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Lee Dennis

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Interested observer for eight decades

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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 15h
Nationalize Starlink.
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 15h
Internet search project: circa 2017-18, there was a re-enactment (by NYU?) of a Trump-Hillary debate, w a guy doing HRC, a woman playing Trump. Body language ruled. Optics matter.
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Also @courtneymilan.com
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Not in a health profession, but I read her and Stat daily 2020-21. Such a loss.😩
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If national Democrats won't do it, we can. X OFF. Until every vote is counted, get your news somewhere other than X. Then ask the people running for office to publish it somewhere else too.
news-for-38-year-olds.onrender.com
X OFF
Until every vote is counted, get your news somewhere other than X, and ask the people running for office to publish it somewhere else too.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Mass deportations were a lie. What the promise was, and is, is mass concentration camps.
youtube.com
ICE arrests are soaring — deportations are not
YouTube video by Reuters
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
BREAKING: my ongoing campaign to inject the 2014 Swedish film Force Majeure into the discourse gets a major boost from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
Quote from Kristol substack: 
Yesterday I remarked that “seeing support for President Trump collapse among the public—with very little help from our pitifully complacent and fearful elites—is heartening. Even inspiring.”

I didn’t go into any detail to justify my swipe at our elites. I don’t really think much justification is needed. But I thought I might mention here one of the most helpful characterizations I’ve heard of their behavior. It came from Leah Greenberg, co-founder of the grassroots activist organization Indivisible and a key organizer of the No Kings demonstrations, in a conversation we had under the auspices of the New Haven Democracy Project.

I was lamenting the performance of our elites, and asked Leah what she thought of them. Her reply:

So there’s a 2014 Swedish dark comedy called Force Majeure in which a family goes to a ski lodge. It’s a husband and a wife and their two small children, and there is an optical illusion of a controlled avalanche that makes them think that an avalanche is coming at the ski lodge. And the husband just books it. He grabs his phone and he runs and he leaves the wife and their two small children. You know, the wife is desperately trying to shield the children from what they think is an oncoming avalanche. And it turns out it was an optical illusion. Everyone’s safe. It’s fine.

But now they have to live with what that moment has revealed about the fact that the husband will flee and save himself at the drop of a hat. That is kind of how I feel about elites in American society right now. That’s the best metaphor that I’ve been able to come up with for what we have experienced over the last year and a half, which is to say that I think we’ve got a lot of really revealing data about when the chips are down, what people will do, how much they will fold . . . to save themselves, how much they will risk to push back. And, you know, it’s a lot faster to make a list of the people who did push back in early 2025 than the peop…
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
In The Book of Lost Hours, the health warning on a cigarette pack was read aloud in 1958. The mandatory warning wasn't legislated until 1965, appeared 1/1/66.
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
TerrorRus.
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We USAians don't much think beyond our own borders. Also enjoying accounts of how crazy right-wing posts on Xitter and r/conservatives have dropped through the floor, following Ukraine drones hitting Russian data centers. Thank you, Ukraine!
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
then this,
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Darrell @dgddavis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Evergreen...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I find the cynicism that Dems would never do this particularly annoying, given that I'm talking about repeating what Wisconsin Dems did! The chair of the WisDems could have been the DNC chair. He got close!
wisdems.org
WisDems Launch People v. Musk Billboards Statewide
WisDems Launch People v. Musk Billboards Statewide MADISON, Wis. — Today, Wisconsin Democrats launched the latest phase of its People v. Musk campaign with the deployment of billboards statewide calli...
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Today I reread this. It's still entirely valid. tldrussia.substack.com/p/why-putin-...
tldrussia.substack.com
Why Putin fights
Understanding the imperatives of regime security
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I think it's time for US to get a new president.
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Most of the people behind him look like kids. The sane adults have left the room.
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sheelah Kolhatkar at The New Yorker: "During a q-and-a...with Gibney...the filmmaker said that he hoped people would watch “Musk” in time to make more informed decisions during the midterm elections. This seems wise: all Americans should probably watch this film like their life depends on it."
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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Russian bastards attacked a bus full of people in Kramatorsk. 30 civilians were killed and 18 injured. I want you to think about more than those numbers. Just imagine the grief, the terror, the pain. The screams, the sounds, the smells. This is russia’s war against #Ukraine. #Ukrainianview
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jgrove1975.bsky.social @jgrove1975.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Republicans: “we need to post our commandment of thou shall not kill in every school in America” Also Republicans: “Hey kids who wants to watch a TikTok livestream of us killing a man.”
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Is Gillibrand your Senator? 😒
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Genbedien (dairy farmer, impossible name, really good guy).
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Really? Great news: rid of Handsy and we'd gain some serious high-level military oversight in Admiral Eileen (Laubacher).
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wizardkitten @wizardkitten.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you've lost Sinclair...
wwmt.com
'Beyond disgusting': Hegseth faces bipartisan backlash over plan to livestream execution
Hegseth said it would be made "public" because "people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things."
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
National Security Agency? Going to be very interesting to hear what Hegseth and Rubio have to say about this, the How as well as the Why. Potus the Clueless of course won't know.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 09/10/2026
This goes against the intuitions of a lot of older people who were socialized into the party alignment of the 1970s-1980s-1990s. But you could make a case that the Trump second term is the most directlyand outwardly anti-Christian presidency in American history.
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Besides, when they're 4, you get to relive the Art Linkletter routine: Kid: Why? You: Because... Kid: Why because? You: Because #2... Kid: Why? You: Because #3... Kid: Why? You: Because I said so, that's why!
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Great endorsement, but I'll miss the headlines about handsy Lauren Boebert's latest dating adventures.
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What did RFKJr have to kill to gift him that hat?
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's somewhat graphic, and it'll make you mad that a woman who's been a long-haul trucker could be *embarrassed* by believing it was her mistake...that's how deep the conditioning goes.
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That's good too. There *is* a lot of clean-up to do.
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We Americans ask, "Does the name 'Donald Trump' strike a familiar note?"😅
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Take this shortcut... www.espn.com/mlb/scoreboard
espn.com
MLB Scores, 2026 Season - ESPN
Live scores for every 2026 MLB season game on ESPN. Includes box scores, video highlights, play breakdowns and updated odds.
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"...under Trump, U.S. national security is for sale." heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-4-...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 4, 2026
On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@byzness ? How to say it's a grift w/o saying it's a grift. My eyes keep telling me this dude's name is "Atta boy!"
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"a personality difference"? Really? On which dimensions? With what expectations about outcomes?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
First Lady Natalie Harp returns to the White House late last night after traveling all day with the president #TravelWithNatalie (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)
pic of Natalie walking, bag in hand
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 04/10/2026
www.adamkinzinger.com/p/good-news-...
adamkinzinger.com
Good News From Two Tough Dads (and Their Daughters)
Something changed this week in how men in their proudest moments spotlight their families
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No comment
Cartoon of Trump Vance and Hegseth
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And if you don't pony up, he'll sue you and have you arrested...
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Delighted to hear it, my priorities exactly! Gonna take some new leadership willing to stay in the fight. Also divide all 219 of u into issue teams, taking turns making tomorrow's headlines.
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Team Black Jacket v. the Blue Suits? Who's buying whom?
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
His entire presidency is just one big grift.
washingtonsun.com
Want Dinner With the President? Buy His Meme Coin.
The $Trump meme coin is offering buyers a new "exclusive" opportunity to meet the president.
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's the best backround info I've found. Q1 is, what are "Mexican immigration officials" trying to accomplish? Q2, what can decent Americans do to help/welcome/resettle? www.latintimes.com/us-vows-depo...
latintimes.com
U.S. Vows Deportations as New 600-Migrant Caravan Sets Off From Mexico Border — Inside 'Faith & Hope' Caravan
More than 600 migrants left Tapachula in the rain. Here is who they are, why they walk, the route north and what Washington says.
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Competence porn is why I've loved Thomas Perry's bloody books. Toward the end of his life, Perry showed us that women could be just as competent at rescue and survival.
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"the people in the midpoint of their lives - neither children nor seniors" This. We need to add another dimension - in addition to "class" i.e. education + income - to prioritize public services. These midpointers are the USA's load-bearing class. We're neglecting our infrastructure.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump voter: Trump is a bald-faced liar. That's all I can say nicely. I was planning to retire, and I went back to work just to cover my insurance, my gas, and the price of food that keeps going up.
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Lee Dennis @leedennis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm looking forward to a national bonfire of the vanities on that new stone helipad at OUR White House on the night of January 20, 2029. digbysblog.net/2026/09/28/d...
digbysblog.net
Disgusting All The Way Down - Digby's Hullabaloo
You've no doubt seen the "autopen portrait" of Joe Biden on Trump's wall of fame. But you might not have seen this one: He shows this to foreign leaders, and they are required to laugh and agree and t...
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Sapphire Seraphim @sapphireseraphim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sweetie The United States of America offering to sell US weapons to China? I'm sure selling US military secrets to a perceived enemy if the US isn't a traitorous act 😳 Oh...wait What's Trump's cut?🙄 youtu.be/GwCK43gaNcc?...
youtu.be
'Absolutely jaw-dropping': U.S. Ambassador says Trump offered to sell arms to China
YouTube video by MS NOW
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I never thought in a million years that the president and First Lady of the United States would be targeting me personally and trying to hurt me and my kids. jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/be-best-be...
jojofromjerz.substack.com
Be Best. Be Quiet. Or Be Bankrupted.
Melania Trump is selling a story about lifting women up. I’m the mother of two she tried to frighten into submission.
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