Chris Winters
@chriswinters.bsky.social
Real human writer of novels and news, player of guitars, teacher of history, servant of cats, dweller of Seattle. Nerd of Many Subjects. I mute trolls and block abusers. I use em-dashes and semicolons. I am not on the Xcretory Fascist Emporium.
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Chris Winters
@chriswinters.bsky.social
· Sep 26
It's no longer about restoring what was before. It's about building what comes after.
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Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?
I think it's pretty telling that the Republicans thought that, in order to take the pressure off to release all the files, they needed to release a MINIMUM of 23,000 emails! Some of which implicate Trump already!
Let's be clear about this: This is the Republicans trying to get in front of the inevitable blowout scandal by releasing just enough #Epsteinfiles documents to remove the pressure for a discharge petition to release ALL of them, now that Grjalva has been sworn in.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Epstein Files Live Updates: G.O.P. Lawmakers Release Thousands of Files
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I think it's pretty telling that the Republicans thought that, in order to take the pressure off to release all the files, they needed to release a MINIMUM of 23,000 emails! Some of which implicate Trump already!
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However MAGA chooses to explain this away will be one of the most extreme examples of cognitive dissonance theory in the history of ever.
November 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
However MAGA chooses to explain this away will be one of the most extreme examples of cognitive dissonance theory in the history of ever.
Saw this skeet without any context whatsoever and had an image of Władysław the Elbow-High wandering across the Great Plains, searching for his lost kingdom.
Monarchs can still figure out how to migrate South even if they're moved laterally (eg going from Colorado to Virginia, they will reorient after a couple days)
A vast spider city was just discovered in a cave with over a hundred thousand living communally and "farming" grubs
A vast spider city was just discovered in a cave with over a hundred thousand living communally and "farming" grubs
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Saw this skeet without any context whatsoever and had an image of Władysław the Elbow-High wandering across the Great Plains, searching for his lost kingdom.
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
Once again it's worth noting that we don't really know if Vladimir Putin has any dirt he's blackmailing Donald Trump with. But if he did, Trump would be doing exactly what he has been doing all along: dismantling the United States as a global power.
BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Once again it's worth noting that we don't really know if Vladimir Putin has any dirt he's blackmailing Donald Trump with. But if he did, Trump would be doing exactly what he has been doing all along: dismantling the United States as a global power.
And why would Epstein know about this, I wonder?
Larry Summers, overnight to Epstein after this — www.bbc.com/news/world-e... — happened:
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
And why would Epstein know about this, I wonder?
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WHITE HOUSE: FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY BEEN DAMAGED WHITE HOUSE: OCTOBER JOBS REPORTS LIKELY NEVER RELEASED
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
WHITE HOUSE: FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY BEEN DAMAGED WHITE HOUSE: OCTOBER JOBS REPORTS LIKELY NEVER RELEASED
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One reason you hold a meeting to pressure/cajole/threaten Boebert in the Situation Room is so she can't record it.
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Let's be clear about this: This is the Republicans trying to get in front of the inevitable blowout scandal by releasing just enough #Epsteinfiles documents to remove the pressure for a discharge petition to release ALL of them, now that Grjalva has been sworn in.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Epstein Files Live Updates: G.O.P. Lawmakers Release Thousands of Files
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Let's be clear about this: This is the Republicans trying to get in front of the inevitable blowout scandal by releasing just enough #Epsteinfiles documents to remove the pressure for a discharge petition to release ALL of them, now that Grjalva has been sworn in.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
So, so many. One I'll pick from my youth: Watership Down, by Richard Adams. It was the first time I had the experience of reaching the end of the book and being crestfallen that this was the end of the story. I wanted it to go on forever. That book was real magic.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
So, so many. One I'll pick from my youth: Watership Down, by Richard Adams. It was the first time I had the experience of reaching the end of the book and being crestfallen that this was the end of the story. I wanted it to go on forever. That book was real magic.
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So this morning I get an urgent email for a same day cardiology appointment at my local treatment centre.
I was surprised (and alarmed) but fine. I moved things around and went there a few minutes ago.
Only there was no real appointment. The receptionist said I wasn't supposed to receive any 1/
I was surprised (and alarmed) but fine. I moved things around and went there a few minutes ago.
Only there was no real appointment. The receptionist said I wasn't supposed to receive any 1/
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
So this morning I get an urgent email for a same day cardiology appointment at my local treatment centre.
I was surprised (and alarmed) but fine. I moved things around and went there a few minutes ago.
Only there was no real appointment. The receptionist said I wasn't supposed to receive any 1/
I was surprised (and alarmed) but fine. I moved things around and went there a few minutes ago.
Only there was no real appointment. The receptionist said I wasn't supposed to receive any 1/
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the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
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incredibly funny that Joyce Carol Oates owned Musk so hard he's started trying to post like a regular person with normal interests
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
incredibly funny that Joyce Carol Oates owned Musk so hard he's started trying to post like a regular person with normal interests
Who could have seen that coming? 🙄
I wouldn't be surprised if Mike Johnson's House recess is permanent. #fascism
I wouldn't be surprised if Mike Johnson's House recess is permanent. #fascism
US HOUSE SPEAKER JOHNSON SAID HE WON'T COMMIT TO A VOTE ON ACA SUBSIDIES, I'M TOLD – SEMOFAR REPORTER ON X
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Who could have seen that coming? 🙄
I wouldn't be surprised if Mike Johnson's House recess is permanent. #fascism
I wouldn't be surprised if Mike Johnson's House recess is permanent. #fascism
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It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
Earlier this week it seemed certain the Democrats were going to roll over the Republicans in the midterms.
Now it looks like they've agreed to not even have midterms, and to permanently become the Republicans' patsy.
Such terrible politics. We get nothing, they get everything. It's over.
Now it looks like they've agreed to not even have midterms, and to permanently become the Republicans' patsy.
Such terrible politics. We get nothing, they get everything. It's over.
Dems have just decided to surrender and let Trump starve poor people, and drive up medical costs for ACA enrollees to get...
... a promise to hold a vote
... filibusterable, in the Senate
... when nothing compels the GOP to honor it
...it won't pass anyway
...and the House won't even take it up.
... a promise to hold a vote
... filibusterable, in the Senate
... when nothing compels the GOP to honor it
...it won't pass anyway
...and the House won't even take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Earlier this week it seemed certain the Democrats were going to roll over the Republicans in the midterms.
Now it looks like they've agreed to not even have midterms, and to permanently become the Republicans' patsy.
Such terrible politics. We get nothing, they get everything. It's over.
Now it looks like they've agreed to not even have midterms, and to permanently become the Republicans' patsy.
Such terrible politics. We get nothing, they get everything. It's over.
Dems have just decided to surrender and let Trump starve poor people, and drive up medical costs for ACA enrollees to get...
... a promise to hold a vote
... filibusterable, in the Senate
... when nothing compels the GOP to honor it
...it won't pass anyway
...and the House won't even take it up.
... a promise to hold a vote
... filibusterable, in the Senate
... when nothing compels the GOP to honor it
...it won't pass anyway
...and the House won't even take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Dems have just decided to surrender and let Trump starve poor people, and drive up medical costs for ACA enrollees to get...
... a promise to hold a vote
... filibusterable, in the Senate
... when nothing compels the GOP to honor it
...it won't pass anyway
...and the House won't even take it up.
... a promise to hold a vote
... filibusterable, in the Senate
... when nothing compels the GOP to honor it
...it won't pass anyway
...and the House won't even take it up.
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Senate Democrats asked for a year of ACA subsidies and were told to fuck off.
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
From what I have seen so far this does not seem like a good deal:
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Senate Democrats asked for a year of ACA subsidies and were told to fuck off.
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
Done 'em all (although "blasting" a boombox is a bit of an overstatement; my box was laughably small, and I kept the volume at a normal level because it's polite — and even as a clueless teenager I knew that no one else wanted to here me play Rush.)
I have never done (9) (it's anti-social), (13) (Blockbuster never operated in my country), or (20) (those things were *expensive*).
I am teh oldz.
I am teh oldz.
November 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Done 'em all (although "blasting" a boombox is a bit of an overstatement; my box was laughably small, and I kept the volume at a normal level because it's polite — and even as a clueless teenager I knew that no one else wanted to here me play Rush.)
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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And there you have it. The US regime is, after all, happy to allow Russia's war machine to be funded. This sets an appalling precedent and will prolong the war. 😡
Trump grants Hungary sanctions exemption on Russian oil
Trump grants Hungary sanctions exemption on Russian oil
The decision, which further cements the alliance between the US and Hungary, comes as Orban dismissed Ukraine's chances of victory and Trump urged Europe to show 'more respect' for the Hungarian leader.
www.lemonde.fr
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
And there you have it. The US regime is, after all, happy to allow Russia's war machine to be funded. This sets an appalling precedent and will prolong the war. 😡
If they're going to negate the First Amendment, it affects religion too.
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
If they're going to negate the First Amendment, it affects religion too.
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
No. 1 rule of dealing with an extortion racket is that if you pay into it once, there will always be a second payment, and a third, and more. Once a mark, always a mark.
Cornell agrees to "invest" $30 million in things like AI farming.
Cornell also agrees to pay $30 million to the U.S. for no clear reason or purpose.
Cornell also agrees to pay $30 million to the U.S. for no clear reason or purpose.
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
No. 1 rule of dealing with an extortion racket is that if you pay into it once, there will always be a second payment, and a third, and more. Once a mark, always a mark.