Lisa in PA
@lisainpa.bsky.social
Mom, wife, witch, therapist, yarn collector, and tender of a small orchard and a menagerie of half feral animals.
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Grab a drink and settle in. Fiber arts is inherently political. #handspinning #handspunyarn #crochet #knitting #weaving #fiberarts #yarn
Grab a drink and settle in. Fiber arts is inherently political. #handspinning #handspunyarn #crochet #knitting #weaving #fiberarts #yarn
Explaining TARIFFS with a Textile History Lesson
YouTube video by JillianEve
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May 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Grab a drink and settle in. Fiber arts is inherently political. #handspinning #handspunyarn #crochet #knitting #weaving #fiberarts #yarn
Grab a drink and settle in. Fiber arts is inherently political. #handspinning #handspunyarn #crochet #knitting #weaving #fiberarts #yarn
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“The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.”
The White House has begun process of looking for new secretary of defense
The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.”
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Insurrectionists who got every jot and tittle of American due process and then were systematically sentenced below guidelines could only dream of being hustled off in a windowless aircraft to El Salvador without so much as a show trial to spend the rest of their life in a slave labor camp.
They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.
April 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Insurrectionists who got every jot and tittle of American due process and then were systematically sentenced below guidelines could only dream of being hustled off in a windowless aircraft to El Salvador without so much as a show trial to spend the rest of their life in a slave labor camp.
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Today, #GeorgetownLaw Dean William M. Treanor joined 79 law school deans in signing the letter posted below, issued March 26, 2025.
[ Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions. Find the full letter and list of signatories: bit.ly/4hSna6u ]
[ Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions. Find the full letter and list of signatories: bit.ly/4hSna6u ]
!["As deans of law schools, we have a special responsibility for the legal profession. Recently, the federal government has imposed significant sanctions on the law firms of Perkins Coie, Covington & Burling, Paul Weiss, and Jenner & Block seemingly because of the clients they and their lawyers represented and litigation in which their lawyers participated.
We write to reaffirm basic principles: The government should not punish lawyers and law firms for the clients they represent, absent specific findings that such representation was illegal or unethical. Punishing lawyers for their representation and advocacy violates the First Amendment and undermines the Sixth Amendment.
We thus speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."
[Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:326sthh7kvwgjxiobjabout2/bafkreidwv4buajoyedezluwpxxlzg4nyrkko647r3q37yjbfcouat3hrpy@jpeg)
March 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Today, #GeorgetownLaw Dean William M. Treanor joined 79 law school deans in signing the letter posted below, issued March 26, 2025.
[ Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions. Find the full letter and list of signatories: bit.ly/4hSna6u ]
[ Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions. Find the full letter and list of signatories: bit.ly/4hSna6u ]
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BREAKING: A high level information security source inside the Department of Defense says they were ordered by political appointees to ignore information security regulations and install Signal on government phones for senior leaders.
EXCLUSIVE: DOD has deployed Signal on government devices overriding their own policy
A high level source in DOD has confirmed that they were ordered to approve installation of Signal on government devices by Trump officials last month
fpwellman.substack.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
BREAKING: A high level information security source inside the Department of Defense says they were ordered by political appointees to ignore information security regulations and install Signal on government phones for senior leaders.
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The top CDC spokesman quit last week. Here's why:
+ No public briefings since Trump took office
+ RFK Jr "listening to fringe voices"
+ Career infectious-disease experts pushed to search literature "for data to support Kennedy’s preferred treatments."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
+ No public briefings since Trump took office
+ RFK Jr "listening to fringe voices"
+ Career infectious-disease experts pushed to search literature "for data to support Kennedy’s preferred treatments."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | When the government becomes a health misinformation superspreader
Until I left last week, I led the CDC’s public health messaging. Now we need something to replace it.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The top CDC spokesman quit last week. Here's why:
+ No public briefings since Trump took office
+ RFK Jr "listening to fringe voices"
+ Career infectious-disease experts pushed to search literature "for data to support Kennedy’s preferred treatments."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
+ No public briefings since Trump took office
+ RFK Jr "listening to fringe voices"
+ Career infectious-disease experts pushed to search literature "for data to support Kennedy’s preferred treatments."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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BREAKING: This executive order would block tens of millions of American citizens from voting. Presidents have no authority to do this. This order, like the SAVE Act now before Congress, would hurt voters and suppress the vote.
Rapid Response 47 on X: "🚨 POTUS signs an executive order on election integrity that includes the following provisions: - Requires documentary, government-issued proof of U.S. citizenship on its voter registration forms. - Conditions federal election-related funds on states complying with the integrity https://t.co/6A5zVdOAYn" / X
🚨 POTUS signs an executive order on election integrity that includes the following provisions: - Requires documentary, government-issued proof of U.S. citizenship on its voter registration forms. - Conditions federal election-related funds on states complying with the integrity https://t.co/6A5zVdOAYn
x.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
BREAKING: This executive order would block tens of millions of American citizens from voting. Presidents have no authority to do this. This order, like the SAVE Act now before Congress, would hurt voters and suppress the vote.
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BREAKING: Trump signs an executive order attempting to make changes to U.S. election procedures and threatens funding cuts to states that do not comply. The order is likely to be swiftly challenged in court by voting rights groups.
Trump Signs Order in Attempt to Vastly Reshape U.S. Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
BREAKING: Trump signs an executive order attempting to make changes to U.S. election procedures and threatens funding cuts to states that do not comply. The order is likely to be swiftly challenged in court by voting rights groups.
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A come-to-Jesus moment for American lawyers, and for America's most important law firms.
This is it.
This is the moment you always imagined, where you told yourself you would do the right thing -- where you told yourself that your profession would stand up.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
This is it.
This is the moment you always imagined, where you told yourself you would do the right thing -- where you told yourself that your profession would stand up.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Law firms refuse to represent Trump opponents in the wake of his attacks
The result is an extraordinary threat to constitutional rights of due process and representation and a far weaker effort to challenge Trump’s actions in court than during his first term.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A come-to-Jesus moment for American lawyers, and for America's most important law firms.
This is it.
This is the moment you always imagined, where you told yourself you would do the right thing -- where you told yourself that your profession would stand up.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
This is it.
This is the moment you always imagined, where you told yourself you would do the right thing -- where you told yourself that your profession would stand up.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Pete Buttigieg passionately spoke out after it was revealed that The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg was invited into a Signal chat with high-level Trump administration officials discussing military strategy.
Pete Buttigieg Drops F-Bombs After Trump Administration Invites Journalist Into High-Level Military Group Chat
Same, Pete. Same.
www.comicsands.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Pete Buttigieg passionately spoke out after it was revealed that The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg was invited into a Signal chat with high-level Trump administration officials discussing military strategy.
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THIS IS A BLOG THE FACEBOOK FASCISTS DO NOT WANT YOU TO SEE.
On April 20th, 2025, the United States will Cross the Point of No Return.
That’s the day Donald Trump’s advisory committee is expected to release its findings on whether he should invoke the Insurrection Act — a move that would allow him to deploy the military domestically…
medium.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
THIS IS A BLOG THE FACEBOOK FASCISTS DO NOT WANT YOU TO SEE.
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THIS IS A PHOTO THE FACEBOOK NAZIS DO NOT WANT YOU TO SEE.
March 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
THIS IS A PHOTO THE FACEBOOK NAZIS DO NOT WANT YOU TO SEE.
I’ve been trying to do something yarn-related more days than not since Inauguration Day to maintain my sanity. I even finished a spin that had gone untouched for over a year! My soon-to-be 6yo dtr helped ply that thick and thin skein. #spinnersofbluesky #handspunyarn
March 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I’ve been trying to do something yarn-related more days than not since Inauguration Day to maintain my sanity. I even finished a spin that had gone untouched for over a year! My soon-to-be 6yo dtr helped ply that thick and thin skein. #spinnersofbluesky #handspunyarn
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IVF became a flashpoint in natl politics last yr after Alabama ruled frozen embryos are extrauterine children. Facing backlash, a FL bill to recognize embryos under the state's wrongful death statute—threatening IVF, abortion providers & legal harassment from abusers—was withdrawn.
Now it's back.
Now it's back.
Terrifying Florida Bill Jeopardizing IVF Makes a Comeback
Reproductive rights advocates say the re-introduced bill leaves doctors and fertility clinics vulnerable to costly lawsuits and women vulnerable to legal retaliation from abusive partners.
www.jezebel.com
February 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
IVF became a flashpoint in natl politics last yr after Alabama ruled frozen embryos are extrauterine children. Facing backlash, a FL bill to recognize embryos under the state's wrongful death statute—threatening IVF, abortion providers & legal harassment from abusers—was withdrawn.
Now it's back.
Now it's back.
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My first time on the front page of a newspaper was after a 10-hour shift firefighting. I was so dirty, my own mom didn’t recognize me.
When I called her the next day she exclaimed, “That was YOU?!?”
A story about the federal firings. 1/
When I called her the next day she exclaimed, “That was YOU?!?”
A story about the federal firings. 1/
February 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
My first time on the front page of a newspaper was after a 10-hour shift firefighting. I was so dirty, my own mom didn’t recognize me.
When I called her the next day she exclaimed, “That was YOU?!?”
A story about the federal firings. 1/
When I called her the next day she exclaimed, “That was YOU?!?”
A story about the federal firings. 1/
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Calling all #Anonymous and #Actvists world wide
The Trump Education Department has opened a snitch line against diversity.
You know what to do FLOOD THE HOTLINE with fake tips and bury them in paperwork
We the people for the people!
#GeneralStrike #Protest
enddei.ed.gov
The Trump Education Department has opened a snitch line against diversity.
You know what to do FLOOD THE HOTLINE with fake tips and bury them in paperwork
We the people for the people!
#GeneralStrike #Protest
enddei.ed.gov
Department of Education FormLock
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February 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Calling all #Anonymous and #Actvists world wide
The Trump Education Department has opened a snitch line against diversity.
You know what to do FLOOD THE HOTLINE with fake tips and bury them in paperwork
We the people for the people!
#GeneralStrike #Protest
enddei.ed.gov
The Trump Education Department has opened a snitch line against diversity.
You know what to do FLOOD THE HOTLINE with fake tips and bury them in paperwork
We the people for the people!
#GeneralStrike #Protest
enddei.ed.gov
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First of many, but here we have a completely manufactured criminal investigation. One career prosecutor already resigned over it. Goal is simply to claw back $20 billion in Biden era climate money. Open and shut corruption. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
FBI investigating Trump EPA claims of fraud in $20B Biden grant fund
While career prosecutors in two U.S. attorney offices and a U.S. judge balked at a court-ordered freeze, Citibank has locked down billions without explanation.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
First of many, but here we have a completely manufactured criminal investigation. One career prosecutor already resigned over it. Goal is simply to claw back $20 billion in Biden era climate money. Open and shut corruption. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
“I think they call that a triangle” I almost woke up my kids laughing at that!!!
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February 28, 2025 at 5:08 AM
“I think they call that a triangle” I almost woke up my kids laughing at that!!!
www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
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Remember the day Elon bragged with an infantile giggle about putting USAID into the "wood chipper". just your bog standard sociopath marauding through our world.
The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world.
“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Remember the day Elon bragged with an infantile giggle about putting USAID into the "wood chipper". just your bog standard sociopath marauding through our world.
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Musk’s hackers burglarized "a vast trove of information about the entire federal workforce” on OPM computers even as Trump was being sworn in — that is "hours before Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was officially created by an executive order.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside DOGE’s Clash With the Federal Workforce
With a surprise incursion in the first minutes of the Trump presidency, Elon Musk’s programmers seized control of a key personnel agency; ‘rogue bureaucrats’ fight back.
www.wsj.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Musk’s hackers burglarized "a vast trove of information about the entire federal workforce” on OPM computers even as Trump was being sworn in — that is "hours before Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was officially created by an executive order.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.
February 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth with receipts!
February 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Sen. Tammy Duckworth with receipts!
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Perhaps Nikki wants to consult a mirror?
February 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Perhaps Nikki wants to consult a mirror?