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Lisa Lessard

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Senior Californian Dog Lover and Democrat looking for good information to live by and be happy

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 1h
You don't need to haul these guys in for hearings so they can dissemble and obfuscate for six hours. The corruption is being televised, just impeach
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 8h
This is who owns this plane — Jordache Jeans founder Joe Nakash and his real estate partner Eli Gindi. Rich people lease their private jets to charter companies in exchange for a huge tax break, courtesy of Trump 1.0. gillianbrockell.com/more-maga-bi...
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More MAGA billionaires linked to private jet used for ICE flight to African prison
A Gulfstream jet that appears to be co-owned by Joe Nakash and Eli Gindi flew four migrants to a prison in Eswatini.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
I 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
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This ICBC bank located on Calle Florida in Buenos Aires, Argentina, features a 4-tonne bronze door. Crafted in England in 1924, it sinks completely into the ground every morning at 10 AM to open. TT: @elianagimenez48
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 18h
Debuted on ABC 66yrs ago today. THE FLINTSONES (1960-66)
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17h
NEW: Meta found a way to turn massive data centers into “pilot models” and cash in on a 1980s tax credit. The result? Meta avoided nearly $4 billion in taxes last year alone. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 17h
On point.
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Indivisible Orange @indivisible-orange.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What is there to say that hasn’t already been said? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Justice Dept. Unlawfully Withheld Grants to Combat Domestic Violence, Judge Rules
Judge Melissa R. DuBose said the department had placed arbitrary conditions on grants created by the Violence Against Women Act.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 29/09/2026
Whoa, for the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder has released four additional songs from that recording session. “We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it.” [pitchfork.com]
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Stevie Wonder Unvaults Four Songs in the Key of Life Tracks
“We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it,” says Wonder
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sen Dan Sullivan (R-AK), up for reelection and lagging in the polls against his Democratic challenger Mary Petola, is revealed as a platinum card Epstein club member whose politically career was funded by Epstein's wing man, Leon Black. thealaskacurrent.com/2026/09/18/d...
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Dan Sullivan took money from Epstein associate Leon Black
Leon Black, the billionaire who has refused to testify about his close relationship with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, gave money to Sullivan in 2019.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To anyone who is like “not all men” today: I encourage you to watch this piece on the Cornell rape case from the former head of sex offences for Scotland Fucking Yard. www.instagram.com/reel/DdzNCDy...
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Laura Richards on Instagram: "Cornell: As the former head of the Se€xual Offences Section at New Scotland Yard and expert on s€xual violence this is an uncomfortable truth. Is it time for a new kind o...
60K likes, 2,311 comments - crimeanalyst on September 27, 2026: "Cornell: As the former head of the Se€xual Offences Section at New Scotland Yard and expert on s€xual violence this is an uncomfortable...
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The US is the only industrialized country with out Universal Healthcare #GetReadyToVote #VoteBlue #Blues go.bsky.app/CnfWrC6
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AimeePrefersDemocracyFella @aimee-abq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Texas Republican called for public execution of Democratic leaders – report
Bo French, who is running to lead a state agency, has in the past posted controversial and racist statements online
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No one except the soulless criminal who's president of the U.S. would say Canada is "one of the worst countries in the entire world." Trump uses China as a good example and Canada as a bad example because he loves dictators and wants to be one.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 28/09/2026
People who believe in bodily autonomy… it’s time
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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 28/09/2026
NEW: Andrew Bailey, the FBI's No. 2, has resigned. He may have set the stage for investigations into abortion pill providers. As Trump faces pressure to restrict pills, FBI Director Kash Patel recently said he was open to criminal probes. The public wouldn't know until someone's in handcuffs
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What Was This Anti-Abortion Zealot Doing at the FBI?
Andrew Bailey has always been hellbent on eradicating abortion access. As the FBI’s No. 2, he may have set the stage for investigations into abortion pill providers.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With no AOC, it's Van Hollen, Ossoff, maybe Pritzker. Not sure any of them have the juice without a headliner like AOC. Like AOC/Ossoff would be a good ticket. Pritzker/AOC. But who else do you pair any of these guys with if she's out?
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reminder
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Crooks! 😡
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
This is actually hell, right?
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 26/09/2026
Audio emerges of MAGA candidate wishing COVID killed more people: 'Wasn't bad enough'
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Audio emerges of MAGA candidate wishing COVID killed more people: 'Wasn't bad enough'
Newly resurfaced audio shows Texas Republican congressional candidate Brandon Herrera suggesting COVID-19's death toll wasn't severe enough because the virus failed to disproportionately kill overweight Americans, comments he made years before launching his current campaign.The remarks surfaced from...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
These are the people who have betrayed their fellow Americans by supporting a criminal who is ruining our country. The stain of what they have done can never be washed away.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An Appeals Court panel has ruled that federal agents can legally search through travelers' cell phones without reasonable suspicion, probable cause, or a warrant when they cross an international border. The full story: lataco.com/phone-survei... By Izzy Ramirez
An aerial shot of the U.S.-Mexico border between San Diego and Tijuana.

Headline reads "The U.S. Government Quietly Just Made It Legal to Go Through Your Phone at the Borde"
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TonyHQ @tonyhq1985.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sen Van Hollen shuts down Netanyahu’s vicious lies about Mayor Mamdani
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A disgrace to the badge: Republican Sheriff Illegally Seized California Ballots, Court Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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Republican Sheriff Illegally Seized California Ballots, Court Rules (Gift Article)
The California Supreme Court ordered Sheriff Chad Bianco of Riverside County to return ballots to election officials after he confiscated them for an investigation.
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Because I'm gonna be working for you, I'm not going to have time to go play golf. Believe me.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every individual. I don’t like to say this and wish I didn’t have to add these words to make it clear but I will — regardless of color, creed, ancestry, sex or age.
—Lyndon B Johnson, speech at a Civil Rights symposium, LBJ Library, University of Texas, Austin, TX, Dec 12, 1972
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/09/2026
"Remigration" has become the European far right’s favored code word for the ethnic cleansing of nonwhites. Now it has come to America—with an official seal of approval at the highest level. New from Cathy Young:
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The White Nationalist Buzzword on a State Department Door
“Remigration” traveled from European far-right circles into the machinery of Trump’s deportation policy.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“I am the code”
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Texas GOP is essentially financed by South African trillionaire Elon Musk. The GOP is intent on him giving hundreds of millions to help them salvage their position, without becoming a figure in the races. The Democrats want to use the fact that he's sole-source finance to strangle the GOP list.
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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mistake.”
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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 21/09/2026
Trump administration says developers, loggers can kill endangered species, writes Alex Brown for @stateline.org alaskabeacon.com/2026/09/21/r...
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Trump administration says developers, loggers can kill endangered species | Alaska Beacon
The Trump administration’s top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered species protections much further than the feds had told the public.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/09/2026
Of course they gave Trump giant gold scissors. ☠️
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Deeddra 📎🇺🇸🔵🦋 @deeddra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I cannot wait for this administration to be terminated to stop the ongoing mistreatment of these good humans living in the United States! #SheShed AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
UnitedHealthcare AI Blocks Prescribed Treatment With 90% Error Rate UnitedHealthcare is allegedly using a deeply flawed AI to override doctors’ judgments and wrongfully deny critical health coverage to elderly patients. It's Violating Medicare Care Guidelines. arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program. www.propublica.org/article/snap...
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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/09/2026
Saturday, Newsom signed 13 bills designed to keep Trump and anyone else from screwing with California’s elections. 🗳️ Seize ballots or machines - Felony 🗳️Interfere w/mail ballots - Felony 🗳️Use law enforcement to disrupt polls - New restrictions 🗳️Target election records - The state gets notified
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I guess he’s right, we are becoming like China when it comes to civil liberties. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Cycling Aikidoka @cyclingaikidoka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Destroying our public property. While Republicans sleep.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
JUST IN: The 1st Circuit rejects the Trump administration's 3rd-country deportation policy, finding blanket assurances from countries who say they won't torture U.S. deportees is not good enough. And the judges raise this point: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration may well blow off subpoenas from the next Congress. But I expect the calculations from the private sector will be somewhat different.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This! 👇
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The important thing is that they never have to acknowledge what their poor judgment has cost us, nor learn from it. They just do the Homer-in-the-shrubbery fade.
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Homer Simpson Hides in Bushes
ALT: Homer Simpson Hides in Bushes
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 18/09/2026
While Trump and Washington sleep, @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom and California continue to put up guardrails, increase transparency, and put accountability measures in place for AI — and we’re not done yet!
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