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Lee Germaine

@leesova.bsky.social

professionally: writer + digital strategist, recovering political staffer extracurricularly: fantasy/sci-fi nerd, long-suffering Bears fan Chicago —> NYC like a chameleon, always a lizard

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how are we out here shaming people for buying junk food with SNAP when you can buy a week's worth of chips for the same price as a single apple like what are we even doing here

29.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

09.10.2025 17:19 — 👍 451    🔁 152    💬 2    📌 12
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At event in DC, Sen. Chris Van Hollen keeps it going with Hakeem
Jeffries over not endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: if you can’t back the kind of campaign he ran, “don’t ask those young people to show up for other Democrats across the country — that’s the message that will be sent.”

30.09.2025 19:48 — 👍 2882    🔁 495    💬 53    📌 68
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A New Democratic Think Tank Wants to Curb the Influence of Liberal Groups

exhausting

18.09.2025 03:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I love how pink Caleb Williams cheeks gets when he plays, like me in middle school gym class only a world class athlete, relatable king

23.08.2025 01:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mamdani Wins Backing of Major Health Care Union That Had Endorsed Cuomo

The members of @1199seiu.org are heroes—saving lives, delivering babies, caring for all us in our time of need. I will stand with them as Mayor.

So grateful to earn this endorsement from the largest healthcare union in the country.

18.07.2025 18:12 — 👍 16320    🔁 2834    💬 179    📌 87
On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents show.

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls. That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents show.

oh my god www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

12.07.2025 02:50 — 👍 1846    🔁 737    💬 73    📌 68

All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight

28.06.2025 15:42 — 👍 24399    🔁 3834    💬 953    📌 242

I'm in touch with a source in Cuomo's camp. They're all screaming and turning back into rats. Not looking good so far

25.06.2025 01:47 — 👍 6558    🔁 856    💬 43    📌 17
Elisha Wiesel &
@ElishaWiesel • 4d
We have to have the difficult conversation with friends saying they'll rank Mamdani on their list.
We can engage by asking questions, and by being open about our concerns and just how profound they are. And we have to encourage those already convinced he shouldn't be our mayor

[a picture of Nazis marching]

Elisha Wiesel & @ElishaWiesel • 4d We have to have the difficult conversation with friends saying they'll rank Mamdani on their list. We can engage by asking questions, and by being open about our concerns and just how profound they are. And we have to encourage those already convinced he shouldn't be our mayor [a picture of Nazis marching]

Can’t believe this didn’t work.

25.06.2025 02:50 — 👍 310    🔁 21    💬 7    📌 1
cuomo conceding overlayed with the drewjanda tweet: "The haters said I couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters"

cuomo conceding overlayed with the drewjanda tweet: "The haters said I couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters"

25.06.2025 02:47 — 👍 16975    🔁 3206    💬 87    📌 57
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I know the main thing to celebrate tonight is Zohran and his vision for NYC but GODDDDdddd do I love when these fuckers waste SO MUCH of their money on SO LITTLE return

25.06.2025 02:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

25.06.2025 02:26 — 👍 16499    🔁 4015    💬 159    📌 670
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This is how it’s done!

FRIDAY: South Park, San Diego, neighbors weren’t having it. When ICE rolled up on an Italian restaurant in unmarked cars and started grabbing workers, the community hit the streets.
(Sound up)

31.05.2025 13:14 — 👍 23295    🔁 6959    💬 1230    📌 669

overjoyed to know that JD Vance will continue to feel — constantly, simmering just below the surface — just a little bit nervous that he’s going to spend eternity in hell

08.05.2025 22:15 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Colston Loveland being the 10th pick reminds me that Ohio State only scored 10 points against Michigan in 2024

25.04.2025 01:18 — 👍 136    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 1

This is humiliating, and not something I thought I'd see from this institution. Nothing in the definition of "leaders and best" involves proactively accommodating fascism. And I understand this — somewhat ironically in this moment — because of the education I got at Michigan.

Anyway, go to hell.

28.03.2025 01:12 — 👍 26    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

if any of these UMich faculty feel like sharing Santa Ono's email address with some irate and verbose alumni, hit me up

28.03.2025 00:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

why is running with a backpack on the single most humiliating thing a person can do

09.03.2025 15:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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thank you gaga tgif

07.03.2025 23:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Adrian Brody is both so insufferable and so hot and rather than those things cancelling each other out they each just make the other thing even more intense #Oscars

03.03.2025 03:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

CORRECT

03.03.2025 03:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Oscars should be 70% montage.

03.03.2025 00:02 — 👍 49    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 2

also having worked for a wide variety of campaigns and advocacy organizations the idea that the "far left staffers" are the ones who have disproportionate influence over policy and messaging is SO astonishingly funny

02.03.2025 17:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"move away from the small-dollar donors whose preferences may not align with the broader electorate" BRO WHO DO YOU THINK THE SMALL DOLLAR DONORS ARE?????

02.03.2025 17:43 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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“Fire Through Dry Grass”: Andrew Cuomo Saw COVID-19’s Threat to Nursing Homes. Then He Risked Adding to It. A nursing home in Troy, New York, followed the governor’s order to accept patients being treated for COVID-19. Six weeks later, 18 residents were dead of the disease.

Andrew Cuomo, in addition to being a serial sexual harasser, knowingly sent people with Covid into old folks homes, leading to a massive rate of infection and death for the elderly.

Read and share the @propublica.org story about how Andrew Cuomo killed your elders.

01.03.2025 18:02 — 👍 1514    🔁 607    💬 44    📌 65

Yes the Dems are bad at social. But this isn't designed like this (long illegible list) on accident. Its goal isn't actually to lay out their actions. It's a clapback to those saying they're not doing enough. Dems as usual care more about scolding their base for asking questions than answering them.

01.03.2025 18:09 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

watched All the President's Men last night
woke up to this news this morning
everything is very bad and very sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

26.02.2025 15:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

normally Super Bowl blowouts annoy me but I have to say I’ve enjoyed every single second of this with feral delight

10.02.2025 03:04 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

hot take the Fox scorebug is great actually

10.02.2025 02:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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