Taylor Fleet
@leaflottery.bsky.social
Former copyeditor fond of semicolons.
“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.”
—Wallace Stevens
“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.”
—Wallace Stevens
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Taylor Fleet
@leaflottery.bsky.social
· Jul 5
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” —Hannah Arendt
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Every American needs to watch this:
February 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Every American needs to watch this:
“One answer to a big lie, to a Nazi alternative reality, are the small truths.”
Essential reading.
Essential reading.
Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?
Nazi Lies in Vance's America
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2026 at 6:30 AM
“One answer to a big lie, to a Nazi alternative reality, are the small truths.”
Essential reading.
Essential reading.
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Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
January 31, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
A tiny ray of sunshine.
Educator Who Read ‘I Need a New Butt!’ to Students Wins Job Back in Court
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:03 PM
A tiny ray of sunshine.
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Journalism! The way you always wanted it to be.
www.instagram.com/p/DT_zBaIgAxR/
Not kidding. It has almost everything. Plain speaking. Respect for your eyes and ears. Exact quote: "That was a lie." Lots of context. Dead on in their editing. Truth to power. And more.
Via @froomkin.bsky.social
www.instagram.com/p/DT_zBaIgAxR/
Not kidding. It has almost everything. Plain speaking. Respect for your eyes and ears. Exact quote: "That was a lie." Lots of context. Dead on in their editing. Truth to power. And more.
Via @froomkin.bsky.social
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www.instagram.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Journalism! The way you always wanted it to be.
www.instagram.com/p/DT_zBaIgAxR/
Not kidding. It has almost everything. Plain speaking. Respect for your eyes and ears. Exact quote: "That was a lie." Lots of context. Dead on in their editing. Truth to power. And more.
Via @froomkin.bsky.social
www.instagram.com/p/DT_zBaIgAxR/
Not kidding. It has almost everything. Plain speaking. Respect for your eyes and ears. Exact quote: "That was a lie." Lots of context. Dead on in their editing. Truth to power. And more.
Via @froomkin.bsky.social
“Kicking off the meeting to the tune of ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams….”
Every clueless boss who tries to paper over tension with something “fun” but ends up further alienating staff.
Every clueless boss who tries to paper over tension with something “fun” but ends up further alienating staff.
Weiss tells CBS staff to love it or leave it as Gayle King passionately defends her
‘She seems very small,’ a network employee reacted to Weiss’ remarks at Tuesday’s all-hands meeting. ‘She can read talking points off the teleprompter, but it doesn't really connect to what's happenin...
www.independent.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 10:42 PM
“Kicking off the meeting to the tune of ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams….”
Every clueless boss who tries to paper over tension with something “fun” but ends up further alienating staff.
Every clueless boss who tries to paper over tension with something “fun” but ends up further alienating staff.
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It's Miller. Miller has to go.
Miller time.
Miller time.
January 27, 2026 at 1:31 AM
It's Miller. Miller has to go.
Miller time.
Miller time.
“ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. The other agencies within it should be redistributed across other departments. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.”
Lies and Lawlessness
The Camps, the Executions, and the Future
snyder.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:50 PM
“ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. The other agencies within it should be redistributed across other departments. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.”
“It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.”
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:24 AM
“It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.”
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Abolish ICE, abolish DHS, redistribute the other agencies, prosecute actual criminals, such as people who commit execution-style murders of Americans in broad daylight.
January 24, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Abolish ICE, abolish DHS, redistribute the other agencies, prosecute actual criminals, such as people who commit execution-style murders of Americans in broad daylight.
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Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun.
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
January 24, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun.
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
Thank you, Anders Vistisen.
January 20, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Thank you, Anders Vistisen.
“Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality…. Years of careful diplomacy, billions of dollars in trade, are now at risk because senators and representatives who know better have refused to use the powers they have to block him. Now is the time.”
Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw
Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?
www.theatlantic.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:07 PM
“Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality…. Years of careful diplomacy, billions of dollars in trade, are now at risk because senators and representatives who know better have refused to use the powers they have to block him. Now is the time.”
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We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
January 19, 2026 at 10:59 PM
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
Kyrsten Sinema, spirit guide.
January 18, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Kyrsten Sinema, spirit guide.
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Hey, a man can dream, can’t he?
December 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Hey, a man can dream, can’t he?
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Again I say into the void: stop saying the ICE officer had no time to think. Time doesn’t start when the drama starts. They drove up. They walked up. They engaged. Stop saying there is only reflex, no thought. If so, stop arming ambulatory startle reflexes & calling them cops
January 10, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Again I say into the void: stop saying the ICE officer had no time to think. Time doesn’t start when the drama starts. They drove up. They walked up. They engaged. Stop saying there is only reflex, no thought. If so, stop arming ambulatory startle reflexes & calling them cops
“All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience.”
Opinion | By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:36 PM
“All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience.”
Utter clowns running the U.S.
Exclusive: Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US
U.S. officials have discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the United States, according to four sources famil...
www.reuters.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Utter clowns running the U.S.
More power to you, @rokhanna.bsky.social.
Imagine having a billion dollars—a thousand million!—and complaining about contributing more to the common wealth.
Peter Thiel should be mocked: he has a Roth IRA worth (as of 2019) $5 billion—all tax free. Cry more, Mr. Thiel.
Imagine having a billion dollars—a thousand million!—and complaining about contributing more to the common wealth.
Peter Thiel should be mocked: he has a Roth IRA worth (as of 2019) $5 billion—all tax free. Cry more, Mr. Thiel.
Silicon Valley Plots Against Ro Khanna After His Support for a Wealth Tax
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:11 PM
More power to you, @rokhanna.bsky.social.
Imagine having a billion dollars—a thousand million!—and complaining about contributing more to the common wealth.
Peter Thiel should be mocked: he has a Roth IRA worth (as of 2019) $5 billion—all tax free. Cry more, Mr. Thiel.
Imagine having a billion dollars—a thousand million!—and complaining about contributing more to the common wealth.
Peter Thiel should be mocked: he has a Roth IRA worth (as of 2019) $5 billion—all tax free. Cry more, Mr. Thiel.
"There are many ways to diagnose the state of the nation, but if there is a sickness eating away at American democracy, it is our culture of elite impunity.”
Opinion | There Is a Sickness Eating Away at American Democracy
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:17 AM
"There are many ways to diagnose the state of the nation, but if there is a sickness eating away at American democracy, it is our culture of elite impunity.”
Leadership.
Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Leadership.