Leslie Smith
@peacelovebats.bsky.social
Kansas girl born and raised. Retired public school teacher. Proud mom of an autistic/DD son. Count my lucky stars to have been raised by tender-hearted, enlightened grandparents and parents. God embraces our weird. So do I. ✌🏽💜🦇
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What should have been the last straw was actually the last word.
December 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
What should have been the last straw was actually the last word.
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Merry Grinchmas
December 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Merry Grinchmas
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Credit to Alysonwelborn @tiktok.
This is a must listen! If you believe in Democracy and don’t like what is happening to our country now, this sums it up pretty darn well!
#democracy #yourlifedoesntsuck
This is a must listen! If you believe in Democracy and don’t like what is happening to our country now, this sums it up pretty darn well!
#democracy #yourlifedoesntsuck
April 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Credit to Alysonwelborn @tiktok.
This is a must listen! If you believe in Democracy and don’t like what is happening to our country now, this sums it up pretty darn well!
#democracy #yourlifedoesntsuck
This is a must listen! If you believe in Democracy and don’t like what is happening to our country now, this sums it up pretty darn well!
#democracy #yourlifedoesntsuck
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Anyone who has participated in or attended a naturalization ceremony knows how meaningful and joyous these ceremonies tend to be. The cruelty of this is heartbreaking and enraging.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Anyone who has participated in or attended a naturalization ceremony knows how meaningful and joyous these ceremonies tend to be. The cruelty of this is heartbreaking and enraging.
Absofreakinlutely!
No, wrong response. You verbally check him HARD, tell him that he is morally wrong to do that, and he is not allowed to talk to you until he stops. And you do this every single time he uses this word. Every. Single. Time. Silence emboldens him. Silence only helps the offender. And his mother sucks.
November 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Absofreakinlutely!
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I really think that even most people who think language policing was a huge problem over the past 5-10 years have no patience for the disgusting little freaks who have tried to bring back "retarded" as a slur. It's just so low-rent and such a tell that the person using it is not worth your time
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I really think that even most people who think language policing was a huge problem over the past 5-10 years have no patience for the disgusting little freaks who have tried to bring back "retarded" as a slur. It's just so low-rent and such a tell that the person using it is not worth your time
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🎁 link to the WSJ editorial that made Stephen Miller so mad.
"It would be a shame if this single act of betrayal became the excuse for deporting all Afghan refugees...
"Thousands are building new lives here in peace. Collective punishment won’t make America safer."
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
"It would be a shame if this single act of betrayal became the excuse for deporting all Afghan refugees...
"Thousands are building new lives here in peace. Collective punishment won’t make America safer."
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Opinion | The Ambush on the National Guard
The alleged shooting by an Afghan ‘partner’ shouldn’t condemn all who assisted the U.S. and now live here.
www.wsj.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🎁 link to the WSJ editorial that made Stephen Miller so mad.
"It would be a shame if this single act of betrayal became the excuse for deporting all Afghan refugees...
"Thousands are building new lives here in peace. Collective punishment won’t make America safer."
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
"It would be a shame if this single act of betrayal became the excuse for deporting all Afghan refugees...
"Thousands are building new lives here in peace. Collective punishment won’t make America safer."
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
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Devastating essay about living with a terminal cancer diagnosis at 35, made more devastating by the author's relation to the health and human services secretary who's spent the past year cutting cancer research.
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Devastating essay about living with a terminal cancer diagnosis at 35, made more devastating by the author's relation to the health and human services secretary who's spent the past year cutting cancer research.
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No better way to signal intent to give illegal orders than to blow up at the lawful suggestion to not follow illegal orders.
Do not follow illegal orders.
GI Rights Hotline (Independent & Confidential): 877-447-4487.
Do not follow illegal orders.
GI Rights Hotline (Independent & Confidential): 877-447-4487.
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
No better way to signal intent to give illegal orders than to blow up at the lawful suggestion to not follow illegal orders.
Do not follow illegal orders.
GI Rights Hotline (Independent & Confidential): 877-447-4487.
Do not follow illegal orders.
GI Rights Hotline (Independent & Confidential): 877-447-4487.
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Hanging doesn't bleed. Jefferies fought his killers.
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Hanging doesn't bleed. Jefferies fought his killers.
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My Oath means something.
November 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM
My Oath means something.
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“The ripple effect of cutting off nutritional assistance and welfare benefits…permeates outward like a socio-economic cluster bomb. It creates trauma, violence and lasting damage that scars the lives of those mistreated and abused by short-sighted & malicious Republican policy decisions.”
“President Trump’s increasingly erratic behavior, cognitive decline and clear physical deterioration are posing a great risk to the safety of our country and represents an imminent threat if not addressed in the near term.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...
'Flirtin' with Disaster'
President Trump’s increasingly erratic behavior, cognitive decline and clear physical deterioration are posing a great risk to the safety of our country and represents an imminent threat if not addres...
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
“The ripple effect of cutting off nutritional assistance and welfare benefits…permeates outward like a socio-economic cluster bomb. It creates trauma, violence and lasting damage that scars the lives of those mistreated and abused by short-sighted & malicious Republican policy decisions.”
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BREAKING: Federal Judge McConnell orders the Trump administration to provide full SNAP payments to states for November, finding that the administration did not comply with his order. Judge raises Trump's Truth social post as evidence that he intended to defy the order.
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
BREAKING: Federal Judge McConnell orders the Trump administration to provide full SNAP payments to states for November, finding that the administration did not comply with his order. Judge raises Trump's Truth social post as evidence that he intended to defy the order.
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I like Presidents who know how to spell "tacos".
November 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I like Presidents who know how to spell "tacos".
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Mr. "I Don't Take Responsibility At All" thinks the MASSIVE BLUE WAVE was because he wasn't on the ballot, not
a Major Referendum on his 2nd Term.
Turns out folks prefer feeding the hungry over building expen$ive, tacky Ballrooms.
Looking forward to the midterms... 🌊
#AccountabilityIsComing
a Major Referendum on his 2nd Term.
Turns out folks prefer feeding the hungry over building expen$ive, tacky Ballrooms.
Looking forward to the midterms... 🌊
#AccountabilityIsComing
November 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Mr. "I Don't Take Responsibility At All" thinks the MASSIVE BLUE WAVE was because he wasn't on the ballot, not
a Major Referendum on his 2nd Term.
Turns out folks prefer feeding the hungry over building expen$ive, tacky Ballrooms.
Looking forward to the midterms... 🌊
#AccountabilityIsComing
a Major Referendum on his 2nd Term.
Turns out folks prefer feeding the hungry over building expen$ive, tacky Ballrooms.
Looking forward to the midterms... 🌊
#AccountabilityIsComing
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This is where we are , America. This is what you were warned about. It’s fucken here.
Volume 🆙
Volume 🆙
October 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This is where we are , America. This is what you were warned about. It’s fucken here.
Volume 🆙
Volume 🆙
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One fact to add: SNAP benefits have been maintained in every previous shutdown. This is a choice they have made, not an inevitability.
A national disgrace gives us all a chance to do the right thing - Warwick Beacon
It’s galling to watch an American president salivate over plans for a $300-million ballroom on the rubble of the East Wing of the White House while Americans who rely on a little extra …
warwickonline.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
One fact to add: SNAP benefits have been maintained in every previous shutdown. This is a choice they have made, not an inevitability.
Everything he touches dies. 💩😭
If this is truly the way the East wing Demolition will look when finished. He did this as a FUCK YOU, AMERICA!!!
#SheShed
#SheShed
October 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Everything he touches dies. 💩😭
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Check out this crowd shot we got in Portland.
What a hellhole, amirite?
What a hellhole, amirite?
October 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Check out this crowd shot we got in Portland.
What a hellhole, amirite?
What a hellhole, amirite?
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The “kids” are alt right.
October 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The “kids” are alt right.
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Serious question:
What can be done to stop the Speaker from just not swearing in a Congress person? God is no legal expert but it sounds unconstitutional!
What can be done to stop the Speaker from just not swearing in a Congress person? God is no legal expert but it sounds unconstitutional!
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Serious question:
What can be done to stop the Speaker from just not swearing in a Congress person? God is no legal expert but it sounds unconstitutional!
What can be done to stop the Speaker from just not swearing in a Congress person? God is no legal expert but it sounds unconstitutional!