Lindsy Van Gelder
@lindsyvg.bsky.social
Feminist, writer, civil libertarian, Yankee fan, Europhile, besotted grandmother, animal pushover.
Project 2025, well on its wretched way: resistingproject2025.substack.com/p/how-far-al...
How far along are we with Project 2025?
Brace yourselves: our sobering yardstick of progress of its Key Proposals shows 80% are completed and AI is a magic bullet of acceleration. But legal and popular resistance could change the calculus.
resistingproject2025.substack.com
May 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Project 2025, well on its wretched way: resistingproject2025.substack.com/p/how-far-al...
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Trump walks to Marine One to head to Mar-a-Lago to play golf on the taxpayers dime.
This trip will cost us $3.1 million, which could be used by USAID to feed 710 starving children for a full year.
This trip will cost us $3.1 million, which could be used by USAID to feed 710 starving children for a full year.
March 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Trump walks to Marine One to head to Mar-a-Lago to play golf on the taxpayers dime.
This trip will cost us $3.1 million, which could be used by USAID to feed 710 starving children for a full year.
This trip will cost us $3.1 million, which could be used by USAID to feed 710 starving children for a full year.
I was reminded today of how much I love A.J. Liebling. Any other fans here? I salute every pearl that ever rolled off his Royal standard but a friend was wondering about his best short piece on the subject of journalism. #booksky 💙📚
February 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I was reminded today of how much I love A.J. Liebling. Any other fans here? I salute every pearl that ever rolled off his Royal standard but a friend was wondering about his best short piece on the subject of journalism. #booksky 💙📚
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Strangely I feel a lot more threatened by the rapists in high government positions than I do by any transwoman in the next stall.
February 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Strangely I feel a lot more threatened by the rapists in high government positions than I do by any transwoman in the next stall.
You’d think someone with such contempt for chosen pronouns wouldn’t be so quick to rename international bodies of water.
January 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
You’d think someone with such contempt for chosen pronouns wouldn’t be so quick to rename international bodies of water.
So….assaulting cops and smearing poop all over the walls of Congressional offices are patriotic acts, but promoting blacks, women and queers in other government offices is now illegal. Yeah, check, got it….
January 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
So….assaulting cops and smearing poop all over the walls of Congressional offices are patriotic acts, but promoting blacks, women and queers in other government offices is now illegal. Yeah, check, got it….
AND…she’s apparently a Jersey Girl
January 22, 2025 at 7:25 AM
AND…she’s apparently a Jersey Girl
I suspect that Gulf of America will catch on about as well as Avenue of the Americas did.
January 21, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I suspect that Gulf of America will catch on about as well as Avenue of the Americas did.
So who will throw the first pie at Anita Bryant’s grave?
January 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
So who will throw the first pie at Anita Bryant’s grave?
I wonder if the success of Wicked will make people go back to the Oz books. They were a huge part of my childhood - all those girl heroes! all that magic! - and I still have some of my mother’s heirloom editions. #booksky 💙📚
January 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I wonder if the success of Wicked will make people go back to the Oz books. They were a huge part of my childhood - all those girl heroes! all that magic! - and I still have some of my mother’s heirloom editions. #booksky 💙📚
My best reads of the Year: The Bee Sting, Trust, North Woods, James, Table for Two, The Postcard, Long Island, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. Yours? #BookSky
December 31, 2024 at 5:53 PM
My best reads of the Year: The Bee Sting, Trust, North Woods, James, Table for Two, The Postcard, Long Island, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. Yours? #BookSky
Happy Hannukah this week to all who celebrate. We all could use some lightening up.
December 24, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Happy Hannukah this week to all who celebrate. We all could use some lightening up.
Between Panama, Greenland, tariffs, Canada the 51st State and the mango monster’s general disdain for most of our allies, I’m going to have to try to pass for Canadian when I travel over the next four years. (Maple leaf on backpack, eh?)
December 24, 2024 at 1:49 AM
Between Panama, Greenland, tariffs, Canada the 51st State and the mango monster’s general disdain for most of our allies, I’m going to have to try to pass for Canadian when I travel over the next four years. (Maple leaf on backpack, eh?)
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Country where health care executives need bodyguards is by definition a shithole country.
December 5, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Country where health care executives need bodyguards is by definition a shithole country.
You know those liqueurs where they put a pear or something in a bottle by growing it on the branch inside the glass? I had a nightmare that in the U.S. they were putting the glass bottles around our heads.
November 20, 2024 at 4:24 PM
You know those liqueurs where they put a pear or something in a bottle by growing it on the branch inside the glass? I had a nightmare that in the U.S. they were putting the glass bottles around our heads.
So have you kicked the doomscrolling habit and if so what are you reading/doing instead?
November 18, 2024 at 11:51 AM
So have you kicked the doomscrolling habit and if so what are you reading/doing instead?