Sandy D.
@sldunav.bsky.social
Michigander with an interest in history, archaeology, nature, feminism, and books of all kinds
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The other reporters in the White House press corps are apparently waiting until the president actually takes a swing at one of their female colleagues before they say anything
December 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The other reporters in the White House press corps are apparently waiting until the president actually takes a swing at one of their female colleagues before they say anything
Aurora Canyon in Starved Rock State Park in northern Illinois. A 10 minute walk west from the Lodge!
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Aurora Canyon in Starved Rock State Park in northern Illinois. A 10 minute walk west from the Lodge!
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Karoline Leavitt on what she expected for today’s demonstrations: “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, violent criminals.”
Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party”
Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.”
NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.
Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party”
Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.”
NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.
October 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Karoline Leavitt on what she expected for today’s demonstrations: “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, violent criminals.”
Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party”
Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.”
NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.
Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party”
Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.”
NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.
Favorite sign you didn’t get a photo of? (Or did if you’ve got one!)
Make dystopia fiction again!
Make dystopia fiction again!
October 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Favorite sign you didn’t get a photo of? (Or did if you’ve got one!)
Make dystopia fiction again!
Make dystopia fiction again!
Got my new covid booster in less than 10 minutes and got a good coupon
September 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Got my new covid booster in less than 10 minutes and got a good coupon
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Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding. Gift link: nyti.ms/47PHvI8
nyti.ms
August 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding. Gift link: nyti.ms/47PHvI8
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We need a word for someone who is beyond perverse, sadistic, sociopathic. Blocking mRNA vaccine research means that you or someone you love will die of something you could have avoided or survived. He is intentionally killing people.
RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research
The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.
www.nbcnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
We need a word for someone who is beyond perverse, sadistic, sociopathic. Blocking mRNA vaccine research means that you or someone you love will die of something you could have avoided or survived. He is intentionally killing people.
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We’ll keep holding power to account at a time when government policies are directly targeting medical research and environmental protections—and we’ll be focusing on impacts inside the United States and worldwide.
www.wired.com/story/how-tr...
www.wired.com/story/how-tr...
How Trump Killed Cancer Research
Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.
www.wired.com
July 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
We’ll keep holding power to account at a time when government policies are directly targeting medical research and environmental protections—and we’ll be focusing on impacts inside the United States and worldwide.
www.wired.com/story/how-tr...
www.wired.com/story/how-tr...
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Except for the tiny, tiny, minuscule (I hate to even mention it) quibble that we have no evidence they’ve done any crimes, these are the worst of the worst
How to Tell If Someone Is a Criminal (According to the DHS)
“Except for the tiny, tiny, minuscule quibble that we have no evidence they’ve done any crimes, these people deserve to be locked up.”
www.theatlantic.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Except for the tiny, tiny, minuscule (I hate to even mention it) quibble that we have no evidence they’ve done any crimes, these are the worst of the worst
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For the first time since she was freed from an immigration prison, Rümeysa Öztürk speaks. And she does so by ... writing:
"Writing is the heart of freedom of expression. Unbelievably, this single opinion piece, published in our student newspaper, would lead to my arrest and detention."
"Writing is the heart of freedom of expression. Unbelievably, this single opinion piece, published in our student newspaper, would lead to my arrest and detention."
“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
www.vanityfair.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
For the first time since she was freed from an immigration prison, Rümeysa Öztürk speaks. And she does so by ... writing:
"Writing is the heart of freedom of expression. Unbelievably, this single opinion piece, published in our student newspaper, would lead to my arrest and detention."
"Writing is the heart of freedom of expression. Unbelievably, this single opinion piece, published in our student newspaper, would lead to my arrest and detention."
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Sooo DuckDuckGo is officially goated. WHAT?!
You mean I don’t need to download complicated website blacklist plug-ins? I can just turn this shit off???
You mean I don’t need to download complicated website blacklist plug-ins? I can just turn this shit off???
July 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Sooo DuckDuckGo is officially goated. WHAT?!
You mean I don’t need to download complicated website blacklist plug-ins? I can just turn this shit off???
You mean I don’t need to download complicated website blacklist plug-ins? I can just turn this shit off???
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Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call.
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE
July 12, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call.
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE
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She’s right again, you know. She usually is.
July 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
She’s right again, you know. She usually is.
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There was a survey a few weeks ago that found half of Americans thought ICE was just hunting criminals. The institutional press have failed to make clear ICE’s primary strategy today is capturing people through the use of compliance traps, and shipping them off to substandard prisons in the South.
ICE is also the fault of a complicit press.
How, where and who did ICE recruit? Why isn't every newspaper in the country devoting themselves to finding out who is in this brand new secret police force that now terrorizes America?
It's the definition of newsworthy. The answer is: they're afraid.
How, where and who did ICE recruit? Why isn't every newspaper in the country devoting themselves to finding out who is in this brand new secret police force that now terrorizes America?
It's the definition of newsworthy. The answer is: they're afraid.
June 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
There was a survey a few weeks ago that found half of Americans thought ICE was just hunting criminals. The institutional press have failed to make clear ICE’s primary strategy today is capturing people through the use of compliance traps, and shipping them off to substandard prisons in the South.
I think this was my favorite sign from today’s protest in Saline, MI
June 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I think this was my favorite sign from today’s protest in Saline, MI
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All we want is healthcare.
June 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
All we want is healthcare.
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This times a trillion.
May 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This times a trillion.
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everyone even mildly into polar exploration knows how badly vitamin A can fuck you up, and seeing the Health Secretary of the US recommend megadoses to measles patients made me so mad i wrote about it. im so angry at this malthusian ghoul buttondown.com/theswordandt...
The Poisoning of the American Mind
The winds at Cape Denison on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, photographed by Frank Hurley, 1912 In the emptiness of Antarctica, on a desolate stretch...
buttondown.com
May 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
everyone even mildly into polar exploration knows how badly vitamin A can fuck you up, and seeing the Health Secretary of the US recommend megadoses to measles patients made me so mad i wrote about it. im so angry at this malthusian ghoul buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident.
May 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident.
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Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk:
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
Now from Öztürk’s ACLU lawyer Esha Bhandari:
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
May 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk:
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks