Luisa Inez Newton
@luisainez.bsky.social
Writer, former musician, Texas Democrat, grandma
Reposted by Luisa Inez Newton
Just as he still listens to “YMCA” as if he were a 1970s playboy at Studio 54, Trump’s brain is stuck in 1970s thinking about drilling for oil. His denial of climate change facts and regressive policies re: renewable energy epitomize his stagnant brain and his backwards, willful idiocy in 2025.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Trump’s favor is always transactional,” Noah Shachtman writes in a guest essay. “More than helping any individual company, he wants to use energy as a tool for American leverage and, in his case, his own personal power.”
“Trump’s favor is always transactional,” Noah Shachtman writes in a guest essay. “More than helping any individual company, he wants to use energy as a tool for American leverage and, in his case, his own personal power.”
Opinion | The Real Reason Trump Is Fawning Over Saudi Arabia’s Ruler
The story begins in the 1970s.
nyti.ms
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Just as he still listens to “YMCA” as if he were a 1970s playboy at Studio 54, Trump’s brain is stuck in 1970s thinking about drilling for oil. His denial of climate change facts and regressive policies re: renewable energy epitomize his stagnant brain and his backwards, willful idiocy in 2025.
"Lend me the stone strength of the past
and I will lend you
The wings of the future, for I have them."
-- Robinson Jeffers, "To the Rock That Will be a Cornerstone" [1924]
and I will lend you
The wings of the future, for I have them."
-- Robinson Jeffers, "To the Rock That Will be a Cornerstone" [1924]
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"Lend me the stone strength of the past
and I will lend you
The wings of the future, for I have them."
-- Robinson Jeffers, "To the Rock That Will be a Cornerstone" [1924]
and I will lend you
The wings of the future, for I have them."
-- Robinson Jeffers, "To the Rock That Will be a Cornerstone" [1924]
“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many—they are few.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many—they are few.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy
October 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many—they are few.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many—they are few.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy
Reposted by Luisa Inez Newton
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, but we have this consolation: The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph." —Tom Paine
October 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, but we have this consolation: The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph." —Tom Paine
Reposted by Luisa Inez Newton
THE GOP IS NOW THE AFP.
October 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
THE GOP IS NOW THE AFP.
Felon Trump is freaking out over the fact that the #NoKings crowd sizes make his puny rallies look like his tiny “mushroom.” So he made an AI video of himself as a flying turd, which just makes us laugh at him even more for his desperation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL...
James Brown - Living in America (Official Video)
YouTube video by JamesBrownVevo
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October 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Felon Trump is freaking out over the fact that the #NoKings crowd sizes make his puny rallies look like his tiny “mushroom.” So he made an AI video of himself as a flying turd, which just makes us laugh at him even more for his desperation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL...
"Because men
are killing the forests
the fairy tales are running away.
The spindle doesn't know
whom to prick..."
― Günter Grass, "Rat"
are killing the forests
the fairy tales are running away.
The spindle doesn't know
whom to prick..."
― Günter Grass, "Rat"
October 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"Because men
are killing the forests
the fairy tales are running away.
The spindle doesn't know
whom to prick..."
― Günter Grass, "Rat"
are killing the forests
the fairy tales are running away.
The spindle doesn't know
whom to prick..."
― Günter Grass, "Rat"
The most insulting thing about Mousey Mike Johnson? Whenever he says “bless her heart.”
Time is up. I gave Speaker Mike Johnson two days to swear in Adelita Grijalva. Arizona's 7th congressional district 813,000 Arizonans are now being taxed without representation. I have lawyers downstairs right now drafting litigation.
youtu.be/9OBdjsGntQI?...
youtu.be/9OBdjsGntQI?...
AG Mayes Demands Speaker Johnson Swear In Adelita Grijalva | The Lead with Jake Tapper CNN
YouTube video by Arizona Attorney General's Office
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October 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The most insulting thing about Mousey Mike Johnson? Whenever he says “bless her heart.”
The subject of loss affects us all in 2025.
“Loss has become a pervasive condition of life in Europe and America,” Andreas Reckwitz writes. “It shapes the collective horizon more insistently than at any time since 1945, spilling into the mainstream of political, intellectual and everyday life.”
Opinion | The West Is Defined by Loss
Loss has become a pervasive condition of life in Europe and America.
nyti.ms
October 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The subject of loss affects us all in 2025.
I’m reading Stacy Schiff’s book about Samuel Adams prepping for Ken Burns doc re: our Revolution.
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
― Samuel Adams
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
― Samuel Adams
October 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I’m reading Stacy Schiff’s book about Samuel Adams prepping for Ken Burns doc re: our Revolution.
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
― Samuel Adams
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
― Samuel Adams
"The pressure of an all-powerful totalitarian state creates an emotional tension in its citizens that determines their acts. When people are divided into "loyalists" and "criminals" a premium is placed on every type of conformist, coward, and hireling."
― Czesław Miłosz, The Captive Mind
― Czesław Miłosz, The Captive Mind
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"The pressure of an all-powerful totalitarian state creates an emotional tension in its citizens that determines their acts. When people are divided into "loyalists" and "criminals" a premium is placed on every type of conformist, coward, and hireling."
― Czesław Miłosz, The Captive Mind
― Czesław Miłosz, The Captive Mind
"The public is lied to every day by the President, by his spokespeople, by his officers.”
― Daniel Ellsberg
― Daniel Ellsberg
September 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"The public is lied to every day by the President, by his spokespeople, by his officers.”
― Daniel Ellsberg
― Daniel Ellsberg
"Now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
September 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish."
-- Anne Bradstreet [1622-1672] "Thirty-three Meditations"
-- Anne Bradstreet [1622-1672] "Thirty-three Meditations"
August 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish."
-- Anne Bradstreet [1622-1672] "Thirty-three Meditations"
-- Anne Bradstreet [1622-1672] "Thirty-three Meditations"
“A puritan culture’s conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism. Nothing else.”
― Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet
― Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet
August 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
“A puritan culture’s conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism. Nothing else.”
― Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet
― Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
― Frédéric Bastiat
― Frédéric Bastiat
August 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
― Frédéric Bastiat
― Frédéric Bastiat
"Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear
― William Shakespeare, King Lear
August 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear
― William Shakespeare, King Lear
"There's a strong message of divine righteousness in dictatorships. Every megalomaniac has to believe his actions are sanctioned by God.”
― Eric Gamalinda, The Descartes Highlands
― Eric Gamalinda, The Descartes Highlands
August 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"There's a strong message of divine righteousness in dictatorships. Every megalomaniac has to believe his actions are sanctioned by God.”
― Eric Gamalinda, The Descartes Highlands
― Eric Gamalinda, The Descartes Highlands
“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”
― Émile Zola
― Émile Zola
August 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”
― Émile Zola
― Émile Zola
"Where are now the glorious hours
Of a nation's gather'd powers?
Like the setting of a star,
In the fathomless afar;
Time's eternal wing
Hath around those ruins cast
The dark presense of the past.”
― Letitia E. Landon [1802-1838]
Of a nation's gather'd powers?
Like the setting of a star,
In the fathomless afar;
Time's eternal wing
Hath around those ruins cast
The dark presense of the past.”
― Letitia E. Landon [1802-1838]
August 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"Where are now the glorious hours
Of a nation's gather'd powers?
Like the setting of a star,
In the fathomless afar;
Time's eternal wing
Hath around those ruins cast
The dark presense of the past.”
― Letitia E. Landon [1802-1838]
Of a nation's gather'd powers?
Like the setting of a star,
In the fathomless afar;
Time's eternal wing
Hath around those ruins cast
The dark presense of the past.”
― Letitia E. Landon [1802-1838]
"The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
August 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
"Few Germans in 1933 imagined Treblinka or Auschwitz, the mass shootings of Babi Yar or death marches… last months of WW2.
It’s hard to blame them for not foreseeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence failed them…”
― Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy
It’s hard to blame them for not foreseeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence failed them…”
― Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy
August 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"Few Germans in 1933 imagined Treblinka or Auschwitz, the mass shootings of Babi Yar or death marches… last months of WW2.
It’s hard to blame them for not foreseeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence failed them…”
― Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy
It’s hard to blame them for not foreseeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence failed them…”
― Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy
Is FLABBY TRUMP afraid of all the names of the JOHNS in the SEXTRAFICKING FILES who were members at MAR-A-LARDO?
Enquiring minds ask on behalf of the Epstein victims, on behalf of the American people, and curious how #HANDSOMEGAVIN2028 will meme the fuck out of it all?
Enquiring minds ask on behalf of the Epstein victims, on behalf of the American people, and curious how #HANDSOMEGAVIN2028 will meme the fuck out of it all?
August 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Is FLABBY TRUMP afraid of all the names of the JOHNS in the SEXTRAFICKING FILES who were members at MAR-A-LARDO?
Enquiring minds ask on behalf of the Epstein victims, on behalf of the American people, and curious how #HANDSOMEGAVIN2028 will meme the fuck out of it all?
Enquiring minds ask on behalf of the Epstein victims, on behalf of the American people, and curious how #HANDSOMEGAVIN2028 will meme the fuck out of it all?