Ward Lehmann
@wardlehmann.bsky.social
Retired academic librarian. Author of Ideas People. Wartime consigliere for moderates.
“A 2020 email noted that Donald Trump was listed as a passenger on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet at least eight times from 1993 to 1996.”
Note to conspiracy theorists: This email was found at the end of Trump‘s first term. On his watch.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Note to conspiracy theorists: This email was found at the end of Trump‘s first term. On his watch.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Federal Prosecutor Was Surprised by Trump’s Flights on Epstein’s Jet
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:18 PM
“A 2020 email noted that Donald Trump was listed as a passenger on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet at least eight times from 1993 to 1996.”
Note to conspiracy theorists: This email was found at the end of Trump‘s first term. On his watch.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Note to conspiracy theorists: This email was found at the end of Trump‘s first term. On his watch.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Joe Klein, “raging moderate,” recalls 20 years ago:
“‘You’re not actually thinking of trying to run [Iraq]?’ an Israeli security expert asked me. Truth was, we were not thinking of anything.
“And now? This is classic Trump. DOGE War. Take out the chainsaw and let the shards fall where they may.“
“‘You’re not actually thinking of trying to run [Iraq]?’ an Israeli security expert asked me. Truth was, we were not thinking of anything.
“And now? This is classic Trump. DOGE War. Take out the chainsaw and let the shards fall where they may.“
January 6, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Joe Klein, “raging moderate,” recalls 20 years ago:
“‘You’re not actually thinking of trying to run [Iraq]?’ an Israeli security expert asked me. Truth was, we were not thinking of anything.
“And now? This is classic Trump. DOGE War. Take out the chainsaw and let the shards fall where they may.“
“‘You’re not actually thinking of trying to run [Iraq]?’ an Israeli security expert asked me. Truth was, we were not thinking of anything.
“And now? This is classic Trump. DOGE War. Take out the chainsaw and let the shards fall where they may.“
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Shifting many pediatric vaccines into the category of shared clinical decision-making means in many red states governors and legislators will be pressured to strip them from school-entry requirements. Vaccination rates could fall sharply with stark regional differences in protection against disease
Federal health officials slash recommended childhood vaccinations under Trump’s directive
The number of recommended childhood shots drops from 17 to 11.
www.statnews.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Shifting many pediatric vaccines into the category of shared clinical decision-making means in many red states governors and legislators will be pressured to strip them from school-entry requirements. Vaccination rates could fall sharply with stark regional differences in protection against disease
America Firsters: Happy that your boy is starting another overseas war to deflect your attention from the redacting of his name in the Epstein files?
Reuters:
Reuters:
January 5, 2026 at 3:28 PM
America Firsters: Happy that your boy is starting another overseas war to deflect your attention from the redacting of his name in the Epstein files?
Reuters:
Reuters:
My favorite part of the Beatles’
Get Back documentary about
the making of Let It Be – John playing “I Feel Fine” all by himself.
youtube.com/shorts/FEAAP...
Get Back documentary about
the making of Let It Be – John playing “I Feel Fine” all by himself.
youtube.com/shorts/FEAAP...
I Feel Fine in 1969 - #thebeatles #beatles
YouTube video by My Rock and Roll Finger
youtube.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:58 PM
My favorite part of the Beatles’
Get Back documentary about
the making of Let It Be – John playing “I Feel Fine” all by himself.
youtube.com/shorts/FEAAP...
Get Back documentary about
the making of Let It Be – John playing “I Feel Fine” all by himself.
youtube.com/shorts/FEAAP...
New Year’s Resolution for Dems:
Consider why the first transgender person elected to the U.S. Congress says you screwed up.
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Consider why the first transgender person elected to the U.S. Congress says you screwed up.
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Sarah McBride has a blunt diagnosis for her party’s problems
The Delaware first-term lawmaker says Democrats must work on their image.
www.politico.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:18 PM
New Year’s Resolution for Dems:
Consider why the first transgender person elected to the U.S. Congress says you screwed up.
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Consider why the first transgender person elected to the U.S. Congress says you screwed up.
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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Millions of peoples' health insurance skyrockets in a few hours. Let's check in on the president.
Trump, celebrating New Year's at Mar-a-Lago, bids $100,000 for a painting
January 1, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Millions of peoples' health insurance skyrockets in a few hours. Let's check in on the president.
One of the hardest conversations is convincing Dems that party policy matters less than what potential voters think of your side. Does that impression motivate them to turn out for you, or for a third-party like in 2016 or 2024? Negative partisanship cuts both ways.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
An Unsettling New Theory: There Is No Swing Voter
Rachel Bitecofer’s radical new theory predicted the midterms spot-on. So who’s going to win 2020?
www.politico.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
One of the hardest conversations is convincing Dems that party policy matters less than what potential voters think of your side. Does that impression motivate them to turn out for you, or for a third-party like in 2016 or 2024? Negative partisanship cuts both ways.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
So Ken Martin at the DNC won’t release its post-mortem on the 2024 election? No problem, Dems—Catalist has got you covered. Perhaps the best one line encapsulation is this:
“Demographics are not destiny.”
catalist.us/whathappened...
“Demographics are not destiny.”
catalist.us/whathappened...
WHAT HAPPENED IN 2024 | Catalist
AN ANALYSIS OF THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Introduction Catalist’s What Happened reports offer a comprehensive voter-file based view of the electorate after every major presidential and midterm ele...
catalist.us
December 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
So Ken Martin at the DNC won’t release its post-mortem on the 2024 election? No problem, Dems—Catalist has got you covered. Perhaps the best one line encapsulation is this:
“Demographics are not destiny.”
catalist.us/whathappened...
“Demographics are not destiny.”
catalist.us/whathappened...
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“Just one more thing, Ms Bondi…
… If The Epstein Files are a hoax, why the redactions?”
… If The Epstein Files are a hoax, why the redactions?”
December 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“Just one more thing, Ms Bondi…
… If The Epstein Files are a hoax, why the redactions?”
… If The Epstein Files are a hoax, why the redactions?”
When did Dems turn into this?
I thought the Repubs owned the moral scold turf.
I thought the Repubs owned the moral scold turf.
December 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
When did Dems turn into this?
I thought the Repubs owned the moral scold turf.
I thought the Repubs owned the moral scold turf.
Signor Ravelli's first selection will be "Somewhere My Love Lies Sleeping" with a male chorus
December 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Signor Ravelli's first selection will be "Somewhere My Love Lies Sleeping" with a male chorus
Reposted by Ward Lehmann
The Wire | How to Play Chess According to The Wire | HBO Max
YouTube video by HBO Max
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December 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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An Idiosyncratic Christmas Playlist
A roundup that evokes a new nostalgia
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Herod, the king of Judaea, was a tyrant who killed all boys 2 years old or younger. What were Mary & Joseph supposed to do—Wait for their infant son to be murdered? No, they fled to Egypt, next door to Israel. If that’s not a refugee, what is? Should Egypt have turned them back?
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Herod, the king of Judaea, was a tyrant who killed all boys 2 years old or younger. What were Mary & Joseph supposed to do—Wait for their infant son to be murdered? No, they fled to Egypt, next door to Israel. If that’s not a refugee, what is? Should Egypt have turned them back?
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Sarah Palin accused Obama of “palling around with terrorists.” How would she have classified this creep?
Trump dining with Fuentes in 2022 is like if FDR had invited Heinrich Himmler over for lunch in the Oval Office in 1944 as Ike’s boys stormed Omaha Beach.
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
Trump dining with Fuentes in 2022 is like if FDR had invited Heinrich Himmler over for lunch in the Oval Office in 1944 as Ike’s boys stormed Omaha Beach.
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
Nick Fuentes: “Why is Hitler cool? I'll tell you why very simply. Because what Hitler represents is if white people didn't give a fuck.”
www.mediamatters.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Sarah Palin accused Obama of “palling around with terrorists.” How would she have classified this creep?
Trump dining with Fuentes in 2022 is like if FDR had invited Heinrich Himmler over for lunch in the Oval Office in 1944 as Ike’s boys stormed Omaha Beach.
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
Trump dining with Fuentes in 2022 is like if FDR had invited Heinrich Himmler over for lunch in the Oval Office in 1944 as Ike’s boys stormed Omaha Beach.
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
The party that twice put the mastermind of the D-Day assault on Hitler’s Fortress Europe, General Eisenhower, in the White House, now backs Nick Fuentes, “a celibate white supremacist who thinks Hitler is cool”?
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Exclusive | Top Heritage Officials Flee to Mike Pence’s Nonprofit as Think Tank Fractures
The former vice president’s political group is poaching top officials from the foundation amid growing ideological fights within the conservative movement.
www.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The party that twice put the mastermind of the D-Day assault on Hitler’s Fortress Europe, General Eisenhower, in the White House, now backs Nick Fuentes, “a celibate white supremacist who thinks Hitler is cool”?
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
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Trump set new Kentucky records w/his 64.4%, 2024 win.
The nat'l poverty rate is 10.6%. In Kentucky, it's 16.6%.
Jim Beam employed some 1500 Kentuckians - up til now, anyway.
Congratulations, MAGA, you've scored another big middle finger from your lord and master.
The nat'l poverty rate is 10.6%. In Kentucky, it's 16.6%.
Jim Beam employed some 1500 Kentuckians - up til now, anyway.
Congratulations, MAGA, you've scored another big middle finger from your lord and master.
Jim Beam Whiskey will shut its distillery for 2026 thanks to plummeting sales amid retaliatory tariffs from the European Union after Trump's tariffs and a bourbon boycott from Canada.
www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
Major Kentucky bourbon maker Jim Beam shuttering distillery for 2026
The move comes as Kentucky’s $9 billion bourbon industry is dealing with a glut of supply and slipping sales.
www.kentucky.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Trump set new Kentucky records w/his 64.4%, 2024 win.
The nat'l poverty rate is 10.6%. In Kentucky, it's 16.6%.
Jim Beam employed some 1500 Kentuckians - up til now, anyway.
Congratulations, MAGA, you've scored another big middle finger from your lord and master.
The nat'l poverty rate is 10.6%. In Kentucky, it's 16.6%.
Jim Beam employed some 1500 Kentuckians - up til now, anyway.
Congratulations, MAGA, you've scored another big middle finger from your lord and master.
Thumbs up for Seriously Silly, the new bio of Terry Jones. Director, co-writer, and co-star of this epic:
youtu.be/R7qT-C-0ajI?...
youtu.be/R7qT-C-0ajI?...
Monty Python "Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune"
YouTube video by MamboBean
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Thumbs up for Seriously Silly, the new bio of Terry Jones. Director, co-writer, and co-star of this epic:
youtu.be/R7qT-C-0ajI?...
youtu.be/R7qT-C-0ajI?...
Off duty law-enforcement officer, driving home after a 10 hour shift, sees a car pass at high speed, run off the road, and roll over. The officer pulls over, calls 911, then walks through knee-deep snow to help the person out.
The story does not make the news.
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The story does not make the news.
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Redirecting...
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December 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Off duty law-enforcement officer, driving home after a 10 hour shift, sees a car pass at high speed, run off the road, and roll over. The officer pulls over, calls 911, then walks through knee-deep snow to help the person out.
The story does not make the news.
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The story does not make the news.
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“Menards engaged in price-gouging for items like rubbing alcohol, dish soap and neoprene gloves during the coronavirus pandemic.”
So it *wasn’t* Biden‘s fault that privately-owned companies jacked up prices on consumers? Who knew?
www.startribune.com/menards-sett...
So it *wasn’t* Biden‘s fault that privately-owned companies jacked up prices on consumers? Who knew?
www.startribune.com/menards-sett...
Menards settles false advertising claims over 11% rebate program
Shoppers will now have a year to submit those rebate forms.
www.startribune.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“Menards engaged in price-gouging for items like rubbing alcohol, dish soap and neoprene gloves during the coronavirus pandemic.”
So it *wasn’t* Biden‘s fault that privately-owned companies jacked up prices on consumers? Who knew?
www.startribune.com/menards-sett...
So it *wasn’t* Biden‘s fault that privately-owned companies jacked up prices on consumers? Who knew?
www.startribune.com/menards-sett...