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Larson Lee

@larsonlee.bsky.social
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Distracted lawyer, lapsed reporter, occasional songwriter. Longtime Iowan in New York; current New Yorker in Iowa.

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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well for one thing I think we’re gonna need to call them something else
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yes!
Call me crazy, but I think a headline should be able to stand alone and communicate the truth of a story. If you need your story to undercut, dilute, or downright contradict your headline, it sounds like you what you really need is another headline.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Jesse Welles tonight in Des Moines. Amazing show.
Jesse Wells bathed in yellow light, playing acoustic guitar and singing.  
Jesse Welles raises his arms and leads the crowd to clap along with him. Jesse Welles sits on a baby grand piano playing guitar as the piano player takes a solo. Jesse Welles and his band are bathed in blue light with a starry backdrop as they play “Lucy in the Sky (With Diamonds).”
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I have the prettiest cat.
Fred, a white cat with mostly blue eyes and small pink ears poses like he’s getting his senior pictures taken, on a rustic fence covered in vines.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Getting a new monitor at work, so it’s time to peel off the motivational (??) reminders taped to the old one before the IT folks become a little too familiar with the severity of my ADHD.
Post-it note taped to my monitor, with inscription “chase the good feeling, not the easy one.” Post-it note inscribed “You have never just read one thing, in 40 years.”
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Remember, ya can’t please everyone.
Album cover for Rick Nelson’s “Garden Party,” featuring him wearing a black sparkly jacket and holding a Les Paul Custom guitar.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
*furiously* I am going to become Egghead
Vincent Price as Egghead in the original Batman TV series, smiling while holding an egg
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Five-panel meme of John Oliver on General Hospital getting slapped after telling a woman “that ain’t gonna happen.” In this version, the top left panel says “Let me put this in language you can understand.” In the the next panel, he says “‘Elo gov’na, that dodgy wally’s right knackered, innit?” Then he gets slapped and stares menacingly.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Hell yeah, bröther britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This you?
The cover of Limp Bizkit’s album “Chocolate Starfish and The Hot Dog Flavored Water,” with a bunch of weird little naked guys sitting in a pool of hot dogs.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
🎶The harsh vicissitudes of life will come for you🎶
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I don’t think this FedSoc student actually meant to express that hiring among conservative judges has become “a race to the bottom,” and yet, he’s accidentally right on the money.
Screen grab of the linked Harvard Crimson article, in a FedSoc student calls the accelerated hiring timeline a “race to the bottom.”
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Wouldn’t I?
A wooden eye.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
How pathetic would it be to buy this t-shirt the algorithm just served me? I know it’s functionally the same as those “My wife is LIBRA and I ride a UNICYCLE” madlibs-for-Boomers t-shirts, but goddammit I actually like this one.
An online store hawking a t-shirt featuring a monochrome image of Abraham Lincoln playing a Telecaster.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Welp. It’s time.
A can of Hilton Magic beer, about to go down my gullet to calm my nerves.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Here is Coach Otz dropping bombs and it is rad. #BlueCy
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
A gif of the moment in 30 Rock when Floyd is about to buy an apartment when a rich Saudi guy walks in and says “My son Ahmed will keep his motorcycles here.”
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Seriously, where did y’all get this meaningless phrase?
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I practice law in federal court, and I cannot tell from this NYT article what happened in this case yesterday. Judges don’t write motions, for one. What motion was she ruling on, and who filed it? Story doesn’t say. Does this stuff drive non-lawyers as crazy as it does me?
Screenshot of NYT headline “Judge Rules that Consumer Bureau’s Funding Cannot Lapse.”Screen grab of the CFPB story, highlighting the clause of a sentence in which the reporter describes something the Judge supposedly wrote “in her motion”—which makes no sense.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Love to pray with my normal human hands.
A cropped screen cap of the painting-style image of Trump praying with supporters, revealing that both his fingers and the fingers of the nearest supporter are super fucked up and AI-generated.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
What the hell does “accused” mean in this sentence? It must refer exclusively to formal criminal charges, right? Because among other things, he’s accused of wrongdoing by Epstein *in the documents.*
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
That game was no fun at all to watch on TV, but this goes so hard. #BlueCy 📸: Nirmalendu Majumdar/Ames Tribune
A badass photo of Iowa State guard Killyan Touré showing off the name on his jersey after making a basket.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Fred says feel better
My white cat, Fred, reclining on a multicolor plaid comforter, looking over this belly at the camera and sticking out his right paw as if to say, “Hey there.”
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I turn 41 next week.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This is Fred.
White cat snoozing on red cushion. White cat snoozing on red cushion.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
After all these years, it’s finally true that Chicago has been taken over by gangs of heavily armed thugs.
Photo of a masked federal officer pointing a gun out of the driver’s side of his vehicle at a Chicago Tribune photographer.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Written in the yellow-on-blue Mamdani campaign font: “WU-TANG for THE CHILDREN”
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Still of Simpsons episode in which Mr. Burns is measuring Smithers’s skull and saying “ Of course you'd say that, You have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter.”
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Me:
Homer Simpson saying “Hmm, Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.”
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
😝
Lisa Simpson from the Australia episode saying “I know those words but that sign makes no sense.”
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Love too be a LOCIAL WOARON
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
To the Cyclone doubters, at halftime: #Bluecy
Gif of Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) in Apollo 13 saying “With all due respect, sir, I believe this is going to be our finest hour.”
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The ultrasound shaving spot was sad when it seemed like he was dying. Now it’s just silly looking. #catsky
White cat sleeping in a goofy, twisting, sprawled out position, exposing the recently shaved expanse of his lower belly.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
One week ago, when the vet told me he probably was not gonna make it, this guy was extremely thin, more yellow than pink, and wasn’t even asking to go outside. Today he’s the picture of health. #catsky
White cat with pink ears and nose surveys his kingdom from the front landing of my house.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This seems like a HUGE miscalculation. Tons of normies who want to tune in to see what Kimmel will say are about to learn, for the first time, that their local station is owned by an extremely political megacorporation.
NYT headline: Two TV station groups control more than 20 percent of ABC’s local affiliates and won’t be airing Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Look, I dunno exactly how we keep this fascist takeover from happening again, but my gut says in order to get the necessary reforms passed we’re gonna need another Democrat who can do this:
A quadriptych of photos of LBJ giving Theodore Green the “Johnson Treatment” in 1957.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This beautiful boy is very sick, hasn’t been eating, and earlier today was given pretty bad odds of pulling through by the vet. Tonight I came home and he wanted to eat *everything* and then played like his old self. Here’s hoping this keeps up. #catsky
White cat sits on a red ottoman looking at the camera, not looking nearly as sick as he’s been for the last week.  This is Fred and he’s my very good buddy.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I’m late to this, which came out in July, but what the fuck does this even mean, David Brooks? To be “on our team” Trump would have to be… pro racial justice, pro gender equality, pro-choice, pro-science, pro-union, anti-expansionist, pro-democracy, anti-dictator, pro safety net, anti-climate change
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Bye Disney+
A screenshot showing my cancellation of Disney+. A screenshot in which I have selected “Other” as the reason I’m cancelling my subscription, and in the box, typed “Cancelling Kimmel makes Disney a fascist collaborator.”
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Rotten tomatoes page for Undercover Blues, a spy comedy starring Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner, with Stanley Tucci playing an ambiguously Latin criminal named “Muerte.”
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Blink and you’ll miss the fact that the picture of Epstein holding a novelty check for “selling” a woman to Trump was taken AT MAR-A-LAGO. To me that seems worthy of more play in a story *about that photo.*
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
They do not have to treat sham plebiscites in occupied territories as legitimate reflections of public opinion. No one can make them.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Sonia Sotomayor pulls no punches, calling today’s SCOTUS order “unconscionably irreconcilable with our Nation’s constitutional guarantees”.
The final paragraph of Justice Sotomayor’s dissent in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, in which she calls the majority’s unexplained order “unconscionably irreconcilable with our Nation’s constitutional guarantees.”
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Not a bad way to end a fun day.
White cat asleep on my lap Sleepy kitty on my lap, now with his paw over his eyes.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
That was pretty dope! #BlueCy #BeatIowa #CycloneState
Portrait of the author and his girlfriend wearing sunnies in the stands at Jack Trice Stadium.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Seriously what the hell?
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Our cat, Fred, likes to sleep in this little nook of my desk at night while I’m working. I had a cushion made for that spot, and it came yesterday. Tonight he reluctantly decided to give it a try.
Sleepy white cat with pink nose snoozes angelically on a red velvet cushion.  Sleepy white cat with pink nose and toes hugs his new cushion as he sleeps.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Uh, no, @slate.com. I don’t think famously crotchety actor Tommy Lee Jones and Pamela Anderson were ever a couple, let alone a power couple.
A screengrab of a Slate article about the mile high club, mistakenly referring to Tommy Lee Jones and Pamela Anderson as a 90’s power couple.  They mean Tommy Lee.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The proof:
A beautiful but ungodly heavy credenza, upside down and tied to furniture dollies, on a sidewalk in Manhattan. Me putting my feet up in the foreground, with my newly acquired credenza in the background, after acquiring it in a perfect New York caper.
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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I frequently use it to describe my cat.
Fred the cat, giving the camera a leonine stare.
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