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@leninthewoods.bsky.social
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Retired chemist. Retired lawyer. Mows grass and feeds dogs.

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leninthewoods.bsky.social @leninthewoods.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Nobody knows the Strait of Hormuz has a b in it.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
On this July 4th, remember the words of Dashiell Hammett, who was jailed by HUAC for not naming names. "I don’t let cops or judges tell me what I think democracy is." —Dashiell Hammett
a photo of Dashiell Hammett
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I'm very glad Rep. Kean was able to take time off of work and get treatment for his depression. Rep. Kean also voted for the OBBB, which will kick Americans who need to take a month from work to seek mental health treatment off of Medicaid because they're "able-bodied adults".
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.
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Frighty MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
After all this talk for years from Fox News about "radical judges overturning the original Constituion" we now have actual activist judges overturning the original Constitution. And you'll never guess what side they're on!
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Four justices don’t believe the reconstruction amendments are part of the Constitution, simple as
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leninthewoods.bsky.social @leninthewoods.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Four votes against birthright citizenship are votes against reading comprehension and history and for a partisan outcome. The executive controls immigration records and could disenfranchise and deport anyone it declares a noncitizen. Bullet dodged today but they will be back.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The sitting president of the United States had to pay $5 million to a woman he raped and defamed, and not one person in his entire cult of a party is calling for his resignation. Not one.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/06/2026
The only surprise here is that it was close. Fuck this court. Expand it*
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026
I did NOT anticipate Kav concurring like 'Congress can just pass *a statute tho,' and REALLY didn't expect a dissent from Gorsuch of all people Four votes against the plain text and long-settled understanding of the constitutional foundation of multiracial democracy is just...reprehensible
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/06/2026
Sen. Ossoff: "They worked harder burying the Epstein files than they ever worked to lower your grocery bill. And while you pay more for everything, the Trumps are raking in billions from all over the world."
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 29/06/2026
The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 29/06/2026
Textbooks should be updated to reflect the three official branches of the federal government: the nine-man council of wizard elders, the Federal Reserve, and a senile real estate developer with with unfettered rule over everything else.
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Diane @notalwaysladydi.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I was born in 1946 in the segregated south. Civil Rights was bloody and slow. Woman’s rights slow and never made it to ratified amendment. Vietnam war divided families. Status quo will always resist transformative policies in an unregulated capitalistic society that perpetuates white wealth
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
📌Decades and decades of exploration, vaccines, social progress, and righteous wars against genocide and hate, and after 250 years we end up with a lying, orange bigot who hates science and reading, and is losing a war with algae. It’s very disheartening, it really is …
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/06/2026
Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
well no wonder the centrists hate him, he’s proving government can actually do big things
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leninthewoods.bsky.social @leninthewoods.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I don’t want to be a fucking pool care expert. I want everyone to have a good job, a minimum wage that pays for housing, healthcare, food, housing and a government that does not shoot people in the face. Also stop being racists and sexists and leave gay people alone.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
When these data centers become debt traps in a few years at most, the next Dem president should offer to wipe out those debts if they're sold for a dollar back to cities for community centers, mutual aid hubs, YMCA-style temporary housing services. Try to salvage anything out of this mess.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The central claim of SCOTUS decisions like Shelby County and Callais is that we’ve made so much progress since Jim Crow and slavery that the VRA’s remedies aren’t needed. The central claim of conservative elected officials is that Jim Crow and slavery weren’t that bad, anyway.
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ART @arthur--dent.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
My local Subway works better, more efficiently, and with less crimes than Donald's government.
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leninthewoods.bsky.social @leninthewoods.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Why do we need a $1.5 trillion budget? Who are we fighting? Russia, China, and North Korea are Trump’s friends. We got beat by Iran and are not going back there. Where are we going to use that military might? Internally? We need to zero out the pentagon budget before it is too late.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Maybe, just maybe, Democrats should act like they want to govern in a country where Social Security and the poem at the Statue of Liberty are popular
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
5 million Americans lost their healthcare because of Donald Trump. Meanwhile, he's turning the Reflecting Pool green.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Republicans just blocked @ossoff.bsky.social's attempt to pass a congressional stock trading ban. Corrupt to the core. We need a stock trading ban now.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/06/2026
I’m old enough to remember that Obama didn’t have to give Iran $330bn in unfrozen assets, lifted sanctions, and a wealth fund in order to get them to agree to nuclear inspectors.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/06/2026
“we’ll just pay him off and get on his good side” congratulations you have now convinced him you are a convenient bank account that he can tap any time he’s annoyed
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
So nothing happens to the Trump donor who got $15 million in tax dollars to wreck the reflecting pond, but if a taxpayer touches a piece of the floating debris from the disaster scene they get 10 years in prison. Trump’s dystopian America.
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leninthewoods.bsky.social @leninthewoods.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Here we are celebrating 250 years of freedom by having soldiers arrest people for putting their hands in a pool.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
JD Vance is going to very much regret becoming the face of the Iran deal.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Trump is 80 years old and showing signs of both physical and mental decline. So how about we cover his age the same way we covered Biden's? With teams of reporters assigned to it, long front page stories, and ubiquitous debate? My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-decl...
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What if we covered Trump's age the way we covered Biden's?
His rapid decline is obvious. Why not give it the attention it deserves?
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Two of the most important biomedical breakthroughs came from science of the Gila lizard venom (GLP-1s) and yogurt (CRISPR genome editing). "The system that turned that lizard into a medicine is now being dismantled." gift link nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...
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Ossoff's Office @ossoff.senate.gov · 22/06/2026
Sen. Ossoff is urging Georgians to share their stories of insurance companies denying or delaying needed health care at Ossoff.Senate.Gov/HealthStory.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
If the Reflecting Pool water gets any nastier, RFK Jr. will start bottling it and forcing it to be served to children with all school lunches.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
You paid for a plane with "a level of luxury that nobody has never seen before". And he's apparently taking it with him once he leaves the White House. The plane. The ballroom. The corruption. This guy thinks taxpayers are dopes. Your money is just his to live a life of luxury.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 20/06/2026
our mad senile pedophile king is at war with a shallow body of water on his front lawn and is losing
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leninthewoods.bsky.social @leninthewoods.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Well it’s clear now they are tossing JD under the bus.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The Reflecting Pool wasn’t supposed to become a case study in what can happen when a rushed, politically driven project meets inadequate quality control. Yet that is exactly what it has become. Also a prime example of waste, fraud, and abuse!
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
📌We had a perfectly good deal with Iran that Trump blew up because it was negotiated by a Black man. -end-
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Donald Trump started and tried to win a war on Iran, but he messed that up and lost. So now he's trying to surrender to Iran, but he's messing that up too.
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Trump was installed by republicans (rich and poor) to destroy America as punishment for democrats electing a Black man.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 19/06/2026
This Juneteenth, we should remind ourselves of two facts: 1. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. 2. Those who prevent history from being taught are plotting to repeat it. It’s as simple as that.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The 500 richest people on the globe added $336 billion to their fortunes on Monday, bringing their collective net worth to a record $13.3 trillion. Read that back. Our problem isn’t an issue of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding wealth inequality.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are re-segregating the American military by race and sex Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...
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Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Someday soon everyone’s going to pretend they never supported him.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"We don't need this Juneteenth woke nonsense." Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Why wouldn't you want to celebrate that? Do you think ending slavery is "wokeness"? And you get a day off. Why are you whining? Stop whining. You sound pathetic.
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