Leslie Deatrick
@lesliemdeatrick.bsky.social
Communicator, educator, mediator, book & brooch hoarder, mystic, healer, friend/sister/daughter/puppy mom
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Sarah Ortiz has spent years trying to prove that her ex used her personal information to rack up $45,926 of debt in her name without her knowledge.
Unfortunately, Sarah's story isn't new.
Scores of women across the country are victims of coerced debt—and it's ridiculously hard to crack down on.
Unfortunately, Sarah's story isn't new.
Scores of women across the country are victims of coerced debt—and it's ridiculously hard to crack down on.
She escaped her abuser. But not before he buried her in debt.
This is how coerced debt haunts survivors of domestic abuse.
www.motherjones.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Sarah Ortiz has spent years trying to prove that her ex used her personal information to rack up $45,926 of debt in her name without her knowledge.
Unfortunately, Sarah's story isn't new.
Scores of women across the country are victims of coerced debt—and it's ridiculously hard to crack down on.
Unfortunately, Sarah's story isn't new.
Scores of women across the country are victims of coerced debt—and it's ridiculously hard to crack down on.
All sermons presented today should be required to read this out loud. And the Dear Leader's assertion must be factually corrected: there are actually two of the most calamitous acts perpetuated on America, and they were done in 2017 and 2024 by the electoral college and voters.
April 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
All sermons presented today should be required to read this out loud. And the Dear Leader's assertion must be factually corrected: there are actually two of the most calamitous acts perpetuated on America, and they were done in 2017 and 2024 by the electoral college and voters.
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My thoughts on why yesterday's protests REALLY mattered. And our media failing us again. Etc.
open.substack.com/pub/theweekl...
open.substack.com/pub/theweekl...
Why the Protests Yesterday Really Mattered
Massive protests, and a fence goes up around the White House
open.substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
My thoughts on why yesterday's protests REALLY mattered. And our media failing us again. Etc.
open.substack.com/pub/theweekl...
open.substack.com/pub/theweekl...
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The abuser’s classic playbook is to isolate you from your friends, create a sense of helplessness, make it difficult to connect with others and force you to simply think about your survival from one day to the next. We are seeing that playbook applied to the nation as a whole.
March 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The abuser’s classic playbook is to isolate you from your friends, create a sense of helplessness, make it difficult to connect with others and force you to simply think about your survival from one day to the next. We are seeing that playbook applied to the nation as a whole.
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This should INFURIATE you
March 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This should INFURIATE you
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SULLIVAN: “I do not care about the economy if the government claims it can break down anyone's doors, seize anyone with no due process, put them on a plane, and send them to a foreign jail… that is fundamental to this country.” 🇺🇸
March 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
SULLIVAN: “I do not care about the economy if the government claims it can break down anyone's doors, seize anyone with no due process, put them on a plane, and send them to a foreign jail… that is fundamental to this country.” 🇺🇸
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The Republican Party is now simply a host organism for the parasite of tech fascism.
—Gil Duran
—Gil Duran
March 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The Republican Party is now simply a host organism for the parasite of tech fascism.
—Gil Duran
—Gil Duran
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I feel confident in predicting history will judge this decade or so as the absolutely stupidest time in American history.
Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.
Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.
March 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I feel confident in predicting history will judge this decade or so as the absolutely stupidest time in American history.
Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.
Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.
Yikes
Why did 77m voters choose Trump?
We now have data comparing the attitudes and values of American voters with people around the world. And it turns out that Republicans align their values very closely with Russia and Turkey, and to a slightly lesser degree China. www.thebulwark.com/p/new-data-r...
We now have data comparing the attitudes and values of American voters with people around the world. And it turns out that Republicans align their values very closely with Russia and Turkey, and to a slightly lesser degree China. www.thebulwark.com/p/new-data-r...
New Data: Republican Voters Want Authoritarianism
Inside the World Values Survey.
www.thebulwark.com
March 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Yikes
Imagine when all services are privatized by greedy creeps without empathy.
Any country, corp, org, or individual that uses Starlink is subject to the whims, wishes, demands and insults of The Owner. Do so at your peril.
March 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Imagine when all services are privatized by greedy creeps without empathy.
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I am once again begging the entire sports world to momentarily examine the lyrics to Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah
March 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I am once again begging the entire sports world to momentarily examine the lyrics to Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah
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"The five bullet email may be more sinister than we are considering"
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March 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"The five bullet email may be more sinister than we are considering"
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Humpback Whales Are Singing More: Number of Songs Has Doubled as Food Sources Became More Abundant
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/humpback-whales-are-singing-more-number-of-songs-has-doubled/ #goodnews
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/humpback-whales-are-singing-more-number-of-songs-has-doubled/ #goodnews
Humpback Whales Are Singing More: Number of Songs Has Doubled as Food Sources Became More Abundant
Eavesdropping on whale songs over 6 years shows the number of days humpbacks have been singing has nearly doubled–with their food source.
tinyurl.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Humpback Whales Are Singing More: Number of Songs Has Doubled as Food Sources Became More Abundant
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/humpback-whales-are-singing-more-number-of-songs-has-doubled/ #goodnews
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/humpback-whales-are-singing-more-number-of-songs-has-doubled/ #goodnews
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“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,” writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social.
Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj
Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj
One of the Grimmest Days in American Diplomacy
At an Oval Office meeting, the president of the United States ambushed a loyal ally.
theatln.tc
February 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,” writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social.
Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj
Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj
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Doctoral programs are pausing or cutting back admissions. This is just the latest signal that the future of the university is under threat, @ibogost.bsky.social writes: theatln.tc/zrfi0vN4
February 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Doctoral programs are pausing or cutting back admissions. This is just the latest signal that the future of the university is under threat, @ibogost.bsky.social writes: theatln.tc/zrfi0vN4
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The idiocalypse if you will 🧟
February 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The idiocalypse if you will 🧟
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Today’s economic boycott is a one-day attack on corporate interests. The degrowth movement calls for a broader societal shift.
How to Turn an “Economic Blackout” Into an All-Out War on Corporate Power
Friday’s economic boycott is a one-day attack on corporate interests. The degrowth movement calls for a broader societal shift.
interc.pt
February 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Today’s economic boycott is a one-day attack on corporate interests. The degrowth movement calls for a broader societal shift.
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If they want to keep shoving women back into the kitchen, I bet we could find about 75000 ways to put your entire meal in gelatin.
Nothing says June Cleaver like pot roast and peas in Jello-O.
Nothing says June Cleaver like pot roast and peas in Jello-O.
February 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
If they want to keep shoving women back into the kitchen, I bet we could find about 75000 ways to put your entire meal in gelatin.
Nothing says June Cleaver like pot roast and peas in Jello-O.
Nothing says June Cleaver like pot roast and peas in Jello-O.
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February 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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New: The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter
Dismissed Nuclear Bomb Specialists Recalled by Energy Department
The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter.
www.bloomberg.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
New: The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter
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THE BEET IS THE MOST INTENSE of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.
-Tom Robbins
-Tom Robbins
February 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
THE BEET IS THE MOST INTENSE of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.
-Tom Robbins
-Tom Robbins
