larelli
@larelli.bsky.social
Gardener. Democrat. Dog Aficionado.
All about peonies, politics and pups
Hell is empty and all the skeets are here
All about peonies, politics and pups
Hell is empty and all the skeets are here
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from a state party director
December 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
from a state party director
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The Trump administration has removed MLK Day and Juneteenth as holidays that include free entrance to national parks, adding the president’s birthday instead
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The Trump administration has removed MLK Day and Juneteenth as holidays that include free entrance to national parks, adding the president’s birthday instead
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A lot of comments under this are saying things like "It's not OUR jobs to stop this, it's the job of Congress to stop it!" and like...NO. It IS our jobs as citizens to stop this; Congress is not some customer support line for us to lodge complaints with. We must be active in our civic virtue. TLDR:
December 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A lot of comments under this are saying things like "It's not OUR jobs to stop this, it's the job of Congress to stop it!" and like...NO. It IS our jobs as citizens to stop this; Congress is not some customer support line for us to lodge complaints with. We must be active in our civic virtue. TLDR:
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hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
lol I take it back - it’s all worth the hideous of the self congratulatory naval gazing because it provided us with this AMAZING photo
Also Joe Kahn, likely the only person who wanted to pose like this except for Rose on ‘Titanic’:
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
lol I take it back - it’s all worth the hideous of the self congratulatory naval gazing because it provided us with this AMAZING photo
This is so obsequious and nauseating. Elizabeth ask better questions at this moment in our history.
The New York Times highlights a reader question asking Exec Editor Joe Kahn, “How do you find time to care for yourself?” Really? Out of all the questions you got from readers, you choose one asking Kahn how he copes with his hard job? Suck it up, Times. 🧵 4/4
December 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This is so obsequious and nauseating. Elizabeth ask better questions at this moment in our history.
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Freed from prison by Trump on his last day in office in 2021, a $200 million fraudster started a new Ponzi scheme within months.
*A Bloomberg Big Take*
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Freed by Trump, a $200 Million Fraudster Started a New Scam
Eli Weinstein promised to reform — but after his release he took on an alias and started another Ponzi scheme.
www.bloomberg.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Freed from prison by Trump on his last day in office in 2021, a $200 million fraudster started a new Ponzi scheme within months.
*A Bloomberg Big Take*
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www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
*A Bloomberg Big Take*
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AGAIN!!! Support your public libraries. LIKE ACTUAL POLITICAL SUPPORT. I do not want to hear "I looooovveee my public library" from people who don't actually pay attention to whether they are being adequately funded and sustained, lol...
“We will serve New York State and anyone who cannot get to their library due to age or disability,” said Madlyn Schneider, [Queens Public Library’s Mail-A-Book] coordinator.
www.qchron.com/editions/que...
www.qchron.com/editions/que...
Special delivery: QPL Mail-A-Book turns 50
For the past five decades, the Queens Public Library’s Mail-A-Book program has bridged the gap between homebound New Yorkers and the world of reading, delivering books and other materials directly
www.qchron.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
AGAIN!!! Support your public libraries. LIKE ACTUAL POLITICAL SUPPORT. I do not want to hear "I looooovveee my public library" from people who don't actually pay attention to whether they are being adequately funded and sustained, lol...
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I broke a nephew's use of "skibidi" by using it and explaining its relationship to dadaism. By the end the word was so boring and uncool he couldn't bear to say it again.
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I broke a nephew's use of "skibidi" by using it and explaining its relationship to dadaism. By the end the word was so boring and uncool he couldn't bear to say it again.
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I'll vote for anyone who promises to throw this man in jail.
Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.
![Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh •9h “BREAKING: Gov. Tim Walz says Somalians are ESSENTIAL to the Minnesota community - despite STEALING millions or even billions in taxpayer dollars.
‘They bring diversity and ENERGY to a place like Minnesota!’ Pathetic. Somalians LEECH - DEPORT THEM.”
Response from Gregory Bovino’s official account: “Waltz is of the same class as newsome, stein, pritzker - gubners [governors] who choose illegal aliens over their own citizens. Amazing incompetence”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreihst32abq4yk2kvsi3sg5bjedowsscsf5lfojdskehwivjizr2tme@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I'll vote for anyone who promises to throw this man in jail.
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It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
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when you have had it with these iconoclastic snakes on this consecrated plane
November 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
when you have had it with these iconoclastic snakes on this consecrated plane
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it’s fun watching people see what trans folks have been warning of for years. the media has no capacity to inform about the politicization of health care
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
it’s fun watching people see what trans folks have been warning of for years. the media has no capacity to inform about the politicization of health care
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I feel comfortable and secure in my belief that democratic leadership should not be pulling their slogans from venture capitalists. That this, at minimum, is a significant indictment of who they are listening and talking to. It’s not that complicated.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I feel comfortable and secure in my belief that democratic leadership should not be pulling their slogans from venture capitalists. That this, at minimum, is a significant indictment of who they are listening and talking to. It’s not that complicated.
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How did this guy and a drug kingpin buy their pardons from Trump? This is our-in-the-open corruption, and Republicans are accepting it.
President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims.
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
nyti.ms
November 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
How did this guy and a drug kingpin buy their pardons from Trump? This is our-in-the-open corruption, and Republicans are accepting it.
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Wonderful news for the next New Deal Democrat—the current pop of super rich people are comic book villains.
The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Wonderful news for the next New Deal Democrat—the current pop of super rich people are comic book villains.
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
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what do you even do about journalists like this. biggest megaphone on the planet at the times and choosing to promote lies. it doesn't do shit if we all block her, and we can only cancel subs so many times.
i guess you hope for a sense of shame that you know isn't there
i guess you hope for a sense of shame that you know isn't there
NEW: The F.D.A. announced in an internal memo that 10 children died "because of" the Covid shot. Other experts want to see proof.
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
what do you even do about journalists like this. biggest megaphone on the planet at the times and choosing to promote lies. it doesn't do shit if we all block her, and we can only cancel subs so many times.
i guess you hope for a sense of shame that you know isn't there
i guess you hope for a sense of shame that you know isn't there
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it’s Vogon poetry, isn’t it
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
it’s Vogon poetry, isn’t it
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The number of people who fold to Trump when he is deeply unpopular and disliked on every issue indicates that they really just agree with him.
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low
President Donald Trump's job approval rating has slipped to a new second-term low point and is approaching his all-time low of 34%.
news.gallup.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The number of people who fold to Trump when he is deeply unpopular and disliked on every issue indicates that they really just agree with him.
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
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The media treated Biden's pardon of Hunter for trumped-up gun possession charges as more scandalous - far more scandalous - than Trump's pardon of war criminal serial killer Eddie Gallagher. And here we are:
Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The media treated Biden's pardon of Hunter for trumped-up gun possession charges as more scandalous - far more scandalous - than Trump's pardon of war criminal serial killer Eddie Gallagher. And here we are:
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trump will pardon or assist any head of state who has been convicted for crimes. acting out of self preservation, basically
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
trump will pardon or assist any head of state who has been convicted for crimes. acting out of self preservation, basically
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
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"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
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I know you already know, but for other folks who don't, Goldsmith was previously head of OLC, is a genuinely brilliant mind on executive authority and separation of powers, and is usually very cautious about making claims this unqualified and direct. That he is saying it so starkly is v significant
November 29, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I know you already know, but for other folks who don't, Goldsmith was previously head of OLC, is a genuinely brilliant mind on executive authority and separation of powers, and is usually very cautious about making claims this unqualified and direct. That he is saying it so starkly is v significant