Hecuba's Daughter
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Hecuba's Daughter
@hecubasdaughter.bsky.social
Retired actuary, dog-lover, and avid reader.
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Crazy we don't talk about Bill Barr's father hiring an unqualified Jeffrey Epstein to teach children at Dalton, Barr publicly auditioning to become AG, how Epstein was only arrested & prosecuted AFTER Michael Wolff's revelations re Trump & Epstein or how Jeff was in Barr's DOJ custody when he died
September 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
So Trump is meeting with his boss on Friday. Wonder what Putin's orders will be? There was a time pre-2016 when the GOP supported our nation in foreign policy; but those days are long gone.
It's not ideal that the one person in the entire world that Trump is willing to listen to is Vladimir Putin.
Q: Are you optimistic that a deal will emerge from this Russia meeting?

Leavitt: This is a listening exercise
August 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I am so confused. Is the Mamdani victory supposed to herald shariah law imposed on all or to Communism destroying our nation? Can someone tell me which disaster will befall us thanks to his winning the Democratic nomination?
June 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Whether it's Donald Trump permitting white refugees but banning minorities, or Kamala Harris being born to a Black father and an Indian mother, both sides have forced the divisive topic of race upon the American public.
May 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Today we mourn the death of a truly good and great man, a man of compassion and love. May the memory of Pope Francis be for a blessing for the entire world.
April 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It is truly criminal and an outrage that the Trump administration sent a group of immigrants, most of whom haven't been charge with any crimes, to our outsourced concentration camp in El Salvador. And the administration ignores court orders to return Kilmar Ábrego García.
April 16, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Bill Ackman complains because he was blind-sided by Trump's obsession with tariffs, a policy that threatens him directly. He and other Trump-supporting plutocrats are fine with fascism, but heaven forbid that they lose money. They are all truly vile people and here's hoping they lose it all.
April 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.

A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Great thread that supports what I have been asserting for weeks: Musk cancelled USAID deliberately to kill millions of Africans from starvation and disease because he is a racist who hates people of color. He and Trump will go down in history as the biggest mass murderers of the early 21st century.
🧵 Musk Is Not Just a “Nazi”: Why It Matters
It’s not name-calling. It’s not theoretical
JIM STEWARTSON
MAR 17
I was asked in my weekly Zoom meeting to explain why it matters that Elon Musk is a “Nazi.” It was pointed out, correctly, that many people glaze over at the word — in much the same way
March 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
To all who celebrate: wishing you a very Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah, surrounded by family and friends.
And to everyone: a very Happy New Year!

May 2025 be a year of happiness, good health, and prosperity for you and yours.
December 25, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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This did NOT age well, lol.
December 8, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Let's never forget the prediction of the late great Steve Silberman. And with the outbreak of bird flu here and a new mysterious lethal disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the appalling nominations for health positions in the Trump administration -- it may come to pass again:
December 4, 2024 at 2:45 AM
And the nomination of women for President.
It took a humiliating military defeat, crushing sanctions, and a historic economic collapse to turn Germany fascist. All it took in the United States was the election of one Black president.
November 15, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Lawyers out there -- a question...

Based on my reading of the 22nd Amendment, it seems to have a fatal flaw. The restriction to 2 terms applies only to those elected to the office. What would prevent a VP from resigning and being replaced by a person who previously served 2 terms?
November 15, 2024 at 2:48 AM
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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.
July 6, 2024 at 4:34 AM
Hopefully I have finally learned my lesson: I can be overly pedantic and literal -- and it does not go well if I appear to contradict the point someone is making when their overall concept is right but I am quibbling with details.
April 21, 2024 at 7:50 PM
One area in which the Netanyahu government and Hamas are in full agreement: neither cares about the suffering and harm done to the civilians in Gaza. Hamas, of course, has never cared about the well-being of the citizens in Gaza.
December 29, 2023 at 12:17 AM
For all those who believe that Biden will decisively defeat Trump, remember that even without voter disenfranchisement, a candidate who received 70% of the vote can lose thanks to the electoral college. Not a likely result but possible.
August 25, 2023 at 5:52 PM