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Gwen Róisín

@meowthrandir.bsky.social
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Linguaphile || techie by day || fantasy & sci-fi writer by night || progressive by imperative || nerd by choice

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
For weeks, Tierra Walker and her family continued to ask medical providers about ending the pregnancy For weeks, medical providers continued to tell her, “Your baby is fine” Walker, however, was not ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable
Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Similarly, people keep asking me if immigration will get much better if Democrats retake Congress and the answer is "probably not." ICE is largely insulated from Congressional pushback (the 2026 budget reconciliation bill funded them through 2029) and hearings and subpoenas can only do so much.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wrote about Cornell, and the grim discursive cycle in which everyone says that they hate rape, but nobody does anything to stop it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan
Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very big deal
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the late 20th & early 21st centuries, there are several US prisoners who were put to death after a botched 1st-attempt at execution. There are fewer cases of death penalty states changing the sentence to life in prison after. End the death penalty. TW on link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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List of botched executions - Wikipedia
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
Mario David Coronado Juarez was killed when his car struck a tree and burst into flames as he attempted to avoid ICE
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Democrats demand answers after man dies in car crash during ICE traffic stop in Michigan
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Every day, this Administration forces a thousand horrors that we only see a sliver of 💔
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ah. Rand Paul, science-denier, gets denied by his own anatomy
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have a glimmer of hope this means Collins is cooked, election-wise
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
While ICE agents were shooting Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in Austin on Sunday, their colleagues were violently detaining a US citizen in Evanston, IL who "resembled" a person they were seeking. The victim reported "injuries to his head, neck and teeth":
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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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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 20/09/2026
BREAKING: An ICE agent shoots and wounds a man in Austin, Texas, officials say.
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ICE agent shoots and wounds man in Austin, Texas, officials say
A local official says a federal immigration agent has shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas. City Councilmember Mike Siegel says the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer rammed the man’s car then got out of his federal vehicle and opened fire at least five times.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 18/09/2026
Trump says US, Denmark, Greenland entered into agreement on US control over security reut.rs/4xwWJLe
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Trump says US, Denmark, Greenland entered into agreement on US control over security
President ​Donald ‌Trump said on ​Friday ​Washington has ⁠entered ​into an ​agreement with Denmark ​and ​Greenland that gives ‌the ⁠US permanent control ​over ​security, ⁠and all ​other ​needs, ⁠in Greenland.
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Rogan is just another weasel covered in feathers and gore that wants to distance himself from a now-empty hen house
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is wild: scammers are hijacking real artists' official Spotify pages with AI slop to make $$$. We know this because we did it. We made AI music and put it on a real band's page. It was shockingly easy. There is a gaping hole in how music is digitally distributed www.404media.co/spotify-ai-m...
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I Hijacked a Real Artist's Spotify with AI Music. It Was Disturbingly Easy
A glaring loophole in digital music distribution makes it very easy to piggyback on the talent of real artists with AI generated music.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Say hhhhwhat now
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Huh, "Your time's up", "Last call", and "leave" are usually deployed against Kash Patel and not by him
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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court blocked USPS from enforcing key parts of a new rule that would've restricted mail-in voting for the November election. This is a major win for voting rights.
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
These are modern-day gibbet cages, with similar purposes: to punish by exposing a person to the elements and publically displaying that person's agony to frighten others. It was an instrument of cruely in the past and remains one now.
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Richard Tofel @dicktofel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING @propublica.org: Trump Jr.’s wedding this May was heavily funded by a Russian oligarch close to Putin www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Name the diplomat
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Sheffield Green Party @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today, we need to address the horrific situation in Turkey where over 50 LGBT+ activists have been arrested. Police have raided organisations and venues, blocking their voices online. This is a direct attack on their freedom to exist. #Solidarity with the Turkish LGBTQIA+ community! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
WE STAND WITH TURKISH LGBTQIA+ COMMUNITY
ALL OF US IN THIS WORLD DESERVE TO CREATE FAMILIES WE LONG FOR WITH DIGNITY AND SAFETY
Promoted by Eamonn Ward, 73 Eskdale Rd, S6 1SL on behalf of Sheffield Green Party
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I hope folks realize this Bab al-Mandab situation will be much worse than the Strait of Hormuz if it’s not sorted out quickly. And it doesn’t currently look like it will be sorted out quickly.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Soviet Census, 1930s; US Census, report today in the Guardian .
NKVD head Genrikh Yagoda, who had been in charge of the forced
collectivization (as well as Stalin’s poison laboratory), fell out of favor
for reporting the negative public reaction to the show trials. He was
demoted, then denounced, then tried in the third show trial in 1938,
and executed. His replacement underwent a similar fate and was
executed in early 1940.
“Execution was the favored solution to every problem, includ-
ing those caused by previous executions,” writes Adam Hochschild.
“When the national census showed that his reign of terror was
shrinking the country’s population, Stalin ordered the members of
the census board shot. The new officials, not surprisingly, came up
with higher figures. Between about 1929, when Stalin had van-
quished his rivals and concentrated power in his hands, and his death
in 1953, most historians now estimate that he had been directly re-
sponsible for the deaths of somewhere around 20 million people.” --Orwell's Roses After having forcibly retired thousands of dedicated civil servants who held a gobsmacking amount of institutional knowledge, the Trump administration has increasingly made impossible demands of those who remain. In June, they ordered the Census Bureau to stop using the most sophisticated techniques available to protect the confidentiality of the public’s responses when publishing data. Government scientists were told that they must return to the statistical dark ages and use methods that horrify their peers. By micromanaging the tools that experts can use, politicians are forcing civil servants to choose between publishing unusable data, risking the privacy of Americans’ data, or simply not publishing data.

In August,another controversy roiled the Census Bureau. Partisan data geeks leveraged a program designed to help the government recruit talent. Once there, they obtained access to government data and leveraged the bureau’s brand to publish a report arguing that numerous non-citizens voted in the 2020 election, reinforcing Trump’s conspiracy theory that he did not lose the election fair and square.

This report is anomalous in countless ways: it’s unsigned, lacking methodological detail, devoid of error metrics, and rushed through without oversight by the bureau’s experts. But it doesn’t matter how bad the report was (and it’s truly abysmally bad). The reputational damage was done. Economists and advocates from across the partisan spectrum were outraged at this blatant politicization of the Census Bureau.

The Trump administration doubled down. Days later, the commerce department eliminated the language that prohibited political interference from the agency’s official scientific integrity policy.  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/10/census-trump-congress
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Shitbird www.axios.com/2026/09/09/f...
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Exclusive: Fetterman to praise Trump in bombshell GOP convention video
His stunning turn is a dramatic escalation in the senator's growing estrangement from Democrats.
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump has prevaricated so much about 9/11 (and everything else) that a "top 6 biggest lies" article can be created with ease
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
2. As the years have passed, Trump's account of the day has become even more dramatic and implausible. We review the actual facts in today's Popular Information:
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Trump’s 9/11 fantasies
Trump plays the hero in his personal narrative of 9/11. Many of his claims, however, do not stand up to scrutiny.
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Alice Weidel and people like her think they can benefit from a system of hatred and stay safe at the same time
Usagiboots' edit of a DanDaDan manga comic strip -- a woman in a coat and glasses, hair in a bun, holds a cigarette in one hand and a sign in the other. It reads: the boots you lick will stomp you too.

A cat, mouth open, kicks at the air over her left shoulder. The panel is black-and-white.
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Childfree icons who gave a damn about their and future generations -- RIP, Gloria Steinem & Dolly Parton edition.cnn.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Remembering Dolly and Gloria, child-free icons | CNN
Neither Dolly Parton nor Gloria Steinem had children — and worked to make life better for children overall.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
Any sweeping systemic change you want to make in the United States has to begin with adding seats to the Supreme Court in 2029. No major reform bill will survive the current court. No civil rights law, no anti-corruption law, no wealth tax, nothing.
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Please read Mark Chadbourn's thread for context on the implications and consequences of Russia's attack on Germany and hybrid attacks against EU/NATO member states
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 01/09/2026
Exclusive: Two congressmembers respond to revelations of government snooping on journalists, non-profits and unions
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US lawmakers demand investigation into Trump administration’s secret surveillance of Americans
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The iconic weeping willow trees outside the Kennedy Center have been cut down by Trump.
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Trump Admin is, in defiance of court orders and to the shock of no one, continuing its assault on voting by mail as part of its orchestrated attempt to depress votes in purple and blue states (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail (Gift Article)
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Bichinhos Fofinhos pra quem ta cansado @bichinhos.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Apenas uma vaquinha usando pijama de patinhos pra salvar o seu dia
Bezerro marrom com o rosto branco paradinho no pasto com capim alto usando uma roupinah azul com estampas de patinhos amarelos
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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@DHSgov
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The shock gloves instructions say something like, "don't apply for more than 15 seconds" & "don't use more than 2". A woman or elderly person is going to die because a) I doubt those instructions will be followed by a cadre accustomed to cruelty, b) I doubt the rigor of any so-called safety tests.
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Land O America butter
A red-topped package of Land O Lakes butter, featuring a lake in the center of its wrapper (with 2 shores of coniferous trees on either side). 8 oz, butter with canola oil.
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Baltic states know what Putin is capable of. Read about the urgent letter from commissioners from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, & Poland to EC President Ursula von der Leyen. Btw, this article is from Radio Free Europe, for which Trump cut grants. www.rferl.org/a/baltics-ru...
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Baltic States Arm For Russian Threat As Leaked Letter Shows Growing Fears
A letter seen by RFE/RL highlights mounting concern over Russian threats to the Baltic States. Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are boosting defenses and embracing new technology, but funding uncertaint...
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Trump exerts his power like the narcissistic bully he is--over people that are too young, too poor, too incapacitated, or too dead to fight back. He's a coward with an incessant need to see himself as something he can never really be: loved and respected.
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South Florida Sun Sentinel @sun-sentinel.com · 27/08/2026
DEVELOPING STORY: A Florida grand jury investigating the Hope Florida scandal found that key members of the DeSantis administration engaged in a “sophisticated scheme” to divert $10 million of a Medicaid settlement into a political activities and the Republican Party of Florida.
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Hope Florida grand jury describes public money ‘misused for political purposes’
The not-yet released reported was obtained by CBS News Miami and detailed wrongdoing but also an inability to bring criminal charges.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/08/2026
Come on. This is too much. First Dolly Parton, now Tim Curry. 😞 www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/t...
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Actor Tim Curry Dead at 80
Tim Curry -- the legendary film and TV actor best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Pennsylvania has confirmed two deaths from measles—the first the state has seen in 35 years. Both individuals were unvaccinated. www.pa.gov/agencies/hea...
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Pennsylvania Department of Health Confirms Two Measles-Associated Deaths
Pennsylvania Department of Health Confirms Two Measles-Associated Deaths
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump’s sweeping attack on mail voting to go forward, bolstering his long-running effort to restrict voting access ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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In major blow to voters, Supreme Court greenlights Trump's attack on mail voting before midterms
"The Court sees fit to grant the Government equitable relief to proceed with implementing the challenged Order on the grounds that, because the Government had not yet issued a final rule at the time t...
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MS NOW @ms.now · 19/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s closest aide, Natalie Harp, declined multiple times over more than a year to seek a routine security clearance normally obtained by West Wing staffers to work at the White House, sources tell MS NOW.
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Trump aide Natalie Harp worked at the White House without security clearance for a year
The close aide to the president, known to filter much of the information reaching the commander-in-chief, ultimately relented in recent months after pressure from White House staff.
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Library of Alexandria's fall occurred over centuries of conflict, purges of intelligentsia/foreign scholars, fires, & Christians destroying materials Spanish clergy & conquistadors systematically destroyed Mayan texts This is how you erase & control cultural narratives: eliminating rare texts
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think Trump likes Natalie Harp because she Pampers him
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump fancies himself a strongman and seeks to ally himself (not the US, which he considers a series of assets he controls; a means to a kakistocratic end) with other strongmen. They're all meglomaniacs, and many have nuclear bombs and/or rule and attack with impunity. This is insanity
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
For the first time in US history, America betrays South Korea, one of our closest allies for over 75 years. These exercises in various forms have taken place every year since 1974.
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