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Janet Lee

@janetxlee.bsky.social

NYC based writer. Words in NY Times, Newsweek... Yoga fan. Tennis lover. Fashion addict. "The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology." Edward Wilson

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McIver: The things we’re seeing this president do — it’s unbelievable. I just saw the new number: $300 million for a ballroom. The audacity of this man while we’re in the middle of a shutdown and people aren’t getting paid. I saw a line wrapped around the corner in the DMV area for the food bank

26.10.2025 21:34 — 👍 6166    🔁 1956    💬 157    📌 53

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

26.10.2025 15:37 — 👍 4028    🔁 2984    💬 81    📌 76

By proceeding to not pay federal taxes before seeking approval from the IRS, I am forcing the issue in a strategy called “stake-driving”

26.10.2025 17:11 — 👍 569    🔁 72    💬 18    📌 3
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Folks, Jordan Wood is running for the U.S. Senate in Maine in 2026.
He’s a Democrat. He’s 36 years old. He’s a progressive.

His campaign emphasizes anti-corruption, standing up against corporations and wealth, and pro-democracy reform.

Check him out…
@jordanwood.bsky.social

26.10.2025 16:45 — 👍 2074    🔁 761    💬 71    📌 31

His supporters will lap this up like pigs at the trough.

26.10.2025 19:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump ends Canada access at shared border library share.google/XijkEYvFDRvL...

25.10.2025 17:23 — 👍 11    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
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'Jarring, frightening attack': Chicago homeowner describes immigration raid at his home MSNBC exclusively obtained security footage of federal agents targeting construction workers at a home in the wealthy Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. Leo Feler, who owns the property, joined The Wee...

In a wealthy neighborhood in Chicago, immigration agents hopped the fence of a US citizen’s home and tried to pull a construction worker out a 2nd-story window. Homeowner came home to blood all over his house. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...

26.10.2025 03:13 — 👍 1978    🔁 1228    💬 74    📌 81

You still want to believe the political fuel that powers the American collapse into authoritarianism isn't the deep, abiding resentment of white men who pine for an America that sees and services only them? Gaze upon Leni Riefenstahl's recent work for Donald Trump's U.S. Department of Labor.

26.10.2025 12:49 — 👍 985    🔁 342    💬 34    📌 13
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Angus: This is a guy who showed an AI video of himself dumping diarrhea on his own citizens. So the fact that he’s freaking out because we showed a video that just had Ronald Reagan speaking shows he’s not trustworthy.

25.10.2025 22:31 — 👍 9401    🔁 2547    💬 220    📌 99

Both NYT and WaPo took the same dishonest approach: skip how it was done without Congress or public feedback, skip how it's funded illegally with private money, then also dodge the merits of the Epstein ballroom itself by framing the issue around the strawman 'can the White House ever be renovated?'

25.10.2025 23:15 — 👍 1008    🔁 221    💬 29    📌 13

Yes, but he owned the libs and defeated woke. So we’ll vote for him again.

26.10.2025 00:30 — 👍 962    🔁 183    💬 91    📌 9

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!

26.10.2025 10:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Censorship Alert: I published a book about Ghislaine Maxwell trial, and another on Kevin Spacey's trial- this evening I got an email from Amazon's KDP saying they are inappropriate and there all of my books are being taken down, including on Sudan, SBF, Eric Adams

25.10.2025 01:51 — 👍 1610    🔁 750    💬 128    📌 62

we have a way for guys like this to fund the military

it’s called “taxes” and clearly they should go up

25.10.2025 15:39 — 👍 3387    🔁 814    💬 32    📌 26
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I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

25.10.2025 17:07 — 👍 28475    🔁 11959    💬 1129    📌 756

Just a reminder that the government has made it almost impossible to hold agents accountable for abuse.

They are even more shielded from suits than police.

And Trump has gutted the office that handled complaints.

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

25.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 451    🔁 166    💬 17    📌 6

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

25.10.2025 17:51 — 👍 18787    🔁 5028    💬 645    📌 234

Are any of remaining Republicans, some of whom were pro-military folks at all concerned that as the Regime goes Russian / Chinese we adopt their levels of corruption and poor outcomes for the military?

25.10.2025 18:36 — 👍 110    🔁 49    💬 3    📌 3

Democrats should commit to expanding the Supreme Court and ignoring all of Donald Trump's pardons issued prior to charges. It's what Republicans would do if the roles were reversed.

25.10.2025 01:58 — 👍 297    🔁 60    💬 17    📌 2
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Of course, that’s not what he was saying. He was pointing out what was obviously true to anyone alive then - there was a big backlash against Muslim-Americans and anyone with an Arab-sounding name right after 9/11. But Vance has to be an asshole 24/7 for his MAGA troll fans.

25.10.2025 14:13 — 👍 3350    🔁 633    💬 324    📌 65

As a reminder, when Biden announced student loan forgiveness—based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the President could do exactly that—Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."

25.10.2025 14:38 — 👍 5218    🔁 1369    💬 124    📌 29

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

25.10.2025 02:21 — 👍 32629    🔁 10902    💬 1099    📌 436

America is heading into Nazi Germany 2 territory.

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If the FBI shows up at your door, and doesn’t have a warrant, you are permitted to refuse to answer questions until you talk to your lawyer. You are not required to let them in the house without a warrant.

24.10.2025 01:35 — 👍 480    🔁 285    💬 19    📌 14

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

22.10.2025 11:53 — 👍 17229    🔁 5673    💬 365    📌 234

Just when I think this particular story can’t get any more enraging

24.10.2025 18:51 — 👍 377    🔁 74    💬 37    📌 5
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Hakeem Jeffries endorses Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor after months of delay The Democratic leader had angered his left flank with his delay in backing the democratic socialist.

NEW: Hakeem Jeffries endorses Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor

24.10.2025 18:03 — 👍 757    🔁 144    💬 100    📌 23

Let's be clear about a few things
- he's building/renovating/updating the bunker that sat under the East Wing
- the ballroom is a cover story, just like the original East Wing
- he lied and continues to lie about this
- because he doesn't plan on leaving

24.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 962    🔁 319    💬 60    📌 28

This is part of the plan to steal the election. This is a test run.

24.10.2025 17:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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