Sonya Harrell
@sonyaharrell.bsky.social
Perpetual student, triathlete, crazy-cat-lady-in-training, lawyer. Seminoles ♥️ and Jaguars 🩵. Skeets (is that really what they’re called?) are made in my personal capacity and have absolutely nothing to do with my employer.
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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“I now find myself comforted less by the songs of my childhood and more by the music I came to love as a teen and young adult,” radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. “I still have fond recollections of my childhood, but I also have a kind of newer nostalgia.”
An Idiosyncratic Christmas Playlist
A roundup of songs that evoke a new nostalgia
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December 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
“I now find myself comforted less by the songs of my childhood and more by the music I came to love as a teen and young adult,” radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. “I still have fond recollections of my childhood, but I also have a kind of newer nostalgia.”
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
This is what they voted for.
Trump set new Kentucky records w/his 64.4%, 2024 win.
The nat'l poverty rate is 10.6%. In Kentucky, it's 16.6%.
Jim Beam employed some 1500 Kentuckians - up til now, anyway.
Congratulations, MAGA, you've scored another big middle finger from your lord and master.
The nat'l poverty rate is 10.6%. In Kentucky, it's 16.6%.
Jim Beam employed some 1500 Kentuckians - up til now, anyway.
Congratulations, MAGA, you've scored another big middle finger from your lord and master.
Jim Beam Whiskey will shut its distillery for 2026 thanks to plummeting sales amid retaliatory tariffs from the European Union after Trump's tariffs and a bourbon boycott from Canada.
www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
December 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This is what they voted for.
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Why do these articles never ask the basic question of "does the president have the power to do that?" because the answer is obviously and clearly no.
Exclusive: In his address to the nation tonight, Donald Trump is considering announcing onetime bonus checks of $1,776 for many military members, Ashley Parker and Nancy A. Youssef report.
$1,776 Checks for the Military
The president is considering bonuses for many service members.
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December 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Why do these articles never ask the basic question of "does the president have the power to do that?" because the answer is obviously and clearly no.
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
“In effect, Trump took to the airwaves, pointed his finger, and said: Quiet, piggy.” Thanks, @radiofreetom.bsky.social
For 20 minutes, Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, “drenched in pure panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like
Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
“In effect, Trump took to the airwaves, pointed his finger, and said: Quiet, piggy.” Thanks, @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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They’re calling it the Festivus Speech™️ because it was just 15 minutes worth of airing of grievances
December 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
They’re calling it the Festivus Speech™️ because it was just 15 minutes worth of airing of grievances
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
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There should be a constitutional mechanism for removing a president. Not impeachment, something that actually works, maybe like a catapult
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
There should be a constitutional mechanism for removing a president. Not impeachment, something that actually works, maybe like a catapult
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I agree. No one who supports Trump should be able to say "oh, I didn't see/hear about that post about Reiner."
Correct; shove it in their faces.
How many people do you know that continue to delude themselves on this because they’re too embarrassed to admit how easily fooled they were.
Make them feel discomfort.
How many people do you know that continue to delude themselves on this because they’re too embarrassed to admit how easily fooled they were.
Make them feel discomfort.
December 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I agree. No one who supports Trump should be able to say "oh, I didn't see/hear about that post about Reiner."
“Shallowness and cruelty and stupidity may be rampant, we must resist it, resist it without bitterness or despair by being bright lights in a dark time.”
From The Daily Stoic, Dec 15, 2025
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December 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“Shallowness and cruelty and stupidity may be rampant, we must resist it, resist it without bitterness or despair by being bright lights in a dark time.”
From The Daily Stoic, Dec 15, 2025
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This material may be protected by copyright
From The Daily Stoic, Dec 15, 2025
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So much senseless violence: Brown University, Bondi Beach, Rob and Michele Reiner. Devastating.
December 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
So much senseless violence: Brown University, Bondi Beach, Rob and Michele Reiner. Devastating.
Time to wear ear plugs when going shopping #whamageddon
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Time to wear ear plugs when going shopping #whamageddon
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Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is the response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
www.theatlantic.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is the response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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The structure of Federalism and separation of powers is brilliant and worth preserving, but unfortunately it requires a critical mass of serious, well informed citizens to maintain. No power structure ever devised can resist a stampede of idiots.
November 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The structure of Federalism and separation of powers is brilliant and worth preserving, but unfortunately it requires a critical mass of serious, well informed citizens to maintain. No power structure ever devised can resist a stampede of idiots.
Thank you @scalzi.com for a wonderful LitChat with @jaxlibrary.bsky.social and San Marco Bookstore - great conversation!
November 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Thank you @scalzi.com for a wonderful LitChat with @jaxlibrary.bsky.social and San Marco Bookstore - great conversation!
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Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich
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Abby Spanberger will now be governor of Virginia, Mikie Sherrill governor of NJ. I wrote about both of them, and their friend group, last year
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The Democrats’ Patriotic Vanguard
A small group of lawmakers with military or intelligence backgrounds prefigured Harris’s overtly patriotic campaign.
www.theatlantic.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Abby Spanberger will now be governor of Virginia, Mikie Sherrill governor of NJ. I wrote about both of them, and their friend group, last year
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Someday soon, they're going to ask Mike Johnson who the Speaker of the House is, and he's going to say "I don't know."
November 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Someday soon, they're going to ask Mike Johnson who the Speaker of the House is, and he's going to say "I don't know."