La Lees
@linda212.bsky.social
comp lit/classics/theatre/cultural entrepreneur; once Brit Council; ex-TEFAF; Creative Cities Intl; Berkeley PhD; #IStandwithUkraine🇺🇦
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Bessent really features an unmatched combination of utter stupidity and smug arrogance.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “Denmark’s investment in U.S. Treasury bonds, like Denmark itself, is irrelevant” www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/b...
Scott Bessent says U.S. is unconcerned by Treasury sell-off over Greenland, calls Denmark ‘irrelevant’
U.S. treasury secretary Scott Bessant addressed reporters at a news conference at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday.
www.cnbc.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Bessent really features an unmatched combination of utter stupidity and smug arrogance.
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🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them:
"We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be."
"What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)
"We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be."
"What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)
January 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM
🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them:
"We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be."
"What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)
"We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be."
"What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)
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Local news Fox9 reports:
ICE detains Minnesota city worker, a snow plow driver, and transfers him to detention facility in Texas. Where he remains.
"He had every federal authorization to be here," public works director in interview.
hat tip: @longtimehistory.bsky.social
ICE detains Minnesota city worker, a snow plow driver, and transfers him to detention facility in Texas. Where he remains.
"He had every federal authorization to be here," public works director in interview.
hat tip: @longtimehistory.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Local news Fox9 reports:
ICE detains Minnesota city worker, a snow plow driver, and transfers him to detention facility in Texas. Where he remains.
"He had every federal authorization to be here," public works director in interview.
hat tip: @longtimehistory.bsky.social
ICE detains Minnesota city worker, a snow plow driver, and transfers him to detention facility in Texas. Where he remains.
"He had every federal authorization to be here," public works director in interview.
hat tip: @longtimehistory.bsky.social
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This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...
How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find
Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.
augustafreepress.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...
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Calling all my work emails “corporate white papers” from now on
January 11, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Calling all my work emails “corporate white papers” from now on
Excellent. A+
"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
December 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Excellent. A+
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The current Supreme Court has forfeited all legitimacy.
Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.
John Roberts > Roger Taney.
Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.
Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.
John Roberts > Roger Taney.
Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The current Supreme Court has forfeited all legitimacy.
Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.
John Roberts > Roger Taney.
Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.
Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.
John Roberts > Roger Taney.
Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.
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At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.
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Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
November 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
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Hey Megyn Kelly,
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Hey Megyn Kelly,
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
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incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
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Trump isn’t meeting with Democrats for we have no bribes for him. He can’t make any money from the meeting.
Reports across the Middle East that Syria has given the US an airbase outside of Damascus and has given the Trump organization exclusive rights to build a new hotel there. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
November 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Trump isn’t meeting with Democrats for we have no bribes for him. He can’t make any money from the meeting.
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Friends, Trump is gone. Listen to this. It's incredible that there is no national discourse about whether he can continue to do the job.
Trump on SNAP: "Our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars -- it could be anything. We have to remain liquid. We can't give everything away."
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Friends, Trump is gone. Listen to this. It's incredible that there is no national discourse about whether he can continue to do the job.
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October 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Sen. Warren Daniel (R–NC, District 46) was caught trading stocks right on the Senate floor.
Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.
Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.
September 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Sen. Warren Daniel (R–NC, District 46) was caught trading stocks right on the Senate floor.
Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.
Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.
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And now for something completely different…
Sofie Amalia Ribbing 1835 – 1894 Swedish painter of the Düsseldorf School. She specialized in portraits and genre scenes, often placed in family settings
Boys Drawing (aka Drawing Boys), 1864
Oil on canvas
91.5 cm 79 cm
Gothenburg Museum of Art
Sofie Amalia Ribbing 1835 – 1894 Swedish painter of the Düsseldorf School. She specialized in portraits and genre scenes, often placed in family settings
Boys Drawing (aka Drawing Boys), 1864
Oil on canvas
91.5 cm 79 cm
Gothenburg Museum of Art
September 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
And now for something completely different…
Sofie Amalia Ribbing 1835 – 1894 Swedish painter of the Düsseldorf School. She specialized in portraits and genre scenes, often placed in family settings
Boys Drawing (aka Drawing Boys), 1864
Oil on canvas
91.5 cm 79 cm
Gothenburg Museum of Art
Sofie Amalia Ribbing 1835 – 1894 Swedish painter of the Düsseldorf School. She specialized in portraits and genre scenes, often placed in family settings
Boys Drawing (aka Drawing Boys), 1864
Oil on canvas
91.5 cm 79 cm
Gothenburg Museum of Art
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Recognition that the MAGA-ized court majority, devoid of judicial integrity, is nothing but a band of partisan hacks should inform democracy advocates’ agenda.
Another outlandish, SCt decision from “emergency” docket underscored only substantial reform can halt its constitutional trail of destruction. Meanwhile, a district court judge and a plucky media watchdog reminded us that the 1stA is the bedrock of our democracy.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Two Cases Provide Critical Guidance to Rescue Democracy
We need candor from the bench and from the media
open.substack.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Recognition that the MAGA-ized court majority, devoid of judicial integrity, is nothing but a band of partisan hacks should inform democracy advocates’ agenda.