@GottaLaff

@GottaLaff

@gottalaff.bsky.social

Progressive political commentator (print, radio, podcasts) in US for years, now in Canada. I post (A LOT) breaking news + legit info you can use, prone to snark. Bite me, Musk. Now where's my trough of wine? 🍷🇨🇦

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Joanne Freeman
@jbf1755.bsky.social

In other words, they’re calling him “uppity.”

Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social

Young ‘uns: this stuff happened once a week during Obama’s presidency. Dijon mustard. Moving a bust of Churchill. Inviting a rapper to the White House. Putting his feet up on his desk. They’d scream and cry for days about how effete and snobby and Black he was and how misinderstood they were.

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ICYMI

Aaron Parnas@aaronparnas.bsky.social

NEWS: Alarm bells go off as Trump Jr. caught hunting with Russian oligarch tied to Putin. Counterintelligence officials are worried. Court orders release of 'intimate' and 'embarrassing' Musk emails about elections. Trump has brutal personal day. Told to shove ballroom "up his ass." Subscribe:

aaronparnas.substack.comNEWS: Alarm Bells Go Off as Trump Jr. Hunts With Russian Oligarch, Court Orders Release of Musk’s Election Emails, Trump has Brutal Personal DayGood morning.
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2/

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

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Democracy Docket
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🏛️ TODAY AT 4 P.M. ET: A judge will hear Trump's extraordinary request to stop California from counting 20k mail ballots — one day after the 9th Circuit rejected the DOJ's attempt to bypass him. Stay tuned as a ruling is expected shortly after the hearing. Background: https://demdock.com/4srTlR6

democracydocket.comTrump DOJ’s bid to stop California ballot counting returns to federal judge after 9th Circuit dismissalWhether Carter will actually reach DOJ’s request Tuesday could depend on another court’s action.

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Democracy Docket
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UPDATE: Democrats asked a federal court to block the Trump administration from: 🔺Pressuring election officials to purge voters from the rolls before the midterms using a faulty DHS database. 🔺Withholding ballots from people who appear as active voters on the rolls. 🔺Setting aside such ballots.

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With Trump's and Musk's help:

UNITED24 Media@united24media.com

🔴 The UN Commission of Inquiry has formally ruled that Russia’s systematic attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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🧵 Siiiggghhh.. he's right.

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social

If they lose power, expect Republicans in several states to strip powers from incoming Democrats, pass voting restrictions, and new gerrymanders. They did it after losing governors races in NC in 2016 and 2024, MI and WI in 2018, and KY in 2019. They preemptively did it ahead of losing IA this year

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Angry
@angrystaffer.bsky.social

Listen, when I said the tent was big enough for all of us, this is not what the fuck I meant. Thanks for the publicity or whatever, but Neo-nazis need not apply.

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#Alaska

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social

JUST IN: Judge Gleason in Alaska sounds deeply skeptical of DOJ's 11th hour lawsuit there to halt certification if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. She grants Dems' motion for expedited consideration and notes DOJ waited four months to sue over the ballot. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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I love how he’s always so positive and forward-looking.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on DC: "One of my top people got killed waiting for his wife to come out of an office building, bring her home. And this guy comes up and wants the car and shoots him right through the head. Dead."

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#EpsteinFiles

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social

It's really damning. The accusations are numerous and well-supported. But I was really struck by the descriptions of Trump's behavior -- the name dropping, strong-arming, and attempts to buy off silence. His gross rivalry with Epstein. It's all so familiar. It's shit he's been doing his entire life.

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#Wisconsin ... and everywhere else: Do this.

Ben Wikler@benwikler.bsky.social

Spent the weekend knocking doors and turning out voters alongside folks across Wisconsin. A Democratic trifecta is within reach. Now we’ve got to bring it home. Come knock doors with us. You don’t need a perfect speech. Just show up. 👉 mobilize.us/wisdems/

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Ahem. #EpsteinFiles

Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

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"In advance of Israel’s pivotal election on Tues, Netanyahu sought for weeks to orchestrate a new airstrike on Iran but ran into resistance from the military’s chief of staff, according to 3 senior Israeli defense officials and three other people briefed on the matter"

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Breaking News: Benjamin Netanyahu pushed for an attack on Iran ahead of Israel’s election, according to officials.

nyti.msNetanyahu Pushed for Attack on Iran Ahead of Israeli Election, Officials SayIsrael’s military chief resisted the prime minister, who then pressed in recent days for a separate action, short of an overt strike, according to an official and a person briefed on the matter.
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social

You really need to work hard to be the most obsequious member of Trump’s cabinet — by, for instance, eating lunch at Cheesecake Factory and alerting Fox Business, so they can interview you in defense of Obama’s joke about the White House decor. Well done Secretary Bessent! Your move, Doug Burgum!

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2/ #California 👇🏼

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com

🚨BREAKING: In a blow to the DOJ, the 9th Circuit rejected its request to bypass a lower court to bar California from counting around 20k ballots from people it alleges are "likely" noncitizens. The ruling comes the night before the parties are scheduled to have a hearing before a lower court.

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3/ As expected, it was 2-1

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit rules 2-1 to dismiss DOJ's effort to force California to remove 20,000 purported noncitizens from the voter rolls based on data CA officials view as faulty. Majority: Bennett (Trump) Sanchez (Biden) Minority: Bumatay (Trump) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com#63 in United States of America v. State of California, et al. (9th Cir., 26-7070) – CourtListener.comORDER FOR PUBLICATION FILED. (Mark J. BENNETT, Patrick J. BUMATAY, Gabriel P. SANCHEZ) (Concurrence by Judge BENNETT; Concurrence by Judge SANCHEZ; Dissent by Judge BUMATAY) [SEE ORDER FOR FULL TEXT] ...

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NBC News
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Mississippi Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom says he will visit President Trump’s rally to hear from voters about what issues matter to them.

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#California Heads up

Angie Coiro@angiecoiro.bsky.social

Share this with your CA friends who haven't voted yet. tl/dr: YES on Prop 40. NO on 41 and 42. Spread the word; this is a deliberate, poisonous smoke screen. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

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They're doing everything they can to interfere with the outcome of the elections.

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration asked Washington to set aside ballots from around 400 registered voters it claims may be noncitizens. The alarming request comes amid the DOJ's legal effort to compel California to do the same to 20k voters.

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Democracy Docket
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In the last few weeks, the Trump admin has: 🔺 Tried to stop California from counting 20k ballots 🔺 Preemptively sued Alaska from certifying results of a key race — if the Republican loses 🔺 Inserted itself into Michigan's election That’s not all. Here's how it's already meddling in the midterms 👇

democracydocket.comIt’s happening: From Alaska to California, the Trump administration is working to subvert the midtermsRead more here.

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Bradley P. Moss
@bradmossesq.bsky.social

This case should be dead and over with before Christmas.

Jonathan Shorman@jonshorman.bsky.social

This case had been playing out under seal until today. Here's Comey's motion to dismiss storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com#11 in United States v. COMEY (D.D.C., 1:26-cr-00229) – CourtListener.comMOTION to Dismiss Criminal Information by JAMES BRIEN COMEY, JR. (zmcg) (Main Document 11 replaced on 10/26/2026) (zstd). (Entered: 10/16/2026)

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deck.blue
@deck.blue

if you want to follow ANYTHING from what elected Lula here in brazil, this is the most important lesson and change of mindset that happened here just don't give them the attention they want. let them speak amongst themselves and let us win by silencing them with our voices

Calli Giovanini COMMS CLOSED@calligiovanini.bsky.social

The online part was important too, of course. We collectively decided to not interact with any right wing post or comment ever. Trolls and bots lost their power. This is a good lesson.

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Bradley P. Moss
@bradmossesq.bsky.social

As FBI Director, he absolutely had the authority to direct those staffers to do that. He was an OCA, he could do that. This case is garbage on procedure and on substance.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Trump’s DOJ has charged James Comey AGAIN, this time under the Espionage Act over a 2016 New York Times story. In DOJ’s own words, Comey had staff talk to a reporter to “correct misinformation” in a Reuters article.

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Bradley P. Moss
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I'm going to say this for probably the 20th time now .... Comey was an Original Classification Authority at the time he allegedly disseminated the national defense information at issue here. Assuming it was FBI information, he had the authority to declassify it at his discretion.

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Bradley P. Moss
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They filed this on the literal LAST day before the statute of limitations expired. Literally, the very last day. Give me a break. This is garbage.

Jonathan Shorman@jonshorman.bsky.social

The DOJ has a new criminal case against former FBI director James Comey, this time related to the transfer of national defense information in 2016 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com#1 in United States v. COMEY (D.D.C., 1:26-cr-00229) – CourtListener.comSEALED INFORMATION as to JAMES BRIEN COMEY, JR (1) count(s) 1, 2. (NOTICE OF FORFEITURE) (zstd) (Main Document 1 replaced on 10/26/2026) (zstd). (Entered: 10/05/2026)

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emptywheel
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The information came 2 days after Aakash Singh got a promotion. Comey was ALREADY arguing that Trump was getting these bullshit cases by promoting people. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

news.bloomberglaw.comUS Attorney Enforcer Singh Gets DOJ Senior Leadership PromotionThe Justice Department promoted Aakash Singh, an aide responsible for the aggressive overhaul of US attorneys’ offices to meet Trump priorities, to a top leadership role, said two people familiar with...