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LilyWight

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Gardening in Memphis. Born in the first Eisenhower administration. IT pro since punch cards. Dudeist priest. Pragmatic progressive. Not always a fan of homo sapiens. "Keep your heart as open as a shrine You'll sail the perfect line" -Bob Seger

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LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · Nov 14

Some days, it's very hard to live by the principles of Dudeism. I have to remind myself regularly what they are:

To just take it easy;
To be dude (easygoing) to everyone I meet;
To keep my mind limber.

The Dude abides. And so shall we.

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LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 9h

that's why I keep wipes in my car.

LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 11h

Will they be allowed to vote?

LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 11h

Oh. Please do please do please do please do.

LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 11h

If that video won't play, here's the youtube version. The offer starts at 27:00.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE-V...

Supreme Court Ethics: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 11h

I hope Clarence Thomas lives to regret that he didn't accept John Oliver's offer.

www.mediaite.com/media/tv/joh...

John Oliver Offers Clarence Thomas Million a Year to Resign

John Oliver made Justice Clarence Thomas an offer too good to refuse, but he has 30 days to take a cool million a year -- and sweet bus -- or it goes away.

www.mediaite.com

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LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 11h

Mary Trump is soliciting photos from around the country to put together a slideshow. I sent her these of Memphis. You can share yours by emailing [email protected].

Protestors along Poplar by the greenspace

Protestors on the southest corner of Poplar and Highland, in front of the Firestone

Protestors along Highland north of Poplar, across from the greenspace

Protestors in the greenspace listening to speakers.

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LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 11h

Incident at the Memphis rally:

Guy with a "Democrats Ruined Memphis" sign had been there an hour or two. Suddenly he was surrounded by the Indivisible safety crew, walking around him and keeping him and protestors separate until he left. I've no idea what happened, but good job, safety crew!

LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 12h

Simple. Republican Congress refuses to stop him.

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LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 14h

I can't remember where I heard this, but it's from Trump's first term:

"He may be a clown with a flamethrower, but he still has a flamethrower."

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Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 17h

Mississippians protest Trump policies in a national wave of ‘No Kings’ rallies

People in Jackson, Hernando, Greenville, Gulfport, Oxford and other Mississippi cities took part in "No Kings" rallies Saturday to protest policies of President Donald J. Trump.

Mississippians protest Trump policies in a national wave of ‘No Kings’ rallies

People in Jackson, Hernando, Greenville, Gulfport, Oxford and other Mississippi cities took part in "No Kings" rallies Saturday to protest policies of President Donald J. Trump.

mississippitoday.org

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LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 17h

Not to forget that diarrhea is dehydrating and can be life-threatening, especially to children.

LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 17h

How do you get the number 7,200? It was a great turnout, but I wouldn't have thought that high.

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LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 20h

Keep hollerin', dudes!

LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 20h

People started babbling about this, so I used my little brain and the web and looked up the actual law.

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LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 20h

Kinda sounds like you are seeing some folks getting real cranky about "no, a rando cannot swear in Adelita Grijalva"?

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WKNO-FM | Public Radio for the Mid-South @wkno.bsky.social · 21h

Organizers said some 2,600 protests were planned in the U.S. on Saturday. The protests were largely peaceful, as demonstrators united in their stated aim to safeguard the country's democratic values.

3 takeaways from Saturday's No Kings nationwide protests

Organizers said some 2,600 protests were planned in the U.S. on Saturday. The protests were largely peaceful, as demonstrators united in their stated aim to safeguard the country's democratic values.

buff.ly

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LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 21h

Trump is "several steps ahead"? Good grief, how? He can barely walk, and his thinking apparatus is in a perpetual loop of grievance.

LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 21h

Yep. This is one hell of a ceasefire.

www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-...

Live: Israeli air strikes reported across Gaza ten days into ceasefire

Meanwhile, escalating military raids reported across the West Bank, leaving at least one Palestinian dead

www.middleeasteye.net

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Steve Cohen @repcohen.bsky.social · 22h

Trump says he has commuted sentence of former Rep. George Santos - CNN.
I was at Congress when this man was in Congress. He was a disgrace politics and that’s hard to be but the Republicans protected him like he was the Epstein files.
His commutation shows Trump‘s disregard for justice.
Shame gOP!

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LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 1d

Nashville numbers could be correct. They were in one big space, so they could get better estimate.

LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 1d

I was there too, walked up and down and all around. It was a great turnout, but I don't think it could have been anywhere near 8,000. The problem with counting is that we were all spread out along Highland and Poplar and in the greenspace, so it would be very difficult to get a good count.

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Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 1d

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world

This remark has been credited to a person who created popular plays, movies, television programs (I Dream of Jeannie), and books (Rage of Angels). Who was it?

quoteinvestigator.com/2025/10/18/l...

Picture of Prague library of science, geometry and astronomy from Jonathan Francisca at Unsplash. The image has been cropped and resized.

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LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 1d

Erin Ryan of the Hysteria podcast/youtube channel says it makes Trump look like an intestinal polyp. Which, I have to say, is pretty accurate.

Shutterstock image of intestinal polyps, which actually do bear a strong resemblence to Donald J. Trump. The fact that this image comes from sticking a camera up someone's butt adds versimilitude because he does seem to have his head up his ass most days.

LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 1d

I'm only blocking the trollish ones.

LilyWight @lilywight.bsky.social · 1d

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