Lisa Rokusek
@lisarokusek.bsky.social
tired but trying
I'm in STL. We make it harder here.
agitator
dissident - in the havel sense
disintegrating - i hope positively
magical queer
mostly benevolent
pushing the rock of persuasion
I'm in STL. We make it harder here.
agitator
dissident - in the havel sense
disintegrating - i hope positively
magical queer
mostly benevolent
pushing the rock of persuasion
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When you consider the power Palantir wields, this isn't funny -- it's alarming. These "meritocracy" tech-bros exist in a cult-like bubble while talking like they're in week 1 of a freshman philosophy class and are high af.
December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
When you consider the power Palantir wields, this isn't funny -- it's alarming. These "meritocracy" tech-bros exist in a cult-like bubble while talking like they're in week 1 of a freshman philosophy class and are high af.
It was always a money grab.
"Corn ethanol requires millions of acres that could instead be used for food crops or more efficient energy sources. One recent study found that solar panels can generate as much energy as corn ethanol on roughly 3% of the land."
Corn’s clean-energy promise is clashing with its climate footprint
Corn dominates U.S. farmland and fuels the ethanol industry. But the fertilizer it relies on drives emissions and fouls drinking water.
floodlightnews.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It was always a money grab.
Jarring to live in a real world where I and all those with whom I associate work to earn money for food shelter and a whisper of security.
And then watch this go on day after day after day.
And then watch this go on day after day after day.
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Jarring to live in a real world where I and all those with whom I associate work to earn money for food shelter and a whisper of security.
And then watch this go on day after day after day.
And then watch this go on day after day after day.
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four-word horror story:
waymo in st. louis
waymo in st. louis
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
four-word horror story:
waymo in st. louis
waymo in st. louis
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They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.
NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution.
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.
The incompetence still getting so much cruelty done is jarring.
December 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The incompetence still getting so much cruelty done is jarring.
I say. I SAY, SON. Fog of the fog of the war on reality!
/Foghorn Leghorn voice
/Foghorn Leghorn voice
December 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I say. I SAY, SON. Fog of the fog of the war on reality!
/Foghorn Leghorn voice
/Foghorn Leghorn voice
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I appreciate the reporting AND I want everyone to stop using criminal records as a stand in for whether people should or should not be harassed and deported.
Nearly 1,900 immigrants were detained during the first half of Operation Midway Blitz. Most had no criminal record, newly released federal data shows. @joemahr.bsky.social and @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social report
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...
Nearly 1,900 immigrants were detained during the first half of Operation Midway Blitz. Most had no criminal record.
Newly released federal data shows that immigration agents booked in roughly 1,900 immigrants in the first half of Operation Midway Blitz – two-thirds of whom had no known criminal convictions or pe…
www.chicagotribune.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I appreciate the reporting AND I want everyone to stop using criminal records as a stand in for whether people should or should not be harassed and deported.
Prepare to defend trans and queer people
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Prepare to defend trans and queer people
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
been so heads down working this morning I missed the antisocial choice of the day made by higher ed cowards catering to even horrifyingly awful bigots.
tiresome and harmful. wash and repeat. this shit will kill us all.
tiresome and harmful. wash and repeat. this shit will kill us all.
December 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
been so heads down working this morning I missed the antisocial choice of the day made by higher ed cowards catering to even horrifyingly awful bigots.
tiresome and harmful. wash and repeat. this shit will kill us all.
tiresome and harmful. wash and repeat. this shit will kill us all.
Appropriate response to so many leading this planet:
“I have found - I have experienced - new dimensions of volatility and energy power from a new resource, which is my contempt for you.”
A quote from Joanna Macy aimed toward the death cult running far too much.
“I have found - I have experienced - new dimensions of volatility and energy power from a new resource, which is my contempt for you.”
A quote from Joanna Macy aimed toward the death cult running far too much.
December 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Appropriate response to so many leading this planet:
“I have found - I have experienced - new dimensions of volatility and energy power from a new resource, which is my contempt for you.”
A quote from Joanna Macy aimed toward the death cult running far too much.
“I have found - I have experienced - new dimensions of volatility and energy power from a new resource, which is my contempt for you.”
A quote from Joanna Macy aimed toward the death cult running far too much.
Things are getting weird on LinkedIn. I kind of love it. It’s a good weird.
Someone posted about how all jobs are worthy & I posted an agreement and a comment ending with “The people united will never be defeated!”
A white tech dude answered back Assata Shakur to me.
We are the great turning!
Someone posted about how all jobs are worthy & I posted an agreement and a comment ending with “The people united will never be defeated!”
A white tech dude answered back Assata Shakur to me.
We are the great turning!
November 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Things are getting weird on LinkedIn. I kind of love it. It’s a good weird.
Someone posted about how all jobs are worthy & I posted an agreement and a comment ending with “The people united will never be defeated!”
A white tech dude answered back Assata Shakur to me.
We are the great turning!
Someone posted about how all jobs are worthy & I posted an agreement and a comment ending with “The people united will never be defeated!”
A white tech dude answered back Assata Shakur to me.
We are the great turning!
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Doing your best to literally destroy life-sustaining ecosystems while also sanctioning the torture of people is hard on the spirit, wow who knew
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Doing your best to literally destroy life-sustaining ecosystems while also sanctioning the torture of people is hard on the spirit, wow who knew
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I'm ICE, boys. I love crashing cars, getting divorced, crashing cars, bargain bin jeans, texting while driving, crashing cars, OLD GLORY, and let's not forget my one true passion in life—crashing cars
ICE agents involved in another vehicle collision, this time in Mesa azmirror.com/briefs/ice-a...
ICE agents involved in another vehicle collision, this time in Mesa | Arizona Mirror
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents collided with a car driven by a person they were attempting to apprehend in a Mesa neighborhood.
azmirror.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm ICE, boys. I love crashing cars, getting divorced, crashing cars, bargain bin jeans, texting while driving, crashing cars, OLD GLORY, and let's not forget my one true passion in life—crashing cars
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This is why fascists oppose gender-affirming care.
Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This is why fascists oppose gender-affirming care.
There was a blissful moent when Keith Oldermann was gone from my consciousness. Just nothing about him in there just nope, none of him.
Those were the good times, friends.
Those were the good times, friends.
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
There was a blissful moent when Keith Oldermann was gone from my consciousness. Just nothing about him in there just nope, none of him.
Those were the good times, friends.
Those were the good times, friends.
Free Speech says, "Bari Weiss? I never knew her."
November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Free Speech says, "Bari Weiss? I never knew her."
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I long for a world where I am not *constantly* reminded, entirely and utterly against my will, of the icky sex proclivities of random mediocrities with money.
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I long for a world where I am not *constantly* reminded, entirely and utterly against my will, of the icky sex proclivities of random mediocrities with money.
I could not find my copy of Madness Rack and Honey and almost bought another. But I found it and it is now back on my desk where it lives to anchor recruiting with poetry.
Mary Ruefle keeps me keeping on.
Mary Ruefle keeps me keeping on.
November 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I could not find my copy of Madness Rack and Honey and almost bought another. But I found it and it is now back on my desk where it lives to anchor recruiting with poetry.
Mary Ruefle keeps me keeping on.
Mary Ruefle keeps me keeping on.
My just can't evens ran out and now I'm screamin'.
November 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
My just can't evens ran out and now I'm screamin'.
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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even if she is lying (and we have no reason to think she’s stopped being racist or bigoted or antisemitic), the nature of her lie is notable: it shows us she thinks the permission structure for acceptable public behavior and rhetoric is changing. She’s never been dim, so she’s changing too.
I'm actually shocked. Good on Dana Bash for asking the question, and I genuinely would not have expected Greene to answer the way she did.
BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
November 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
even if she is lying (and we have no reason to think she’s stopped being racist or bigoted or antisemitic), the nature of her lie is notable: it shows us she thinks the permission structure for acceptable public behavior and rhetoric is changing. She’s never been dim, so she’s changing too.
Eight years ago. Damn.
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Eight years ago. Damn.
Aw shit y’all I’m back on my (glorious) bullshit of sharing Dabrowski bell hooks Mark Epstein and Joanna Macy in almost every conversation.
November 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Aw shit y’all I’m back on my (glorious) bullshit of sharing Dabrowski bell hooks Mark Epstein and Joanna Macy in almost every conversation.