Leigh

Leigh

@oddleighenough.bsky.social

East coaster now in beautiful Utah. Pfp is late, lamented Toby. Although he thought he was a dog, he was the best cat ever.

436 Followers 696 Following 2,299 Posts Joined Nov 2023
9 hours ago

Heeeeeeeeyyyy, guess who wants to regulate This Fucking Guy™️ into oblivion, maybe tell your friends in California’s 72nd district to get involved in my race

www.kluweoc.com

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9 hours ago

I’m having an aneurysm

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17 hours ago

Get Kareem from Subway Takes to interview kids everyday for a month.

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17 hours ago

I like how the money guys (Bessent and Wright) are out here being like, E-Z-P-Z, Navy gunna step up. But everyone at the Navy is like, uh, no.

*BESSENT SAYS NAVY WILL ESCORT VESSELS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE: SKY

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1 day ago

Trump only got into Wharton after his family pulled strings and got him an interview with an official who did a "special favor" to the family. A Wharton prof later said he was "the dumbest goddamn student" he ever had.

So, yes, his admission does say a lot about how smart he is.

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20 hours ago

Credit where due

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21 hours ago
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Rep. Clyburn, former No. 3 House Democrat, will seek reelection The announcement from Clyburn, who turns 86 in July, comes as younger Democrats are challenging the old guard in primaries throughout the country.

Jesus Christ, man. You're turning 86 years old. Don't you want to spend time with your grandkids and great grandkids(?)? This is embarrassing. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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22 hours ago
Books / Best Sellers
Paperback Nonfiction
10 NEW THIS WEEK
The Beginning Comes After the End
by Rebecca Solnit / Haymarket
Solnit describes changes in several facets of society that have occurred over the last seven decades.

Congratulations, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social! 💐

THE BEGINNING COMES AFTER THE END is officially a New York Times bestseller in its first week of publication

Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered or picked up a copy this week.

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21 hours ago
@oelayat 

Mufti Naomi Wolf has consulted the sacred texts (Google Al Overview) and issued her fatwa

quote tweeting 
Dr. Naomi Wolf @naomirwolf

I asked Al, "Can you wear a crop top for Iftar?" As Rama Duwaji is doing:

Al Overview
It is generally advised not to wear a crop top for Iftar. Ramadan is a time for modesty and respect, requiring covered shoulders and knees. Crop tops, which expose the midriff, are considered too revealing for traditional, public, or family Iftar gatherings. Opt for modest, loose, or flowing, comfortable clothing. 

It is super rude by the way, in observant Muslim norms, for the hostess to reveal her midriff at an Iftar celebration in the presence of men who are not her husband and in the presence of Mahmoud Khalil's wife, who is veiled as is far more religiously customary.

still losing it at “Mufti Naomi Wolf has consulted the sacred texts (Google Al Overview) and issued her fatwa”

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21 hours ago

I get that this has been almost entirely theater but I actually think it's quite bad if the people of DC become habituated to the presence of military personnel in the streets, for a whole host of reasons

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22 hours ago
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GOP lawmaker says rural jobs bill was killed, and he was mocked, for questioning $10M Pioneer Trail In the final days of Utah's legislative session, Rep. Abbott voiced concerns about $10 million for The Pioneer Trail. He says it cost him his rural jobs bills.

"My party is full of corrupt bullies"

www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

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21 hours ago

Probably “work with our friends across the aisle”

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22 hours ago
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Alabama death row inmate who didn't kill anyone is spared execution Charles Burton was involved in a store robbery in which his accomplice shot and killed a customer.

The statement at the end of this article from the Alabama Attorney General is absolutely sick and ghoulish but the outcome here is proof that public pressure and public shame can force even bad actors like Gov Kay Ivey to take detours

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The press called Betty Shabazz, Coretta Scott King, and Myrlie Evers "the widows." Between them, they held six degrees, ran three national institutions, raised sixteen children alone, and spent a combined sixty years fighting for justice their husbands didn't live to see.

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22 hours ago
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What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022 “Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …

This is an EXTREMELY cool project that @maris.bsky.social and @sandyernestallen.bsky.social worked so hard on!

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23 hours ago
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Kash Patel Confirms UFC Fighters Will Train FBI Agents This Week, Calling It A “Historic Opportunity” "I’m thrilled to announce this historic seminar between the FBI and the UFC at Quantico," said the FBI director in a statement released by the UFC.

Kash Patel confirms UFC fighters will train FBI agents this week, calling it a "historic opportunity'

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23 hours ago

filing under "Years of Lead Pipes"

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22 hours ago

“Gnosticism.” That splat was the sound of my eyes rolling out of my head.

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1 day ago
A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait:

1. Build up speed
2. Hit Trampoline
3. Cool backflip
4. Nail the landing

The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

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23 hours ago

MORE NEWS:

Fresh off her win of the Maryland Middle School Principal of the Year award, Mama was just named one of 3 finalists for the *National* Award!

now she being profiled in education magazines n shit about all the innovative work she does 🥹 I'm so proud of her!
www.edweek.org/leadership/w...

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1 day ago

Fitzcarraldo (1982)

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1 day ago

“You say you want a big tent, and yet you won’t include me, a person who hates you and everything you stand for.”

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1 day ago

Luckily, there are enough unflattering photos of Pete Hegseth on Getty Images to last a lifetime

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1 day ago
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7 behind-the-scenes stories from Amazing Race’s first season The Amazing Race took off 25 years ago this week, and I have some amazing behind-the-scenes stories for you!

The Amazing Race took off 25 years ago this week, and I have some amazing behind-the-scenes stories for you! #AmazingRace #RealityTV

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1 day ago

You can never get it really cleaned up. 🥴

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Eww eww eww - even worse. If I’m served a drink and it accidentally spills like that, eww ick

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1 day ago
The voice that won over Ira Glass hasn't changed much since 1992. It's more subdued than it was in riotously funny essays like "Me Talk Pretty One Day," but the wry wisecracking, the deliberate bitchiness — those qualities are still in evidence. Still, in "Cash and Carry," when Sedaris critiques the phrasing on a homeless man's cardboard sign ("It should be 'Help one of the homeless,' I wanted to tell him. Otherwise it sounds like you’re going to take whatever you collect and distribute it to other people in need."), I sympathize with the guy's response that he hopes Sedaris burns in hell. His essays often derive their humor from catty, judgmental moments like that one, and so it's notable that this is the first time I can remember reading one and being firmly on the other person's side. The tone may not have changed, but Sedaris's positioning inarguably has. The very bitchiness which once made his voice feel so fresh has become a commonplace in humor writing; writers from Tina Fey to Samantha Irby have surpassed him in their own fluent versions of it. Watching him uphold it now with such determination feels like watching your dad try to squeeze into the leisure suit he last wore in 1971. Sedaris spent so many years assuring us he was an incurious curmudgeon that he seems to have talked himself into becoming one, at least on the page.

i wrote about why david sedaris’s writing leaves me cold now
www.patreon.com/posts/152798...

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1 day ago
A cartoon crab holding a piece of chalk in front of a board saying 0 DAYS WITHOUT NONSENSE ON BLUESKY

The good news is I never have to update the chalkboard

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Ex-DOJ prosecutor who proclaimed ‘this job sucks’ will run for Congress Julie T. Le made headlines during DHS’s surge in Minneapolis and will launch a campaign to challenge Rep. Ilhan Omar for her seat.

Hi, it's me, the person best known for having a breakdown under the stress of a high-pressure job! And I just figured out what I want to do next!

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