Ed Lyons
US+MA+Boston politics posts. Carnivorous #NeverTrump ~GOP moderate, Charlie Baker fan, writer, programmer, mad scientist, chess, father of 4 little kids; pro-LGBT+ordain-women+Gothic+Latin Catholic; public radio pundit.
- Reposted by Ed LyonsPour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
- A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
- Reposted by Ed LyonsThis isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.
- Since Emperor Nero is uninterested in doing anything to make himself and his Congress more popular, and since they are all headed for a loss in November, any horrific idea that stops us from electing different people will seem better than accountability. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Ed LyonsThis is huge. Massachusetts is home to tens of thousands of hardworking Haitian TPS recipients who enrich the culture of our state, contribute to our economy, and help ensure we meet the needs of elders and patients in our health care and elder care industries - this victory belongs to them.
- BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Ed LyonsI think this year we will see moltbots or other AI agents: - break out of centralized containment and coordinate outside of preset channels - start inflicting serious real world damage, starting with meme coins - be (partially) shut down by a coordinated and creative human effort.
- Thank you @scotlehigh.bsky.social! I wish there was some other writer who could carry on your carry on your priorities, ethics, and habits. I will remember the times you spoke eloquently when those in power dismissed those who had none. (p.s. I'm remaining a customer and will buy your next book.)
- Reposted by Ed Lyonsevery epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
- We are bleeding, but they are losing. Thank you to everyone speaking out, acting, supporting fact-based media, and aiding the victims.
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- Reposted by Ed LyonsThe execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story - his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans - and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son, brother, father, uncle.
- Reposted by Ed Lyonsi think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
- Reposted by Ed LyonsKyle Rittenhouse traveled to another community with an assault rifle and the cops threw him a bottle of water and said they were glad he was there.
- Reposted by Ed LyonsOur country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.
- Reposted by Ed LyonsI wonder how many people need to get killed in the street by masked agents of the state before conservatives stop pretending that they’re being oppressed by the existence of HR departments bsky.app/profile/shar...
- Reposted by Ed Lyonsan administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars
- Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"
- Reposted by Ed LyonsAnother ICE shooting has occurred. In the military, when preventable deaths occurred, we’d have stand downs. Department of Homeland Security must immediately withdraw ICE from Minnesota to calm tensions, and IMPOSE A NATIONWIDE STAND DOWN OF ICE to review/change policies, procedures and training.
- Another ICE shooting in Minnesota. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- The easiest way to see how weak Governor Healey’s words are concerning the threat to us posed by Emperor Nero is to compare her words to those of Mayor Wu. #mapoli
- Reposted by Ed Lyonsthis is some fox's book of martyrs shit. jesus christ.
- Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
- There was good positive stuff and accomplishments in it, but Governor Healey's "State of the Commonwealth" speech was kind of boring, and the writing wasn't great. Her words about Emperor Nero vs. Massachusetts were weak and uninspiring. It's like she doesn't get the danger we are all in. #mapoli
- Genuinely sad at the passing of John Allen, the word's greatest chronicler and inquisitor of Catholicism. A man of faith yet skepticism, politics yet humanity, pride yet shame - he built an authority that gained the trust of all. He taught me so much. May perpetual light shine upon him.🙏 ✝️ 😔
- The leader of America's pro-life movement has decided that your life is worth zero dollars when compared to the campaign contributions of wealthy corporations. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/c...
- Reposted by Ed LyonsLate to the party but straight up posting screenshots of texts is extremely poor online behavior and would get a normal person kicked out of any number of group chats
- Reposted by Ed LyonsOssoff: "There's a wickedness to the program. I don't know, pastor, where it is in scripture that it says deny care to the sick, take from those with the least to give to those with the most, violate the house of worship to hunt down the refugee. Where in the scripture are those lessons taught?"
- Gov Healey announced she'll continue for another term. The appearance of a campaign will occur, but isn't worth discussing. She'll clobber whatever wealthy, white, unknown, conservative Trump-supporting businessman appears by 25 in a national blue wave. #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/20/m...
- Reposted by Ed LyonsI always thought MLK’s ‘Mountaintop’ speech was his best, which was given the day before he was killed. It is especially relevant given what is happening now in MN and elsewhere. He was getting many serious threats, which he references in his line “I may not get there with you.”
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- Reposted by Ed Lyons“Trump is the first president not to issue an official proclamation recognizing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day since President Reagan made it a holiday.”
- Reposted by Ed Lyonsvery good piece which confirms that weiss is both exceptionally arrogant and totally out of her depth. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
- To all the conservatives I know praising MLK today in the safest way: he was the most hated man in America in his time, and conservative white people like you would have certainly been one of his oppressors, as shown by how you treat black leaders today.
- Reposted by Ed LyonsThis isn’t parody. It’s a message attributed to the sitting U.S. president arguing the world isn’t safe unless America has “complete and total control” of Greenland—because he didn’t get a Nobel Prize. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
- Uh…… ok
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- Reposted by Ed LyonsNow the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
- You mean Bari Weiss's anti-woke "free speech and open debate" Texas 'university' is actually a right-wing, nutjob conservative hellhole where dissenters were ousted? (This stuff is worse than I imagined.) www.politico.com/news/magazin...
- Wait... did the Boston Globe accidentally admit that the Boston Seaport is NOT a racist, soulless hellhole that is bad for Boston? Did they (for the first time ever) admit that it has provided immense benefit to every person in the city? #bospoli apps.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/metr...
- Reposted by Ed LyonsThere is no war on protein. But pretending there is goes hand-in-hand with the Trump administration’s appeal to traditional masculinity. www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...
- Reposted by Ed LyonsWalz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
- Reposted by Ed LyonsNon-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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- Reposted by Ed LyonsBreaking: NYT now says *six* federal prosecutors in Minnesota have just resigned over the Justice Department's push to investigate the widow of Renee Good and the department's reluctance to investigate the ICE agent who shot Good, according to people with knowledge of their decision.
- Reposted by Ed LyonsAOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
- A #mapolo polling firm sent me a survey, and they wanted to know how I viewed The Emperor. Someone please tell me about the life of the person who has never heard of him.
- Reposted by Ed LyonsBreaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."
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- Reposted by Ed LyonsPowell, showing more guts than almost any GOP legislators: "The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President." www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
- Reposted by Ed LyonsJerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
- Powell responds ON VIDEO with basically a polite version of Phil Hartman’s Frank Sinatra saying “I got chunks of guys like you in my stool!” www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
- The Emperor was not amused. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Oh
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- I am tired of people asking the media to do more without saying *explicitly* what "the media" would do to properly convey the danger we are in. Jill was in a position to be much bolder, and failed. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/10/o...
- Reposted by Ed LyonsStephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”
- Wow.
- No.
- Reposted by Ed Lyonswhat you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.
- Reposted by Ed LyonsLotta people get mad at me when I criticize Democratic messaging but THIS IS HOW DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE TALKING. Like normal people using normal language to communicate normal human emotions about the fucked up situation. THIS.
- Lies!
- Reposted by Ed LyonsThe image of the blood-soaked airbag next to the glove compartment overflowing with stuffed animals is going to stick with me for a very long time.
- Reposted by Ed LyonsThis is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
- Reposted by Ed Lyonsremains striking the extent to which trump quite loudly does not see himself as president of the united states and more as a clan leader for his supporters
- Reposted by Ed Lyonsmasked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
- Reposted by Ed LyonsMarco Rubio, we salute you? What a an abomination. CBS News is done.
- Reposted by Ed LyonsFive years ago today, the United States Capitol was attacked in a violent insurrection incited by the President of the United States for one purpose: to overturn a free and fair election and cling to power in clear violation of the Constitution.
- As I pretty much only see little kid shows these years, the series finale of "Tumble Leaf" - one of the greatest and most beautiful children's shows of all time - had an ending that was truly surprising, metaphysical, and awe-inspiring. It was a mouth-open "wow".
- Reposted by Ed LyonsOn the 5th Anniversary of the failed January 6th insurrection attempt, we’re reminded how fragile democracy can be. We must remember the darkness of that day so it’s never repeated. As history is rewritten by some, we choose to speak the truth of what happened.
- Picked?
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- Reposted by Ed LyonsAfter Jan. 6, 2021, we sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there. Revisit our full archive, five years later:
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- Reposted by Ed LyonsA reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
