Clare
@idclare.bsky.social
she/her. super progressive. PNW. older than you think. This account will likely be a lot of fandom conversations, with reposts of politics and the occasional science or tech.
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I have viewed
the reporting
on the overseas
torture camps
which you
we're trying to bury
for obvious
political reasons
forgive me
the facts were so damning
and now you're so complicit
the reporting
on the overseas
torture camps
which you
we're trying to bury
for obvious
political reasons
forgive me
the facts were so damning
and now you're so complicit
December 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I have viewed
the reporting
on the overseas
torture camps
which you
we're trying to bury
for obvious
political reasons
forgive me
the facts were so damning
and now you're so complicit
the reporting
on the overseas
torture camps
which you
we're trying to bury
for obvious
political reasons
forgive me
the facts were so damning
and now you're so complicit
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When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.
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Tfw yet another thing from your life gets recontexualized as racist.
Tfw yet another thing from your life gets recontexualized as racist.
Henry Ford HATED Jazz because too many Jewish & Black Folks were a part of it. He pushed the Department of Education to make square dance part of the curriculum to counter Jazz.
December 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Tfw yet another thing from your life gets recontexualized as racist.
Tfw yet another thing from your life gets recontexualized as racist.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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I love the fucking internet, part 972964386: "One Night In Bangkok" arranged and performed as a 16th century chanson. youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?...
One Night in Bangkok but it's a 16th century chanson
YouTube video by Jonasquin
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I love the fucking internet, part 972964386: "One Night In Bangkok" arranged and performed as a 16th century chanson. youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?...
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Here is a very basic thing that Democrats could do: make a website with a list of all of Trump’s impeachable offenses and link to the articles they’ve written.
Why does this not exist? Because they’ve never even bothered drafting articles beyond a few solo, scattershot efforts.
Why does this not exist? Because they’ve never even bothered drafting articles beyond a few solo, scattershot efforts.
December 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Here is a very basic thing that Democrats could do: make a website with a list of all of Trump’s impeachable offenses and link to the articles they’ve written.
Why does this not exist? Because they’ve never even bothered drafting articles beyond a few solo, scattershot efforts.
Why does this not exist? Because they’ve never even bothered drafting articles beyond a few solo, scattershot efforts.
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
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 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
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Travel bans don’t make us safer.
They make us smaller, crueler, and less free.
Trump’s expansion is fear-based, discriminatory, and wrong.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
They make us smaller, crueler, and less free.
Trump’s expansion is fear-based, discriminatory, and wrong.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Trump expands travel ban, targeting Syria, South Sudan and others
President Trump on Tuesday signed a proclamation expanding the scope of his administration’s ban on travel into the United States from various countries, targeting Syria and those from the Palestin…
thehill.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Travel bans don’t make us safer.
They make us smaller, crueler, and less free.
Trump’s expansion is fear-based, discriminatory, and wrong.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
They make us smaller, crueler, and less free.
Trump’s expansion is fear-based, discriminatory, and wrong.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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MAGA is a far greater threat to "social cohesion" and "social trust" than immigrants are, as I try to argue in this piece
This is a point I keep coming back to. You cannot defend a high trust society by orchestrating hate campaigns and moral panics against disfavored groups and harassing the populace with masked paramilitary thugs.
Miller's arguments are that "Third World" can't assimilate and that 1965 immigration act unraveled social cohesion.
But these are absurd claims. I took them on here. If you want to talk "social cohesion," Trump/Miller are doing more to erode it than immigrants are.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
But these are absurd claims. I took them on here. If you want to talk "social cohesion," Trump/Miller are doing more to erode it than immigrants are.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
MAGA is a far greater threat to "social cohesion" and "social trust" than immigrants are, as I try to argue in this piece
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John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sounds about right.
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Hey romancelandia and fandom peeps! If you live in the U.S. right now you should know that KOSA (along with a slew of censorship bills) are advancing through congress right now. If you care about spicy books and/or fanfiction you should contact your reps right now and tell them to vote NO on KOSA!
US House Subcommittee Advances 18 Child Online Safety Bills | TechPolicy.Press
Some members expressed "fury" at the tech industry for not doing more to protect children and teens.
www.techpolicy.press
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Hey romancelandia and fandom peeps! If you live in the U.S. right now you should know that KOSA (along with a slew of censorship bills) are advancing through congress right now. If you care about spicy books and/or fanfiction you should contact your reps right now and tell them to vote NO on KOSA!
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From a friend a few minutes ago whose family member works at an Amazon warehouse in the south Puget Sound:
> [Worker] is currently at work around that area and surprise surprise, Amazon isn't letting anyone evacuate.
> [Worker] is currently at work around that area and surprise surprise, Amazon isn't letting anyone evacuate.
December 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
From a friend a few minutes ago whose family member works at an Amazon warehouse in the south Puget Sound:
> [Worker] is currently at work around that area and surprise surprise, Amazon isn't letting anyone evacuate.
> [Worker] is currently at work around that area and surprise surprise, Amazon isn't letting anyone evacuate.
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The safety of America’s food supply is getting murkier—and if there’s one thing you can do to protect yourself, it’s swearing off bagged, prechopped lettuce, Nicholas Florko writes. theatln.tc/DHIodDVK
📸: JianGang Wang / Getty
📸: JianGang Wang / Getty
Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce
Food safety in America is under attack.
theatln.tc
December 16, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The safety of America’s food supply is getting murkier—and if there’s one thing you can do to protect yourself, it’s swearing off bagged, prechopped lettuce, Nicholas Florko writes. theatln.tc/DHIodDVK
📸: JianGang Wang / Getty
📸: JianGang Wang / Getty
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This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
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will every NFL game have a moment of silence or is that only for white supremacists who were presenting a racist rationale for our unfettered gun massacre culture when shot
I'm having trouble finding the "America Mourns Rob and Michelle Reiner" piece from the NY Times Editorial Board.
December 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
will every NFL game have a moment of silence or is that only for white supremacists who were presenting a racist rationale for our unfettered gun massacre culture when shot
Good explainer articles on population growth trends, why behavior changes today will only see impact far in the future, the futility of trying to change trends instead of responding to ramifications. Much like climate change, the patterns of today were set decades in the past.
6. Had I been given such a chance, I would have pointed out that, while more people compound environmental problems, residual population growth is the result of things *that have already happened*, which we cannot now significantly change. www.monbiot.com/2025/12/15/t...
Total Futility Rate
Let’s focus our campaigning on things we can actually change.
www.monbiot.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Good explainer articles on population growth trends, why behavior changes today will only see impact far in the future, the futility of trying to change trends instead of responding to ramifications. Much like climate change, the patterns of today were set decades in the past.
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6. Had I been given such a chance, I would have pointed out that, while more people compound environmental problems, residual population growth is the result of things *that have already happened*, which we cannot now significantly change. www.monbiot.com/2025/12/15/t...
Total Futility Rate
Let’s focus our campaigning on things we can actually change.
www.monbiot.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
6. Had I been given such a chance, I would have pointed out that, while more people compound environmental problems, residual population growth is the result of things *that have already happened*, which we cannot now significantly change. www.monbiot.com/2025/12/15/t...
This is savage
I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.
men’s loneliness gets “more airtime”?
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
December 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
This is savage
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Impeachment is not "sacred," it is a parliamentary procedure. Please be serious.
What they're really saying is it's a lot of work and they don't want to do it.
Makes the claim that they are "laser focused" on "cleaning up corruption" a bit suspect.
What they're really saying is it's a lot of work and they don't want to do it.
Makes the claim that they are "laser focused" on "cleaning up corruption" a bit suspect.
Translated from gaslight speak for everyone:
“Remember you rebellious pieces of shit we care about health care and traditionally impeachment requires investigations blah blah.
However tucked at the end we want to say we are scared shitless of your power and therefore will vote present.”
“Remember you rebellious pieces of shit we care about health care and traditionally impeachment requires investigations blah blah.
However tucked at the end we want to say we are scared shitless of your power and therefore will vote present.”
December 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Impeachment is not "sacred," it is a parliamentary procedure. Please be serious.
What they're really saying is it's a lot of work and they don't want to do it.
Makes the claim that they are "laser focused" on "cleaning up corruption" a bit suspect.
What they're really saying is it's a lot of work and they don't want to do it.
Makes the claim that they are "laser focused" on "cleaning up corruption" a bit suspect.
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I wish there was more public recognition of how batshit insane it is to call the president a dangerous authoritarian and then give him a $1 trillion military budget
December 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I wish there was more public recognition of how batshit insane it is to call the president a dangerous authoritarian and then give him a $1 trillion military budget
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The best thing about this isn't the merits so much as the fact that @raskin.house.gov is socializing serious structural reform. This is the register we need to be in in preparation for the aftermath.
News -- > Rep Jamie Raskin is introducing a proposal today to require ranked choice voting in all congressional races. He's drawing attention to the idea even as corrupt Trump/GOP gerrymandering exposes current system's deep flaws.
Raskin discusses this on our pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
Raskin discusses this on our pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
December 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The best thing about this isn't the merits so much as the fact that @raskin.house.gov is socializing serious structural reform. This is the register we need to be in in preparation for the aftermath.
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“There is growing concern ... that in 2029 the ICC will turn its attention to the president, to the vice president, to the secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions against them,” the Trump official said.
“That is unacceptable, and we will not allow it to happen."
“That is unacceptable, and we will not allow it to happen."
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
By @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
By @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“There is growing concern ... that in 2029 the ICC will turn its attention to the president, to the vice president, to the secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions against them,” the Trump official said.
“That is unacceptable, and we will not allow it to happen."
“That is unacceptable, and we will not allow it to happen."
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If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows