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Larry L.

@larry-l.bsky.social
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Practicing pianist - recovering engineer - pro-democracy - pro rule of law - I just want to treat people with respect and to learn something

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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 4h
Trump must be impeached and removed before it’s too late. Vote blue www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.
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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
10/10/2026- Nobel Peace Prize www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/oc...
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
When the Auschwitz Memorial has to fact check the new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia for being a nut.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Can't believe Donald Trump missed out on the Nobel Peace Prize again. There's always next year, I guess...
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is still my favorite measles editorial cartoon. It was published by The New Yorker on February 2, 2015, created by cartoonist Emily Flake. Know any better? Please post in comments ⤵️
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is essential. But has everyone in DC forgotten that Trump has a veto for the next two years? That word does not appear here once. The next two years have to be about getting everything lined up for 2029. And not overpromising deliverables in the meantime. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump’s opponents are planning efforts to reverse his changes to presidency
As the midterms approach, some of the president’s foes are working to ensure his aggressive approach to executive power doesn’t outlast him.
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🦋🐕‍🦺🌺LadyWillow💚🐾🦋 @ladywillow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.threads.com/share/BANePk...
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Nathan @nathanready2go.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Make it stop! Please…
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This would be the equivalent of sports coverage devoting itself to reporting on gambling markets instead of the game. Because real reporting on real stories is hard.
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😳- a man and his 🥒
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you need a refresher about the issues involved in release of Vol. 2 of Jack Smith’s report, you’re not alone. The case was briefed months ago, but has been sitting on the court’s docket waiting for oral argument. I wrote about it back then: joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-pas...
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Trump's Past Is Catching Up With Him
We’ve discussed Trump’s ongoing efforts to prevent the release of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on the now-dismissed classified documents prosecution against the president.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have zero sympathy for the Mueller people who were gigantic babies at the end of the day, but we should let this Jack Smith guy get a second crack at it.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 30/09/2026
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Tuesday banning local, state and federal law enforcement officers from using gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks to people. to.pbs.org/4AUIDXc
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Newsom signs California law banning officers from using gloves that deliver electric shocks
In California, lawmakers passed at least two dozen bills this year seeking to fortify immigrants' rights, restrict cooperation with federal immigration agents and tighten regulations on immigrant dete...
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I guess it makes sense since Hegseth doesn’t listen to admirals and generals anyway
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🧵for the "this isn't the America I knew" crowd who thinks this began with Trump. The history we weren't taught is the history we most need to know.
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
👍🏻🙄
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
😂
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
Sen. Susan Collins • fAl
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@SenatorCollins
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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
9/26/2026- SCOTUS www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/se...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
In a scathing dissent, Justice Jackson, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, wrote: "The Court focuses only on the harms the Government will purportedly suffer absent a stay, disregarding the harms that the modified SAVE system has caused, and will likely continue to cause, to lawful voters."
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Very good article
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
50 percent tariffs for our beloved neighbor and historic ally, Canada. A red carpet and a military flyover for Communist China’s leader. Donald Trump is a sick man and a danger to America.
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
From Doonesbury 1999.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 22/09/2026
This conference makes me feel seen. Thank you.
The Fight Back
Information integrity is the mother of all battles
Maria Ressa
2021 Nobel Peace Prize; Professor, Columbia SIPA; CEO, Rappler
Clinton Global Initiative • New York • September 2026
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
😳‼️
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’d highly recommend that nobody download this app. At best, it’s unfiltered propaganda. At worst, it’s spyware.
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fascinating article www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
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Thomas Jefferson’s hair linked to Sally Hemings’ children
For more than 200 years, the question has nagged at the edges of American history: Did Thomas Jefferson father children by Sally Hemings, a woman he enslaved?
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Important
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/09/2026
LEAKED PHOTOS Hegseth isn’t coming clean on the extent of the damage to American assets overseas. Now we’re seeing the leaked photos. Hundreds of structures damaged or destroyed. Nearly 60 aircraft damaged or lost. Up to $3.7 BILLION in equipment losses.
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David Froomkin @dfroomkin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is a good question to be asking on Constitution Day: how much of the Constitution remains in effect? Not much of Article I. (Congress is absent.) Not much of Article II (the whole thrust of which is opposing the UET). Some Article III, to the extent that court orders still get obeyed.
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Kosherart @kosherart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Do we all agree on what he slogan Free Palestine” means? I took screenshots of an illustrated post by Jordyn Tilchen on Instagram explaining how it was designed to be vague & sow chaos by not having a 100% clear definition. Please read this through this thread & understand the manipulation at work.>
THE PROBLEM WITH
"FREE PALESTINE”

It's probably the most successful slogan of the last decade.
It's also one of the least specific.
That's not a bug. It's a feature.

Thought bubble: “Okay, but… what does it actually mean?” (Asking for a friend)
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is very good.
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 15/09/2026
Here we go.
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The real reason the Supreme Court blocked Trump and the Postal Service
Here we go.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14/09/2026
I think it's foundationally weird that all of these stories about meaningless AI industry guardrails fail to remind readers that the tech industry ENTHUSIASTICALLY supported the dismantling of federal regulators by historically corrupt autocrats like that's not important context or something
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AI Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out Of Control
The press obsession with software-powered doomsday is a misdirection overshadowing a much deadlier reality: our public interest regulators no longer function.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh boy www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.metrotimes.com/news/mike-ro...
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Mike Rogers opposed 9/11 responder health care not twice, but nine times - Detroit Metro Times
Newly uncovered record shows Mike Rogers repeatedly opposed efforts to establish, advance, or fund medical care for people sickened after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wow…
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
These guys - DHS is anything but
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