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Lydia Mong @lydiamong.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

A chilling read. Vhttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/national-security-strategy-democracy/685270/?gift=52kn2n2QUncIXCJue8x_XJthrblYN3Nyuy8FuucXM7w

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The Longest Suicide Note in American History

The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.

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Lydia Mong @lydiamong.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

theconversation.com/i-have-it-in... This article is a tough read, but should be required reading for everyone. I can’t imagine how difficult it was for the interviewers on the project to record so much horror. And to think that these transcripts were hidden until the 1990s. #history

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‘I have it in my blood and brain … I still haven’t been able to shake this nightmare off.’ How voices from a forgotten archive of Nazi horrors are reshaping perceptions of the Holocaust

The Ravensbrück archive reveals how being a survivor of the camps did not always entail innocence.

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Mountain State Spotlight @mtnstspotlight.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

NEW: West Virginia has collected $34 million from its medical cannabis program. It hasn’t spent a penny. mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/10/22/3...

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Lydia Mong @lydiamong.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

“…the two transmission lines would cost West Virginians more than $440 million over the next 40 years.”

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 04/08/2025

The witch hunts of 1400-1780 and today's misinformation crisis have striking parallels. Both were fueled by new media technologies that allowed false information to spread rapidly and widely. buff.ly/KzabXlL By Julie Walsh @wellesley.edu

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From printing presses to Facebook feeds: What yesterday’s witch hunts have in common with today’s misinformation crisis

Who bears responsibility when false information leads to real harm?

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John W Dean @johnwdean.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

What a horror story. Why would anyone come to the USA for a vacation? Story of a Swiss woman detained in humiliating conditions at JFK + in NJ detention before being deported. www.nzz.ch/english/you-...

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Swiss woman is denied entry at the US border and detained

«You have no right to be here.» A teacher wanted to celebrate her birthday in New York. Instead, she was jailed in New Jersey before being deported. A lawyer warns that something similar could happen ...

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Lydia Mong @lydiamong.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

This is an outstanding read! Seven and a half chapters that will make you think differently about how you think.

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Lydia Mong @lydiamong.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Beautifully written essay that makes my heart hurt.

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Lydia Mong @lydiamong.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Tour of "the Scottish play" happening now in WV. I saw them at the beginning of the tour and this performance of Shakespeare's MACBETH is outstanding. If you can go see, DO! #ShakespeareinWV

Mon. March 31 at 7p - MACBETH @ Glenville State
Thur. April 3 at 10:15a & 7p - MACBETH @ Wheeling University
Sun. April 6 at 5p - MACBETH @ WV Botanic Garden (Morgantown, WV)
Mon. April 7 at 7p - MACBETH @ Fairmont State University
Sun. April 13 at 3p - MACBETH @ Strand Theatre (Moundsville)
Thur. April 17 at TBD - MACBETH @ Capital High School (Charleston, WV)
Mon. April 21 at 6p - Shakespeareaoke @ American Shakespeare Center (Staunton, VA)
Tue. April 22 at 10a - Workshop @ American Shakespeare Center (Staunton, VA)
- WV Week of Will 2025 -
Wed. April 23 at 6p - Bard's Birthday Bash @ VTC
Thur. April 24 at 6p - Meet the Author: Upon the Corner of the Moon @ VTC
Fri. April 25 at 7p - Mtn State Student Shakespeare Showcase @ VTC
Sat. April 26 at 3p - MACBETH at VTC
Sun. April 27 at 3p - MACBETH at VTC
Mon. April 28 at 930a - MACBETH at VTC
Tue. April 29 at 930a - MACBETH at VTC

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This is insane. Arguably the greatest achievement of the first Trump administration was Operation Warp Speed. And mRNA technology has tremendous potential. Recall recent news that mRNA vaccines show promise against pancreatic cancer in early trials www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...

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Lydia Mong @lydiamong.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Vulture Capitalism — a most apt term.

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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?" It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine. #SlavaUkraini #Dontabandonthem

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"Puppets on a Kremlin String?" - Marsh Family adaptation of Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" on Trump/Vance

YouTube video by Marsh Family

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Americans tend to equate someone having money with someone having ability. Perhaps, watching idiots like Donald Trump and Elon Musk ruin everything will dispel that superficial assumption. People get money for all kinds of reasons, some legal, that have nothing to do with ability. #RichFathers

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Lydia Mong @lydiamong.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Judging from the number of cat vs dog pics on my timeline, I think most Bsky users are cat people. More dogs, please. I’m loving @wolfdaily.bsky.social 🐺.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Here’s an opportunity to help some kids and get some cookies 🍪 digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/sixk34....

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Lydia Mong @lydiamong.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Sex is so complicated. "In White-throated Sparrows, we see “masculine” and “feminine” traits distributing themselves in a manner clearly orthogonal to gonadal sex." www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-ba...

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This Backyard Bird Has a Lot to Teach Us about Sex Variability

White-throated Sparrows demonstrate that traits we usually associate with sex can be influenced by genes that are not on sex chromosomes

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Lydia Mong @lydiamong.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Little known fact: West Virginia has a professional touring Shakespeare troupe called The Rustic Mechanicals. I got to see their final dress rehearsal last night — a truly outstanding performance of the Scottish play. #ShakespearienceWV More details at www.instagram.com/p/DGBvzk9PvM...

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WIRED @wired.com · 17/02/2025

No, 150-year-olds aren't collecting Social Security benefits. Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud; but there's a much simpler explanation.

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No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits

Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There's a much simpler explanation.

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Lydia Mong @lydiamong.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

It would seem that a knowledge and understanding of history in the realm of computer programming is as essential as a knowledge and understanding of political, social, and economic history.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14/02/2025

When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted. Yet somehow Musk isn't.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 14/02/2025

How God and good men hate so foul a liar.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

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KellyK🌺 @azkellyk.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

🚨 The CDC has been silenced by Trump—stay informed with daily AMA updates. The MMWR typically runs 20–25 pages with four or more reports on disease investigations, health trends, and public health developments. Last Thursday’s edition, 8 pages with two reports. www.yahoo.com/news/voice-c...

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

every day we see more and more evidence of society descending into utter lawlessness and chaos

A seagull drinks from a container marked “DOGS ONLY, NO SEAGULLS.”

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judicia[l] in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self–appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." (James Madison, Federalist No. 51, 1788)

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 04/02/2025

An important follow up to his first post about how we're absolutely in the middle of a coup, @brockm.bsky.social explains how simply calling out the truth in the face of a bombardment of lies is critical. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/04/t...

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To Stop The Coup, We Must Be Clear About The Truth: Two Plus Two Equals Four

In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the ultimate act of rebellion comes when Winston Smith insists that two plus two equals four, defying a system that demands he accept whatever re…

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Why does the world’s richest man, a man no one voted for, have access to my Social Security number?

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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Because the media is already getting everything as wrong as they possibly can, let's go over what actually happened with Colombia yesterday. Under Biden/Harris, Colombia accepted more than 400 deportation flights, 120 just in 2024 alone. These were normal commercial planes. 1/

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

What a lie. Here's the Supreme Court in 2012 making clear that simply being in the country without permission is NOT a crime: "As a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain present in the United States." It's a civil violation, not a crime.

s a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain present in the United States. See INS v. Lopez-Mendoza, 468 U.S. 1032, 1038 (1984). If the police stop someone based on nothing more than possible removability, the usual predicate for an arrest is absent. When an alien is suspected of being removable, a federal official issues an administrative document called a Notice to Ap- pear. See 8 U. S. C. §1229(a); 8 CFR §239.1(a) (2012). The form does not authorize an arrest. Instead, it gives the alien information about the proceedings, including the time and date of the removal hearing. See 8 U. S. C. §1229(a)(1). If an alien fails to appear, an in absentia order may direct removal. §1229a(5)(A).

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