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Lisa Needham

@snipy.bsky.social

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Words at DailyKos, Public Notice, Balls & Strikes, and Rewire. Deeply and secretly earnest. Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist. she/they. north mpls forever.

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · Nov 5

Attn: @golikehellmachine.com

A picture of a fresh tattoo under saniderm. It reads: WE DO NOT BREAK THEY BREAK UPON US - sentiment courtesy of @golikehellmachine

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 10h

lolllllllll you hacks

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10h

“If there’s one person in the world I wouldn’t bet against now,” Caitlin Flanagan argues, “it’s Bari Weiss”:

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 10h

When all is said and done, the Supreme Court will be greatly responsible for creating a balkanized United States—where states will be able to regulate medical treatments the justices approve of, and others won't be able to regulate those the justices don't approve of.

See also: Dobbs.

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 10h

absolute mad king behavior here. singlehandedly raise taxes, then singlehandedly dole revenue out whenever advantageous

White House says it will use tariff revenue to fund federal food aid for mothers and young children | CNN Politics

The Trump administration said Tuesday it will use tariff funds to keep afloat a federal food assistance program for nearly 7 million pregnant women, new moms and young children during the government s...

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 12h

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

Jenny Nicholson Tweet:

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 11h

Hegseth's gonna show up to yell "NO FATTIES" and that will fix it somehow

Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 11h

100% without a doubt our chi/doxie/beagle mix would eat us after we're dead and she might strongly consider it before we were as well

Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 11h

It's so evident that Johnson's conception of himself does not include "rabid lying liar who lies all the time," which is why he is bad at it, even as he lies all the time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 13h

exactly - i know they're a small shop and also that they're not the type to just release something half-baked to get it out the door.

Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 14h

saw that it might be delayed, but yeah, their stuff is just so good-looking but functional, uncluttered. pastebot for mac is a life-changer also tbh

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 14h

the accuracy

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 3d

michael?
peter.

Page from fox in socks by dr seuss. Drawing of weird little four legged bugs with faces.
Text reads:
What do you know about tweetle beetles?
Well
When tweetle beetles fight, it's called
a tweetle beetle battle.

Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 15h

holy shit this is so good and so spot-on

This is the glass cliff to end all glass cliffs. You're Marissa Mayer at Yahoo without the Googler street cred. You're Nancy Dubuc at Vice without the string of hit TV shows. You're Linda Yaccarino at Twitter without the advertiser relationships. You have been hired as a sop to a Trump administration that is actively hostile to the actual free press, and you will be made to oversee wave after wave of layoffs until you quit or get fired and the entire news division is shut down in a final spasm of cost-cutting after the next inescapable media merger.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 15h

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 17h

right? also, it's not like the GOP congress is going to pursue possible evidence of lying to them about things they want to be lied about!

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 17h

tapbots.com/ivory/

i loved tweetbot from these guys, and used ivory while i was still using mastodon

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 17h

i honestly gotta say i do not understand their unwillingness to lie under oath. you commit, like, 10 times a day but when you're in front of congress you suddenly are worried? it makes no sense

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 17h

dammit minneapolis is ALSO an urban hellscape yet no one has thought to start warning me of wasps via sign

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

Portland... such a hard-scrabble hellscape there's hardly time to look out for wasps and put up signs so everybody can get along... let alone hand draw the wasp amid all the chaos...

CAUTION in all caps on a sign with a hand-drawn illo of a wasp, attached to a piece of wood carefully positioned inside an orange caution cone.

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 17h

just gonna be Liberty U grads straight out of school. not the ones who were connected enough or smart enough to get clerkships with the dozens of trump judges seeking only baby fascists. the ones who are even less qualified than those people.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20h

New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 18h

kendall roy

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 18h

lol this is so pathetic. She thinks she is rallying the troops and imagines she sounds like Edward
Murrow but it’s much more Michael Scott.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 19h

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

I'm so proud of my sister, who was head writer for Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and is now the showrunner of this brand-new HORTON! series for Netflix.

Please watch with your family! It's hard to get preschool shows made these days, and the algo isn't built for this www.netflix.com/title/81388347

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 1d

Dunno man. I think joshing with an audience of FedSoc conservatives who would happily undo your same-sex marriage is quisling shit even if you say it’s a joke

Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 1d

Right? Just a completely odd specimen of humanity wrapped in garbage

Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 1d

Ok I’ll take the considerable reduction in age because gift horse, mouth, etc.

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Matti has a Boo-ty 👻 @mrbtx.bsky.social · 1d

Snipy this is the millennial website, of course you are

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 1d

Regrettably I am considerably older than the median? mean? Blueskyer

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