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@staidwaters.bsky.social
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I like languages, fic, Asian dramas (though I am neither watching nor writing much lately due to health). Fan of DMBJ, MCTNA, MDZS and many others

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Today marks the anniversary of Graf Spee being scuttled, and a unique victory for the British diplomatic service
German pocket battleship Graf Spee wreathed in smoke at it settles into the River Plate
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The Weather & Climate Livestream @wclivestream.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
#SaveNCAR
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 16/12/2025
VIOLENT CRIME IS DOWN IN EVERY MAJOR CITY with Oakland ↓25% and San Francisco ↓21% leading the way. According to new data from the state’s eight largest cities: — Homicides ↓ 18% — Robberies ↓ 18% — Aggravated Assaults ↓ 9%
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This is a harrowing account of city under siege www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I had been searching earlier for a map of this sort. One cannot help but notice exactly none of these locations are particularly close to the continental United States, nor are most of them on any course that would ever become close. Just murder for murder's sake.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
J*F*C This is *exactly* the sort of thing I've been screaming about for decades: anti-science lofted to the level of a government-funded colossal waste of money, as well as more eroding of public confidence in science. RFK Jr. is an immense danger to this country.
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NPR @npr.org · 16/12/2025
At President Trump's urging, Republicans drew new districts to help their party win a House seat now held by a Democrat. A voter petition drive could hold it up but GOP officials say it's on track.
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Missouri’s stack of redistricting lawsuits expected to grow over whether new map is in effect
The disagreement over whether Missouri’s new congressional map is in effect or frozen is at the heart of a bitter dispute in federal court between the state attorney general’s office and lawyers for the referendum campaign.
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Jean Yoon @jeanyoon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Yes! Thank you, Skate Canada!
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Democrats @democrats.org · 16/12/2025
Grading on a massive curve
A graphic comparing JD Vance's assessment that the economy deserves an "A+++" grade, to a tweet from @TheDemocrats that reads, "NEW JOBS DATA: In October, the U.S. economy lost 105k jobs—the most in a single month since December 2020."
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Biden took over a shutdown economy in the middle of a global pandemic that brought on global inflation. The economic headlines leading up to the 2024 election were mostly about how our economic recovery was the envy of the world. I'm getting really tired of hearing these whiners tell this lie.
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A crazy event in the report: “Following the retreat of South Sawyer Glacier, a landslide in southeast Alaska’s Tracy Arm in August 2025 generated a tsunami that swept across the narrow fjord and ran nearly 1,600 feet up the other side. Fortunately, the fjord was empty of cruise ships.”
Satellite image of landslide and tsunami location.
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Kat4Obama @kat4obama.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"I didn't vote for invasive bodily searches of immigrant children!" cry the people who voted for invasive bodily searches of immigrant children, either by voting GOP or refusing to vote Democratic (sin of commission vs. sin of omission).
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression. Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.' None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack. 1/
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Read this. Then read it again.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
“Oil… oil… oil… oil… oil… oil…” TLDR: It was never about drugs
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
the year is 1990. american children walk out of their schools chanting, "no blood for oil." the year is 2003. american children walk out of their schools chanting, "no blood for oil." the year is 2025
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A naval blockade is unquestionably an act of war. A war that the Congress never authorized and the American people do not want.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
so like, i’m aware that it’s not a done deal that all dems vote no on this bill flooding folks’ offices with calls tomorrow is probably a good idea if you care about the trans folks in your life
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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atticus goldfinch @atticusgf.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
yeah I refuse to rewrite this history. harris ran a _very_ tight campaign with a few (not zero!) missteps. trump was a total shitshow. the closing argument was literally a dead squirrel. the media made it clear that debates are the most important thing ever. she disemboweled him. they didn't care.
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NHKニュース RSSフィード配信(非公式) @nhknewsunofficial.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
【ライブ】「みちびき」5号機 打ち上げ カウントダウン止まる news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k1001500…
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【ライブ】日本版GPS衛星「みちびき」5号機 打ち上げへ | NHKニュース
【NHK】スマートフォンなどの位置情報の精度を高める日本版GPS衛星「みちびき」の5号機が、17日午前、鹿児島県の種子島宇宙センターから打ち上げられます。 「みちびき5号機」を載せたH3ロケット8号機につい
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/12/2025
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America. It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us. The illegitimate Maduro Regime is using Oil from these stolen Oil Fields to finance themselves, Drug Terrorism, Human Trafficking, Murder, and Kidnapping. For the theft of our Assets, and many other reasons, including Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking, the Venezuelan Regime has been designated a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. Therefore, today, I am ordering A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela. The Illegal Aliens and Criminals that the Maduro Regime has sent into the United States during the weak and inept Biden Administration, are being returned to Venezuela at a rapid pace. America will not allow Criminals, Terrorists, or other Countries, to rob, threaten, or harm our Nation and, likewise, will not allow a Hostile Regime to take our Oil, Land, or any other Assets, all of which must be returned to the United States, IMMEDIATELY. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Advocacy Arena with Dee @desia.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
thegrio.com/2025/12/16/w...
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Who was Barbara Rose Johns, the Black teen activist whose statue is replacing Gen. Robert E. Lee’s in the U.S. Capitol?
The U.S. Capitol unveils statue of civil rights pioneer Barbara Rose Johns, who protested her Virginia high school’s poor conditions in 1951.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17/12/2025
That's a no.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 17/12/2025
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.
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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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James Franklin @franklinjamesl.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
These people are nuts. NCAR developed the GPS dropsonde, which revolutionized the understanding of TC structure, improved forecasts, and validated remote sensing platforms, as documented in over 400 peer-reviewed publications in the last 25 years. And that’s just one of NCAR’s countless advances.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/12/2025
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
It's like on the eve of WWII we decided to stop funding R&D into weapons systems to develop advanced aircraft, ships, and tanks. Climate change is going to kick our butts if we lose NCAR (and NOAA) at a time when climate change is increasing extreme weather events capable of crashing the economy.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 17/12/2025
This is a good video for anyone wondering why the US as the #1 producer of oil would want Venezuela's oil. The answer: our refineries want their oil, not our oil. Can we please just move on to green energy and stop invading countries and mass murdering for this shit?
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The real reason Venezuela matters
YouTube video by Sky News
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The third time in 2 months that the official DHS account has tweeted a Nazi term which means "ethnic cleansing" of all people of color from America and Europe.
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Gidget 💜 @gidget.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This is the way.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Perhaps FIFA will give out an inaugural measles prize, too.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Bad news for Venezuela. And once again, Marisa called it months ago.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16/12/2025
Please note that this is a set up for denaturalizing citizens and setting up deportation camps for anyone who disagrees with Stephen Miller. Also please note that these fascists are bound to lose. Find your organizing home, join your neighbors, and stand up to these clowns wherever you see them.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I genuinely don't know if this is a "Minnesotan" thing or an "old guy of a certain age" thing but in case it's Minnesotan and people need an anger translator: this guy is so angry he could just about set something on fire with his mind.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍
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Matt Little @littleforcongress.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Armed ICE agents trapped U.S. citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Do you carry your papers? Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside Tuesday. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers.
A sign reads "No ICE Enter without Court Order"
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Scissors @scissors.myatproto.social · 13/12/2025
I hate how much I enjoyed this BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/12/2025
The Thai government on Saturday disputed President Trump’s announcement that Thailand and Cambodia had agreed to a cease-fire, as its prime minister pledged to continue military action and the standoff between the two countries intensified.
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Thailand Rejects Trump’s Claim That It Reached a Cease-Fire With Cambodia
The conflict appeared to have continued unabated on Saturday morning, a day after President Trump said a cease-fire was supposed to have resumed.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
"They said they weren’t sure why ICE would want to build a facility so close to a community so opposed to it. "Asked about the 'possibility of local protests or road blockages,' the government told them, 'I would not count on local authorities for support'...” www.notus.org/immigration/...
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ICE Wants to Build an Oregon Detention Facility. Contractors Say Construction Plans Are Alarming.
“How many of their own standards are they going to waive away?” one contractor told NOTUS.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
i mean... uh... well... lordy. this defies summation. incredible story. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
"As for the amount of money the program is expected to generate, the administration hasn’t offered details, but the president told reporters that, by his estimation, the program could generate '$50 trillion'..." LOL "In related news, this guy really isn’t good at math." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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‘Trump Gold Card’ goes on sale, offering visas for $1 million, sparking controversy
With legal fights on the way, those writing seven-figure checks shouldn’t assume their cards are coming soon.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/12/2025
The Trump administration must remove California National Guard troops from Los Angeles by Monday, a federal appellate court ruled. The decision upheld a lower court order that halted the mobilization that had roiled the nation’s second-largest city for six months.
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Appeals Court Says Trump Must End Los Angeles Deployment by Monday
While the decision did not remove the National Guard troops from the president’s control, it blocked him from using them in the nation’s second-largest city.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent. We are about to go to war for oil, while citing a lie as justification. Again.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
This is really solid investigative reporting from the Sun-Times. And a brutal expose of Greg Bovino, the cosplaying tough guy who has terrorized so many immigrants in Chicago. Read it all. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
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