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Lissa Townsend Rodgers

@lissatrodgers.bsky.social

NYC girl relocated to Las Vegas. Writer on history, entertainment, cocktails, food, etc. My book “Shameless: Women of the Underworld,” a collection of biographies of gangster women, is out now. lissatownsendrodgers.net

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Latest posts by lissatrodgers.bsky.social on Bluesky

All social media, regardless of what it claims, is about compliance (follow trends, follow clickbait, follow party line) simping (find your hero and follow them obsessively & obediently)and ego (look at me, follow me, do my bidding) three things I’ve never been into.

Bluesky is no different.

28.08.2025 15:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I mostly stay on here because I like that there’s an alternative to all the fascist social media sites and I want to help keep it alive.

But now I’m thinking… eh.

28.08.2025 14:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Like if I wanted to have a bunch of people try to bully me for the crime of disagreeing with them, I’d just go to Twitter.

28.08.2025 14:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Like I’m realizing I don’t actually like a lot of the people on here. I spend more time blocking purity shit takes than anything else. Why am I here?

28.08.2025 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Sometimes Bluesky is every bit the hypsersensitive bullshit festival people say it is…..

28.08.2025 14:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Why does Taylor Swift need to be worked into every news story right now?

28.08.2025 14:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Dinkins was the only non-asshole mayor of NYC in my lifetime.

28.08.2025 01:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
two adorable little kittens snuggle and hug and nap on each other

two adorable little kittens snuggle and hug and nap on each other

#SanDiego
Meet Pickles & Socks a beautiful bonded pair of sisters. They were sadly dumped in my neighborhood, both found under car hoods. They are approximately 2 months old & need a loving home together. Pickles gets very sad if her sister is too far from her. If you're interested, please reply

27.08.2025 03:22 — 👍 109    🔁 52    💬 4    📌 8

“I believe Susan Collins can do more for her country by keeping the spark of Republicanism alive and giving it oxygen than by mere futile gestures.”

There’s stupid, there’s fucking stupid and then there’s Gordon L. Weil.

28.08.2025 01:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Japan’s Population Crisis Nears Point of No Return Japan’s population decline is following the worst-case scenario, prompting the government to devise urgent policies to incentivize more births.

Uh, so about how that “no immigrants” thing pans out a couple generations down the road…. thediplomat.com/2023/01/japa...

28.08.2025 00:51 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Women don’t. Which is why do many of these men get caught tampering with children….

28.08.2025 00:45 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

For a few more months anyway…..

27.08.2025 23:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thiel enjoyed the multiple times you officially featured him so much he’s returning on his own?

You’re also pushing Joe Manchin as a “maverick” and AI agents as ”revolutionary.”

Idiots who think they’re geniuses & who’d rent out space to Charles Manson as long as his check cleared….

27.08.2025 23:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Details: A582729 I arrived at the San Bernardino City Animal Shelter on 07/23/2025 from San Bernardino. After my holding period ended on 07/27/2025, shelter staff gave me the name, Mr. Brown. ...

🚨$25 FUNLOVIN MR. BROWN IS IN BACK unseen by the public due to overcrowding. CRITICAL
City of San Bernardino Animal Services
#A582729 listed 5 yr old male Chocolate Lab
333 Chandler Place San Bernardino, CA 92408
(909) 384-1304
Hours of Operation: DAILY 11AM to 4PM

24petconnect.com/SanBernardin...

27.08.2025 13:12 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
SAM COOKE - Bring It On Home To Me (Live at Harlem Square Club, 1963)
YouTube video by Jeff Appel SAM COOKE - Bring It On Home To Me (Live at Harlem Square Club, 1963)

Sam Cooke — Bring It On Home To Me (Live at Harlem Square Club, 1963)

If you ever change your mind
About leaving, leaving me behind
Baby, bring it to me
Bring your sweet loving
Bring it on home to me, yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah)

#musicsky #samCooke

27.08.2025 04:12 — 👍 58    🔁 13    💬 5    📌 0

“We’re going to make an un-woke ‘Wicked!’l

Gwen Stefani joins Elon Musk, Morrissey, Russell Brand and Johnny Depp on the list of “people that my friends gave me shit for not liking but I turned out to be totally right about.”

27.08.2025 02:54 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Epstein's Calendar Contained Multiple Meetings With Peter Thiel A review of Epstein’s personal calendar by the WSJ found that he had arranged meetings with Peter Thiel and Thomas Barrack.

Tom Barrack: Jeffrey Epstein scheduled multiple meetings with conservative financial operatives, inc. billionaire Peter Thiel and real-estate mogul Thomas Barrack, in the run-up to the 2016 election www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

26.08.2025 17:03 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
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Why didn’t they do what they always wanted before now?

Because they did t have a weird reality show carnival barker cult leader like Trump to give them cover & whose fanatical followers’ threats extinguish thoughts of revolt

JD Vance will not have the same allegiance from the base or the elite.

25.08.2025 16:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

JD is not “competent.” Also, he does not have the cult of personality that Trump does, not by a long shot. Instead of every Republican bowing down, every Republican is going to be trying to stab him in the back & take his job.

25.08.2025 14:00 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’ll assume Snoop has no problem explaining what pedophilia & sex trafficking are after his grandson sees a news story about Trump or discussing what dildos are for after watching a WNBA game.

Snoop is a punk-ass bitch who can go fuck himself like the rest of the MAGA punk-ass bitches.

25.08.2025 13:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I would buy this album in a heartbeat

(@fakemusic_br instagram)

#funk #acdc

23.08.2025 14:24 — 👍 5455    🔁 1170    💬 343    📌 264
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How many gravy seal trainees do you think got stuck in the pipe?

23.08.2025 19:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A vintage photograph of a smiling girl holding two dolls.

A vintage photograph of a smiling girl holding two dolls.

22 August 1941 | Hungarian Jewish girl Beáta Donner was born.

In May 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

22.08.2025 05:00 — 👍 819    🔁 255    💬 19    📌 25

Four days of Peter Thiel and you claim to be “nonpartisan?”

😂😂😂😂😂🤮🤮🤮😂😂😂

21.08.2025 22:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Given how the residents of California & DC have responded, that’s a bold move in a purple-leaning-blue state…..

21.08.2025 22:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

She raised this scumbag? Wow.

21.08.2025 02:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can someone ask Patti LaBelle to check her adopted son’s hard drive?

21.08.2025 02:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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