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For my last post of 2025, here's a look at a network of websites and social media accounts hawking #resistance- themed garments, frequently with slogans regarding U.S. National Parks.
As it turns out, the websites in question are likely operated from China.
www.conspirator0.com/p/how-not-to...
As it turns out, the websites in question are likely operated from China.
www.conspirator0.com/p/how-not-to...
How not to support the National Park Service
Sadly, buying T-shirts from spammy websites will not help protect the U.S. National Park Service
www.conspirator0.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
For my last post of 2025, here's a look at a network of websites and social media accounts hawking #resistance- themed garments, frequently with slogans regarding U.S. National Parks.
As it turns out, the websites in question are likely operated from China.
www.conspirator0.com/p/how-not-to...
As it turns out, the websites in question are likely operated from China.
www.conspirator0.com/p/how-not-to...
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2025 Book Censorship Wrapped: Trends, Challenges, and Successes Over The Year
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2025 Book Censorship Wrapped: Trends, Challenges, and Successes Over The Year
What were the book censorship trends in 2025? Here are the highs and lows, as identified by five organizations doing the work.
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December 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
2025 Book Censorship Wrapped: Trends, Challenges, and Successes Over The Year
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Here are the latest trends in comics censorship from 2025. As you might expect, more comics are being targeted and in particular, manga is feeling the heat. So, too, are adaptations, women's non fic, and more.
Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights.
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Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights.
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The Latest Trends in Comics Censorship: Book Censorship News, December 26, 2025
What are the trends in comics censorship over the last year? A look at the data and titles being targeted, with help from a comics scholar.
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December 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Here are the latest trends in comics censorship from 2025. As you might expect, more comics are being targeted and in particular, manga is feeling the heat. So, too, are adaptations, women's non fic, and more.
Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights.
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Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights.
bookriot.com/trends-in-co...
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Christmas Eve Eve
December 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Christmas Eve Eve
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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I'm taken aback by the realization that I can just have stuffing anytime I want? As a little treat??
Panettone Stuffing Squares are. #RecipeOfTheDay! I think of them as savoury brownies and serve them as a canapé with drinks rather than to accompany the turkey, but you could absolutely do that, too! www.nigella.com/recipes/pane...
Panettone Stuffing Squares
I have written a recipe for panettone stuffing before: the sweet seasonal fruit bread was cubed, toasted and mixed with Italian sausage; this is very different, not least because I see it not as an ac...
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December 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I'm taken aback by the realization that I can just have stuffing anytime I want? As a little treat??
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New AMS Statement: Dismantling NSF’s National Center for Atmospheric Research would weaken U.S. leadership in weather, water, and climate science, putting public safety at risk.
For more than 60 years, NSF NCAR has improved forecasts and early warnings that save lives. More: https://bit.ly/4q6eChn
For more than 60 years, NSF NCAR has improved forecasts and early warnings that save lives. More: https://bit.ly/4q6eChn
December 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
New AMS Statement: Dismantling NSF’s National Center for Atmospheric Research would weaken U.S. leadership in weather, water, and climate science, putting public safety at risk.
For more than 60 years, NSF NCAR has improved forecasts and early warnings that save lives. More: https://bit.ly/4q6eChn
For more than 60 years, NSF NCAR has improved forecasts and early warnings that save lives. More: https://bit.ly/4q6eChn
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NAE KINGS, NAE MASTERS!
You want to keep your liberty?
Guard it like a favorite stick. You let one fool call himself ‘Master of Treats,’ and next thing you know, he’s telling you when to sit and when to beg.
Democracy’s a chew toy. If you don’t protect it, someone else will drool all over it.
You want to keep your liberty?
Guard it like a favorite stick. You let one fool call himself ‘Master of Treats,’ and next thing you know, he’s telling you when to sit and when to beg.
Democracy’s a chew toy. If you don’t protect it, someone else will drool all over it.
October 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
NAE KINGS, NAE MASTERS!
You want to keep your liberty?
Guard it like a favorite stick. You let one fool call himself ‘Master of Treats,’ and next thing you know, he’s telling you when to sit and when to beg.
Democracy’s a chew toy. If you don’t protect it, someone else will drool all over it.
You want to keep your liberty?
Guard it like a favorite stick. You let one fool call himself ‘Master of Treats,’ and next thing you know, he’s telling you when to sit and when to beg.
Democracy’s a chew toy. If you don’t protect it, someone else will drool all over it.
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Starting in January, I will be amping up activity at @beyondxandy.bsky.social, including writing articles, recording video explainers, and working on a book about how studying genetics helped me accept that I was trans
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It's the scientific community's duty to fight misinformation, bioessentialism, and eugenics
That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people
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That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people
Subscribe to our newsletter at beyondxandy.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Starting in January, I will be amping up activity at @beyondxandy.bsky.social, including writing articles, recording video explainers, and working on a book about how studying genetics helped me accept that I was trans
Please give it a follow to stay up to date 🏳️⚧️🧬
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ALA, @bookriot.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @flfreedomread.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social all track different aspects of the movement - no matter how you look at it, book bans are sweeping across the country. Don't miss our joint report: https://bit.ly/4qkTZh5
December 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
ALA, @bookriot.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @flfreedomread.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social all track different aspects of the movement - no matter how you look at it, book bans are sweeping across the country. Don't miss our joint report: https://bit.ly/4qkTZh5
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Jesus said something like do good things and STFU. I'm sharing despite this in hopes others follow my example.
I have a mechanics shop. Sat empty 6 days a week. I now have a trans support group using it 2 days a week.
Why? I have a trans child. I know what the Nazis did. Someone asked.
I have a mechanics shop. Sat empty 6 days a week. I now have a trans support group using it 2 days a week.
Why? I have a trans child. I know what the Nazis did. Someone asked.
December 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Jesus said something like do good things and STFU. I'm sharing despite this in hopes others follow my example.
I have a mechanics shop. Sat empty 6 days a week. I now have a trans support group using it 2 days a week.
Why? I have a trans child. I know what the Nazis did. Someone asked.
I have a mechanics shop. Sat empty 6 days a week. I now have a trans support group using it 2 days a week.
Why? I have a trans child. I know what the Nazis did. Someone asked.
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newly in the market for best big batch meal prep options for dried beans. please my family is hungry
Beans, beans, the more you eat, the more your … meals are healthier and cheaper
Beans, beans, the more you eat, the more your … meals are healthier and cheaper
Celebrity chefs such as Jamie Oliver launch ‘Bang in Some Beans’ campaign to highlight cost savings and health advantages
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December 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
newly in the market for best big batch meal prep options for dried beans. please my family is hungry
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What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.
NEW: Judge blocks Trump administration's attempt to limit lawmakers' access to immigration jails. Advance notice no longer required & detention facilities at field offices are open to Congress. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Judge lifts Trump administration limits on lawmaker visits to ICE jails
A federal judge ruled that ICE cannot enforce newly adopted policies that require lawmakers to provide seven days notice before visiting detention facilities.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.
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Stephen Miller to Vanity Fair photographer: “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.”
Photographer to Miller: “You know, you do, too.”
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Photographer to Miller: “You know, you do, too.”
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/... @shaneisland.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Stephen Miller to Vanity Fair photographer: “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.”
Photographer to Miller: “You know, you do, too.”
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/... @shaneisland.bsky.social
Photographer to Miller: “You know, you do, too.”
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/... @shaneisland.bsky.social
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Give this pup a home, NY.
💗 Her person is out there! I will not give up until they're found. Please read and repost MELIA's bio ⬇️ any questions feel free to ask. I will contact the shelter for answers. Anything negative will be blocked!!
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December 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Give this pup a home, NY.
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There is a growing problem of big name natural-science journals publishing social science that is "problematic".
This reflects a inability to accept the statistical standards and skills in social science are often much much higher than in many areas of the natural sciences.
(I'm a chemist btw).
This reflects a inability to accept the statistical standards and skills in social science are often much much higher than in many areas of the natural sciences.
(I'm a chemist btw).
You remember that Nature Aging paper about how multilingualism protects against accelerated aging? Well…
December 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
There is a growing problem of big name natural-science journals publishing social science that is "problematic".
This reflects a inability to accept the statistical standards and skills in social science are often much much higher than in many areas of the natural sciences.
(I'm a chemist btw).
This reflects a inability to accept the statistical standards and skills in social science are often much much higher than in many areas of the natural sciences.
(I'm a chemist btw).
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Hegseth repeatedly misled the public about this strike.
The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S.
It wasn't carrying fentanyl.
The survivors didn't "radio for backup."
This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.
The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S.
It wasn't carrying fentanyl.
The survivors didn't "radio for backup."
This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the Pentagon will not publicly release unedited video of a strike that killed two survivors of an initial attack on a boat allegedly carrying cocaine in the Caribbean. https://to.pbs.org/4pZJb8p
Hegseth says he won't publicly release video of boat strike that killed survivors in the Caribbean
Hegseth said that members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committee would have an opportunity this week to review the video, but did not say whether all members of Congress would be allowed to ...
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December 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Hegseth repeatedly misled the public about this strike.
The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S.
It wasn't carrying fentanyl.
The survivors didn't "radio for backup."
This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.
The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S.
It wasn't carrying fentanyl.
The survivors didn't "radio for backup."
This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.
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Conspiracy isn't science, and putting valuable resources into this wild goose chase instead of things like Safe Sleep, or cancer research, or VA hospitals screams waste, fraud, and abuse.
You already know how we feel about this #ImpeachRFKJr
standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
You already know how we feel about this #ImpeachRFKJr
standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Wasting money and resources to investigate a conspiracy theory about Lyme Disease, despite the known mechanism of how it infects humans.
🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...
🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...
RFK, Jr.–Backed Lyme Disease Conspiracy Theory May Be Probed under New Bill
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders an investigation into whether the U.S. military bioengineered Lyme disease
www.scientificamerican.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Conspiracy isn't science, and putting valuable resources into this wild goose chase instead of things like Safe Sleep, or cancer research, or VA hospitals screams waste, fraud, and abuse.
You already know how we feel about this #ImpeachRFKJr
standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
You already know how we feel about this #ImpeachRFKJr
standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
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Look who’s the Chicagoan of the Year in Books: bit.ly/48I0eFL
December 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Look who’s the Chicagoan of the Year in Books: bit.ly/48I0eFL
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The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
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Been lighting this one since I was a kid!
December 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Been lighting this one since I was a kid!
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.
insanity.
insanity.
December 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.
insanity.
insanity.
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Alerta:
Urgent blood donation need for Brown University!
If you live in the following states, please consider donating to save lives 🖤
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Urgent blood donation need for Brown University!
If you live in the following states, please consider donating to save lives 🖤
💕💸
I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
Donate Blood
Check your eligibility to donate blood, learn about the process and why blood matters, and enroll in a RIBC Donor Loyalty Rewards programs.
www.ribc.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Alerta:
Urgent blood donation need for Brown University!
If you live in the following states, please consider donating to save lives 🖤
💕💸
Urgent blood donation need for Brown University!
If you live in the following states, please consider donating to save lives 🖤
💕💸
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