Linda Reilly Blowney
lindablowney.bsky.social
Linda Reilly Blowney
@lindablowney.bsky.social
I'm a cemetery tour guide with a background in not for profit management. I am a proud blue liberal woke momma of three cats, who is just feeling numb right now. I love to read about politics but don't post much.
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LYING: It's the Lord's work!
December 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants. n.pr/4pagOTD
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
n.pr
December 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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A really interesting point re: the rise in AI fake citations - as they become more prolific, how are they going to affect the real scholars whose names are being attributed to fake articles?
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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The White House has been caught.

The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.

In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Happy “they’re never releasing the Epstein files” day. Whether you celebrate or not.
December 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Please make sure every military member you know knows this.
Trump’s promise Wednesday to pay troops a “warrior dividend” bonus is actually a military housing stipend already approved by Congress, and not a generous new White House program.
Trump claims credit for military bonus that Congress already approved
The White House’s plans for a “warrior dividend” to reward troops this holiday season are actually housing assistance funds approved this summer.
www.politico.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Statement on Kennedy Center Board Action: In 1964, Congress established the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as a living memorial to President Kennedy. Only Congress can change its name.
December 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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The White House says the Kennedy Center board vote was “unanimous”…

BULLSHIT.

@repbeatty.bsky.social, a Congressional member of the board, was on the call. They muted her and didn't let her voice opposition.

This is beyond absurd, totally illegal, and a disgrace to the memory and legacy of JFK.
December 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
December 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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when you see Trump on camera angrily attacking female reporters for asking straightforward questions, it doesn’t take much to imagine what he does behind closed doors when a woman says ‘No’
December 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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It’s way past time for every WH reporter to speak out to Trump’s face when he’s insulting female reporters. Is your access so critical that you’ll allow your colleagues to be abused?
December 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Sometimes, courts really can check abuses of power.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/n...
Alina Habba, a Trump Loyalist, Resigns as U.S. Attorney in New Jersey
Ms. Habba resigned on Monday, after a federal appeals court last week found she had been serving as U.S. attorney unlawfully.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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NOBODY’S EVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT! TODAY I GIVE THE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER CERTIFICATE OF CONGRESSIONAL RECOGNITION TO THE TREMENDOUS GOVERNOR GAVIN “PEACE PRIZE” NEWSOM FOR BEING AWARDED THE INAUGURAL KOHL’S PEACE PRIZE. MUCH BIGGER THAN TRUMP’S FAKE FIFA PEACE PRIZE.
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry

girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Ok this is an IDEA.
This needs to be implemented.
@mikiesherrill.bsky.social sounds good, don’t you think!?
Why haven't the Dem States across the USA instructed their Police to set up Check points outside ICE facilities and only allow ICE to enter with victims if they produce a legal warrant for detaining the person that matches the victims name.
November 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Time for another cease and desist.
Trump entered the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children.

Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
November 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Among other travesties in this statement, National Guard soldiers are not "law enforcement"
REPORTER: There are people upset with the president, believing the National Guard members shouldn't have been there

PIRRO: I don't even wanna talk about whether they should've been there. We ought to kiss the ground and thank God that the president said it's time to bring in more law enforcement
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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FYI: the “disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan” was negotiated and begun by…. Donald Trump
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Art. I of the Constitution gives Congress the power to make rules and regulations for the armed forces — including codes of discipline and strictures against following illegal orders. You can’t punish members of Congress for articulating those rules. Also protected by Speech and Debate Clause.
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Note for Democratic politicians: you don't have to start your condemnations of ICE raids with "We all want to catch violent criminals, but..." Just say "These raids have nothing to do with catching criminals and everything to do with terrorizing innocent minority groups."
November 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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ICE should be abolished for the simple fact that being undocumented is a civil matter, not a criminal one. And if someone does break the law criminally, that's what we have regular police for. We don't need Patriot Act level gestapo on our streets, we never have.

And Greg Bovino, who works for

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November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Grrrrrr
US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
November 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM