Tappin Lisa
@tappinlisa.bsky.social
Introvert and UCLA alum who votes blue and loves to dance 💜
VSA moderator and Wonkette non-commenter 😁
VSA moderator and Wonkette non-commenter 😁
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Doubt truth to be a liar
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Doubt truth to be a liar
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It ys onlye Gen AI if it ys from the Gen AI regioun of Fraunce, otherwyse it ys just sparklinge plagiarism.
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It ys onlye Gen AI if it ys from the Gen AI regioun of Fraunce, otherwyse it ys just sparklinge plagiarism.
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Anothir destructyve blow to learninge and knowledge
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Under Pressure to Prove ROI, a University Closes Its Press
Bucknell University says it’s closing its storied academic press to focus more resources on undergraduate students. But faculty and other scholars say the press has long been a part of the value propo...
www.insidehighered.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Anothir destructyve blow to learninge and knowledge
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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My colleague sat down
and coughed
and coughed,
and when he finished coughing
he asked if I would
close my office window
as he felt a bit cold,
and I didn’t know
exactly how to tell him
that my window was open
because he was filling the air
with something worse than a cold.
and coughed
and coughed,
and when he finished coughing
he asked if I would
close my office window
as he felt a bit cold,
and I didn’t know
exactly how to tell him
that my window was open
because he was filling the air
with something worse than a cold.
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
My colleague sat down
and coughed
and coughed,
and when he finished coughing
he asked if I would
close my office window
as he felt a bit cold,
and I didn’t know
exactly how to tell him
that my window was open
because he was filling the air
with something worse than a cold.
and coughed
and coughed,
and when he finished coughing
he asked if I would
close my office window
as he felt a bit cold,
and I didn’t know
exactly how to tell him
that my window was open
because he was filling the air
with something worse than a cold.
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McGovern: Buried in this bill is a corrupt kickback for eight Republican senators, a million dollar payday funded by taxpayers, taken from the treasury and deposited directly into their pockets. What the hell is wrong with this place?
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
McGovern: Buried in this bill is a corrupt kickback for eight Republican senators, a million dollar payday funded by taxpayers, taken from the treasury and deposited directly into their pockets. What the hell is wrong with this place?
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Hey #LA!! Happy to be back in town for our Thursday Freeway Brigade and hope you can join. We will have a very timely message, as usual! Please come by for some good morning activism!
@indivisiblewestsidela.com
#VisibilityBrigade
#ICEOutOfLA
@indivisiblewestsidela.com
#VisibilityBrigade
#ICEOutOfLA
West LA Freeway Brigade · Indivisible Westside Los Angeles
Come join local activists from Indivisible Westside LA as we give commuters the morning anti-fascism boost they need! Remind our fellow Angelenos that we're standing up against this out-of-control reg...
mobilize.us
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Hey #LA!! Happy to be back in town for our Thursday Freeway Brigade and hope you can join. We will have a very timely message, as usual! Please come by for some good morning activism!
@indivisiblewestsidela.com
#VisibilityBrigade
#ICEOutOfLA
@indivisiblewestsidela.com
#VisibilityBrigade
#ICEOutOfLA
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Today, students and workers at 100s of schools protested against Trump's attacks on our schools.
We're just getting started. We're building up to massive student strikes on May Day that will disrupt business as usual and demand this country work for our generation.
vist.ly/4derj
We're just getting started. We're building up to massive student strikes on May Day that will disrupt business as usual and demand this country work for our generation.
vist.ly/4derj
Students and faculty at over 100 US universities protest against Trump’s attacks
Student, national and local groups across US organized day of action to condemn Trump’s assault on academic freedom
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Today, students and workers at 100s of schools protested against Trump's attacks on our schools.
We're just getting started. We're building up to massive student strikes on May Day that will disrupt business as usual and demand this country work for our generation.
vist.ly/4derj
We're just getting started. We're building up to massive student strikes on May Day that will disrupt business as usual and demand this country work for our generation.
vist.ly/4derj
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Holy crap! Aurora borealis in Sacramento!
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Holy crap! Aurora borealis in Sacramento!
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I might have taken a few aurora photos.
November 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I might have taken a few aurora photos.
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went downstairs & actual outside to see what it was like looking more northward
like i live in the epicenter of light pollution in my city so it’s bananas to be getting these vivid ass colors in any way for the aurora borealis
like i live in the epicenter of light pollution in my city so it’s bananas to be getting these vivid ass colors in any way for the aurora borealis
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
went downstairs & actual outside to see what it was like looking more northward
like i live in the epicenter of light pollution in my city so it’s bananas to be getting these vivid ass colors in any way for the aurora borealis
like i live in the epicenter of light pollution in my city so it’s bananas to be getting these vivid ass colors in any way for the aurora borealis
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Aurora just north of Urbana, IL.
My phone enhanced the colors a bit, but they were very visible to the naked eye.
My phone enhanced the colors a bit, but they were very visible to the naked eye.
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Aurora just north of Urbana, IL.
My phone enhanced the colors a bit, but they were very visible to the naked eye.
My phone enhanced the colors a bit, but they were very visible to the naked eye.
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Jim Banks calls for Indiana to have a 9-0 Republican congressional map and alleges that "the Democrats manipulated the census data when Joe Biden came into office." (The 2020 census happened in 2020, when believe it or not Trump was president)
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Jim Banks calls for Indiana to have a 9-0 Republican congressional map and alleges that "the Democrats manipulated the census data when Joe Biden came into office." (The 2020 census happened in 2020, when believe it or not Trump was president)
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NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
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📣 OK, as promised, here's my *deeper* dive into how 14 states have instituted #ACA pricing policy which will *dramatically* mitigate the expiring tax credits for a significant portion of enrollees...IF enrollees take advantage of it:
acasignups.net/25/11/11/the...
acasignups.net/25/11/11/the...
There Will Be Graphs: A deeper dive into how 14 states are dramatically mitigating the expiring tax credits
Last week I posted a deep dive into how a bunch of states are taking action to at least partially cancel out the impact of the impending end of the enhanced federal Advance Premium Tax Credits (APTC) ...
acasignups.net
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
📣 OK, as promised, here's my *deeper* dive into how 14 states have instituted #ACA pricing policy which will *dramatically* mitigate the expiring tax credits for a significant portion of enrollees...IF enrollees take advantage of it:
acasignups.net/25/11/11/the...
acasignups.net/25/11/11/the...
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You all forced me to get the emergency Thin Mints out of the freezer tonight. 😤
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
You all forced me to get the emergency Thin Mints out of the freezer tonight. 😤
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I get what Bernie sanders is saying when he’s asked if Schumer should be replaced, he says: who’s gonna replace him & that any replacement would be of a similar ideology and not a “progressive.”
I get that but there is a diff between “as left wing as Ilhan Omar” & “can hit the don’t-cave button”
I get that but there is a diff between “as left wing as Ilhan Omar” & “can hit the don’t-cave button”
NEW Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet: zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I get what Bernie sanders is saying when he’s asked if Schumer should be replaced, he says: who’s gonna replace him & that any replacement would be of a similar ideology and not a “progressive.”
I get that but there is a diff between “as left wing as Ilhan Omar” & “can hit the don’t-cave button”
I get that but there is a diff between “as left wing as Ilhan Omar” & “can hit the don’t-cave button”
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‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
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🚨BREAKING: In a win for Wisconsin voters, a state judge vacated a ruling that would have forced election officials to conduct mass citizenship checks — a move voting rights advocates warned could have wrongly purged some citizens from the rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
In a Win for Voters, Wisconsin Judge Withdraws Anti-Voting Order on Proof of Citizenship
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
🚨BREAKING: In a win for Wisconsin voters, a state judge vacated a ruling that would have forced election officials to conduct mass citizenship checks — a move voting rights advocates warned could have wrongly purged some citizens from the rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
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King, Fetterman and Cortez Masto were *already" voting with the Republicans. This is important because the rest are COVERING FOR SCHUMER.
8 Senate Democrats sided with Trump and Republican fascists in throwing 15 million Americans off Medicaid and Obamacare:
Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).
Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
King, Fetterman and Cortez Masto were *already" voting with the Republicans. This is important because the rest are COVERING FOR SCHUMER.
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“We’ll see.”
We’re supposed to accept that Democratic leadership allowed this caliber of strategist to negotiate a deal with the most diabolical, mendacious group of politicians in American government.
We’re supposed to accept that Democratic leadership allowed this caliber of strategist to negotiate a deal with the most diabolical, mendacious group of politicians in American government.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“We’ll see.”
We’re supposed to accept that Democratic leadership allowed this caliber of strategist to negotiate a deal with the most diabolical, mendacious group of politicians in American government.
We’re supposed to accept that Democratic leadership allowed this caliber of strategist to negotiate a deal with the most diabolical, mendacious group of politicians in American government.
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When Ezra Klein of all people says the Dems are losing by compromising, you KNOW you fucked up
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
When Ezra Klein of all people says the Dems are losing by compromising, you KNOW you fucked up
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The 'lady' in 'ladybugs' refers to the Virgin Mary.
First of all, there are over 5,000 varieties of ladybugs.
However, the first type of these beetles to be called a 'ladybug' had 7 spots which were thought to symbolize the 7 sorrows she suffered.
First of all, there are over 5,000 varieties of ladybugs.
However, the first type of these beetles to be called a 'ladybug' had 7 spots which were thought to symbolize the 7 sorrows she suffered.
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The 'lady' in 'ladybugs' refers to the Virgin Mary.
First of all, there are over 5,000 varieties of ladybugs.
However, the first type of these beetles to be called a 'ladybug' had 7 spots which were thought to symbolize the 7 sorrows she suffered.
First of all, there are over 5,000 varieties of ladybugs.
However, the first type of these beetles to be called a 'ladybug' had 7 spots which were thought to symbolize the 7 sorrows she suffered.
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A key reason is that the Dem base has been reluctant at times to challenge the Democrats including progressives who often go along with their party leaders as “team players” and never care about exerting accountability.
So this is evergreen.
So this is evergreen.
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
A key reason is that the Dem base has been reluctant at times to challenge the Democrats including progressives who often go along with their party leaders as “team players” and never care about exerting accountability.
So this is evergreen.
So this is evergreen.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.