LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A response to a social media post by my wife: "Thank you so much for being so vocal about what needs to be done. I'm the lady that lived in Germany for 10 years and interacted with so many people who lived through the fall of Germany to Hitler and they told me this is how it started." 1/2 100
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 21/09/2026.... I have had enough of the rest of us paying the price for magat games. 000
Reposted by LenSArbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 20/09/2026They took memory cards and sold us cloud storage. They took CDs and DVDs and sold us streaming. They took software you bought once and turned it into a monthly subscription. Corporate America figured out the real money wasn’t in selling you something. It was making sure you NEVER actually own it. 1012335911
Reposted by LenSBurnt2Death @bernadettehalt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026FROM NOW TIL NOV 3RD IT'S NOTHING BUT A DISTRACTION! FOCUS, AMERICA! VOTE, AMERICA! 522281673
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is week I learned of "Bab-el mandeb", the Other Strait that is being blocked on the request of Iran. Our ongoing disaster of a "president" found a way to force rationing of motor oil! ...and blames the country under continuous attack by glide bombs, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles! 010
Reposted by LenSMarc 🍁 @marc55.bsky.social · 09/09/2026You all understand that Trump is just the "front man" right? An entire political party is backing him up. The entire country has capitulated. It is about so much more than just ONE MAN! My god. Humans have gotten so damned stupid. #cdnpoli #uspoli 47478110
Reposted by LenSFeral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Every technology that allows one worker to produce what once required ten should be fantastic news. We could all work less. Instead the owner discovers he can sack nine people and keep the extra wealth. Technology isn't stealing our future. Ownership is. 10541371031
Reposted by LenSCarolyn Adams @carolynindeu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Trump is how he always has been, I never expected loyalty. It’s the Republicans who have enabled him and gotten in line with him, who I expected differently, that I’m the maddest about them being traitors. To make things worse for their own constituents is just disgusting, there’s NO excuse! 031
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 10/08/2026trump said in reference to former president Biden's cancer diagnosis, "If you feel sorry for him, don't feel so sorry, because he's vicious." Every accusation is a confession. trump is an expert in viciousness, one of the best ever, maybe the all time best qualified to exemplify viciousness. 020
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is how we devolve into a third world country. I've bought many products using Tindie.com, a great site for developers and makers. Here is a Raspberry Pi RP2350 board with nice features. It's also not available to one particular place. Fuck "our leaders", the dictator-wannabes. VOTE DAMMIT! 130
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 21/07/2026When you replace experts with *coconspirators* you end up with situations like these. At best inflation trying to compete with the 1970's, and we don't really want to look deeper into the abyss. 120
Reposted by LenS𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Life is all about perspective… 181043139
Reposted by LenSsitkagirl.bsky.social @sitkagirl.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Socialism gets a bad rap as part of the propaganda plan in the corporate takeover blueprint in the 1971 Powell Memo. Most people do not even understand what socialism means. The Powell Memo brought us: The Heritage Foundation and Fox "news".... youtu.be/-mjk_F1CaLs?...youtu.beJourney Through the Colonial Archives--Episode #1: The Powell MemoYouTube video by Journey Through the Colonial Archives 032
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 25/06/20261) I agree 2) Joe Schmoe using an inappropriate epithet does not disenfranchise millions of people. People in power do, and have public responsibility not to. The latter lies somewhere between "abuse of power" and "slander". Both offenses should be legally actionable. 000
Reposted by LenSMichelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The World Cup is proof that if not for our leaders, the vast majority of the world's people would get along just fine. 245110832184
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 21/06/2026youtu.be/207TJmydX8E?... Look to Lewis Powell, "conservatives" and the executive class. They FUNDED China's technical rise by sending our knowhow and our jobs there! Our oligarchs started fights over woke and owning the libs. They shitcanned huge advantages. We pay the price.youtu.beChina Is Winning The Global Energy War By A Mile And Nobody Is Even Paying AttentionYouTube video by Mr Global 010
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 19/06/2026... a good reply to a post in which the author proposes elimination of automotive control touchscreens. 000
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 14/06/2026That would be me, U.S. "citizen"... Not just foreign regimes: Our own fossil fuel overlords are holding us captive to their near monopoly on access to energy and resources. Too many Americans fail to recognize that National Security SHOULD be about the people, not the wealth of a few billionaires. 110
Reposted by LenSAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 14/06/2026"Seeing the huge anti-racism crowds in Glasgow and Belfast was genuinely heart-warming. Thousands of people came together to stand up for their neighbours, their communities, and basic human decency. No cars burned. No homes attacked. No businesses smashed up ..." via HandsomeCrocodile8127 9875801848
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 29/05/2026In opposition to RFKjr! Got a covid booster vax early this afternoon. Early this evening forgetting the vax, I walked about 11500 steps. (Body ok) This evening, I updated security settings for my wife's web server. (IQ ok) 69 years old, no problems with the vax since its introduction. 061
Reposted by LenSTyler K. Stroud @stroudarian.bsky.social · 21/05/2026What you see in the Sun, is the Chicago skyline from the Indiana Dunes beach, across Lake Michigan. You can see it from 50 miles of distance due to a form of superior mirage, because the skyline is seen above where it's actually located. [📷 wesskywalker] 319106221259
Reposted by LenSitsmab.bsky.social @itsmab.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem 142142824367
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 21/05/2026World, take note. We cannot predict which child, which student, which postdoc, which asst prof will produce the next advance. We must hear all voices. 040
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 16/05/2026House of El has never disappointed me (I started following her February 2026) credibly reporting/analyzing topics of geopolitical interest. She claims to have a Ph.D. in CompSci and data scientist. She has begun reporting on artificial intelligence. Watch this video. youtu.be/2WcpagVEnIw?...youtu.beAI Isn’t The Future. It’s History Repeating ItselfYouTube video by House of El - AI 000
Reposted by LenSOmnia ex nihilo @jwill762.bsky.social · 13/04/2026We got here because we failed to punish the Confederacy. Let's not do that again, okay? 141
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Congratulations to Brits for moving toward energy independence. We in the U.S. are being strangled, poisoned and impoverished by those who want to control us by trying to preserve our dependence on their control over our energy supply. 020
Reposted by LenSShy Ty🌎☮️ @xx-shyty-xx.bsky.social · 08/04/2026A good rule of thumb is that if someone isn't causing actual harm to others with their choices, leave them the hell alone and worry about your own choices. A person's sexual identity isn't hurting anyone, but millions of unvaccinated potential plague carriers are a threat to everyone. 1391
Reposted by LenSWicasta Lovelace @wicasta.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I don't know anyone who's mad at Europe but the kool-aid drinking boot-lickers. No one else believes Europe has done anything to the U.S. Quite the opposite. Most Americans realize that the American people and Europe share a common enemy (the Trump regime) and are sort of in Europe's corner. 042
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Approximately 100 years, when counting from initial support for Saudi Arabian kings and princes. Solar and wind have the feature (for us) that they are hard to centralize. Fossil fuel infrastructure is easy to centralize, so the oligarchs LOVE it, and the rest of us can swim in a lake of fire. 030
Reposted by LenSThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026The real story… under any other president this would be jail time… 719194108987
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I wonder: A significant but unstated goal of instability re:Iran is to induce a recession and increase inflation. Hits middle and working classes hard with no consequences for the oligarchs. Pay back debt (having spent like drunken sailors for decades) with less valuable "dollars". 120
Reposted by LenSRichard Dalton @zx23.bsky.social · 21/02/2026The American people are not Free. They are a crop. Harvested to fuel economic activity. Healthcare is tied to employment so that those who are not productive are bankrupted and die. To distract from the freedoms they lack they’re told freedom is gun ownership. (Police shoot them for owning guns) 28479189
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 27/01/2026General McRaven commenting on his front-line experience with NATO troops. As one might expect his frontline experience essentailly contradicts the words of trump. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comNever Fight AloneAnyone who would denigrate the service of our NATO allies clearly never spent a day in uniform. 000
Reposted by LenSChainmailed Heart @chainmailedheart.bsky.social · 08/12/2025The thing is? Right now, the average cost for healthcare per person, per year, in the USA, is over $14,000. One of the best universal healthcare systems is in France. WAY better health outcomes. Their average healthcare cost (per person per year) is about $5,000. WE ARE GETTING RIPPED OFF. 183
Reposted by LenSClosecall 🌊🌻🤙🐋🪸🌋 @getamop.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Universal healthcare means you pay less in taxes and zero other healthcare costs….the US pays more tax money to insurance companies for the public healthcare programs than any other country and then people pay for private healthcare on top of that….it is pure extortion 263
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Celebrating caturday in a quiet moment as the day begins. 140
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Spread this message far and wide. We (humans generally) are very good at finding subtle patterns in our experiences. Sometimes this is a life-saving capability. Sometimes it leads to false conclusions. open.substack.com/pub/kucharsk...open.substack.comHow good are you at spotting patterns?The perils of mistaking randomness for meaning 010
Reposted by LenSTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/11/2025"I Want You to Understand Chicago" aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...aphyr.comI Want You to Understand Chicago 12460175
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 07/11/2025I wish I could label this travesty "unAmerican". I wish I could say that "we outgrew this". Apparently "we" cannot fully eradicate this infection. It returns with a vengeance periodically and with predictably attendent destruction. And "we" get to try to recover yet again. 042
LenS @lcsamuelson57.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Every one of Josh Johnson's videos that I have seen has been amazingly perceptive and funny. From what I have seen, he really "gets it". 030
Reposted by LenSWilsonvilleDemocrats.com @wilsonvilledems.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Study hard today. Pop quiz after potluck! 111019254
Reposted by LenSPatriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 22/10/2025In case no one told you this today: A tax cut for working people, paid for by millionaires like us, would bring us one step closer to unrigging our economy. Check out our plan here: patrioticmillionaires.org/wp-content/u...patrioticmillionaires.org 011640