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Laura

@lamp63.bsky.social
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Liberal, Mom, Retired History Teacher, Dog & Cat Lover

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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 19h
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 8h
Teach the Truth.🇺🇸
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Iran says an oil tanker has exploded in the Strait of Hormuz after hitting a mine.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The ship of diesel Putin sent Trump left on September 22. September 23 is when Trump's invite to G-20 was announced. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘We hope he’ll accept’: US invites Putin to G20 summit at Trump golf club
Invitation announced by Marco Rubio is likely to raise concerns from Ukraine and EU countries
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 10/10/2026
“I believe my state has a right and duty to protect my health and hold corporations like Suncor responsible for the damage they've caused,” said Alina Miranda, who lost her home and pets in the Marshall Fire. “The Supreme Court should not take away the ability of my local government to protect me.”
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"before the elections"
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche, a NEW order calls him out for failing to produce the redacted versions of the handwritten FBI interview notes of the South Carolina victim who alleges she was sexually and physically abused by Trump when she was just 13-15 years old: youtu.be/63K57knWExU?...
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🚨Judge REBUKES AG Blanche Over NONCOMPLIANCE In MY Epstein Lawsuit!!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Pierre Fesnien @fesnien.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Il n’y avait jusqu’ici que deux pays dans le monde autorisant les exécutions publiques: l’Iran et l’Afghanistan. Avec les États-Unis ça fera trois…
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Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream execution puts US in dubious company
Only Iran and Afghanistan routinely carry out sentences in public, with Saudi Arabia appearing to have ended practice
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
On Putin's birthday, moreover, Trump gave him: (1) an end to sanctions; (2) a drawdown of US troops defending NATO; and (3) a sleazy, super corrupt LUKoil deal—and this is just what we know so far.
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Feral Maui Hermit @mauigreg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Every week, the number of ICE shootings increases. Every week, deaths in ICE custody increase. They aren't being told to tone it down. They are being instructed to escalate... to normalize mass institutional violence and murder. Next are public executions. Mass exterminations aren't far off.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As open enrollment begins this month, roughly five million people will be forced to switch plans because their current policy has been canceled or is no longer offered in the county where they live. Cancellations will probably be higher than ever this year, which was already the highest on record.
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Laura @lamp63.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holding on by a thread here in Stefanik's district...thank you for your thankless work
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: The Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump has turned its Civil Rights Division’s mission on its head, a federal judge said in a decision blocking the administration from demanding states’ unredacted voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Judge rebukes Trump administration for perverting mission of DOJ’s ‘crown jewel’
Read more here.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
- Attacking the ICC - Palling around with Russia - Broadcasting executions
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Are We The Baddies? Meme
ALT: Are We The Baddies? Meme
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I just got back from the Middle East. What I saw made clear that Trump and Hegseth aren’t telling the American people the full story about the cost and damage of this war. Here are my four biggest takeaways.
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Laura @lamp63.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I bet his current wife washes LOTS
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
45% of Project 2025 has yet to be implemented. Here are the five (5) most significant societal transformations we can expect over the next 2 years.
September 13, 2026 at 12:28 PM

1. Abortion Ban (Comstock Act).
- SCOTUS will outlaw shipment of mifepristone and abortion equipment.
States will sue to protect reproductive healthcare access and lose.
- SCOTUS will build on Dobbs, and hold (6-3) that federal law preempts state protections, establishing a de facto national ban on abortion meds.

2. Department of Education fully eliminated
- Rendering Title I/IDEA funds discretionary for states.
- Title IX (gender and LGBTQ+ discrimination; sexual assault) adjudication all eliminated.
- SCOTUS will permit states reallocate fed funds to private school vouchers.

3. Schedule F Civil Service Overhaul
- They'll convert tens of thousands of career civil servants into fireable political appointees, then fire them. Unions will sue over statutory civil service protections and due process, and lose.
- SCOTUS will promote "Unitary Executive Theory," holding the President has absolute firing power. Civil Service will be dismantled.

4. Obergefelll and "DEI"
- The federal government will eliminate all LGBTQ+ non-discrimination protections and enforce the "traditional family" model.
- Challenges to state marriage bans will prompt extremist rulings re: the 14th Amendment. SCOTUS will ultimately overturn Obergefell, returning marriage "definitions" to the states.

5. Medicare Privatization & Medicaid Elimination
- They'll force Medicare Advantage beneficiaries into default. They'll block
Medicaid funds to providers who offer any reproductive care.
- States will challenge restrictions on patient provider choice and lose.
SCOTUS will uphold broad federal authority to restrict funds and accelerate of the privatization/cancellation of the "welfare state."
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Laura @lamp63.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wait until she realizes our Fascist Reality was ushered in by her father & entire GOP - it was inevitable
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Just Lynn 💙🦋✌️🇺🇦 @shoredweller7.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 07/10/2026
Opinion: A livable guaranteed basic income would be a nation-building project that cares for Canadians, providing income security and autonomy for those who need it, when they need it, write Senator Kim Pate and Trish Altass. www.hilltimes.com/2026/10/07/t...
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Two projects on the front lines of income security discourse in Canada - The Hill Times
A guaranteed basic income would ensure that individuals and families are able to live healthier and safer lives while infusing money into local economies.
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Laura @lamp63.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wonder if you can envision how terrified, enraged & regretful people like me feel... totally regret not cheating etc to procure assets/wealth or emigrating Retired History teacher - witnessing the collapse of Western Civ + the March of Fascism in my nation SUCKS
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it." ~Unknown Artist: Wu Guanzhong, China #Art
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Laura @lamp63.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nobody believed teachers when we declared that society was heading into the Dark Ages for decades - we were alarmists with limited understanding...HS History 35 yrs
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Forsaken61453 @forsaken61453.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
why is a childish psycho rapist allowed to operate in secret violating ALL the federal laws and citizens RIGHTS to know what the government is doing with their money?
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Laura @lamp63.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm working at the polls and am not in a position to donate beyond my local candidates (who are extremely unlikely to win here in Stefanik's area) & feel my paltry $ will benefit my my local food bank which will explode as heat bills start up...huge # of people here depend on HEAP
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Climate change is speeding up four kinds of risk at once: • climatological (heat, drought, fire weather) • hydrological (floods, water scarcity) • biological (disease, ecosystem collapse) • geomorphological (landslides, erosion, thaw) They do not arrive one by one. They stack.
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The homeland security secretary, who owns dozens of properties, met Rep. Jason Smith during bipartisan congressional workouts more than a decade ago. mrf.lu/20mz5
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Laura @lamp63.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm missing lots of your conversation but thought I'd share that I'm in deep rural Red NYS & Trumpers here have almost zero understanding of what is happening - third hand "news," a few mins from Newsmax or ads from MAGATs keep them oblivious+ content
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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mass shooting: 4 wounded in shooting in Trenton, New Jersey.
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🦋 C.G., PhD 🐸 (🪖"Prima" AKA "Battle" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thank you, Matt! @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @liberalwarrior.eu @dailykotzn.bsky.social @markymark757.bsky.social @snblue.bsky.social @boldsea.bsky.social @bandroll.bsky.social @wolverinebear.bsky.social @gratitude333.bsky.social @coolsprings.bsky.social @crankyoldcrackpot.bsky.social
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Jürgen R 💙🇺🇦 🐝 @dailykotzn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@j1j2.bsky.social @debbie156.bsky.social @elhowieson.bsky.social @57kev.bsky.social @coolsprings.bsky.social @iwantmycountry26.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @pattyger.bsky.social @coolsprings.bsky.social @regchange26.bsky.social @peaceful1.bsky.social @dailykotzn.bsky.social
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Trump’s Politically Driven Deportations Are Quietly Rising
Donald Trump’s street-level ICE surges and deportation obsession are wildly unpopular. That isn’t stopping the administration from continuing to target noncitizens over constitutionally protected free...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
I'm not good at math, is $800 million a lot?
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FedEx believes $300M electric truck spend will save them $800M in diesel
In a record-setting commercial truck deal, international shipping giant FedEx has placed an order for 2,000 all-electric box trucks from...
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good on you Sister's 👏
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Medicare should be able to negotiate every single prescription drug price in this country.
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just a normal day in America…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope everyone reads this, thinks about it and then shares it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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A few hundred noncitizen votes are a national scandal. But when states reject hundreds of thousands of ballots from eligible voters, it’s business as usual
One state rejected ballots because some voters failed to include their mother’s maiden name on the back of the return envelope.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
While I'm enjoying the humiliation justifiably being heaped on Senator Eric Schmitt, I don't don't think enough mockery is being directed at his accomplice, Senator Kennedy, the Cornpone Clown, with this stupidly victorious expression as he smugly holds up the ridiculous "evidence."
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🧐Trudy Lynn 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @tlt55.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
While we’re all individuals, we still must have the ability to work together to maintain a functioning society. If individuals’ ability to survive and work productively is taken away, the harm to society is like hive collapse for bees.
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Meidas Ian @lordye.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How much treasonous behaviour should be tolerated? Dismantling the military, sucking up to the enemy, declaring trade wars on allies, attacking critics through the courts, lying about casualties, wrecking the Kennedy Centre, the East Wing, Reflecting Pool and Rose Garden!
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 30/09/2026
Do you have questions about Ebola symptoms, lab testing, waste disposal, or others? CDC has developed comprehensive webpages for clinicians and public health practitioners 👇 www.cdc.gov/viral-hemorr... www.cdc.gov/viral-hemorr...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/09/2026
More than 270 priests in Massachusetts abused children over decades, probe finds reut.rs/4yeilg5
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More than 270 priests in Massachusetts abused children over decades, probe finds
More than 270 Catholic clerics sexually abused nearly 1,000 children ​across three Massachusetts dioceses over decades, according to an investigative report the state's attorney general ‌released on Wednesday.
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Aleianjack @aleianjack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kristi Noem files for divorce as criminal probe looms www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Kristi Noem files for divorce as criminal probe looms
The worst couple you know is officially divorcing.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 30/09/2026
President Carter signed the Food Stamp Act because we agreed no one in America should go hungry. SNAP helped families buy food for nearly 50 years. Now, over 5 million people and counting have been kicked off thanks to Trump and Republicans' Big Beautiful Bill. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“This amounts to three decades worth of hurricane threats to Hawaii in one year.”
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Why Hawaii is facing an unprecedented hurricane season
Hawaii has never had three hurricanes come within 50 miles in the same year
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Perhaps this is "super intelligence" after all. variety.com/2026/digital...
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White House’s New AI Website Confirms Trump Lost the 2020 Presidential Election
Donald Trump has routinely claimed that he won the 2020 election. But the new AI-powered website America.gov, which Trump unveiled on Tuesday to great fanfare, says otherwise.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This 👇
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