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Novelist. Marine biology, coral reef enthusiast. Interests: French language and politics, travel, mystery & spy fiction, literary classics, women artists.
In the 1950s we had 700 different chemicals in our food Today we have over 10,000 in our food In Europe, they only have 700 still today. Kelloggs makes the safer Canadian version and the American version. Two different options, same manufacturer. Americans have been sold out sadly.
BOOKER: Let me make this easy. Be a man. Yes or no -- did Joe Biden win the 2020 election? CANDEUB: ... the Congress certifie-- BOOKER: There you go. Stop! Can you please tell me yes or no, did President Biden win the 2020 election? CANDEUB: The Congress certified-- B: You are showing cowardice.
BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
"Innocence is a nonrenewable resource."
Fritz Swanson@fritzswanson.bsky.social · 6h agoLandline polling may have been an absurd historical anomaly. Everyone connected very weakly, but no real experience with constant connectivity. And phones were bad enough that it took time (almost a century) for the cynicism to set in. Innocence is a nonrenewable resource.
Mni Sóta Makoce—the land where the sky reflects in the water.
Chris Steller@chrissteller.bsky.social · 7h agoMinneapolis just now
breaking a baby’s collarbone isn’t a bridge too far!!!!! i know i shouldn’t be surprised but FUCK that’s too dark for my soul to handle
The democrats in office really don’t get how pissed off people are.
Sure, Democrats are not perfect and we have some bad apples. But sexual harassment and abuse of women has become an absolute epidemic among elected Republicans because it is the culture of the party under lifetime serial sexual harasser Donald Trump.
Do they ever write that the victory of a moderate makes some worry that a lack of enthusiasm could hurt their chances in November? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/politics/maasdam-lawrence-michigan-primary.html
William Lawrence Wins Primary in Battleground Michigan House District
William Lawrence defeated two moderate candidates to challenge a vulnerable Republican incumbent, but some worry his views could hurt his chances in November.
nytimes.com
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
Springtime was Eric Swallwell and Tony Gonzalez, and Congress seems to have an inexhaustible supply of abusers.
This is another way we live in rape culture; we live in a culture where we have to hear about monstrosity all the time. Sometimes I look at those top stories lists and wonder if I'm the only one who notices that two or three or four of the ten are about violence against women.
AES is going up against a member of Congress who was supported by the entire Democratic establishment and had tens of millions of dollars from AIPAC. Polling has given unrealistic expectations about what success looks like. Any win at all is an incredible victory for the left.
Whoever ends up winning the Democratic nomination for Senate in Michigan, I hope with little expectation that those who took seriously polls showing a rout for El-Sayed will think twice about relying on questionable and/or partisan polls.
Bernie Sanders making a great point on MS Now: Establishment Dems won't go further than tinkering and making minor fixes to health insurance and labor laws, when people want universal healthcare and a living wage. They aren't understanding that the voters want big swings.
I wrote this two days after Davey Hearn was arrested and damnit, I should start betting on Kalshi. emptywheel.net/2026/06/21/t...
What that analysis ignores, imo is 1) the Supreme Court/Congress being slavishly pro-Trump regardless, and 2) the extra-legal violence of ICE/MAGA/J6ers, and 3) the multi-billion dollar bribery international festival Trump has turned the Presidency into - each of which may prove insuperable.
It is very hard not to have contempt for John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, who have sold their souls to find some fig leaf to support the worst nominee for Attorney General ever. The signed agreement is worthless without the signatures of the parties, namely Trump. The IRS break stands. Moral cowards. 
How is it not major breaking news that Capital One closed multiple Trump accounts for money laundering?
Friday: Capital One reveals they debanked Trump debanked bc he was laundering money. Sunday: Acting Attorney General solidifies promise Trump's tax crimes won't be punished.
one could argue that if moreno didn’t act like such a psycho towards fauci this week that the public wouldn’t have had a sustained interest in him or his family
Child abuse and wife beating is a "family matter". Should be a law enforcement matter. Where are the criminal charges?
David Corn@davidcorn.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is on-brand.
His opponent is @poindexterforcongress.com give him a follow and vote if you’re in his district!
This is why courage is the primary virtue, for without it none of the others are possible.
Brad Reed@bwreed.bsky.social · 3d agoSooooo many of them secretly hate Trump's guts.
This column treats @normeisen.bsky.social as a critic, not as one of Hearn's defense attorneys, and it ignores that Hearn's lawyers had ALREADY debunked the claims that @glennthrush.bsky.social quotes as if they are true.
Most people could not even imagine working as hard as these "lazy" immigrants. Can't even begin to imagine those hours of back breaking work.
United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 4d ago"Miguel" is harvesting onions in Fresno County. "I took this pic at the end of my shift that began at 6pm. Sometimes we work until 2 or 3 am. This night shift is my second job as the cost of living is so expensive, one job is not enough to put food on the table." #WeFeedYou
Yep. If you think you can out-psycho and out-violent the bad people I promise you are wrong.
