Larry Lynam

Just another Republican. There isn’t one who doesn’t leav me disappointed.

Democracy | Women Are Supposed to Be Better Than This Donna Ladd criticizes Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and Ghislaine Maxwell as examples of women who have held other women back through action and inaction.

OPINION: "Ghislaine Maxwell tasted all that wealth has to offer while ruining the lives of girls and young women by ensuring they became rape victims, as far too many of us are, thanks to a system that protects sexual predators and punishes us if and when we speak out," Donna Ladd writes.

Kind of wish there were some more specific policy suggestions in here, but this is a convincing critique of neoliberalism and its assumptions about markets, individuals and freedom. I don’t *think* anyone who’s previously read Stiglitz will find much new in here, but I hadn’t, so it was interesting.

Mumps is back, but vaccines can prevent it Maryland is one of several states that are reporting cases of the infectious disease mumps, suggesting the return of diseases—like measles—that vaccines protect against

We counted 1500 measles cases as of the end of last month. Guess who else is starting to rear its ugly head- Mumps.

It has been detected in ~34 people across 11 states.

Symptoms show up a few weeks after exposure in the form of fever, heads & swollen salivary glands.

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America doesn't do "politically correct wars" anymore. We strike schools and kill hundreds of little girls, because we're big tough strong men who don't apologize.

Opinion | US Bombing of Iran Shows Little Evidence of Strategy Farah N. Jan writes about how the U.S.-Israeli bombing of Iran may not result in political success.

OPINION: "Decades of scholarship dating back to World War I on using air power to force political change has established a consistent finding: Bombing can degrade military capacity and destroy infrastructure, but it does not produce governments more cooperative with the attacker," Farah Jan writes.

Who knew that the Dubya in George Dubya Bush stood for "Woke" all this time?

an "executive" smile!

The lost congressman: What happened to Jeremiah Haralson? He was a slave at 18. A state legislator at 24 and a congressman at 28. A prisoner at 48. And then, Jeremiah Haralson vanished.

This is the story, BTW. Gannett unfortunately retired the template used when this was published; take my word that the editors did a bang up job with the initial presentation.

I once published a 6,000 word story that got good traffic but had even better engagement time; it was clear people were reading it.

My experience has generally been that people will spend time with stories journalists have invested time in.

Albuquerque’s Mayor Said Arrests Were “Not the Solution” to Homelessness. Yet Jail Bookings Have Skyrocketed. Under Tim Keller’s leadership, the city has increasingly criminalized conduct associated with homelessness, causing a growing number of people on the streets to be arrested and jailed.

The enforcement of laws against homeless people is costly.

Albuquerque’s Bernalillo County spends ~$169/night to jail inmates — and more if they have significant medical needs.

By comparison, the city’s year-round emergency shelter costs $44/night.

Democracy | Women Are Supposed to Be Better Than This Donna Ladd criticizes Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and Ghislaine Maxwell as examples of women who have held other women back through action and inaction.

DEMOCRACY: "These three women sicken me. Other women have disgusted me, too, in the ways they sell out women and people of any color but theirs and prop up bad men and systems meant to hold women back," Donna Ladd writes.

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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

Our database paints a detailed financial picture for President Donald Trump and hundreds of his political appointees, some of whom have ties to the industries they regulate.

The disclosures include their recent employers, assets and debts.

BREAKING: America's leaders showed up for Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr. -- Donald Trump did not America showed up for Rev.

BREAKING: America's leaders showed up for Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr. -- Donald Trump did not
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Disturbing FBI Interview Accuses Donald Trump of Forcing 'Little Girl' to Perform Oral Before She 'Bit' His Manhood in Missing Epstein File (OK Magazine) The Justice Department has finally released a missing Epstein file containing a disturbing FBI interviewsummary from Augus...

Read "Disturbing FBI Interview Accuses Donald Trump of Forcing ‘Little Girl’ to Perform Oral Before She ‘Bit’ His Manhood in Missing Epstein File" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-7i3nMUuI/3...

They really hate the truth
Republicans are asking the DOJ to consider bringing criminal charges against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide in President Donald Trump’s first administration who became a star congressional witness about the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot,

www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...

Only the best.

Markwayne (2 names) Mullin got the job because he knew Kristi Noem was in a precarious spot, so he went on Fox News constantly last week to flatter Donald Trump.

“Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.”
— Donald Trump

You first, pal.

After the NCAA meeting at the White House, Condoleezza Rice is pulled aside by Donald Trump and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and walks back with them.

This bears repeating.

Dr. Casey Means is not eligible for the position as Surgeon General. The position requires experience in public health programs & entry into regular corps. She has done neither.

You can take action by sending a letter to your senator.

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Scientists created a digital library full of ants Using a synchrotron powered CT scanner, the Antscan project created an open-source digital library cataloguing thousands of 3D ant specimens

Can I interest you in a library cataloging the internal body structures of ants that was created with a particle accelerator? 🧪

(by our stellar intern, @krcallaway.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)

Standing up for Science rally, Physics Girl is back, and we need to find more asteroids I’m angry about anti-science attacks, Dianna Cowern has made a new video, and a graph shows why we need to look for near-Earth asteroids

Great news! Physics Girl is making videos again!

Bad news: Attacks on science are so bad I need to talk at a rally on Saturday.

Interesting news: We need to find more near-Earth asteroids.

And it's all here!

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Markwayne Mullin was accused in late 2023 of sticking his fingers into the noses of sleeping colleagues
AND THEIR SPOUSES to take "funny" photos

This was brought to light in 2014, by the wife of Will Hutchinson, who described the incidents as occurring when Mullin was a U.S. Rep

Senator Mullin, our new DHS secretary, is the same guy who bought between $15,000 and $50,000 in stock in oil companies and a defense contractor before Trump invaded Venezuela.

He fits right in.

The goal of Democrats should be to turn Mullin into a spectacle of stupidity and slow roll his nomination process by every means available to them.

Delay, denounce, deride.

AOC Has Class,Markwayne
Mullin's An Ass.......

Trump fires Noem as DHS secretary, nominates 2020 election skeptic Sen. Mullin to replace her Mullin’s potential ascension will have significant implications for future U.S. elections.

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Mullin is a 2020 election denier who supports the SAVE act vigorously. He also voted against certifying the vote to keep Joe Biden out of office.
He will do everything that he can to subvert the election process and keep the Democrats from taking back power

one thing that's going to be a serious problem for mullin is answering questions about what he'll do about the widespread corruption noem let spread throughout DHS, and i think an actual golden retriever would be better prepared for those questions than mullin will be

I’m glad Trump fires that disgusting piece of garbage, Kristi Noem, but replacing her with that MaGA garbage grifting bigot Markwayne Mullin is so on brand.

Unseat Ciscomani. Period!