Lynne Ballard
ballardl.bsky.social
Lynne Ballard
@ballardl.bsky.social
Retired higher education leader. Blue dot in red state. 😫 Learning is everything’s. Science. Other ways of knowing. 🫘 Dogs. 🥰
Pls: no DMs.
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Trump betrayed Ukraine, secretly colluded with Russians against Europe, and has a secret line with the Kremlin outside of official overview, hidden from everyone including US spy / national security agencies. These are the reddest of flags. A spy sits at the White House.
November 29, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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This is badass!
Protesters at Lincoln Memorial yesterday.
Vía @johnnypalmadessa.bsky.social on IG
#Pinks
November 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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non-paywalled link: archive.ph/5QJRc
archive.ph
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Why does it seem like the people who brag about, and base their identity on, being Christian are the least Christlike people in the country?
November 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Trump calls yet another woman bump "piggy," this time a Bloomberg Journalist, and embraces the Saudi dictator who ordered the murder of a Washington Post journalist.
Have we no moral standards any longer in America?
At long last, have we no shame?
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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RIP Jamal. You deserved better.
In Memory of Jamal Khashoggi 🙏🕊️ 2018 #Khashoggi
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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This is a very dangerous moment for the country and the world. A cornered rat will do anything to escape.
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
@abigailspanberger.com ⬇️. Please, for God’s sake and the future of higher education, investigate this and hold the unethical accountable!
Jim Ryan wrote a letter to UVA detailing his "resignation" and I'm gonna get some fresh tea before I read it because I feel pretty certain I'm gonna be filled with righteous anger by the end

I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Jim Ryan letter
www.documentcloud.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Someone should go there and show them the clips of Trump's Great Gatsby party. I bet they'd be so happy to know he's having fun.
This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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And to the people telling the democrats to reopen the government‼️ This is why they won’t‼️
November 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Laura Loomer is now officially part of the Pentagon press corps.

We live in Idiocracy.
November 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Everyone is clamoring for the Epstein files. They have had so much time to alter and/or destroy them that I fear justice will never prevail. What to do what to do? 🤔
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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We are the difference between Democrats caving to Trump and building a unified opposition party that wins big by standing up to the regime.

We’ve got a lot of work to do over the next year to take back Congress. Join the organizing that’s happening near you to win everywhere: indivisible.org/groups
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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PA Supreme Court retains its 5-2 democratic majority! HELL FUCKIN YEAH!
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
@joe-scarborough.bsky.social
How do you explain all the pictures available with Trump and teens?
MOULTON: If you're like Trump & took advantage of girls w/Epstein-

SCARBOROUGH: We don't have evidence he took advantage of girls w/Epstein

M: Common sense be damned

S: Is he in the files?

M: Obviously

S: You have absolutely no evidence he took advantage of girls

M: I think it's pretty obvious
October 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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I will repost this forever.
October 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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THIS IS SO ON POINT.
Mamdani, in response, says something like [not exactly verbatim]: "It took me to get you to even see Muslims as members of the city."
October 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
October 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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💯 The goal is threefold:

1) Tie the GOP to corruption + crime, thus reclaiming "law + order."

2) Perhaps deter some violations now.

3) Build popular support for an anti-corruption crusade when Dems regain office, a master frame that Dems can use to legitimize transformative institutional change.
Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted."

That will change the frame of the story.
Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
October 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD
He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.
www.houstonchronicle.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM