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Lee Cox

@litgirl96.bsky.social
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Christian interested in copyediting, literature, mental health, baseball history, 35mm film photography, cultural theory, and travel.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15h
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Good stuff from my co-host on the Déjà News podcast, the great Isaac-Davy Aronson @idaronson.bsky.social ... www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Watergate revisionism is Trump’s latest attempt to turn history upside down
Rehabilitating Richard Nixon serves several purposes for the current president — and it undermines our collective understanding of America’s past.
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rain!!!! Grateful!!!!!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"“Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning...” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's a possibility of rain this week! It is much needed! It's only 79 F right now too. That's an improvement. For weeks I've seen articles about autumn cooking and fashion and it's like um no I don't want to think about autumn when it's still 100 F outside.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"An admission that the American president offered to sell arms to China is extraordinary. The Communist-ruled nation is considered by most policymakers and legislators of both parties to be the greatest military, economic and diplomatic rival of the United States..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#MoreRain! #Grateful!
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#Grateful for #Rain earlier this evening!!!!!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
hahahahahahahhahahaha😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump says planned 250-foot arch will be ‘military complex’ for drones, snipers
The president’s post about the 250-foot arch planned near Arlington National Cemetery comes as veterans groups, historic preservationists and others attempt to stop the project.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The price for a gallon of regular spiked 25 cents between Wednesday and Thursday in Iowa, according to AAA. In Wisconsin, it was up 23 cents. In Michigan, it was up 22 cents..." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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Gas prices are about to take a big jump, analysts say, with the worst still to come
The forecast of economic impacts beyond November’s midterms contrast with the Trump administration’s optimistic messaging.
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
92 degrees Fahrenheit according to the computer. No surprise. Normal weather for where we are on the planet (US South/Southwest).
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Instead of saying "the Kennedy Center board decided to close" we should note that "a group of Trump appointees including Laura Ingraham and Dan Scavino decided to shut it down"
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Kennedy's department cited seven articles, two of which were apparently made up entirely and three of which did not exist in the journals to which they were attributed..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Judge slams HHS for referencing fake studies generated by misuse of AI
The Department of Health and Human Services has suffered more than its share of AI-related humiliations. The list, alas, is still growing.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
republicans take food stamps away from 82,000 Indiana residents www.newsfromthestates.com/article/thou...
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Thousands of Hoosiers removed from food assistance
Eighty-two thousand fewer Hoosiers are receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act took effect last October.The l...
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#Grateful for rain after several weeks of drought!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"GEO donated $1 million to Trump's PAC on July 16, three days after the company announced it had signed an $85m contract with ICE. "On July 29, GEO announced it had received another $80m ICE contract; two days later, GEO gave Trump's PAC an additional $413,000..." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...
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Prison Firm Donated to Trump’s PAC After ICE Gave It $165 Million a Year in Contracts
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Last spring, I warned that America is trying to break us so they can own us. And I promised that that will never, ever happen,” Carney said. “We are keeping that promise. Canada is becoming stronger and less dependent on America.” www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
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U.S., Canada Spiral Toward Trade War
Canada responded to new U.S. tariffs with levies of its own as the two sides trade blame for collapse of talks.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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The BLM may stop notifying landowners about drilling under private land. Wyoming ranchers are alarmed. - WyoFile
Western cattlemen are poised to lose almost all opportunity to comment on oil and gas development underneath their property.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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USA: Retired Anglican priest detained by ICE | ICN
A 78-year-old Colorado priest has been in ICE detention for almost a year. He is now malnourished, in a wheelchair, has a persistent cough, and with chest pain. The only treatment he gets is cough med...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
this is no way to run a lemonade stand, let alone the american government. what a humiliating and destructive mess... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
People with actual expertise in medicine, science, and health care react to Trump’s new childhood vaccine protocols - based on his “feeling”s and RFK Jr’s lies: www.cnn.com/2026/08/10/h...
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‘Absolutely unbelievable’: See health official react to change in vaccination schedule | CNN
Former acting CDC director Dr. Richard Besser and Dr. Paul Offitt of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia join The Lead to address Trump’s executive order.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Historic documents in limbo with proposed National Archives closure | Nichi Bei News
The National Archives at San Francisco and Chicago faces closure, according to an e-mail sent to staff on June 23. With the closure and the process to move files out […]
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Apparently former presidents have been asked to write an essay on the presidency. Bush could write an essay on how to steal an election, because he did.
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
nrhtx.legistar.com/gateway.aspx... NO DATA CENTERS HERE!
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CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS - File #: 7726
Title: PLAT26-0115 Consideration of a request from 7200 Mid Cites LLC for a minor plat of Lots 1 and 2, Block 1, Tecnol Commercial Data Center Addition, being 1.740 acres located at 7200 Mid-Cities Bo...
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
barbarafwalter.substack.com/p/when-did-d... Exactly. Decency includes caring about what happens to others. Since the pandemic started, I've found out that it is NOT acceptable to care about others OR mention that we need to. Not where I live, anyway, & decency includes masking up & getting vaxxed.
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When Did Decency Become Weakness?
There is a big space between sucker and jerk and we are ignoring it.
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Today marks five months since more than 160 Iranian children were killed in a missile strike on their school the day that the US and Israel began attacking Iran. Horrible accidents happen in war, but the White House and Pentagon have so far refused any accountability or transparency. 1/
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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New report documents 221 people killed in US boat strikes | CNN
Adam Isaacson, WOLA Director for Defense Oversight, joins The Lead.
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“Even though these events did not ultimately occur, the Secretary’s actions created a risk to operational security that could have resulted in failed U.S. mission objectives and potential harm to U.S. pilots.” 6/
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Biddeford Maine today - fatal ICE shooting "THIS IS BLOOD" www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"He was at least the eighth person to die during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign. No immigration officers have been charged in the killings and video footage in several previous shootings has contradicted the accounts of federal officers..." apnews.com/article/ice-...
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Detainees tell their lawyer an ICE officer shot a Houston driver through a passenger window
Three men who survived a fatal shooting involving federal immigration officers in Houston say no officer was threatened.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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ICE took Mom and Dad. Now the Perez kids are home alone.
Four American siblings left to fend for themselves—and they're not the only ones.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thanks to Republicans in Congress and Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill"... An Indiana 40-year old, making $65k per year, who last year was paying $316/month for health insurance, will next year be paying $546/month for that same plan: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Ok this is so totally cool. tellyspotting.kera.org/2026/07/09/n...
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No one expects the Spanish Inquisition at the British Library. | Tellyspotting
For someone that has had an asteroid named after them (Asteroid 9621 Michaelpalin), has not one, but two high-speed Virgin trains named after him in honor of his achievements as a traveler, is past Pr...
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
My profile pic is my gg-grandfather Franklin Wortman. Today's his birth anniversary. He was in the Arkansas Peace Society and Co M, 3rd Arkansas Cavalry, Union.
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
July 4th plans: listen to the local classical station, bake cookies, fix something special for supper, and watch "Born Yesterday" because a tour of D.C. includes a stop at the Declaration of Independence, and one character defines Fascism.
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I snagged this off another social media site.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
To be crystal clear here -- the nun was **wearing her habit** and walking to Sunday mass when ICE arrested her and hauled her off: apnews.com/article/nun-...
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ICE releases a Texas nun intercepted walking to church dressed in her habit
Diocese officials in south Texas say a nun walking to church dressed in her habit was detained by ICE officers and later released after members of Congress intervened.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Trump and Republicans radically raised health insurance premium costs -- doubling them on average -- and so 5 million Americans who used to have health insurance now can't afford it. More than half the people who have this kind of health insurance live in GOP districts: www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...
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5 million have dropped ACA insurance after Trump and the GOP let prices skyrocket
Enrollment in Affordable Care Act insurance fell much more sharply in the first months of 2026 than it has in years past. Trump officials blame fraud. Health policy experts blame costs.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Trump and Republicans "Big Beautiful Bill" has already taken food assistance away from more than 770,000 American kids: www.propublica.org/article/snap...
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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We relied on @bentarnoff.com's great new book with @quinnslobodian.com for this piece. We try to offer a real theory on what Musk really means in decrying "suicidal empathy." We argue that his gutting of USAID (also justified by denigrating "empathy") is a test run for much worse to come:
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Yeah I wish my household and I could leave. I'm sick of living in a place where human life is devalued and it's socially unacceptable even to mention how we should care about others' well-being (or maybe it's just the state I live in tho' there are anti-maskers/anti-vaxxers in Arkansas).
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Time to go watch the weather news. I mowed the backyard this morning and need to mow the side yard. Gotta keep up, lol. We could use more rain. We got a good rain last Sunday morning, along with a rambunctious thunderstorm. Two days later, when the sun was shining, the electricity goes out. Typical!
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#Grateful for safely run errand!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"Somehow that wasn’t enough for Ms. Weiss. The video showed that the officer wasn’t standing in front of Renee Good's car and she wasn’t driving toward him, but that’s what the president said about that, and that’s the way she wanted it described..." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
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Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
lololololol Wouldn't it be cheaper to just use a longer leash? "Putin’s special envoy said Russia and the US will sign an agreement for an underwater tunnel connecting Russia to Alaska... "'The tunnel will take place,' he told Russian TV channel Zvezda..." www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/ju...
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Russian envoy teases deal with U.S. for Russia-Alaska underwater tunnel
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy said the country and the U.S. will sign an agreement to design an underwater tunnel connecting Russia’s Chukotka region to Alaska across the Bering Str...
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Lee Cox @litgirl96.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
It's sunny now but oh from 5:15 a.m.-ish to about 5:45 a.m. we got some much-needed rain and a lot of fierce thunder!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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Residents ‘not happy’ with bulldozing of land for border wall
San Ygnacio residents are angry that this week, “without any notice,” the federal government started bulldozing and clearing lands along the Rio Grande in order to build border wall.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“They have their vehicles behind a black tarp so the community cannot see it. So there’s no transparency in this. If what they’re doing is OK, why be so secretive about it?” she asked...
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