Luke Liddell
@lwl.bsky.social
Be more heart and less attack. @woodrowliddell formerly on twitter.
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Every day I wake up to the news
April 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Every day I wake up to the news
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This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
March 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.
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“There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion – in the bloody religions of the heathen. There are fanatics in superstition. But there can be no fanatic, however warm their zeal, in the true religion..."
March 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
“There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion – in the bloody religions of the heathen. There are fanatics in superstition. But there can be no fanatic, however warm their zeal, in the true religion..."
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It bears repeating….
@elienyc.bsky.social is right.
@elienyc.bsky.social is right.
March 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
It bears repeating….
@elienyc.bsky.social is right.
@elienyc.bsky.social is right.
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Live shot of literally all of America.
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
March 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Live shot of literally all of America.
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The Pitt went into mass casualty mode this week with its best episode yet. I wrote about all the ways this great show celebrates the power of people who know what they're doing:
In Praise of 'The Pitt' Episode 12 and People Who Know What They're Doing
A shooting at a music festival challenges the ED doctors to rise to the occasion — and makes for an hour of sensational, gripping television.
www.rollingstone.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The Pitt went into mass casualty mode this week with its best episode yet. I wrote about all the ways this great show celebrates the power of people who know what they're doing:
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tried to pull together a few different threads on the moment we're in
Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act: Notes on Preserving the American Republic talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/obser...
Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act: Notes on Preserving the American Republic talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/obser...
Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act: Notes on Preserving the American Republic
A short time ago former US Attorney Barb McQuade posted this passage...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
tried to pull together a few different threads on the moment we're in
Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act: Notes on Preserving the American Republic talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/obser...
Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act: Notes on Preserving the American Republic talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/obser...
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@schumer.senate.gov If you vote for cloture you are a stain on this country’s history that will never go away. You are willingly passing power to a tyrant in waiting, and you are a disgrace to every oath of office any senator has ever sworn. Your legacy will be one of cowardice and contempt.
March 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
@schumer.senate.gov If you vote for cloture you are a stain on this country’s history that will never go away. You are willingly passing power to a tyrant in waiting, and you are a disgrace to every oath of office any senator has ever sworn. Your legacy will be one of cowardice and contempt.
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Your occasional random reminder: Sympathy is when you *care* how people feel, and what happens to them; empathy is when you *feel what they feel*.
They are not synonymous and should not be confused with one another. These distinctions constitute big differences.
We thank you for your support.
They are not synonymous and should not be confused with one another. These distinctions constitute big differences.
We thank you for your support.
March 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Your occasional random reminder: Sympathy is when you *care* how people feel, and what happens to them; empathy is when you *feel what they feel*.
They are not synonymous and should not be confused with one another. These distinctions constitute big differences.
We thank you for your support.
They are not synonymous and should not be confused with one another. These distinctions constitute big differences.
We thank you for your support.
“Let them eat cake” in just a little over a month into the presidency.
Trump’s Sec of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the solution to high egg prices for Americans is to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard.
March 6, 2025 at 4:03 AM
“Let them eat cake” in just a little over a month into the presidency.
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#Arkansas is in big trouble thanks to the Trump tariffs.
Major impact Trump's tariffs will have on Arkansas: 43% of our imports & 48% of our exports are from/to Canada, Mexico & China; $2B in imports & $3B in exports. And yet, not a peep from our governor or Republicans in Congress.
#arpx #arnews #Arkansas
www.kark.com/news/state-n...
#arpx #arnews #Arkansas
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Study shows scope of potential tariff impact on Arkansas
A study released Tuesday shows the potential impact of tariffs on Arkansas could reach billions of dollars.
www.kark.com
March 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
#Arkansas is in big trouble thanks to the Trump tariffs.
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Justin Trudeau gave the exact kind of press conference today that we have been waiting for from our Democratic leaders. Watch it and learn from it. No gimmicks, no stunts, no script, no platitudes, no slogans, no games. Just straight talk, honesty, sincerity and facts.
March 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Justin Trudeau gave the exact kind of press conference today that we have been waiting for from our Democratic leaders. Watch it and learn from it. No gimmicks, no stunts, no script, no platitudes, no slogans, no games. Just straight talk, honesty, sincerity and facts.
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Democrats have abdicated their right to lead. It’s GOT TO come from the streets.
March 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Democrats have abdicated their right to lead. It’s GOT TO come from the streets.
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Do these people understand how demoralizing it is FOR THEIR OWN FUCKING VOTERS for them to sit here like punks like this???
March 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Do these people understand how demoralizing it is FOR THEIR OWN FUCKING VOTERS for them to sit here like punks like this???
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I got stuffed in fucking lockers in high school with more fight and dignity than this.
March 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I got stuffed in fucking lockers in high school with more fight and dignity than this.
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WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF BULLSHIT PARTY IS THIS??? WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE DEMS DOING THERE???
March 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF BULLSHIT PARTY IS THIS??? WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE DEMS DOING THERE???
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And here’s why you don’t go. He’s just sitting there lecturing the
democrats, hectoring them, and after Al Green go ejected, the
rest if them sitting there like punks taking it. With placards.
democrats, hectoring them, and after Al Green go ejected, the
rest if them sitting there like punks taking it. With placards.
March 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
And here’s why you don’t go. He’s just sitting there lecturing the
democrats, hectoring them, and after Al Green go ejected, the
rest if them sitting there like punks taking it. With placards.
democrats, hectoring them, and after Al Green go ejected, the
rest if them sitting there like punks taking it. With placards.
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Worst. Episode. EVER.
February 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Worst. Episode. EVER.
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Keep at it
Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)
February 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Keep at it
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So yeah I just watched this 8 times
WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
February 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
So yeah I just watched this 8 times
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Elvis Costello, “Radio Radio”
February 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Elvis Costello, “Radio Radio”
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“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding”
Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure.
We are all in this together, and we all go down together.
I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.
Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure.
We are all in this together, and we all go down together.
I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.
FWIW, the choice was scrubbing their website or potentially closing down because their funding was turned off. Sure they could have sued, but what then?
This is a stunning betrayal by Whitman Walker in DC.
You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself.
It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research.
Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.
You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself.
It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research.
Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.
February 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding”
Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure.
We are all in this together, and we all go down together.
I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.
Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure.
We are all in this together, and we all go down together.
I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.
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“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” – Richard Feynman
February 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” – Richard Feynman
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” (Federalist No. 47)
February 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” (Federalist No. 47)