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created November 16, 2024

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Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Imagine if we could get any Federalist Society judge to recuse themselves when they are presiding over a case involving the Trump regime. Would never happen. The most ethically conflicted president ever has carte blanche, as it were, to attack Black women.

1/9/2025, 2:38:11 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So it’s the Boomers, not capitalism, not the policies of vicious class warriors in government. Good to know.

1/9/2025, 2:35:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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100%

30/8/2025, 8:37:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Exactly! Trump would cut loose Ivanka if he perceived her as a liability.

30/8/2025, 8:33:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Says a lot about their ideas of consent.

30/8/2025, 12:39:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

You mean when his approval is plummeting well below 35% and mass protests are bringing out even more protestors than No Kings did? Good luck with that, Donald.

30/8/2025, 12:38:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

As a teacher, I have certainly observed how grade inflation creates brittle, anxious students, who are risk averse.

30/8/2025, 12:34:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

The losing Nazi leaders who weren’t planning on taking cyanide tried to negotiate with allied commanders. The response? Pound sand. Unconditional surrender. No negotiations.

24/8/2025, 6:54:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Is Vance this misinformed or is he lying? He’s a fascist-loving weasel, but he’s also not well informed.

24/8/2025, 3:22:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wish “the voters” were on Bluesky. That being said, there is a necessary role for educating and directing the energy of educated social media users.

24/8/2025, 3:18:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Whoever aided and abetted the abuse should be exposed.

24/8/2025, 3:15:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Seriously. Never been in a cracker barrel. There weren’t any on the Upper West Side. Now if they go after Zabar’s, that would be a problem.

22/8/2025, 1:49:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

What fascist regime causing incalculable damage was not also populated by incompetent buffoons. That’s a feature, not an impossible confluence of incongruent characteristics.

21/8/2025, 1:46:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She knows who her paymasters are.

21/8/2025, 1:42:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I bet this homunculus thinks that was a sick burn.

20/8/2025, 10:17:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not punched hard enough. He needs to stay down.

17/8/2025, 10:12:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s a white supremacist hand gesture.

17/8/2025, 6:42:03 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Took me longer than that before I developed the boundaries.

17/8/2025, 12:34:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Psychopath!

16/8/2025, 9:39:17 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Of what is this the concluding paragraph? I’d like to read the article.

16/8/2025, 4:20:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s one way to shift the conversation away from Epstein.

14/8/2025, 12:44:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, yes. The look-what-you-made-me-do argument.

13/8/2025, 9:42:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A sandwich is a weapon?

13/8/2025, 9:40:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He should have called Trump low IQ, incompetent, and a total disaster.

13/8/2025, 2:45:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There are no second-class Americans.

12/8/2025, 1:43:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

This!

10/8/2025, 12:16:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/3 of our coffee comes from Brazil, and Trunk has imposed huge tariffs on products imported from Brazil.

8/8/2025, 4:22:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This interview was a thing of beauty. A journalist who knows his craft!

7/8/2025, 10:00:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s Trump. His casinos competed against each other and went out of business. He’s as good at business as he is at politics.

7/8/2025, 9:58:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Well he sure isn’t listening to the US Constitution.

7/8/2025, 1:52:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Does it matter that this executive order goes against the explicit wording of the US Constitution?

7/8/2025, 12:04:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jello is stronger.

7/8/2025, 1:12:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Shitting on Canada is also a factor, as a huge portion of visitors to Vegas have been Canadian. Not now.

7/8/2025, 1:10:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s the diddler on the roof?

7/8/2025, 12:10:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What a hilariously bad article uncritically transcribed the nonsense of irrelevant fools. In no place is Trump more hated than in New York. If Trump injects himself, he’ll only make a fool of himself and hurt Cuomo.

6/8/2025, 8:36:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Like a bird on the wire / Like a drunk in a midnight choir / I have tried in my way to be free.

6/8/2025, 8:14:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Diddler on the Roof

6/8/2025, 4:00:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every morning I wake with that hope.

6/8/2025, 3:18:50 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly. Leaders of democracies don’t make deals. As a New Yorker, I’ve been wondering recently how much Trump was shaped by the activities of mob bosses in their 50s-70s period. They made deals.

5/8/2025, 3:11:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes! Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight.

4/8/2025, 3:32:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I still want us to gerrymander in response, while calling for legislation that ensures non-partisan redistricting.

3/8/2025, 11:41:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And with assists from his caddies.

3/8/2025, 4:01:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

These schools have endowments that would have enabled them to say no and wait for better times. Instead they’ve compromised their institutions and higher learning in general. Huzzah!

2/8/2025, 4:25:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is capitulation—obedience in advance.

2/8/2025, 1:50:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Client? Co-conspirator?

1/8/2025, 3:30:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

So how come those near misses didn’t happen during the past administration?

1/8/2025, 3:29:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Man, just say it. To paraphrase The Untouchables, if they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.

1/8/2025, 1:14:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s modernized siege warfare, waiting for the besieged population to starve.

1/8/2025, 1:11:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A rebuke. How many more have to starve to get action?

1/8/2025, 1:09:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think paving over the rose garden offers a more apt metaphor.

1/8/2025, 1:08:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly, I’m in no mood to hear about the horse race when the midterms will determine if there is a 2028 presidential race test isn’t fixed.

1/8/2025, 1:03:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow! Each day I think I’m past the point of being shocked and then find out I’m wrong.

1/8/2025, 12:54:43 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Holy crap! He might wear a B cup.

30/7/2025, 7:39:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They will not harm you and eat things like ticks. They are our friends, not foes.

30/7/2025, 7:27:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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GOP offers sanctuary for sex abusers.

30/7/2025, 6:09:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One more item for our to-do list.

30/7/2025, 5:58:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow! Do they were Donald’s property and Jeffrey just steals them? No honor among thieves, I tell you.

29/7/2025, 11:47:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Do says Baron Trump Munchausen.

29/7/2025, 11:44:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My wish is that they are prosecuted for human rights abuses.

27/7/2025, 11:46:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Busted cheating at golf. What a loser.

27/7/2025, 10:23:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🔥

27/7/2025, 3:05:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Doesn’t he know there’s a commandment against lying?

27/7/2025, 3:02:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, it is a cancer, and yes, a majority of MAGA would support a pardon. A majority, but not all. MAGA is splitting, and we need to apply a wedge and split it further.

27/7/2025, 2:31:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s playing golf on the public dime? Is it a day that ends in a y?

26/7/2025, 10:35:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump has assaulted women for over 50 years. He thinks women have just started to accuse poor Donald?

26/7/2025, 10:33:23 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m super frustrated with useless Democratic leadership, but nothing will keep me from voting against every Republican I can in every upcoming election. Wonder if this is what the polling is saying.

26/7/2025, 9:14:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Find a word that uses several of the letters in question. “Dough” knocked out d and g, and revealed the word to be “haunt.”

26/7/2025, 12:57:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Well put!

26/7/2025, 12:12:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So important to say!

25/7/2025, 4:08:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But you forget that drug prices will be down 2000%.

24/7/2025, 11:50:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Josh Hawley’s advice.

24/7/2025, 11:41:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m an atheist. I have no interest in what others believe, including you.

24/7/2025, 10:22:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

This is part of the discourse—men who have nothing but contempt for women, girls and exploited kids presenting themselves as defenders. Anti-Semites presenting themselves as defenders of Jews.

24/7/2025, 9:59:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

So true! I’m calling it King’s College from now on.

24/7/2025, 9:52:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Spot on! Being court Jews didn’t work out so well for us.

24/7/2025, 9:49:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Columbia, like other elite private institutions, has ginormous resources. Rainy day funds. Well, it’s raining. I don’t understand why Shipman and Co. didn’t wait out Trump and hope for better days rather than destroy the institution.

24/7/2025, 9:27:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Another HS English teacher. This is what we do, and there’s nothing more important than teaching independent reading and writing—i.e., critical thinking—skills.

24/7/2025, 9:22:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s accomplished much of Project 2025, which to my mind is nothing to be proud of. But the frame is wrong. Achieving fascistic goals is no accomplishment.

24/7/2025, 9:13:17 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tone sounds about right to me. And I say that as an alumna.

24/7/2025, 9:03:25 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s why he’s called Nutlick.

24/7/2025, 12:35:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This reminds me of Bill Clinton opportunistically scolding Sistah Souljah.

24/7/2025, 11:50:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh, my! That’s brilliant.

23/7/2025, 11:07:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump sues Murdoch for defamation and then defames Obama.

23/7/2025, 4:30:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Megyn Kelly—the ultimate pick me woman.

23/7/2025, 4:25:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, Axios! We’re tired of the criming, the attacks on immigrants, civil rights, trans people, the resurgence of racism and misogyny…. Dud Hitler deserve an award for instituting his agenda?

23/7/2025, 3:55:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Incompetence, insanity, dementia—a buffet table of disqualifiers for public office, let alone the presidency.

23/7/2025, 3:43:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sure, Jan.

23/7/2025, 12:16:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You first, Cillizza.

23/7/2025, 12:01:26 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m not interested in shielding anyone. So what’s your point?

22/7/2025, 11:54:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s a shakedown by a mob boss.

22/7/2025, 7:54:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s my fear too, that preemptively she will inculpate Democrats and exculpate Republicans to get a pardon.

22/7/2025, 2:23:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Smells like desperation.

21/7/2025, 10:50:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just did the same to the tip of my left ring finger. Ouch.

21/7/2025, 10:33:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lilybelle212.bsky.social (@lilybelle212.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice try to distract, Donald. We haven’t forgotten about Epstein.

20/7/2025, 7:56:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just as a reminder, there was no crime, and we haven’t forgotten about Epstein.

20/7/2025, 7:54:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pitch perfect response.

20/7/2025, 7:53:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Translation: Sorry not sorry.

18/7/2025, 9:49:09 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’ll TACO on the lawsuit, but discovery sure would have been fun.

18/7/2025, 9:47:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No, we don’t need to excavate what British jurists thought. We have a Constitution, not common law.

18/7/2025, 1:21:14 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Person, woman, man, camera, tv. A dementia test.

16/7/2025, 10:56:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view