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seranine
@seranine.bsky.social
· Feb 24
i keep getting tons of notifications for new followers but my follower count remains about the same, so, there's massive turnover, people expecting follow-for-follow, which i don't do. i'm here to stay connected with people i know in person or otherwise very well, and a handful of creators i like.
“I’m not necessarily an environmentalist on all land, but I’m definitely an environmentalist on my land. That is a very common flavor of West Texas landowner... From an environmental perspective, they could probably care less about saving the whales, but they care a whole lot about their land.”
I've written a lot about the abandoned well crisis in this country. It's an environmental and climate disaster but also a financial disaster. This new article notes the financial reality about why nothing is done.
“They can’t, because it bankrupts the industry as we know it.”
“They can’t, because it bankrupts the industry as we know it.”
Meet the TikTok stars demanding oil companies clean up their mess
There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up.
www.motherjones.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“I’m not necessarily an environmentalist on all land, but I’m definitely an environmentalist on my land. That is a very common flavor of West Texas landowner... From an environmental perspective, they could probably care less about saving the whales, but they care a whole lot about their land.”
book?
i would simply pinky-swear whoever was administering the oath of office
you can count on me, bud
i would simply pinky-swear whoever was administering the oath of office
you can count on me, bud
omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
December 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
book?
i would simply pinky-swear whoever was administering the oath of office
you can count on me, bud
i would simply pinky-swear whoever was administering the oath of office
you can count on me, bud
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This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
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something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
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The "fawn" response will have us running around trying to fix problems we didn't create, & couldn't fix even if we wanted to-- but recovery is going to ask us to let some peoples' problems be THEIR problems, not ours. Which is harder than it sounds, for formerly parentified kids.
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 AM
The "fawn" response will have us running around trying to fix problems we didn't create, & couldn't fix even if we wanted to-- but recovery is going to ask us to let some peoples' problems be THEIR problems, not ours. Which is harder than it sounds, for formerly parentified kids.
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The gop will do this, but then also act like a poor kid on foodstamps buying a candy bar is the free loading that's ruining this country
Smh
Smh
The Trump administration said on Friday that it would waive an $11 million fine levied against Southwest Airlines over the company’s 2022 holiday travel meltdown, when the airline canceled nearly 17,000 flights. The penalty had been part of a fine imposed by the Biden administration.
Trump Administration Waives $11 Million Southwest Airlines Fine
The penalty was part of a fine imposed by the Biden administration after it determined the airline had failed to provide prompt customer service and refunds to passengers in 2022.
nyti.ms
December 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The gop will do this, but then also act like a poor kid on foodstamps buying a candy bar is the free loading that's ruining this country
Smh
Smh
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They're going to crown this MF as the nominee in 2028 and then bitch about why none of us voted for him.
This. This is exactly WHY the DNC's hand picked candidates lose. For saying stupid, moderate, right leaning, paper thin pandering horseshit like this.
This. This is exactly WHY the DNC's hand picked candidates lose. For saying stupid, moderate, right leaning, paper thin pandering horseshit like this.
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 AM
They're going to crown this MF as the nominee in 2028 and then bitch about why none of us voted for him.
This. This is exactly WHY the DNC's hand picked candidates lose. For saying stupid, moderate, right leaning, paper thin pandering horseshit like this.
This. This is exactly WHY the DNC's hand picked candidates lose. For saying stupid, moderate, right leaning, paper thin pandering horseshit like this.
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Agreed, "culturally normal" rhetoric is a middle school principal saying "the bullies wouldn't hassle you so much if you didn't provoke them by acting so f*ggy" instead of enforcing the district's anti-bullying policies.
December 7, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Agreed, "culturally normal" rhetoric is a middle school principal saying "the bullies wouldn't hassle you so much if you didn't provoke them by acting so f*ggy" instead of enforcing the district's anti-bullying policies.
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"Culturally normal" is just one big dog whistle to indicate to the shitty people that there are people he views as "culturally abnormal" who need to be fixed.
And he doesn't mean the fascists for whom that's actually a fair assessment.
And he doesn't mean the fascists for whom that's actually a fair assessment.
December 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
"Culturally normal" is just one big dog whistle to indicate to the shitty people that there are people he views as "culturally abnormal" who need to be fixed.
And he doesn't mean the fascists for whom that's actually a fair assessment.
And he doesn't mean the fascists for whom that's actually a fair assessment.
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Nah but who the fuck is Gavin Newsom to tell me what is normal? He be fully chubbed up in tight ass wranglers tearing down homeless encampments with his bare hands
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Nah but who the fuck is Gavin Newsom to tell me what is normal? He be fully chubbed up in tight ass wranglers tearing down homeless encampments with his bare hands
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Which is it man because you can’t say ‘be more normal’ back-to-back with ‘be less judgmental’ without a hint of irony because that’s just positioning yourself as cultural authority & then demanding the type of grace that by virtue of your immediately preceding statement you refuse to extend to us
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Which is it man because you can’t say ‘be more normal’ back-to-back with ‘be less judgmental’ without a hint of irony because that’s just positioning yourself as cultural authority & then demanding the type of grace that by virtue of your immediately preceding statement you refuse to extend to us
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The GOP is on a runaway train toward a cliff of failure bc of a lack of a plan to replace the ACA, leaving millions w/o health care.
"Republicans will likely pay a huge political price for such a course, dwarfing the drubbing they just took last month."
🧾 open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
"Republicans will likely pay a huge political price for such a course, dwarfing the drubbing they just took last month."
🧾 open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
New in PN: Republicans in the era of Late Trumpism
"As Trump’s political standing weakens along with his increasingly decrepit mind and body, his hold on the GOP is slipping. And the underlying political incoherence of the party that has only grown during his reign is being fully exposed."
"As Trump’s political standing weakens along with his increasingly decrepit mind and body, his hold on the GOP is slipping. And the underlying political incoherence of the party that has only grown during his reign is being fully exposed."
Republicans in the era of Late Trumpism
The end is in sight — and it's not pretty for the GOP.
www.publicnotice.co
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The GOP is on a runaway train toward a cliff of failure bc of a lack of a plan to replace the ACA, leaving millions w/o health care.
"Republicans will likely pay a huge political price for such a course, dwarfing the drubbing they just took last month."
🧾 open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
"Republicans will likely pay a huge political price for such a course, dwarfing the drubbing they just took last month."
🧾 open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
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When Pete Hegseth tweeted he was investigating me, Gabby laughed and laughed.
December 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
When Pete Hegseth tweeted he was investigating me, Gabby laughed and laughed.
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If Virginia Democrats follow through with a new 10-1 congressional map and a couple of other Dem states make small changes, Trump's gambit to rig the 2026 maps will be remembered as an epic blunder.
December 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If Virginia Democrats follow through with a new 10-1 congressional map and a couple of other Dem states make small changes, Trump's gambit to rig the 2026 maps will be remembered as an epic blunder.
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More than half of Americans lack confidence in their ability to retire when they want and to sustain a comfortable life, according to a 2024 poll by the Bipartisan Policy Center.
How much money you should save for a comfortable retirement
More than half of Americans lack confidence in their ability to retire when they want and to sustain a comfortable life, according to a 2024 poll by the Bipartisan Policy Center.
nbcnews.to
December 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
More than half of Americans lack confidence in their ability to retire when they want and to sustain a comfortable life, according to a 2024 poll by the Bipartisan Policy Center.
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The GOP-majority Supreme Court will issue a ruling on Trump's executive order banning birthright citizenship, one more step in the president's plot to take away citizenship for the US-born children of immigrants.
The plot against birthright citizenship
The incoming Trump administration wants to take away citizenship for the US-born children of undocumented immigrants. Here's how.
www.motherjones.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The GOP-majority Supreme Court will issue a ruling on Trump's executive order banning birthright citizenship, one more step in the president's plot to take away citizenship for the US-born children of immigrants.
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Science is essential to managing wildlife populations, but there are limits to what we know.
The mystery of wildlife and a world beyond our understanding - High Country News
Science is essential to managing wildlife populations, but there are limits to what we know.
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Science is essential to managing wildlife populations, but there are limits to what we know.
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Hegseth's war crime spree. Trump's pardons and prosecutions. A big blue wave on the horizon. We break down the week's biggest stories on today's Coffee Klatch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUUA...
The “Peace President” Kills Again | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
YouTube video by Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hegseth's war crime spree. Trump's pardons and prosecutions. A big blue wave on the horizon. We break down the week's biggest stories on today's Coffee Klatch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUUA...
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There isn’t much for our Supreme Court to hear, the Constitution is already clear. And just to be absolutely clear: the Supreme Court does not have the power to overrule or rewrite our Constitution.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
There isn’t much for our Supreme Court to hear, the Constitution is already clear. And just to be absolutely clear: the Supreme Court does not have the power to overrule or rewrite our Constitution.
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Given that Republicans have been saying for over a decade that they believe “politics is downstream from culture,” we should probably assume that the fascist cultural products the administration is putting out are authentic expressions of their politics.
December 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Given that Republicans have been saying for over a decade that they believe “politics is downstream from culture,” we should probably assume that the fascist cultural products the administration is putting out are authentic expressions of their politics.
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Seth does a great job tracking the parallels between MAGA and historic American white supremacist movements. Their social media accounts are run by adroit trolls and groypers presenting an idealized white American homeland which means the official PR face of MAGA is unsubtle Nazi propaganda.
This DHS post in a fashy font features the sizzle reel of the raid on the Chicago apartment building, set to a cover of “Jesus Walks,” a song by Ye…an artist originally from Chicago who is now best known for his “Christian,” pro-Hitler stance. Very subtle.
December 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Seth does a great job tracking the parallels between MAGA and historic American white supremacist movements. Their social media accounts are run by adroit trolls and groypers presenting an idealized white American homeland which means the official PR face of MAGA is unsubtle Nazi propaganda.
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"American democracy is caught in a reality trap. More than ever, our media promises to beam real-life people into our homes and lives. Perhaps more than ever, we struggle to recognize the humanity in the people whose lives we are consuming as entertainment product."
American Freakshow: Our Reality TV-Driven Media Is Killing Our Democracy
The lurid details of Olivia Nuzzi's transgressions and the popularity of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives derive from the same culture of voyeurism.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"American democracy is caught in a reality trap. More than ever, our media promises to beam real-life people into our homes and lives. Perhaps more than ever, we struggle to recognize the humanity in the people whose lives we are consuming as entertainment product."