Liz Kastor
@lizziek.bsky.social
Former journalist. Chronically fatigued.
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Fine. Give us the Epstein files in Times New Roman, then.
December 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Fine. Give us the Epstein files in Times New Roman, then.
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Please share this. My mother has been missing since December 7th. She has severe dementia and we are just praying that she is found safely.
www.norwoodnews.org/wakefield-po...
www.norwoodnews.org/wakefield-po...
Wakefield: Police Appeal to Public for Help Locating 60-Year-Old Woman Reported Missing - Norwood News
The NYPD is appealing to the public for help locating a 60-year-old woman who is reported missing from the Wakefield section of The Bronx.
www.norwoodnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Please share this. My mother has been missing since December 7th. She has severe dementia and we are just praying that she is found safely.
www.norwoodnews.org/wakefield-po...
www.norwoodnews.org/wakefield-po...
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"Many parents like myself were shocked by a recent change to the English Language Arts curriculum at Deal Middle School," @aaronweso.bsky.social writes.
"The new curriculum removes all full-length novels from the 8th grade curriculum."
"The new curriculum removes all full-length novels from the 8th grade curriculum."
Opinion: DCPS middle-schoolers should be reading novels
Many parents like myself were shocked by a recent change to the English curriculum at Alice Deal Middle School.
51st.news
December 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"Many parents like myself were shocked by a recent change to the English Language Arts curriculum at Deal Middle School," @aaronweso.bsky.social writes.
"The new curriculum removes all full-length novels from the 8th grade curriculum."
"The new curriculum removes all full-length novels from the 8th grade curriculum."
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a corrupt act everyday. appropriate he's there with melania since she just set up a company to collect bribes.
Q: Should Netflix be allowed to buy Warner Brothers?
TRUMP: That's a question. They have a very big market share. I'll be involved in that decision
TRUMP: That's a question. They have a very big market share. I'll be involved in that decision
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
a corrupt act everyday. appropriate he's there with melania since she just set up a company to collect bribes.
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No print mags have the reach they once did. But it's notable to me that I keep seeing articles like this in People, very broad-spectrum, apolitical, at least in my experience. Gives a sense of how much this stuff is breaking through.
They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens...
"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
Immigrants Approved for Citizenship ‘Plucked Out’ of Line Moments Before Pledging Allegiance: Report
Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the ceremony. The incident comes after USCIS told employees to halt all immigrat...
people.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
No print mags have the reach they once did. But it's notable to me that I keep seeing articles like this in People, very broad-spectrum, apolitical, at least in my experience. Gives a sense of how much this stuff is breaking through.
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All right, tonight's local urgent needs.
No new wishlists; have not heard from the single mama with the renting/houselessness issues.
So tonight, it's going to be medical-related crowdfunds.
No new wishlists; have not heard from the single mama with the renting/houselessness issues.
So tonight, it's going to be medical-related crowdfunds.
December 8, 2025 at 2:54 AM
All right, tonight's local urgent needs.
No new wishlists; have not heard from the single mama with the renting/houselessness issues.
So tonight, it's going to be medical-related crowdfunds.
No new wishlists; have not heard from the single mama with the renting/houselessness issues.
So tonight, it's going to be medical-related crowdfunds.
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Here’s the link to her gofundme if anyone has the capacity to donate. www.gofundme.com/f/ice-took-m...
December 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Here’s the link to her gofundme if anyone has the capacity to donate. www.gofundme.com/f/ice-took-m...
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"WELL TELL HIM TO PUT IT BACK"
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
"WELL TELL HIM TO PUT IT BACK"
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Today #RFKjr is walking back life saving vaccines. We used to understand what that meant. My article, below. 🧪🗃️
When Paul woke, he couldn’t move. A tent surrounded him, too foggy to see through. The humidity was supposed to help, but in the damp darkness he felt only fear. In a scene that predates the Matrix by 50 years, he was one kid in a sea of many, each in a metal pod and plugged in to machinery. #Polio
American Ingenuity Beat the Polio Outbreak—So Why Risk Letting It Return?
We should, none of us, consent to going back to the past…
medium.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Today #RFKjr is walking back life saving vaccines. We used to understand what that meant. My article, below. 🧪🗃️
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Wow, an extraordinary generous offer from a Bolts reader:
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Russ is offering to match any contribution you make to Bolts (just let him know)!
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December 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Wow, an extraordinary generous offer from a Bolts reader:
Russ is offering to match any contribution you make to Bolts (just let him know)!
And he'll also throw in an additional $$ for each repost of his post, or each new follow @boltsmag.org gets. So at least smash those share or follow buttons!
Russ is offering to match any contribution you make to Bolts (just let him know)!
And he'll also throw in an additional $$ for each repost of his post, or each new follow @boltsmag.org gets. So at least smash those share or follow buttons!
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Hey folks: this morning we're launching a monthlong fundraiser for @techdirt.com. Over the last year, we've been steadfast in not self-censoring, not capitulating, not sanewashing bullshit. But that's come at a cost. And we need help: rtb.techdirt.com/products/fri...
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December 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Hey folks: this morning we're launching a monthlong fundraiser for @techdirt.com. Over the last year, we've been steadfast in not self-censoring, not capitulating, not sanewashing bullshit. But that's come at a cost. And we need help: rtb.techdirt.com/products/fri...
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You know what to do!!!!!
here’s another Portland-area fundraiser for a family torn apart by ICE. husband shipped to Tacoma, wife just gave birth to twins www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-aid...
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
You know what to do!!!!!
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I think a lot of people don't realize how difficult it is to get accommodations for disability. in school, at work. there are invariably tons of hoops; it's slow. often it's humiliating.
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I think a lot of people don't realize how difficult it is to get accommodations for disability. in school, at work. there are invariably tons of hoops; it's slow. often it's humiliating.
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All 50,000 panels of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt has been fully digitized.
You can search Duane's name and see the panel he made. And someone else made a panel for him, too.
www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-...
You can search Duane's name and see the panel he made. And someone else made a panel for him, too.
www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-...
December 21, 2023 at 3:46 PM
All 50,000 panels of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt has been fully digitized.
You can search Duane's name and see the panel he made. And someone else made a panel for him, too.
www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-...
You can search Duane's name and see the panel he made. And someone else made a panel for him, too.
www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-...
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I put together a list of thrifting, mending, and making gift ideas for all ages and skill levels 🛍️
Give the gift of slow fashion this holiday season » Yale Climate Connections
With gifts like sewing classes, thrift-store shopping sprees, and repair kits, you can give the gift of quality clothes while also sticking it to the fast fashion machine.
yaleclimateconnections.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I put together a list of thrifting, mending, and making gift ideas for all ages and skill levels 🛍️
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we got about a jar of giardiniera worth of snow in Chicago
November 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
we got about a jar of giardiniera worth of snow in Chicago
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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The mayor of Akron, Ohio. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The mayor of Akron, Ohio. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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This thread is me sharing how I deal with prioritizing self care when I'm too fatigued or depressed to do self-care but I need to do self-care to stop being fatigued/depressed. Breaking it down to be as simple as possible in case you're on your last brain cell (and therefore most in need of it).
November 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This thread is me sharing how I deal with prioritizing self care when I'm too fatigued or depressed to do self-care but I need to do self-care to stop being fatigued/depressed. Breaking it down to be as simple as possible in case you're on your last brain cell (and therefore most in need of it).
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I went to an "ojos" training tonight hosted by New Orleans DSA and Union Migrante and thought I'd pass on new things I learned:
1. Low/old info ICE sighting posts are wreaking havoc on immigrant communities. Basically, incomplete or old info is actively harmful (even if ppl have good intentions)
1. Low/old info ICE sighting posts are wreaking havoc on immigrant communities. Basically, incomplete or old info is actively harmful (even if ppl have good intentions)
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I went to an "ojos" training tonight hosted by New Orleans DSA and Union Migrante and thought I'd pass on new things I learned:
1. Low/old info ICE sighting posts are wreaking havoc on immigrant communities. Basically, incomplete or old info is actively harmful (even if ppl have good intentions)
1. Low/old info ICE sighting posts are wreaking havoc on immigrant communities. Basically, incomplete or old info is actively harmful (even if ppl have good intentions)
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this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
November 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.