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She/her. Public librarian, voracious reader of genre fiction, women’s barbershop baritone, enthusiastic cook & eater. In the rolling hills of SE WA state. Feminist, progressive.

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This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.

30.01.2026 14:44 👍 14385 🔁 4949 💬 518 📌 197

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

28.01.2026 21:25 👍 25054 🔁 6030 💬 321 📌 266

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

27.01.2026 15:06 👍 18861 🔁 4338 💬 254 📌 115

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

22.01.2026 15:03 👍 24513 🔁 8323 💬 654 📌 293
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Please SHARE if you agree!

17.01.2026 13:26 👍 16920 🔁 8523 💬 611 📌 452
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

17.01.2026 14:57 👍 40033 🔁 14694 💬 1321 📌 1047

There shouldn’t be a Department of Homeland Security. It’s a grab bag of various agencies under a dangerously murky heading which can and now has been co-opted for a fascist transition.
Abolish ICE and redistribute the other agencies.

15.01.2026 17:36 👍 2402 🔁 670 💬 57 📌 128

Did Trump get the idea to takeover Greenland from that Gerard Butler movie

24.12.2025 00:31 👍 35 🔁 4 💬 12 📌 0

Fascism selects for people who think they see through the lie of liberal democracy but who are actually just too broken and malformed to eke out a reasonably satisfying life on conditions of general equality with their fellow citizens.

23.12.2025 02:57 👍 426 🔁 78 💬 2 📌 3

Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.

21.12.2025 22:12 👍 4678 🔁 816 💬 110 📌 32

doomers and futility junkies: please do not do that.

Don‘t just say things will never work. if you’re doing to do that, also propose something that will work

21.12.2025 02:55 👍 110 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 2

If you need a little hope in dark times - Rick Steves fucking rules.

21.12.2025 03:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump is attempting to obfuscate his role in sex crimes w/ best friend Jeffrey Epstein by releasing photos of Bill Clinton. DO NOT ALLOW the pedophile president to redact his way out of responsibility. Together, w/ Pam Bondi, they're carrying out the greatest cover-up in history.

20.12.2025 19:28 👍 800 🔁 462 💬 49 📌 27
an image quilt of epstein documents

an image quilt of epstein documents

Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.

19.12.2025 22:28 👍 2429 🔁 1035 💬 85 📌 107
The Trump / Lawnmower kid meme but trump is redacted

The Trump / Lawnmower kid meme but trump is redacted

20.12.2025 00:07 👍 9490 🔁 2257 💬 70 📌 70
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New York Times columnist David Brooks appears in latest Epstein photos Brooks, who dismissed Epstein scandal as ‘stupid story’, wrote column expressing lack of interest in developments

"Why is everyone SO OBSESSED with the Epstein Files," whined the guy who is in the Epstein Files.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

18.12.2025 21:00 👍 9062 🔁 2288 💬 413 📌 153

lol when a rich, powerful white man begs for higher taxes, you know that vibes are about to shift towards eating the rich:

19.12.2025 16:07 👍 1514 🔁 349 💬 44 📌 9
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Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effect...

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers

18.12.2025 02:22 👍 8331 🔁 1633 💬 135 📌 102

I guarantee I’ll never give one cent to anyone voting to make my daughter’s life harder.

16.12.2025 18:22 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

anyway I’m gonna go cry for a bit

15.12.2025 04:27 👍 3163 🔁 482 💬 12 📌 7

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different

15.12.2025 04:42 👍 8323 🔁 1302 💬 54 📌 28

It's wild but not surprising that last week the White House was leaning into "these seditious Democrats dared suggest that troops were receiving illegal orders!!!" and this week they are scrambling to figure out who to blame for issuing illegal orders.

03.12.2025 04:00 👍 5754 🔁 1355 💬 74 📌 45

Look forward to Bari Weiss asking "has identity politics gone too far?" while studiously ignoring the most virulent identity politics driving American government

28.11.2025 19:35 👍 2073 🔁 516 💬 18 📌 7

Can you imagine if the Times and Post and CNN reacted to every time DHS explicitly endorsed neo-Nazism with the same kind of screaming headlines that they did every time Biden stumbled over a world leader’s name?

28.11.2025 19:40 👍 1054 🔁 179 💬 15 📌 10

In another era, the political media would be shoveling dirt onto Trump's political grave as a hopeless lame duck and shifting their focus to the 2028 Presidential race. But in this era they'll keep rooting for the Reichstag Fire or other event to keep pretending he's popular

28.11.2025 16:53 👍 783 🔁 142 💬 13 📌 3

I’ll give you a personalized book recommendation if you promise you won’t procure the book from a billionaire…

28.11.2025 15:02 👍 274 🔁 63 💬 29 📌 1

As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.

28.11.2025 15:11 👍 2290 🔁 497 💬 31 📌 22

Targeting Kelly is one of those “this is why we’ll win” moments, bc it shows how politically impetuous this admin is.

There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”

25.11.2025 03:10 👍 6122 🔁 1338 💬 89 📌 29
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Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.

Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

25.11.2025 03:31 👍 1922 🔁 1031 💬 116 📌 132