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Lee W Collins

@leewcollins.bsky.social

Retired Director of Health and Social Services, author of the “Etta. The Brave” YA series, Anne’s husband. Good trouble.

created October 14, 2023

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Huh

Graphic of White House layout indicates objects are being thrown from window of “President’s Bedroom”
1/9/2025, 10:18:40 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social)

When I was a child, we imagined a day when robots would do all the work and we would relax. We didn’t understand that robots would do all the work and we’d be unemployed

31/8/2025, 4:07:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 6:48:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh please

28/8/2025, 1:43:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Abbi Lichtenstein (@abbij1961.bsky.social) reposted

Texas voters, Texas removed 100k voters from the voter rolls. Please spread the word and check your registration and re-register if necessary. thehill.com/homenews/484...

27/8/2025, 3:04:46 AM | 2440 2053 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump desecrates the flag both figuratively and literally. That flag-humping antic of his turns this patriot’s stomach.

26/8/2025, 3:15:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

I know it says he "runs" through the obstacle course, but I must have missed that part

23/8/2025, 10:13:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Again, I feel compelled to say, “No relation”

22/8/2025, 3:56:55 AM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kumar Rao (@kumar.bsky.social) reposted

Tremendous crossover move right here:

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22/8/2025, 12:43:14 AM | 18438 4274 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh good. Another CINO who advocated brutality against children while shedding tears over those not yet born. Sadistic putz

21/8/2025, 4:25:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

youtu.be/TAYITODNvlM?...

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social)

MAGA outrage about male cheerleaders in Minnesota illuminates the fact that cheerleading at the professional level is ridiculous. Must 70,000 screaming fans be reminded to cheer their team to victory? The fact is this: Pro "Cheerleaders" are merely objects to be ogled, and that's anachronistic.

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

If a partial moon is shaped like a “D,” it’s Developing toward full. If it’s shaped like a “C,” it’s… um… not developing

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Great show, I agree

18/8/2025, 10:03:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m going to need some Chapter and Verse to understand Jesus’s contempt for male cheerleaders

18/8/2025, 9:56:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social)

We will have an Ohio State moment, I think

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16/8/2025, 8:34:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ੮૦ɱɱყ ૦Ո ੮Һ૯ ૭υՆԲ ૦Բ ɱ૯૪ɿ८૦ (@n2play.bsky.social) reposted

Many people are irresponsibly defending throwing sub sandwiches, we decided to test one and discovered just how destructive they can be when we launched it at a group of unsuspecting people we saw standing around at the park.

15/8/2025, 4:29:28 PM | 449 137 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

DAMN you

15/8/2025, 6:14:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social)

I know there are issues with my Governor Newsom, but at least he hasn’t set barbed wire traps to drown children.

15/8/2025, 6:14:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Daniel Kibblesmith (@kibblesmith.com) reposted

One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.

15/8/2025, 6:45:09 AM | 18407 3859 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social)

My Wordle streak died today. Please respect my privacy at this difficult time.

14/8/2025, 3:35:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Florida essence

13/8/2025, 7:11:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

I suspect that Rep. Crockett can draw a clock, identify an elephant, and memorize three words for two minutes. That’s the test.

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

For Whom The Bell Tolls

10/8/2025, 10:06:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

If they let me put coffee grounds in their omelette, I’ll consider mushrooms in my coffee

10/8/2025, 5:44:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social)

When I was a kid watching Big Time Wrestling, the bad guys would cheat and the stupid referee would never see it and the bad guys would get it away with it even though everyone in the whole goddamn arena SAW THEM DO IT. This helped prepare me for the Supreme Court of the United States.

10/8/2025, 3:01:03 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

This is, of course, genius

10/8/2025, 2:00:56 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

What did it mean when it said he’s an “off and on” aide?

6/8/2025, 11:14:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

We saw it tonight and, yeah, no. Can’t criticize it as “derivative,” as that was the idea, but stale, recycled, unfunny gags that don’t land, despite the best effort from Neeson and Anderson. Pale imitation of the original; a disappointment.

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

If you know who this character is, you’ll never not see him when that other smirking SOB is on screen

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh Christ, these idiots again?

4/8/2025, 1:27:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

64.media.tumblr.com/66557a9ff3a9...

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2/8/2025, 3:36:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social)

On the outside of New Orleans’s St Louis Hotel, site of the former slave exchange, you can still read part of the word “Exchange “

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social)

Interested in visiting this museum until I read the lower right. Okay, nah

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Does she oppose men who brag about barging in on undressed teenage girls? Or does she subscribe to the usual cult double standard?

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

They should splice Joe Pesci into it, roughing up the Wizard.

28/7/2025, 3:53:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

My philosophy has always been this: Some people aren’t happy unless they’re miserable, and who am I to deny them their happiness?

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

If you say so

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Long after retirement, Hogan’s “arch enemy”, the Iron Sheik, kept up a steady stream of insulting texts against Hogan, and I still enjoy them.

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

When I was reading over and editing my last novel for what felt like the thousandth time, I began feeling contemptuous of every character. “Oh, shut up.”

24/7/2025, 3:06:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social)

Now’s your chance, GOP, to topple the goon who’s prepared to take you all down with him. Unite and dump Trump, or you will be the pedophile party from now on.

23/7/2025, 9:56:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

This picture looks too much like this picture: www.google.com/imgres?q=ken...

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

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Profile picture Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 (@bluesnowflake.bsky.social) reposted

Trump saying he’s happy Stephen Colbert got fired is so on brand for that petty twatfuckle. He’s such a spiteful sac of bloated lunch meat, I’d rather puke in my hands & clap than call this joke my President.

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Profile picture Dale Ryder (@kryton3298.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Ehlers Danlos?

20/7/2025, 5:50:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Think “Atticus Finch”

19/7/2025, 9:57:36 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jen the Tired RN (@jenthetiredrn.bsky.social) reposted

Every damn day at our house.

beemojis heartbreaking: local cat has never been fed in entire life, says local cat beemojis sources close to cat claim cat may have actually been fed between four to six hours ago. these claims are still under investigation. hiddenlacuna Breaking news: cat was fed 20 minutes ago by the last person to walk into the kitchen. Cat claims fake mews. hashtagdion We now have exclusive footage shot by our News At Nine chopper that confirms there's literally still food in the cat's bowl right now.
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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, great. I’ll never see that $5 again, right?

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Profile picture Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org) reposted

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

I have not yet recovered from the trauma of spooning a big bite of ambrosia into my face only to discover that the SOB had used mayonnaise as the binder. Please for the love of god never do this to people.

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Okay, good point

16/7/2025, 2:55:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social)

If the new owner of the Tampa Bay Rays wants to move them to Oakland, I'm cool with that.

15/7/2025, 9:08:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social)

Stop saying “vacay”

15/7/2025, 5:13:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

No, you should practice how you're going to say something important by speaking to a mirror. Try it three times and, after the third try, shrug in exasperation

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

So sorry, my friend

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Profile picture Lucky Adams (aka JDAdams Author) (@luckyadams.bsky.social) reposted

#DearMAGA wake T F Up….

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

I appreciate that you refunded me for that infinitive that split shortly after I bought it. That’s good customer service.

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

#TeamOrca

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Profile picture Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 (@bluesnowflake.bsky.social) reposted

Christians cheering for Alligator Alcatraz is all I need to know about Christianity

2/7/2025, 11:30:02 AM | 2574 639 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Let's be clear: Forcing Americans off Medicaid isn't about saving money for tax cuts. They don't care about saving money. It's about forcing people to work in crappy jobs in hopes of accessing health care. Your capitalism at work--low wages, maximize profit, an economic infrastructure of suffering.

30/6/2025, 5:21:19 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social)

Let's be clear: Forcing Americans off Medicaid isn't about saving money for tax cuts. They don't care about saving money. It's about forcing people to work in crappy jobs in hopes of accessing health care. Your capitalism at work--low wages, maximize profit, an economic infrastructure of suffering.

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Natty

29/6/2025, 5:32:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social)

At today's protest in Paso Robles, CA

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

As always, I feel compelled to shout, "No relation!"

29/6/2025, 12:06:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

There are a lot of white male conservatives who should follow Dan White's lead, post-assassination.

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

I agree with Rep. Kiley in part, but we disagree on which policies are fomenting violence

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social)

Briza

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

When I visited the WWII Museum in New Orleans. i was shocked at how small they were. Deadly, and small.

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social)

Happy Father’s Day to all the people whose fathers absolutely sucked. Fathers who hurt their wives, brutalized their kids, failed to show up on Saturday morning when it was “their turn.” Tough day for you, but we see you. You’ll be okay. Let him go.

16/6/2025, 2:15:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

I often feel compelled to say "no relation" and I sure hope it's true

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Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

Perfect.

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

🐓

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It’s almost like the WAPO should have endorsed the other candidate

26/5/2025, 2:52:03 PM | 28 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Welcome home

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Are you listening, New Orleans?

21/5/2025, 5:42:45 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

He is a disgrace to decency and wholly unworthy of anything vaguely resembling an “honor.” A career of abuse, misogyny, and lawsuits, with religious bigotry and chronic dishonesty. Good riddance.

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

I've said it before: If I were starting a new NBA team, my first player of choice would be Dray. He makes everyone play better on defense, he plays with absolute crushing passion, he knows the game through and through. He'd be my guy.

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Profile picture The Volatile Mermaid (@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social) reposted

How about this? Anyone who believes trans people shouldn't be allowed to serve in the military should have to serve in the military.

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

This is, of course, a lie. I know from having lived in Fresno and, later, Santa Cruz, that Santa Cruz is a Fresno/Bakersfield summer colony.

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks!

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Profile picture Meidas_SocietysChild (@societyschild.bsky.social) reposted

Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media. Great job Harvard!👏👏👏

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

Evidently not available on Apple iPhone?

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd like to welcome you back to your fashion reviews, because yeah I missed them

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Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Someone on X pointed out the scant coverage of Ron Johnson saying 9/11 was an inside job. The press assumes Republicans are crazy and malevolent, so when they say crazy stuff it doesn't get covered. But they assume Dems are competent & sane, so any data point to the contrary is treated as big news.

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Profile picture Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted

Okay Markwayne.

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social)

My wife was called for jury duty and I said, “What’s the case about?” and she said, “I can’t tell you.” Pete Hegseth would’ve told me.

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As a lifelong SF Giants fan, I really did not need other reasons to despise the Los Angeles Dodgers, but damned if they aren’t doing their best to cement the relationship

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Peewee Herman voice: "I meant to do that"

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Profile picture Jami Attenberg (@jamiattenberg.bsky.social) reposted

Louisiana, please do not forget to vote no on all four constitutional amendments on the ballot today, thank you. Our governor is a dick and this country is a mess and sometimes it all feels pointless, but this is one small step we can take to protect our schools, our neighbors, and ourselves. 👊

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

I would recommend the "Etta, The Brave" books (two in the series, so far), but then again, I would, wouldn't I? www.amazon.com/Etta-Brave-L...

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youtu.be/AGaEceD74RU?...

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“Pro-life!”

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Profile picture Lee W Collins (@leewcollins.bsky.social) reply parent

“2nite?” 💯 “Omg for realz?” 👍🏻 “Yemen?” Ya man “Omg lolz” 🤣

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