lieslindi
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Feminist. Swimmer. Gardener. Reader. Writer. Flummoxed.
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Murphy says Trump wants to trade ICE "murder and mayhem" for control of Minnesota's election. He also says yeah, that may sound conspiratorial but Pam Bondi's letter to Walz spells it out.
Murphy: "It's always been the fear & now is closer to the reality that the Trump admin is creating this mayhem, particularly in cities in swing states, to take control of elections. They're trying to trade the presence of ICE & the murder & mayhem they are causing for control of MN's elections"
January 25, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Murphy says Trump wants to trade ICE "murder and mayhem" for control of Minnesota's election. He also says yeah, that may sound conspiratorial but Pam Bondi's letter to Walz spells it out.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”
January 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”
I embrace becoming Maurice Sendak: "I cry a lot because I miss people. I cry a lot because they die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more."
December 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I embrace becoming Maurice Sendak: "I cry a lot because I miss people. I cry a lot because they die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more."
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Food prices are skyrocketing, so President Snow is launching the Hunger Games!
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"
December 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Food prices are skyrocketing, so President Snow is launching the Hunger Games!
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one of the underrated factors for the rise in scamming across U.S. society is the death of local media.
It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
Fond memories of that time Mike Johnson was president of a local law school that never opened its doors, in part because it was attached to a Baptist college that was losing its accreditation, and in part because it was always a scam from the start
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
one of the underrated factors for the rise in scamming across U.S. society is the death of local media.
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Federal election spending by the 100 wealthiest Americans is now 140x what it was in 2000.
Last year they crossed $1 billion in election spending.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Last year they crossed $1 billion in election spending.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Federal election spending by the 100 wealthiest Americans is now 140x what it was in 2000.
Last year they crossed $1 billion in election spending.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Last year they crossed $1 billion in election spending.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI is frighteningly good. Good, and frightening.
October 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI is frighteningly good. Good, and frightening.
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Speaker Mike Johnson just said he's completely fine with ICE agents shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and roughing up journalists.
I'm sure he'll tell us soon about how it's the Democrats who are waging a war on religion and free speech though.
I'm sure he'll tell us soon about how it's the Democrats who are waging a war on religion and free speech though.
Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?
MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.
MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.
October 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Speaker Mike Johnson just said he's completely fine with ICE agents shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and roughing up journalists.
I'm sure he'll tell us soon about how it's the Democrats who are waging a war on religion and free speech though.
I'm sure he'll tell us soon about how it's the Democrats who are waging a war on religion and free speech though.
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Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?
October 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?
I anticipate verbiage concerning non-citizens claiming they have no rights that the white man is bound to respect.
October 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I anticipate verbiage concerning non-citizens claiming they have no rights that the white man is bound to respect.
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Good morning.
The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.
Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.
The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.
Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.
October 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Good morning.
The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.
Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.
The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.
Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.
"According to Texas state representative Vince Perez, it will take about 445,000 white residents to secure a member of Congress, but about 1.4 million Latino residents or 2 million Black residents to elect one." -- HCR
August 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"According to Texas state representative Vince Perez, it will take about 445,000 white residents to secure a member of Congress, but about 1.4 million Latino residents or 2 million Black residents to elect one." -- HCR
Rebecca Romney quotes in Jane Austen's Bookshelf: "If a comet is ordained to consume the world, however long it may remain unseen ... when least expected, it will shine forth with additional lustre.” Andrew Boyd's I Want a Better Catastrophe mentions "Don't Look Up." #andrewboyd #rebeccaromney
July 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Rebecca Romney quotes in Jane Austen's Bookshelf: "If a comet is ordained to consume the world, however long it may remain unseen ... when least expected, it will shine forth with additional lustre.” Andrew Boyd's I Want a Better Catastrophe mentions "Don't Look Up." #andrewboyd #rebeccaromney
I don't read much horror but I want a horror novel titled Terror Incognito.
July 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I don't read much horror but I want a horror novel titled Terror Incognito.
Are I Want a Better Catastrophe and Book of Joy a strange pairing? But we live in strange times. #andrewboyd #desmondtutu #dalailama
July 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Are I Want a Better Catastrophe and Book of Joy a strange pairing? But we live in strange times. #andrewboyd #desmondtutu #dalailama
This weekend I read in I Want a Better Catastrophe of author Andrew Boyd in a session with Joanna Macy. Today I learned she died (at 96). #aba1b is really All Books Are One Life, as indeed everything on Earth is. #andrewboyd #joannamacy
July 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This weekend I read in I Want a Better Catastrophe of author Andrew Boyd in a session with Joanna Macy. Today I learned she died (at 96). #aba1b is really All Books Are One Life, as indeed everything on Earth is. #andrewboyd #joannamacy
Still reading I Want a Better Catastrophe. Still underlining and taking notes. Still working through a lot. #andrewboyd #climatechaos
July 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Still reading I Want a Better Catastrophe. Still underlining and taking notes. Still working through a lot. #andrewboyd #climatechaos
Will Rebecca Romney's Jane Austen's Bookshelf spur me to get through Castle Rackrent or Cecilia?
July 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Will Rebecca Romney's Jane Austen's Bookshelf spur me to get through Castle Rackrent or Cecilia?
Chatting with Boss. Some time ago I caught zem reading GGM's Strange Pilgrims. Now ze's reading Marcus Aurelias and Emily Dickinson. I nodded sagely, philosophy and poetry being lacunae in my reading.
July 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Chatting with Boss. Some time ago I caught zem reading GGM's Strange Pilgrims. Now ze's reading Marcus Aurelias and Emily Dickinson. I nodded sagely, philosophy and poetry being lacunae in my reading.
Latest in the face-blindness files: Emil Bove and Stephen Miller. (Is it appropriation to call my deficiency prosopagnosia? Probably.) Their faces show the banality of evil (tm Hannah Arendt).
July 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Latest in the face-blindness files: Emil Bove and Stephen Miller. (Is it appropriation to call my deficiency prosopagnosia? Probably.) Their faces show the banality of evil (tm Hannah Arendt).
I admit that I learned of Alligator Auschwitz with a bit of Othering: "Oh. *Florida.* Of course." Yesterday I learned that my state and ICE are speculating on sites here. This reminded me that wrong anywhere is wrong everywhere and that my othering and dismissals are wrong.
July 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I admit that I learned of Alligator Auschwitz with a bit of Othering: "Oh. *Florida.* Of course." Yesterday I learned that my state and ICE are speculating on sites here. This reminded me that wrong anywhere is wrong everywhere and that my othering and dismissals are wrong.
Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste by Eve O. Schaub. Plastics make (life) impossible, no surprise, a fact that she intersperses with jocularity for readability. #books #eveschaub #anthropocene Bring on the supervolcanoes.
July 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste by Eve O. Schaub. Plastics make (life) impossible, no surprise, a fact that she intersperses with jocularity for readability. #books #eveschaub #anthropocene Bring on the supervolcanoes.