4527.
Year End Giving: yellowknifecf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate
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Every new Trump Epstein revelation is somehow both shocking and not a surprise at all.
Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States
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December 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Every new Trump Epstein revelation is somehow both shocking and not a surprise at all.
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I mean there's not much point in bribing Guard Volunteers, is there?
Which, incidentally, underscores how cheaply bought the Administration thinks America's enlisted are. Overlook the gimmicky dollar amount: they think they can repair Trump's reputation in the Armed Forces for under $2k a head.
Which, incidentally, underscores how cheaply bought the Administration thinks America's enlisted are. Overlook the gimmicky dollar amount: they think they can repair Trump's reputation in the Armed Forces for under $2k a head.
So the National Guard doesn’t get the little $1776 bonus, just Regular forces
Not a great look, since that part of the military is currently bearing the brunt of the administration’s domestic deployments and has 3 dead in the last 3 weeks (DC and Syria)
Not a great look, since that part of the military is currently bearing the brunt of the administration’s domestic deployments and has 3 dead in the last 3 weeks (DC and Syria)
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I mean there's not much point in bribing Guard Volunteers, is there?
Which, incidentally, underscores how cheaply bought the Administration thinks America's enlisted are. Overlook the gimmicky dollar amount: they think they can repair Trump's reputation in the Armed Forces for under $2k a head.
Which, incidentally, underscores how cheaply bought the Administration thinks America's enlisted are. Overlook the gimmicky dollar amount: they think they can repair Trump's reputation in the Armed Forces for under $2k a head.
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incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works
December 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works
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My take on Trump's address tonight is that he's always won in the past by staying on the attack and refusing to apologise. He didn't defend himself: he proclaimed reality, ignored all arguments to the contrary, and went back to throwing punches.
This felt defensive, weak. And maybe a little scared.
This felt defensive, weak. And maybe a little scared.
December 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
My take on Trump's address tonight is that he's always won in the past by staying on the attack and refusing to apologise. He didn't defend himself: he proclaimed reality, ignored all arguments to the contrary, and went back to throwing punches.
This felt defensive, weak. And maybe a little scared.
This felt defensive, weak. And maybe a little scared.
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Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
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rewriting a more realistic script for The Lord of the Rings. Frodo just stays home and we watch thirteen hours of him cooking meals and reading books. every hour or so he glances at a newspaper and goes, "Oh shit what's happening in Rohan? That's fucked." Then he goes to the pub to drink with Sam.
December 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
rewriting a more realistic script for The Lord of the Rings. Frodo just stays home and we watch thirteen hours of him cooking meals and reading books. every hour or so he glances at a newspaper and goes, "Oh shit what's happening in Rohan? That's fucked." Then he goes to the pub to drink with Sam.
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The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent.
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent.
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
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Just out of curiosity, do I have a large gap in my historical knowledge about oil, land, and assets that Venezuela took from the United States? Sometimes my mind wanders in class so it is totally possible
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Just out of curiosity, do I have a large gap in my historical knowledge about oil, land, and assets that Venezuela took from the United States? Sometimes my mind wanders in class so it is totally possible
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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yeah South Park would never make fun of Democrats like Al Gore or Hillary Clinton, and they'd surely never repeatedly try to get the network to let them depict the Prophet Mohammed in cartoon form.
December 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
yeah South Park would never make fun of Democrats like Al Gore or Hillary Clinton, and they'd surely never repeatedly try to get the network to let them depict the Prophet Mohammed in cartoon form.
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Our new Buy Canadian Policy officially launches today.
Our major federal construction and defence projects will prioritise Canadian steel, aluminum, and lumber. We’re building big, we’re building bold — and starting today, we’re building Canadian.
Our major federal construction and defence projects will prioritise Canadian steel, aluminum, and lumber. We’re building big, we’re building bold — and starting today, we’re building Canadian.
December 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Our new Buy Canadian Policy officially launches today.
Our major federal construction and defence projects will prioritise Canadian steel, aluminum, and lumber. We’re building big, we’re building bold — and starting today, we’re building Canadian.
Our major federal construction and defence projects will prioritise Canadian steel, aluminum, and lumber. We’re building big, we’re building bold — and starting today, we’re building Canadian.
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I am losing my mind
DO ANY OF THESE JOURNALISTS KNOW THAT VENEZUELA IS NOT ON THE PACIFIC
THAT THE CARIBBEAN SEA DOES NOT TOUCH THE PACIFIC
THAT IN FACT THIS IS WHAT THE PANAMA CANAL WAS BUILT FOR
WTF IS THE EASTERN PACIFIC
PLEASE LOOK AT A MAP
DO ANY OF THESE JOURNALISTS KNOW THAT VENEZUELA IS NOT ON THE PACIFIC
THAT THE CARIBBEAN SEA DOES NOT TOUCH THE PACIFIC
THAT IN FACT THIS IS WHAT THE PANAMA CANAL WAS BUILT FOR
WTF IS THE EASTERN PACIFIC
PLEASE LOOK AT A MAP
December 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I am losing my mind
DO ANY OF THESE JOURNALISTS KNOW THAT VENEZUELA IS NOT ON THE PACIFIC
THAT THE CARIBBEAN SEA DOES NOT TOUCH THE PACIFIC
THAT IN FACT THIS IS WHAT THE PANAMA CANAL WAS BUILT FOR
WTF IS THE EASTERN PACIFIC
PLEASE LOOK AT A MAP
DO ANY OF THESE JOURNALISTS KNOW THAT VENEZUELA IS NOT ON THE PACIFIC
THAT THE CARIBBEAN SEA DOES NOT TOUCH THE PACIFIC
THAT IN FACT THIS IS WHAT THE PANAMA CANAL WAS BUILT FOR
WTF IS THE EASTERN PACIFIC
PLEASE LOOK AT A MAP