Lisa Solod
@lisasolod.bsky.social
Novelist, essayist, mom, etc.
SHIVAH published June 2022
SHIVAH published June 2022
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Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.
December 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
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Weiss’s suggestion to interview Stephen Miller is interesting in the context of this line from Alfonsi:
“We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department.”
“We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department.”
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Weiss’s suggestion to interview Stephen Miller is interesting in the context of this line from Alfonsi:
“We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department.”
“We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department.”
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Just a reminder, the media supported Trump and wanted all this chaos
December 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Just a reminder, the media supported Trump and wanted all this chaos
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Q: You guys were out for 2 months during the shutdown. Why has it taken until the end of the year to start addressing these healthcare bills? And what's your message to those who are going to see their premiums rise?
MIKE JOHNSON: We have been working steadily producing ideas trying to address this
MIKE JOHNSON: We have been working steadily producing ideas trying to address this
December 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Q: You guys were out for 2 months during the shutdown. Why has it taken until the end of the year to start addressing these healthcare bills? And what's your message to those who are going to see their premiums rise?
MIKE JOHNSON: We have been working steadily producing ideas trying to address this
MIKE JOHNSON: We have been working steadily producing ideas trying to address this
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You can see the pro-life party’s agents dragging a pregnant woman AFTER putting their knees into her body. This is happening. Don’t look away.
You can see the pro-life party’s agents dragging a pregnant woman AFTER putting their knees into her body. This is happening. Don’t look away.
December 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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You can see the pro-life party’s agents dragging a pregnant woman AFTER putting their knees into her body. This is happening. Don’t look away.
You can see the pro-life party’s agents dragging a pregnant woman AFTER putting their knees into her body. This is happening. Don’t look away.
Hahahahahahaha
CNN suggests Susie Wiles might not have known she was on the record 😆
December 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Hahahahahahaha
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I’m not trying to be judgmental, but I feel that the people who now say they regret voting for Trump should have had a decent idea what he was all about before Nov 2024.
December 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I’m not trying to be judgmental, but I feel that the people who now say they regret voting for Trump should have had a decent idea what he was all about before Nov 2024.
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I look forward to the moment when we all can get together and have a little conversation about how and why the biggest piece of shit in America became president. (As a friend just said, he puts the POS back in POTUS. I would give her credit but I don't want her to be deported.)
December 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I look forward to the moment when we all can get together and have a little conversation about how and why the biggest piece of shit in America became president. (As a friend just said, he puts the POS back in POTUS. I would give her credit but I don't want her to be deported.)
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"The crew of newly minted political figures told the office manager to create a moat of 90 empty desks around them so no one could hear them talk. They ignored questions and advice from career staff with decades of experience in the field...they were on track to wipe out 90% of USAID’s work."
#Pinks
#Pinks
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"The crew of newly minted political figures told the office manager to create a moat of 90 empty desks around them so no one could hear them talk. They ignored questions and advice from career staff with decades of experience in the field...they were on track to wipe out 90% of USAID’s work."
#Pinks
#Pinks
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Insane story about Jack Posobiec threatening a reporter over a Pentagon official's cuckolding books on Goodreads. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Insane story about Jack Posobiec threatening a reporter over a Pentagon official's cuckolding books on Goodreads. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
The word "iconic" is toast. No more using it. It's meaningless.
December 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The word "iconic" is toast. No more using it. It's meaningless.
I mean, really? What a weird and unserious conclusion to an article that sort of makes some sense.
The Self-Delusions of Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto (The New Republic)
Midway through the journey of her life, Olivia Nuzzi found herself in Malibu, for she had wandered from the straightforward path. In exile from the East Coas...
l.smartnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I mean, really? What a weird and unserious conclusion to an article that sort of makes some sense.
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Absurd. The bailout exists to ameliorate the negative impact of the tariffs.
Trump on his farm bailout: "This money would not be possible without tariffs ... because of tariffs, this is possible."
December 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Absurd. The bailout exists to ameliorate the negative impact of the tariffs.
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Anyone who has participated in or attended a naturalization ceremony knows how meaningful and joyous these ceremonies tend to be. The cruelty of this is heartbreaking and enraging.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Anyone who has participated in or attended a naturalization ceremony knows how meaningful and joyous these ceremonies tend to be. The cruelty of this is heartbreaking and enraging.
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Ugh. UrbanStems. What a mess. Flowers dead 2 days later. My husband is pissed. As am I.
December 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Ugh. UrbanStems. What a mess. Flowers dead 2 days later. My husband is pissed. As am I.
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Pete Hegseth must be investigated, removed and criminally charged.
After World War II, 3 German U-boat crewmen were sentenced to death for machine-gunning Allied sailors who were clinging to life rafts after their boat was sunk.
It's long been known in the military that this is a war crime. Pete Hegseth must be fired and prosecuted.
It's long been known in the military that this is a war crime. Pete Hegseth must be fired and prosecuted.
December 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Pete Hegseth must be investigated, removed and criminally charged.
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
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PERSON, WOMAN, LIAR, MRI, DEMENTIA
December 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
PERSON, WOMAN, LIAR, MRI, DEMENTIA
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The Defense Dept’s first in-person briefing since the press corps walked out in Oct. will be early next week, and it’s with a gaggle of right-wing media. Get ready for Propaganda City, perfectly timed with Trump declaring Venezuelan airspace closed despite lacking the authority.
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The Defense Dept’s first in-person briefing since the press corps walked out in Oct. will be early next week, and it’s with a gaggle of right-wing media. Get ready for Propaganda City, perfectly timed with Trump declaring Venezuelan airspace closed despite lacking the authority.