@leninthewoods.bsky.social
Retired chemist. Retired lawyer. Mows grass and feeds dogs.
Nobody knows the Strait of Hormuz has a b in it.
Trump: "The famous Strait of Hormuz -- nobody ever heard of it, but that is some big money machine, I'll tell you what"
July 6, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Nobody knows the Strait of Hormuz has a b in it.
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On this July 4th, remember the words of Dashiell Hammett, who was jailed by HUAC for not naming names.
"I don’t let cops or judges tell me what I think democracy is."
—Dashiell Hammett
"I don’t let cops or judges tell me what I think democracy is."
—Dashiell Hammett
July 4, 2026 at 3:51 PM
On this July 4th, remember the words of Dashiell Hammett, who was jailed by HUAC for not naming names.
"I don’t let cops or judges tell me what I think democracy is."
—Dashiell Hammett
"I don’t let cops or judges tell me what I think democracy is."
—Dashiell Hammett
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I'm very glad Rep. Kean was able to take time off of work and get treatment for his depression. Rep. Kean also voted for the OBBB, which will kick Americans who need to take a month from work to seek mental health treatment off of Medicaid because they're "able-bodied adults".
June 30, 2026 at 6:02 PM
I'm very glad Rep. Kean was able to take time off of work and get treatment for his depression. Rep. Kean also voted for the OBBB, which will kick Americans who need to take a month from work to seek mental health treatment off of Medicaid because they're "able-bodied adults".
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All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.
June 30, 2026 at 3:31 PM
All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.
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After all this talk for years from Fox News about "radical judges overturning the original Constituion" we now have actual activist judges overturning the original Constitution. And you'll never guess what side they're on!
June 30, 2026 at 4:05 PM
After all this talk for years from Fox News about "radical judges overturning the original Constituion" we now have actual activist judges overturning the original Constitution. And you'll never guess what side they're on!
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Four justices don’t believe the reconstruction amendments are part of the Constitution, simple as
June 30, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Four justices don’t believe the reconstruction amendments are part of the Constitution, simple as
Four votes against birthright citizenship are votes against reading comprehension and history and for a partisan outcome. The executive controls immigration records and could disenfranchise and deport anyone it declares a noncitizen. Bullet dodged today but they will be back.
June 30, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Four votes against birthright citizenship are votes against reading comprehension and history and for a partisan outcome. The executive controls immigration records and could disenfranchise and deport anyone it declares a noncitizen. Bullet dodged today but they will be back.
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The sitting president of the United States had to pay $5 million to a woman he raped and defamed, and not one person in his entire cult of a party is calling for his resignation.
Not one.
Not one.
June 30, 2026 at 2:53 PM
The sitting president of the United States had to pay $5 million to a woman he raped and defamed, and not one person in his entire cult of a party is calling for his resignation.
Not one.
Not one.
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The only surprise here is that it was close. Fuck this court. Expand it*
The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
June 30, 2026 at 2:54 PM
The only surprise here is that it was close. Fuck this court. Expand it*
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I did NOT anticipate Kav concurring like 'Congress can just pass *a statute tho,' and REALLY didn't expect a dissent from Gorsuch of all people
Four votes against the plain text and long-settled understanding of the constitutional foundation of multiracial democracy is just...reprehensible
Four votes against the plain text and long-settled understanding of the constitutional foundation of multiracial democracy is just...reprehensible
June 30, 2026 at 2:56 PM
I did NOT anticipate Kav concurring like 'Congress can just pass *a statute tho,' and REALLY didn't expect a dissent from Gorsuch of all people
Four votes against the plain text and long-settled understanding of the constitutional foundation of multiracial democracy is just...reprehensible
Four votes against the plain text and long-settled understanding of the constitutional foundation of multiracial democracy is just...reprehensible
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With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
June 30, 2026 at 2:43 PM
With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
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Sen. Ossoff: "They worked harder burying the Epstein files than they ever worked to lower your grocery bill. And while you pay more for everything, the Trumps are raking in billions from all over the world."
June 29, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Sen. Ossoff: "They worked harder burying the Epstein files than they ever worked to lower your grocery bill. And while you pay more for everything, the Trumps are raking in billions from all over the world."
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The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios
June 29, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios
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Textbooks should be updated to reflect the three official branches of the federal government: the nine-man council of wizard elders, the Federal Reserve, and a senile real estate developer with with unfettered rule over everything else.
Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS TRUMP'S FIRING OF FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION MEMBER
June 29, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Textbooks should be updated to reflect the three official branches of the federal government: the nine-man council of wizard elders, the Federal Reserve, and a senile real estate developer with with unfettered rule over everything else.
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I was born in 1946 in the segregated south. Civil Rights was bloody and slow. Woman’s rights slow and never made it to ratified amendment. Vietnam war divided families. Status quo will always resist transformative policies in an unregulated capitalistic society that perpetuates white wealth
June 28, 2026 at 5:29 PM
I was born in 1946 in the segregated south. Civil Rights was bloody and slow. Woman’s rights slow and never made it to ratified amendment. Vietnam war divided families. Status quo will always resist transformative policies in an unregulated capitalistic society that perpetuates white wealth
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📌Decades and decades of exploration, vaccines, social progress, and righteous wars against genocide and hate, and after 250 years we end up with a lying, orange bigot who hates science and reading, and is losing a war with algae.
It’s very disheartening, it really is …
It’s very disheartening, it really is …
June 29, 2026 at 1:25 AM
📌Decades and decades of exploration, vaccines, social progress, and righteous wars against genocide and hate, and after 250 years we end up with a lying, orange bigot who hates science and reading, and is losing a war with algae.
It’s very disheartening, it really is …
It’s very disheartening, it really is …
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Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."
June 26, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."
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well no wonder the centrists hate him, he’s proving government can actually do big things
Some NYC news: Mamdani just won his rent freeze--one of his biggest campaign promises!
June 25, 2026 at 11:50 PM
well no wonder the centrists hate him, he’s proving government can actually do big things
I don’t want to be a fucking pool care expert. I want everyone to have a good job, a minimum wage that pays for housing, healthcare, food, housing and a government that does not shoot people in the face. Also stop being racists and sexists and leave gay people alone.
June 25, 2026 at 8:51 PM
I don’t want to be a fucking pool care expert. I want everyone to have a good job, a minimum wage that pays for housing, healthcare, food, housing and a government that does not shoot people in the face. Also stop being racists and sexists and leave gay people alone.
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When these data centers become debt traps in a few years at most, the next Dem president should offer to wipe out those debts if they're sold for a dollar back to cities for community centers, mutual aid hubs, YMCA-style temporary housing services. Try to salvage anything out of this mess.
June 25, 2026 at 7:39 PM
When these data centers become debt traps in a few years at most, the next Dem president should offer to wipe out those debts if they're sold for a dollar back to cities for community centers, mutual aid hubs, YMCA-style temporary housing services. Try to salvage anything out of this mess.
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The central claim of SCOTUS decisions like Shelby County and Callais is that we’ve made so much progress since Jim Crow and slavery that the VRA’s remedies aren’t needed. The central claim of conservative elected officials is that Jim Crow and slavery weren’t that bad, anyway.
With no explanation, Republicans on the State Board of Education have cut lessons that taught about racial segregation and slave revolts; that acknowledged slavery was because of skin color; and that said southern states seceded from the Union in part to preserve the practice of slavery.
Texas social studies rewrite would trim back lessons on slavery and civil rights
The board voted to cut proposed lessons that would explain racial segregation, slave...
cmf.houstonchronicle.com
June 25, 2026 at 4:51 PM
The central claim of SCOTUS decisions like Shelby County and Callais is that we’ve made so much progress since Jim Crow and slavery that the VRA’s remedies aren’t needed. The central claim of conservative elected officials is that Jim Crow and slavery weren’t that bad, anyway.
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My local Subway works better, more efficiently, and with less crimes than Donald's government.
June 25, 2026 at 6:03 PM
My local Subway works better, more efficiently, and with less crimes than Donald's government.
Why do we need a $1.5 trillion budget? Who are we fighting? Russia, China, and North Korea are Trump’s friends. We got beat by Iran and are not going back there. Where are we going to use that military might? Internally? We need to zero out the pentagon budget before it is too late.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and House Republicans walked out of their meeting today with no clear path forward for the party to pass the administration’s $1.5 trillion Pentagon spending request.
Hegseth’s Defense Spending Pitch Leaves House GOP Without Clear Path
Republican demands greeted the Pentagon chief: “If you want my vote, you'd better replace that brigade in Poland,” said Rep. Don Bacon.
www.notus.org
June 24, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Why do we need a $1.5 trillion budget? Who are we fighting? Russia, China, and North Korea are Trump’s friends. We got beat by Iran and are not going back there. Where are we going to use that military might? Internally? We need to zero out the pentagon budget before it is too late.
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Maybe, just maybe, Democrats should act like they want to govern in a country where Social Security and the poem at the Statue of Liberty are popular
June 24, 2026 at 5:44 AM
Maybe, just maybe, Democrats should act like they want to govern in a country where Social Security and the poem at the Statue of Liberty are popular