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scentoflilacs.bsky.social
Cultural Nomad. Sociologist. Perfectly imperfect. Interested in everything, maybe. Take nothing for granted.
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Bravo! Jane Fonda! #JaneFonda

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No kings

5 things I did last week Musk 1. Successfully asked you to rehire 300 nuclear & avian flu workers you “accidentally” fired 2. Pressed you to pay attention to rising household costs 3. Stood up for vets 4. Fought against your tax cuts for the rich 5. Stood with 🇺🇦 instead of🇷🇺

Thousands of people marched in DC in solidarity with Ukraine and against impunity by oligarchs like Trump and Putin. They gathered outside the Russian embassy. #3E #EndOligarchy #EndImpunity #USprotests #DCprotests #StandWithUkraine

Signs of life! (From a senator who has announced she is not running again.)

Five bullets?

"Justify" What’s next? Your right to exist?

#peoplehavethepower

Oh the gleeful showmanship of a brandishing a chainsaw

Elon Musk's pinned tweet right now.

America off the rails *All of them Nazis

I’m going to ask people older than I am if they have ever seen corruption in this scale. Have you?

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If he gets this clenched at "See you in court," one wonders what might happen if there is strategic heckling at the State of the Union 11 days from now.

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

hey @mattyglesias.bsky.social, the piece that you link to here — my piece — does not say that “all DEI critics want to reimpose segregation” and i would appreciate it if you didn’t lie to your audience about what my work says.

Dems, if you don’t shove this down his throat (metaphorically) you are worthless.

We’re cooked

Come ON

Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?

Christine Baranski is all of us.

Musk doesn't lead agency Trump announced 3 months ago he was appointing to lead said agency www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/st...

No, it is not "a modern day Mein Kampf" to think a corrupt and beholden mayor should step down. But his saying that is offensive to many.

You don't need to be a coder to figure this out. Simply type: tab age You'll discover a smattering of 99 year olds, a few 100 year olds, a couple of 101 year olds, and a pileup of 150 year olds, but no-one in their 130s or 140s. That's a clear sign you've discovered a coding issue rather than fraud

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

It was called Gulf of Mexico for a reason. Mexico En 1794. #HistoryMatters

Before the coup, _____________ Fill in the blank #Coup

The sad fact is this lawless pronouncement by Trump is damn-near a quote from the democracy-busting presidential immunity ruling from a compromised Sup Ct. This is PRECISELY why Justice Sotomayor (joined by Justices Kagan & Ketanji Brown Jackson) said, “With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”

Deputy AG Lionel Hutz quickly scribbling an ampersand onto it.

lol THESE WHITE STUDENTS? bsky.app/profile/keit...

NEW: Last night, Sen. Blumenthal’s office sent a letter to Sec. Rubio about the State Dept’s reported $400 million contract to purchase armored Tesla Cybertrucks—and subsequent removal of the word “Tesla” from procurement documents—by 2/21. (1/3)

People aren't "addicted" to antidepressants. People *take* antidepressants to stay alive.

FOTUS He’s earned this after #Felon bans use of the word felon #FOTUS

Meet the felon on the melon. After T. banned using felon in the WH or on its grounds, he deserves being bombarded with it. #Felon

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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Not exaggerating when I say that the path back is going to be built on people in positions of influence regaining their sense of self-respect. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

jfc — what a test of public integrity

The man has two bronze stars from being a troop commander in Iraq, prior to Harvard Law and clerking for Roberts. Like Danielle Sassoon, the Federalist Society member, Scalia clerk. These folks are not even moderates.

"A cannabis-laced marmalade" gets a U.S. citizen detained in Russia. Two things best not entering.

This is true. The media would have done with this story what they with regard to Biden’s age – reported on it incessantly, with a breathlessness reflecting their outrage, and at a volume in which it drowned everything else out, until someone did something to remedy it. bsky.app/profile/jflo...

If Trump sells F-35s to India, the era of US air dominance is over. Full stop.