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Lis M

@radiancelis.bsky.social

A woman in progress. Chicagoan. Reader. Sometimes writer. Thinker (Overthinker? Anxiety is πŸ™ƒ).

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I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

02.03.2026 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2744    πŸ” 629    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 40
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Michael B. Jordan Wins Best Actor At SAG’s 2026 Actor Awards The actor took home his first solo win at SAG's ceremony for his leading turn in "Sinners."

The actor took home his first solo win at SAG's ceremony for his leading turn in "Sinners."

02.03.2026 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 156    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 11

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

02.03.2026 03:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1950    πŸ” 488    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 6
Amid the turmoil, Sam Beyda, a 24-year-old who has never previously worked in public health, has assumed a prominent role at the agency, according to current and former officials.
While at the CDC, O'Neill was often absent, those officials said, and he deputized Beyda to run much of the agency's day-to-day operations for him, people familiar with the matter said. Beyda, a 2023 graduate of Columbia University, is based in Washington, D.C., but frequently travels to the CDC's Atlanta headquarters.
An internal document in November listed Beyda as leading five of 16 new strategic initiatives, including updating the CDC's agencywide response to outbreaks and crises, downsizing animal research and enhancing surveillance of novel pathogens.
Some longtime CDC staffers have credited Beyda with being a quick study and making an effort to ask questions and learn on the
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Amid the turmoil, Sam Beyda, a 24-year-old who has never previously worked in public health, has assumed a prominent role at the agency, according to current and former officials. While at the CDC, O'Neill was often absent, those officials said, and he deputized Beyda to run much of the agency's day-to-day operations for him, people familiar with the matter said. Beyda, a 2023 graduate of Columbia University, is based in Washington, D.C., but frequently travels to the CDC's Atlanta headquarters. An internal document in November listed Beyda as leading five of 16 new strategic initiatives, including updating the CDC's agencywide response to outbreaks and crises, downsizing animal research and enhancing surveillance of novel pathogens. Some longtime CDC staffers have credited Beyda with being a quick study and making an effort to ask questions and learn on the ioh Ona coninr novear And ofniol enid Pando

But others say Beyda isn't qualified for a senior role that is often filled by someone
with a master's in public health or years of experience in the federal government.
Beyda executed January's widespread grant cuts to state and local health departments that the CDC then quickly rescinded, people familiar with the matter said. The administration moved forward about two weeks later with roughly $600 million in grant cuts to four states led by Democrats, a move now held up in court. Beyda was also deeply involved in a chaotic wave of firings at the CDC during the October government shutdown, according to people familiar with the matter, which saw more than a thousand employees laid off only for hundreds to later be reinstated.
Beyda is one of at least a dozen political appointees at the agency, representing a larger number than in previous administrations, according to two current employees. The new political appointees wield significant power over the CDC's

But others say Beyda isn't qualified for a senior role that is often filled by someone with a master's in public health or years of experience in the federal government. Beyda executed January's widespread grant cuts to state and local health departments that the CDC then quickly rescinded, people familiar with the matter said. The administration moved forward about two weeks later with roughly $600 million in grant cuts to four states led by Democrats, a move now held up in court. Beyda was also deeply involved in a chaotic wave of firings at the CDC during the October government shutdown, according to people familiar with the matter, which saw more than a thousand employees laid off only for hundreds to later be reinstated. Beyda is one of at least a dozen political appointees at the agency, representing a larger number than in previous administrations, according to two current employees. The new political appointees wield significant power over the CDC's

Letting a 24 year old lead hundreds of millions of grants cuts at CDC…

02.03.2026 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 156    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 7
Bold black text on a pastel gradient background reads: "hands off our rights. 03/03 FEDERAL PLAZA. SOLIDARITY WITH THE KANSAS TRANS COMMUNITY. 6 P.M. 219 S. DEARBORN ST, CHICAGO, IL. SHOW WE WON’T STAND FOR TRANSPHOBIC LEGISLATION.

Bold black text on a pastel gradient background reads: "hands off our rights. 03/03 FEDERAL PLAZA. SOLIDARITY WITH THE KANSAS TRANS COMMUNITY. 6 P.M. 219 S. DEARBORN ST, CHICAGO, IL. SHOW WE WON’T STAND FOR TRANSPHOBIC LEGISLATION.

Tuesday in Chicago - Hands OFF - Solidarity With the Kansas Trans Community

02.03.2026 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 179    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reporter: What’s your message to the families of the fallen?

Trump:

(via @acyn.bsky.social)

02.03.2026 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 612    πŸ” 231    πŸ’¬ 104    πŸ“Œ 33

so the podcast that Platner went on as a guest last month and called himself a β€œlongtime fan” of isn’t just antisemitic, it’s also full of anti-Black racism and promoted the racist and xenophobic GOP attacks on Somali immigrants in Minneapolis?

02.03.2026 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 416    πŸ” 177    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 14

Yeah, not a great sign that they're just going to be experimenting on trans inmates like this and it's not a big story.

01.03.2026 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1063    πŸ” 427    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 9

Some of yall are getting a little too comfortable with your antisemitism that yall are trying to cloak around being anti-impearlist.

01.03.2026 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1200    πŸ” 216    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 23

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

01.03.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5485    πŸ” 1670    πŸ’¬ 199    πŸ“Œ 72

Pretty sure they arrested my Crow Creek auntie @ Whipple today. They arrested two Native women who were praying.

01.03.2026 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It's all so goddamned predictable.

01.03.2026 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 536    πŸ” 105    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 2

…But also we’re not going to bother with actually defeating the repressive forces of the authoritarian regimes or securing their most advanced weaponry against misuse. That’d be too much like work. It’s decapitation attacks all the way down.

01.03.2026 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 382    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2

Seems like the emerging policy is: you people out there are responsible for setting up your own governments, but if the US doesn’t like who ends up in charge we’ll just assassinate or kidnap them and then the ball is back in your court.

01.03.2026 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4370    πŸ” 1084    πŸ’¬ 180    πŸ“Œ 72

I'll say it again: If you're consistently finding ways to rationalize away Graham Platner's Nazi tattoo or embrace of Nazi content creators then you really are no different than those on the right who were trying to explain why Elon really wasn't giving a Heil Hitler

01.03.2026 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 380    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
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32 civilians reportedly killed by American forces in Pakistan x.com/ZahackTanvir...

01.03.2026 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

schools are never valid military targets, on or off base

if someone bombed a DoD school in Okinawa and killed a bunch of American 4th graders, that would be a war crime.

The murder of Iranian schoolchildren is a war crime.

01.03.2026 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4378    πŸ” 786    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 13

moo deng-jellybean summit for world peace when?

01.03.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"

This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

01.03.2026 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2140    πŸ” 974    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 57

It is a complete failure for the DSCC and the Maine Democratic Party for allowing the most important Senate race in an election cycle come down to a choice between septuagenarian who praised her opponent after said opponent allowed people to lie under oath and take away our rights, and a Nazi

01.03.2026 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Actually surprised that Mills's oppo people took this long to dig it up and it kind of suggests that the DNC are not spending enough resources following extremists to see what they're up to

01.03.2026 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 225    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1
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Israeli strikes hit hospital in Tehran, witnesses tell Reuters - Reuters
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Parisa Hafezi @PHREUTERS X.com Israeli strikes hit hospital in Tehran, witnesses tell Reuters - Reuters 12:52PM β€’ 3/1/26 β€’ 20K Views

Israel targeted a Tehran hospital.

Will we be told the IRGC has a vast underground compound beneath it?

We’ll see.

01.03.2026 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 262    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 5
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From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for β€œIAEA” wrong.
They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel
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They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary.
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Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood
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Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen Β· 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for β€œIAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen Β· 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen Β· 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

28.02.2026 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 8127    πŸ” 2443    πŸ’¬ 232    πŸ“Œ 238
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01.03.2026 04:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5177    πŸ” 914    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 100
Tweet on X by Amir Kiyae reads: 

Strikes on Iran appear to have hit the home where opposition leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard have been held under house arrest - both are reported safe, but their residence was damaged. Former President Ahmadineiad's home was also targeted. Israel has stated it is targeting Iranian leaders "past, present, and future." This follows previous Israeli strikes on Evin Prison. Draw your own conclusions,

Tweet on X by Amir Kiyae reads: Strikes on Iran appear to have hit the home where opposition leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard have been held under house arrest - both are reported safe, but their residence was damaged. Former President Ahmadineiad's home was also targeted. Israel has stated it is targeting Iranian leaders "past, present, and future." This follows previous Israeli strikes on Evin Prison. Draw your own conclusions,

Home of reformist opposition leaders from 2009 Green Movement, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard was also hit by Israeli/US strikes. They have been under house arrest by the regime for over a decade.

28.02.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1286    πŸ” 512    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 96

We're no more than a few hours away from the next phase of digital propaganda: unverified videos of "liberated people celebrating" will go viral. Many of these videos will later be revealed to have predated the illegal war, or be entirely unrelated to current events

Upshot: verify before amplifying

01.03.2026 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1881    πŸ” 648    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 20

This is disgusting. Rationalizing the bombing of a school that reportedly killed 108 girls.

But since she asked,

"Currently, 161 public schools operate on military installations across the United States."

www.militaryonesource.mil/education-em...

01.03.2026 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5135    πŸ” 1411    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 24

just thinking what a bonanza of a time it must be for foreign spies in the US right now

01.03.2026 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 533    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 6

They want to cut suicide prevention among veterans even as they drag us into another war.

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