larelli
@larelli.bsky.social
Gardener. Democrat. Dog Aficionado.
All about peonies, politics and pups
Hell is empty and all the skeets are here
All about peonies, politics and pups
Hell is empty and all the skeets are here
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the hat on shein vs the hat they deliver
December 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
the hat on shein vs the hat they deliver
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You know what? I'm willing to empirically test this as many times as it takes to reach statistical certainty about any conclusions we reach
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
You know what? I'm willing to empirically test this as many times as it takes to reach statistical certainty about any conclusions we reach
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Don’t worry, CBS News is completely unaffected by the new change in management.
December 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Don’t worry, CBS News is completely unaffected by the new change in management.
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related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
what the fuck are you talking about man
December 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
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i’ll add that what substantively seems to annoy silver is the existence of people with principles
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
i’ll add that what substantively seems to annoy silver is the existence of people with principles
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Agreed. www.cjr.org/opinion/vikt...
December 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Agreed. www.cjr.org/opinion/vikt...
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Like... a giant city-to-city vacuum tube? HUNDREDS of MILES of vacuum tubes??? And nobody in the position to do so ever went "That sounds impossible, actually." into a microphone. They just let him play pretend and call him a genius for it.
December 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Like... a giant city-to-city vacuum tube? HUNDREDS of MILES of vacuum tubes??? And nobody in the position to do so ever went "That sounds impossible, actually." into a microphone. They just let him play pretend and call him a genius for it.
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The police killing of Sonya Massey ignited protests throughout the country. In Illinois, a civilian commission met over the last year to debate changes—holding tense, difficult meetings.
This story follows the commission for months—and captures just how agonizing these processes can be.
NEW:
This story follows the commission for months—and captures just how agonizing these processes can be.
NEW:
A Police Killing Drew National Protests. At Home, a Commission Struggles with How to Make a Difference. - Bolts
Part I: “I’m going to still try” On July 6, 2024, the morning after Sonya Massey was murdered by a Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy, a local citizen journalist named Calvin... Read More
boltsmag.org
December 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The police killing of Sonya Massey ignited protests throughout the country. In Illinois, a civilian commission met over the last year to debate changes—holding tense, difficult meetings.
This story follows the commission for months—and captures just how agonizing these processes can be.
NEW:
This story follows the commission for months—and captures just how agonizing these processes can be.
NEW:
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It’s always the “You go, girl!” types, with “Listen to Black women” in their bios. They like to post about how they’d vote for Crockett for POTUS (and, Michelle Obama, obvs 🙄) but, now that shes running for an office that might get her there, they’re worried about *other people’s* misogynoir.
I just saw someone say Texas will never vote for a Black woman Democrat as if Texas has been voting for white male Democrats (cough beto cough cough) or white woman Democrats (wendy) or Black male Democrats (collin) all along.
We've tried all that. None of them won. Let Congresswoman Crockett try.
We've tried all that. None of them won. Let Congresswoman Crockett try.
December 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It’s always the “You go, girl!” types, with “Listen to Black women” in their bios. They like to post about how they’d vote for Crockett for POTUS (and, Michelle Obama, obvs 🙄) but, now that shes running for an office that might get her there, they’re worried about *other people’s* misogynoir.
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as a neighbor over in Alabama who has faced too many ballots with unopposed republicans, this makes me SO HAPPY for Texas!!!!
Texas Democrats just did something historic under the leadership of new state party chair @kendallscudder.bsky.social. We have filed a candidate in EVERY 2026 race.
U.S. Senate: 1 of 1
U.S. House: 38 of 38
State Senate: 15 of 15
State House: 150 of 150
State Board of Education: 8 of 8
U.S. Senate: 1 of 1
U.S. House: 38 of 38
State Senate: 15 of 15
State House: 150 of 150
State Board of Education: 8 of 8
We Did It, Texas Dems, We Did It
Candidates in every legislative, statewide, and federal race. Now it’s time to build power where it counts.
www.lonestarleft.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:12 AM
as a neighbor over in Alabama who has faced too many ballots with unopposed republicans, this makes me SO HAPPY for Texas!!!!
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from a state party director
December 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
from a state party director
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The Trump administration has removed MLK Day and Juneteenth as holidays that include free entrance to national parks, adding the president’s birthday instead
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The Trump administration has removed MLK Day and Juneteenth as holidays that include free entrance to national parks, adding the president’s birthday instead
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A lot of comments under this are saying things like "It's not OUR jobs to stop this, it's the job of Congress to stop it!" and like...NO. It IS our jobs as citizens to stop this; Congress is not some customer support line for us to lodge complaints with. We must be active in our civic virtue. TLDR:
December 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A lot of comments under this are saying things like "It's not OUR jobs to stop this, it's the job of Congress to stop it!" and like...NO. It IS our jobs as citizens to stop this; Congress is not some customer support line for us to lodge complaints with. We must be active in our civic virtue. TLDR:
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hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
lol I take it back - it’s all worth the hideous of the self congratulatory naval gazing because it provided us with this AMAZING photo
Also Joe Kahn, likely the only person who wanted to pose like this except for Rose on ‘Titanic’:
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
lol I take it back - it’s all worth the hideous of the self congratulatory naval gazing because it provided us with this AMAZING photo
This is so obsequious and nauseating. Elizabeth ask better questions at this moment in our history.
The New York Times highlights a reader question asking Exec Editor Joe Kahn, “How do you find time to care for yourself?” Really? Out of all the questions you got from readers, you choose one asking Kahn how he copes with his hard job? Suck it up, Times. 🧵 4/4
December 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This is so obsequious and nauseating. Elizabeth ask better questions at this moment in our history.
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Freed from prison by Trump on his last day in office in 2021, a $200 million fraudster started a new Ponzi scheme within months.
*A Bloomberg Big Take*
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Freed by Trump, a $200 Million Fraudster Started a New Scam
Eli Weinstein promised to reform — but after his release he took on an alias and started another Ponzi scheme.
www.bloomberg.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Freed from prison by Trump on his last day in office in 2021, a $200 million fraudster started a new Ponzi scheme within months.
*A Bloomberg Big Take*
FREE Gift Link:
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
*A Bloomberg Big Take*
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www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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AGAIN!!! Support your public libraries. LIKE ACTUAL POLITICAL SUPPORT. I do not want to hear "I looooovveee my public library" from people who don't actually pay attention to whether they are being adequately funded and sustained, lol...
“We will serve New York State and anyone who cannot get to their library due to age or disability,” said Madlyn Schneider, [Queens Public Library’s Mail-A-Book] coordinator.
www.qchron.com/editions/que...
www.qchron.com/editions/que...
Special delivery: QPL Mail-A-Book turns 50
For the past five decades, the Queens Public Library’s Mail-A-Book program has bridged the gap between homebound New Yorkers and the world of reading, delivering books and other materials directly
www.qchron.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
AGAIN!!! Support your public libraries. LIKE ACTUAL POLITICAL SUPPORT. I do not want to hear "I looooovveee my public library" from people who don't actually pay attention to whether they are being adequately funded and sustained, lol...
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I broke a nephew's use of "skibidi" by using it and explaining its relationship to dadaism. By the end the word was so boring and uncool he couldn't bear to say it again.
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I broke a nephew's use of "skibidi" by using it and explaining its relationship to dadaism. By the end the word was so boring and uncool he couldn't bear to say it again.
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I'll vote for anyone who promises to throw this man in jail.
Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.
![Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh •9h “BREAKING: Gov. Tim Walz says Somalians are ESSENTIAL to the Minnesota community - despite STEALING millions or even billions in taxpayer dollars.
‘They bring diversity and ENERGY to a place like Minnesota!’ Pathetic. Somalians LEECH - DEPORT THEM.”
Response from Gregory Bovino’s official account: “Waltz is of the same class as newsome, stein, pritzker - gubners [governors] who choose illegal aliens over their own citizens. Amazing incompetence”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreihst32abq4yk2kvsi3sg5bjedowsscsf5lfojdskehwivjizr2tme@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I'll vote for anyone who promises to throw this man in jail.
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It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
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when you have had it with these iconoclastic snakes on this consecrated plane
November 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
when you have had it with these iconoclastic snakes on this consecrated plane
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it’s fun watching people see what trans folks have been warning of for years. the media has no capacity to inform about the politicization of health care
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
it’s fun watching people see what trans folks have been warning of for years. the media has no capacity to inform about the politicization of health care
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I feel comfortable and secure in my belief that democratic leadership should not be pulling their slogans from venture capitalists. That this, at minimum, is a significant indictment of who they are listening and talking to. It’s not that complicated.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I feel comfortable and secure in my belief that democratic leadership should not be pulling their slogans from venture capitalists. That this, at minimum, is a significant indictment of who they are listening and talking to. It’s not that complicated.