laurie8317.bsky.social

anyone heard from Speaker of House? in witness protection? trying to come up with "didn't see it" lines?

An undeclared, unprovoked, and illegal war designed to, well, we can only guess—though Donald Trump and JD Vance have seemed to concede this was a war for oil—puts the United States on the same moral and legal footing as Russia, which invaded its neighbor in a war of pure aggression.

open.substack.com/pub/contrari... This mind-blowing attack is the direct result of a Supreme Court MAGA majority, and Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. specifically, who granted him broad immunity never envisioned by the Framers. He has taken that and run with it—now headfirst into war.

Not the most important point but today's Epstein emails make it clear that Maxwell committed gross perjury in her interview with Todd Blanche, and it will still be within the statute of limitations when President (insert your favorite Dem) takes office in January 2029

"At one steel industry plant near Pittsburgh, a potent carcinogen was found at levels more than 30 times higher than estimated." If you read to the end you'll find an asthmatic cat photo 😭 My latest, 📸 by Annie Flanagan. Shocking pics that look like pre-EPA days www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Whoever is the next Democratic presidential candidate should vow to tear down the hideous ballroom and rebuild the Rose Garden, I bet there are a lot of votes in that

Congrats, MAGA, you’ve owned the Libs—and all it’s cost you is a functioning government, a working democracy, human rights, national peace, economic stability, affordable groceries, affordable healthcare, qualified leaders, and global standing. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/congratula...

You break it, you own it. Kudos to @akalhan.bsky.social.

New statement from AG James: "This is nothing more than a continuation of the president's desperate weaponization of our justice system. "I am not fearful — I am fearless."

Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans. As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA. See this:

A whistleblower has revealed that DOGE staffers uploaded millions of Americans' Social Security information to an unauthorized server. The Trump administration's recklessness with our data should be a wake-up call that it's time to update our decades-old laws so that our privacy is truly protected.

The Brennan Center is using public reporting to track the DOJ’s requests for copies of states’ voter registration databases and how states respond. bit.ly/3JFbKaB

Abortion care accounted for just 3% of all services provided at Planned Parenthood centers. 97% of what Planned Parenthood does has nothing to do with abortion at all. A handy statistic to throw at the people who don't care about facts. www.rawstory.com/planned-pare...

Measles outbreaks. Medicaid cuts. Hospitals closing. Republicans are killing people.

While warehouses in the U.S. overflow with ready-to-use therapeutic foods (known as RUTFs), designed to treat severe malnutrition, children in places like South Sudan are going hungry.

Whoever did this wins the internet today.🏆

Everyone should be making noise about this huge media scandal in the New York Times. While Trump makes money off of frivolous lawsuits against CBS, ABC, etc, the Times is getting away with an anti-Mamdani hit job fed to them by a far right ‘race science’ guy, who they kept anonymous!

Remember Collins and Murkowski could have stopped this. People who lose healthcare coverage will die because of them

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Look at all that government waste Space X got rid of

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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Bingo. Jake Tapper is wasting precious time and aiding a fascist regime.

theconversation.com/vaccination-...

NEW: US House Democrats launch probe into Justice Dept for “blessing” the Qatar jet deal with Trump Admin Atty General Bondi is named in letter

SPRINGSTEEN, on tour in the UK: “.. "In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration." @variety.com variety.com/2025/music/n...

“The GOP’s six-month-long fight to steal a Supreme Court seat in North Carolina was a prime example of MAGA’s new playbook: If the voters beat you, beat the voters right back.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

“The costs of opposition are surmountable. And importantly, the descent into authoritarianism is reversible. Pro-democracy forces have successfully resisted or reversed backsliding in recent years in Brazil, Poland, Slovakia, South Korea and elsewhere.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

This is such a spot-on point by @willbunch.bsky.social. Cowards, all of them.

By exactly whom John? www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

“You can’t make this up.” - Marsha, making it up

NEW: Data reveals Musk has delivered 0.25% of promised federal spending cuts Musk initially promised $2 TRILLION in annual spending cuts. He's on track to deliver $5 billion. And that's being generous. Here are the receipts

John Roberts did this to himself when he crowned Trump king

The German office for the protection of the Constitution has, after a long period of monitoring, declared the AfD a “confirmed far-right party” — a landmark decision, meaning they’ve been declared a party that acts against the German Constitution and democratic order: www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Very narrowly lost the vote on this. This was a chance for the Senate to put American businesses, farmers, workers and producers first. Most Republicans chose Trump. I’m not done, I will keep at this until we repeal Trump’s disastrous tariffs.

There’s no Trump without an entire Republican Party on their knees and silent to the ongoing cruelty, hate, abuse, lies and lawlessness. They have abandoned the Constitution and basic human decency—for power. We will never forget these traitors who support despotism.

Tex Mex though…bland slop. This is hill I will die on.

"There’s a great deal that is wrong not just with Pam Bondi’s reversal of Merrick Garland’s media policy, but the memo reversing it itself. Bondi was in such a rush to splutter out unbridled sycophancy, she didn’t bother to spell check the document."

@ashleyrparker.bsky.social FYI, 47 just ran against Harris, not Biden, on the economy, as you just stated on MSNBC! Please don’t speak if you can’t get your facts correct!

How are the MAGA-nuts loving all this winning! It was NEVER about pricing?

@maddow.msnbc.com sorry to see that this is your last week! You’ll be missed but I will have this hour free!

So proud that this is one of my Senators. Use what power you have. Thank you Senator @vanhollen.senate.gov.

NEW from me: A whistleblower says DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data...and then someone posted a threatening letter to his door. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...