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Elizabeth Reads Serially
@elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
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For posting about where I read serial fiction serially.
(And SNAP.)

https://www.youtube.com/@ElizabethReadsSerially

Current project: "The Tangle" - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZpm7lJIkjQkNC_RkiwczEL3ehp0c1bNy

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elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
"The case, filed earlier this month by 27 inmates, claims that employees of the jail’s food service vendor told kitchen staff not to dispose of the contaminated food and that inmates could 'scoop around' the blood."
Lawsuit: Montana jail inmates test positive for hepatitis C due to blood-tainted food
Filed by 27 inmates, the lawsuit alleges that employees of the food service contractor ordered that the contaminated food be served.
www.kpax.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
I don't know this particular man's situation, but it is terrifying that this is the caliber of reporting we can expect when ICE decides you're an illegal alien.

"having entered the United States at an unknown time and location"?

We trust the word of people who kidnap US citizens why again?
Excerpt from a 17 December 2025 Shore News Network article titled "Drug Dealing Illegal Alien Used Barbershop as Front for Retail Cocaine Business": Investigators said Goris-Andujar was in the country illegally, having entered the United States at an unknown time and location without inspection or authorization. During a search of his residence, officers recovered an AR-type rifle and a pistol equipped with high-capacity magazines, both of which were in violation of federal law. ICE officials said the weapons and ammunition were seized as evidence. [end excerpt.] The full article can be read, archived, at https://archive.ph/iQ1ky
December 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
This is the kind of thing that brushing off the r-slur enables, letting society say, "Well, that's sad," and turn the radio up, never thinking of it again.

This was in 2024.

2024-2025 was the only year he was at LMS, from what I can find online.
Teacher slammed student’s head into desk at Liberty middle school, lawsuit claims
A former student sued a Liberty middle school after teacher allegedly slammed the student’s head into a desk, according to court documents.
www.kansascity.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
“Mississippi is nearly 40% Black, but has never had more than one Black Justice on the nine-member Court," Ari Savitzky, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, wrote in a statement.

(archived: archive.ph/M3pdZ)
Judge orders special elections for Mississippi Supreme Court after Voting Rights Act violation
A judge on Friday ordered special elections for the Mississippi Supreme Court after earlier finding that the electoral map used to select justices violated the Voting Rights Act. U.S. District Judge.....
www.registercitizen.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
This looks like they ran it through the same shit OCR that the Library of Congress has used for the Newspaper archives.
Screen capture of the results from https://www.justice.gov/epstein/search for the word "Trump". EFTA00000037.pdf - DataSet 1 iBT - BARRON'S D 80 # I TOEFL iBT - G i FIRE AND FURY E INSIDE THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE - MICHAEL WOLF e FIRE AND FURY INSIDE THE TRUMP WRITE HOUSE * MICHAEL EFTA00000135.pdf - DataSet 1 THE SEXIND MARNHART DE HALL ARME Eye and Brain MARCIA CLARK WITHOUT Dount 4 OURAGE Turesmith TITAN TOWNY BATHROOMS CUVY CIRCUES AND TRUMP THE ART "The [end text.] It is riddled with typos and errors that are indicative of ancient optical character recognition technology. File https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%201/EFTA00000037.pdf , which is a picture of the inside of a closet. On the right is a long-sleeved blue hoodie hanging on a wooden hanger, which is hung on a metal rod. There are three empty hangers beyond it. To the left and in the center are stackable, mesh-front organizing bins for offices. On top of the center bin is a stack of five books, with two Prismacolor VHS video cassette cases sitting on top of those. The top two books are two copies of Barron's TOEFL IBT study guides. The bottom three books are each a copy of Michael Wolff's 2018 "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House". The visible bin labels on the center stackables read "large envelopes", behind which a closed cardboard box is visible; "small envelopes", behind which are two unopened reams of copy paper; "JE stationary", behind which can be seen an open box containing papers (the text is illegible on the top sheet) and an object that could either be a paperback book or a VHS cassette; there are two unlabeled drawers beneath this: the top of which has a cardboard box with an unreadable UPC on it and the bottom of which is cut out of the picture but we can see the rim of the drawer. The visible labels on the right stackables read "Pens Pencils Markers", behind which is a box without a lid, contents unknown; an unlabeled drawer which contains markers; "Misc Office Supply", which looks to be that; "Staples", which contains boxes that could either be VHS cassette covers or staple boxes, it's hard to say; "Paper Clips Rubber Bands", which does contain a box that has those clips used to keep large stacks of paper together, but there is also something that looks like an audio cassette recorder in there, and a white plastic card of some kind. There are two unlabeled drawers beneath; one has boxes in it, the other is empty. File https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%201/EFTA00000135.pdf, a photograph of what might be a study's shelves. There is a blue and white vase on the left third of frame in the front, obscuring the books on the shelves behind it. There are four sections of book shelving visible, three of which have closed glass doors in front. Those units each contain four shelves. The fourth unit to the right of frame only has three shelves. "Trump: The Art of the Deal" by Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz, published in 1987, can be seen in the second shelving unit (from left to right) on the third shelf (from top to bottom), partially obscured by the vase. To its right on the same shelf is "Dragon" by Clive Cussler (no dust jacket); above it is a book titled "Bathrooms".
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
"He said musicians are supposed to play music and not give political opinions"

I'm guessing this guy who claims he was friends with Charlie Kirk has never actually listened to a lyric in his life.

His excuse for sending 16 messages threatening a church music director's life?

"I was drunk."
Probation for MN man who made threats over political banter at a White Bear Lake church concert
The 64-year-old from Mora referenced an ICE comment by two members of a Beatles cover band.
www.twincities.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
But will it be like Steven Spielberg's 1985 movie "Young Sherlock Holmes"?

I'm not going to be watching Amazon Prime, but I do wonder just the same.
‘Young Sherlock’ Trailer: Guy Ritchie Reimagines Holmes as an Adolescent Sleuth in Prime Video Mystery Series
Watch the trailer for Guy Ritchie's upcoming Prime Video series 'Young Sherlock.'
variety.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
Do the resident voters of the 10 states who've complied with handling over their voter rolls to the DOJ have any standing or current grounds to sue their state and their state's AG?
Tennessee to hand over voter rolls to DOJ as part of nationwide voting probe
Tennessee is one of three states that is offering up its full voter registration lists to the US Department of Justice as part of a national investigation.
www.wsmv.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
Hey, @safety.bsky.app? You're going to remove those racist misinformation posts naming the kid who didn't do it now, right?
December 19, 2025 at 4:40 AM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
CBP officer Luis Uribe allegedly used his gun and badge to rape and rob four women of Chinese-descent in the US in 2022. He allegedly raped one of them three times, tracking her between hotels.

This was his lawyer's argument for why he should be released on his own recognizance (URL in #AltText):
Excerpt from a 15 December 2025 Chicago Sun Times article titled "Border Protection officer to be held in custody while awaiting trial on sexual assault claims. U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling peppered a defense attorney for Officer Luis Uribe with questions, telling her, 'It seems that the evidence is strong.'" by Jon Seidel: Uribe remains employed by CBP but had been placed on desk duty before his arrest, his lawyer revealed during the Monday hearing. Authorities took Uribe into custody last Tuesday, and his attorney said he’d been “arrested at his desk.” A Homeland Security representative did not comment. Uribe waved to supporters in the courtroom gallery before he was led away. Those supporters declined to speak with reporters before leaving the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. While arguing for Uribe’s release, his lawyer pointed to DNA evidence, collected after an alleged attack in 2022, which turned out to be a strong match for Uribe. Uribe’s attorney argued that authorities “didn’t think he was such a danger to the community that they needed to immediately arrest him.” [end excerpt.] The article can be read in full at https://chicago.suntimes.com/public-safety/2025/12/15/border-protection-officer-to-be-held-in-custody-while-awaiting-trial-on-sexual-assault-claims
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
...That moment when you're reading over a letter you've penned for members of U.S. Congress and you realize you forgot to include any information on Florida.

I literally 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒐𝒕 Florida.

-sigh- Back to the search engine.
December 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
#Hawaii #EBT #HEFAP
State reminds households to use emergency food assistance funds before year-end
The state said households who recieved the $250 from the Hawaii Emergency Food Assistance Program should use the funds before they expire on Dec. 31.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
AI is now claiming teenagers are being shot when they haven't been.

The named app here is CrimeRadar.

Vetting sources is important.
AI crime app spreads false report of downtown shooting
Police Chief Jill Schlude warned residents about automated crime apps after a false AI-generated report spread on Facebook.
www.kbia.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
"Body camera footage played at trial revealed that Reid had not intentionally struck the agent.
[...]
It took jurors less than two hours to acquit the animal hospital worker."

Further down:
"All five defendants, including Reid, who went to trial so far were acquitted."
DOJ vowed to punish those who disrupt Trump’s immigration crackdown. Dozens of cases have crumbled
Assault charges against protesters are crumbling inside courtrooms.
www.pilotonline.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
SNAP fraud drains Arizonans’ EBT accounts
Multiple families say their SNAP benefits were stolen overnight, with fraudulent charges appearing to originate from the same Sun City market.
www.kold.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
that feeling when you're reading the part in the story where the monster is chasing the heroine and making loud growly noises... and someone three streets over decides to use the perfect echo chamber spot to make those screechy squealy noises with their tires.

lasted through the 2-page chase scene.
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
My response on reading that headline was "I'm sorry, what?" Yeah, no, that's what it says: starting in 2029, the Oscars will be exclusively broadcast via YouTube.

-sigh-

Well, it's not like I've been watching it.
December 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
I find the alt text that comes from Tenor simultaneously hilarious and appalling.

How the hell does what they used to describe the gif in image 1 give any kind of context?
Screen capture of the alt text provided on a gif by Tenor. The text reads "a close up of a man's face with large ears and a ring around his neck". The gif is of Quark, a character from Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine holding up gold latinum bars. Quark is a member of the alien race known as Ferengi, who are characterized by their large ears and a philosophy of greed, enumerated in the Rules of Acquisition that they reference frequently. Ferengi have no scalp hair and the tops of their skulls have an indentation in the center aligning with the delineation of lobes in a human brain. They are humanoid in appearance. I've no idea whatsoever where Tenor came up with "a ring around his neck". The information bar that shows up when you paste / drag / upload a supported image file type into Bluesky. It reads: "Alt text describes images for blind and low-vision users, and helps give context to everyone." Tenor's alt text is shit and gives context to no one.
December 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
So. Beth Van Duyne. Apparently, she's decided to try "undercover" racism.

Because we know that this is aimed at BIPOC, and specifically Black men.

It doesn't even say "convicted". Just "committed", so the accusation would be enough?
Excerpt from HR 4991, 119th Congress, 1st Session. It states: To prohibit the disposition of a firearm to, and the possession of a firearm by, an adult who, while a juvenile who had attained 15 years of age but not 18 years of age, committed an offense that would have been a felony if committed by an adult. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 15, 2025 Ms. Van Duyne introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary [end excerpt.] The bill text can be read at https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4991/text
December 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
Excerpt from US Congress HR 4103 / S 2203, the “Break the Cycle of Violence Act”.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c..., @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social (House)
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c..., @booker.senate.gov (Senate)

(I'm working on a list of the Dem bills intro'd re: gun violence in the 119th. 👇)
SEC. 2. Findings. Congress finds the following: (1) Community violence is a significant public health, public safety, and community infrastructure concern nationwide, and is a leading cause of death, injury, and trauma for people in the United States. Community violence also disrupts employment and hinders a community’s social and economic development. Today, gun violence is the leading cause of death for America’s youth. (2) From 2010 to 2021, over 233,000 people were murdered in the United States. Hundreds of thousands more were hospitalized or treated in emergency departments after surviving life-changing gunshot injuries and other violent assaults. (3) In 2020, the Nation suffered the largest single-year spike in homicides on record, driven largely by record spikes in fatal shootings. As of 2021, 80 percent of all homicides in the United States are committed with a gun. (4) Communities across the Nation experience enormous disparities in safety that are driven by inequitable social and structural determinants of health. Interpersonal shootings are disproportionately concentrated in neighborhoods harmed by past and present racial discrimination, segregation, redlining, disinvestment, mass incarceration, and concentrated poverty, and this violence’s toll falls overwhelmingly on people of color, especially young Black and Brown men and boys and their loved ones. From 2015 to 2020, Black children and teens were more than 12 times as likely to be shot to death as their White peers. Hispanic children and teens and Native American children and teens were both about 2.6 times as likely to be shot to death as their White peers. Over this period, 72 percent of children murdered before their 18th birthday were people of color, and more than 50 percent were Black. [continued next image] (5) Black boys and men make up less than 7 percent of the population in the United States, but account for more than 50 percent of all gun homicide victims each year. Violence is responsible for nearly half of all deaths among Black boys and young men, ages 15 through 24, meaning the parents of a Black son in this age group are as likely to lose their child to homicide as nearly every other cause of death combined. (6) This violence imposes enormous human, social, and economic consequences. Studies show that gun violence has a national economic cost of $557,000,000,000 annually. The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Violence Prevention presented research to Congress demonstrating that “youth living in inner cities show a higher prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder than soldiers” in the Nation’s wartime military. While the vast majority of these young people resiliently persevere, people who have been victims of violence are at substantially higher risk of being violently reattacked or killed. Additionally, both direct and indirect violence exposure have been associated with a host of poor health outcomes, including chronic illness, anxiety, depression, and substance misuse.
December 17, 2025 at 7:17 AM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
For whichever few people might see this that haven't already done it, please take a moment to sign the letter. It's already pre-filled for you, there's a section where you can add your own comments (scroll down).

It takes less than a minute if you're just filling out the name and address section.
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · 4d
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.

Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
Marco Rubio:
"Why isn't China paying more for immunizations? Why isn't the UK or Canada or any of the G7 countries?" (archive.ph/Kkiqu)

Since you are incapable of understanding compassion, human decency, as well as the ethical and moral reasons for not withholding medicine and killing people
Excerpt from Hotez PJ (2014) “Vaccine Diplomacy”: Historical Perspectives and Future Directions. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 8(6): e2808. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002808 : Our Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development (Sabin), a nonprofit product development partnership (PDP) that uses industry practices to develop and test neglected disease vaccines, could occupy a key niche in vaccine diplomacy. Sabin's vaccine portfolio targets neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that specifically affect the poorest people living in low- and middle-income countries. Because NTDs have been shown to promote poverty through their adverse effects on worker productivity, the health of girls and women, and child development, the vaccines under development at Sabin are sometimes referred to as the “antipoverty vaccines” [57], [58]. Moreover, most of the diseases targeted by the Sabin portfolio of vaccines occur in countries of direct relevance to vaccine diplomacy (Table 2) [59]. For example, more than one-third of the world's cases of hookworm infection, ascariasis, and trichuriasis occur in nations of the OIC, i.e., the world's Muslim countries (Figure 1), while almost one-half of the cases of schistosomiasis occur among the OIC countries [59]. [continued next image] Furthermore, both cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis have emerged as the most significant infections arising in settings of ongoing conflict, with the former affecting hundreds of thousands of people in Syria and Syrian refugees, while the latter was the leading killer in the war between northern and southern Sudan during the 1980s and 1990s [60]. Some of these diseases are also widespread in some Latin American countries where leaders have expressed varying degrees of anti-American sentiment. While Sabin is currently conducting joint vaccine development with public-sector vaccine manufacturers in Brazil and Mexico, it is ready to embark on joint vaccine development with countries such as Cuba, Indonesia, and Iran, i.e., nations with either strained or even overtly hostile foreign relations with the US in past and recent years. As a form of projecting soft power with both allies and potential adversaries, such activities are consistent with what former Secretary Hillary Clinton termed “civilian power” [24]. [end excerpt.] Full text of article available at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002808
December 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
#California egg recall - Vega Farm brand tested positive for salmonella
Eggs recalled as dozens fall ill and 13 hospitalized due to salmonella
Eggs have been recalled after 63 people fell ill with salmonella, 13 of which have been hospitalized
www.independent.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
Sometimes I see a post on the discover feed that infuriates me with its over simplification.

Meanwhile, here's something I found in a rabbit hole.
doi.org/10.1002/hast...
Excerpt from "The Hennepin Healthcare Forced Ketamine Studies, Excited Delirium, and Police Violence" by Carl Elliott and Lauren Wilson, Hastings Center Report 55, no. 5 (2025): 29-40. DOI: 10.1002/hast.4985 : In 2018, reports revealed that Hennepin County Medical Center, in Minneapolis, was conducting clinical trials in which emergency medical personnel were injecting agitated individuals with ketamine without their consent and often at the urging of police. What are we to make of medical research that involves law enforcement as these trials did? How is the collapse of the diagnosis of “excited delirium” important to the ethics of these ketamine studies? And how do these studies compare to studies of chemical restraints in health care institutions and of “nonlethal” weapons deployed by the police? Brittany Buckley was asleep on the couch when the police arrived. It was the anniversary of her father’s death, and she had been drinking all day. (1) A concerned friend had called 911 and asked for a welfare check. After a few minutes of conversation, the police called for an ambulance, and paramedics from Hennepin Healthcare told Buckley she was being taken to the hospital. When Buckley objected, she was handcuffed, carried to the ambulance, and strapped to a gurney. Then paramedics injected her with 150 mg of ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic. Within minutes, Buckley lost consciousness and began struggling to breathe. When Buckley regained consciousness a day later, she found herself intubated and restrained on a hospital bed. Next to her bed was a document titled “Notification of Enrollment.” “You are receiving this form because you or someone you care for was included in a research study examining patients with agitation,” the document said. The study compared two drugs, ketamine and midazolam. “This is all I got,” Buckley told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “Just this form saying that I’m part of their little test.” (2) [continued next image] Buckley’s experience was only part of a series of alarming revelations about medical research at Hennepin Healthcare reported by Andy Mannix of the Star Tribune in the summer of 2018. (3) The revelations were initially triggered by a leaked report from the Office of Police Conduct Review. (4) That report [text excerpt ends.] Full article is open access, available at https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.4985
December 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
If you're in that area, please check your eligibility.

If you're not in that area, please see if you're eligible and go to your local blood donation center, or check with your hospital about donations.

There is a real problem in the US with gun violence. This was 12 Dec 2025:
December 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM