Leo

I don't think we talk enough about the effect of art on us. I can see one drawing I really really like and I'll be happy for the rest of the day I'm not exaggerating. Your art makes someone feel that way. Your art makes someone happy. Your art helps someone get through the day.

I was about to say the same thing about the same moment in the revival and Audra McDonald’s performance. She got a standing ovation before the show even ended.

And appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the role. The leak might have been incompetence. The hiding of info is the story.

By the way, every day is a good day to do this. The fact that I have had to train and retrain on intervention makes it so much easier to act. Please, please work on this, no matter who you are.

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I keep saying this: if you grew up under an abuser, you know exactly what this is and that no appeasement is possible.

If your civic action is rooted in your rage and cynicism and not your hope and positivity; it counts just as much.

Are they ignoring the court order? What’s the defense here.

Charlotte Ray and Martha Gadley Do the best you can at the work that shows up.

Do you know about Charlotte Ray? My latest on Substack.

“Hi Chris, this is Jill from Newsmax-“ continues on to ask me to appear on a Super Bowl preview segment My response - “Hi Jill, thanks for reaching out, unfortunately I have a strict policy of not working with people who back autocrats and dictators, let alone those are at this very moment in the process of destroying the constitutional separation of power that makes companies like you own able to function independently, as opposed to be government propaganda, so I’m going to have to regretfully decline.”

Sometimes you just have to say “fuck you” with a flourish

What is country music? I know it when I hear it. Cowboy Carter is country.

In which I argue that hula hoop routines, listening to the podcasts of @tylermahancoe.bsky.social and raising pigs make me enough of an expert to comment on this as anyone else.

Limited Government 👇

This headline revises history as it creates it. Such a good example to use with my classes on the impact of active verb choice to shaping the narrative. This writer made choices.

This. On every conceivable constitutional issue is how everyone in the legal field should be answering constitutional questions.

What’s your favorite? And what order did you listen in?!

We Sing it Again and Again and Again The election. Hadestown. John Hughes? Actually, there's probably no way this essay works. Still, I try.

Trying to figure out why I’m addicted to the Hadestown soundtrack.

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State legislators who care about teen pregnancy and want to decrease abortion have an easy, cheap, kind, data-proven solution available that does not require putting social workers in prison. Increase access to contraception and sex ed. It’s almost like these laws are not ACTUALLY ABOUT ABORTION.

These folks really can’t decide when they support parental rights and when they don’t.

So it Begins - Criminalizing the helpers in Idaho A hopefully helpful legal explainer with a side dish of righteous rage

If you're not following @leondrah.bsky.social, you should be.

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I assume that’s a feature, not a bug. People using the wrong restroom for their gender presentation will result in hysteria, violence, and chaos, which can then be used further to demonize trans people and further restrict them. Exactly what Nancy Mace wants.

wait why does the dept of government efficiency have two co-chairs