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casscasso.bsky.social

@casscasso.bsky.social
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Self-exiled Jewish New Mexican writer/editor nonprofit professional living in Spain with wee kiddos. (former New Yorker) (hibernating poet) (thoughts here own me)

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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 4h
So impressive all the thoughtful work you have done. I hope it helps you and yours weather the storm. We fled the country as soon as we could, which took several months. Definitely so many of our family and friends thought we were overreacting and didn’t understand. But unfortunately soon they did.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/10/2026
Sorry, MAHA moms. These grifters only cared about commodifying your anxieties. They never cared about protecting you and your kids.
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am sick and tired of seeing this shit. DOGE was not a "missed opportunity," it was an intentional effort by billionaire oligarchs to destroy the federal government's capacity to do good things for the American people.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I came here to say this.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Good morning to you too! Yes, he thought about how hurt, horrified, and enraged many people would be by a statement like that from him on their day of mourning and cared enough about their reaction not to say it.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That he is holding Israel to a different standard than his own country (even as his own innocent constituents are being snatched off the streets and imprisoned in horrific conditions and deported to dangerous places by an agency created in the aftermath of 9/11) is a classic mark of antisemitism.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This was my thought as well. It is telling that in all his 9/11 posts he honored the dead and the bravery of the first responders and did not once mention the wars the US unleashed that involved war crimes, torture, and millions dead. (Including a “War on Terror” on its own people, ongoing today.)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And they mix up their messages between selling you a magical mystery machine that effortlessly does everything for you instantly…but you better be quick because if you don’t use this incredibly powerful tool right now you will never be able to figure it out and everyone will leave you behind.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fantastic
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Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com · 03/10/2026
Self Portrait, 2026
Self portrait. Glasses on top of two tissues
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Corporate profits now represent 14.9% of GDP, the highest share on record going back to 1947 Citadel Rubner
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Run for your life! (Actually, in seriousness, that’s a cool shot with the angles of the roofs and geometry in the sky.)
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oof. I hope all goes well and you’re out in a jiffy. Feel better!
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Better Call Saul was much better
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Incredible scenes across the pond.
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Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding thousands of detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, an unannounced move that has made it far more difficult for lawyers and relatives to find them. apnews.com/article/ice-...
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Catalonia (in Spain) is dark green on Eurostat map, but not red on the other. Ditto for Paris as well as regions in Sweden and Norway. Back in Spain, Aragon is not dark green, but is red on other map. Same with Galicia.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’m confused, the map with the red regions doesn’t correlate correctly with the Eurostat ones?
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 19/09/2026
i am not generally the kind of person who can diagnose car problems from the sound the engine makes. but it's easy when the sound is incessant meowing
a kitten hiding in the engine block of a car
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Reminds me of this…https://youtu.be/d6SPV4GZp-U?si=O_hNp9aeKv_kDFY3
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I hadn’t seen these, amazing.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mazel tov!! And I love your shirt.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oopsie daisy!
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We barely escaped once after a car hit a huge telephone post in front of our house &burst into flames. If it had been just a few feet over, it would have gone into our living room. The post was so cracked, technicians had to set up an elaborate web of supports to keep it from crashing down on us.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This guy had a series of signs and self-made barriers in his yard after his house was hit over and over by cars www.cleveland19.com/2025/12/16/c...
cleveland19.com
Cleveland Heights funds redesign of ‘Where’s My Guardrail?’ intersection
John Gall started with a sign that read, “Where’s My Guardrail?” in his front yard after a car hit his house.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Alas, no. It is its own beautiful beast.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Learning Catalan is doing this to me too. Some aspects are similar to Spanish so I’m almost comfortable, but then other words, rules, or pronunciations are totally different or more similar to Italian, Portuguese, or French. Please is “si us plau” for example. My brain is basically a language soup.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My favorite is that they always forget the Indian population was there first, and are really the only ones who can claim to be really from there following this train of logic. They don’t like being reminded of that tho haha.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Then there is the amazing Zozobra, a giant “old man gloom” puppet several stories tall that a mob of people gather around and chant “burn him burn him!” while fire dancers taunt him until setting him afire and the crowd cheers in glee as he turns to ashes amid his moans.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yes, basically it is a big party in the city with parades, dances, etc that celebrates the “peaceful” reconquest of the city by the Spanish over the Pueblo Indians hundreds of years ago. People get mad as it gradually changes every year to be slightly less “haha we slaughtered your ancestors.”
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Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Vote Safe dot org (avoiding link creation) is an Elon Musk funded site that claims to register you to vote but just steals your information. AVOID www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Elon Musk is Running a Fake Voter Registration Site Designed to Steal and Sell Data
Musk's "VoteSafe.org" is a scam that doesn't actually register voters
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’ve literally started having nightmares about this…gen AI sucking all the humanity out of our interactions and all creativity out of our minds until everything is a sea of regurgitated, remixed thoughtlessness.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/09/2026
what do I know really though, I just want to live on a peaceful, habitable planet, on which all people are treated with dignity
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What a cutie!
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It really does. If we were birds, we’d be thrilled!
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What are you talking about? These look delicious and definitely not at all like festering bowls of slop rotting from within while a moldy eye watches the look of disgust on your face.
Close up on the image with two bowls filled with a red substance and a greenish substance. The surface of each is weirdly spongy. There is what is probably supposed to a leaf on each, but it is black and fuzzy.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If AI could also kill all the fruit flies and their families in my apartment, then maybe, just maybe it would all be worth it.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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lucaswaldron.bsky.social @lucaswaldron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New analysis from @propublica.org: Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
A chart showing the rate of deaths after an ectopic pregnancy, comparing states that banned abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 with those that did not. At the start of the chart, in 2014, the rate is higher in states with abortion bans, but the rates in the two groups of states are not far apart. The rate increases in both groups of states, but the climb is much steeper in states that banned abortion.
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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 09/09/2026
A new study shows the steep economic cost of 2025's ICE raids in Chicago. Fear kept many immigrants home, draining the area of more than $1.26 billion in lost retail, restaurant, and sales-tax revenue.
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New report shows the economic toll of ICE raids
A new study shows the steep economic cost of 2025's ICE raids in Chicago. Fear kept many immigrants home, draining the area of more than $1.26 billion in lost retail, restaurant, and sales-tax revenue.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What an amazing program! Though this part, eeps: “Sometimes, people show up at the library, or even the front desk of the museum, with dead animals they think might be of use, forcing employees to politely tell them that the museum does not accept carcasses without prior arrangement.”
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I read the headline and first thought this was about renting a gas-powered car 🤪.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/09/2026
A question we could face ourselves: what might we do differently, if we accepted that the police are not failing to protect the public, but telling us who they believe is worthy of protection?
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Filed my piece... not sure it was what they wanted, but had no energy to write about the details of Saxony-Anhalt... People need to understand that we are in a different reality, where the main fight is for liberal democracy, rather than between different types of liberal democracy.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I was hoping the polls were very wrong. Sigh.
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Oh thank you for this! My daughter is obsessed with Rick Riordan, and sad now that she’s read all his books. We can barely keep her supplied, she reads so fast. She understands she won’t read any JKR and why. Great to have more options to add to our list!
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casscasso.bsky.social @casscasso.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ah, middle age… when you get sore after a casual game of ping pong.
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