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Leslie Talbot

@leslietalbot.bsky.social
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Author, consultant, and Oxford Comma enthusiast. I write about writing, politics, and other stuff that annoys me.

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Ms. Rosenberg @msrosenberg.bsky.social · 20h
When you remember the cardinal rule of perm maintenance is that you're forbidden to wet your hair for at least 24 hours after getting a perm at the risk of deactivating the immonium thygocolate
Katie Britt, looking stunned and upset at a senate hearing
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is why people were so dumb to clamor for McConnell's return. He's back, and he voted for Byrne. Y'all should have just let him moulder away in that nursing home.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today seems like a good day to remind everyone that 658 Cantor Fitzgerald employees were reported missing on 9/11/01 and Howard Lutnick canceled their paychecks two days later, before they were even confirmed dead. Then he went on TV and pretended to cry about them.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The McConnell discourse is starting up again and it is all just too stupid to engage with. Whether he is dead, in a coma, or just his usual malevolent self, the reality is he is taking up a seat that would otherwise be occupied by another Republican and NOT VOTING. Why are people complaining?
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 17/07/2026
So Trump’s position is that elections under him were the most corrupt in the world, then Biden was elected (by the Communist Party of China) and four years later they all oversaw a fair election that he won
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Maternal deaths in states with abortion bans have increased 9.2% since Amy Coney Barrett voted in favor of the Dobbs decision. And she is sitting on Capitol Hill today asking the grieving partners, families, and children of her victims to pay for her own personal security. How offensive.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What a selfish POS. Hasn't he done enough damage? Just proves he doesn't care about his so-called "movement" at all; it is and always has been about him and his mediocre white male ego.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I feel like my daily "Is he dead yet?" musings are now both literal and figurative and apply to way too many people.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Dems could run some great ads if they handle this right: Democrats dump rapists. Susan Collins puts them on the Supreme Court.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Spectacular own goal. I wish all the "SO YOU WANT SUSAN COLLINS TO WIN" a very pleasant Susan Collins Winning
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It’s kind of funny that Chris Hayes is on TV right now blathering about soccer and has not even mentioned, let alone apologized for, that softball interview in which he got completely rolled by Platner.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
a victim's statement is evidence.
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Holly @hollyz.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If democrats don’t hold sexual predators accountable, we honestly deserve to lose.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is hilarious.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This, exactly.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The misogynistic smearing of a former First Lady at a White House event sanctioned by a President … is a stain that will not be removable
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Just left a message for my senator, Elizabeth Warren, demanding that she withdraw her endorsement of Platner in light of today's revelations. I urge everyone in MA to do the same.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Can we please just get him out of this race so someone good can win? I can’t believe so many people are willing to throw away this seat for this guy. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...
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Platner’s Texts With Women Concerned Campaign as Senate Race Took Off
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
It scares me to realize how much more trouble we would be in right now if Trump’s DOJ was even remotely competent.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
And we are deporting innocent people there.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
It really says something when so-called journalists are less afraid of an active shooter than they are of the president.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Just reposting my own post for no particular reason.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is the absolute correct framing of this entire debacle.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Hey Hegseth, those rules of engagement you call “stupid” are in place to protect AMERICAN SERVICE MEMBERS.
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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Question: What’s the difference between these two executions? Answer: Nine additional bullets. 🤬
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I can’t stop thinking about Alex Pretti’s parents. Finding out about their son’s death from a reporter who called them for comment. Scrutinizing the murder video to see if they recognized him. Having to identify his body. Hearing him defamed by the government. How will they ever survive this?
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
NYT finally not mincing words.
Headline from NYT FEDERAL AGENTS KILL A 37 YEAR OLD MINNEAPOLISR MAN
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Oh my god.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Been seeing a lot of posts calling 1/6/21 the most shameful day in American history. They're wrong. The most shameful day in American history was 11/5/24, when 77 million voters looked at the evidence, shrugged, and re-elected Donald Trump. And another 70 million+ couldn't be bothered to stop them.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Sheee-it. This is a loss. apnews.com/article/isia...  Isiah Whitlock Jr., actor from 'The Wire,' 'Veep' and Spike Lee films, dies at 71
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Isiah Whitlock Jr., actor from 'The Wire,' 'Veep' and Spike Lee films, dies at 71
Actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. has died at age 71. His manager confirmed he passed away Tuesday in New York after a short illness. Whitlock played the corrupt state Sen.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Why does it always seem like our most beloved celebrities die at the end of any given year?
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
“Do it the right way,” they said. And yet here we are. I hate these people.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Now he needs to spend the rest of his life atoning for the actions that put Trump in office in the first place.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I always knew Katy Tur was a hack, but she literally just said on her show that the Epstein allegations are “gross” because “It’s not like he had a daughter and these were just friends of hers who were coming around.” Is she auditioning for Megan Kelly’s job?
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I feel bad for the White House ketchup bottles right now.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Can we normalize not using the word “skeet” to describe posts here? It sounds dumb.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I’ll help. They’ve already ruined the em dash; if they come from my Oxford commas I will rain hellfire down upon them the likes of which the world has never seen.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This White House is the real-world embodiment of Randall Flagg's Las Vegas in "The Stand." It attracts the worst possible people and encourages them to do the worst possible things in the name of the worst possible leader this nation has ever seen.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I love this for Republicans. They’ve been out there all week defending this shutdown at his behest, and, because he wants to look like the hero, he just cut them off at the knees.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Ken Dilanian has learned absolutely nothing since he so badly bungled the initial release of the Mueller report. Still credulously accepting law enforcement spin with absolutely no pushback.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Who is this hack on MSNBC who just claimed, with zero evidence, that it was ICE agents being targeted in the shooting? Investigation? And then decried a “rush to judgment.”?
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Important reminder. I'm seeing posts claiming the shooter is in custody, which have already been debunked.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I agree with all of this.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Amplifying this for visibility. I haven’t been able to get my appointment yet because my area does not yet have the vaccines in stock, but my experience was similar. And that list of qualifying conditions covers pretty much everyone.
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This headline from NYT is a disgrace. By no stretch of anyone’s imagination can this be “in good fun” or “in dispute.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
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All in Good Fun, or a ‘Disgrace’? Names of Detention Centers Divide Americans
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I’m thinking that if the FBI redacted Trump’s name from the Epstein files and he is *still* scrambling to cover them up, he must be in there so many times in so many identifiable ways that they couldn’t release them even if every word is blackened out.
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Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Culprit identified.
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