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Madhouse Muse

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Polyglot; global citizen; hater of the current zeitgeist Obsessively measuring CO2 😷 and capturing beauty 📸 Buyer of physical media 📀📼📚

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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Thank you @leftbankbooks.bsky.social for sending 2 bookmarks in my beautifully packaged copy of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social 's book THEY KNEW. It's great to receive a pristine copy from an indie bookstore that clearly cares about books (unlike the online behemoth where >40% of books come damaged 🙄).
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
😢 Her reporting was indispensable during the early years of covid. It's thanks to her that I kept my N95 even after getting my first covid vaccine. RIP Helen Branswell.
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Souffleur de feuilles 👇 (et la voix de Trump. 🙉)
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 12/10/2026
This is just the latest in a long series of abuses by the Trump administration in its obsessive quest to surveil and prosecute reporters who covered a January protest at a MN church. It's obviously unconstitutional, but it's also an outrageous waste of taxpayer money to pursue a vindictive grudge.
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A great way to end the weekend. Thank you for sharing!
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
20 years ago today Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s most prominent investigative journalists, was murdered. I found no mention of the anniversary in today's Russian newspapers. #ReadingRussia
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Russian papers silent on the 20th anniversary of journalist's murder
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
C'est la partie la plus frustrante ! Nous pouvons dénoncer leurs mensonges, mais nous faisons la même chose depuis cinq ans avec le covid dans nos soi-disant nations démocratiques. Obscurcir, cacher les données, mentir – même manuel. 🙄
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Moi aussi ! Je viens de le revoir il y a deux jours. Excellente série et difficile de ne pas voir le parallèle avec ce qui se passe maintenant, ou avec le début du covid.
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More than 500 US citizens have been detained, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint in Trump’s ICE immigration crackdown. Read @propublica.org 's report. projects.propublica.org/american-cit... | #CivilRights #ICE
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Californians on war in Iran: "Let 'em take out the White House, let 'em take out Mar-a-Lago. This is a very small price to pay."
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Why is a woman still not safe @treemuseums.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Anyone still supporting Aus Labor should watch & listen to Sarah Kendzior & other's discussions of the complicit role of the Democrats in setting up the authoritarian apparatus the Trump regime uses to oppress & terrorise 👇 As Albanese, Minns etc keep turning the ratchet to the right #auspol
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pretty damning report on all the things LA city and county officials did wrong during the early hours of the Palisades and Eaton fires — confirming a lot of @latimes.com reporting. Speaks to need for huge investment in disaster response as climate change intensifies. www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Botched Altadena evacuations, dysfunction in Pacific Palisades: Long-awaited fire investigation identifies missteps
The report provides the most frank and in-depth review of the Eaton and Palisades fires, and points out multiple shortcomings in governmental planning and response.
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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“We hope that other cities will take it as a lesson: We don’t have to bow down [to] the fascist deportation machine. We certainly don’t have to let its perpetrators benefit from our local economies and infrastructure." - Alderman Andre Vasquez
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have discovered this to be true! Wearing a keffiyeh is also a great asshole repellant.
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amnesty International now officially calls for abolishing ICE.
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Greg Palast @gregpalast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In 2020, Ken Paxton stole Texas for Trump by blocking 2.5 million mail-in ballots in Harris County [Houston]. And he can do it again. The attack on mail-in ballots and drop boxes, unseen by the media, will determine the midterms nationwide. gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/how-paxton...
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How Paxton Will Steal Texas
The Senate candidate stole it for Trump, he can do it again.
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
September 26, 2003: The day the world ended on #TheLastOfUs
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DJ Maryalee Scarlet @djmaryaleescarlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social warned us all.
“Once an autocrat gets into office, it is very hard to get them out. They will disregard term limits, they will purge the agencies that enforce accountability, they will rewrite the law so that they are no longer breaking it. They will take your money, they will steal your freedom, and if they are clever, they will eliminate any structural protections you had before the majority realizes the extent of the damage.”
― Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Disappointing but not surprising that Rob Bonta dropped the lawsuit. He didn't have the support of CA Governor Gavin Newsom, who wants to stay on good terms with media behemoth Paramount so he can get favorable coverage for his 2028 presidential run on CBS (& their other subsidiaries).
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Wars and tariffs may get the blame for inflation, but they have a costly accomplice: climate change" Yeah but the climate didn't decide to overheat itself, so let's call this what it is: Big-Oilflation. Pollutionflation. Lies-and-BSflation. Corrupt-lawmakerflation. Exxonflation. Shellflation etc
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Climate inflation is here
Climate change might be costing you hundreds of dollars a year.
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump's connection to Russia spans several decades. Read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social 's book "Hiding in Plain Sight". Also, investigative journalist Craig Unger has spent over 10 years untangling the web of connections between Donald Trump, Russian money & Kremlin. 👇 www.rsn.org/001/craig-un...
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Craig Unger: Trump Won’t Betray Putin After 40 Years of Russian Money
<p><dropcap>E</dropcap>ver wonder why a US president would consistently align with Russian interests for decades? Investigative journalist Craig Unger has spent over ten years untang...
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Sludge @sludge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NEW: One in five members of Congress reports investments in AI developers, chipmakers, cloud infrastructure providers, data center companies, or private AI startups, a Sludge analysis finds. Here Are the Members of Congress Invested in the AI Industry readsludge.com/2026/09/18/h...
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Here Are the Members of Congress Invested in the AI Industry
One in five members of Congress reports household investments in AI developers, chipmakers, cloud infrastructure providers, data center companies, or private AI startups, a Sludge analysis finds.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires. Reform has received £123.6m since 2019. £61m from Christopher Harborne living in Thailand, mentioned several times in Panama Papers. £44m from Ben Delo, recent returnee from Hong Kong, criminal conviction in the US.
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BREAKING: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires
“If that isn't a massive corruption risk I don't know what is.”
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So what are some of your favorite books that do both?
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A little-known Pentagon office staffed by Big Tech alums is dismantling safeguards and accelerating AI warfare as their former employers compete for lucrative military contracts.
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The Big Tech Alums Building Trump’s AI War Machine
A little-known Pentagon office staffed by Big Tech alums is dismantling safeguards and accelerating AI warfare as their former employers compete for lucrative military contracts.
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
UCLA has had a number of chancellors who attempted to silence dissent on campus: Franklin Murphy, Charles Young, Gene Block, just to name a few.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A lot of people have said to me “but why would the government lie about the risks from Covid?” And I’m sorry but the answer is always because capital is valued over lives and they want you to go back to work, it was true in the mines, true on the railroads, true post-9/11, and true now.
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll order it today. 👍
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I worked with Paul Verhoeven on a film. Definitely a strange man but I enjoyed his sense of humor!
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm not reading them in order, either. 😊 You are definitely not alone in appreciating her work. I wish I had found her work earlier but grateful to have discovered her Substack & social media posts. I bought 3 extra copies of Hiding in Plain Sight for friends. It's one way to get them to read it!
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thank you for writing these books! ❤️
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Usually, when I binge read the works of one author, it's fiction! The last one was Amor Towles. But Sarah Kendzior writes non-fictions in such an engaging way, I couldn't stop at just one (like Lays). 😉
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"America's worst crises are not born of partisan rancor but of bipartisan collusion." - Sarah Kendzior I've been on a binge-reading spree of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social 's books. I loved Hiding in Plain Sight, They Knew, & The Last American Road Trip. Next up: The View from Flyover Country #Books
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
At least 75 career federal officials who’d played important roles in elections have left, been fired or been reassigned. In their place are roughly two dozen people Trump installed in positions that could affect elections. Ten of them actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote. (Published April)
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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...
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Greg Proops @gregproops.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.” “Listen, honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.” “Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just haven’t been a part of history.”‬ -Ms. Gloria Steinem
With Dorothy Pitman Hughes“The truth will set you free, but it’s gonna piss you off first.”“Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just haven’t been a part of history.”‬With Ms. Dolly Parton
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem was a feminist icon and democracy defender who spent her life fighting for human rights. Her memory should inspire us all to do a little, or a lot, each day. Rest in Peace, Gloria Steinem. 💔
"Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy."
-Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Excellent segment, Professor!
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I got a chance to take a tour of the house and watched twilight descend on the city from that amazing house. It was breathtaking! Here a few photos from that evening: flic.kr/s/aHsjzmAgjH
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Case Study House #22- Stahl House
I got to spend an evening photographing at the iconic modernist architectural house designed by Pierre Koenig, known as Case Study House #22 (named Stahl House) made famous by Julius Shulman's B&amp;W...
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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 01/09/2026
Such iconic photos.
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who shot an iconic Vietnam War-era photo has died
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Slava "Sal" Veder died on Saturday, Aug. 22, just 8 days shy of his 100th birthday.
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Would you expect any better from a former investment banker at Rothschild & Co? Macron was sold as the "safe bet" against Marine Le Pen, whom they trot out every 5 years to scare the French public into choosing the lesser evil. 😏
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
He's Anthony Fremont from The Twilight Zone.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
On traitors: substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
Excerpt from article I wrote on US reps who chose Israel over the US — both GOP and Dem. Hakeem Jeffries is in there. So is his mentor, Pelosi. I published it in 2023, right after joining Substack. Ma...
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." Hannah Arendt
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
All for a bunch of tax cuts to the richest families and corporations, while sending billions in weapons to apartheid nations to bomb women children and old people. No universal healthcare, nor childcare, skyrocketing living costs and another 100 bil war for Netanyahu. We need a revolution.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Billionaire Google Co-Founder Pumps $102m To Oppose California Wealth Tax, 5% On Assets Above $1bn. Imagine if they did the same to fight poverty. All over the world, Super-rich buy politicians, collect subsidies, lax laws, dodge taxes, cause most pollution. It is People v the Super-Rich.
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Billionaire Google Co-Founder Pumps $102 Million Into Fighting California Wealth Tax | Common Dreams
"Sergey Brin would rather spend $100 million to fund a shady opposition campaign than simply pay his fair share in taxes so millions of Californians don’t lose their healthcare."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This puts the current pace of US budget deficits into perspective. @eddyelfenbein.bsky.social
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