Cris Lemon
@crislemon.bsky.social
Surviving by the grace of bupropion, sunshine, and 90s-00s music. *She/Her* 🏳️🌈🧩@chubbylemonade on Threads and Insta
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Why read past headlines: I don't just rebut the MAGA myth that young women reject marriage.
I expose how cynical this lie is. They're encouraging male audiences to embrace attitudes that leave them lonely and bitter.
All just to make money.
www.salon.com/2025/08/28/t...
I expose how cynical this lie is. They're encouraging male audiences to embrace attitudes that leave them lonely and bitter.
All just to make money.
www.salon.com/2025/08/28/t...
Taylor Swift is not the tradwife you're looking for
MAGA influencers can't be normal about anything
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August 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Why read past headlines: I don't just rebut the MAGA myth that young women reject marriage.
I expose how cynical this lie is. They're encouraging male audiences to embrace attitudes that leave them lonely and bitter.
All just to make money.
www.salon.com/2025/08/28/t...
I expose how cynical this lie is. They're encouraging male audiences to embrace attitudes that leave them lonely and bitter.
All just to make money.
www.salon.com/2025/08/28/t...
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July 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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The vampire has been about many things in many cultures, anxieties about infection/blood, sex, death, and the power of women’s bodies (the yakshi in Kerala, for eg), but in modern societies there is truly no more vampiric an entity than the billionaire seeking power, longevity and even more wealth
You can understand how people in different cultures independently came up with the idea of vampires, of things that look like humans but exist only to consume humans in order to extend their unnatural lives.
July 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The vampire has been about many things in many cultures, anxieties about infection/blood, sex, death, and the power of women’s bodies (the yakshi in Kerala, for eg), but in modern societies there is truly no more vampiric an entity than the billionaire seeking power, longevity and even more wealth
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"Trump is claiming a constitutional power to immunize private parties to commit otherwise illegal acts with impunity."
"the Constitution does not give presidents the power to dispense with laws — a power that the British king used to have."
Today of all days. No kings.
"the Constitution does not give presidents the power to dispense with laws — a power that the British king used to have."
Today of all days. No kings.
July 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"Trump is claiming a constitutional power to immunize private parties to commit otherwise illegal acts with impunity."
"the Constitution does not give presidents the power to dispense with laws — a power that the British king used to have."
Today of all days. No kings.
"the Constitution does not give presidents the power to dispense with laws — a power that the British king used to have."
Today of all days. No kings.
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We must not leave this out of the account of what they have done. What Musk and Trump and Vought did. What Johnson and his band of sycophants allowed them to do. What tens of millions of fellow Americans endorse.
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
We must not leave this out of the account of what they have done. What Musk and Trump and Vought did. What Johnson and his band of sycophants allowed them to do. What tens of millions of fellow Americans endorse.
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Israel: Kills Palestinians getting aid
NY Times: Hamas run health ministry in turmoil
Whitney Tilson: Mamdani wants to kill Jews
NY Times: We recommend you endorse Tilson
Donald Trump: I hate all Democrats
NY Times: Trump takes a victory lap!
Meanwhile when it comes to Mamdani's policies...
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NY Times: Hamas run health ministry in turmoil
Whitney Tilson: Mamdani wants to kill Jews
NY Times: We recommend you endorse Tilson
Donald Trump: I hate all Democrats
NY Times: Trump takes a victory lap!
Meanwhile when it comes to Mamdani's policies...
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July 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Israel: Kills Palestinians getting aid
NY Times: Hamas run health ministry in turmoil
Whitney Tilson: Mamdani wants to kill Jews
NY Times: We recommend you endorse Tilson
Donald Trump: I hate all Democrats
NY Times: Trump takes a victory lap!
Meanwhile when it comes to Mamdani's policies...
1/2
NY Times: Hamas run health ministry in turmoil
Whitney Tilson: Mamdani wants to kill Jews
NY Times: We recommend you endorse Tilson
Donald Trump: I hate all Democrats
NY Times: Trump takes a victory lap!
Meanwhile when it comes to Mamdani's policies...
1/2
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The bill eliminates the $200 registration fee for gun silencers, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns & other easily concealable guns (that actually goes towards registering, background checks, etc)
It adds fees for dialysis patients to be able to receive necessary treatment to stay alive
It adds fees for dialysis patients to be able to receive necessary treatment to stay alive
$35 per treatment co-pay for dialysis.
$105 a week just to stay alive.
Irredeemable country.
$105 a week just to stay alive.
Irredeemable country.
The so-called ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ that passed the Senate today is a giant leap backward for people living with kidney disease. NKF urges Congress to reject these harmful provisions. www.kidney.org/press-room/b...
July 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The bill eliminates the $200 registration fee for gun silencers, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns & other easily concealable guns (that actually goes towards registering, background checks, etc)
It adds fees for dialysis patients to be able to receive necessary treatment to stay alive
It adds fees for dialysis patients to be able to receive necessary treatment to stay alive
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Once this POS bill is signed into law, state legislators will have to figure out how do we generate billions of dollars in *recurring* revenue to keep people from losing their health coverage and losing their SNAP benefits at a time when they’re impounding billions of federal education dollars.
July 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Once this POS bill is signed into law, state legislators will have to figure out how do we generate billions of dollars in *recurring* revenue to keep people from losing their health coverage and losing their SNAP benefits at a time when they’re impounding billions of federal education dollars.
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Please remember this torture happened to *every single person* who was kidnapped by ICE and sent to a foreign concentration camp without due process.
It doesn’t matter if they were citizens or even if they were criminals.
Every case is a violation of our Constitution and of Trump’s oath. #IMPEACH
It doesn’t matter if they were citizens or even if they were criminals.
Every case is a violation of our Constitution and of Trump’s oath. #IMPEACH
“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”
July 3, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Please remember this torture happened to *every single person* who was kidnapped by ICE and sent to a foreign concentration camp without due process.
It doesn’t matter if they were citizens or even if they were criminals.
Every case is a violation of our Constitution and of Trump’s oath. #IMPEACH
It doesn’t matter if they were citizens or even if they were criminals.
Every case is a violation of our Constitution and of Trump’s oath. #IMPEACH
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MAGA makes no secret of their inhumanity.
imagine joking about millions of people including children & the elderly, devoured by alligators.
imagine joking about millions of people including children & the elderly, devoured by alligators.
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
July 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
MAGA makes no secret of their inhumanity.
imagine joking about millions of people including children & the elderly, devoured by alligators.
imagine joking about millions of people including children & the elderly, devoured by alligators.
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The two missions of the Roberts Court are to invent rules that bind Democratic presidents, and exceptions that liberate Republican presidents to do as they see fit ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
The Republican Justices Are Simply Doing What the Republican President Asks
The position of the Roberts Court is that presidents are sometimes allowed to break the law, but only if they are Republicans.
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July 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The two missions of the Roberts Court are to invent rules that bind Democratic presidents, and exceptions that liberate Republican presidents to do as they see fit ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
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Re: Diddy being acquitted on sex trafficking charges, one of the reasons the MeToo backlash has been so effective is because the court system enables a commentary class to say the absence of a guilty verdict means that women and victims are liars. In reality it’s incredibly hard and rare to convict
July 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Re: Diddy being acquitted on sex trafficking charges, one of the reasons the MeToo backlash has been so effective is because the court system enables a commentary class to say the absence of a guilty verdict means that women and victims are liars. In reality it’s incredibly hard and rare to convict
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Say it!
AOC: This bill is a deal with the devil. It explodes our national debt. It militarizes our entire economy. It strips away health care and basic dignity of the American people for what? To give Elon Musk a tax break.. We cannot stand for it. And we will not support it. You should be ashamed
July 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Say it!
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$45 billion for ethnic cleansing
It’s one thing to say they want to deport 20 million people, it’s even one thing to go nuts brazenly doing whatever you can as the executive branch to make it happen, but the fact that they’re going to give ICE an additional 45B shows how committed they are to seeing this through.
July 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
$45 billion for ethnic cleansing
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His victims got on the stand and shared some of the most horrific stories and he was acquitted anyway.
This is why I get so angry when people blame victims for not speaking up or walking away. Why? Who will protect them, believe them, and guarantee proper justice?
This is why I get so angry when people blame victims for not speaking up or walking away. Why? Who will protect them, believe them, and guarantee proper justice?
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering, convicted of prostitution offense.
July 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
His victims got on the stand and shared some of the most horrific stories and he was acquitted anyway.
This is why I get so angry when people blame victims for not speaking up or walking away. Why? Who will protect them, believe them, and guarantee proper justice?
This is why I get so angry when people blame victims for not speaking up or walking away. Why? Who will protect them, believe them, and guarantee proper justice?
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A majority in the United States Senate voted to kill many of their own citizens today in order to make rich people richer.
Sometimes you have to type it out to fully grasp what has just happened.
Sometimes you have to type it out to fully grasp what has just happened.
July 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
A majority in the United States Senate voted to kill many of their own citizens today in order to make rich people richer.
Sometimes you have to type it out to fully grasp what has just happened.
Sometimes you have to type it out to fully grasp what has just happened.
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IDAHO AMBUSH: the killing of firefighters is the latest in a surge of targeted violence and terrorism in America. A top program for preventing such attacks was just shut down by the Trump administration. Here’s my reporting and interview with its former leader: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1x
Political violence is surging as Trump kills prevention efforts, a top security expert warns
Former DHS official William Braniff talks about building an innovative model for stopping terrorism—and how its loss may harm America.
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June 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
IDAHO AMBUSH: the killing of firefighters is the latest in a surge of targeted violence and terrorism in America. A top program for preventing such attacks was just shut down by the Trump administration. Here’s my reporting and interview with its former leader: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1x
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The Trump administration has released a three-time felon and five-time deported immigrant because he's going to testify against zero-time felon Abrego - all to cover their tracks for mistakenly and illegally sending Abrego to El Salvador and then lying about it to the court to cover it up.
The Trump admin has freed Jose Hernandez Reyes because he can testify against Abrego Garcia.
Hernandez, who has been deported 5 times, has also been arrested for:
—DUI w/ a handgun;
—cocaine possession;
—illegally transporting migrants; and
—drunkenly firing a gun.
Free link: wapo.st/40i4Ttt
Hernandez, who has been deported 5 times, has also been arrested for:
—DUI w/ a handgun;
—cocaine possession;
—illegally transporting migrants; and
—drunkenly firing a gun.
Free link: wapo.st/40i4Ttt
Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
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June 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Trump administration has released a three-time felon and five-time deported immigrant because he's going to testify against zero-time felon Abrego - all to cover their tracks for mistakenly and illegally sending Abrego to El Salvador and then lying about it to the court to cover it up.
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1 in 4 nursing homes will shut down. Who will take care of all those people? Are you ready to do 24/7 home heath care for your aging parents and grandparents? This is what the Republicans are putting on us.
If Trump’s Big Ugly Bill passes, 1 in 4 nursing homes will shut down.
That’s thousands of vulnerable seniors displaced—no care, no beds, nowhere to go.
All so the rich get richer.
This isn’t budgeting—it’s abandonment. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
That’s thousands of vulnerable seniors displaced—no care, no beds, nowhere to go.
All so the rich get richer.
This isn’t budgeting—it’s abandonment. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
June 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
1 in 4 nursing homes will shut down. Who will take care of all those people? Are you ready to do 24/7 home heath care for your aging parents and grandparents? This is what the Republicans are putting on us.
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Update: Latest estimate confirms between Medicaid cuts and ACA rollback, total health care cuts in the Republican budget bill are now OVER $1 trillion.
Unbelievable. Latest update from the nonpartisan budget office says the Senate Republican bill now cuts nearly $1 TRILLION from Medicaid.
NEWS: Wyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft
June 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Update: Latest estimate confirms between Medicaid cuts and ACA rollback, total health care cuts in the Republican budget bill are now OVER $1 trillion.
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With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
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there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.
June 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.
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This post by Jake Tapper really misses the point. Surely there was another boat or something they could name for Fred Peterson. But the issue here is how Hegseth is taking away an honor from Harvey Milk simply because he was gay.
June 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This post by Jake Tapper really misses the point. Surely there was another boat or something they could name for Fred Peterson. But the issue here is how Hegseth is taking away an honor from Harvey Milk simply because he was gay.
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Let’s be real: this ain’t about “protecting life.” It’s about weaponizing poverty and race to strip away care, choice, and dignity from communities that dare to seek basic care in a system already built to fail them. (2/2)
June 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Let’s be real: this ain’t about “protecting life.” It’s about weaponizing poverty and race to strip away care, choice, and dignity from communities that dare to seek basic care in a system already built to fail them. (2/2)