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Christina H

@crows-carlin.bsky.social
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NorCal girl transplanted to a small village near Cambridge, UK. Mum of a moxie-filled child who lives with multiple disabilities, wife of a super smart software wizard, and a now-retired civil service attorney. Medieval Studies Fangirl.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 12h
Jesus Christ Cornell
What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 29/09/2026
The dig at the Senator from Missouri about knowing Midwest sports teams was pretty savage. Gotta respect it.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
John Kennedy keeps asking Jack Smith questions about his wife. Smith repeatedly tells him he's not going to talk about his family.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It is often weakened by attacks on the institutions in the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January of 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every bit of this 👇
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do you know how much the pay of CEOs at major companies has skyrocketed since 1978? 50%? 100%? 500%? Try 1,316% Meanwhile, the typical workers’ compensation increased only 28%. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There has been a recent rash of "baby's in his find out era". 🤣🤣🤣
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wastelander007.bsky.social @wastelander007.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY…
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
they really think we are all idiots
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“When I was in kindergarten in 1961, I survived a near-fatal case of measles… my clearest memory of that period is my father carrying me to our station wagon & rushing me to the hospital. I stayed for a month, part of it in a coma, my blood pressure dangerously unstable” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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Measles almost killed me. Now I’m a doctor — and I'm scared of what's happening
Jewel Mullen was in kindergarten in 1961 when she almost died from measles. Now a physician, measles’ return frightens her.
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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fuck ICE. No one merits this treatment, citizen or not. But I think we all know the reason they focused their destructive attention on this man. It’s racial terrorism and, I think, meant for public consumption.… www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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Video: Videos Show ICE Agents Mistakenly Detaining U.S. Citizen
Federal immigration agents in Evanston, Ill., mistakenly detained a U.S. citizen, who was later released after he identified himself.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Smelling freshly brewed coffee briefly improves mood ☕ medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09... #TeamCoffee #TeamConfirmationBias‼️ Actually, a tiny study in an iffy journal. A good example of how underwhelming food – about coffee, wine, chocolate, etc – research can grab headlines. Still, 100% agree‼️
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Smelling freshly brewed coffee briefly improves mood, small study suggests
For millions around the globe, a freshly brewed cup of coffee is a wake-up drink first thing in the morning and a pick-me-up during a long, tedious workday. Scientists now have clues that it might be ...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every one of these people view their positions in the government as an opportunity to cash in on multiple grifts while traveling the world and having a great time at our expense.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“What are the names of the ICE agents who killed our dad? Why do they get to be protected?” #AbolishICE
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Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A Victorian ‘lady detective’ once shed her crinoline mid-chase, and kept right on going. Meet the scandalous 1860s pulp novels — sold for sixpence at railway stations — that invented the female sleuth, decades before Miss Marple ever picked up her knitting. lucyworsley.substack.com/p/the-first-...
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The Scandalous Victorian Novels That Invented the Female Detective
Long before Miss Marple, two 1860s heroines were solving crimes, dropping their crinolines, and shocking readers for sixpence a go
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
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Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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jcricket.bsky.social @jcricket.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Speaker is flat out LYING. Again.
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Kathleen Lenihan @kathleenlenihan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The entire article is fantastic, but the writer's definition of a trad wife is *chef's kiss* perfection. "Those are conservative women who dress like the women in The Sound of Music, but without the opposition to the Anschluss."
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Daramola @izdaramola.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
we’re in an existential fight right now against an increasingly fascist Christianity using the cudgel of trans people as its soapbox, but dont forget that so much of this sports nonsense comes down to men’s unwavering belief that the most athletic women in the world can be taken down by some guy
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Christina H @crows-carlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is horrific. I even hated the question at all my primary care doctor visits where they ask when the date of my last period was. They don't ask when my last anything else was...meal, drink, day at the gym. FFS I will ask if I have concerns.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bob
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy
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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Regular reminder that JG Ballard’s final novel, “Kingdom Come” (2006), is about a far-right English town which creates their own militarised breakaway state in a shopping mall, where they worship the gods of St George and consumerism. Old JG wrote it as tongue-in-cheek satire. At the time.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He may be an idiot, but he just perfectly explained His Magasty's wet dream, didn't he?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
via Ministry of Wibble
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Is America *really* a Christian nation? youtu.be/GDrDcBoLako?...
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Is America Really a Christian Nation?
YouTube video by Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This take is conservative, Danish, and very much correct.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."
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Karen Dalton Beninato @kbeninato.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Saw it in the window and couldn't resist." RIP Bob Mackie, creator of the funniest Carol Burnett entrance dress of all time.
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Carol Burnett's Iconic Curtain Rod Dress Sketch
Alt: Carol Burnett's Iconic Curtain Rod Dress Sketch
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Your ChatGPT chats are not private, and humans are reading them. Anthropic's Claude too. More here: www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I wrote this brief guide to the six women on the Bazzy Tap - three of whom have their bits out
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Ælfgif-who’s who? Bayeux Tapestry edition
Six women appear on the Bayeaux Tapestry - who are they?
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“We’re so pro-life, we’ll kill every last one of you motherfuckers in ways you didn’t even imagine.”
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Reform UK’s record donations risk Americanising British politics unherd.com/newsroom/ref...
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Reform UK’s record donations risk Americanising British politics
For all the failings of modern British politics, one virtue has largely remained: big money plays little role in deciding our elections. We stand in stark contrast to the United States, where this…
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Christina H @crows-carlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you're not alarmed by warrantless arrests like this...go read some damn history. 1930's Germany.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Measles
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
HOLY SHIT - Tapper plays Johnson footage of GOP candidate Brandon Herrera describing moms as "cum trophies," mentions he called Nazi machine guns "the original ghetto blasters," & asks Johnson how he can support him. Mike says "he has run a very effective campaign ... that was his persona online"
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Daily Reminder: SOCIAL SECURITY IS OUR MONEY!
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