Shirley
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Shirley
@surlyshirley.bsky.social
Is this thing on?
You’ve all seen this already, right?

indulgentgeek.net/2025/12/22/l...
Leaked 60 Minutes Report on CECOT
The Trump administration wanting this story killed is exactly why we need to make sure everyone sees it.
indulgentgeek.net
December 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Crazy sunset
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Ugh. NYTimes failing again…
This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
December 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I don’t remember where I was when I heard of the deaths of John Lennon or Elvis, but I’ll never forget hearing that D Boon was gone 😢
D. Boon died this date in 1985... I saw Minutemen play a few shows in college and met him. I was so NOT a punk kid but was a budding lefty. He quizzed ME: What do you think of...? Have you read...? When I learned he'd died, I surprised myself and sobbed. Boy could we use him now... Rest in Power
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Two of the most despicable assholes in the country coming at our mayor 😡

www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...
Elon Musk calls Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther a 'traitor to America'
Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther drew the ire of several high-profile right-wing figures over the weekend.
www.dispatch.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Happy 8th night of Hanukkah, happy solstice
December 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Tonight in Columbus
December 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I’m easy to buy for
December 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
At least my representative spoke up…or tried to
The process by which the Kennedy Center was renamed to honor Trump was about as bad as you assumed donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
December 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I’d like to think I’d be that quick on my feet, too
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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of all of the things I am going to not watch, this is the thing I am going to not watch the most
December 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Déjà vu
BREAKING: Jack Smith just revealed that Trump broke the law, in his statement to the House.

"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
December 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Is this normal? Apparently Patriots owner Robert Kraft is a Drumph buddy 🤔
@jjindc.bsky.social

Good news: not being used to render shackled human beings
Bad news: being used to take VT Air National Guard members to Puerto Rico to fight and die in a pointless and stupid war.
December 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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A beautiful Rob Reiner memory thread:
I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
December 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
December 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
🤯
The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.

56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.

Read that back.
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Misuse of the word “hapless” aside, this is spot-on
In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.
The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.

Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
December 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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This is an instant classic.
December 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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The lawsuit I didn’t know I was waiting for. 🙏 gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4oRY378
National Trust sues to stop Trump’s ballroom construction
The organization, which is charged by Congress with historic preservation, is seeking to halt construction on one of the president’s priorities.
wapo.st
December 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM