Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026anyone heard from Speaker of House? in witness protection? trying to come up with "didn't see it" lines? 58732100
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026An undeclared, unprovoked, and illegal war designed to, well, we can only guess—though Donald Trump and JD Vance have seemed to concede this was a war for oil—puts the United States on the same moral and legal footing as Russia, which invaded its neighbor in a war of pure aggression. 18477145
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026open.substack.com/pub/contrari... This mind-blowing attack is the direct result of a Supreme Court MAGA majority, and Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. specifically, who granted him broad immunity never envisioned by the Framers. He has taken that and run with it—now headfirst into war.open.substack.comHeadfirst Into WarThe horrific attack on Venezuela overnight puts the U.S. in the same camp as Russia. 37729231
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Not the most important point but today's Epstein emails make it clear that Maxwell committed gross perjury in her interview with Todd Blanche, and it will still be within the statute of limitations when President (insert your favorite Dem) takes office in January 2029 331379403
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialLisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 30/10/2025"At one steel industry plant near Pittsburgh, a potent carcinogen was found at levels more than 30 times higher than estimated." If you read to the end you'll find an asthmatic cat photo 😭 My latest, 📸 by Annie Flanagan. Shocking pics that look like pre-EPA days www.propublica.org/article/epa-...propublica.orgAir Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than EstimatedThe Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla... 721198
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/10/2025Whoever is the next Democratic presidential candidate should vow to tear down the hideous ballroom and rebuild the Rose Garden, I bet there are a lot of votes in that 61587691573
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialJohn Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Congrats, MAGA, you’ve owned the Libs—and all it’s cost you is a functioning government, a working democracy, human rights, national peace, economic stability, affordable groceries, affordable healthcare, qualified leaders, and global standing. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/congratula...johnpavlovitz.substack.comCongratulations, Trump Supporters, You've Owned the LibsWell, Trump Supporters, as a member of the woke radical Left, it kills me to say this, but you win. 291089365
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/10/2025You break it, you own it. Kudos to @akalhan.bsky.social. 14824265
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2025New statement from AG James: "This is nothing more than a continuation of the president's desperate weaponization of our justice system. "I am not fearful — I am fearless." 8651631132
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans. As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA. See this: 17656931821
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialACLU @aclu.org · 07/09/2025A whistleblower has revealed that DOGE staffers uploaded millions of Americans' Social Security information to an unauthorized server. The Trump administration's recklessness with our data should be a wake-up call that it's time to update our decades-old laws so that our privacy is truly protected.msnbc.comDOGE mishandled your Social Security data. Here’s what that means.A whistleblower alleges that staffers with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency have exposed with Americans’ Social Security numbers. 26731309
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialBrennan Center @brennancenter.org · 07/09/2025The Brennan Center is using public reporting to track the DOJ’s requests for copies of states’ voter registration databases and how states respond. bit.ly/3JFbKaBbrennancenter.orgTracker of Justice Department Requests for Voter InformationThe Trump administration is pressing state officials to provide sensitive information about voters. 16541
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Abortion care accounted for just 3% of all services provided at Planned Parenthood centers. 97% of what Planned Parenthood does has nothing to do with abortion at all. A handy statistic to throw at the people who don't care about facts. www.rawstory.com/planned-pare...rawstory.comHow do you know anti-abortion crusaders don't care about women? Listen to themThere once was a group in St. Louis called “Common Ground” that came together in the heat of the abortion wars to seek a modicum of civility between activists on both sides of the debate.I don’t remem... 23872363
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialSenator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 10/07/2025Measles outbreaks. Medicaid cuts. Hospitals closing. Republicans are killing people. 41773222
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialWIRED @wired.com · 09/07/2025While warehouses in the U.S. overflow with ready-to-use therapeutic foods (known as RUTFs), designed to treat severe malnutrition, children in places like South Sudan are going hungry.wired.com‘People Are Going to Die’: A Malnutrition Crisis Looms in the Wake of USAID CutsWarehouses in the US are full of foods that fight malnutrition, while kids go hungry in places like South Sudan. 891659842
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialMaca Iglesias @rotterdamvvg.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Whoever did this wins the internet today.🏆 25051862538
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Everyone should be making noise about this huge media scandal in the New York Times. While Trump makes money off of frivolous lawsuits against CBS, ABC, etc, the Times is getting away with an anti-Mamdani hit job fed to them by a far right ‘race science’ guy, who they kept anonymous! 842684726
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Remember Collins and Murkowski could have stopped this. People who lose healthcare coverage will die because of them 932167064884
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialJohn Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Look at all that government waste Space X got rid of 54771140
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 02/06/2025At ProPublica, we believe investigative journalism should be for everyone: No paywalls. No shareholders. Just a commitment to uncovering the truth. Stand with us. Join our Summer Member Drive, now through June 13: propub.li/4kMwZVt 126857
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/05/2025 1220133312026
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952 526266948431
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Bingo. Jake Tapper is wasting precious time and aiding a fascist regime. 341178256
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialProf Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 16/05/2025theconversation.com/vaccination-...theconversation.comVaccination in pregnancy greatly reduces risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19, and protects babies up to 6 months after birthCOVID-19 vaccination has been shown to be safe in pregnancy, and protects both the mother and infant from severe disease. It’s now also clear that infants’ antibody protection continues after birth. 9413134
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 15/05/2025NEW: US House Democrats launch probe into Justice Dept for “blessing” the Qatar jet deal with Trump Admin Atty General Bondi is named in letter 451493390
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/05/2025SPRINGSTEEN, on tour in the UK: “.. "In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration." @variety.com variety.com/2025/music/n... 1024348498476
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 14/05/2025“The GOP’s six-month-long fight to steal a Supreme Court seat in North Carolina was a prime example of MAGA’s new playbook: If the voters beat you, beat the voters right back.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...democracydocket.comThe Lawsuit Exposing MAGA’s Voter Suppression MachineOpinion | This case in Georgia is an opportunity to further expose the MAGA anti-voter machine, and affirm that the Voting Rights Act still has teeth. 9484149
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialLaurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 14/05/2025“The costs of opposition are surmountable. And importantly, the descent into authoritarianism is reversible. Pro-democracy forces have successfully resisted or reversed backsliding in recent years in Brazil, Poland, Slovakia, South Korea and elsewhere.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...nytimes.comOpinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? 1152156672
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialRex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 13/05/2025This is such a spot-on point by @willbunch.bsky.social. Cowards, all of them. 316129
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialArt Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 13/05/2025It’s not just Elon Musk that went to meet MBS and the government in Saudi Arabia. The CEOs of BlackRock, IBM, Amazon, Boeing, Google, Palantir, Halliburton, and more attended with Donald Trump. 🧵 142908615
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialKara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 13/05/2025By exactly whom John? www.politico.com/news/2025/05...politico.comRule of law is ‘endangered,’ chief justice saysSpeaking at Georgetown Law, Chief Justice John Roberts denounced “ad hominem” criticism of the justices. 102499462179
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/05/2025“You can’t make this up.” - Marsha, making it up 434144853399
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 07/05/2025NEW: Data reveals Musk has delivered 0.25% of promised federal spending cuts Musk initially promised $2 TRILLION in annual spending cuts. He's on track to deliver $5 billion. And that's being generous. Here are the receiptsmuskwatch.comData reveals Musk has delivered 0.25% of promised federal spending cuts"Well, I think we can do at least $2 trillion." 1281703608
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/05/2025John Roberts did this to himself when he crowned Trump king 2151953
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialUna Hajdari @unawrites.bsky.social · 02/05/2025The German office for the protection of the Constitution has, after a long period of monitoring, declared the AfD a “confirmed far-right party” — a landmark decision, meaning they’ve been declared a party that acts against the German Constitution and democratic order: www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...spiegel.deVerfassungsschutz stuft gesamte AfD als »gesichert rechtsextremistisch« einMonatelang arbeitete das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz an einer Neubewertung der AfD. Nun steht fest: Die Behörde hält die gesamte Partei für rechtsextrem. 191273416
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 01/05/2025Very narrowly lost the vote on this. This was a chance for the Senate to put American businesses, farmers, workers and producers first. Most Republicans chose Trump. I’m not done, I will keep at this until we repeal Trump’s disastrous tariffs. 1462053348
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 30/04/2025There’s no Trump without an entire Republican Party on their knees and silent to the ongoing cruelty, hate, abuse, lies and lawlessness. They have abandoned the Constitution and basic human decency—for power. We will never forget these traitors who support despotism. 16332991041
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Tex Mex though…bland slop. This is hill I will die on. 9633
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 29/04/2025"There’s a great deal that is wrong not just with Pam Bondi’s reversal of Merrick Garland’s media policy, but the memo reversing it itself. Bondi was in such a rush to splutter out unbridled sycophancy, she didn’t bother to spell check the document." 14117
laurie8317.bsky.social @laurie8317.bsky.social · 29/04/2025@ashleyrparker.bsky.social FYI, 47 just ran against Harris, not Biden, on the economy, as you just stated on MSNBC! Please don’t speak if you can’t get your facts correct! 000
laurie8317.bsky.social @laurie8317.bsky.social · 29/04/2025How are the MAGA-nuts loving all this winning! It was NEVER about pricing? 030
laurie8317.bsky.social @laurie8317.bsky.social · 29/04/2025@maddow.msnbc.com sorry to see that this is your last week! You’ll be missed but I will have this hour free! 000
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/04/2025So proud that this is one of my Senators. Use what power you have. Thank you Senator @vanhollen.senate.gov. 341535177
Reposted by @laurie8317.bsky.socialJenna McLaughlin @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025NEW from me: A whistleblower says DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data...and then someone posted a threatening letter to his door. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...npr.orgA whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor dataA whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official. 571163535