LoriB

LoriB

@lab2.bsky.social

🇨🇦Snowbird golfer happily married gramma globalist into politics, world affairs & science. 2X cancer survivor. Father fled communist China. Descendant of “Fighting Schans” who fought against Facism. 🚫Porn 🚫DMs 🚫Grifters🚫Crypto 🚫MAGA 🚫GoFundMe

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It's not just California: The Trump admin just asked Washington state to set aside ballots received from more than 400 people it claims are suspected to be registered to vote without U.S. citizenship.

pbs.orgTrump administration asks Washington state to set aside ballots from 400 voters it says may be noncitizensThe effort is the latest by the administration to identify noncitizen voters, even though noncitizen voting is exceptionally rare.

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FLASHBACK — Republican Paul Weyrich (co-founder of the Heritage Foundation & ALEC): “I don’t want everybody to vote… our leverage in elections goes up as the voting populace goes down.” They’ve been saying it out loud for years. Please vote. 🗳️ 🇺🇸

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🥴 Putin: Russia is exploring the possibility of cooperation with the U.S. in the Arctic. Europe is dealing a blow to its own industry and social sector by rejecting Russian energy supplies. In Russia we have a saying: "Don't dig a pit for someone else, or you might fall into it yourself."

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🚨SENATE ALERT: Democrats are closing in. Silver Bulletin gives Dems a 76% chance to win the Senate—with strong leads in NC, GA and NH, and competitive races across OH, ME, MI, MN, AK and TX. But Republicans are flooding the airwaves with money to stop the blue wave. Vote early. Finish the job. 🔵

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Rep. Joey Arrington over a graphic showing diesel at $6.35: "Thank God we have a commander in chief that's willing to do things that aren't in his political interest"

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For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social

“Billionaires who popularized stock-based lending include Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Both borrow to avoid having to sell shares—which could trigger a taxes and dilute their voting rights—in companies they founded.” www.wsj.com/finance/the-...

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You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

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🥴 Putin told the leaders of Finland and Norway that Russia will not give up on seizing the entire Donbas, — Reuters reported, citing a source close to the Kremlin.

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🚨 Earlier this month, we witnessed ICE agents violently detain a U.S. citizen in North Long Beach. What they did was horrifying, wrong, and put everyone in danger. Oversight Dems are demanding answers. We will not tolerate this violence on our streets.

We all expect a big announcement prior to mid-terms and then Trump will renege.

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“The longtime sheriff in Frederick County, Chuck Jenkins,earned this reputation by associating with far-right, anti-immigrant organizations designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Jenkins, a Republican who stands for re-election this November, has become a small-town celebrity”

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

In Maryland, just 50 miles from DC, a sheriff has relentlessly targeted local immigrants for over 20 years. He is running for reelection next week in a county that went for Harris over Trump. Make sure to share story: boltsmag.org/frederick-co...

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🇫🇮🇳🇴 The leaders of Finland and Norway held phone conversations with Putin. "The conversation was direct and to the point. We are neighbors of Russia, and how the war ends will affect the security of Finland, Norway and the entire EU. Ending the war requires direct discussions."

Trump and Hegseth have more blood on their hands.

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social

🇺🇦🇺🇸❗️Zelensky: Artificial and long delays in the delivery of interceptor packages for Patriots and Nasams, which, unfortunately, have been happening recently, directly help Russia achieve the goals of its terrorist campaign.

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🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

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🔥 “27 years in office and Marsha Blackburn still has a price” Independent (conservative) candidate for Governor David Hatley rips @MarshaBlackburn for getting a $50,000 donation from Kalshi right after they lost in court to Tennessee Governor for sale! 🤷🏼‍♀️

Love this.

Decoding Fox News@decodingfoxnews.bsky.social

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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Replying to @thebulwark.com

So which “Arabs” is he mad at? The ones who gave Kushner $2 billion. The ones who gave Trump a 747? The ones who let America build military bases in their countries. Or is he trying to make sure Stephen Miller knows he’s properly racist so he gets an invite to Katie’s next party?

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🚨 FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA VOTERS! More than 7K voters had their registrations flagged over questions about their residential addresses, & the ACLU is raising serious concerns about errors. Check your voter status NOW. If it says “Challenged,” contact Fulton County Elections.

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shut the fuck up meatball man

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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🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court rejected DOJ's extraordinary request to bypass the district court in its effort to bar California from counting the ballots of around 20,000 people the Trump administration alleges are “likely” noncitizens. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comDOJ can’t leapfrog lower court in bid to block 20,000 California voters, appeals court rulesA Trump-appointed federal judge said the DOJ would also lose the case on the merits.

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The fact that Trump keeps claiming voter fraud in the 2026 midterms before a single vote has been counted is wild to me. Reminds me of how he won all seven swing states in 2024. If you and I were planning to cheat, we’d say, “Let’s do five, not seven. It’ll seem more believable.”

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Trump: "I thought the price of oil was gonna go much, much higher, and I was fully prepared to do it"