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Beltway existence; Rust Belt ethos. Pro democracy. Stuff you won’t see everywhere else. Fmr Capitol Hill. Advised candidates, corporations and orgs.

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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
MTG & Trump: at war. Mamdani & Trump: chummy. "Politics is the art of making the impossible possible, the predictable unpredictable, and the inevitable unlikely." - Laurent Fabius
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
🚨TRUMP THREATENS MORE SNAP DELAYS: - He’s asking “the Court” to instruct how the admin should proceed, in light of the rulings. - NOT THE JUDGES’ JOBS. Trump is in charge of exec branch, and running agencies. He has the Orders. His job to make it f’n happen. This is wanton cruelty for those in need:
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Putin keeps testing...America shrinks back (and doesn't even inform our ally #Poland). Hegseth's "warrior ethos" is a punchline in the Kremlin: #Romania #Estonia
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Rand Paul isn’t wrong. 😱 Remember the Clinton-Gingrich budget deal? What’s required for unexpected agreements isn’t the expected personalities. What is required: simple intent. Intent to meet, and work, and to keep working, until you achieve compromise. Trump: MIA. Spkr Johnson: AWOL.
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
🚨“shackled and restrained while they’re actively miscarrying” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say
The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Someone make it make sense
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
One of the most conservative Editorial Boards: www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Sen. Ernst isn’t in DC to fix the healthcare premiums crisis, and reopen govt. No, she’s in DC to do cable hits, and to “get to the bottom” of First Amendment events—ones that even police depts across the country thanked for peaceful conduct and cooperation.
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Trump is eager to help Argentina's ranchers…While U.S. soybean farmers wait…While Argentina takes advantage of our soybean farmers:
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Quiz: Name Putin’s favorite dog. www.ft.com/content/7960...
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Hmmm you don’t see supposed scary violent ANTIFA protests getting these nice police dept statements🤔 #NoKings
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
‘America the Beautiful’ breaks out, at what Trump & Spkr Johnson called a “hate America” gathering. #NoKings Washington DC:
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Chants of “USA! USA!” at what Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson called a “hate America” protest. 14th St, Washington DC. (Clip by me) #NoKingsDayOct18th #NoKings
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
“one of the U.S. officials…said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
nytimes.com
Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
“This is a case that DOJ should have given up when they were no-billed. But because Jeanine Pirro is a stubborn bully, she persisted” www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/16/r...
emptywheel.net
Revenge of the "Lib Tard:" Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal - emptywheel
After fuck-up after fuck-up, Jeanine Pirro's prosecutors got an embarrassing acquittal in their effort to jail Sydney Reid for filming an ICE arrest.
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
GOP excuses for the Nazi chats now invoke, without irony, “safe spaces”: www.thebulwark.com/p/racist-you...
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Remember all that talk about opioids and fentanyl, esp in rural America? www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-guil...
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Next week in “America First”!
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
But Argentina is special! For some reason!
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
MTG as polished bipartisan stateswoman? She’s making a serious play for stature vis-a-vis the current GOP leadership (note the barbs reserved for them). She’s taking the oppty to build national political capital, plain and simple. Shrewd.
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Stunning numbers: Americans overwhelmingly believe one thing…but because a bloc of extremist Republicans believe the opposite, THAT’S the crackpot agenda shoved down our throats: www.kff.org/public-opini...
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Totally normal days at DoJ: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
“It’s difficult to believe, but Project 2025 is a relatively sanitized document,” said Truth Wins Out’s Besen...It is in the musty corners of their web pages and conferences where the extent of their discriminatory and authoritarian nature can come into focus.” truthwinsout.org/two-releases...
truthwinsout.org
TWO Releases ‘Behind the Mask: The Project 2025 Organizations Reshaping America’ - Truth Wins Out
Report is a ‘Who’s Who Guide’ to Knowing Your Enemy
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
“exactly two weeks after Taher’s little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: ‘No one has died’ because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.” apnews.com/article/myan...
apnews.com
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Ghost of John Mitchell watching this Pam Bondi hearing:
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Yes, the Speaker actually said it:
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Spkr Mike Johnson has time for media hits, while he keeps his Republicans OFF the job. Any time for a real debate, while ordering your colleagues back to work?
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Who’s gonna alert Kash Patel that the FBI’s own website undermines Trump’s claims he gave an early heads up re: Osama bin Laden? Trump’s book came out in 2000. Meanwhile, in 1998 and 1999…
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This is completely bonkers:
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Interesting aspect of @repdean.bsky.social confronting Spkr Mike Johnson: he could barely look her in the eye. What does that say?
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Josh Shapiro hits 60% approval. And: poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
History is amazing. www.nps.gov/fost/blogs/w...
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
OMG NOW THIS. How to be the most hated SecDef in history. 🤡 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
washingtonpost.com
Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to stanch leaks
The Pentagon is planning to require thousands of uniformed and civilian officials to sign nondisclosure agreements and submit to random polygraph testing.
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Yeah, sure pal
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Admirals and Generals this morning: lectured on standards by a scandal-ridden social media popinjay, then threatened by BONE SPURS
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
A lot of what’s happening *shouldn’t* be about Left v Right.
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
America’s enemies know: we don’t have a SecDef, we have a social media popinjay. www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Comey's testimony in 2020 On the left: In hearing, Senator Cruz erroneously claimed McCabe had said Comey "directly authorized" leak to press. Comey denied that. On the right: Cruz was wrong. McCabe did not say Comey authorized the leak (source: Inspector General Report, on which Cruz relies)
Let's shift to another topic. On May 3rd, 2017, in this committee, Chairman Grassley asked you point blank, "Have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?" You responded under oath, "Never." He then asked you, "Have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton administration?" You responded again under oath, "No." Now, as you know, Mr. McCabe, who works for you, has publicly and repeatedly stated that he leaked information to the Wall Street Journal and that you were directly aware of it and that you directly authorized it. Now, what Mr. McCabe is saying and what you testified to this committee cannot both be true. One or the other is false. Who's telling the truth? Mr. Comey: (01:52:43) I can only speak to my testimony. I stand by the testimony you summarized that I gave in May of 2017. Senator Cruz: (01:52:50) So your testimony is you've never authorized anyone to leak? And Mr. McCabe, if he says contrary, is not telling the truth, is that correct? Mr. Comey: (01:52:58) Again, I'm not going to characterize Andy's testimony, but mine is the same today.According to McCabe’s testimony to the OIG on November 29, 2017, he and Comey discussed the October 30 WSJ article in person on October 31, 2016, when McCabe returned to the office from a trip . McCabe said that he told Comey that he had “authorized AD/OPA and Special Counsel to disclose the account of the August 12th call” and did not say anything to suggest in any way that it was unauthorized. McCabe told us that Comey “did not react negatively, just kind of accepted it.” McCabe also told us Comey thought it was a “good” idea that they presented this information to rebut the inaccurate and one-sided narrative that the FBI was not doing its job and was subject to DOJ political pressure, but the Department and PADAG were likely to be angry that “this information made its way into the paper.” McCabe told us that he did not recall telling Comey prior to publication of the October 30 article that he intended to authorize or had authorized Special Counsel and AD/OPA to recount his August 12 call with PADAG to the WSJ, although he said it was possible he did.
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Global affairs columnist at Washington Post, re: Trump at U.N.:
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Let’s cripple our farmers, ignore their pleas for help, then bailout a country…that is taking advantage? (By going in the opposite direction from our trade policy that’s hurting our farmers in the first place.) Dizzy yet?
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Putin menaces #Estonia now. Invited by Trump's weakness. Again.
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Offered without comment:
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Kash Patel faces questions over his competence, so Grassley opens the hearing with BIDEN DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. Then, pivots to attacking the media as partisans corroding our government. You can’t write this satire.
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
“Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot.” www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-the-me...
muellershewrote.com
NEW: The Messages on the Bullets are From a Video Game
The phrases engraved on the bullets found by law enforcement during the investigation into the shooting of Charlie Kirk come from a video game called Helldivers2
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🇵🇱Reminder: when Kamala read him to filth, it was about PRECISELY what’s happening now with Poland:
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Brutal jobs revisions being instantly spun by Trump and entire MAGAworld, while I haven’t seen hardly a blip from Dem leaders or prog orgs.
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joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
- Even people with underlying condition(s), per the new CDC guidelines, are being denied. - Many don’t have access to a doctor for a prescription. - Many can’t risk the up-front cost. - Exactly what Dems warned about in that hearing with RFK Jr, yet were ridiculed online.
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