laighe.bsky.social
laighe.bsky.social
@laighe.bsky.social
Retired librarian. Blue dot in the red state of Texas. I enjoy reading old plays, especially those from the 1950s. 🇺🇲🇺🇦🌻
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Yeah, this man should not be allowed to practice law, and any failure to take away his ability to practice law after all of this would be a part of the end of the rule of law in America.
Blanche on CBS says his suit against Alaska is "asking the court to step in where the Alaska Supreme Court didn't, which is to look at federal law and if necessary to allow a process for Alaska to decide who should be certified as the winner." (So, the voters won't get to decide. Got it.)
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Elon Musk hopes his new factory will help AI supplant life on Earth
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Ken Paxton hung MISSING posters for a Democrat home with the flu. That Democrat has since said yes to debate after debate. Paxton has said yes to zero. Turns out the missing thing was Paxton’s spine. #VoteEarlyForNoKings www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-does...
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"We gotta put a big bed sheet over the Statue of Liberty. It should be a white sheet. And have a point over the top of her head. And two eyeholes. And Instead of a burning torch, she should be holding a burning cross. That would make the Statue of LIB-erty for more acceptable to godly Republicans."
Nehls: You have to love our country. This is what we gotta do. We gotta put a big bed sheet over the Statue of Liberty. She gotta go to sleep for a while. I'm not saying she's dead. Instead of having a torch, maybe it needs a stop sign.
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You probably won’t be surprised to hear that a MAGAt live streamer called Manny (Gian Rachtell) was arrested at tRump’s taxpayer-funded failed fair for masturbating to acrobats. Consider me unfazed; I expected as much. #ProudBlue #tRumpStateFair #MAGAt timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/inter...
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Back in February, I asked a Trump nominee about this EXACT possibility & he dodged my questions. Just as I said back then, this whole process is corrupt to its core. Trump's admin is effectively trying to boost his own family's tainted crypto company. Unprecedented corruption.
This is unprecedented. A company owned by the President's family, is seeking approvals from a federal agency over which the President has total control — including to hire & fire the people granting approvals. The company, the deal, the entire process is corrupt to the core.
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I have literal screenshots of Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex offender waiver. substack.com/@muellershew...
House Oversight and Judiciary investigators just visited Federal Prison Camp Bryan — the prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is housed. Reps. Garcia and Raskin: "Bureau of Prisons leadership repeatedly shut down our lines of questioning or could not provide basic information about our central concerns…"
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We’re living in a timeline where the president just discovered that the word dumb has a B in it. It’s time to 25th amendment this guy. The method is there. We just need Congress to have the courage to act. Urge them to:
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Trump Mobile investigating potential exposure of would-be customers’ personal information
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We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
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“People are telling us that they’re being tortured. I don’t know what more we need to hear before people act to start working together to get people released.” Delaney Hall detainees decry inhumane conditions & no access to medications, @alexmar.bsky.social reports.
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The House passed a bill late Wednesday to force public school teachers to out transgender students to their parents. It wasn’t a party-line vote, either: Eight Democrats voted for it. www.huffpost.com/entry/8-demo...
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I think this is a first. A travel advisory for the USA from Amnesty International for the #FIFAWorldCup2026. www.amnestyusa.org/blog/2026-wo...
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🚨BREAKING: Alabama lawmakers will convene Monday afternoon for an astonishing eleventh-hour special session to prepare the state to use a gerrymandered map that dilutes the power of Black voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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🚨BREAKING: According to exclusive research by Democracy Docket, the Supreme Court’s ruling will likely derail at least 28 pro-voting lawsuits that aim to stop state legislatures from drawing electoral maps that dilute the voting power of racial minorities. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Judge Pappert (EDPa) has entered an order staying the EEOC subpoena against Penn seeking Lists Of Jews. He rejected all the substantive arguments as to why he was wrong the first time, but conceded that Penn might be irreparably harmed & the EEOC can wait. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
As predicted, Judge Pappert has ruled in favor of enforcing the Trump/EEOC subpoena seeking lists of Jewish students and professors from The University of Pennsylvania, though without revealing any employee’s affiliation with a specific Jewish organization. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Important reporting by @jlbuch.bsky.social on right-of-entry requests being used by the Trump administration to rush wall construction on Texans' private land: www.texasobserver.org/trump-new-to...
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This is what Marco Rubio decided to do with his life: "AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance: A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...
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A Texas judge ordered Hayam El Gamal and her five children released Thursday. Two days later, their lawyers say, ICE re-arrested and tried to deport them. n.pr/4eJAxaX