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Marla Lecin

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Mom, active volunteer, website designer, SCA participant, RVer. Trying to keep in touch with friends, keep up with the news, and find some amusing things to read here.

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"Which room am I supposed to hang this sign outside of?" "The oval shaped one. With the big office desk in it."

05.11.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So, if gerrymandering splits up a heavily Dem district and moves them into several majority Repub districts, will the R margins of victory still be enough to win? Esp if Ds are highly motivated to vote, and political circumstances change enough Rs minds?

05.11.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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a black and white photo of an outhouse with a black background Alt: a black and white video of a wooden outhouse

1860s? That black and white bathroom decor may have been closer to this:

31.10.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If "not putting our service members in harm's way" is "not hostilities" --

Wouldn't firing ICBMs at other countries from the safety of our missile silos also not be hostilities?

03.11.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If "not putting our service members in harm's way" is not hostilities --

Would firing ICBMs at other countries from the safety of our missile silos also not be hostilities?

03.11.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a black and white photo of an outhouse with a black background Alt: a black and white video of a wooden outhouse

1860s? That black and white bathroom decor may have been closer to this:

31.10.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

SNAP benefits are issued monthly, not all at once. And the "S" stands for "supplemental" - it's not intended to be enough to buy all the food you'd need for a month, let alone enough to buy a spare month's worth at the same time.

31.10.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's what I've been wondering - just because they create Republican majority districts, doesn't mean all those people will continue to support an administration that's taking away their healthcare, food, and 1st/2nd amendment rights....

24.10.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"I demand you show me a legal warrant, and drop and give me 15 push-ups before I will surrender...."

23.10.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe for housing the new, improved bunker he will barricade himself in after this term ends?

23.10.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, future first ladies, you no longer get office space...

Oh, am I assuming there will be future first ladies? Silly me.

23.10.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My feelings, exactly.

19.10.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 14257    πŸ” 2668    πŸ’¬ 145    πŸ“Œ 176

"these 'immigration stops' are a minor inconvenience... The questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens." 2/2

17.10.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Stopping people and demanding papers, and when one when a Latina woman even *had her US passport* with her, they detained her because her name "didn't sound Latino", so they didn't believe it was real. So much for Kavenaugh's insistence that... (1/2)

17.10.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Count one of the indictment: "wheeeeeee-oooooooo-gzzzzzzzzhhhhhhhh-skwarrrrrkkkkk."

16.10.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a group of people are standing in front of a large ship with the word ussr on the side ALT: a group of people are standing in front of a large ship with the word ussr on the side

"I think we should maybe start thinking about battleships,” Trump said, adding that he had spoken to Secretary Phelan on the matter.

09.10.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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South Korean workers who were detained in a Hyundai factory raid are now headed home. Here's what else to know The workers went by bus from southeast Georgia to Atlanta earlier in the day and are expected to land in South Korea on Friday afternoon.

They aren't long-term workers.

"When you build a factory or install equipment at a factory, you need technicians....

A B-1 visa allows foreign workers to stay for up to six months... they can supervise construction projects [and] can install equipment..."

www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

04.10.2025 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œa president posting a video depicting his opponents as prey for the Grim Reaper and zombies outside the β€˜unemployment office’ is [xxthe opposite of what we expect in a healthy democracyxx]

”is grounds for invoking the 25th amendment."

There, fixed it for them.

04.10.2025 09:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Indicted. Not convicted. As Sol Wachtler, chief justice of New York’s Supreme Court said in 1985, β€œAny good prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich."

28.09.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As well as kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities, upholstered furniture, and "big trucks" for "reasons of national security" (the excuse for him usurping Congress' job of setting tariffs). WTF?

26.09.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"But, listen, let's review the rules. Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the Decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down."

3/3

20.09.2025 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Over the last five years you people were so good -- over tax cuts, WMD intelligence, the effect of global warming. We Americans didn't want to know, and you had the courtesy not to try to find out. Those were good times, as far as we knew."

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20.09.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Colbert called this when he spoke at the WH correspondents' dinner:

"what are you thinking, reporting on NSA wiretapping or secret prisons in eastern Europe? Those things are secret for a very important reason: they're super-depressing. And if that's your goal, well, misery accomplished.

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20.09.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you reduce a price by 100%, you've made it zero.
1000% is 10 times a number - so you pay 0, and then they have to pay you 9 times the price.

I'm waiting for the patriotic department stores to follow suit. "Shop our 1000% off 4th of July sales!"

19.09.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

English "perfected in the pages of...Orwell". His writing is so double-plus good!"

19.09.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

English, perfected in the works of.....Orwell. So very double-plus good......

17.09.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just Google it

16.09.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I heard 'loved' in air quotes.
He said he wanted to do a show about love, but it ended up being about loss. And that love and loss are related.

15.09.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They'll have the week off because they're all at the Emmys.

15.09.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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a baby is looking out of a window with the words take my money . Alt: a child is throwing cash out of a window with the words "take my money!"
07.09.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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