Larks in a Caper
@oimoi.bsky.social
Free-range adjunct, New England. 54. Latin, European History, Roman Women, Tacitus, Monsters, Reacting to the Past, "Sure, uh, I can teach that." Briefly viral once for "Baby Got Back" in Latin. Tabletop gamer. Dogs & cats, living together. He/him/is/eum.
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Larks in a Caper
@oimoi.bsky.social
· Apr 13
"I don't like any of these extremists on the right or the left! I just think we need the basic common sense middle ground stuff, healthcare for all, taxing billionaires out of existence, trans rights, abolish ICE, all the normal stuff"
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When you're teaching "Heart of Darkness" and the White House publishes something relevant.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5...
December 5, 2025
Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
When you're teaching "Heart of Darkness" and the White House publishes something relevant.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5...
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it's not enough that they are the unelected rulers of the United States. It's not enough that there is a real chance they will make a decision here that no coherent legal theory could support. It's that they will then go to private donor events and whine that people are being too mean to them
looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign
*SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ROLLBACK
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
it's not enough that they are the unelected rulers of the United States. It's not enough that there is a real chance they will make a decision here that no coherent legal theory could support. It's that they will then go to private donor events and whine that people are being too mean to them
I hear a prof. explaining the premise of "The Princess Bride" to a student, and it WOULD make me feel very old—except I remember when I bought this sweater (likely student age +2) yrs ago, and my back hurts from sleeping, so a 38-year-old movie is at most #3 on the list of things making me feel old.
December 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I hear a prof. explaining the premise of "The Princess Bride" to a student, and it WOULD make me feel very old—except I remember when I bought this sweater (likely student age +2) yrs ago, and my back hurts from sleeping, so a 38-year-old movie is at most #3 on the list of things making me feel old.
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Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
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Democrats say Donald Trump molests children. As president, he's been far more likely to starve or deport them. Two Pinocchios.
November 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Democrats say Donald Trump molests children. As president, he's been far more likely to starve or deport them. Two Pinocchios.
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Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.
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Sooner or later, someone is going to respond to one of these ICE goons by returning the violence and it's not going to end well -- not for the goon, not for the victim, not for any of us.
November 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Sooner or later, someone is going to respond to one of these ICE goons by returning the violence and it's not going to end well -- not for the goon, not for the victim, not for any of us.
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this is so so insane the ILLINOIS STATE POLICE are lining up LIKE THIS against clergy and people dressed as the Kool-Aid man.
Another warning.
Reverend Black: "We are not breaking any law."
Reverend Black: "We are not breaking any law."
November 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
this is so so insane the ILLINOIS STATE POLICE are lining up LIKE THIS against clergy and people dressed as the Kool-Aid man.
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Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.
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Johnson’s refusal to seat Grijalva feels like a foreshadowing of this GOP plan to stay in power post-2026 regardless of the outcome of the election. This thread is about a well connected Oregon MAGA activist who just podcasted it out.
Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.
November 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Johnson’s refusal to seat Grijalva feels like a foreshadowing of this GOP plan to stay in power post-2026 regardless of the outcome of the election. This thread is about a well connected Oregon MAGA activist who just podcasted it out.
This is everything America needs right now (besides a functioning constitution).
I am so flabbergasted & tearful & grateful & JUST REALLY EMOTIONAL over everything that’s happened around this so-special pup since this saga started on…good god, how was it only Wednesday morning?
That it has meant as much to so many of you fills me up to the brim.
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That it has meant as much to so many of you fills me up to the brim.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This is everything America needs right now (besides a functioning constitution).
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What can we do to stop him? 1st don’t worry about 2026/28 elections, yet. Focus on the Nov 2025 elections where there will be 52k races nationwide & turn out is key. 2nd, vote for pro democracy candidates that will shape the 2026/28 elections! Key elections are in CA, ME, NJ, PA & VA! #Elections2025
What Can We Do to Stop Him?
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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October 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
What can we do to stop him? 1st don’t worry about 2026/28 elections, yet. Focus on the Nov 2025 elections where there will be 52k races nationwide & turn out is key. 2nd, vote for pro democracy candidates that will shape the 2026/28 elections! Key elections are in CA, ME, NJ, PA & VA! #Elections2025
Trump's lackey Mike Johnson is using his control over the calendar to prolong the shutdown and also to neutralize the legislative branch entirely and indefinitely, because seating Rep. Grijalva would change the math enough to allow actual oversight of the president.
www.facebook.com/misterhyjinx...
www.facebook.com/misterhyjinx...
Tonoccus McClain
This is the post that you don’t want to read. And you don’t have to. But in a very short period of time, these things will find you anyway.
First, I’ve pointed out three areas of the most current...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Trump's lackey Mike Johnson is using his control over the calendar to prolong the shutdown and also to neutralize the legislative branch entirely and indefinitely, because seating Rep. Grijalva would change the math enough to allow actual oversight of the president.
www.facebook.com/misterhyjinx...
www.facebook.com/misterhyjinx...
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I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.
October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.
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the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
John Bolton should be in prison for war crimes. But that he's being indicted for mishandling classified information just to appease a petty man who once filled a spare bathroom with stolen top-secret files and allowed DOGE to download the whole government is an appalling blight on the rule of law.
October 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
John Bolton should be in prison for war crimes. But that he's being indicted for mishandling classified information just to appease a petty man who once filled a spare bathroom with stolen top-secret files and allowed DOGE to download the whole government is an appalling blight on the rule of law.
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CHICAGO: “Feds chased a car through a residential neighborhood… intentionally crashed into the car.. responded to the crowd by hurling smoke grenades, shooting pepper balls and deploying 3 rounds of tear gas with children & seniors in the area…” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
October 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
CHICAGO: “Feds chased a car through a residential neighborhood… intentionally crashed into the car.. responded to the crowd by hurling smoke grenades, shooting pepper balls and deploying 3 rounds of tear gas with children & seniors in the area…” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
October 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
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Probably the most important thread going right now
Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.
It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.
Long thread.
It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.
Long thread.
October 16, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Probably the most important thread going right now
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BUSTED!! Trump has been using videos of crime in South Carolina, Florida, and Texas as false pretense to federalize the National Guard and send them to Chicago. Bush lied us into war in Iraq. Trump's lying us to the brink of Civil War.
October 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
BUSTED!! Trump has been using videos of crime in South Carolina, Florida, and Texas as false pretense to federalize the National Guard and send them to Chicago. Bush lied us into war in Iraq. Trump's lying us to the brink of Civil War.
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Democrats need to put the same extended media consuming outrage into the Young Republican Nazi chats as Republicans mustered for Biden going for ice cream.
October 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Democrats need to put the same extended media consuming outrage into the Young Republican Nazi chats as Republicans mustered for Biden going for ice cream.
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This should be considered everywhere. They are kidnapping, abusing, harassing and threatening people who have rights. Every single one of them have rights and they are ignored. What they’re doing is unconstitutional and illegal.
Payback will come.
www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...
Payback will come.
www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...
JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.
www.newsweek.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This should be considered everywhere. They are kidnapping, abusing, harassing and threatening people who have rights. Every single one of them have rights and they are ignored. What they’re doing is unconstitutional and illegal.
Payback will come.
www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...
Payback will come.
www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...