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Linda West

@lindasinthelibrary.bsky.social
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Retired, gardener, crafter, caregiver, definitely a Democrat. She/her.

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Linda West @lindasinthelibrary.bsky.social · 20h
The direct approach is preferable when you don't want people to guess at what you want, who you mean, or what you intend.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Please please please stop making a big deal out of the G7 reserves release. Yes, it’s 100 million barrels over 4 months. We - the planet - use 100 million barrels of crude every…single…day. Almost literally a drop in the bucket.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump is raging at news orgs for refusing to cover his reception of Xi after he banned three from the White House. The real lesson here: When institutions join together to resist his abuses of power it actually works, sending him into a helpless fury. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2158...
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Trump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ Heel
Trump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In honor of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, my latest piece on Substack on The Speed of YES when it matters the most: substack.com/@katiephang/...
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The Speed of “YES”
Ordinary people helping other people during extraordinary times
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The animating principle of representational democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of deranged rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power”
He is the richest man on earth. An explosive new film from the Oscar-winning director suggests he also may be among the most dangerous.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It would be fun if Democrats commissioned an architect to come up with a proposal to modify the ballroom to scale it down and turn it back into useful office space. Release renderings and cost analysis. Just act like they will ignore the red tape and just do in 2029, like Trump did to build it.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The media never applies the same standards to Republicans as they do to Democrats. The @nytimes.com is trashing Dems for not having a clear agenda. Now let's do the GOP. Their agenda: Let a felon/rapist start wars and crash the economy to help his rich buddies. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...
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Opinion | The Democrats Can’t Go On Like This
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 13/06/2026
📣 As we head into the main election season, a reminder to all candidates from both parties to never let yourself be caught on camera eating a hot dog, corn dog, banana, cucumber or any other phallic-shaped food.
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Kelly “Free Link” McGonigal @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
“Why’s it taking so long to take down the name when they put it up so fast?” yeah, undoing every single thing he’s done is gonna be exactly like that, get used to it
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
In a sane world the guy behind something as imbecilic and diabolical as DOGE would be spending his days in prison, not instigating pogroms and looting the future.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The thing with the press coverage of Biden is it establishes they are capable of treating presidential cognitive health as a matter of national concern. As Clinton established they don’t always keep presidential affairs as an insiders open secret. Choices are made.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 27/05/2026
this is sort of where i am at as well, like, i believe the data, i don’t think anyone following it is wrong from an objective standpoint, but politics aren’t objective or rational. that said, i stand by my general feeling that donald trump makes everyone feel bad about everything.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/05/2026
I've noted before that there are rather fewer Trump signs/flags out than there were prior to (waves at world) but don't mistake that for a swing to the left, more likely it means a few more people here will choose not to vote in November.
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Linda West @lindasinthelibrary.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Well. That was disappointing.
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Nope, the phrase "homeland security" was intrinsically chilling Nazi shit in 2002. Source: Was alive, had brain.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
With shots fired near the White House, Trump and his cult will insist we need to build a billion-dollar ballroom/bunker to protect the precious president. A cheaper option, of course, would be to remove the president these people keep trying to kill and replace him with one who's not so hated.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The only people who should be getting compensated for the weaponization of government against them are immigrants and citizens rounded up and abused by ICE, CBP, and local police.
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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
At this point Trump is just doing the rest of our work for us. Nonetheless, kick him while down please. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...
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Defiant After Bad Week, Trump Pushes Ahead on Politically Unpopular Ideas
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Funny how the all the people ransacking the Capitol on January 6 were liberals, plants, and ANTIFA—until there was money to be made from it.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/05/2026
I for one heartily endorse shipping every billionaire to a lifeless rock millions of miles away where they will struggle to live and will have to work every single day of their existence in order to survive
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Donald Trump has made it impossible to observe that societal norm in which even those we detest are granted an if-you-can't-say-anything-nice silence when they expire. When his stain is wiped off this vale, I'll use all the maledicta I know and dance in the street with the best Americans I can find.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
You might not be able to get rid of the EC - because small states and rural states will always tank the amendment to do it - but you can expand the size of the House, which would solve a lot of these problems pretty quick.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
To people telling me, "you shouldn't blame all billionaires for what Bezos is saying," fair enough. But the billionaires who disagree with him could speak up.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I don't think it's a good idea to spend $1 billion in tax dollars because our decrepit president doesn't want to have to leave the White House except to go to one of his golf clubs.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
It's not even an exaggeration: www.pcrf-kids.org/2025/12/10/m...
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NIH Pulls Support for Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium
The U.S. government will no longer provide funding for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium. Here’s what that means for the future of pediatric cancer research.
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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
So... Every government employee who was fired or otherwise terrorized by DOGE gets money now, right?
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I think my inherent disgust towards LLM AI is because it divorces the user from the weight of creation. What brilliance illuminated your life? What insights left you breathless? What strange paths did you wander? What work did you put in towards understanding what it means to be human?
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Pretty sure you don’t need to quote ethics experts to say the $1.8bn slush fund is corrupt.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Cleaning up Orban’s corruption in Hungary is a huge task after he looted their country for years, and it is certainly something we can watch unfold and learn from.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.
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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Look people it is 2026 and all I am going to say to you is that you should have stopped giving a fuck what ryan grim and peter daou think 15 years ago
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
i never really bought into the whole 'these fucks are a death cult' narrative but these fucks are a death cult
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
For the life of me I don’t understand saying “false claims” instead of “lies”.
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Rick Stengel @rickstengel.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Can reporters stop using the word deal? It’s an agreement, a settlement, a treaty, an understanding, an MOU etc. Using the word deal is accepting his simple-minded TV game-show framing and contributes to the bogus drama he is trying to create.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 06/05/2026
Passive voice? Climate change has “become a partisan issue”? Say it straight: fossil fuel industry’s corruption has made it a partisan issue; Republicans are hip-deep in fossil fuel money and lies.
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ECB’s Lagarde Urges Europe to Reduce Energy-Import Dependency
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said soaring energy costs due to the Iran war should act as a wake-up call for Europe to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and energy imports.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Were they sincerely horrible, or did they cynically *pretend* to be horrible to get fame and money? It can be impossible to know in most cases. We can't ever know for sure what they're thinking, so let's focus on the horrible things they did and said, as that's what actually impacts the rest of us
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
A friend asks: “Has it occurred to anyone that the MAGAs think you have to show IDs at restaurants because they’ve been eating all their meals at strip clubs? This isn’t even an unreasonable theory”
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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The 2028 Democratic presidential candidate who will get my support is whoever pledges to erase Donald's face and name from everything and reverses all of his executive orders.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
One of the many things I find disturbing is the combination of “you are conscious and essentially human” and “I can end your existence at any time and get a replacement.” The nature of other people is that you can’t discontinue them when they displease you. If you can, you’re playing with a toy.
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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"Modernizing the court" would be my choice. And don't just stop with the court. Add a bunch of district and appellate judges. And pass a bill that makes it vastly more difficult to go judge shopping. (No more one judge districts and whatever other reforms more knowledgeable people can suggest.)
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Jonathon M. Floyd @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Yep. This has been a norm to this point, but it needs to be firmly enshrined in federal law that no currency, coinage, military hardware, federal buildings, or anything else funded by or representing the federal government may honor a sitting official.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2026
i have really come to the view that partisanship is to be embraced wholesale. partisanship and principle but not purity.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I can’t believe there are all these idiots who want to go back to when people just used to shit themselves to death 75 percent of the time
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
News accounts are straining to portray the Virginia move as a betrayal of Dems' principled opposition to gerrymandering. It's pure bullshit. Dems passed a 2021 bill ending it for *both sides.* The Dem position is that Trump/Rs don't get to play by their own rules: newrepublic.com/article/2093...
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I for one would enjoy it if journalists stopped pretending this dinner is anything besides a chance to source up their contacts list and flatter government officials. One of the ickiest rituals in Washington, imo, and that's not a Trump-era thing.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The Palantir manifesto is the obvious endpoint of years of edgelord posturing - actual villainy.
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
while "justice-involved population" is a bad example, I will say switching to less emotive words and phrases is bad politically and maybe also for society "unhoused" rather than homeless "enslaved person" rather than slave "substance abuse disorder" rather than addiction etc
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