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.
Pinned
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Live your life in a way that the dictionary pays tribute to you
January 30, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Live your life in a way that the dictionary pays tribute to you
Afrikaners
So which kind of white is sufficiently white for the Supremacists now that Scandinavians are out? I’m genuinely curious.
January 30, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Afrikaners
man i am the exact demographic for this and was already yelling FRUSTRATED INCORPORATED before i even clicked thru
Rise Against added a little "Misery" by Soul Asylum into a song.
January 30, 2026 at 6:54 PM
man i am the exact demographic for this and was already yelling FRUSTRATED INCORPORATED before i even clicked thru
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Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
This is from Georgia Fort’s video.
DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”
DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”
January 30, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
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“What if someone adds a bad actor in disguise to the Signal chat” is a *social* problem that *literally cannot be solved by any messaging app*.
i can confirm the chats I’m in which include renowned security specialists - people who actually advise on how to protect your comms from authoritarian dictators for a living - also think this outburst of paranoia about Signal is really weird and unwarranted
every Signal chat of laypeople is losing their minds over the wildest opsec advice imaginable and every Signal chat of security professionals is like “dude wtf”
The vast majority of problems can be avoided by not being foolish, being aware of your surroundings, and using common sense
The vast majority of problems can be avoided by not being foolish, being aware of your surroundings, and using common sense
January 30, 2026 at 4:22 PM
“What if someone adds a bad actor in disguise to the Signal chat” is a *social* problem that *literally cannot be solved by any messaging app*.
also if "responsiveness" were the criteria, the DOJ wouldn't have flooded the file release with references to or reprints of benign news articles mentioning Trump's name, a little trick that makes it look, initially, like they have geniuinely released a good deal on our big dumb wet president
literally no provision for withholding something as nonresponsive here that i am aware of?
Blanche on Epstein files: "The number of responsive pages is significantly smaller than the total number of pages initially collected. That's what we're releasing more than 3 million pages today and not the 6 million pages that we collected."
January 30, 2026 at 4:30 PM
also if "responsiveness" were the criteria, the DOJ wouldn't have flooded the file release with references to or reprints of benign news articles mentioning Trump's name, a little trick that makes it look, initially, like they have geniuinely released a good deal on our big dumb wet president
literally no provision for withholding something as nonresponsive here that i am aware of?
Blanche on Epstein files: "The number of responsive pages is significantly smaller than the total number of pages initially collected. That's what we're releasing more than 3 million pages today and not the 6 million pages that we collected."
January 30, 2026 at 4:25 PM
literally no provision for withholding something as nonresponsive here that i am aware of?
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Excited for Professor Wurman's new brief, "Why the Original Meaning of the First Amendment Does Not Include Black Journalists"
January 30, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Excited for Professor Wurman's new brief, "Why the Original Meaning of the First Amendment Does Not Include Black Journalists"
I AM ON FIRE; KEEP CLEAR OF ME
January 30, 2026 at 6:55 AM
I AM ON FIRE; KEEP CLEAR OF ME
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love when there’s a newspaper profile of some psychopath that points out they allow themselves “a lone vice, like a single cup of black coffee in the morning.” personally I am a bundle of trash glued together by vices. they’re all load-bearing
January 29, 2026 at 6:39 PM
love when there’s a newspaper profile of some psychopath that points out they allow themselves “a lone vice, like a single cup of black coffee in the morning.” personally I am a bundle of trash glued together by vices. they’re all load-bearing
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So, you know how it's impossible to find a site with entry lists for upcoming ATP *and* WTA events without wading through some sketchy betting site?
Well, I went and built one.
It's simple. But, it's clean and easy to navigate.
Bookmark & share!
entries.ticktocktennis.com
Well, I went and built one.
It's simple. But, it's clean and easy to navigate.
Bookmark & share!
entries.ticktocktennis.com
Tennis Entry Lists | Tick Tock Tennis
entries.ticktocktennis.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:41 AM
So, you know how it's impossible to find a site with entry lists for upcoming ATP *and* WTA events without wading through some sketchy betting site?
Well, I went and built one.
It's simple. But, it's clean and easy to navigate.
Bookmark & share!
entries.ticktocktennis.com
Well, I went and built one.
It's simple. But, it's clean and easy to navigate.
Bookmark & share!
entries.ticktocktennis.com
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This is an insane person. He's inviting the press *to ride with him* *on the condition that they do not identify other observers.* How would they "need to build rapport" for that. What does "getting caught being a fixer for the press" even mean in this (or any) context
January 30, 2026 at 3:36 AM
This is an insane person. He's inviting the press *to ride with him* *on the condition that they do not identify other observers.* How would they "need to build rapport" for that. What does "getting caught being a fixer for the press" even mean in this (or any) context
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Looking at the mug shots Bondi posted of folks who allegedly impeded ICE officers... I'm reminded me of some of the iconic 1960s images of 'criminals' from counter sitins and freedom rides
January 29, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Looking at the mug shots Bondi posted of folks who allegedly impeded ICE officers... I'm reminded me of some of the iconic 1960s images of 'criminals' from counter sitins and freedom rides
Ahaha wait this is so much better and by better I mean much stupider cc @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social if you haven’t seen
Ok people are misunderstanding what happened with Colin Wright. This isn't just a regular grift. What happened is Colin Wright's PhD advisor was Jonathan Pruitt who got caught perpetrating massive academic fraud. Pruitt was a coauthor on virtually everything Colin had published.
This guy *admits* he applied for "countless" tenure-track positions and ultimately had to leave academia because nobody would hire him. He claims, though, that Ivy League Cornell filled their position with a Black person who couldn't possibly be more qualified than him.
www.wsj.com/opinion/corn...
www.wsj.com/opinion/corn...
January 30, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Ahaha wait this is so much better and by better I mean much stupider cc @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social if you haven’t seen
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LARPing is exactly the right description for it. And it's always like, 1-3 LARPers holding the entire group hostage with maximalist demands because everyone else isn't sure they know enough about privacy threat models, but isn't keen enough to realize the LARPers don't know shit either
January 29, 2026 at 11:09 PM
LARPing is exactly the right description for it. And it's always like, 1-3 LARPers holding the entire group hostage with maximalist demands because everyone else isn't sure they know enough about privacy threat models, but isn't keen enough to realize the LARPers don't know shit either
“Maybe this person who I have never met, who isn’t in MN, who has never talked about ICE or immigration or politics at all is secretly a huge BLM activist who totes understands the need for opsec you rubes” is such a hilarious reach that I assume the poster probably sprained something.
January 30, 2026 at 1:06 AM
“Maybe this person who I have never met, who isn’t in MN, who has never talked about ICE or immigration or politics at all is secretly a huge BLM activist who totes understands the need for opsec you rubes” is such a hilarious reach that I assume the poster probably sprained something.
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Neighborhood house has been a St Paul institution for a century now. If people out of state are looking for a way to help, this is extremely legit!
Neighborhood House food pantry west side of St. Paul is promoting giving El Burrito Mercado gift cards to Neighborhood House who will them buy El Burrito groceries for immigrants in need. Feeds people and supports the business. neighborhoodhousemn.org/immigrant-su...
Immigrant Support Statement - Neighborhood House
Neighborhood House has supported immigrants on St. Paul’s West Side and throughout the Twin Cities for over 128 years. From our origins as a settlement house for Jewish refugees fleeing persecution, w...
neighborhoodhousemn.org
January 30, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Neighborhood house has been a St Paul institution for a century now. If people out of state are looking for a way to help, this is extremely legit!
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I’ve gotten into arguments about whether Schmitt was Really a Nazi. Yes. If you seize the opportunities that a fascist regime provides to gain power and prestige, you become what that regime is. Your True Beliefs notwithstanding. What you might have been under other circumstances notwithstanding.
January 30, 2026 at 12:59 AM
I’ve gotten into arguments about whether Schmitt was Really a Nazi. Yes. If you seize the opportunities that a fascist regime provides to gain power and prestige, you become what that regime is. Your True Beliefs notwithstanding. What you might have been under other circumstances notwithstanding.
Congrats on ensuring there is less informed on-the-ground press coverage of what’s happening here, I guess?
January 30, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Congrats on ensuring there is less informed on-the-ground press coverage of what’s happening here, I guess?
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The frivolity of evil
Something just utterly surreal about all of the last week taking place against the backdrop of the Melania theatrical release.
January 30, 2026 at 12:38 AM
The frivolity of evil
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Wtf uhhhh will someone please tell Dr. King about opsec?????? Hello???
January 30, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Wtf uhhhh will someone please tell Dr. King about opsec?????? Hello???
but my draw down! my recalibration! my turning of a new page!
January 30, 2026 at 12:19 AM
but my draw down! my recalibration! my turning of a new page!
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Broadly I am getting sick of cult of the operator on the left. If you need to be a secret squirrel for what you do, and sometimes that has been me, you don't post about it.
Massive public above ground stuff the point is to fucking make people aware of it.
Massive public above ground stuff the point is to fucking make people aware of it.
January 29, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Broadly I am getting sick of cult of the operator on the left. If you need to be a secret squirrel for what you do, and sometimes that has been me, you don't post about it.
Massive public above ground stuff the point is to fucking make people aware of it.
Massive public above ground stuff the point is to fucking make people aware of it.
ohmygosh i absolutely did need to see this and you do too
I think you need to see a bear, quietly eating marshmallows.
We got a BIG donation of marshmallows & peanuts and the bears were very appreciative.
YouTube video by Orphaned Wildlife Center
youtu.be
January 30, 2026 at 12:04 AM
ohmygosh i absolutely did need to see this and you do too
gotta love that she chose to post this over on Elon Musk's CSAM-generating platform
January 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM
gotta love that she chose to post this over on Elon Musk's CSAM-generating platform