liprap
@liprap.bsky.social
Sky's the limit over here. Rockin' the greater Houston area 'burbs…exiled from New Orleans, but not in the Napoleonic sense. Trans-Sabine Texmudgeon. Also found on 🧵 as liprap3. https://liprapslament-theline.blogspot.com
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This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):
February 4, 2026 at 2:20 PM
This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):
They're All Out Of Liquor, Let's Find Another Party - The Waitresses
Deleted a post about “what’s your least favorite song” because the vibes are bad enough already.
Instead: what’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long?
Mine: “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (Pearl Jam)
Instead: what’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long?
Mine: “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (Pearl Jam)
February 4, 2026 at 5:08 PM
They're All Out Of Liquor, Let's Find Another Party - The Waitresses
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Food stamp recipients and small business owners in parts of North Louisiana are eligible for federal disaster assistance to cover their losses from the recent severe winter weather. @wesmuller.bsky.social reports
Extra SNAP benefits, small business loans available in N. Louisiana after winter storm • Louisiana Illuminator
Food stamp recipients and small business owners in parts of North Louisiana are eligible for federal disaster assistance to cover their losses from the recent severe winter weather.
lailluminator.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Food stamp recipients and small business owners in parts of North Louisiana are eligible for federal disaster assistance to cover their losses from the recent severe winter weather. @wesmuller.bsky.social reports
"Many of us have encountered bullies our entire lives...Over the last decade, we've watched other people be bullied, and I think that turns you into somebody that, even if that bully is wearing full tactical gear, I'm not interested in laying down for you.”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
www.mprnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 4:29 PM
"Many of us have encountered bullies our entire lives...Over the last decade, we've watched other people be bullied, and I think that turns you into somebody that, even if that bully is wearing full tactical gear, I'm not interested in laying down for you.”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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BREAKING: Fulton County demanded in court that the federal government return all of the 2020 election related materials the FBI seized from its central election hub last week.
One county official stated that “our Constitution itself is at stake over this fight.”
One county official stated that “our Constitution itself is at stake over this fight.”
‘Our Constitution itself is at stake’: Fulton County officials challenge FBI’s seizure of 2020 election records
"We will fight using all resources against those who seek to take over our elections."
www.democracydocket.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM
BREAKING: Fulton County demanded in court that the federal government return all of the 2020 election related materials the FBI seized from its central election hub last week.
One county official stated that “our Constitution itself is at stake over this fight.”
One county official stated that “our Constitution itself is at stake over this fight.”
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Now coming to the stage, please welcome
The free-roaming turkeys of Saint Paul, Minnesota:
- are enormous
- don’t know where they’re going
- have no plans or motivations
- don’t understand roads
- or anything at all, really
- are enormous
- don’t know where they’re going
- have no plans or motivations
- don’t understand roads
- or anything at all, really
February 4, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Now coming to the stage, please welcome
Greater detail on what's happening here. For starters: Policies based on internal memos rather than the Constitution are gonna get cases dismissed.
What’s up with the government lawyer who told a federal judge in Minnesota on Tuesday that “the system sucks” and her “job sucks”?
I have you covered at Law Dork:
I have you covered at Law Dork:
"The system sucks," or what a federal lawyer's comments really tell us about the Trump admin
Julie Le's comments are shocking, but they are a problem of the Trump admin’s own making. And it goes way beyond one lawyer new to the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office.
www.lawdork.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Greater detail on what's happening here. For starters: Policies based on internal memos rather than the Constitution are gonna get cases dismissed.
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The looming return of Jim Crow to America’s second Blackest state
Louisiana’s political system could soon look more like 1966, the end of the Jim Crow Era, than 2026, and it’s time to acknowledge the full extent of the greatest threat to the American Experiment in decades.
Louisiana’s political system could soon look more like 1966, the end of the Jim Crow Era, than 2026, and it’s time to acknowledge the full extent of the greatest threat to the American Experiment in decades.
The looming return of Jim Crow to America’s second Blackest state
Louisiana’s political system could soon look more like 1966, the end of the Jim Crow Era, than 2026, and it’s time to acknowledge the full extent of the greatest threat to the American Experiment in decades.
veritenews.org
February 4, 2026 at 4:00 PM
The looming return of Jim Crow to America’s second Blackest state
Louisiana’s political system could soon look more like 1966, the end of the Jim Crow Era, than 2026, and it’s time to acknowledge the full extent of the greatest threat to the American Experiment in decades.
Louisiana’s political system could soon look more like 1966, the end of the Jim Crow Era, than 2026, and it’s time to acknowledge the full extent of the greatest threat to the American Experiment in decades.
Dreamt that I was in a building hugging a sizeable hill in Duluth observing an experiment on Lake Superior that had gone horribly wrong and showed no signs of shrinking. It somehow just missed taking down the building so I was able to go back through & meet people who behaved like nothing was wrong.
February 4, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Dreamt that I was in a building hugging a sizeable hill in Duluth observing an experiment on Lake Superior that had gone horribly wrong and showed no signs of shrinking. It somehow just missed taking down the building so I was able to go back through & meet people who behaved like nothing was wrong.
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Update: The Monday after this story ran, Sonya was punished for "soliciting" donations. She told me in a letter today that her custody level has been lowered, meaning that she "must live in the unit cell block with the more misbehaved women, my freedom inside the prison is severely limited."
NEW: I spoke with the Texas inmate who was put in solitary confinement after a GoFundMe for her sick prison cat went viral. While she's since been returned to regular housing, she and her longtime friend worry that more retaliation could be on the way.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
A Texas inmate's cat fundraiser went viral. Solitary confinement followed.
"Despite what this prison does to me, it's the cats that make me want to be a better person."
www.chron.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Update: The Monday after this story ran, Sonya was punished for "soliciting" donations. She told me in a letter today that her custody level has been lowered, meaning that she "must live in the unit cell block with the more misbehaved women, my freedom inside the prison is severely limited."
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It’s important to keep in mind the existence of a lot of antipathy toward D.C. specifically, and its limited capacity to protect itself because of its relationship to the federal government.
With the closing of the Kennedy Center and the cuts at the Post, the Washington, DC metro area has lost its biggest arts institution and of its largest local journalism outlet.
February 4, 2026 at 3:10 PM
It’s important to keep in mind the existence of a lot of antipathy toward D.C. specifically, and its limited capacity to protect itself because of its relationship to the federal government.
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I've reread this like 3 times. Freed herself from slavery by running away, *went back a week later bc the slaver was talking shit, set his house on fire, and then escaped again is absolutely incredible queen shit
As an aside, Rachel is a legend. (From Fischer’s “African Founders”)
February 4, 2026 at 1:51 PM
I've reread this like 3 times. Freed herself from slavery by running away, *went back a week later bc the slaver was talking shit, set his house on fire, and then escaped again is absolutely incredible queen shit
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There is no other structure of government that passes responsibility - funding, academics, special ed - like the U.S. education system.
That makes it inherently and ridiculously political when a state agency threatens to interjects over something like this:
That makes it inherently and ridiculously political when a state agency threatens to interjects over something like this:
Texas Education Agency warns districts of potential state takeovers for “encouraging” student protests
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/t...
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/t...
TEA warns of state takeovers for “encouraging” student protests
The state education agency issued guidance to districts after Gov. Greg Abbott directed its commissioner to investigate the student protests of killings by federal agents.
www.texastribune.org
February 4, 2026 at 3:08 PM
There is no other structure of government that passes responsibility - funding, academics, special ed - like the U.S. education system.
That makes it inherently and ridiculously political when a state agency threatens to interjects over something like this:
That makes it inherently and ridiculously political when a state agency threatens to interjects over something like this:
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Good morning, Bluesky.
I love this town.
(Don’t pout, Baltimore, you’ll always be my #1, but would it kill you to have a little more whimsy when it comes to potholes?)
I love this town.
(Don’t pout, Baltimore, you’ll always be my #1, but would it kill you to have a little more whimsy when it comes to potholes?)
February 4, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Good morning, Bluesky.
I love this town.
(Don’t pout, Baltimore, you’ll always be my #1, but would it kill you to have a little more whimsy when it comes to potholes?)
I love this town.
(Don’t pout, Baltimore, you’ll always be my #1, but would it kill you to have a little more whimsy when it comes to potholes?)
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The Trump administration is demanding @upenn.edu (my alma mater) a list of all Jewish faculty, staff, and students Personally, I don't care why they're asking for this list of names, because no reason would make it any less chilling.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why the Trump administration’s demand for a list of Jews at Penn is so dangerous | Sigal Ben-Porath, Serena Mayeri and Amanda Shanor
If history teaches us anything, it is that making lists of Jews, no matter the ostensible purpose, is often a prelude to their and others’ persecution
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:08 PM
The Trump administration is demanding @upenn.edu (my alma mater) a list of all Jewish faculty, staff, and students Personally, I don't care why they're asking for this list of names, because no reason would make it any less chilling.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Pardon the interruption, but can our dear Mayor @kathygriffin.bsky.social please request that LesDoggg get over here already? We are missing a critical voice in the conversation without her presence.
Thank you for your attention.
Thank you for your attention.
February 4, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Pardon the interruption, but can our dear Mayor @kathygriffin.bsky.social please request that LesDoggg get over here already? We are missing a critical voice in the conversation without her presence.
Thank you for your attention.
Thank you for your attention.
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Raw fascism, this:
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Raw fascism, this:
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April 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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I have been deeply upset that Mt. Sinai, Columbia/NY Presbyterian have not settled this strike. Every time I hear a statement from leadership I wonder if a machine wrote it. To leave the nurses that you rely on to keep patients alive in the brutal cold for 4 weeks...
www.amny.com/news/nurses-...
www.amny.com/news/nurses-...
NURSES STRIKE: Hospital management returns “weak” counterproposals; walkout continues
The nurses strike continued as NYSNA said counterproposals from hospital management failed to address safe staffing issues.
www.amny.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:27 AM
I have been deeply upset that Mt. Sinai, Columbia/NY Presbyterian have not settled this strike. Every time I hear a statement from leadership I wonder if a machine wrote it. To leave the nurses that you rely on to keep patients alive in the brutal cold for 4 weeks...
www.amny.com/news/nurses-...
www.amny.com/news/nurses-...
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Luke Ganger, Renee Good’s brother: “In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation thinking that perhaps ‘Nee’s death would bring about change in our country. It has not.”
February 3, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Luke Ganger, Renee Good’s brother: “In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation thinking that perhaps ‘Nee’s death would bring about change in our country. It has not.”
This is insanity at work right here. Seems designed to have the entire justice system collapsing just from the workload...or the administration didn't think there would be anywhere near this much pushback from detained citizens.
The attorney working for DOJ who asked to be held in contempt so she could get some sleep and said "this job sucks" was assigned **88** federal cases in less than a month, per a court docket search.
www.fox9.com/news/federal...
www.fox9.com/news/federal...
February 3, 2026 at 11:15 PM
This is insanity at work right here. Seems designed to have the entire justice system collapsing just from the workload...or the administration didn't think there would be anywhere near this much pushback from detained citizens.
And if Minneapolis gets that Nobel, guess which enshittified schmuck is probably gonna send in more armed thugs just to get it?
February 3, 2026 at 11:06 PM
And if Minneapolis gets that Nobel, guess which enshittified schmuck is probably gonna send in more armed thugs just to get it?
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The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.
www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...
The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.
www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...
February 3, 2026 at 8:11 PM
The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.
www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...
The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.
www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...
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They don’t want us working
Roughly half a million women in the US exited the workforce in 2025, and 42% of those who voluntarily left cited their caregiving responsibilities as the main reason, according to a recent survey from Catalyst.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2026...
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42% of women are leaving the workforce over lack of caregiver support
In a tight employment market, employers that offer less flexibility risk losing working caregivers, according to a Catalyst report.
www.hr-brew.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:53 PM
They don’t want us working