Dorothy A. Winsor
@dorothywinsor.bsky.social
Former tech comm prof. Writer of YA fantasy. Published by Inspired Quill, a UK social enterprise. Balloon Juicer. Books: https://www.inspired-quill.com/dorothy-a-winsor/
Widow of airman killed in Epic Fury denied death benefits as Iran conflict ‘is not a war’ The widow of an Alabama airman has revealed she and her children are not eligible for some benefits because the Iran war has not officially been declared a war www.the-express.com/news/us-news...
Widow of Epic Fury airman denied death benefits as Iran conflict is 'not a war'
The widow of an Alabama airman has revealed she and her children are not eligible for some benefits because the Iran war has not officially been declared a war
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Trump Didn’t Think Things Through Before Starting His Iran War Either… Every ocean ship entering the Great Lakes goes through the Welland Canal. There are 8 locks in 27 miles, all of it in Ontario. $26.3 billion of American trade depends on it. #Blues
The King's Guard played 9 to 5 at yesterday's Changing of the Guard youtu.be/LvaBKRaEGs4?...
King's Guard plays '9 to 5' outside Buckingham Palace in moving tribute to Dolly Parton
YouTube video by The London Standard
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Sigh. My Canadian relatives are probably scratching my name of their Christmas card lists.
Over at Balloon Juice (A place where I frequent to get my vent on), they're running a series of informational bits to introduce you to candidates that are running in places that may not be so out of reach. Please enjoy, comment, like and share as you like. balloon-juice.com/2026/08/25/r...
Balloon Juice - Running in the Red - Hope for the House in Montana and Nebraska
Well, well. I was a little preoccupied this weekend with emergency surgery for Trixie and a marauding raccoon family endangering Nora, so I did not read this when MazeDancer first sent it to me. I was...
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Clinton and a Dem Congress *balanced the budget*. They started making modest payments on the National Debt. There's no "even". Republicans always spend way beyond their means. And point falsely to Dems as the problem. Our innumerate press has let them get away w/it for generations.
This is the cost of an economically illiterate President, the deficit-ballooning GOP Big Ugly Bill and an obsequious Treasury Secretary. Every American, including those not yet born is paying the price. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/b...
Bond Sell-Off Sends Borrowing Costs to Highest Level Since 2007
Yields on the 30-year U.S. Treasury and government bonds across the world rose to multiyear highs as investors fret about inflation, deficits and A.I. spending.
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If you think intellectual diversity is a problem in the English department, but not the Finance department then you’re not a serious person
Just finished reading Etna by Paul Yoon. The story is told from the POV of Etna, a military dog trying to go home after the war ends. The book is short, 200 or so pages. I recommend it particularly to dog lovers.
He's an insane megalomaniac trashing our country's physical heritage to build an endless series of monuments to himself. Complete annihilation of America's 235-year history of government by ordinary citizens engaged in public service. Our institutions should be screaming; instead, they're yawning.
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · last mo.Scoop: Trump has ordered workers to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad new WaPo photos show how past work was removed over weekend Trump is contemplating changes to White House lawn's slope, raising bigger Qs about project and cost
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
NEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, facing ethics inquiries for misconduct, has threatened to strip state scholarships from Catholic schools unless the Church rewrites its vaccine doctrine. It is an unprecedented attack by an American state on the religious liberty of the Catholic Church.
Florida’s MAGA Attorney Threatens to Defund Catholic Schools Over Vaccine Mandate
Florida’s attorney general gave the bishops until August 7 to accept vaccine exemptions their own doctrine calls dishonest. Nearly nine in ten of the state’s Catholic school students sit downstream.
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Frum: The 20% who lived in the most pro-Trump places suffered 70,000 more COVID deaths than the 20% in the most pro-Biden places. Red America obeyed those who told them not to mask, not to vaccinate. They died for it. No, Fauci is not the villain here. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Anthony Fauci Is Not the Villain in This Story
The doctor was thrust into his pandemic-leadership role because of Trump’s deadly dereliction of duty.
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1. Newer writers, just don't fucking use "AI" for anything, ever 2. How odd that being an established writer with a firm "no 'AI'" stance and ample pre-"AI" IP will become a definite competitive advantage over "new, hot, and possibly copyright compromised" deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q...
AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' Novel
That screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.
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I can't compete with this. www.npr.org/2026/07/28/n...
Trump shattered ethics norms. Will voters trust Democrats to fix them?
Democrats are making the case that now is the time to tackle anti-corruption reforms — to serve as a check on Donald Trump and to overhaul a system voters say is co-opted against their interests.
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Great day for lunch and a book signing with @dorothywinsor.bsky.social . Great to see you, daw!
Dorothy A. Winsor@dorothywinsor.bsky.social · 2mo agoSometimes events are at a hinge point and we don't know how they'll go. Deep as a Tomb out now. Sold in all online bookstores but here's the link for Amazon: tinyurl.com/5e4ycaxe The son of a king and daughter of a wouldbe rebel foster together in the same household. #booksky #fantasy #yafantasy
IMO interesting less for its (likely to fail) challenge of CBP's authority but because it hinges on a statute barring destruction of "property" to prevent it being seized by the government. Wiping leaves the phone itself intact, so can the data alone be considered "property" under the law?
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2mo agoNew, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it. We've confirmed the phone was running GrapheneOS. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260724...
BREAKING: We've lost two more service members in Trump's deranged, illegal, and unnecessary war in Iran.
28 years of cyclosporiasis testing Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. All are back because of this science denying administration.
Given that Republicans are in charge of the presidency, the House, and the Senate, you can’t with a straight face claim they’ve been discriminated against with voter fraud. They’ve won it all and they’re claiming there is rampant fraud. It’s bullshit.
My postcard group wrote 200 GOTV cards yesterday, to be mailed to Ohio in early October. It's a good group, and it's something I can do.
Outside the Civil War, the military budget for fighting Americans on our own shores has always been and should always be $0
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 2mo agoMike Johnson says that the Pentagon is requesting an additional $350,000,000,000 for things like "fighting Communism on our own shores"