Leslie Farrell
@lalibgal.bsky.social
“Never trust the living.” - Juno, Beetlejuice
Anti-fascist, pro-democracy, pro-education and defender of public libraries.
Anti-fascist, pro-democracy, pro-education and defender of public libraries.
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Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.
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But did we at least avoid dismantling core functions of the government when we let DOGE run amok? No.
But did we avoid killing millions of people by destroying USAID? Also no.
But did we at least avoid violating all the laws & the constitution by letting DOGE criminals run amok? Alas, also no.
But did we avoid killing millions of people by destroying USAID? Also no.
But did we at least avoid violating all the laws & the constitution by letting DOGE criminals run amok? Alas, also no.
Total federal spending is up +7% in 2025 over 2024 year-to-date to Oct 20.
The story that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere.
Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.
The story that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere.
Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.
October 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
But did we at least avoid dismantling core functions of the government when we let DOGE run amok? No.
But did we avoid killing millions of people by destroying USAID? Also no.
But did we at least avoid violating all the laws & the constitution by letting DOGE criminals run amok? Alas, also no.
But did we avoid killing millions of people by destroying USAID? Also no.
But did we at least avoid violating all the laws & the constitution by letting DOGE criminals run amok? Alas, also no.
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Here is the speech I gave at yesterday's No Kings rally in Worcester, hosted by @gain-indivisible.bsky.social.
After the biggest day of protest in American history, we have to turn this opposition movement into a resistance movement www.thecasualanalyst.com/blog-1/categ...
After the biggest day of protest in American history, we have to turn this opposition movement into a resistance movement www.thecasualanalyst.com/blog-1/categ...
Time to Turn Protests Into Resistance — The Casual Analyst
After the “No Kings” rallies, the biggest day of protest in American history, we have to turn this opposition movement into a resistance movement
www.thecasualanalyst.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Here is the speech I gave at yesterday's No Kings rally in Worcester, hosted by @gain-indivisible.bsky.social.
After the biggest day of protest in American history, we have to turn this opposition movement into a resistance movement www.thecasualanalyst.com/blog-1/categ...
After the biggest day of protest in American history, we have to turn this opposition movement into a resistance movement www.thecasualanalyst.com/blog-1/categ...
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I ❤️ my hometown.
Well done…
Well done…
October 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I ❤️ my hometown.
Well done…
Well done…
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Nothing that any elected Democrat has ever said about Republican voters is ever as crass or as cruel as what Trump says about Democratic constituencies every single day, and the media just treats it as background noise.
October 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Nothing that any elected Democrat has ever said about Republican voters is ever as crass or as cruel as what Trump says about Democratic constituencies every single day, and the media just treats it as background noise.
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Christ follower enters the chat
October 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Christ follower enters the chat
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How many does Herr miller cover in one tweet!?
October 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
How many does Herr miller cover in one tweet!?
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the degree of sheer incompetence that pervades this administration is remarkable, and incredibly dangerous.
Per message shared w/ me:
The State Department just notified certain staff they are to work during the shutdown because their job is "necessary for emergencies involving the safety of human life" or "essential to national security"
Except…some people who got this were laid off weeks ago in the RIF!
The State Department just notified certain staff they are to work during the shutdown because their job is "necessary for emergencies involving the safety of human life" or "essential to national security"
Except…some people who got this were laid off weeks ago in the RIF!
October 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
the degree of sheer incompetence that pervades this administration is remarkable, and incredibly dangerous.
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autistic lives are beautiful and worth living on their own terms and if you require a demonstration of relatability from someone to determine that are a human being who deserves to live a rich and full life, it is you who is the monster
September 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
autistic lives are beautiful and worth living on their own terms and if you require a demonstration of relatability from someone to determine that are a human being who deserves to live a rich and full life, it is you who is the monster
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Now this is news
Friends & authorities in Makkari, Hokkaido were looking for an 87yo man who went missing while foraging for mushrooms. While Fuji News was interviewing his friends, the man emerged from the woods: "Hey guys, sorry."
buff.ly/VCY9EP0
buff.ly/VCY9EP0
September 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Now this is news
I’m going to agree with quack doctor here. Get the able bodied people on Medicaid outside so they can’t watch crap tv like this all day.
Dr Oz on Newsmax: "On average, the able-bodied individual on Medicaid watches 6.1 hours of television -- that's a lot of your show -- plus they sit around."
September 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I’m going to agree with quack doctor here. Get the able bodied people on Medicaid outside so they can’t watch crap tv like this all day.
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Most people I think immediately recall that Dylan Roof was given Burger King.
I recall that he sat with a group of Black church people , who prayed with and for him, before he murdered them.
He didn't just walk in and spray and pray. He sat with them, talked with them.
Then murdered them...
I recall that he sat with a group of Black church people , who prayed with and for him, before he murdered them.
He didn't just walk in and spray and pray. He sat with them, talked with them.
Then murdered them...
KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this?
PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?
KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI
PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?
KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI
September 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Most people I think immediately recall that Dylan Roof was given Burger King.
I recall that he sat with a group of Black church people , who prayed with and for him, before he murdered them.
He didn't just walk in and spray and pray. He sat with them, talked with them.
Then murdered them...
I recall that he sat with a group of Black church people , who prayed with and for him, before he murdered them.
He didn't just walk in and spray and pray. He sat with them, talked with them.
Then murdered them...
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Something people aren't talking about enough is how often Charlie Kirk invoked the Fifth Amendment when testifying before Congress about the domestic terrorists he provided buses to get to Washington on January 6, 2021.
September 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Something people aren't talking about enough is how often Charlie Kirk invoked the Fifth Amendment when testifying before Congress about the domestic terrorists he provided buses to get to Washington on January 6, 2021.
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Hear the survivors. 10:30 AM EST / 7:30 AM PST
www.youtube.com/live/q6fUosr...
www.youtube.com/live/q6fUosr...
Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie hold a press conference with Epstein survivors
YouTube video by Rep. Ro Khanna
www.youtube.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Hear the survivors. 10:30 AM EST / 7:30 AM PST
www.youtube.com/live/q6fUosr...
www.youtube.com/live/q6fUosr...
People supporting this administration are always playing the victim and are never willing to accept responsibility. It’s beyond exhausting. Grow up, get your poop in a pile, and start behaving like an adult.
In some ways Ham-Face is the perfect Trump voter: all his decisions blow up in his face but the explanation is always, you don't understand, the radical leftist Joe Biden made us mad.
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Jesse Spafford
@jessespafford
Can't believe the evil Dems made Trump appoint RFK:
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Erick Erickson @@EWErickson • 18h
My wife is caught in the crosshairs of the CDC mess and vaccines. The left says "you voted for this," but they built the foundation for RFK's rise. x.com/i/broadcasts/1..](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aq6ucuguuc67yqwu4x4eipro/bafkreichwgzalj7dvqgzdmahudlqoekjonwxksgxxovaow5oxmyv3huz6i@jpeg)
August 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
People supporting this administration are always playing the victim and are never willing to accept responsibility. It’s beyond exhausting. Grow up, get your poop in a pile, and start behaving like an adult.
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This article just reminded me of this old tweet
August 26, 2025 at 5:04 AM
This article just reminded me of this old tweet
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THIS…is the mindset. THIS…is the attitude. THIS…is the fire in the gut….that we are going to ALL have to adopt. I have. Have you? We can’t have people sit this one out…and still prevail.
August 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
THIS…is the mindset. THIS…is the attitude. THIS…is the fire in the gut….that we are going to ALL have to adopt. I have. Have you? We can’t have people sit this one out…and still prevail.
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Ashley Ludlow's mother passed away in the hospital in 2005. She had followed her mother's wishes and asked that she not be resuscitated. That decision weighed heavy on her until a nurse reassured her.
How a nurse's call eased a daughter's burden
Ashley Ludlow's mother passed away in the hospital in 2005. She had followed her mother's wishes and asked that she not be resuscitated. That decision weighed heavy on her until a nurse reassured her.
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August 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Ashley Ludlow's mother passed away in the hospital in 2005. She had followed her mother's wishes and asked that she not be resuscitated. That decision weighed heavy on her until a nurse reassured her.
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I’m not shocked to learn that Republicans give Trump a 90% approval rating. PSA to non-Republicans: for your safety, keep yourself and your family away from these folks.
These numbers are atrocious.
We now have a President who acts like a king & will spend at least the next 3.5 years (barring his death) ramming through incredibly unpopular & damaging policy, and there's very little anyone can do about it short of secession (which is an option, always an option)
We now have a President who acts like a king & will spend at least the next 3.5 years (barring his death) ramming through incredibly unpopular & damaging policy, and there's very little anyone can do about it short of secession (which is an option, always an option)
Trump's cratering in polls continues. Crushing new Gallup numbers:
Overall approval: 37%
On immigration: 38%
On economy: 37%
On trade: 36:
Federal budget: 29%
Overall approval among independents: 29%
news.gallup.com/poll/692879/...
Overall approval: 37%
On immigration: 38%
On economy: 37%
On trade: 36:
Federal budget: 29%
Overall approval among independents: 29%
news.gallup.com/poll/692879/...
July 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I’m not shocked to learn that Republicans give Trump a 90% approval rating. PSA to non-Republicans: for your safety, keep yourself and your family away from these folks.
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Great analogy. Like arsonists seeking cheap thrills, the administration is cutting science funding to bask in fleeting political theater without considering that the damage will last generations, if we are even ever able to recover from it.
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
June 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Great analogy. Like arsonists seeking cheap thrills, the administration is cutting science funding to bask in fleeting political theater without considering that the damage will last generations, if we are even ever able to recover from it.
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Phang: We don’t need the Ten Commandments hanging in Texas schools. What we need is common-sense gun legislation—so the kids can live.
If my kid goes to a public school in Texas and they can’t come home alive, I don’t give a shit about the Ten Commandments being posted on the wall.
If my kid goes to a public school in Texas and they can’t come home alive, I don’t give a shit about the Ten Commandments being posted on the wall.
May 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Phang: We don’t need the Ten Commandments hanging in Texas schools. What we need is common-sense gun legislation—so the kids can live.
If my kid goes to a public school in Texas and they can’t come home alive, I don’t give a shit about the Ten Commandments being posted on the wall.
If my kid goes to a public school in Texas and they can’t come home alive, I don’t give a shit about the Ten Commandments being posted on the wall.
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Fired a black person who was qualified, hired a white person with no qualifications whatsoever. The Trump administration in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/axio...
Trump naming Todd Blanche — the former defense attorney from his hush money trial — as acting Librarian of Congress
Trump naming his former defense attorney as acting Librarian of Congress
Todd Blanche already holds the number two position at the Justice Department.
www.axios.com
May 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Fired a black person who was qualified, hired a white person with no qualifications whatsoever. The Trump administration in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/axio...