Susala

Susala

@susala.bsky.social

Nature lover, political ponderer, obsessive learner, retired teacher, introvert

1.1K followers2.3K following1.3K posts

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“Many Americans continue to underestimate one particular potential threat to our economic future: President Trump’s clearly expressed desire to interfere with & even usurp the midterm elections. Nov. 3 could be a defining test for the rule of law…both our democracy & our prosperity are on the line.”

John Sipher@johnsipher.bsky.social

In Six Decades of Public Life, I Never Thought I Would Write This Piece (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...

He is so good.

Dan Ancona@danancona.bsky.social

Goddamn: "We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis. We have seen for the last five decades, since the late 1970s, corporate special interests, billionaire mega donors buying politicians, and then those politicians in both political parties...

Wow, this is really powerful.

🌬Breeze@cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Replying to @atrupar.com

Republicans play ignorant 💥 Umar Kremlev, Russian oligarch who bankrolled Trump Jr.’s wedding party, is with Healthy Fatherland. An org under Ukrainian sanctions for its role in abducting Ukrainian children from occupied territories & relocating them under the guise of “rehabilitation.” (ProPublica)

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Trump continues to disperse disaster recovery funds based on how states vote, which for any other president or public official, in any other time, in any other country, in any other context would be a morally horrific scandal that would dominate headlines for months.

subscriber.politicopro.comPOLITICO Pro: Trump rejects disaster appeals by four Democratic governorsNew York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will have to pay the entire cost of recovery from a major February snowstorm.

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A sitting Attorney General campaigning for a Republican on behalf of the president. Corruption doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is speaking at a Trump rally to endorse Bruce Blakeman

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If Andy Beshear doesn’t call for a special election before August 3rd and force Mitch McConnell to prove he can speak in a video, then Andy Beshear becomes the new Merrick Garland. I’m sorry but I make the rules.

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Abortion is healthcare. Reproductive care is healthcare. While Trump-appointed, Susan-Collins-backed justices rolled back those rights across the nation, I fought for and passed one of the most progressive abortion rights laws in the country. You can bet I’ll bring that same fight to D.C.

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No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

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Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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Replying to @markjacob.bsky.social

If you go to my Substack, you'll see that it's loaded with high quality, comprehensive voter information designed to help everyone (including the disabled, non-English language speakers) know how to cast a ballot that gets counted!!! Voter education that drives turnout is now imperative!

sharonlawrence.substack.comInformation Bank | Sharon Lawrence | SubstackA Resource Center for People Passionate About Democracy, Facts & Good Governance. Click to read Information Bank, by Sharon Lawrence, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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We are allowing a failed politician, a despicable human, to destroy all we have worked for... All we have learned, our experts, our diversity, our humanity is at stake. What are we waiting for? Escort his ass out in handcuffs. Service men died in his illegal War. This is just the beginning.

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I love this so much. Barack Obama sat down with Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a Bronx child care center, reading “Alone and Together,” a book about connection, community, and belonging to preschoolers. Sidebar: Not sure these little-ones knew who Obama was 😂

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Every time they say they’re the party of law & order, that they’re pro-law enforcement, that DOJ is taking violent criminals off the streets & Democrats are pro-criminal, remember this. It’s all a sham; a mob-style loyalty exercise.

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social

GOVT ASKS DC CIRCUIT TO VACATE CONVICTIONS AND REMAND FOR DISMISSAL IN OATH KEEPERS AND PROUD BOYS CASES. Stewart Rhodes, Ethan Nordean, everybody. ... www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Tucker Carlson can save his outrage at Trumps actions. Where were you Tucker all along when we warned you over and over and you laughed with that irritating cackle and claimed we had TDS? And the rest of you Maga pieces of garbage. Every one of you are complicit.

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The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

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The dog that didn't bark in Wednesday's oral argument was that EO is an extraordinary extension of executive power--as if the issue were simply the 'original meaning' of the Citizenship Clause, and not the dangers of handing over control of citizenship to the executive.

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Elected Republicans share the blame with Trump. Republican members of Congress can stop this any time they want. It's worse now than if they had stopped it earlier, but it will be even worse later. They feel no obligation to the country or their fellow citizens. I can't help but marvel at that.

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Don't get it twisted. Pam Bondi must still come before the Oversight Committee as mandated by our subpoena. She must answer for her coverup of the Epstein files and weaponization of the DOJ. We owe it to survivors and to the public to hold her accountable.

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Your tax season reminder that the real freeloaders in this country are the rich — not the poor or immigrants or any other group of people vilified as scapegoats. The richest 1% evade $160 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has yacht and private jet tax deductions. Hello?

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Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) just went on record admitting that he and Sen. Ted Cruz crafted a perfect off-ramp to end the month-long DHS shutdown, but Donald Trump personally killed it because he wouldn’t accept “any deal” with Democrats.