Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ Persists

Writer of non-fiction narrative | history, literature, design, art, politics, economics, genealogy and hiking/walking | Former bond analyst | Recovering designer | #profiteroles #writing #design #genealogy #blacksinww2 #histodons #writerdons #blackmastodon #polymath #foodie #cats #gardening #books #interiors

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Laura Manach :bongoCat:cmconseils
2025-10-09

A year of sunrises - 13 pictures of the sun, each month, same place, same time.

"One of the best places in Edmonton to see the sunrise point change along a familiar horizon is Valleyview Drive, which is where I photographed sunrise once a month for a year. This image is the final result of stacking 13 sunrise images from Dec 2020 to Dec 2021, to visually depict the change in the sunrise point over a year." - Photographer, Luca Vanzella.

A composite time-lapse photograph of a sunrise or sunset over a city skyline, credited to Luca Vanzella. The image consists of thirteen horizontal panels stacked on top of each other, showing the progression of the sun across the horizon and the corresponding changes in the color of the sky, from dark blue to bright orange and yellow.
Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ PersistsSharonCrockett@toot.community
2025-10-08

See, this is what happens when clever fascists latch onto a greedy, old moronic man who just wants to golf, redecorate, grandstand as a maker of "world peace" and seek vengeance against people who hurt his little feelings. They -- Miller, Vought & crew -- just keep making sure he gets piles of $$$ and builds his ballroom and gets a coin with his face on it while they run the real vicious show behind the scenes. #uspolitics #moron #Vought #stephenmiller

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Jens Clasenjensclasen
2025-10-08

Dear people of the US, guy from Germany here. Just a few thoughts from a country that once was ruled by a Nazi Führer.

If your Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) only enforces terror and injustice against unwanted minorities - it becomes the Gestapo.

If the National Guard only guards a dictator's interests - it becomes the SS.

If the president only presides over a repressive regime - he becomes a Führer.

It's as simple as that.

Rise up. Resist.

Before it's too late.

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2025-10-08
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2025-10-08

I want to live in a country that doesn't have fully armed law enforcement officers blocking the entrance to grocery stores, sinisterly eying anyone who walks in.

#TrueStory #JustNow

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2025-10-08

"'It was truly so idiotic and looked like it was written by a disturbed child.' —CDC employee"

Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger, Vittoria Elliott, Makena Kelly, Kate Knibbs, David Gilbert, Molly Taft, Aarian Marshall, Paresh Dave, and Jake Lahut for WIRED: wired.com/story/oral-history-d

#Longreads #ElonMusk #America #DOGE #Government

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2025-10-08

"This is huge.🚨Nobody interferes with elections more than him. No single person outside of China and Russia is a greater risk to American national security. Given his erratic nature, any clearance is a threat."
-J Jackson

⚡"A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances."
-K Cheney

#Musk #NationalSecurity #USPol
storage.courtlistener.com/reca

Document detailing a court case involving The New York Times Company and Neil Bedi against the United States Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. It includes legal opinions and orders related to a Freedom of Information Act request about security clearances.
Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ PersistsSharonCrockett@toot.community
2025-10-08

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Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ PersistsSharonCrockett@toot.community
2025-10-08

@NaClKnight This is from TheHofstetter.com Compares areas of LA to their NYC Metro counterparts. Not being from LA, I'm not sure how accurate it is.

Map of Los Angeles region with NYC Metro region counterparts superimposed. Ex:  Laguna Niguel is Greenwich; Riverside is Staten Island; Santa Monica is Westchester...
Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ PersistsSharonCrockett@toot.community
2025-10-07

If you live in the NYC Metro region, this is pretty funny. #nycmap #humor

Map of all of the boroughs of NYC overlaid with humorous descriptions of the types of people who proliferate in each area of the City. Examples:  "TOURISTS" in Midtown; "INTERNATIONAL HASIDIC ZONE" in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; "Aging Punks" in the East Village; etc.
Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ PersistsSharonCrockett@toot.community
2025-10-07

@byteseu This is every US economist right now — except for in reference to consumer prices and U.S. equities.

Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ PersistsSharonCrockett@toot.community
2025-10-07

@Prainbow And I’m using the word “democracy” with respect to the U.S. very loosely, as that’s not what we have here right now.

Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ PersistsSharonCrockett@toot.community
2025-10-07

@EyeOnAlaska I considered that. Maybe her family is mortified, but can’t say anything, for their own safety.

Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ PersistsSharonCrockett@toot.community
2025-10-07

@byteseu 🧐🤔

Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ PersistsSharonCrockett@toot.community
2025-10-07

I read that the new Japanese PM is a woman. And she’s far-right. I fear that one of the only ways that this country — the US — will ever have a woman president is if she’s a radical reactionary on the Right. It seems that right-wing women are more acceptable as leaders in patriarchal democracies like the U.S. and Japan. Unlike in less patriarchal democracies — Nordic countries — that have already had center and center-left women leaders for years. I hope I’m wrong. #japanespolitics #uspolitics

Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ PersistsSharonCrockett@toot.community
2025-10-07

@Yoshi Therapists are doing very well financially these days.

Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ PersistsSharonCrockett@toot.community
2025-10-07

@sollat Yes, a very parasitic relationship with that shoulder chip.

Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ PersistsSharonCrockett@toot.community
2025-10-07

Can someone please explain to me what's up with Bondi? She acts all tough; but I sense an underlying fear for her life and for her job. And that she knows better. I guess that explains her hyper-partisan grandstanding during this morning's Congressional hearings that was totally uncalled for. What a disgraceful AG. Where do these people come from? How were they raised? They all seem so morally bankrupt and mentally damaged. #pambondi #agbondi

Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ PersistsSharonCrockett@toot.community
2025-10-07

No, you're not losing your mind. That's what they want you to feel. You're clear-eyed. They're the ones who are insane. Or, as former VP Harris just noted recently, "Those motherf#@*ers are crazy." #insanity #crazy #vpharris #kamalaharris

Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ PersistsSharonCrockett@toot.community
2025-10-07

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