Liebertax
@llieberman.bsky.social
State and local tax (SALT) by day. During my free time: history, Japanese, and fixing up a 45 year old sailboat.
If JD Vance is angry about Eileen Gu competing for China, he's going to have an aneurysm when he finds out about what goes on with the America's Cup...
February 19, 2026 at 4:02 PM
If JD Vance is angry about Eileen Gu competing for China, he's going to have an aneurysm when he finds out about what goes on with the America's Cup...
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The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about
February 18, 2026 at 4:06 PM
The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about
My personal email got hacked this morning and sent out dodgy evites ("Celebrating life, love, and laughter") to every single address I've ever emailed. As a result, lots of blast from the past moments as I hear from classmates, former fellow club members, random connections, etc. about it.
February 12, 2026 at 3:56 PM
My personal email got hacked this morning and sent out dodgy evites ("Celebrating life, love, and laughter") to every single address I've ever emailed. As a result, lots of blast from the past moments as I hear from classmates, former fellow club members, random connections, etc. about it.
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The murder of Medgar Evers was an act of racial terror. That fact is not partisan. It is historical. Calling it anything else is not “restoring truth.” It is erasing it.
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2026 at 5:53 PM
The murder of Medgar Evers was an act of racial terror. That fact is not partisan. It is historical. Calling it anything else is not “restoring truth.” It is erasing it.
It is Setsubun, and once again, my husband is insisting he's not the oni who needs to be pelted with beans.
February 3, 2026 at 5:47 PM
It is Setsubun, and once again, my husband is insisting he's not the oni who needs to be pelted with beans.
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“There are two types of people to whom these messages will quickly look familiar,” Oren Segal, a vice president for counterextremism at the Anti-Defamation League, said of the panoply of postings, “white supremacists, and those who study white supremacists.”
How the Trump administration invokes white supremacist symbols in official government communications - gifted article
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:25 AM
“There are two types of people to whom these messages will quickly look familiar,” Oren Segal, a vice president for counterextremism at the Anti-Defamation League, said of the panoply of postings, “white supremacists, and those who study white supremacists.”
I could really go for a Costco sheet cake right now.
January 29, 2026 at 12:45 AM
I could really go for a Costco sheet cake right now.
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Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
January 25, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
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"Slavery was real"
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
January 23, 2026 at 3:22 PM
"Slavery was real"
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
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This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
January 22, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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I tried to make lemon sugar cookies today. It did not go well.
January 18, 2026 at 3:35 AM
I tried to make lemon sugar cookies today. It did not go well.
I'm pretty sure that the more I try to get my cats' fur off of me, the more it sticks to everything I own.
January 15, 2026 at 2:40 PM
I'm pretty sure that the more I try to get my cats' fur off of me, the more it sticks to everything I own.
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ICE just reported its fourth in-custody death of 2026. It’s only January 10.
January 11, 2026 at 12:39 AM
ICE just reported its fourth in-custody death of 2026. It’s only January 10.
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"Hypocrisy is when someone holds to a set of values but applies them selectively. what we are seeing is a worldview for which the only value is the domination of enemies. There is a name for that. It is fascism."
The Distance Between Renee Good and Ashli Babbitt Is Fascism
It’s not a hypocrisy. It’s a coherent worldview.
lnk.thebulwark.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:01 PM
"Hypocrisy is when someone holds to a set of values but applies them selectively. what we are seeing is a worldview for which the only value is the domination of enemies. There is a name for that. It is fascism."
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Washington National Opera latest to leave Kennedy Center after Trump takeover reut.rs/4suxWX7
Washington National Opera latest to leave Kennedy Center after Trump takeover
The Washington National Opera will leave the Kennedy Center, the two organizations said on Friday, marking the latest departure from the storied Washington arts institution since President Donald Trump and his allies took it over.
reut.rs
January 10, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Washington National Opera latest to leave Kennedy Center after Trump takeover reut.rs/4suxWX7
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Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
religiondispatches.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
I am absolutely diametrically opposed to this "heritage American" nonsense, along with any bragging about ancestors. But I'm also going to sneer at this chick and say, "Your family didn't arrive in 1607 at Jamestown? Peasant."
If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.
December 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I am absolutely diametrically opposed to this "heritage American" nonsense, along with any bragging about ancestors. But I'm also going to sneer at this chick and say, "Your family didn't arrive in 1607 at Jamestown? Peasant."
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and tiny tim, who was NOT in the epstein files,
December 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
and tiny tim, who was NOT in the epstein files,
This story is bananas.
Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
Our student theatre group had the bright idea of using actual knives on stage for authenticity. The blade missed my aorta by about a centimetre
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 AM
This story is bananas.
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Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
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"You know, after laying all of this out, I’m not sure why I was so embarrassed. In the words of Tumi, the film’s protagonist, 'I’m done hiding, now I’m shining, like I’m born to be.' This is who I am, so I hope you can do me the courtesy of withholding your judgment."
Please Don’t Judge Me for Blasting the KPop Demon Hunters Soundtrack in My Car
Ashley, can we talk about our driveway encounter the other day? I realize we don’t know each other very well, but let me just come right out and sa...
buff.ly
November 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"You know, after laying all of this out, I’m not sure why I was so embarrassed. In the words of Tumi, the film’s protagonist, 'I’m done hiding, now I’m shining, like I’m born to be.' This is who I am, so I hope you can do me the courtesy of withholding your judgment."
@kaine.senate.gov Do NOT cave! The health of this nation's citizens (lNCLUDING YOUR CONSTITUENTS) is riding on this!
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
@kaine.senate.gov Do NOT cave! The health of this nation's citizens (lNCLUDING YOUR CONSTITUENTS) is riding on this!
@markwarner.bsky.social Do NOT cave! Show you care about about people being able to afford healthcare!
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
@markwarner.bsky.social Do NOT cave! Show you care about about people being able to afford healthcare!