Ian Lekus 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Global LGBTQI+ human rights activist | Historian, Writer, Coach, Consultant | “Queer & Present Dangers,” forthcoming @ UNC Press | Star Trek, soccer, cats, bears, otters, puns, photography | Washington, DC
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The great escape: seal flees killer whales by jumping on to photographer’s boat
The great escape: seal flees killer whales by jumping on to photographer’s boat
Charvet Drucker captures dramatic video and photos of seal being hunted by orcas in Salish Sea, north-west of Seattle
A wildlife photographer on a whale-watching trip in waters off Seattle captured dramatic video and photos of a pod of killer whales hunting a seal that survived only by clambering on to the stern of her boat.
Charvet Drucker was on a rented 20ft (6 metre) boat near her home on an island in the Salish Sea about 40 miles north-west of Seattle when she spotted a pod of at least eight killer whales, also known as orcas. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The great escape: seal flees killer whales by jumping on to photographer’s boat
The first time I’ve ever considered rooting for the Commanders…
Trump was brutally booed at yesterday's Washington Commanders game. The people hate him.
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The first time I’ve ever considered rooting for the Commanders…
One piece of decent news www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to landmark gay marriage ruling
The announcement indicates there is not an appetite among the high court’s conservative majority to revisit one of the court’s most significant decisions in recent years.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
One piece of decent news www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Klingons, cooking Passover breakfast
"Today is a good day to make matzoh brei!"
"Today is a good day to make matzoh brei!"
Klingons, skinning up crazily
"Today is a good day to get high."
"Today is a good day to get high."
Klingons, yearning loudly
"Today is a good day to sigh."
"Today is a good day to sigh."
October 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Klingons, cooking Passover breakfast
"Today is a good day to make matzoh brei!"
"Today is a good day to make matzoh brei!"
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the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
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“Once my colleague pulled out his camera, the agent put away the gun," Huynh told the Sun-Times Tuesday night. "[But] if they can do this in broad daylight to an elected official, and point a gun at someone, imagine what’s happening behind closed doors.”
October 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
“Once my colleague pulled out his camera, the agent put away the gun," Huynh told the Sun-Times Tuesday night. "[But] if they can do this in broad daylight to an elected official, and point a gun at someone, imagine what’s happening behind closed doors.”
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This one really hits me deep in my heart. I spent litterally years of my life taking the subway into and out of China town to get to my job at Church and White.
That community is pure hard work, family, service and just going about your business.
This fucking hurts.
Man, leave these people alone.
That community is pure hard work, family, service and just going about your business.
This fucking hurts.
Man, leave these people alone.
Heavily armed ICE goons going after the terrible threat of Canal Street vendors
www.amny.com/news/ice-age...
www.amny.com/news/ice-age...
ICE conducts raid on Chinatown’s Canal Street, multiple people detained as New Yorkers rage | amNewYork
The operation began at about 3 p.m. in the area of Centre and Canal Streets where ICE agents showed up to question street vendors as part of an alleged
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October 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This one really hits me deep in my heart. I spent litterally years of my life taking the subway into and out of China town to get to my job at Church and White.
That community is pure hard work, family, service and just going about your business.
This fucking hurts.
Man, leave these people alone.
That community is pure hard work, family, service and just going about your business.
This fucking hurts.
Man, leave these people alone.
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On top of everything the fuck else, a crucial task of the insurgent wing of the Democratic Party right now is to make it the anti-Nazi party in US politics.
October 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
On top of everything the fuck else, a crucial task of the insurgent wing of the Democratic Party right now is to make it the anti-Nazi party in US politics.
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Indigenous Artists Infiltrate the Met With a Guerrilla A.R. Project
Indigenous Artists Infiltrate the Met With a Guerrilla A.R. Project | Artnet News
Amplifier's unsanctioned augmented reality project brings contemporary Indigenous art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Art Wing.
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October 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Indigenous Artists Infiltrate the Met With a Guerrilla A.R. Project
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Not a small thing that Trump is destroying our alliances in the Western Hemisphere because of a wildly illegal and reckless “launch missiles at small boats” strategy that will do nothing meaningful to stop drugs from coming into our country because the drugs come by land.
October 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Not a small thing that Trump is destroying our alliances in the Western Hemisphere because of a wildly illegal and reckless “launch missiles at small boats” strategy that will do nothing meaningful to stop drugs from coming into our country because the drugs come by land.
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Instead of seeing the Trump dropping poop AI video by old standards—"how dare he, if any Dem..."—see it in fight-against-authoritarianism terms:
They want everyone non-MAGA too scared to object, they fantasize about shooting protestors, and all they've got is a juvenile AI video to fake the feeling.
They want everyone non-MAGA too scared to object, they fantasize about shooting protestors, and all they've got is a juvenile AI video to fake the feeling.
October 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Instead of seeing the Trump dropping poop AI video by old standards—"how dare he, if any Dem..."—see it in fight-against-authoritarianism terms:
They want everyone non-MAGA too scared to object, they fantasize about shooting protestors, and all they've got is a juvenile AI video to fake the feeling.
They want everyone non-MAGA too scared to object, they fantasize about shooting protestors, and all they've got is a juvenile AI video to fake the feeling.
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The NYT has well-discussed flaws.
But one that is not much discussed is how bad and slow and lame its domestic mass protest coverage is, always. Fly in the foreign reporters and have them cover as they would elsewhere ffs.
But one that is not much discussed is how bad and slow and lame its domestic mass protest coverage is, always. Fly in the foreign reporters and have them cover as they would elsewhere ffs.
Newspapers still don’t understand how to cover protests.
October 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The NYT has well-discussed flaws.
But one that is not much discussed is how bad and slow and lame its domestic mass protest coverage is, always. Fly in the foreign reporters and have them cover as they would elsewhere ffs.
But one that is not much discussed is how bad and slow and lame its domestic mass protest coverage is, always. Fly in the foreign reporters and have them cover as they would elsewhere ffs.
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Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!
October 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!
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Ever wonder why so few athletes in North America have spoken about Israel's genocide in Gaza?
We did too... so we asked some to find out.
Answers include "fear of losing sponsorships," "the McCarthyist response from government,” and “Zionists gaslighting and doxxing people."
We did too... so we asked some to find out.
Answers include "fear of losing sponsorships," "the McCarthyist response from government,” and “Zionists gaslighting and doxxing people."
Most athletes have chosen to ‘shut up and dribble’ over Gaza | Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva
Why have so few athletes spoken about Gaza? Fear of backlash, lost sponsors and being branded antisemitic all help explain the silence
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Ever wonder why so few athletes in North America have spoken about Israel's genocide in Gaza?
We did too... so we asked some to find out.
Answers include "fear of losing sponsorships," "the McCarthyist response from government,” and “Zionists gaslighting and doxxing people."
We did too... so we asked some to find out.
Answers include "fear of losing sponsorships," "the McCarthyist response from government,” and “Zionists gaslighting and doxxing people."
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Apex predator says the only ICE I want to see is polar ice
October 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Apex predator says the only ICE I want to see is polar ice
The evisceration of American higher education continues to accelerate.
Faculty at Texas university fear entire liberal arts departments will be slashed
University of Texas at Austin faculty fear changes from new taskforce that could restructure humanities programs
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
The evisceration of American higher education continues to accelerate.
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JD Vance: Trump is America’s Hitler
MAGA: Let’s make you VP!🥳
Young Republicans: H*tler was great, gas them all, rape is epic
MAGA: Boys will be boys!🤷
Americans: Charlie Kirk was not a good person
MAGA: Such vileness has never before been uttered in this land. This means war!🤬
MAGA: Let’s make you VP!🥳
Young Republicans: H*tler was great, gas them all, rape is epic
MAGA: Boys will be boys!🤷
Americans: Charlie Kirk was not a good person
MAGA: Such vileness has never before been uttered in this land. This means war!🤬
October 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
JD Vance: Trump is America’s Hitler
MAGA: Let’s make you VP!🥳
Young Republicans: H*tler was great, gas them all, rape is epic
MAGA: Boys will be boys!🤷
Americans: Charlie Kirk was not a good person
MAGA: Such vileness has never before been uttered in this land. This means war!🤬
MAGA: Let’s make you VP!🥳
Young Republicans: H*tler was great, gas them all, rape is epic
MAGA: Boys will be boys!🤷
Americans: Charlie Kirk was not a good person
MAGA: Such vileness has never before been uttered in this land. This means war!🤬
For this week’s Substack, I take on Janet Mills entering the Maine Senate primary & the Democratic Party’s fear of trans rights. open.substack.com/pub/ianlekus...
October 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
For this week’s Substack, I take on Janet Mills entering the Maine Senate primary & the Democratic Party’s fear of trans rights. open.substack.com/pub/ianlekus...
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ANTIFA Pumpkin Carving Contest Winner - 2025
October 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
ANTIFA Pumpkin Carving Contest Winner - 2025
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Pulitzer Prize winning historian Benjamin Nathans of the University of Pennsylvania provides a defining piece of iconic imagery in making the case for universities to stand together and repudiate the subservience the Regime is seeking to impose.
October 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Pulitzer Prize winning historian Benjamin Nathans of the University of Pennsylvania provides a defining piece of iconic imagery in making the case for universities to stand together and repudiate the subservience the Regime is seeking to impose.
Reclaiming the frog for the good guys (of all genders)
October 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Reclaiming the frog for the good guys (of all genders)
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Oh, thank the goddess. 2025 is awful enough. Wishing her the very best I can with her treatments.
BREAKING
In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.
In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.
October 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Oh, thank the goddess. 2025 is awful enough. Wishing her the very best I can with her treatments.