DrNotta
@drnotta.bsky.social
#ActuallyAutistic. White cishet femme (she/her) but doing my best to center more marginalized perspectives. Disabled is not a dirty word. Use AltText or ask others to write it for you.
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DrNotta
@drnotta.bsky.social
· Dec 29
Ableism is not welcome in my feed.
No eugenics.
No ableist slurs and ESPECIALLY no defending them with "well they're an awful person so it's okay to use a bigoted slur about them."
No images without alt text or a request for someone to write it.
My feminism is intersectional or it's bullshit.
No eugenics.
No ableist slurs and ESPECIALLY no defending them with "well they're an awful person so it's okay to use a bigoted slur about them."
No images without alt text or a request for someone to write it.
My feminism is intersectional or it's bullshit.
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Every billionaire for the past 6 months in increasing numbers has positioned themselves for a crisis or is scrambling to get exit liquidity as fast as possible.
It's not exactly subtle that they're ready and not telling us so they can get every last cent out before it's somehow MORE obvious.
It's not exactly subtle that they're ready and not telling us so they can get every last cent out before it's somehow MORE obvious.
Ackman’s Pershing Targets $5 Billion IPO for Closed-End Fund
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman aims to raise $5 billion for his US-listed closed-end fund, including $2 billion from well-known institutional investors anchoring the deal, according to peo...
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Every billionaire for the past 6 months in increasing numbers has positioned themselves for a crisis or is scrambling to get exit liquidity as fast as possible.
It's not exactly subtle that they're ready and not telling us so they can get every last cent out before it's somehow MORE obvious.
It's not exactly subtle that they're ready and not telling us so they can get every last cent out before it's somehow MORE obvious.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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And the folks who are actually writing full-time generally only got there after years of day jobs, family support, or both.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
And the folks who are actually writing full-time generally only got there after years of day jobs, family support, or both.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
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Dave is who helped me after I got shot in the face. To hold a journalist for 30 hours on absurd charges is a very, very bad sign of things to come
Freelance photojournalist @davedeckerphoto.bsky.social was arrested while reporting on an immigration protest outside an ICE facility in Miami on Nov. 22.
He was held in custody for 30-plus hours and released with charges of trespassing and resisting an officer.
He was held in custody for 30-plus hours and released with charges of trespassing and resisting an officer.
Photojournalist arrested at Miami immigration protest, gear seized
Freelance photojournalist Dave Decker was arrested by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies while documenting anti-deportation protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
pressfreedomtracker.us
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Dave is who helped me after I got shot in the face. To hold a journalist for 30 hours on absurd charges is a very, very bad sign of things to come
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perfection bsky.app/profile/atru...
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
perfection bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Yes, I'm in the top 1%. No, that doesn't make anything I said "against my own interests."
It's easier to sell things to people when your customers don't have to decide between *checks notes* buying your stuff and feeding their children. Why is this hard to understand?
And again, money flows up.
It's easier to sell things to people when your customers don't have to decide between *checks notes* buying your stuff and feeding their children. Why is this hard to understand?
And again, money flows up.
November 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Yes, I'm in the top 1%. No, that doesn't make anything I said "against my own interests."
It's easier to sell things to people when your customers don't have to decide between *checks notes* buying your stuff and feeding their children. Why is this hard to understand?
And again, money flows up.
It's easier to sell things to people when your customers don't have to decide between *checks notes* buying your stuff and feeding their children. Why is this hard to understand?
And again, money flows up.
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And we often forget that the biggest components of the miracle economic recovery, were telling people to go back to work while still contagious with Covid, telling people to RTO to spend money on commuting and lunch, and telling public school teachers to STFU and be daycare for everyone's sick kids.
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
And we often forget that the biggest components of the miracle economic recovery, were telling people to go back to work while still contagious with Covid, telling people to RTO to spend money on commuting and lunch, and telling public school teachers to STFU and be daycare for everyone's sick kids.
There are a lot of reasons to use alt text besides the most obvious ones, making your post accessible to people with low vision or slow internet.
please I beg of everyone on bluesky to please use alt text on their pictures especially news related pictures because I Do Not want to look at our disgusting president ok thanks!!!!
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
There are a lot of reasons to use alt text besides the most obvious ones, making your post accessible to people with low vision or slow internet.
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When talking to a person that just got laid off when no one is hiring, that just got an eviction notice for failure to pay rent and can't afford anywhere else to live in their city, and that can't afford insulin... you can't point to charts of GDP and the S&P, and tell them that the economy is good.
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
When talking to a person that just got laid off when no one is hiring, that just got an eviction notice for failure to pay rent and can't afford anywhere else to live in their city, and that can't afford insulin... you can't point to charts of GDP and the S&P, and tell them that the economy is good.
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Sure, but... "The economy" was not good in 2024. The stock market and GDP were good. 🤷🏿♂️
2024 was the peak year for US homelessness. Higher than during the great depression.
2024 saw 770K layoffs, an increase over 2023, which was again, a massive jump over 2022.
2024 was the peak year for US homelessness. Higher than during the great depression.
2024 saw 770K layoffs, an increase over 2023, which was again, a massive jump over 2022.
Once again, I remind you that this woman cannot be allowed anywhere near the strategy or leadership of the Democratic Party:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Also, stop it with this BS. Biden correctly said the economy in 2024 was good, because it was. Yes, no one believed it. That wasn't his fault.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Also, stop it with this BS. Biden correctly said the economy in 2024 was good, because it was. Yes, no one believed it. That wasn't his fault.
Slotkin: "He's trying to distract us from the big stories of last week, the Epstein files and economy. He's tweeting 'the economy is the best it's ever been' -- amazing considering the public isn't stupid. It reminded me of Joe Biden. Biden tried to tell us for a year that the economy was great."
November 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Sure, but... "The economy" was not good in 2024. The stock market and GDP were good. 🤷🏿♂️
2024 was the peak year for US homelessness. Higher than during the great depression.
2024 saw 770K layoffs, an increase over 2023, which was again, a massive jump over 2022.
2024 was the peak year for US homelessness. Higher than during the great depression.
2024 saw 770K layoffs, an increase over 2023, which was again, a massive jump over 2022.
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Every man needs to find a woman who looks at them like Trump Looks at Mamdani.
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every man needs to find a woman who looks at them like Trump Looks at Mamdani.
Best news so far today.
Over on another platform we were just talking about the prevalence of cancer in Licking County. Ohioans don't need an oil and gas lobbyist for even more cancer, especially not one cosplaying a Democrat.
Over on another platform we were just talking about the prevalence of cancer in Licking County. Ohioans don't need an oil and gas lobbyist for even more cancer, especially not one cosplaying a Democrat.
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Best news so far today.
Over on another platform we were just talking about the prevalence of cancer in Licking County. Ohioans don't need an oil and gas lobbyist for even more cancer, especially not one cosplaying a Democrat.
Over on another platform we were just talking about the prevalence of cancer in Licking County. Ohioans don't need an oil and gas lobbyist for even more cancer, especially not one cosplaying a Democrat.
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There are and have been Democratic candidates in Maine from working class backgrounds. Troy Jackson and Mike Michaud come to mind. With them as the comparator, Platner is not one. #mepolitics www.editorialboard.com/why-graham-p...
Why Graham Platner is a working-class impersonator
And why the online left can’t see it.
www.editorialboard.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
There are and have been Democratic candidates in Maine from working class backgrounds. Troy Jackson and Mike Michaud come to mind. With them as the comparator, Platner is not one. #mepolitics www.editorialboard.com/why-graham-p...
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An important and grace-filled post about grieving a partner.
Friday blog in which survival is not a competition.
sharonleewriter.com/2025/11/frid...
#writingcommunity
sharonleewriter.com/2025/11/frid...
#writingcommunity
Friday – Sharon Lee, Writer
sharonleewriter.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
An important and grace-filled post about grieving a partner.
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Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures.
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures.
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
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DHS claimed an incident on Oct. 3 showed agents were in danger of being "rammed."
In fact, body cams "suggest[] that the agent drove erratically and brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."
In fact, body cams "suggest[] that the agent drove erratically and brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."
![Defendants also highlighted an October 3, 2025 video, presumably to show that agents driving the streets faced constant danger from cars ramming them on purpose. Axon Body 3. Video. But instead of leaving this impression, the video, which almost entirely consists of a view of the back seat of the car and some dialogue about how the agent’s “body cam is on” and he is “still recording,” suggests that the agent drove erratically and brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force. Id. This also calls into question Hewson’s testimony that motorists have rammed into agents every day during the operation. [FN 8]
[FN 8] 8 The Court acknowledges that at times agents have dealt with aggressive drivers. See, e.g., Axon_Body_4_Video_2025-10-23. But this has not been the norm in the videos that the Court has viewed, with agents instead often treating cars that are merely following them but not driving aggressively as potential threats. See, e.g., Axon_Body_4_Video_2025-10-23_1011_D01A31902 at 2:00–3:20 (showing an agent stating to a woman who had been behind his vehicle and gotten out to video agents as they stopped at the exit of an alley that “if you keep following us, we’re going to arrest you, you’ve been warned,” but nothing prevented the agents from continuing to drive); Axon_Body_4_Video_2025-10-23_1012_D01A45488 at 2:00–2:45 (showing that, despite having a clear path to continue driving, an agent gets out of his vehicle and tells a woman in the car behind him who was honking that “You know what you’re doing is illegal and you could be arrested for impeding law enforcement. I’m just warning you . . . following law enforcement, honking, and harassing agents is impeding law enforcement”); Axon_Body_4_Video_2025-10-25_1045_D01A36942 at 3:42–3:50 (Agent (tapping on glass of a car behind agents’ vehicle): “Stop following us.” Bystander: “They’re allowed to follow you.” Agent: “No they’re not.”).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifvyjcsr7lb6a65impvn6jer5hiorc5r4isr7hwbeussapmkqhnqi@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
DHS claimed an incident on Oct. 3 showed agents were in danger of being "rammed."
In fact, body cams "suggest[] that the agent drove erratically and brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."
In fact, body cams "suggest[] that the agent drove erratically and brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."
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Evergreen: bsky.app/profile/funm...
These people combine the competence of a concussed ferret with the ethics of a rabid one.
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Evergreen: bsky.app/profile/funm...
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A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.
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The reaction to people saying " I'm disabled and I need x" shouldn't be laughing at needing x. It should be to bolster the position of the workers providing x!
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The reaction to people saying " I'm disabled and I need x" shouldn't be laughing at needing x. It should be to bolster the position of the workers providing x!
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Here's the thing about the intersection between disability and labor.
Those services ARE needed. Yes, those ones that you think are extraneous.
The workers who provide them deserve good working conditions, safety measures, and pay enough to live comfortably on.
Those services ARE needed. Yes, those ones that you think are extraneous.
The workers who provide them deserve good working conditions, safety measures, and pay enough to live comfortably on.
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Here's the thing about the intersection between disability and labor.
Those services ARE needed. Yes, those ones that you think are extraneous.
The workers who provide them deserve good working conditions, safety measures, and pay enough to live comfortably on.
Those services ARE needed. Yes, those ones that you think are extraneous.
The workers who provide them deserve good working conditions, safety measures, and pay enough to live comfortably on.
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I read articles from all over the world every day.
Nowhere is being as…
…destructive
as the US…
when it comes to public health.
Nowhere that I have found… in 50 languages.
Nowhere is being as…
…destructive
as the US…
when it comes to public health.
Nowhere that I have found… in 50 languages.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I read articles from all over the world every day.
Nowhere is being as…
…destructive
as the US…
when it comes to public health.
Nowhere that I have found… in 50 languages.
Nowhere is being as…
…destructive
as the US…
when it comes to public health.
Nowhere that I have found… in 50 languages.
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AP finds a secretive Border Patrol intelligence program detains Americans for “suspicious” travel. Critics call it mass surveillance.
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
AP finds a secretive Border Patrol intelligence program detains Americans for “suspicious” travel. Critics call it mass surveillance.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...