Sign in

laurie307.bsky.social

@laurie307.bsky.social
496 followers 195 following 239 posts

I like dogs, horses, and my grandchildren, otherwise cranky, old lady. Get off my grass!

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What a comically out of touch response. Maine, please vote this idiot out.
27378102333
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 3h
ICE just shot a man in Manhattan, "as many as seven times".
17428
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 2h
DOGE cuts reduced Black women's federal employment by an estimated 25%. The financial and emotional damage continues more than a year later. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
dailykos.com
Depression, anxiety plague Black women a year after being fired by DOGE
DOGE cuts dismantled a job pipeline for D.C.’s Black community and gutted the wellbeing of the women who hold up it up.
01713
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 6h
Now that Politico has confirmed that there was a diplomatic cable to US embassies instructing them to pressure sponsor countries, I’m very curious if they were coordinating with Shellenberger to put pressure on researchers.
politico.com
EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
49144
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
34487632017
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 13h
They are burying restrictions or demands on what can or can’t be funded at the Smithsonian in footnotes to apportionments. And some of those footnotes are VERY precise…
411260
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior
An Asian man looks out the window with binoculars. An Asian man smiling at the camera.
8280431195
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
jkbjournalist.substack.com
Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
10437801516
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is the best statement I have seen on this awful day. Condemning the indefensible, genocidal actions of the state of Israel without minimizing or rationalizing the war crimes committed on 10/7 itself.
423747
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Heather Massey @heathermassey.com · 07/10/2026
ICYMI, this is a superb article by @boltsmag.org about Virginia’s proposed constitutional amendment to automatically restore voting rights for people with felony convictions when they exit prison. boltsmag.org/virginia-con...
boltsmag.org
“It’s Time”: Virginians Will Decide Whether to Repeal Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Ban on Voting - Bolts
Voters will decide this year whether to end Virginia’s uniquely harsh felony disenfranchisement rules. They'll also vote on abortion, gay marriage, and redistricting.
110232
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...
321153438
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Susan Collins supports a dictator and brags about getting him to fling a few crumbs toward the peons.
16646156
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*adds to the impeachment proceedings list*
161709400
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We're losing our health care here in Maine so Susan Collins can give billionaires like Elon Musk more tax cuts. I support Medicare for All so people across the state have health care.
312326538
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Senator Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire and now she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out.
15749157
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 07/10/2026
Rick sits down with historian Timothy Snyder, author of ON TYRANNY and ON FREEDOM. His message: Trump isn’t strong. He’s weak. The answer isn’t fear—it’s mockery, organizing, and overwhelming turnout this November. A historian’s warning—and a battle plan. WATCH: youtu.be/7Y3o9rPG34U
21771275
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Dan Fejes @df1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This 3 minute story is probably more informative and substantive than any comparable length segment on the network news broadcasts over the last month. It's not sensationalized but still conveys the gravity of the situation.
26617
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Damn, the gasp from the crowd here when the guy in the flannel shirt talks about driving home from a hospital after he and his wife realized it was falsely advertised as in-network
11640186
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The restaurant is not closed - we just don’t serve food anymore
11766128
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court 8 years ago on October 6, 2018. @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
491480478
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
632676924
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
698259958571
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m still floating from this by @leahlitman.bsky.social: “Every once in a while, a book comes along that is so transformative and so persuasive that it has the potential to shape our institutions and our democracy. Supremacy is one such book.”
111538
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 05/10/2026
He keeps finding new and worse ways to weaponize the USPS. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
dailykos.com
Trump is forcing postal workers to spy on you
Trump has figured out that he can force USPS into an all-purpose surveillance state by installing cameras.
13217
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“The threats that we’re getting now are mostly from our own government,” said Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, a Republican. “The way elections are being handled by the federal government right now is dangerous, disruptive and in bad faith.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
With threats to midterms, states say Trump administration isn’t helping
U.S. spy agencies see Russia and others plotting to sow distrust and misinformation in the upcoming elections.
214356
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
VanCity 604 @604-vancity.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
☝️☝️☝️ #DeNiro on #Trump the #Delusional #Rapist #Liar #Pedo #Criminal #Bully @urbanmodernism.bsky.social @lms2025.bsky.social @carlyja22.bsky.social @adventurer56.bsky.social @21sted.bsky.social @oysterboy-redux.bsky.social @thecaffeinator.bsky.social @mlipsitt.bsky.social @eileennjflns.bsky.social
42514
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...
journalofdemocracy.org
Polarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of Democracy
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.
11386176
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026
I find this claim, which is now common in right-wing ed discourse, really astonishing. It rests at the core of the post-truth vision of "viewpoint diversity": we should not teach the conclusions that research shows to be correct; rather, we should validate empirically discredited ideas just because.
Fostering this civic orientation does not mean teaching students the “right” way to think or act
according to a preferred political or moral perspective. A transformative education is premised
on developing sound judgment, not on delivering correct conclusions.
12452132
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don’t think there will be any moving on. This is a criminal administration and should be treated as such.
282284213
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That was a flaming dumpster fire inside of a broken down clown car that was being drug off a cliff by a runaway circus tent. If anyone can watch that interview and not think ‘holy fuck this dude is insane’ there’s something seriously wrong with them.
192085240
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.
261538420
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.
15171863020
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.
581141664877
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Much needed reality check on Chris Rufo. The mainstream media gave this guy oxygen, treating him like he was raising legit questions when he's always been the nasty racist you see exposed here.
1121366
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Whenever someone poses, "The [insert ethnic group] Question," the answer is always "racism"
211423
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
0589
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
New York Amsterdam News @nyamnews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
374 kids held in NYC youth detention facilities with a certified capacity of 244. Councilmember Althea Stevens and other electeds are calling for decarceration by December. #YouthJustice #RaiseTheAge
amsterdamnews.com
NYC Electeds call for decarceration and reform in youth detention centers
NYC elected officials are calling for decarceration and reform in youth detention centers.
04511
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
462219778
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
I wrote about the Supreme Court's nonstop lawless cruelty ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...
Screenshot of a paragraph excerpted from the linked article, with the text highlighted in green from the word "But" onwards. Excerpt reads as follows:

In places like Thursday’s speech and Friday’s dissent, Jackson has continuously sought to call attention to the deeply perverse ways that the Court is exercising its equity jurisdiction on the shadow docket. Under the Court’s precedents, emergency applicants are supposed to show that they’re “likely to succeed on the merits” of their appeal from a lower court’s ruling, that they will be “irreparably injured” without immediate relief, and that the balance of the equities tilts in their favor; in other words, fairness is both the explicit purpose and the explicit standard. But the Republican justices have repeatedly abandoned those standards in service of their own purposes. And when the people empowered to wield equitable jurisdiction are actively hostile to the concept of equity, they produce injustice instead.
520162
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like everything else Trump “fixes,” the reflecting pool (along with the war in Iran, gas prices, beef prices, and mortgage rates) is in exponentially worse shape than when he started.
27348641438
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What a fucking embarrassment
3064273880
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
zeteo.com/p/trumps-whi...
zeteo.com
First Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It Anyway
Donald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Missouri MAGA Senator Eric Schmitt, meanwhile, makes a fool of himself.
59527
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
11646911166
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here is @iamstevenhale.bsky.social, who I directed you all to be following earlier and was a witness tonight, reporting on what Tennessee did tonight. Just absolutely horrifying.
10428132
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
even if they *are* the worst of the worst, you've already caught them. they are in a cage. they are asking the court if they can please stay in the cage instead of getting airdropped into a worse prison in a country where a dictator winked while promising not to abuse him in exchange for cash.
217213
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this is so boring but it is incredibly frustrating to see the supreme court be so malevolently silly about third-country removal. there is no balancing of equities that could possibly favor the government, which already HAS THE DETAINEE IN JAIL. are they ordering too much room service?
350162
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Trump's hand is looking real nasty today (Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty)
Trump at his America dot gov event todayzoom in on his hand, which looks like something you'd see in an open casket
87738120
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/09/2026
"The Trump administration is going to bat for the prediction market industry, now tangled in lawsuits in at least 20 states." Don Jr. holds investments in both Kalshi and Polymarket David Moore for @sludge.bsky.social
readsludge.com
Trump's CFTC Is Suing States for Kalshi and Polymarket, Backed by Trump Jr.
The prediction market companies have been loading up on revolving-door lobbyists from both the Democratic and Republican sides, while ramping up their influence spending amid legal battles with state ...
6262137
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 29/09/2026
After Shmitt's toxic BS was exposed - and Smith explained that he is a fan of Caitlin Clark - Katie Britt used the occasion to enagage in some casual transphobia, offering a canned paean to the need to protect "girls sports". Schmitt, for his part, "apologized" by calling Smith a "Dirtbag," again...
538267
Reposted by @laurie307.bsky.social
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
33265851427