Jennifer Smyth
@jensmyth.bsky.social
Teaching, gardening, sewing, and nerdery.
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Meloni as Trump's Trojan horse in EU: she welcomes US disengagement from Europe because "if Europe wants to be great, it must defend itself" but in Brussel she keeps blocking any initiative to implement common defense. And Salvini, her junior partner in the coalition, openly roots for Putin.
Ribadisco: L'ipocrisia del "difendersi da sola" detta da una che da sempre rifiuta una difesa armata Ue contro la Russia oltre un unico esercito europeo, è semplicemente rivoltante
December 6, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Meloni as Trump's Trojan horse in EU: she welcomes US disengagement from Europe because "if Europe wants to be great, it must defend itself" but in Brussel she keeps blocking any initiative to implement common defense. And Salvini, her junior partner in the coalition, openly roots for Putin.
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Germany is opening up the possibility of conscription
December 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Germany is opening up the possibility of conscription
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that's right. fuck that stupid owl
Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
that's right. fuck that stupid owl
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Please help Hammam's family survive Israel's ongoing genocide. Palestinians have been left to die homeless & starving in brutal winter:
December 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Please help Hammam's family survive Israel's ongoing genocide. Palestinians have been left to die homeless & starving in brutal winter:
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The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that the Chernobyl sarcophagus, built to prevent radioactive release from the melted reactor and damaged in a drone strike this February, has "lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability." www.iaea.org/newscenter/p...
Update 331 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine | IAEA
An IAEA team is criss-crossing Ukraine this month to assess the status of electrical substations critical for nuclear safety and security, following recent military attacks targeting energy infrastruc...
www.iaea.org
December 6, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that the Chernobyl sarcophagus, built to prevent radioactive release from the melted reactor and damaged in a drone strike this February, has "lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability." www.iaea.org/newscenter/p...
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Of all the dystopias, science fiction didn’t prepare us for one this stupid
So hard to watch well-established medical advances being discarded willfully
🧪 #MedSky
Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #MedSky
Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says
A panel of US vaccine advisers voted to rescind a recommendation that all newborns should receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
www.nature.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Of all the dystopias, science fiction didn’t prepare us for one this stupid
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from top to bottom all of these guys treat the united states government as a neat toy they can show off to their friends and use to impress girls
and we're all just a bunch of action figures to play with and discard when they're bored
and we're all just a bunch of action figures to play with and discard when they're bored
lol
Kash Patel is using the FBI to serve as an Uber for his girlfriend's drunk pals.
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel is using the FBI to serve as an Uber for his girlfriend's drunk pals.
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend’s pal a lift home: sources
FBI agents have grown increasingly concerned by Patel’s use of the bureau’s strapped resource.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
from top to bottom all of these guys treat the united states government as a neat toy they can show off to their friends and use to impress girls
and we're all just a bunch of action figures to play with and discard when they're bored
and we're all just a bunch of action figures to play with and discard when they're bored
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And it's a final short thread @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social with tonight's local urgent needs, a chance to fill the last of a wishlist for at-risk youth; and a crowdfund for a young family to save their home:
Now, tonight's local urgent needs.
DreamTree, out local shelter/TLP for at-risk youth, esp 2SLGBTQIA youth, is filling 100 stockings for the kids. The need only 8 more speakers [$10/each; $80 covers it]. If not ordered tonight, they won't be here in time: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/....
DreamTree, out local shelter/TLP for at-risk youth, esp 2SLGBTQIA youth, is filling 100 stockings for the kids. The need only 8 more speakers [$10/each; $80 covers it]. If not ordered tonight, they won't be here in time: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/....
Check out my list on Amazon
www.amazon.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:53 AM
And it's a final short thread @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social with tonight's local urgent needs, a chance to fill the last of a wishlist for at-risk youth; and a crowdfund for a young family to save their home:
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Anyway: If this year has taught you anything, I hope it's that white supremacy is fake as hell, fails without support, and requires extensive enforcement and blatant acts of favoritism and exclusion to survive.
All-white/white supremacist spaces, political, social, and professional, are a choice.
All-white/white supremacist spaces, political, social, and professional, are a choice.
December 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Anyway: If this year has taught you anything, I hope it's that white supremacy is fake as hell, fails without support, and requires extensive enforcement and blatant acts of favoritism and exclusion to survive.
All-white/white supremacist spaces, political, social, and professional, are a choice.
All-white/white supremacist spaces, political, social, and professional, are a choice.
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No way this is an isolated case, IMO.
insane local news just dropped. i've lived in a part of KC for ~decade and it's been an inside joke with friends and service workers that the local biz/party district is ran by a cartel of biz owners who bully out new ventures and replace them with generic dive bars for white suburbanites.
Well UH
Well UH
December 6, 2025 at 6:49 AM
No way this is an isolated case, IMO.
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If you want to see the strategy, I wrote a long read on the once-in-a-century attack on civil rights that were in the midst of. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
If you want to see the strategy, I wrote a long read on the once-in-a-century attack on civil rights that were in the midst of. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
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It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.
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Swedish navy encountering Russian submarines ‘almost weekly’ – and more could be on the way
Swedish navy encountering Russian submarines ‘almost weekly’ – and more could be on the way
Moscow ‘continuously reinforcing’ its presence in the region, says Swedish chief of operations Capt Marko Petkovic
The Swedish navy encounters Russian submarines in the Baltic Sea on an “almost weekly” basis, its chief of operations has said, and is preparing for a further increase in the event of ceasefire or armistice in the Ukraine war.
Capt Marko Petkovic said Moscow was “continuously reinforcing” its presence in the region, and sightings of its vessels were a regular part of life for the Swedish navy. Its “very common”, he said, adding that the number of sightings had increased in recent years. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Swedish navy encountering Russian submarines ‘almost weekly’ – and more could be on the way
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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It would cost $30 billion to end homelessness in the USA.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 7:03 AM
It would cost $30 billion to end homelessness in the USA.
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"Unfortunately, it is not possible to uninvent betting markets. Our new 50 year partnership with Kalshi will help bring students into the modern era"
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The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 6, 2025 at 6:36 AM
"Unfortunately, it is not possible to uninvent betting markets. Our new 50 year partnership with Kalshi will help bring students into the modern era"
bsky.app/profile/more...
bsky.app/profile/more...
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Academic institutions: "while we understand there are concerns, the truth is that gambling as a pathway to knowledge is here to stay, and denying that means we will be left behind. That's why we're giving free Kalshi subscriptions to every student"
"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
truthout.org
December 6, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Academic institutions: "while we understand there are concerns, the truth is that gambling as a pathway to knowledge is here to stay, and denying that means we will be left behind. That's why we're giving free Kalshi subscriptions to every student"
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The lesson of covid turned out to be "we refuse to learn the lesson of covid"
December 6, 2025 at 6:40 AM
The lesson of covid turned out to be "we refuse to learn the lesson of covid"
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Now, tonight's inventory selections.
Today's feature is a trio of bolos [shown below], big, bold sterling silver masterworks set with incredible turquoise stones.
We have a belt and two different buckles to match.
Today's feature is a trio of bolos [shown below], big, bold sterling silver masterworks set with incredible turquoise stones.
We have a belt and two different buckles to match.
December 6, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Now, tonight's inventory selections.
Today's feature is a trio of bolos [shown below], big, bold sterling silver masterworks set with incredible turquoise stones.
We have a belt and two different buckles to match.
Today's feature is a trio of bolos [shown below], big, bold sterling silver masterworks set with incredible turquoise stones.
We have a belt and two different buckles to match.
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It will be legal.
To rape people.
Do you fucking understand?
Please PLEASE understand this.
And he wants trans and intersex people eliminated, writ large.
I mean, Stephen Miller does, but also a lot of fucking people (all Republicans and most Democrats) are simply okay with this.
To rape people.
Do you fucking understand?
Please PLEASE understand this.
And he wants trans and intersex people eliminated, writ large.
I mean, Stephen Miller does, but also a lot of fucking people (all Republicans and most Democrats) are simply okay with this.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
It will be legal.
To rape people.
Do you fucking understand?
Please PLEASE understand this.
And he wants trans and intersex people eliminated, writ large.
I mean, Stephen Miller does, but also a lot of fucking people (all Republicans and most Democrats) are simply okay with this.
To rape people.
Do you fucking understand?
Please PLEASE understand this.
And he wants trans and intersex people eliminated, writ large.
I mean, Stephen Miller does, but also a lot of fucking people (all Republicans and most Democrats) are simply okay with this.
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It’s so funny that the American version of state media is led by someone from an outlet called “The Free Press.”
Bari Weiss has a CBS town hall set with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk.
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
Bari Weiss to moderate CBS News town hall with Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk
Exclusive: event, scheduled to air on 13 December, will focus on ‘grief, faith, politics, and more’, according to internal files
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
It’s so funny that the American version of state media is led by someone from an outlet called “The Free Press.”
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This administration literally pardoned over a thousand people for doing exactly this.
Patel on J6 arrest: "When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation's Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life."
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This administration literally pardoned over a thousand people for doing exactly this.
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I’m not saying “don’t get distracted” because if there is a consensus to call it a war crime then there could be some accountability in the near term. But let’s not forget the whole truth of what this really is.
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I’m not saying “don’t get distracted” because if there is a consensus to call it a war crime then there could be some accountability in the near term. But let’s not forget the whole truth of what this really is.
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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I mean... Jeffries just said he has no interest in doing anything about this.
"Perhaps the deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean will be the wake-up call that policymakers need to put real checks on executive killing power, and to finally dismantle the remnants of the War on Terror once and for all."
By: @elizabethrb.bsky.social
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By: @elizabethrb.bsky.social
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The War on Terror Set the Stage for Deadly Caribbean Boat Strikes
The recent deadly strikes on alleged drug-running boats in the Caribbean happened thanks to the war on terror's legacy.
inkstickmedia.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I mean... Jeffries just said he has no interest in doing anything about this.