lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 24/09/2025"I am really good at this stuff," he told world leaders. "Your countries are going to hell." 🤯 000
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars. Still more, it should not be used . . . to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers. ~Justice Elena Kagan 010
Reposted by lydia claireJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/09/2025And God Said, “Debate Me, Bro” … And Other Notes from the Kirk Canonization talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/and-g...talkingpointsmemo.comAnd God Said, “Debate Me, Bro” … And Other Notes from the Kirk CanonizationThere are many threads of the MAGA right’s on-going martyr-making and canonization... 1926350
Reposted by lydia claireThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/09/2025A spray-painted bronze statue titled “Best Friends Forever” showing President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands was placed on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol early Tuesday. wapo.st/42Dy5vU 492562705
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Whoo-hoo! Blue Skies, outside of Mississippi for a few days. Free at last. 😆 000
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 27/08/2025"I know a story which America denies. And it denies it for the very good reason that my story, once told, confronts it with the truth about itself. In fact, my story, once told, will liberate America. The possibility of liberation…is what most people profoundly fear." ~ James Baldwin, 1965 000
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 26/08/2025"The irony of it all, if my family had money or I were a trust-fund baby...I wouldn't see nor understand what needed to be done." ~ Carmen, 'Four Women.' 000
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Support remains in the low 40%. What 50+ years of of hate and mendacity has wrought. Rise up! 000
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Historic Texas permission slip worthy of a signature. 120
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Ida B, Fanny Lou, Ms. Jordan, VP Harris, Jasmine and Nicole. 000
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 06/08/2025"Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things" ~ Kahlil Gibran 010
Reposted by lydia claireThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/08/2025"This presidency is a repudiation of the republican principles of our founding."thebulwark.comTrump’s White House Renovation Is Awful—and FittingThe president doesn’t respect what the executive mansion stands for, so why would he respect its architecture? 3740274
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Jackie Robinson was raised in Pasadena, CA. Not assuming you know of his brother, Mack Robinson, earned the Silver behind Jesse Owens in Berlin 1936. Given the recent announcement re 2028 L.A. Olympics task force by the president, the historic synchronicity on multiple levels makes me chuckle. 010
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 03/08/2025"You must be cautious and humble when you photograph anyone who can't afford your camera. And all profits should be shared." 000
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 02/08/2025"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.” ~ James Baldwin Happy birthday, sir. Thank you for words that calm brokenhearted rage into poetry. 030
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Why Connection—Not Control—is Our Greatest Source of Power substack.com/@jamesbgreen...substack.comWhy Connection—Not Control—is Our Greatest Source of PowerWhat if our greatest strength isn’t control, but connection? In a time of crisis, even the smallest acts carry forward—through memory, resistance, and deep time. 000
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 30/07/2025July 30, 2019. Now from his own platform he doth spew. 010
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 30/07/2025"It's never wrong to feed people. Let's be clear, feeding people doesn't fuel terrorism. Politics fuels terrorism." ~ David Milliband, International Rescue Committee 💔 000
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Watching some Ted Lasso. Diamond Dogs episode hit the spot. Noticed Higgins's t-shirt as one I should recognize. I did not, but Google search told me it's the UK album cover release for Dr. John's 'Night Tripper.' ⚜️❤️ (When A.I. is a friend.) 020
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 19/07/2025"You do everything you can wherever you can to preserve democratic institutions and civil society capacity and then do the long, hard, often slow work of rebuilding what has been lost. Winning elections isn’t the only thing, but it’s an indispensable thing." ~Talking Points Memo 000
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Happy Anniversary, Plessy & Ferguson Initiative! Signed articles of incorporation on July 9, 2009. Happy Anniversary to the 14th Amendment! Added to the U.S. Constitution July 9, 1868. ✊🏽✨❤️ 000
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 08/07/2025"This budget deepens those grooves, turning collective vulnerability into a personal failure." Blame/shame/generational trauma is the goal for these yahoos. The fight is to support/maintain human dignity in the battle. 020
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 04/07/2025if the time comes when the spell is broken if this darkness lifts will their bodies remember what it means to feel joy… 010
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Poetry is about order. Choices made. Language. Lived experience. Still in this head space, me. 000
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 24/06/2025On a walk, I considered what has built my brain thus far. Movement. Definitely. Language music observation stillness exploration laughter...an abundance for which I'm truly grateful. Also identified scarcity in two things I see in others supporting our current state; religion/wealth. Curious. 000
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 23/06/2025A scene that has been playing in my head the last few days. *sigh* www.youtube.com/watch?v=85RZ...youtube.comBull Durham (1988) - Nuke Brings the Heat Scene (4/12) | MovieclipsYouTube video by Movieclips 020
Reposted by lydia claireJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22/06/2025I tell my students: Budget math isn't about arithmetic. Budgets are statements of values, and behind every number is a choice about who and what we value. So as you evaluate the Republican budget bill, ask yourself: Does it give voice to your values? 251346344
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Key in all of this is the false equivalence fallacy between peace and obedience. One requires constant vigilance, submission to authority, and often duress; the other requires healing, support, collaboration, a higher purpose for humanity. 000
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 21/06/2025"This isn’t about winning. It’s about planting something that might grow later—questions that don’t demand an answer now, but linger. The kind that return when the crowd disperses, when the headlines fade, when something doesn’t sit right." ~ James Greenberg 010
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 16/06/2025"If you cut SNAP, people will not eat. If you cut Medicaid, people will get sick. But if you cut taxes for the wealthy, they will still be wealthy." 020
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 10/06/2025"You wasted eight fucking aprons on this guy." Just toughening up the kid. American public...in pain on the sidewalk w/ a bloody hand. 000
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Waiting for a Quartering Act to be put into effect in California and other locations the National Guard is being deployed. 😒 000
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Would be giving the team too much credit for popular culture knowledge, but the presentation of people in the streets has the feel of Riefenstahl content capture (B reel?) with the desire for a 'War of the Worlds' public reaction...😏 000
Reposted by lydia claireAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/06/2025We see what they’re doing. They’re baiting us, trying to provoke violence to justify a crackdown. Don’t give them the footage they want. Every broken window becomes propaganda in their hands. Stay sharp. Stay united. We’re here to fight for justice, not feed their narrative. 520163344622
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Now all online, in our devices, on screens. Constant. 020
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 04/06/2025But as is often true in our individual lives, you build trust by acting in a trustworthy way, by doing rather than saying. And that’s really my point. Republicans are giving Democrats just a wide open field for doing these very basic things and building that trust. ~Josh Marshall, TPM 000
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 03/06/2025"The most effective way for social change is humiliate your enemy and make them poor." *Nurse Ratched gleefully hands torch to Alex Karp* 010
Reposted by lydia claireJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 28/05/2025You are personally ordering the deportation of people because of things they’ve said and op-eds they’ve written. You don’t give a fuck about free speech. 31844241084
lydia claire @wildcanary.bsky.social · 24/05/2025After careful and thorough review, the federal government maintains its f*u to North Carolina. 😒 000
