CJ Lemire
@cjlemire.com
Leftish ex-Londoner. Current Masshole. Associate member of Romancelandia. Red Sox fan. Remoaner. He/him
Want proof? Go look at the map from the presidential election immediately prior to the first time Trump was on the ballot. Florida, Iowa, and Ohio all landed in the blue column.
December 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Want proof? Go look at the map from the presidential election immediately prior to the first time Trump was on the ballot. Florida, Iowa, and Ohio all landed in the blue column.
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I’m not gonna dunk on some small depressed account, but one reply I get to this is “you think there’s gonna be elections/Trump will listen to judges??” And I wonder how people haven’t noticed that Garcia is home and free and Republicans got crushed in elections this year
We Are Going to Win
Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I’m not gonna dunk on some small depressed account, but one reply I get to this is “you think there’s gonna be elections/Trump will listen to judges??” And I wonder how people haven’t noticed that Garcia is home and free and Republicans got crushed in elections this year
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Boston has defeated Seattle. 🤘
December 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Boston has defeated Seattle. 🤘
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You know you can watch Majorie Taylor Green turn on and fight with Donald Trump without inviting her into the house, right? It's okay to just watch from your porch or through the blinds.
a group of people are taking a picture of themselves in a mirror
ALT: a group of people are taking a picture of themselves in a mirror
media.tenor.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
You know you can watch Majorie Taylor Green turn on and fight with Donald Trump without inviting her into the house, right? It's okay to just watch from your porch or through the blinds.
What? I have specific preferences. I don't do bible belt and I don't do 'too far from a major body of water'. I have lived in Colorado, and New Mexico made the list because it doesn't completely suck, but those are my exceptions that prove the rule.
December 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
What? I have specific preferences. I don't do bible belt and I don't do 'too far from a major body of water'. I have lived in Colorado, and New Mexico made the list because it doesn't completely suck, but those are my exceptions that prove the rule.
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It’s not just that he’s going to lose; he *is* losing. He’s still capable of taking a lot of people and a lot of institutions out with him as he flounders. But this is not the precipice of a thousand year trumpian reich.
December 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
It’s not just that he’s going to lose; he *is* losing. He’s still capable of taking a lot of people and a lot of institutions out with him as he flounders. But this is not the precipice of a thousand year trumpian reich.
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And they’ve kept losing in such a way that even captured institutions like SCOTUS have shown signs of life (they still need to be massively addressed in many ways, obv) like in curtailing his assertion of authority to send troops into states without their consent.
December 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
And they’ve kept losing in such a way that even captured institutions like SCOTUS have shown signs of life (they still need to be massively addressed in many ways, obv) like in curtailing his assertion of authority to send troops into states without their consent.
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The Kilmar Abrego Garcia case is instructive. If they can’t be allowed to do what they want to *this one guy*, how can they have the power to remake all of society in their rancid image? They know this, which is why they’ve pushed so hard on it. But they also keep losing.
December 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The Kilmar Abrego Garcia case is instructive. If they can’t be allowed to do what they want to *this one guy*, how can they have the power to remake all of society in their rancid image? They know this, which is why they’ve pushed so hard on it. But they also keep losing.
I will keep saying this until I'm blue in the face.
MTG isn't an ally, or potential ally. We don't need to welcome her into the tent. She's a wedge we can potentially use to help fracture their coalition. All we need to do is point her back at them and say, "Go!"
MTG isn't an ally, or potential ally. We don't need to welcome her into the tent. She's a wedge we can potentially use to help fracture their coalition. All we need to do is point her back at them and say, "Go!"
As I keep saying, Greene is proving herself to be a rare true believer in a royal court filled with liars, flatterers, and sycophants. That's noteworthy, and admirable in its way. But the principles in which she truly believes aren't liberal democratic ones.
She hasn't repented at all for Jan 6.
She hasn't repented at all for Jan 6.
And if you refuse to give someone credit for standing for liberal democracy just because they don’t agree with your policy preferences, you’re missing the big picture. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-marjor...
December 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I will keep saying this until I'm blue in the face.
MTG isn't an ally, or potential ally. We don't need to welcome her into the tent. She's a wedge we can potentially use to help fracture their coalition. All we need to do is point her back at them and say, "Go!"
MTG isn't an ally, or potential ally. We don't need to welcome her into the tent. She's a wedge we can potentially use to help fracture their coalition. All we need to do is point her back at them and say, "Go!"
It also greatly overestimates the extent to which swing voters make electoral choices based on candidates' policy positions.
I think the thing about the idea that democratic candidates need to moderate to convince swing voters is that it betrays a fear that we can’t appeal to voters on the basis of opposition to fascism and defense of democracy. And as I’ve become partial to saying, have some self respect.
I agree with Never Trumpers on a lot, but split hard on this: I do not think the Democratic Party needs to convince swing voters that Democratic candidates aren't too liberal. I think the party needs to convince swing voters that they themselves are actually quite liberal. They just won't admit it.
December 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It also greatly overestimates the extent to which swing voters make electoral choices based on candidates' policy positions.
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BRAVO Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg for standing firm and protecting her father’s name and The Kennedy Center.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
#Pinks #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
December 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
BRAVO Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg for standing firm and protecting her father’s name and The Kennedy Center.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
#Pinks #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
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I remember an interesting article about this
thetyee.ca/News/2022/02...
thetyee.ca/News/2022/02...
Is Our Pandemic the Ghost of the 1889 Russian Flu? | The Tyee
The ‘dreaded disease’ that claimed 1.5 million looks a lot like COVID-19, including the long-term threat posed by ‘viral promiscuity.’
thetyee.ca
December 30, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I remember an interesting article about this
thetyee.ca/News/2022/02...
thetyee.ca/News/2022/02...
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POTUS burning a title 50 clear and present danger op on a shitty random radio show is breathtakingly stupid
December 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
POTUS burning a title 50 clear and present danger op on a shitty random radio show is breathtakingly stupid
Don't make me dig out my 1988 campaign merch
December 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Don't make me dig out my 1988 campaign merch
Zelensky is basically going through the motions to play for time. He knows nothing is going to come of these "peace" talks
Zelensky is right to keep meeting with Trump, even though Ukraine presumably know it's unlikely to go anywhere.
But as I wrote earlier this year, all these "peace talks" are a farce. Ukraine should do it to counter false narratives, and that's about it.
Full article: www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...
But as I wrote earlier this year, all these "peace talks" are a farce. Ukraine should do it to counter false narratives, and that's about it.
Full article: www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...
December 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Zelensky is basically going through the motions to play for time. He knows nothing is going to come of these "peace" talks
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Bluesky is the new place to go for high-level political discussions because half of the pundits, for lack of a better word, have credentials like "Guy who plays in a Portland post-punk band". "Professional video editor in San Diego". "Commodities trader in Nova Scotia". "Person named Sharon"
December 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Bluesky is the new place to go for high-level political discussions because half of the pundits, for lack of a better word, have credentials like "Guy who plays in a Portland post-punk band". "Professional video editor in San Diego". "Commodities trader in Nova Scotia". "Person named Sharon"
Huh. I wonder who appointed that guy?
Trump: "We're thinking about bringing a suit against Powell for incompetence"
December 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Huh. I wonder who appointed that guy?
Bike and barge trip in the Netherlands with boy child (who is towards the back in this photo, wearing the tee shirt with the bicycles on it and fiddling with his helmet).
December 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Bike and barge trip in the Netherlands with boy child (who is towards the back in this photo, wearing the tee shirt with the bicycles on it and fiddling with his helmet).
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I have recently learned that, as a matter of fact, racists *really* hate this question.
Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.
December 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I have recently learned that, as a matter of fact, racists *really* hate this question.
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I’m laughing so hard right now. My husband and I have been wondering if our Apple HomePod mini was malfunctioning, as music kept starting to play at random times. He set up a low quality video camera, and sure enough, there’s Millie, our little void cat, tapping the top to make music start.
December 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I’m laughing so hard right now. My husband and I have been wondering if our Apple HomePod mini was malfunctioning, as music kept starting to play at random times. He set up a low quality video camera, and sure enough, there’s Millie, our little void cat, tapping the top to make music start.
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"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.)
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
The MAGAfication of Norman Rockwell
Trump uses the artist’s work—like other cultural icons—to promote Gestapo tactics and nativist ideas.
www.thebulwark.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.)
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
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We were in first place in this film award voting.
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
Audience Choice Awards | Short of the Year
Vote for your favorite short films in the Short of the Year Audience Choice Awards. Watch, vote, and support independent filmmakers.
www.shortoftheyear.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We were in first place in this film award voting.
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
"Mid-career employees? We can hire those away from somewhere else."
Okay, but all of your competitors are doing the same thing you are in terms of replacing entry-level employees with AI.
Okay, but all of your competitors are doing the same thing you are in terms of replacing entry-level employees with AI.
So many employers — you see this in journalism all the time — view entry-level employees not as future mid-career employees but basically as cannon fodder.
If you think of "hiring in entry level positions" as "procuring labor to do the tasks entry level people do" then you probably do think AI is a magical headcount reduction machine.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
December 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"Mid-career employees? We can hire those away from somewhere else."
Okay, but all of your competitors are doing the same thing you are in terms of replacing entry-level employees with AI.
Okay, but all of your competitors are doing the same thing you are in terms of replacing entry-level employees with AI.
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Remember, kids: press play on Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" at exactly 11:56:20 on New Year's Eve to get that iconic drum fill when the ball drops.
December 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Remember, kids: press play on Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" at exactly 11:56:20 on New Year's Eve to get that iconic drum fill when the ball drops.
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It remains astonishing that Trump refuses to be briefed by experts within the US government. A huge scandal, and one that relatively few voters are aware of.
If only we had this thing called the United States Intelligence Community that could advise the old man.
Trump to a reporter: "You're saying maybe the attack didn't place? That's possible too I guess. But President Putin told me this morning it did."
December 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It remains astonishing that Trump refuses to be briefed by experts within the US government. A huge scandal, and one that relatively few voters are aware of.