Linda J. Lee
@lindajeanlee.bsky.social
Folklorist, educator, instructional designer. Over-educated child-free cat lady who nevertheless persists. She/her. #AskAFolklorist
Because cruelty is the point, after all. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Because cruelty is the point, after all. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
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Thank you for the spotlight @goodgoodgoodco.bsky.social 🙏 Who wants to run with us??? www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/can...
These 'can't-idates' are running for office knowing they'll lose. Their mission is to fight gerrymandering
The Can’t Win Victory Fund is recruiting people who want to run for office with no intention of actually winning.
www.goodgoodgood.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Thank you for the spotlight @goodgoodgoodco.bsky.social 🙏 Who wants to run with us??? www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/can...
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Whoops I meant to link to the tiktok but my dog distracted me. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpPNmNu/
Gerrymandered and fired up? Fight back—run for office, even when the map is rigged. Down-ballot races boost turnout, build power, and spotlight how politicians pick their voters instead of the other w...
TikTok video by The Cant Win Victory Fund
www.tiktok.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Whoops I meant to link to the tiktok but my dog distracted me. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpPNmNu/
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I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
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Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Judge Set to Rule Thursday in Case Centering on Federal Immigration Agents’ Use of Force: ‘I Could See Inside the Barrel’
Protesters, clergy members and others who say they’ve been directly impacted by a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs will testify before a federal judge weighing wh...
news.wttw.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
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The trope in an IP revival where the beloved couple are now estranged but get back together in the end is so overdone.
And I DEMAND they do it again anyway here.
I will fall for it like a cartoon coyote.
And I DEMAND they do it again anyway here.
I will fall for it like a cartoon coyote.
November 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The trope in an IP revival where the beloved couple are now estranged but get back together in the end is so overdone.
And I DEMAND they do it again anyway here.
I will fall for it like a cartoon coyote.
And I DEMAND they do it again anyway here.
I will fall for it like a cartoon coyote.
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And just like that a whole new generation of bisexuals were born
November 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
And just like that a whole new generation of bisexuals were born
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Speaker Johnson: Federal employees aren’t being paid. Nutrition cuts may cause children to go hungry. Millions are seeing their health premiums soar.
End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.
End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.
November 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Speaker Johnson: Federal employees aren’t being paid. Nutrition cuts may cause children to go hungry. Millions are seeing their health premiums soar.
End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.
End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.
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happy "the car clock is finally correct" day to all who celebrate
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
happy "the car clock is finally correct" day to all who celebrate
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The fact of the matter is that helping people costs money and that is just not popular with corporations that, for all practical purposes, own a vast number of congresspersons.
Get money out of politics and we can move onward and upward
#EndCitizensUnited
The fact of the matter is that helping people costs money and that is just not popular with corporations that, for all practical purposes, own a vast number of congresspersons.
Get money out of politics and we can move onward and upward
#EndCitizensUnited
How the US sets its poverty rate is shocking
It's so horrible, it should actually piss you off
open.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
open.substack.com/pub/kellysca...
The fact of the matter is that helping people costs money and that is just not popular with corporations that, for all practical purposes, own a vast number of congresspersons.
Get money out of politics and we can move onward and upward
#EndCitizensUnited
The fact of the matter is that helping people costs money and that is just not popular with corporations that, for all practical purposes, own a vast number of congresspersons.
Get money out of politics and we can move onward and upward
#EndCitizensUnited
Rabbit rabbit 🐇🐇
November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Rabbit rabbit 🐇🐇
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Amazing talk tonight by Folklorist Linda Jean Lee @ the very cool nonprofit art venue Black Squirrel Gallery in Philly.
Hey Philly folks! What are you doing Sunday? Come learn about some of my favorite witches from fairy tales and legends! #witches #Halloween #FolkloreThursday #AskAFolklorist
October 26th in Philadelphia! Details and tickets at www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof... .
October 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Amazing talk tonight by Folklorist Linda Jean Lee @ the very cool nonprofit art venue Black Squirrel Gallery in Philly.
Hey Philly folks! What are you doing Sunday? Come learn about some of my favorite witches from fairy tales and legends! #witches #Halloween #FolkloreThursday #AskAFolklorist
October 26th in Philadelphia! Details and tickets at www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof... .
October 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Hey Philly folks! What are you doing Sunday? Come learn about some of my favorite witches from fairy tales and legends! #witches #Halloween #FolkloreThursday #AskAFolklorist
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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.
October 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.
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I'm not sure which world these people (the person Derek is clowning on, not Derek) want to live in, but a world in which working class people cannot occasionally spend $200 on a nice night out (and this was his birthday!) is a world in which every business suffers except Walmart.
i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife
October 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I'm not sure which world these people (the person Derek is clowning on, not Derek) want to live in, but a world in which working class people cannot occasionally spend $200 on a nice night out (and this was his birthday!) is a world in which every business suffers except Walmart.
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Every time there is a major announcement of cuts to PhD programs at a major institution, it reactivates my own deep worry: to reduce or shutter doctoral programs endangers whole fields, and yet to bring young people into those fields, with no ability to provide jobs for their future, seems wrong.
October 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Every time there is a major announcement of cuts to PhD programs at a major institution, it reactivates my own deep worry: to reduce or shutter doctoral programs endangers whole fields, and yet to bring young people into those fields, with no ability to provide jobs for their future, seems wrong.
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I can only conclude everyone who thought Leverage didn't go woke in the pilot has been in a coma
In Mar 2020 I wrote ep 3 of Leverage: Redemption, in which Brianna mentions growing up w/ "the return of actual Nazis". It aired in July 2021, AFTER a Capitol rioter wore a "Camp Auschwitz" shirt, & reviewers on IMDb quoted the Nazi line & complained Leverage had gone woke.
And here we fucking are.
And here we fucking are.
deeply sick of all the goddamn nazis
October 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I can only conclude everyone who thought Leverage didn't go woke in the pilot has been in a coma
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it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator
last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’
The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."
www.yahoo.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator
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Oh, look, a rare book librarian Halloweeen costume!
Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.
October 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Oh, look, a rare book librarian Halloweeen costume!
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'Relief feels like happiness if you don't know the difference'
An absolute blinder of a quote from @tkingfisher.com in Paladin's Grace. #booksky
An absolute blinder of a quote from @tkingfisher.com in Paladin's Grace. #booksky
October 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
'Relief feels like happiness if you don't know the difference'
An absolute blinder of a quote from @tkingfisher.com in Paladin's Grace. #booksky
An absolute blinder of a quote from @tkingfisher.com in Paladin's Grace. #booksky
It's #FolkloreThursday, and I'm doing a #folklore thing in a few weeks! If you're near Philly, come and learn about some of my favorite #witches from fairy tales and legends! #AskAFolklorist
October 26th in Philadelphia! Details and tickets at www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof... .
October 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It's #FolkloreThursday, and I'm doing a #folklore thing in a few weeks! If you're near Philly, come and learn about some of my favorite #witches from fairy tales and legends! #AskAFolklorist
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Philly friends! @richardmcgovern.bsky.social, possibly handy for you & yours.
October 26th in Philadelphia! Details and tickets at www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof... .
October 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Philly friends! @richardmcgovern.bsky.social, possibly handy for you & yours.