holleyb.bsky.social

holleyb.bsky.social

@holleyb.bsky.social

Musician/composer from New Orleans with a traditional Jazz vocal trio, The Pfister Sisters. Mom/Mimi to 5 girls. Still in recovery from the election. I will never go back. I'm the one on the left.

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In 2024, President Trump unveiled his signature “no tax on tips" proposal at this Las Vegas restaurant. Two years later, its owner tells CNN’s Kyung Lah he is dipping into his savings to stay afloat, and his workers are struggling to pay their bills.

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TX has the 8th largest economy in the country. But as the incredible documentary “The Long Game” shows, the state has been working to dismantle-not strengthen - public education. Thank you @texasaft.org for hosting tonight’s screening, and for fighting for strong public schools for all students.

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A system that Louisiana and other states are trying to reinstate right now in the penal system. Homelessness is illegal. If you are arrested for it a second time you go to a for profit prison where you perform labor for dollars a day. We MUST stay vigilant to this regime’s cruel brutality!

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In June, committee ranking members wrote that the Park Service is assessing a “triumphal arch” at Memorial Circle that Congress never authorized, which they say two federal statutes prohibit. Interior Secretary Burgum said in September that excavation would start within two weeks.

resist.botNO ARCH. NO BALLROOM. Stop the illegal vanity projectsPlease use all the tools available to you to HALT work on the "triumphal arch" and to restore correct use of the funds that Congress appropriated to the…

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A protester yelled "Shove that ballroom up your fat ass" to Trump at his rally in Mississippi on Monday night. This clip contains two versions of the moment. The first is how it aired on a livestream. In the second I increased the audio for that moment.

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🚨😂 7 DAYS TO MIDTERMS! THE POLITICAL CIRCUS IS IN TOWN! 🇺🇸 🗳️ LAST DAY TO VOTE: NOVEMBER 3! What’s YOUR plan? Make a plan, check your polling place, and make your voice count! IWillVote.Org 🇺🇸 USDemocracy #Midterms2026 #VoteNovember3 #Democracy #USDemocracy

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Gone Whale Watching San Diego "Amidst all of this orca mania, it’s been an outstanding start to humpback season! Over a dozen humpbacks were seen in San Diego yesterday, including this spectacular breacher captured by Captain Michael!" 📹Captain Michael Irwin Merriam

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Trying to be John Mitchell. 👀⚖️

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BRENNAN: The DOJ lawsuit demands the Alaska result not be certified if voters are confused. The confusion is defined as Sen. Sullivan not winning. BLANCHE: That's not what it says BRENNAN: I'm quoting from it. You are telling them not to certify it. What right does the federal govt have?

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David Jolly: "The problem in this environment is not that I used to be a Republican. It's that Byron Donalds still is one."

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Trump has a rally tonight in Mississippi, in case you're wondering how things are shaping up for Republicans

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The truest thing JD Vance has said in a long, long time.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

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JD Vance's speech in Kansas is interrupted by a protester. Vance responds by saying "all the Democrats are selling is a fat load of bullshit"

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Trump's audience in Mississippi gives him a standing ovation after he promises them he won't rename the Mississippi River

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Well how's he supposed to fill a venue in a Democratic stronghold like.... [checks notes]... Mississippi

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Empty seats are seen as Trump speaks in Mississippi tonight (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)

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“I agree!” shouted James Donald Bowman, James David Hamel, JD Vance, Rafael Cruz, Kashyap Pramod Patel, Nimrata Randhawa, Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal, Anna Paulina Mayerhofer-Gamberzky-Luna, and Richard Lynn Myers (Rick Scott) to Donald J. Drumpf.

Not much education in that head. Dude, Arabs INVENTED math, and many other things.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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This took three people? Truly embarrassing shit.

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

This is hilarious. Is this the worst thing they can find on him, lolol?

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...