LeslieLehmann
@leslielehmann.bsky.social
Left. Always Left.
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“Freedom…is not just free will, it is actually living in a society that is organized along “rational” principles of, say, cooperation.
…what we tend to call utopian, is actually not utopian, precisely because it is not a ‘no place.’
It’s not impossible to achieve.
It’s actually possible to achieve…”
…what we tend to call utopian, is actually not utopian, precisely because it is not a ‘no place.’
It’s not impossible to achieve.
It’s actually possible to achieve…”
February 16, 2026 at 4:51 PM
“Freedom…is not just free will, it is actually living in a society that is organized along “rational” principles of, say, cooperation.
…what we tend to call utopian, is actually not utopian, precisely because it is not a ‘no place.’
It’s not impossible to achieve.
It’s actually possible to achieve…”
…what we tend to call utopian, is actually not utopian, precisely because it is not a ‘no place.’
It’s not impossible to achieve.
It’s actually possible to achieve…”
Dealing with this is rough.
February 16, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Dealing with this is rough.
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We promise we're super mature with Philip K. Dick's last name. Mostly.
This week we're taking on Philip K. Dick's 1956 sci-fi novelette, "The Minority Report."
Precrime. Science fiction. Being cuckolded in your mind. It's all here, folks
Thanks to the fellas from @thepoduniverse.com for joining!
This week we're taking on Philip K. Dick's 1956 sci-fi novelette, "The Minority Report."
Precrime. Science fiction. Being cuckolded in your mind. It's all here, folks
Thanks to the fellas from @thepoduniverse.com for joining!
February 16, 2026 at 4:54 PM
We promise we're super mature with Philip K. Dick's last name. Mostly.
This week we're taking on Philip K. Dick's 1956 sci-fi novelette, "The Minority Report."
Precrime. Science fiction. Being cuckolded in your mind. It's all here, folks
Thanks to the fellas from @thepoduniverse.com for joining!
This week we're taking on Philip K. Dick's 1956 sci-fi novelette, "The Minority Report."
Precrime. Science fiction. Being cuckolded in your mind. It's all here, folks
Thanks to the fellas from @thepoduniverse.com for joining!
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After so many decades of intentional weakening and the rapid pace they're destroying the framing left, we don't really need to embrace burn it all down, we need to accept "don't let them try to build back on the same foundation"
February 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
After so many decades of intentional weakening and the rapid pace they're destroying the framing left, we don't really need to embrace burn it all down, we need to accept "don't let them try to build back on the same foundation"
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A strange find from the Epstein files:
A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev."
Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev."
Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 15, 2026 at 10:36 PM
A strange find from the Epstein files:
A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev."
Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev."
Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?
February 6, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?
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"i promise right now, years away from an election, to vote for an awful shitbag bigot because he isn't the other guy" shut da fuck up. you are making things worse
February 12, 2026 at 12:15 AM
"i promise right now, years away from an election, to vote for an awful shitbag bigot because he isn't the other guy" shut da fuck up. you are making things worse
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People who see “voting isn’t how you get real change, just choosing the conditions you organize under” as arguing for voter apathy are telling on themselves that they only see politics as something to do occasionally on a ballot, not built every day through community, solidarity & collective action.
February 13, 2026 at 11:38 AM
People who see “voting isn’t how you get real change, just choosing the conditions you organize under” as arguing for voter apathy are telling on themselves that they only see politics as something to do occasionally on a ballot, not built every day through community, solidarity & collective action.
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some people just go online looking to have a bad time and it is a key part of adulthood to not humor them.
February 13, 2026 at 11:14 PM
some people just go online looking to have a bad time and it is a key part of adulthood to not humor them.
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the very idea of gavin newsom in 2028 is preposterous. he's a throwback to the time where you could put a haircut in a suit and have him mouth platitudes while the status quo grinds on. we're so far past that. we got pedophile nazis now. lol that you want to reanimate dan quayle
February 13, 2026 at 8:29 PM
the very idea of gavin newsom in 2028 is preposterous. he's a throwback to the time where you could put a haircut in a suit and have him mouth platitudes while the status quo grinds on. we're so far past that. we got pedophile nazis now. lol that you want to reanimate dan quayle
That last sentence. Chef's kiss
February 16, 2026 at 4:08 PM
That last sentence. Chef's kiss
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liberal walking into the car dealership: i want the second shittiest car you have. i will buy it for literally any price
February 16, 2026 at 2:39 AM
liberal walking into the car dealership: i want the second shittiest car you have. i will buy it for literally any price
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My god do we need UBI
“Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“
“Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“
Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet
Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns.
www.nbcnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:16 AM
My god do we need UBI
“Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“
“Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“
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if you care about winning elections, your bosses fucked up. the fault is theirs, for fucking up. the fault is not with the left for pointing out they were fucking up ahead of time
February 16, 2026 at 1:39 PM
if you care about winning elections, your bosses fucked up. the fault is theirs, for fucking up. the fault is not with the left for pointing out they were fucking up ahead of time
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those camps were built under obama and kept open under biden. ICE budgets increased every year under obama and biden. no one from the first trump term was prosecuted and biden told trump "welcome home" on inauguration day
neo-liberalism doesn't fight fascism it enables it.
neo-liberalism doesn't fight fascism it enables it.
This is just a classic "neoliberalism is anything I don't like."
I mean, neoliberalism is bad. But it's on a whole different axis from "fight fascists or not."
I mean, neoliberalism is bad. But it's on a whole different axis from "fight fascists or not."
February 16, 2026 at 12:25 PM
those camps were built under obama and kept open under biden. ICE budgets increased every year under obama and biden. no one from the first trump term was prosecuted and biden told trump "welcome home" on inauguration day
neo-liberalism doesn't fight fascism it enables it.
neo-liberalism doesn't fight fascism it enables it.
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Corporate actions always will lean toward increasing prices. They did it at the start of Covid and they have not abated their corporate ways, including shrinkflation which is worse now.
February 16, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Corporate actions always will lean toward increasing prices. They did it at the start of Covid and they have not abated their corporate ways, including shrinkflation which is worse now.
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Shitting on the left seems to be the only victory that centrists are capable of. "Shut up and vote party line" but the party line just creeps closer to the right every election, just so shitlibs can go back to brunch.
February 16, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Shitting on the left seems to be the only victory that centrists are capable of. "Shut up and vote party line" but the party line just creeps closer to the right every election, just so shitlibs can go back to brunch.
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What mistake?
This is referring to the discourse around people saying they won’t vote for Newsom/you should vote blue no matter who in 2028.
The point here is that running an electable candidate is in the Democratic Party’s best interest to defeat Trump/JD/whoever. Do you disagree?
This is referring to the discourse around people saying they won’t vote for Newsom/you should vote blue no matter who in 2028.
The point here is that running an electable candidate is in the Democratic Party’s best interest to defeat Trump/JD/whoever. Do you disagree?
February 16, 2026 at 2:45 PM
What mistake?
This is referring to the discourse around people saying they won’t vote for Newsom/you should vote blue no matter who in 2028.
The point here is that running an electable candidate is in the Democratic Party’s best interest to defeat Trump/JD/whoever. Do you disagree?
This is referring to the discourse around people saying they won’t vote for Newsom/you should vote blue no matter who in 2028.
The point here is that running an electable candidate is in the Democratic Party’s best interest to defeat Trump/JD/whoever. Do you disagree?
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There’s no reason to think a third party candidate can win. That’s why the Democrats should run someone that doesn’t drive a significant section of their potential voter base to third parties/not voting.
February 16, 2026 at 2:48 PM
There’s no reason to think a third party candidate can win. That’s why the Democrats should run someone that doesn’t drive a significant section of their potential voter base to third parties/not voting.
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Unless of course your primarily goal is to scold people online.
In which case carry on, you’re doing great.
In which case carry on, you’re doing great.
February 16, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Unless of course your primarily goal is to scold people online.
In which case carry on, you’re doing great.
In which case carry on, you’re doing great.
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Crazy concept but if you don’t want people to vote third party then don’t run a candidate that a significant number of people openly refuse to vote for.
This is the correct strategy regardless of what you think about said people’s willingness to vote third party.
This is the correct strategy regardless of what you think about said people’s willingness to vote third party.
February 16, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Crazy concept but if you don’t want people to vote third party then don’t run a candidate that a significant number of people openly refuse to vote for.
This is the correct strategy regardless of what you think about said people’s willingness to vote third party.
This is the correct strategy regardless of what you think about said people’s willingness to vote third party.
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They’ve overturned Roe.
They’ve criminalized pregnancy in some states.
Arrested women for miscarrying.
They’re making it harder for women to vote.
They shout “repeal the 19th!”
The punishment for abortion is greater than the punishment for rape.
It’s a war on women.
They’ve criminalized pregnancy in some states.
Arrested women for miscarrying.
They’re making it harder for women to vote.
They shout “repeal the 19th!”
The punishment for abortion is greater than the punishment for rape.
It’s a war on women.
February 16, 2026 at 5:29 AM
They’ve overturned Roe.
They’ve criminalized pregnancy in some states.
Arrested women for miscarrying.
They’re making it harder for women to vote.
They shout “repeal the 19th!”
The punishment for abortion is greater than the punishment for rape.
It’s a war on women.
They’ve criminalized pregnancy in some states.
Arrested women for miscarrying.
They’re making it harder for women to vote.
They shout “repeal the 19th!”
The punishment for abortion is greater than the punishment for rape.
It’s a war on women.
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I am officially filing a claim against the phrase "corrupt billionaire" with the Department of Redundancy Department.
February 16, 2026 at 8:35 AM
I am officially filing a claim against the phrase "corrupt billionaire" with the Department of Redundancy Department.
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More from @liberalcurrents.com, from November by @zeblarson.bsky.social. It deserves to be widely read. It's the most sober-minded version of how liberal backlash to COVID mitigation measures set the table for the take-over of public health by the far-right. www.liberalcurrents.com/propaganda-r...
Propaganda, Rather than Pandemic Policies, Caused the War on Public Health
The backlash narrative ignores basic facts of the case.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 16, 2026 at 10:50 AM
More from @liberalcurrents.com, from November by @zeblarson.bsky.social. It deserves to be widely read. It's the most sober-minded version of how liberal backlash to COVID mitigation measures set the table for the take-over of public health by the far-right. www.liberalcurrents.com/propaganda-r...