Lyric
@lyric1.bsky.social
Moonlighting activist. Animal lover. Corporate geek. Unapologetic sailor mouth. Wise ass. #ThunderUp #GunReform #VotingRightsNow
Goddammit. I’m sorry, I hate them so much.
January 11, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Goddammit. I’m sorry, I hate them so much.
Gonna be that person who re-ups their own prescient post.
tfw you’re watching Frost / Nixon again and wishing the next 4 years of depravity were only Watergate bad.
September 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Gonna be that person who re-ups their own prescient post.
Assassinations are terrible for the country but great for ratings.
—Les Moonves probably, wherever the hell he is now.
—Les Moonves probably, wherever the hell he is now.
September 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Assassinations are terrible for the country but great for ratings.
—Les Moonves probably, wherever the hell he is now.
—Les Moonves probably, wherever the hell he is now.
Half of my feed is about the imminent destruction of our constitutional republic, the other is unabashed glee over social media bookmarks. Strange time to be alive.
September 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Half of my feed is about the imminent destruction of our constitutional republic, the other is unabashed glee over social media bookmarks. Strange time to be alive.
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August 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
They don’t just want us poor, they want us sick or dead. apnews.com/article/kenn... Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development
RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
apnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
They don’t just want us poor, they want us sick or dead. apnews.com/article/kenn... Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development
I wouldn’t tell anyone if I won the lottery but there would be signs.
July 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I wouldn’t tell anyone if I won the lottery but there would be signs.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
Bill Maher really just argued men aren’t so bad by citing examples of fighting wars against slavery, communism and fascism. lol - cuz women started those…?
June 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Bill Maher really just argued men aren’t so bad by citing examples of fighting wars against slavery, communism and fascism. lol - cuz women started those…?
Two takeaways from Drag Race All Stars tonight: - it’s nice to see more of Acid’s genuinely sweet side. I always thought her season’s edit was sketch. She’s also so well-rounded and never really gets her due.
And Denali’s legs are a work of art.
And Denali’s legs are a work of art.
June 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Two takeaways from Drag Race All Stars tonight: - it’s nice to see more of Acid’s genuinely sweet side. I always thought her season’s edit was sketch. She’s also so well-rounded and never really gets her due.
And Denali’s legs are a work of art.
And Denali’s legs are a work of art.
Solid “reporting” here, ABC 🙄
“…Newsom said in his eight-minute highly produced remarks, flanked by the California and U.S. flags.”
“His rhetoric directly calling out Trump…”
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
“…Newsom said in his eight-minute highly produced remarks, flanked by the California and U.S. flags.”
“His rhetoric directly calling out Trump…”
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
Newsom speech taking on Trump encourages Democrats looking for a leader
Many saw it as a sign the California governor might run for the White House.
abcnews.go.com
June 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Solid “reporting” here, ABC 🙄
“…Newsom said in his eight-minute highly produced remarks, flanked by the California and U.S. flags.”
“His rhetoric directly calling out Trump…”
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
“…Newsom said in his eight-minute highly produced remarks, flanked by the California and U.S. flags.”
“His rhetoric directly calling out Trump…”
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
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To be in public office right now is to constantly ask yourself: How do I make sure I'm standing on the right side of history?
There's a simple answer.
The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave.
There's a simple answer.
The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave.
June 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
To be in public office right now is to constantly ask yourself: How do I make sure I'm standing on the right side of history?
There's a simple answer.
The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave.
There's a simple answer.
The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave.
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The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.
What the fuck are we doing here?
What the fuck are we doing here?
May 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.
What the fuck are we doing here?
What the fuck are we doing here?
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Today’s corruption bulletin:
New Mideast Project Is Latest Trump Company Deal Tied to Foreign Government
The Trump Organization agreed to partner on a real estate project in Qatar in the latest of a series of projects tied to foreign governments.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Today’s corruption bulletin:
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"The dismantling of institutions does not begin with tanks in the streets — it begins with budget cuts, regulatory attacks and public delegitimization."
Nonprofits Under Attack: Is ‘Institutional Strength’ Strong Enough to Defeat the Authoritarians?
Opinion | Collective action is the only force capable of meeting an authoritarian movement with equal resolve.
www.democracydocket.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"The dismantling of institutions does not begin with tanks in the streets — it begins with budget cuts, regulatory attacks and public delegitimization."
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Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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75%
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
75%
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"So Trump will impose these tariffs and sit back and wait for other world leaders to petition the king with their offerings that will ultimately expand his own power, all the while we are the collateral damage. We all get thrown under the bus; 350 million people suffer so that one man can benefit."
Petitioning the King
Trump believes crashing the economy is worth it if he can extract what he needs from the rest of the world.
plus.briantylercohen.com
April 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"So Trump will impose these tariffs and sit back and wait for other world leaders to petition the king with their offerings that will ultimately expand his own power, all the while we are the collateral damage. We all get thrown under the bus; 350 million people suffer so that one man can benefit."
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
He’s crashing the economy, disappearing people, putting 330M people in absolute turmoil & ruining lives, taking us from stable to a fucking Great Depression. And they’re just LETTING him. Congress knows what he’s doing is catastrophic and could stop this, but they won’t. It’s absolute insanity.
April 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
He’s crashing the economy, disappearing people, putting 330M people in absolute turmoil & ruining lives, taking us from stable to a fucking Great Depression. And they’re just LETTING him. Congress knows what he’s doing is catastrophic and could stop this, but they won’t. It’s absolute insanity.
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I wonder how many people realize the tariff on auto parts causes car insurance premiums to go up?
April 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I wonder how many people realize the tariff on auto parts causes car insurance premiums to go up?