Linda West
@lindasinthelibrary.bsky.social
Retired, gardener, crafter, caregiver, definitely a Democrat. She/her.
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Remember the part in the old Peter Pan play where Peter tells the boys and girls in the audience that if they all just clap harder they can save Tinkerbell?
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Remember the part in the old Peter Pan play where Peter tells the boys and girls in the audience that if they all just clap harder they can save Tinkerbell?
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Kiss of death
November 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Kiss of death
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“The National Guard is stranded somewhere on this battlefield of partisan politics. They are not ready for this arena, and we should never have asked them to be. Politics is not a military mission.” @juliettekayyem.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
A Terrible and Avoidable Tragedy in D.C.
Trump was warned that members of the military could be attacked.
www.theatlantic.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“The National Guard is stranded somewhere on this battlefield of partisan politics. They are not ready for this arena, and we should never have asked them to be. Politics is not a military mission.” @juliettekayyem.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Americans, 2024: I generally remember pre-COVID being better than post-COVID and blocked out 2020. Let's do pre-COVID again.
Americans, 2025: So it turns out that Trump was not the reason things felt better pre-COVID, and Biden was not the reason things felt worse after.
Americans, 2025: So it turns out that Trump was not the reason things felt better pre-COVID, and Biden was not the reason things felt worse after.
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Americans, 2024: I generally remember pre-COVID being better than post-COVID and blocked out 2020. Let's do pre-COVID again.
Americans, 2025: So it turns out that Trump was not the reason things felt better pre-COVID, and Biden was not the reason things felt worse after.
Americans, 2025: So it turns out that Trump was not the reason things felt better pre-COVID, and Biden was not the reason things felt worse after.
Ugh. I am "hurt my back while filling the dishwasher" years old today. Going to celebrate with Tylenol and coffee. Livin' the life, that's me.
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Ugh. I am "hurt my back while filling the dishwasher" years old today. Going to celebrate with Tylenol and coffee. Livin' the life, that's me.
Today's to-do list:
Tidy up the house
Run the dishwasher
Thaw Whole Foods beef wellington dinner (a real treat as a care provider)
Plan out appetizers
Today's do-not-do list:
Do not put up the Christmas tree
Do not try to deep clean anything
Setting up holiday music is fine but not critical.
Tidy up the house
Run the dishwasher
Thaw Whole Foods beef wellington dinner (a real treat as a care provider)
Plan out appetizers
Today's do-not-do list:
Do not put up the Christmas tree
Do not try to deep clean anything
Setting up holiday music is fine but not critical.
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Today's to-do list:
Tidy up the house
Run the dishwasher
Thaw Whole Foods beef wellington dinner (a real treat as a care provider)
Plan out appetizers
Today's do-not-do list:
Do not put up the Christmas tree
Do not try to deep clean anything
Setting up holiday music is fine but not critical.
Tidy up the house
Run the dishwasher
Thaw Whole Foods beef wellington dinner (a real treat as a care provider)
Plan out appetizers
Today's do-not-do list:
Do not put up the Christmas tree
Do not try to deep clean anything
Setting up holiday music is fine but not critical.
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A mayoral candidate saying maybe the city should cover the cost of bus rides gets the full socialism panic treatment before he even tries it.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A mayoral candidate saying maybe the city should cover the cost of bus rides gets the full socialism panic treatment before he even tries it.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
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You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post
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November 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Weird dream: reality show with Harry Potter characters as 70s pop stars. There was also a kidnapping plot that may have been terrorists or rabid Potter fans. When Ted Danson arrived as the show runner, I woke up.
November 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Weird dream: reality show with Harry Potter characters as 70s pop stars. There was also a kidnapping plot that may have been terrorists or rabid Potter fans. When Ted Danson arrived as the show runner, I woke up.
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Shawn McCreesh, who wrote today's misty water-colored nostalgia story about Jeffrey Epstein's "Lost New York" at NYT, told St. John's j-school students last year that journalism is great because “It gives you this all-access pass to interact with these people we would otherwise never come across.”
Shawn McCreesh ’15 Shares His Journey to The New York Times
The St. John’s University Division of Mass Communication held a virtual panel featuring New York Times political feature writer and St. John’s alumnus, Shawn McCreesh, as part of the Journalist Series...
www.torchonline.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Shawn McCreesh, who wrote today's misty water-colored nostalgia story about Jeffrey Epstein's "Lost New York" at NYT, told St. John's j-school students last year that journalism is great because “It gives you this all-access pass to interact with these people we would otherwise never come across.”
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Trump ranting about sedition, hangings, and death because some members of Congress said that US military personnel have to follow US law is quite bad, yes.
But it's frustrated impotence more than actionable threat.
He can't get James Comey in jail, he's far from able to murder members of Congress.
But it's frustrated impotence more than actionable threat.
He can't get James Comey in jail, he's far from able to murder members of Congress.
November 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Trump ranting about sedition, hangings, and death because some members of Congress said that US military personnel have to follow US law is quite bad, yes.
But it's frustrated impotence more than actionable threat.
He can't get James Comey in jail, he's far from able to murder members of Congress.
But it's frustrated impotence more than actionable threat.
He can't get James Comey in jail, he's far from able to murder members of Congress.
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
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Reminder: President Trump could order the DOJ to release the Epstein files TODAY, no vote by Congress required. This flip flop is about Trump trying to protect himself — nothing new.
Let’s talk about Trump’s flip flop. #epsteinfiles
YouTube video by Rep. Sara Jacobs
youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Reminder: President Trump could order the DOJ to release the Epstein files TODAY, no vote by Congress required. This flip flop is about Trump trying to protect himself — nothing new.
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As MTG goes on her “but I’m normal” rehabilitation tour, remember her history of conspiracy theories & flirtation with Nazis like Nick Fuentes. To this day, she continues to spread anti-Jewish conspiracy theories. She’s not normal, unless you mean normal compared to Fuentes.
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
As MTG goes on her “but I’m normal” rehabilitation tour, remember her history of conspiracy theories & flirtation with Nazis like Nick Fuentes. To this day, she continues to spread anti-Jewish conspiracy theories. She’s not normal, unless you mean normal compared to Fuentes.
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RT=Endorsement
November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
RT=Endorsement
Timeline cleanse because WTAF.
(Old photo, before cataracts. Must try embroidery again now I can see.)
(Old photo, before cataracts. Must try embroidery again now I can see.)
November 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Timeline cleanse because WTAF.
(Old photo, before cataracts. Must try embroidery again now I can see.)
(Old photo, before cataracts. Must try embroidery again now I can see.)
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A big victory for the University of California.
And a call to every university across the U.S. to refuse to sacrifice academic freedom to Donald Trump.
Our democracy requires your uncensored voices. And the law is on your side.
And a call to every university across the U.S. to refuse to sacrifice academic freedom to Donald Trump.
Our democracy requires your uncensored voices. And the law is on your side.
November 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A big victory for the University of California.
And a call to every university across the U.S. to refuse to sacrifice academic freedom to Donald Trump.
Our democracy requires your uncensored voices. And the law is on your side.
And a call to every university across the U.S. to refuse to sacrifice academic freedom to Donald Trump.
Our democracy requires your uncensored voices. And the law is on your side.
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Because once we get rid of Trump, we need to have laid the groundwork for reversing this, for saying, "remember when we could have nice things? Well, the way to get that back quickly is to fire the kidnappers and rehire the cancer scientists."
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Because once we get rid of Trump, we need to have laid the groundwork for reversing this, for saying, "remember when we could have nice things? Well, the way to get that back quickly is to fire the kidnappers and rehire the cancer scientists."
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Concur.
Police in a healthy society/polity are not a military/paramilitary force. They are a branch of the civil power, and their authority ultimately rests (or should) on the consent of the governed/policed.
When the police become occupiers, nothing good happens.
Police in a healthy society/polity are not a military/paramilitary force. They are a branch of the civil power, and their authority ultimately rests (or should) on the consent of the governed/policed.
When the police become occupiers, nothing good happens.
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Concur.
Police in a healthy society/polity are not a military/paramilitary force. They are a branch of the civil power, and their authority ultimately rests (or should) on the consent of the governed/policed.
When the police become occupiers, nothing good happens.
Police in a healthy society/polity are not a military/paramilitary force. They are a branch of the civil power, and their authority ultimately rests (or should) on the consent of the governed/policed.
When the police become occupiers, nothing good happens.
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Please understand: this is Trump confessing he did indeed attempt to overthrow the government of the United States.
The pardon covers 77 people, including members of the president’s former legal team, including John Eastman, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.
Trump Pardons Giuliani And Others Allegedly Involved In Bid To Overturn 2020 Elections
The pardon covers 77 people, including members of the president’s former legal team, including John Eastman, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.
www.forbes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Please understand: this is Trump confessing he did indeed attempt to overthrow the government of the United States.