Jessica Leigh
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Editor. Sometimes good with words and noticing when things are not as they should be. "The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people." – James Baldwin
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reverse advent calendar where I scream a little scream into each tiny box and close it up tight
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
reverse advent calendar where I scream a little scream into each tiny box and close it up tight
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i believe it would take zohran less than two hours to talk trump into single-payer healthcare.
Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
i believe it would take zohran less than two hours to talk trump into single-payer healthcare.
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It’s difficult to escape the sense that we’re witnessing the beginning of the end of this presidency. But these unravelings do take time. Nixon, after all, didn’t resign until more than a year after Senate hearings on Watergate were underway.
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It’s difficult to escape the sense that we’re witnessing the beginning of the end of this presidency. But these unravelings do take time. Nixon, after all, didn’t resign until more than a year after Senate hearings on Watergate were underway.
My Minecraft kid was playing with some magnetic cubes and he made a cross-shape. I, the Bible-nerd, saw this as an opportunity for some theological discussion.
Me: What happened on the cross?
Kid: Jesus popped his totem of undying.
Me: What happened on the cross?
Kid: Jesus popped his totem of undying.
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
My Minecraft kid was playing with some magnetic cubes and he made a cross-shape. I, the Bible-nerd, saw this as an opportunity for some theological discussion.
Me: What happened on the cross?
Kid: Jesus popped his totem of undying.
Me: What happened on the cross?
Kid: Jesus popped his totem of undying.
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i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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We know how hard it can be to stay current, so we updated this one ourselves
October 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We know how hard it can be to stay current, so we updated this one ourselves
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This administration is really generous with the visual metaphors
October 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This administration is really generous with the visual metaphors
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One Christian principle of forgiveness that's very useful when thinking about guys like Platner is that people who've done bad things can be redeemed and restored among their loved ones and people they've hurt, sure; that doesn't necessarily mean they can or should be restored professionally.
October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
One Christian principle of forgiveness that's very useful when thinking about guys like Platner is that people who've done bad things can be redeemed and restored among their loved ones and people they've hurt, sure; that doesn't necessarily mean they can or should be restored professionally.
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Another day, another Nazi story
EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.
Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts
Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
www.politico.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Another day, another Nazi story
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Remember when Donald Trump said that construction of his new $250M ballroom wouldn’t interfere with the existing White House structure?
October 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Remember when Donald Trump said that construction of his new $250M ballroom wouldn’t interfere with the existing White House structure?
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I guess if I *had* to pick my favorite part of the video the president posted where he’s a big boy pilot and he pew pew pews his poop all over everyone, it would be the part where he shits on the American flag?
October 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I guess if I *had* to pick my favorite part of the video the president posted where he’s a big boy pilot and he pew pew pews his poop all over everyone, it would be the part where he shits on the American flag?
I don’t think that’s how ceasefires work.
BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.
Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire
Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.
bit.ly
October 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I don’t think that’s how ceasefires work.
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Man eats cheeseburger in test of vegetarian diet.
BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.
Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire
Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.
bit.ly
October 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Man eats cheeseburger in test of vegetarian diet.
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together, i believe bluesky can get these numbers up to 100% containment.
October 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
together, i believe bluesky can get these numbers up to 100% containment.
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The antifa terrorist marxists are out
October 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The antifa terrorist marxists are out
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
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Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
October 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
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Mockler: I have spent all my formative years watching the President talk about the opposition party like they should not exist. His claim to fame in politics was saying that Obama was not born in America.
October 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Mockler: I have spent all my formative years watching the President talk about the opposition party like they should not exist. His claim to fame in politics was saying that Obama was not born in America.
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Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)
The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"
We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.
www.motherjones.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
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very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler
JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."
October 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler
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What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?
October 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?
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NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:
ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.
Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.
www.thehandbasket.co
October 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart: