@lisamckenzie.bsky.social
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To be fair, they’re not trying to govern.
The Trump administration really, really sucks at governing. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
July 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
To be fair, they’re not trying to govern.
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Linda Mamoun—
"A 20-year-old Palestinian American was lynched by Israelis. This is the headline The New York Times chose to run."
"A 20-year-old Palestinian American was lynched by Israelis. This is the headline The New York Times chose to run."
July 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Linda Mamoun—
"A 20-year-old Palestinian American was lynched by Israelis. This is the headline The New York Times chose to run."
"A 20-year-old Palestinian American was lynched by Israelis. This is the headline The New York Times chose to run."
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A felon married to an immigrant is telling us that immigrants and felons are the problem.
June 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
A felon married to an immigrant is telling us that immigrants and felons are the problem.
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instead of writing just one essay about the big sur marathon, like a more normal person, i wrote two.
the first answers the question 'why big sur' & describes the course itself: the rain, the wind, the sea, the flowers, the birds, the road, the strawberries pinchofdirt.substack.com/p/i-absorbed...
the first answers the question 'why big sur' & describes the course itself: the rain, the wind, the sea, the flowers, the birds, the road, the strawberries pinchofdirt.substack.com/p/i-absorbed...
I absorbed her enchantment as though through osmosis
California travelogue part two
pinchofdirt.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
instead of writing just one essay about the big sur marathon, like a more normal person, i wrote two.
the first answers the question 'why big sur' & describes the course itself: the rain, the wind, the sea, the flowers, the birds, the road, the strawberries pinchofdirt.substack.com/p/i-absorbed...
the first answers the question 'why big sur' & describes the course itself: the rain, the wind, the sea, the flowers, the birds, the road, the strawberries pinchofdirt.substack.com/p/i-absorbed...
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Three swing state voters are suing Elon Musk, claiming he stiffed them on promised payments. The MAGA crowd is turning on itself nothing like buying votes and forgetting to pay up. Most of them still feel entitled to their million dollars.
May 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Three swing state voters are suing Elon Musk, claiming he stiffed them on promised payments. The MAGA crowd is turning on itself nothing like buying votes and forgetting to pay up. Most of them still feel entitled to their million dollars.
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An FDA worker confirms what I've seen out there.
CDC's entire FOIA office is gone.
The FDA's communications and web office were cut.
"The FDA as we know it is gone."
CDC's entire FOIA office is gone.
The FDA's communications and web office were cut.
"The FDA as we know it is gone."
April 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
An FDA worker confirms what I've seen out there.
CDC's entire FOIA office is gone.
The FDA's communications and web office were cut.
"The FDA as we know it is gone."
CDC's entire FOIA office is gone.
The FDA's communications and web office were cut.
"The FDA as we know it is gone."
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#Wisconsin April 1st!
Please elect Judge Susan Crawford. Do NOT sit this out. If we’ve learned anything from 2024, it’s that we need judges with integrity that follow the law!
Elect Susan Crawford to the Wisconsin Supreme Court!
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
Please elect Judge Susan Crawford. Do NOT sit this out. If we’ve learned anything from 2024, it’s that we need judges with integrity that follow the law!
Elect Susan Crawford to the Wisconsin Supreme Court!
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
March 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
#Wisconsin April 1st!
Please elect Judge Susan Crawford. Do NOT sit this out. If we’ve learned anything from 2024, it’s that we need judges with integrity that follow the law!
Elect Susan Crawford to the Wisconsin Supreme Court!
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
Please elect Judge Susan Crawford. Do NOT sit this out. If we’ve learned anything from 2024, it’s that we need judges with integrity that follow the law!
Elect Susan Crawford to the Wisconsin Supreme Court!
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
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March 19, 2025
March 19, 2025
On the Fox News Channel’s The Five yesterday, the panel of Fox personalities expressed outrage that federal judge James Boasberg had ordered the Trump administration to stop its deportation of migrant...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:06 AM
March 19, 2025
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Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.
March 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.
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Remember when the Trump Administration said they were not trying to fire air traffic controllers?
They were lying.
They were lying.
March 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Remember when the Trump Administration said they were not trying to fire air traffic controllers?
They were lying.
They were lying.
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BREAKING: House Speaker Mike Johnson's chief of staff, Hayden Haynes, was arrested on a DUI charge Tuesday night after President Trump's address to Congress, law enforcement sources say.
House Speaker Mike Johnson's chief of staff arrested on DUI charge after Trump speech
Hayden Haynes is a longtime top aide to Mike Johnson, both in the speaker's office and his personal office.
www.nbcnews.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
BREAKING: House Speaker Mike Johnson's chief of staff, Hayden Haynes, was arrested on a DUI charge Tuesday night after President Trump's address to Congress, law enforcement sources say.
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I wrote about threats to data and information under the second Trump administration for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/03/were...
‘We’re losing our environmental history’: The future of government information under Trump
Government data is a vast resource that everyone relies on, whether they know it or not. Experts are worried about the future of this resource.
thebulletin.org
March 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I wrote about threats to data and information under the second Trump administration for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/03/were...
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Extraordinary levels of lying and delusion. Impossible to watch.
Single most delusional Presidential address in history. Already.
March 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Extraordinary levels of lying and delusion. Impossible to watch.
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February 14, 2025
February 14, 2025
On this day, I always like to tell the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s terrible 1884 Valentine’s Day and how it led to the Progressive Era, but things are happening too fast these days to leave a gap in...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
February 14, 2025
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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
February 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
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“X
The light has gone out of my life.”
Theodore Roosevelt
February 14, 1884
I don’t imagine Roosevelt would have been a big fan of RFK Jr.
The light has gone out of my life.”
Theodore Roosevelt
February 14, 1884
I don’t imagine Roosevelt would have been a big fan of RFK Jr.
February 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
“X
The light has gone out of my life.”
Theodore Roosevelt
February 14, 1884
I don’t imagine Roosevelt would have been a big fan of RFK Jr.
The light has gone out of my life.”
Theodore Roosevelt
February 14, 1884
I don’t imagine Roosevelt would have been a big fan of RFK Jr.
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A sobering comment by a Columbia University professor on the damaging effect of the increasing instability in federal science funding in the U.S.
thebulletin.org/2025/02/how-...
thebulletin.org/2025/02/how-...
How the Trump administration could end a century of American scientific dominance
Slashing federal funding for scientific research will have catastrophic and long-lasting impacts far beyond the laboratories where government research funds are spent.
thebulletin.org
February 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
A sobering comment by a Columbia University professor on the damaging effect of the increasing instability in federal science funding in the U.S.
thebulletin.org/2025/02/how-...
thebulletin.org/2025/02/how-...
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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.
February 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.
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If Mitch McConnell had voted to convict Donald Trump, he would not have to vote against confirming RFK Jr.
February 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
If Mitch McConnell had voted to convict Donald Trump, he would not have to vote against confirming RFK Jr.
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This is likely the “end a century of American scientific dominance.”
“If everything the administration is pushing for materializes, we are likely to lose a generation of American scientists or more.”
thebulletin.org/2025/02/how-...
“If everything the administration is pushing for materializes, we are likely to lose a generation of American scientists or more.”
thebulletin.org/2025/02/how-...
How the Trump administration could end a century of American scientific dominance
Slashing federal funding for scientific research will have catastrophic and long-lasting impacts far beyond the laboratories where government research funds are spent.
thebulletin.org
February 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This is likely the “end a century of American scientific dominance.”
“If everything the administration is pushing for materializes, we are likely to lose a generation of American scientists or more.”
thebulletin.org/2025/02/how-...
“If everything the administration is pushing for materializes, we are likely to lose a generation of American scientists or more.”
thebulletin.org/2025/02/how-...
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Musk has made over $25,000,000,000 from tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts. That’s $25 Billion we as taxpayers have both given him directly and had to compensate for. You care about the deficit? Great! Give us our fucking money back.
February 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Musk has made over $25,000,000,000 from tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts. That’s $25 Billion we as taxpayers have both given him directly and had to compensate for. You care about the deficit? Great! Give us our fucking money back.
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Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Evgeny Popov says that Trump is doing Moscow's job by ripping apart the Western world — whipsawing right through it, the way Russia always wanted to. Popov says that it's truly amazing.
youtu.be/JG29upm5HPE
youtu.be/JG29upm5HPE
Evgeny Popov says Trump is doing Russia's job
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
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February 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Evgeny Popov says that Trump is doing Moscow's job by ripping apart the Western world — whipsawing right through it, the way Russia always wanted to. Popov says that it's truly amazing.
youtu.be/JG29upm5HPE
youtu.be/JG29upm5HPE