LL
@llnysf.bsky.social
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pro: peace, democracy & critical thinking skills
anti: hypocrisy, authoritarianism
pro: peace, democracy & critical thinking skills
anti: hypocrisy, authoritarianism
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"This is the worst economic policy making I have seen in 50 years of hanging around economic policy." @steverattner.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
"This is the worst economic policy making I have seen in 50 years of hanging around economic policy." @steverattner.bsky.social
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Historians are calling the SAVE Act the "most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history."
‘The most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history’: How the SAVE Act upends over a century and a half of protecting voting
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Historians are calling the SAVE Act the "most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history."
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Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies.
They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
April 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies.
They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
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One man throwing the country into a depression because he had his feelings hurt by jokes from the black president.
April 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
One man throwing the country into a depression because he had his feelings hurt by jokes from the black president.
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TAPPER: You're imposing a 10% on the Heard and MccDonald islands. They have zero human inhabitants. Why are you putting tariffs on islands entirely populated by penguins?
ROLLINS: Whatever. Listen, the people leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest I've ever worked with.
ROLLINS: Whatever. Listen, the people leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest I've ever worked with.
April 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
TAPPER: You're imposing a 10% on the Heard and MccDonald islands. They have zero human inhabitants. Why are you putting tariffs on islands entirely populated by penguins?
ROLLINS: Whatever. Listen, the people leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest I've ever worked with.
ROLLINS: Whatever. Listen, the people leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest I've ever worked with.
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If you still believe these reckless tariffs will somehow make you better off in the long run, you’re either an oligarch or an imbecile.
April 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
If you still believe these reckless tariffs will somehow make you better off in the long run, you’re either an oligarch or an imbecile.
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Donald playing golf every weekend isn't just an opportunity to ignore the problems of the American people, it is also an opportunity to rip off the American taxpayers.
Here is a bill the Secret Service got for staying at Mar-a-Lago for a few days in his first term.
42 rooms at $396.15/night.
Here is a bill the Secret Service got for staying at Mar-a-Lago for a few days in his first term.
42 rooms at $396.15/night.
April 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Donald playing golf every weekend isn't just an opportunity to ignore the problems of the American people, it is also an opportunity to rip off the American taxpayers.
Here is a bill the Secret Service got for staying at Mar-a-Lago for a few days in his first term.
42 rooms at $396.15/night.
Here is a bill the Secret Service got for staying at Mar-a-Lago for a few days in his first term.
42 rooms at $396.15/night.
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Corrupt judges let a criminal get away with treason and run for president. Propagandists masquerading as journalists lied to enough people that the criminal won. Then the criminal sold a half share in the presidency to the world's richest man, whom no one voted for. That's what happened, folks.
March 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Corrupt judges let a criminal get away with treason and run for president. Propagandists masquerading as journalists lied to enough people that the criminal won. Then the criminal sold a half share in the presidency to the world's richest man, whom no one voted for. That's what happened, folks.
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Uh guys? NBC just found out a DHS staffer accidentally added a journalist to an email thread about an ICE raid in Denver. Yeah, a completely separate incident.
THAT staffer is being punished — so why aren’t Hegseth & Waltz???
THAT staffer is being punished — so why aren’t Hegseth & Waltz???
March 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Uh guys? NBC just found out a DHS staffer accidentally added a journalist to an email thread about an ICE raid in Denver. Yeah, a completely separate incident.
THAT staffer is being punished — so why aren’t Hegseth & Waltz???
THAT staffer is being punished — so why aren’t Hegseth & Waltz???
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Well done, @keating.house.gov
A true ally doesn’t just watch—they stand up.
I’ve accidentally misgendered someone at my daughter’s school before. It happens. The moment I realized, I apologized and made sure not to do it again.
Rep Keith Self did this on purpose. He meant to be hurtful.
A true ally doesn’t just watch—they stand up.
I’ve accidentally misgendered someone at my daughter’s school before. It happens. The moment I realized, I apologized and made sure not to do it again.
Rep Keith Self did this on purpose. He meant to be hurtful.
March 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Well done, @keating.house.gov
A true ally doesn’t just watch—they stand up.
I’ve accidentally misgendered someone at my daughter’s school before. It happens. The moment I realized, I apologized and made sure not to do it again.
Rep Keith Self did this on purpose. He meant to be hurtful.
A true ally doesn’t just watch—they stand up.
I’ve accidentally misgendered someone at my daughter’s school before. It happens. The moment I realized, I apologized and made sure not to do it again.
Rep Keith Self did this on purpose. He meant to be hurtful.
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One of the best and highest uses of a government is to provide goods that are uneconomical to be produced locally but have massive surplus if produced at all. Particularly notable examples include:
* disease and weather forecasting
* basic science, esp in energy/health
* natural disaster insurance
* disease and weather forecasting
* basic science, esp in energy/health
* natural disaster insurance
March 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
One of the best and highest uses of a government is to provide goods that are uneconomical to be produced locally but have massive surplus if produced at all. Particularly notable examples include:
* disease and weather forecasting
* basic science, esp in energy/health
* natural disaster insurance
* disease and weather forecasting
* basic science, esp in energy/health
* natural disaster insurance
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A federal judge just hit the brakes on Trump's ridiculous executive order aimed at a top law firm for daring to represent Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign and for supporting causes that don't align with his twisted agenda. Justice prevails, at least for now.
www.npr.org/2025/03/12/g...
www.npr.org/2025/03/12/g...
Judge blocks Trump from enforcing 'chilling' order against law firm
While Trump's executive order takes aim at Perkins Coie, the judge said it "casts a chilling harm of blizzard proportion across the entire legal profession."
www.npr.org
March 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
A federal judge just hit the brakes on Trump's ridiculous executive order aimed at a top law firm for daring to represent Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign and for supporting causes that don't align with his twisted agenda. Justice prevails, at least for now.
www.npr.org/2025/03/12/g...
www.npr.org/2025/03/12/g...
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Son: Are we better off now?
Dad: Well son, mom & dad have both lost their jobs. Our savings are gone, gas & grocery prices are up. We did, however, save you from drag queen story time.
Son: What's that?
Dad: A mythical thing they said was happening in your school, which we can't afford anymore.
Dad: Well son, mom & dad have both lost their jobs. Our savings are gone, gas & grocery prices are up. We did, however, save you from drag queen story time.
Son: What's that?
Dad: A mythical thing they said was happening in your school, which we can't afford anymore.
March 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Son: Are we better off now?
Dad: Well son, mom & dad have both lost their jobs. Our savings are gone, gas & grocery prices are up. We did, however, save you from drag queen story time.
Son: What's that?
Dad: A mythical thing they said was happening in your school, which we can't afford anymore.
Dad: Well son, mom & dad have both lost their jobs. Our savings are gone, gas & grocery prices are up. We did, however, save you from drag queen story time.
Son: What's that?
Dad: A mythical thing they said was happening in your school, which we can't afford anymore.
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DEI is fascistcode for “the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”
That’s what’s under attack.
Don’t let them lull you into thinking that it’s “only” policies aimed at addressing the white patriarchal ableist mediocrity that has been our nation’s default and giving others an equitable shot.
(“Only,” ha.)
That’s what’s under attack.
Don’t let them lull you into thinking that it’s “only” policies aimed at addressing the white patriarchal ableist mediocrity that has been our nation’s default and giving others an equitable shot.
(“Only,” ha.)
Aside from The Noah being a full time fascism apologist, it will always be hilarious to me that DEI—which in practice has mostly consisted of motivational posters mildly suggesting the most reserved incrementalism imaginable—represents the bedrock of fascist claims to legitimacy.
"the only things dems need to cave on are race, gender, policing, and immigration" what kind of victory would this be
March 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
DEI is fascistcode for “the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”
That’s what’s under attack.
Don’t let them lull you into thinking that it’s “only” policies aimed at addressing the white patriarchal ableist mediocrity that has been our nation’s default and giving others an equitable shot.
(“Only,” ha.)
That’s what’s under attack.
Don’t let them lull you into thinking that it’s “only” policies aimed at addressing the white patriarchal ableist mediocrity that has been our nation’s default and giving others an equitable shot.
(“Only,” ha.)
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To sum it up, the worst of us won. We are confronted every day by their never ending villainous behavior.
March 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
To sum it up, the worst of us won. We are confronted every day by their never ending villainous behavior.
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Every time I read a story like this I recommit to be louder and more defiant.
March 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Every time I read a story like this I recommit to be louder and more defiant.
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Email list for all DOGE employees
Please ReSkeet!
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March 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Email list for all DOGE employees
Please ReSkeet!
Please ReSkeet!
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"The Roberts Court has systematically rewritten the rules of American politics...most of the long-standing guardrails against excessive corporate power and theocratic influence have been dismantled." @mikepod.bsky.social breaks down SCOTUS' new status as an instrument of minority rule.
There's Nothing Supreme About the Roberts Court
Today’s radical decisions have been delivered exclusively by justices handpicked through a pipeline designed to ensure ideological loyalty to corporate and religious elites
contrarian.substack.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"The Roberts Court has systematically rewritten the rules of American politics...most of the long-standing guardrails against excessive corporate power and theocratic influence have been dismantled." @mikepod.bsky.social breaks down SCOTUS' new status as an instrument of minority rule.