Lisa Uyehara
@luyehara.bsky.social
Lifelong Democrat, Japanese American, psychiatrist, Samoyed owner, skier, gardener
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When you think of the Republican Party as a Mafia-style organized crime family instead of a political movement, everything makes more sense.
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April 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
When you think of the Republican Party as a Mafia-style organized crime family instead of a political movement, everything makes more sense.
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I still think our rapid slide kicked off when those initial pardons were met mostly with a shrug. No Democrat could treat cop beaters as heroes and have a career after.
It took less than 3 months after Trump pardoned 1,500 of his violent supporters for an arsonist to attempt to kill a top Dem in Josh Shapiro. America has too many lost boys like Cody Ballmer, and too many politicians ready to hand them a lit match
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Plus, what I learned from Daisy, the red golden retriever
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April 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I still think our rapid slide kicked off when those initial pardons were met mostly with a shrug. No Democrat could treat cop beaters as heroes and have a career after.
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Last week: SpaceX ship explodes, shutting down a huge chunk of Florida airspace.
Today: X completely down.
The last month: Tesla stock price down by a third.
Gotta hand it to Musk: He really is running the government like he runs his businesses.
Today: X completely down.
The last month: Tesla stock price down by a third.
Gotta hand it to Musk: He really is running the government like he runs his businesses.
March 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Last week: SpaceX ship explodes, shutting down a huge chunk of Florida airspace.
Today: X completely down.
The last month: Tesla stock price down by a third.
Gotta hand it to Musk: He really is running the government like he runs his businesses.
Today: X completely down.
The last month: Tesla stock price down by a third.
Gotta hand it to Musk: He really is running the government like he runs his businesses.
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Delayed consequences appear to be intangible consequences for much of the electorate.
The downstream effects of losing institutional muscle memory, knowledge, and experienced personnel aren't innately understood by the public.
They're not being challenged or given proper attention by msm.
The downstream effects of losing institutional muscle memory, knowledge, and experienced personnel aren't innately understood by the public.
They're not being challenged or given proper attention by msm.
The naked cynicism of Musk's DOGE is galling. They know it's easy to demonize spending that *sounds* obscure but is actually really important. Plus they keep claiming to target "probationary" employees, but this cuts deep! @katearonoff.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1925...
newrepublic.com/article/1925...
March 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Delayed consequences appear to be intangible consequences for much of the electorate.
The downstream effects of losing institutional muscle memory, knowledge, and experienced personnel aren't innately understood by the public.
They're not being challenged or given proper attention by msm.
The downstream effects of losing institutional muscle memory, knowledge, and experienced personnel aren't innately understood by the public.
They're not being challenged or given proper attention by msm.
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Trump has been president for about five weeks. He claimed he has stopped many wars. He claimed he stopped two smaller nations from going to war about something no one has ever heard about. The delusions of a madman.
March 1, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Trump has been president for about five weeks. He claimed he has stopped many wars. He claimed he stopped two smaller nations from going to war about something no one has ever heard about. The delusions of a madman.
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"We are in the midst of a global fight between Western liberal democracy and authoritarian government, and in this fight, the United States has just switched sides and signed up with the authoritarian camp." - Francis Fukuyama
www.persuasion.community/p/the-ultima...
www.persuasion.community/p/the-ultima...
The Ultimate Betrayal
America just switched sides in the Ukraine war.
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February 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"We are in the midst of a global fight between Western liberal democracy and authoritarian government, and in this fight, the United States has just switched sides and signed up with the authoritarian camp." - Francis Fukuyama
www.persuasion.community/p/the-ultima...
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I'm just a small-town political scientist, but it seems like "one party is now so extreme that it is going to dismantle the modern state & all of its basic functions" should have been front page news during the last months & weeks of the 2024 election.
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I guess maybe everyone's going to find out how much government actually does? And how necessary it is? Submerged state no longer?
January 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I'm just a small-town political scientist, but it seems like "one party is now so extreme that it is going to dismantle the modern state & all of its basic functions" should have been front page news during the last months & weeks of the 2024 election.
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Facebook suppressed promotion of political content during a Democratic administration and is restoring it for a Republican one
More from Zuck: "We're bringing back civic content. For a while the community asked to see less politics because it was making people stressed, so we stopped recommending these posts. But it feels like we're in a new era now..."
January 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Facebook suppressed promotion of political content during a Democratic administration and is restoring it for a Republican one
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How many media outlets ran major stories & OpEds on Trump’s pledge to Libertarians to pardon Ross Ulbricht, who is serving life in prison for the ‘Silk Road’ dark web that facilitated one of the largest drug trafficking ops in human history?
December 2, 2024 at 2:01 PM
How many media outlets ran major stories & OpEds on Trump’s pledge to Libertarians to pardon Ross Ulbricht, who is serving life in prison for the ‘Silk Road’ dark web that facilitated one of the largest drug trafficking ops in human history?
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Nichols: You have the makings of a not so slow motion authoritarian takeover of the United States government. And people ought to be really concerned about this.
December 1, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Nichols: You have the makings of a not so slow motion authoritarian takeover of the United States government. And people ought to be really concerned about this.
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The @washingtonpost.com is definitely just trolling us now
November 30, 2024 at 7:47 PM
The @washingtonpost.com is definitely just trolling us now
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Namely hiring a sex worker to seduce his brother-in-law so he could secretly film it and send the tape to his sister ("prior to a scheduled family party") to try to stop her from testifying about his embezzlement www.justice.gov/archive/usao...
November 30, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Namely hiring a sex worker to seduce his brother-in-law so he could secretly film it and send the tape to his sister ("prior to a scheduled family party") to try to stop her from testifying about his embezzlement www.justice.gov/archive/usao...
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SUMNER COUNTY — nothing says “USA” like bald eagle injured by gunfire 🫤 🇺🇸 www.wsmv.com/2024/11/26/t...
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
SUMNER COUNTY — nothing says “USA” like bald eagle injured by gunfire 🫤 🇺🇸 www.wsmv.com/2024/11/26/t...
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As they seek for further restrict reproductive care, they will invoke "the health of the mother" but the reality is that people who cared about women's health would not allow these policies.
www.propublica.org/article/pors...
www.propublica.org/article/pors...
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
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November 25, 2024 at 3:00 PM
As they seek for further restrict reproductive care, they will invoke "the health of the mother" but the reality is that people who cared about women's health would not allow these policies.
www.propublica.org/article/pors...
www.propublica.org/article/pors...
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It also gets to the hollowness of saying Democrats shouldn't focus on this or that issue, in cases the sense of a "focus" comes from the GOP (and the ads they run, & the Fox machine) — & it's not like those would go away even if Democrats agreed to throw the GOP-targeted population under the bus.
This is an echo of the general election. The trans Democrat is blamed for "sparking" the crisis despite the fact she did nothing beyond be herself.
Before she arrived to DC, or made any demands, the GOP preemptively turned her identity into a political issue.
So, who is doing identity politics?
Before she arrived to DC, or made any demands, the GOP preemptively turned her identity into a political issue.
So, who is doing identity politics?
all she did was exist
November 21, 2024 at 5:42 AM
It also gets to the hollowness of saying Democrats shouldn't focus on this or that issue, in cases the sense of a "focus" comes from the GOP (and the ads they run, & the Fox machine) — & it's not like those would go away even if Democrats agreed to throw the GOP-targeted population under the bus.
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I wish the top line discussion of Trump’s love of tariffs was always that it’s their ability to be used as a source of graft, coercion, and corruption that he likes best. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/u...
Trump’s Trade Agenda Could Benefit Friends and Punish Rivals
Donald Trump has a record of pardoning favored companies from tariffs. Companies are once again lining up to try to influence him.
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November 23, 2024 at 2:14 PM
I wish the top line discussion of Trump’s love of tariffs was always that it’s their ability to be used as a source of graft, coercion, and corruption that he likes best. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/u...
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Pam Bondi, Trump's new pick for AG, has a very long history from when she was Florida's attorney general of helping Trump legally after he gave her contributions.
And there's more you need to know.
A brief thread.
And there's more you need to know.
A brief thread.
November 21, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Pam Bondi, Trump's new pick for AG, has a very long history from when she was Florida's attorney general of helping Trump legally after he gave her contributions.
And there's more you need to know.
A brief thread.
And there's more you need to know.
A brief thread.