joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 22/11/2025MTG & Trump: at war. Mamdani & Trump: chummy. "Politics is the art of making the impossible possible, the predictable unpredictable, and the inevitable unlikely." - Laurent Fabius 050
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: 020
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Putin 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 020
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Rand 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. 010
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025🚨“shackled and restrained while they’re actively miscarrying” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comPregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates sayThe 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. 000
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 22/10/2025One of the most conservative Editorial Boards: www.wsj.com/opinion/dona... 000
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Sen. 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. 020
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Trump is eager to help Argentina's ranchers…While U.S. soybean farmers wait…While Argentina takes advantage of our soybean farmers: 000
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Quiz: Name Putin’s favorite dog. www.ft.com/content/7960... 020
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Hmmm you don’t see supposed scary violent ANTIFA protests getting these nice police dept statements🤔 #NoKings 060
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: 030
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Chants of “USA! USA!” at what Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson called a “hate America” protest. 14th St, Washington DC. (Clip by me) #NoKingsDayOct18th #NoKings 032
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.comHead of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say 000
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.netRevenge of the "Lib Tard:" Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal - emptywheelAfter 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. 010
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 16/10/2025GOP excuses for the Nazi chats now invoke, without irony, “safe spaces”: www.thebulwark.com/p/racist-you... 001
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Remember all that talk about opioids and fentanyl, esp in rural America? www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-guil... 010
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 10/10/2025But Argentina is special! For some reason! 000
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025MTG 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. 010
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Stunning 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... 010
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Totally normal days at DoJ: www.wsj.com/politics/pol... 010
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.orgTWO Releases ‘Behind the Mask: The Project 2025 Organizations Reshaping America’ - Truth Wins OutReport is a ‘Who’s Who Guide’ to Knowing Your Enemy 000
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.comStarving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across MyanmarU.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. 000
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Ghost of John Mitchell watching this Pam Bondi hearing: 000
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Yes, the Speaker actually said it: 000
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Spkr 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? 000
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Who’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… 000
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Interesting aspect of @repdean.bsky.social confronting Spkr Mike Johnson: he could barely look her in the eye. What does that say? 000
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Josh Shapiro hits 60% approval. And: poll.qu.edu/poll-release... 000
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025History is amazing. www.nps.gov/fost/blogs/w... 010
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025OMG NOW THIS. How to be the most hated SecDef in history. 🤡 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...washingtonpost.comPentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to stanch leaksThe Pentagon is planning to require thousands of uniformed and civilian officials to sign nondisclosure agreements and submit to random polygraph testing. 001
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Admirals and Generals this morning: lectured on standards by a scandal-ridden social media popinjay, then threatened by BONE SPURS 052
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025A lot of what’s happening *shouldn’t* be about Left v Right. 011
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 26/09/2025America’s enemies know: we don’t have a SecDef, we have a social media popinjay. www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p... 011
Reposted by @joellawsondc.bsky.socialRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Comey'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) 381466463
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Global affairs columnist at Washington Post, re: Trump at U.N.: 120
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Let’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? 021
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Putin menaces #Estonia now. Invited by Trump's weakness. Again. 020
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Kash 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. 020
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.comNEW: The Messages on the Bullets are From a Video GameThe 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 063
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: 021
joellawsondc.bsky.social @joellawsondc.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Brutal jobs revisions being instantly spun by Trump and entire MAGAworld, while I haven’t seen hardly a blip from Dem leaders or prog orgs. 010
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. 010