Lisa Needham
@snipy.bsky.social
Words at DailyKos, Public Notice, Balls & Strikes, and Rewire. Deeply and secretly earnest. Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist. she/they. north mpls forever.
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There's a rising faction of the legal academy that stays quiet when their MAGAdemic colleagues produce fraudulent psuedo-scholarship in service to the cruelest aspects of Trump's agenda ... then leap in to police the discourse when their progressive colleagues criticize those MAGAdemics too bluntly.
January 5, 2026 at 3:43 PM
There's a rising faction of the legal academy that stays quiet when their MAGAdemic colleagues produce fraudulent psuedo-scholarship in service to the cruelest aspects of Trump's agenda ... then leap in to police the discourse when their progressive colleagues criticize those MAGAdemics too bluntly.
Man does this administration hate the free market
January 5, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Man does this administration hate the free market
this @lizdye.bsky.social piece is so good and so spot on and i remain in my constant state of incandescent rage after reading it.
Is DOJ Trying To Blow The DNC Pipe Bomb Case? - Above the Law
Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.
abovethelaw.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:02 PM
this @lizdye.bsky.social piece is so good and so spot on and i remain in my constant state of incandescent rage after reading it.
man i loathe her so much
I think it's a staffers car but yikes.
latrisha vetaw arrives to the inauguration in a cybertruck
January 5, 2026 at 5:02 PM
man i loathe her so much
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With that being said, Grok and other AI image generators should be destroyed. If we had a just society, it never would have gotten this far.
January 5, 2026 at 1:11 AM
With that being said, Grok and other AI image generators should be destroyed. If we had a just society, it never would have gotten this far.
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The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
January 5, 2026 at 1:10 AM
The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
trying to out-WSJ the WSJ opinion page is pathetic, even aside from the fact that your opinions are monstrous. what on earth do you offer that the right wing audience you're so desperate to appeal to can't get elsewhere?
"The purpose of entitlements is not to spend as much as possible," the Editorial Board writes.
"It is to make sure the truly vulnerable get the help they need without becoming dependent on government handouts. Scrutinizing food stamp rolls is a small step in that direction."
"It is to make sure the truly vulnerable get the help they need without becoming dependent on government handouts. Scrutinizing food stamp rolls is a small step in that direction."
Opinion | Scrutinizing food stamp rolls will ensure the truly needy get benefits
Amid Minnesota fraud scandal, Democratic governors are refusing to share SNAP details with the feds.
wapo.st
January 5, 2026 at 1:40 AM
trying to out-WSJ the WSJ opinion page is pathetic, even aside from the fact that your opinions are monstrous. what on earth do you offer that the right wing audience you're so desperate to appeal to can't get elsewhere?
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"The purpose of entitlements is not to spend as much as possible," the Editorial Board writes.
"It is to make sure the truly vulnerable get the help they need without becoming dependent on government handouts. Scrutinizing food stamp rolls is a small step in that direction."
"It is to make sure the truly vulnerable get the help they need without becoming dependent on government handouts. Scrutinizing food stamp rolls is a small step in that direction."
Opinion | Scrutinizing food stamp rolls will ensure the truly needy get benefits
Amid Minnesota fraud scandal, Democratic governors are refusing to share SNAP details with the feds.
wapo.st
January 4, 2026 at 8:04 PM
"The purpose of entitlements is not to spend as much as possible," the Editorial Board writes.
"It is to make sure the truly vulnerable get the help they need without becoming dependent on government handouts. Scrutinizing food stamp rolls is a small step in that direction."
"It is to make sure the truly vulnerable get the help they need without becoming dependent on government handouts. Scrutinizing food stamp rolls is a small step in that direction."
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Perma sus of people who only refer to trans women by their last names only
January 4, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Perma sus of people who only refer to trans women by their last names only
If you need me, I’m going to be disassociating in the corner for the foreseeable future while thinking about this sentence.
(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops ..
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January 4, 2026 at 2:00 AM
If you need me, I’m going to be disassociating in the corner for the foreseeable future while thinking about this sentence.
if you were thinking "what if i smoke a kief-coated pre-roll? would i feel better? i am here to tell you the answer is no. Now I feel just as terrible, but I'm much, much dumber.
January 4, 2026 at 1:12 AM
if you were thinking "what if i smoke a kief-coated pre-roll? would i feel better? i am here to tell you the answer is no. Now I feel just as terrible, but I'm much, much dumber.
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I keep thinking about how Trump has framed this as "law enforcement" -- going to back to my idea of "making the military more like police."
Law enforcement in this country is so violent, acting without regard to public safety, so the goal was the make the military more like cops.
Law enforcement in this country is so violent, acting without regard to public safety, so the goal was the make the military more like cops.
January 4, 2026 at 12:52 AM
I keep thinking about how Trump has framed this as "law enforcement" -- going to back to my idea of "making the military more like police."
Law enforcement in this country is so violent, acting without regard to public safety, so the goal was the make the military more like cops.
Law enforcement in this country is so violent, acting without regard to public safety, so the goal was the make the military more like cops.
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2024 were truly boom times for the federal wallet inspector
John Mearsheimer, Oct. 3 2024: "I think that Biden's basic instincts are those of a warmonger, and I think that's not true of Trump. I think Trump is not that interested in fighting wars."
January 4, 2026 at 12:43 AM
2024 were truly boom times for the federal wallet inspector
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He looks like he is about to bash his own balls.
January 4, 2026 at 12:45 AM
He looks like he is about to bash his own balls.
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i hate this stupid timeline and i hate the elites that treat this government like its normal
January 4, 2026 at 12:44 AM
i hate this stupid timeline and i hate the elites that treat this government like its normal
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Compare this to Biden leaving Afghanistan & think about what the incentives are for every American politician
everyone on the tv wants you to know that this is good actually
January 4, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Compare this to Biden leaving Afghanistan & think about what the incentives are for every American politician
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Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
January 3, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
what the actual fuck is wrong with you
Shop for marble, threaten Iran, capture Maduro: Trump's dizzying holiday routine reut.rs/3YV06Nf
Shop for marble, threaten Iran, capture Maduro: Trump's dizzying holiday routine
U.S. President Donald Trump capped the holidays with an unprecedented strike on Venezuela, overseeing a surprise snatch-and-grab operation early on Saturday targeted at Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
reut.rs
January 4, 2026 at 12:25 AM
what the actual fuck is wrong with you
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Clip n’ save. 🤡
January 4, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Clip n’ save. 🤡
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Sharon are you saying that this man who fought a glass of water to a draw is not the master strategist that we need to successfully regime change a country of 30M people
a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a fox news sign
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a fox news sign
media.tenor.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Sharon are you saying that this man who fought a glass of water to a draw is not the master strategist that we need to successfully regime change a country of 30M people
This was me at the point where Trump wanted troops to go into blue cities based on lies and I figured there would be pushback from the military and goddamn was I wrong
I think those of us who said “surely the military wouldn’t follow an order by Trump to do X” need to recognize that firewall probably doesn’t exist.
January 4, 2026 at 12:10 AM
This was me at the point where Trump wanted troops to go into blue cities based on lies and I figured there would be pushback from the military and goddamn was I wrong
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I love playing pretend with my toddler but I don't publish it
Once a critic of overseas entanglements, President Trump now appears willing to embrace regime change as a tool of American influence, raising questions about whether his “America First” doctrine is being redefined.
Trump’s Venezuela move pushes the limits of ‘America First’
Once a critic of entanglements abroad, Trump now appears willing to embrace regime change as a tool of American influence, risking a backlash from his MAGA base.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:08 AM
I love playing pretend with my toddler but I don't publish it
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Who did this 😂
January 3, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Who did this 😂
let's pretend, for the sake of a particularly stupid argument, that this is true and Trump ordered a military incursion to kidnap a foreign leader to distract from the Epstein files. So what? This is a monstrous, illegal act and divining his motives doesn't change anything.
Schumer: "It makes you think that maybe to Trump he wants to distract the American people, as he always does, from the skyrocketing costs they are facing, from the Epstein files."
January 4, 2026 at 12:02 AM
let's pretend, for the sake of a particularly stupid argument, that this is true and Trump ordered a military incursion to kidnap a foreign leader to distract from the Epstein files. So what? This is a monstrous, illegal act and divining his motives doesn't change anything.