@lee-in-iowa.bsky.social
Writer, gardener, reader, avid Democratic activist, #TeamPelosi, retired media prof, cat lady. No DMs. I follow back as much as I can on this fast-growing platform, if you have a bio. (My award-winning book is Adventure Journalism In The Gilded Age.)
He and Mike Johnson both.
22.07.2025 01:52 β π 17 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Ahhh. I also have eight chickens, in a very secure coop and pen setup. But the mice! Yeah, theyβre around (not in the house where the cats are, tho.) I guess Iβm running a full-service owl buffet.
22.07.2025 01:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So the raccoons canβt actually eat from the feeder, tho they tried it.
22.07.2025 01:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβve got a squirrel proof feeder there but yeah, the sparrows etc do drop a big circle of random feed onto my deck down below.
22.07.2025 01:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I think itβs because most doctors keep a few appointments open every single day for urgent cases. (My doctor clued me in.)
Itβs because youβre in urgent need of care.
Thank you! Plenty of ground squirrels running amuck this summer, even up in the tree sliding along thin branches to score mulberries.
22.07.2025 01:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you for the info! Yes, Iβm over run this year with ground squirrels and have no issue with feeding an owl on rodents. But not on my songbirds.
22.07.2025 01:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0View*
22.07.2025 01:19 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Raccoons, large and small, just outside my bedroom window, here for mulberries, unripe grapes, or the diet and birdseed?
Ack! Half an hour later, these little bandits arrived. I couldnβt get a clear vote but there seem to be five or six:
22.07.2025 01:18 β π 12 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Owl sits two feet away from bird feeder thatβs nestled into thick greenery.
#birds. So, happy campers, does this new arrival mean I need to take down my bird feeders?
22.07.2025 01:05 β π 38 π 1 π¬ 6 π 0Whoa listen..
22.07.2025 00:39 β π 34 π 22 π¬ 2 π 2The Dem 2026 messaging seems, at this point, pretty damn simple. Donald Trump is running a protection racket for the elites.
www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...
Trumpβs latest head fake with the Epstein Files is his DOJβs motion to unseal grand jury transcripts.
I walk through the legal filings and explain why Trump continues to try to hide the Epstein Files from the public.
youtu.be/77ANdWFkjkw?...
How devastating for this precious child. ICE has become a terror to too many good people who have done no harm nor committed crimes. A war on immigrants made possible by Miller and Trump. Resist. Resist. Somehow reunite these families torn apart by these fascists in power.
21.07.2025 23:00 β π 20 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Her mom was a farmworker. She never came home. ICE took her, tortured her, and forced her to sign her own deportation. Her daughter is still waiting.
This is the war on immigrants. The war on Indigenous people. The war on mothers.
ICE isnβt brokenβitβs evil by design.
#OnYourSide
Iβm gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.
21.07.2025 11:38 β π 3441 π 1454 π¬ 120 π 75A judge in DC has ruled that the Trump administration has to stop violating public disclosure laws. This is about the administration's efforts to take over Congress' power of the purse & altho the opinion is 60 pages, what the judge has to say is worth your time. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
21.07.2025 15:53 β π 4531 π 1475 π¬ 92 π 68The King familyβs own RFK Jr:
22.07.2025 00:50 β π 34 π 5 π¬ 2 π 1A tweet from Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) includes a photo of her seated in a leather office chair, smiling, with Dr. Alveda King standing beside her, resting a hand on Bondiβs shoulder. Both women are smiling. Behind them are American flags and Department of Justice flags, indicating a formal government office setting. A desk lamp and framed photographs are visible in the background. The tweet text reads: βGreat to spend time with Dr. Alveda King today before the release of the MLK Jr. files. Her uncle, Martin Luther King Jr.βs, dream still lives on today in our great nation.β
The King Center, and the children of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, have repeatedly distanced themselves from Alveida King, who was MLKβs niece.
She is not close to his living children, Bernice and Martin, and they have made it clear that she does not speak for them or the King Center.
Public outrage is mounting - Built hastily on a remote airstrip, the 39-acre camp cages over 1,000 in flood-prone tents. Theyβre packed into overcrowded pods, drinking from toilet spigots, enduring raw sewage flooding their cells, constant light exposure, and medical neglect.
21.07.2025 14:40 β π 350 π 162 π¬ 11 π 5The current administration's systematic dismantling of our research infrastructureβ402 documented attacks in just 6 monthsβrepresents more than policy disagreement. It's an abandonment of the principle that knowledge should serve the common good and expand opportunity for all communities.
22.07.2025 00:09 β π 872 π 357 π¬ 24 π 12PBS News is not going anywhere.
We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air.
We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.
We've seen this playbook in the darkest days of history: Dictators targeting independent journalists and dissenting views β using power and threats to silence those who tell the truth.
Today it's WSJ, AP, NPR, Colbert. Who's next?
We must resist together or we will fall apart.
Here's me literally doing exactly that.
#StandingWithStephenColbert
Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter, Bernice, weighs in on Trump's release of the MLK Jr. files
22.07.2025 00:03 β π 2974 π 612 π¬ 52 π 40Speaker Mike Johnson is protecting Jeffrey Epstein and his clients?
Hmmm. . . this might be a good time to remind everyone that Mike Johnson met his "adopted" (never really adopted) son (who never appears in family photos) at a youth camp. And was the dean of a law school named after a pedophile.
This is what fear looks like.
21.07.2025 19:43 β π 35042 π 9364 π¬ 2731 π 853#EPSTEIN #EPSTEIN #EPSTEIN!!!
We arenβt letting it go.
Ever.
Expose them all.
#EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles
The US is in the hands of a gang of psychopathic criminals led by a mad king with a collapsing brain, and the media just keeps pretending this is all normal.
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