Leslie
@feralleslie.bsky.social
I’m a tech writer. Former journalist. Elder-ish millennial. I have AuDHD and the hEDS/POTS/MCAS evil triad. I’m queer and mixed. 🏳️🌈🍉🌻🐸✊🏽 Here to resist and disobey.
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
February 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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It’s ALWAYS the rich assholes.
February 4, 2026 at 7:20 PM
It’s ALWAYS the rich assholes.
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Immigrants are carrying this country on their backs while the right screams into the void.
Here’s the Cato Institute report:
www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...
Here’s the Cato Institute report:
www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...
Cato Study: Immigrants Reduced Deficits by $14.5 Trillion Since 1994
The best way to balance the budget is to reduce spending—particularly on wealthy retirees—but rather than hinder our efforts to control deficits, immigrants are helping.
www.cato.org
February 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Immigrants are carrying this country on their backs while the right screams into the void.
Here’s the Cato Institute report:
www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...
Here’s the Cato Institute report:
www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...
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Immigrants:
📌Pay more in taxes and take fewer benefits
📌Work more, earn more than the average native-born worker
📌Cost less in retirement, they do not drain Social Security for decades
📌Barely touch welfare, there is no free ride
Undocumented immigrants alone saved $1.7 trillion.
2/3
📌Pay more in taxes and take fewer benefits
📌Work more, earn more than the average native-born worker
📌Cost less in retirement, they do not drain Social Security for decades
📌Barely touch welfare, there is no free ride
Undocumented immigrants alone saved $1.7 trillion.
2/3
February 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Immigrants:
📌Pay more in taxes and take fewer benefits
📌Work more, earn more than the average native-born worker
📌Cost less in retirement, they do not drain Social Security for decades
📌Barely touch welfare, there is no free ride
Undocumented immigrants alone saved $1.7 trillion.
2/3
📌Pay more in taxes and take fewer benefits
📌Work more, earn more than the average native-born worker
📌Cost less in retirement, they do not drain Social Security for decades
📌Barely touch welfare, there is no free ride
Undocumented immigrants alone saved $1.7 trillion.
2/3
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Heads are going to explode 💥
Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.
All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
1/3
Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.
All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
1/3
February 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Heads are going to explode 💥
Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.
All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
1/3
Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.
All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
1/3
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We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
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I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...
WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
February 4, 2026 at 3:44 AM
I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...
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Whistleblower puts Tulsi on notice that he will go to Congress himself if her office doesn’t respond by Friday.
February 4, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Whistleblower puts Tulsi on notice that he will go to Congress himself if her office doesn’t respond by Friday.
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Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos says nothing as 1/3 of paper's staff is laid off. CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss says nothing after a newly hired contributor appears in over 1,700 documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. Read this on how terrible leaders are destroying journalism. loom.ly/f_FqSFk
How misguided visionaries and negligent owners threaten journalism at CBS News and The Washington Post
At a time when the public needs strong, trustworthy journalism more than ever, why do strategies unfolding at CBS News and The Washington Post seem to undermine their work more than uplift it?
loom.ly
February 4, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos says nothing as 1/3 of paper's staff is laid off. CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss says nothing after a newly hired contributor appears in over 1,700 documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. Read this on how terrible leaders are destroying journalism. loom.ly/f_FqSFk
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Breaking character: The changes at WaPo and CBS are not ones that make economic sense. They're about hating liberals, they're about some media higher-ups hating their mostly liberal audience. It's that simple.
February 4, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Breaking character: The changes at WaPo and CBS are not ones that make economic sense. They're about hating liberals, they're about some media higher-ups hating their mostly liberal audience. It's that simple.
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Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post Editorial Board and turned it into a mouthpiece for pro-corporate, pro-billionaire propaganda.
Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon.
Democracy dies in billionaire hands.
Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon.
Democracy dies in billionaire hands.
February 4, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post Editorial Board and turned it into a mouthpiece for pro-corporate, pro-billionaire propaganda.
Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon.
Democracy dies in billionaire hands.
Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon.
Democracy dies in billionaire hands.
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Jeff Bezos spent $75 million for the Melania documentary to suck up to Trump. Now he guts The Washington Post to further help Trump. We need to end big money in politics and tax the F**k out of the oligarchs! www.nbcnews.com/business/med...
Washington Post begins sweeping layoffs
Sports coverage, international and the paper's podcast are among those hit the hardest as the storied newspaper struggles with declining revenue.
www.nbcnews.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Jeff Bezos spent $75 million for the Melania documentary to suck up to Trump. Now he guts The Washington Post to further help Trump. We need to end big money in politics and tax the F**k out of the oligarchs! www.nbcnews.com/business/med...
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Bezos is gutter trash.
February 4, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Bezos is gutter trash.
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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
February 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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Please watch and share this. Boycotts, resistance, protests work. In the United States, and Canada too.
Rachel Maddow on Hanover County ICE Detention Center
YouTube video by Rob McCausland
youtube.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Please watch and share this. Boycotts, resistance, protests work. In the United States, and Canada too.
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Canada, you do NOT want to go down this route. As an American, I have it on good authority to say that for-profit healthcare will KILL you.
How Alberta Plans to Kill Public Health Care Across Canada via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
How Alberta Plans to Kill Public Health Care Across Canada | The Tyee
A new law opens the door for two-tier care that would destroy medicare.
thetyee.ca
February 4, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Canada, you do NOT want to go down this route. As an American, I have it on good authority to say that for-profit healthcare will KILL you.
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Casar holds a 3 minute and 26 second moment of silence to represent the time in which DHS officers let Renee Good bleed out after she was shot
February 3, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Casar holds a 3 minute and 26 second moment of silence to represent the time in which DHS officers let Renee Good bleed out after she was shot
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I’m skeptical of this.
If Trump really didn’t want to do it, he wouldn’t be sending hundreds of millions of dollars in hardware to the Middle East.
This is either misdirection from a US official, or the dumbest and most expensive bluff in history.
If Trump really didn’t want to do it, he wouldn’t be sending hundreds of millions of dollars in hardware to the Middle East.
This is either misdirection from a US official, or the dumbest and most expensive bluff in history.
February 3, 2026 at 4:43 PM
I’m skeptical of this.
If Trump really didn’t want to do it, he wouldn’t be sending hundreds of millions of dollars in hardware to the Middle East.
This is either misdirection from a US official, or the dumbest and most expensive bluff in history.
If Trump really didn’t want to do it, he wouldn’t be sending hundreds of millions of dollars in hardware to the Middle East.
This is either misdirection from a US official, or the dumbest and most expensive bluff in history.
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In Norway, UK and Slovakia, revelations in the Epstein files have forced resignations. The disclosure concerning these figures were trivial compared with what was learned about Trump cabinet secretaries and other figures in the Trump inner circle, but there have been no resignations in the US.
Welche Europäer Kontakt zum Sexualstraftäter Epstein pflegten
Die Veröffentlichung der Akten zum Sexualstraftäter Jeffrey Epstein führt auch in Europa zu Konsequenzen. In Norwegen, Großbritannien und der Slowakei kam es zu Suspendierungen und Rücktritten.
www.faz.net
February 4, 2026 at 3:36 AM
In Norway, UK and Slovakia, revelations in the Epstein files have forced resignations. The disclosure concerning these figures were trivial compared with what was learned about Trump cabinet secretaries and other figures in the Trump inner circle, but there have been no resignations in the US.
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The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.
February 4, 2026 at 2:44 AM
The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.
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I’m not a constitutional scholar but if a president advocates for a change to election laws that is contrary to the constitution, isn’t that a violation of his oath of office?
February 3, 2026 at 1:25 AM
I’m not a constitutional scholar but if a president advocates for a change to election laws that is contrary to the constitution, isn’t that a violation of his oath of office?
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this literally looks like a scene from THE FIRST PURGE
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 4, 2026 at 2:53 AM
this literally looks like a scene from THE FIRST PURGE
Good fucking lord wtf is wrong with there people. This PEDO is working at a university less than an hour away from me. Free as a fucking bird.
youtube.com/shorts/9lHrf...
youtube.com/shorts/9lHrf...
It’s all of them #duet #mexico #ambassador #epstein #epsteinfiles #pedos #sick #gross #criminal
YouTube video by Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk
youtube.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Good fucking lord wtf is wrong with there people. This PEDO is working at a university less than an hour away from me. Free as a fucking bird.
youtube.com/shorts/9lHrf...
youtube.com/shorts/9lHrf...
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Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025.
You suckers
You suckers
February 3, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025.
You suckers
You suckers