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lydia claire
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figuring it out
"I am really good at this stuff," he told world leaders. "Your countries are going to hell." 🤯
September 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars. Still more, it should not be used . . . to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers. ~Justice Elena Kagan
September 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Reposted by lydia claire
And God Said, “Debate Me, Bro” … And Other Notes from the Kirk Canonization talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/and-g...
And God Said, “Debate Me, Bro” … And Other Notes from the Kirk Canonization
There are many threads of the MAGA right’s on-going martyr-making and canonization...
talkingpointsmemo.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Reposted by lydia claire
A spray-painted bronze statue titled “Best Friends Forever” showing President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands was placed on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol early Tuesday.
https://wapo.st/42Dy5vU
September 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Whoo-hoo! Blue Skies, outside of Mississippi for a few days.
Free at last. 😆
September 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Elementary school children are having to navigate thru a standing clutch of masked…who are they?

“This is ridiculous,” a woman can be heard saying.

Yes. And insanely dangerous.
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
August 28, 2025 at 4:36 AM
"I know a story which America denies. And it denies it for the very good reason that my story, once told, confronts it with the truth about itself. In fact, my story, once told, will liberate America. The possibility of liberation…is what most people profoundly fear." ~ James Baldwin, 1965
August 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Irrelevant. Damn. Hahahaha!
Yep.
August 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"The irony of it all, if my family had money or I were a trust-fund baby...I wouldn't see nor understand what needed to be done." ~ Carmen, 'Four Women.'
August 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Support remains in the low 40%.
What 50+ years of of hate and mendacity has wrought.
Rise up!
August 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This person needs to go.
Stephen Miller on DC residents: "For the first time in their lives, they can use the parks, they can walk on the streets. You have people who can walk freely at night without having to worry about being robbed or mugged. They are wearing their watches again."
August 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Historic Texas permission slip worthy of a signature.
August 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
*clutch pearls*
REPORTER: Why are troops stationed here at Union Station and at the National Mall instead of areas where crime is higher?

JD VANCE: Crime is actually extremely high here at Union Station. You have vagrants.
August 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Ida B, Fanny Lou, Ms. Jordan, VP Harris, Jasmine and Nicole.
August 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
August 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Ouroboros finds A.I.
August 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
"Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things" ~ Kahlil Gibran
August 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Reposted by lydia claire
"This presidency is a repudiation of the republican principles of our founding."
Trump’s White House Renovation Is Awful—and Fitting
The president doesn’t respect what the executive mansion stands for, so why would he respect its architecture?
www.thebulwark.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Jackie Robinson was raised in Pasadena, CA. Not assuming you know of his brother, Mack Robinson, earned the Silver behind Jesse Owens in Berlin 1936.

Given the recent announcement re 2028 L.A. Olympics task force by the president, the historic synchronicity on multiple levels makes me chuckle.
August 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Happy birthday, sir.
And thank you. ✨
August 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
"You must be cautious and humble when you photograph anyone who can't afford your camera. And all profits should be shared."
August 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.” ~ James Baldwin

Happy birthday, sir.
Thank you for words that calm brokenhearted rage into poetry.
August 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Why Connection—Not Control—is Our Greatest Source of Power substack.com/@jamesbgreen...
Why Connection—Not Control—is Our Greatest Source of Power
What if our greatest strength isn’t control, but connection? In a time of crisis, even the smallest acts carry forward—through memory, resistance, and deep time.
substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
July 30, 2019. Now from his own platform he doth spew.
July 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM