Reposted by Lexie LazearSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 14/10/2026New inflation numbers are out, and families are paying the price for Republican choices. Their tariffs raised prices at the store. Their war with Iran sent gas to $4+ a gallon. And they gave giant corporations tax breaks while you foot the bill. 812141
Reposted by Lexie LazearJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 14/10/2026One weird trick to solve all your AI problems: Make the creators of AI legally liable for foreseeable problems their product causes, just like every other damn product in the world. 461226400
Reposted by Lexie LazearJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The Original Sin of politics was the invention of the passive voice, when Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Vague Unaccountability. Wild how all those violent ICE agents just … got hired … and deployed … somehow. Who can possibly say how? It’s all a mystery. 1103766725
Reposted by Lexie LazearBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Our internet, how we get all of our information, now has banned using the word "sex" without writing it like "s*x" but our kids are being inundated with people falling off rollercoasters, being mauled by Tigers, and jumping off buildings. It creates a culture afraid of people but in love with death. 251441207
Reposted by Lexie LazearCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Mean Girl asked to read the next passage in 10th grade Social Studies book out loud in front of the class because she got caught chewing gum 1112824349
Reposted by Lexie Lazearjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not 592610419
Reposted by Lexie LazearJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9753522189
Reposted by Lexie LazearKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A conservative dark money group is running Prop 132 asking voters to put more Coloradans in prison for fentanyl. Is it backed by people who make money off private prisons? Don’t know. It’s dark money. 20682206
Reposted by Lexie LazearAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president 907258576134
Reposted by Lexie Lazear🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026The trans women in sports panic has got to be one of the GOP's most successful manufactured culture war campaigns. Somehow they got a lot of people who would otherwise say they support trans rights to somehow fear "fairness" in sports. It's a non-issue. 121304241
Reposted by Lexie LazearMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women: 39872352884
Reposted by Lexie Lazearjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot” 639106091976
Reposted by Lexie LazearProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.propublica.orgProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption ProbeProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o... 10838421755
Reposted by Lexie LazearStephanie D’Abruzzo @stephaniedabruzzo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Happy 90th Birthday to the late, great Jim Henson… a person I never met, but who changed the course of my life by showing me the infinite possibilities of performance in a very tiny corner of Showbiz, a corner I’m so grateful that he created, filled with people I adore. 0335
Reposted by Lexie LazearHeadquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Arizona Sheriff: I was one of the first law enforcement leaders in the country to end our contract with Flock. I believe the latest camera networks powered by AI and machine learning are capable of violating our citizens' Fourth Amendment rights. 07631
Reposted by Lexie LazearThe Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 23/09/2026The story of Susan Collins’ alleged bribery isn’t going away anytime soon. Troy Jackson is asking for answers. Jen writes all about this story & more in her daily jolt: www.contrariannews.org/p/a-pay-for-… @jenrubin.bsky.social 214833
Reposted by Lexie LazearElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/09/2026Fire stations are paying more and waiting longer for new trucks. Why? A few big corporations bought up the fire truck industry and jacked up costs. That's not right. Corporate greed can't come before public safety. 29257601833
Reposted by Lexie LazearJosh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Blockbuster story about Susan Collins — a shocking, detailed window into the dark side of money in politics. 13433117
Reposted by Lexie LazearPhil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 22/09/2026As CNN, MS NOW, Politico Booted, White Nationalist Outlet Snags White House Press Slot www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...confrontthehate.comAs CNN, MS NOW, Politico Booted, White Nationalist Outlet Snags White House Press SlotThe White House moves to silence critical reporting—while handing access to a fringe outlet with explicit white nationalist ties. 38733
Reposted by Lexie LazearProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵 412114686117
Reposted by Lexie LazearJake i 🇵🇸 ✡️ (alt Space Laser Command) @jakei.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think it'd be cool if a bunch of big shot writers/producers/actors/etc did a 21st century United Artists thing its time we need artist owned and run studios 646677
Reposted by Lexie LazearMother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC halted their TV coverage of presidential events after Trump banned some outlets from White House access for unfavorable reporting.motherjones.comTrump's desperate for TV cameras until they tell the truthABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC halted their TV coverage of presidential events after Trump banned some outlets from White House access for unfavorable reporting. 2734977
Reposted by Lexie LazearDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026Capital gets what it wants.nytimes.comParamount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. Acquisition (Gift Article)The deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN. 812030
Reposted by Lexie LazearKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually 11896961920
Reposted by Lexie LazearMark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Don’t you dare @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov, do not cave. 5670 film makers put their necks on the line for you to fight this merger. Another 75,000+ and counting have signed to tell you not to concede in just 3 weeks. Please sign to send a message to the AG’s and Paramount. noparamountconcessions.com 7645011423
Reposted by Lexie LazearGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A vacuous, ridiculous woman with no real analysis of the world and nothing to offer beyond a relentless commitment to her own hollow and ravenous ego. 9109340
Reposted by Lexie LazearGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Taylor Lorenz pulling a "Why I'm Leaving the Left" is perhaps the most predictable thing ever to have occurred, narrowly edging out "housecat slowly pushes cup off edge of table" 592811290
Reposted by Lexie Lazearryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/09/2026Mamdani is a superb administrator, it turns out, at least by the standards of NYC mayors www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...nyc.govMore Affordable, Safer, Better Run: Mayor Mamdani’s First Management Report Shows ‘Pothole Politics’ is Working Across City Government 20764161
Reposted by Lexie LazearMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026What’s it going to take for mainstream media to say loudly and clearly that Trump is building a dictatorship? If not now, when? 46477175
Reposted by Lexie LazearDanny Page @danny.page · 17/09/2026God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom 273859898
Reposted by Lexie LazearKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026“What we want from you is more assurances that we’re white. Maybe a contract, a Magna Carta of letting us into the whites-only club?” 422433
Reposted by Lexie LazearMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The AI people can be bullshitting about the machine god stuff AND cynically seeking regulation to stop new entrants AND running a financial scam among themselves AND STILL create something with very bad consequences! 1428423
Reposted by Lexie Lazearloreleikelly @loreleikelly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Be ready to protect your democracy. "In less than a year, ICE has stockpiled military-grade materiel and more than doubled its ranks, including by hiring recruits rejected by other police and military forces." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comCops won’t fight federal election interference—so citizens will have toHow democracy protection groups are preparing for Trump's worst. 818396
Reposted by Lexie LazearTemu Tisha Campbell @thatgirlbamz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I will never skip this clip. also Jinkx was FABULOUS on Dr Who. Perfect villain. 415321
Reposted by Lexie LazearMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026i don’t believe any of the current/former AI company employees “warning” us, sorry 992428205
Reposted by Lexie LazearCRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Say Trump is "rule breaking" (law breaking) and then praise him for it. A perfect distillation of Wilhoit's Law: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” 07921
Reposted by Lexie LazearMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026“A lot of them don’t believe that their fight is partisan, and it’s not.” Yes it is. MAHA is overwhelmingly a right-wing movement with right-wing goals. The reason they make “progressive” arguments is to trick mainstream figures into working with them — exactly as AOC seems to be doing. 251793189
Reposted by Lexie LazearAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 07/09/2026They had missing fingers, crushed hands, hollow chests—and factory shifts lasting eleven hours. In 1903, Mother Jones marched an army of exploited children to Theodore Roosevelt's summer home. He refused to see them. America could not look away. #LaborDay www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...thebulwark.comLabor Day: ‘The March of the Mill Children’Remembering what it took, across decades, to end the exploitation of children in factories. 17239
Reposted by Lexie LazearMother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/09/2026For nearly 60 years, Dolly Parton kept up her membership in the Nashville Association of Musicians (AFM Local 257)—a notable commitment in Tennessee, a right-to-work state with one of the nation’s lowest union participation rates.motherjones.comHere's to Dolly: union member, vaccine hero, literacy giant, staunch gay ally.Community-based philanthropy and fighting for the underdog defined the superstar’s legacy. 8447107
Reposted by Lexie LazearPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Gas and diesel just hit the highest prices ever for a Labor Day weekend - a direct result of this president’s decisions. It doesn't have to be like this. 16972131972
Reposted by Lexie LazearMother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/09/2026Trump's mass deportation plot is just as much a labor story, as it is a story about immigration.motherjones.comFlorida’s nursing homes are bracing for life without Haitian TPS workersThe Supreme Court ended their legal status. Patients will pay the price. 117162
Reposted by Lexie LazearBarb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We overcame one Gilded Age and we can overcome this one. Time for a new square deal like TR’s 3 C’s: Corporate control, Consumer protection and Conservation of natural resources. Happy Labor Day. 221149251
Reposted by Lexie LazearArianna Coghill @ariannacoghill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026It's not a coincidence that this draconian ruling will affect a city that is more than 80 percent Black.motherjones.comYou don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rulesA Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis. 19280105
Reposted by Lexie LazearJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026BTW, this is why you dont go on Legacy Sunday shows that tiny audience watches. Dems cannot let the corporate owned media control the narrative. go on local media, podcasts, independent media. you'll reach actual voters. seriously, wtf even bother with MTP? 1235482
Reposted by Lexie LazearNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Regime change! OK, no regime change. Unconditional surrender! OK, no surrender. Nuclear deal! OK, no nuclear deal. But we control Hormuz! OK, we don’t control Hormuz. But we’re squeezing them economically into concessions! OK, no concessions. But maybe a future president can get something, IDK. 682241597
Reposted by Lexie LazearKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This is exactly how the right creates popular support for taking away women’s rights. They position anyone with empathy for Clancy as the reason why women shouldn’t vote, serve on juries, have autonomy, or even exist in public. And they use this as propaganda to make those positions seem reasonable. 92021292