lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Bret Stephens is tedious and boring. He doesn't really write opinion pieces. They're just the same piece over and over. You could make MadLibs out of them and probably come up with something more interesting than any of his current output. 090
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Being a generally awful person is a terrible business model and ages you pretty fast. That's a HARD 41. 021
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Indiana did vote for "the malignant crazy person in the Oval Office" No one is helping them. And not even Google lists the storms and power outages in their search results. It's like Gary doesn't exist. Of course this might be because their mayor is a black Democrat in a Red State. 001
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026You didn't have to engage. And, while engaging you didn't offer any solutions of your own. Perhaps not the best use of your "time" 100
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026They don't currently exist. Maybe Rep. Jefferies could rectify that. If he can manage not to worry more about his donors than his constituents. 100
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Write legislation in the name of the representative who hates it. The "Mike Johnson Separation of Powers Act" or the "Virginia Foxx Library Funding Act" Get creative. It's not that hard. 110
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The most famous one is the House Hasert Rule. A particularly fun one for the Senate is an Anonymous Hold. You can do a lot of damage with that one. Floor amendment the shit out of everything. It's tedious and ironically was a favourite of House Republicans during Pelosi's tenure as Speaker. 000
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Perhaps Jefferies should have his staff learn some of the more arcane rules of the House of Representatives. They were created specifically to ________ around with the Majority party. Jefferies doesn't fight. He's so passive, he's essentially inert. 110
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026He is pretty ineffective as a congressional caucus leader. 160
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Problem is if you choose to consume produce from outside the US, you are still consuming US produce. Corporations are global. They may change their company name or location but they are still businesses with US corporate structures and shareholders. 000
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Small book? East of Eden is 600 pages and covers three generations. 000
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026They are so unbelievably performative. Nothing they do mirrors anything an actual human being might authentically do (including reading one of the greatest books ever). 040
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The ironic thing is he has greater contempt for the most loyal of his own followers. He might run over us once but for his loyalists, he will make sure to back up and have another go. 000
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Facebook has only ONE objective: making society accessible to the most pervy of men. 000
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026As a President, Joe Biden gave Americans the best kind of presidency. A quiet one with a work ethic. A presidency that was NOT about screaming every single day "Look at me; I'm the President" 070
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026NBC didn't have to do this. The fact that they did means they aren't interested in journalism. And probably never were. 030
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Reminder: People do not tell pollsters the truth. 010
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026If I was a Senator, I would be authoring as many pieces of legislation as possible with his name in the title endorsing everything he opposed. The Mitch McConnell ... Reproductive Autonomy Act Eliminate PAC Act Federal Free Lunch Act Library Expansion Act Restore the Voting Rights Act 1120
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026"a claim she denied"? There's video. She was nowhere near him. NYT can't be bothered to explain that? 070
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Just curious but how do they avoid shocking themselves or other ICE "officers"? 000
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026J.K. Rowling and I come from the same boring middle class backgrounds. Yes, they are mind numbingly clueless. But, she came by her "openly British shit" opinions all on her own and financed them aggressively. Her legacy, all of it, is dreck. 010
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Reading isn't about being smart. Reading is about being curious The "smart" bit is always a work on progress. 010
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It's human trafficking. The federal government is the offender. 0100
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It does have an affect. Anti-trans rhetoric, even the most seemingly benign "just my opinion" versions, is discrimination. 030
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This is taxpayer funded human trafficking. We are so broken that Americans agreed to pay private organizations to traffic their friends and neighbours to concentration camps. Those same organizations donate directly to the political parties who pay them to commit a crime that they claim to condemn. 090
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Matt Walsh has never considered women to be anything other than objects to be exploited or expended. And the sad part is American media is so institutionally misogynistic that being "creepy" is enormously profitable. Matt Walsh makes millions. The average female yearly annual wage is $55K. 092
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Core Civic is paid $15.6 million per MONTH for just the Dilley facility (Houston Chronicle). The South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, Texas is run by the GEO Group. The process in all facilities is designed solely as a for profit enterprise. 13912
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Trader Joe's is significantly lower in cost than Kroger, Vons and especially While Foods. 060
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026If you are a white guy. I don't think this rationale is going to come out well for anyone else. 010
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I'm asking about the guy with the gun. 120
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026The Common Reader, First and Second Series by Virginia Woolf. Nice to just a cup of tea and read a section. 000
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026What happens to the economy when AI implodes? 010
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Exactly what danger was this particular person really in? And please be very very specific. 100
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Jack Smith had no choice but to drop the investigation once DJT took the oath of office in 2025. Not my opinion. It's legal precedent (DOJ OLC guidelines) and, to some extent the provisions of the Trump v US decision (SCOTUS, 2024) 000
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Not what I wrote. What I'm pointing out is that we don't have a legal precedent that streamlines the process. Anytime you are in uncharted legal territory, you will have massive obstacles dumped on federal prosecutors. That's how our system is designed. 000
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026And that's great but when you attempt to move through a federal prosecution of a former POTUS which has never been brought in US history it is going to be extremely difficult and time consuming. We never experienced a precedent here because Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon. 100
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026How would you have managed to get these prosecutions past the 234 Trump appointed federal judges? 100
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026CNN are such xenophobic cretins. I would suggest you might consider being ashamed about this but why bother? 000
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Making a list of books to read is an entirely separate hobby (addiction) from actually reading those books 📚 📚 📚 010
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Always loved this book Seven Men by Max Beerbohm 000
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026It never occurred to me to choose books by whether they were written by men or women. I just read what I like. 040
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026That doesn't look like the face of a man who accepts other people's opinions (unless, of course, they mirror his own). 000
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026You shouldn't. Bill Cassidy will confirm Todd Blanche and so will the rest of them. 000
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026How much and how creatively does Bluesky let you swear? 000
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026That book was published in 2023. Is he that desperate for sales? 110
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Well not quite www.cbsnews.com/news/rand-pa... 001
