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B Lanson
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Kevin Kruse blocked me for saying people should blame Republicans in Congress.

What's unfortunate is that he knows better, he knows GOP has the majority!

But the engagement on "yell at Dems" is higher than on reminding ppl that they need to hold the GOP to account for their actions.
Kevin Kruse: "every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, insisting that Pet Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes...." He doesn't mention republicans at all. My quote of Kevin Kruse's post, which he blocked me for
November 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
blanson100.bsky.social
Lauretta Jean's is the best! I especially love the quiche.

I drove by them on Monday morning 10 minutes after they opened and the line was down the block—I know they sold out of Tday pies, so it's possible ppl were trying to buy them out of the case that soon.
line of ppl outside of Lauretta Jean's in Portland
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
blanson100.bsky.social
To them,"white man" is neutral. It is the baseline. Normal.

Whomever is NOT that is wrong, or bad, or unappealing—for they're not their "neutral, normal."

"White male" is the most histrionic, self-regarding identity in politics, forcing THAT identity's demands & grievances on to everyone else
A group of white men sit around a table and say "then it's unanimous-we all have the cojones!"
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 AM
blanson100.bsky.social
That she was hired in the first place, after her egregious breach of journalistic ethics became known, is the real issue!

Vanity Fair should be looking into the guy that hired her 🙄
The editor Mark Guiducci has made two big moves since taking the helm of Vanity Fair in June. He decided to put only male actors on the cover of the magazine’s annual Hollywood issue, and he hired the scandal-plagued journalist Olivia Nuzzi as its West Coast editor. Now, after the publication of an essay that raised new questions about Ms. Nuzzi’s adherence to journalistic ethics, the magazine is looking into the allegations against her, according to a Vanity Fair spokeswoman. Ms. Nuzzi, 32, lost a previous high-profile job — as the Washington correspondent at New York magazine — when her bosses learned in September 2024 that she had engaged in a close personal relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom she had profiled for the publication the year before. The concern at Vanity Fair came about in the wake of a Substack essay written by Ms. Nuzzi’s former fiancé, the political journalist Ryan Lizza. "we're all trying to find the guy who did this" hotdog man
November 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Leonard Bernstein's introduction of Yo Yo Ma and his sister Yeou-Cheng Ma in 1962..../2
Leonard Bernstein's introduction of Yo-Yo Ma: “An aspect of that double stream of art I mentioned earlier flowing into and out of America, has long been the attraction of our country to foreign artists, and scientists and thinkers, who have come not only to visit us, but often to join us as Americans, to become citizens of what to some has historically been the land of opportunity and to others the land of freedom. And in this great tradition, there has come to us, this year, a young man aged 7, bearing the name Yo-Yo Ma. Now Yo-Yo came to our attention through the great master Pablo Casals who had recently heard the boy play the cello. Yo-Yo is, as you may have guessed, Chinese, and has lived up to now in France—a highly international type. But he and his family are now here. His father is teaching school in New York, and his 11-year-old sister, Yeou-Cheng Ma, is pursuing her musical studies, and they are all hoping to become American citizens. We shall now have the pleasure of hearing Yo-Yo Ma, accompanied by his sister Yeou-Cheng Ma, play the first movement of the Concertino No. 3 in A Major, by Jean-Baptiste Breval, who played, taught, and composed for the cello 150 years ago in France. Now, here’s a cultural image for you to ponder as you listen. A 7-year-old Chinese cellist, playing old French music, for his new American compatriots. Welcome Yo-Yo Ma and Yeou-Cheng Ma.”
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 AM
blanson100.bsky.social
There's leftist vitriol towards Harris for accepting Liz Cheney endorsing her because Cheney said Democracy was on the ballot, & voting for Harris was imperative to save it

Harris didn't make a single policy concession to her for that endorsement, but leftists are FURIOUS she appeared w her.

🤔
Harris & Cheney, at a "country over party" event
November 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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If a leftist smiles & shakes hands w Trump: "What a fucking a triumph & omfg it's owning the libs—they're SO mad! He has so much charisma"

If a Democrat appears in the same room w Trump: "They're a corporate, complicit shitlib"

In any event, many responses have some real "Brother Trump" vibes...
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
blanson100.bsky.social
Portland. Not a war zone.
Sunny day with boats going under the bridges
Bridge raised in roadway
November 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's sons cash In: Lutnick is pushing data center projects that his family companies are profiting from

Trump's sons, w the sons of his ME adviser, Steve Witkoff, have traveled the world pursuing deals that have generated hundreds of millions in profits
Kyle Lutnick, the 29-year-old scion of his family’s real estate business, traveled in July to Amarillo, Texas, to walk a dusty tract of land with the head of an artificial intelligence start-up called Fermi America. He was touring the site of a future data center with Toby Neugebauer, a billionaire who is building one of the behemoth facilities that will power the next generation of A.I. Mr. Lutnick’s company was helping raise capital for the center, banking millions in fees in the process. “Polite young man,” Mr. Neugebauer said in an interview. A month later, Kyle’s father, Howard Lutnick, was photographed with Mr. Neugebauer at an event near the White House that celebrated Fermi’s partnership with a South Korean company on the same data center project. This sequence of events — a son making money on a project his father is boosting as a federal official — has come up repeatedly since President Trump tapped Howard Lutnick to head the Commerce Department, according to an investigation by The New York Times. In that role, Mr. Lutnick has twisted the arms of American allies, dangling policy favors in exchange for investments in U.S. industrial projects. At times, these tactics have created opportunities for his family’s clients to gain access to much-needed foreign capital, The Times found. Mr. Lutnick, for example, demanded that the South Korean government invest billions of dollars in U.S. industry to reduce tariffs. Mr. Neugebauer is vying for a share of those investment dollars to build the data center that Mr. Lutnick’s family is also helping to finance.
November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
blanson100.bsky.social
Cronies. With bribes attended.
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 AM
blanson100.bsky.social
This comes up every few years, but it wasn't just premodern 25 year olds who were "older" than modern 40 year olds - the cast of Cheers here in the 1980s was in their early and mid 30s.
Cast of cheers
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Larry Summers says he's going to keep teaching, after emails with Epstein outlined (in his own words) his grossly inappropriate behavior as a mentor

He's currently teaching 5 classes, 2 are undergrad, at Harvard

How Harvard can possibly let him continue to teach and grade students now is beyond me
The announcement comes less than one week after seven years of correspondence between Summers and the disgraced financier Jeffrey E. Epstein were released by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee. The documents showed Summers and Epstein continued to exchange messages until July 5, 2019 — just one day before Epstein was arrested on new sex-trafficking charges. “I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused. I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein,” Summers wrote to The Crimson. He is currently a senior fellow at the left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress, a paid columnist at Bloomberg News, and serves on the board of directors at Open AI. A spokesperson for Bloomberg declined to comment on Summers’ future with the outlet on Monday. “While continuing to fulfill my teaching obligations, I will be stepping back from public commitments as one part of my broader effort,” he added in his statement.
November 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
blanson100.bsky.social
He makes money as a TikTok influencer doing anti-semitism, & he cheered on the murder of the Jewish couple in WA D.C. this spring—he applauded the shooter as a "resistance fighter" adding: "I want to urge you first to support Elias’ actions.”

This is who @50501movement.bsky.social supports
Guy Christensen TikTok with his own captions which say "Elias Rodriguez's act of resistance was justified and here's why" Rodriguez gunned down a Jewish couple in Washington D.C.
November 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Epstein laundered his image through gathering men of "reputation" around him
At least two grant recipients in academia are standing by Epstein, saying he remains a friend: Krauss and Robert Trivers, a Rutgers University biologist. Trivers said Epstein is a person of integrity who should be given credit for serving time in prison and for settling civil lawsuits brought by women who said they were abused. "Did he get an easy deal? Did he buy himself a light sentence? Well, yes, probably, compared to what you or I would get, but he did get locked up," Trivers said. He said he got about $40,000 from Epstein to study the relationship between knee symmetry and sprinting ability. Trivers also said he believes girls mature earlier than in the past. "By the time they're 14 or 15, they're like grown women were 60 years ago, so I don't see these acts as so heinous," he said.
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 AM
blanson100.bsky.social
Larry Summers is teaching classes at Harvard CURRENTLY

Imagine how he pressures and grades his female students.
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
blanson100.bsky.social
...and in keeping with that, two days before the 2016 election, Bernie signaled his voters
Bernie tweets 2 days before the 2016 election: "I do not believe that most of the people who are thinking about voting for Mr. Trump are racist or sexist."
November 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
blanson100.bsky.social
HRC got a lot of shit for being clear eyed about it & pragmatic, because passing legislation is the bottom line when it comes to improving people's lives

Her early work w kids & schools & racial discrimination in the south informed that view; those parents weren't going to change their hearts.
Hillary Clinton answered this question in the course of her quasi-private meeting with activists from the Black Lives Matter movement, and she came down firmly on the side of the latter. “I don’t believe you change hearts,” Clinton told Julius Jones in an candid moment backstage after a campaign event. “I believe you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate. You’re not going to change every heart. You’re not. But at the end of the day, we can do a whole lot to change some hearts, and change some systems, and create more opportunities for people who deserve to have them.”
November 16, 2025 at 4:35 AM
blanson100.bsky.social
"Natalie" here is Trump's sycophantic aide who takes dictation for his posts to Truth Social, & feeds him a constant stream of conspiracy riddled videos and posts that she gleans from right wing websites.

They are also....extremely close.
In 2023, Ms. Harp sent a series of letters to Mr. Trump that unnerved people around him, according to a half-dozen people with knowledge of them. “You are all that matters to me,” she wrote in one of the letters, which were seen by The New York Times. The letters’ authenticity was confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of them. “I don’t ever want to let you down,” Ms. Harp wrote, thanking Mr. Trump for being her “Guardian and Protector in this Life.” In another letter, she told Mr. Trump that she wanted to get back to “that synergy” she used to have with him, where “we’d talk about everything and nothing.” “I want to bring you joy,” she wrote, “to feel like we can get through a day without ever having to talk ‘work.’”
November 15, 2025 at 4:19 AM
blanson100.bsky.social
Michael Tracy, just lightly musing about technical legalities in sex trafficking & rape, like you do!
Why does Michael Tracy know the legal age of consent anywhere in the world [goose meme]
November 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
blanson100.bsky.social
If I prog bro isn't the one to propose or champion it, does it even exist...?
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
blanson100.bsky.social
Mariners' social bits are the best💪
Luis Castillo, in the center where he should be, flanked by two other guys, one called Aaron Judge, the other is someone named Dwayne. Mariners pitcher Luis Castillo is THE ROCK. LA PIEDRA.
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
blanson100.bsky.social
Science is so cool

"Eba, a rescue dog with a trained nose for detecting whale scat, rides on the bow of a research boat "
Eba, a rescue dog with a trained nose for detecting whale scat, rides on the bow of a research boat on Aug. 15, 2019, near Lime Kiln Point off San Juan Island. (Image taken under NMFS permit No. 22141)
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Katherine Boyle's also involved in New Founding, which itself funds companies such as Armored Republic, which calls itself a “Christian body armor company,” which advertises: “We create Tools of Liberty to Honor Christ by equipping Free Men to defend their God-given rights.”
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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People were ready to suffer a LOT to make fascists suffer a LITTLE?

It's easy to say "I was gonna work a food bank shift" when you're getting paid & not on SNAP; that's not suffering

& how would the fascists suffer a little?

Trump's golfing & having parties; he's not suffering, none of them are
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM