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Lisanne

@lisannelombardo.bsky.social
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I'm loving living in the Smokies. Hobbies: reading, embroidery, walks in the mountains . . . currently mastering dyes. Do least harm. Do most good. Justice over dogma. Progress over purity. Truth over myth. Follows political legal news.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It's great to see a Democratic politician speak of the deep disorders of the people running this country.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Depravity indeed.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10/10/2026
📬 ICYMI: Republicans are pressing ahead with their effort to block a pro-voting policy in Georgia — just days before early voting begins. The RNC wants to restrict how voters turn in their mail-in ballots. And they want to do it in a county that is a major Democratic stronghold ⬇️
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RNC renews bid to restrict mail ballot returns in major Georgia county
Republicans are pressing ahead with their effort to block the pro-voting policy just five days before early voting begins.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Martin: "We have a glorious headache right now. We are able to expand the map to areas we haven't competed in in generations. In fact, we haven't won a Senate seat in Kansas as a Democrat in 94 years. And we're seeing it not just in places like Kansas, but in Nebraska. In Mississippi ... even in FL"
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
JD Vance is sizing up a $9 million Virginia estate while preaching to the rest of us that housing is more affordable than ever. No one believes him.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That's exactly why he was standing like this and repeatedly taps his right thigh and hip when he walks.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: THE DNC HAS SUED DONALD TRUMP FOR ILLEGALLY USING MILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS FOR PARTISAN POLITICAL PROPAGANDA . LAWSUIT HERE: democrats.org/wp-content/upl…
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“I can do whatever I want” says the guy who denies dozens of sexual assault allegations.
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Lisanne @lisannelombardo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My read: 1) Their lips are moving so they are lying. 2) Their lips are moving so they are lying. 3) Also, their lips are moving so they are lying.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My read: 1) the Trump admin has intentionally & effectively sown doubt among Dems in the mail-in voting process; 2) many Dems are making other voting plans (in states where mail-in voting is optional); and 3) looks like GOP plans to use that shift in concert w/ their "polls are rigged" narrative.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Ossoff: "You played earlier the tape of Mike Collins, a sitting member of Congress and the Republican candidate for senate in Georgia, supporting the deployment of federal troops to polling places in Georgia this fall. Folks, this is a 5 alarm fire."
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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Splitting NATO is just another objective shared by the Kremlin and the current US administration. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has said the Iran war is almost over at least 60 times. It's been 212 days. 19 service members are dead, 800+ wounded, $43 billion gone. We counted every broken promise with @votevets.org.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor. Donors make huge profits while workers get shafted. Repeat. This is not a coincidence. It's a political-economic system that's been corrupted by design.
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Janie Harrington 🌸🌿🕊️ @madlyjane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning; but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh... - Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
NEW: Donald Trump made 1,156 personal financial trades in July. It should be illegal for the president to trade individual stocks - period.
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I promise that if you reelect me, I’ll start standing up to Trump and stop him from destroying of the country. I promise. For realz. I’m serious, stop laughing at me. ~ Every Republican Candidate who has seen the polls but done nothing for 2 years
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🧑‍🌾 🐄 “Life on the farm is stressful… the help situation isn’t getting better… why should we keep going?” A dairy farmer who voted for anti-immigrant Trump complains she can’t find workers — then lashes out when the internet calls her out for voting against her own interests.
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Joe Pye Weed @crizmoz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Farmers receive by far the greatest amount of government handouts. And then they have the nerve to complain about socialism? And I say this as a farmer who gets USDA grants.
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randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Judge Talwani grants preliminary injunction blocking Trump’s Postal Service rule on ballot requirements, extending her temporary retraining order until further notice. I’ll discuss on MSNOW at 7 pm ET. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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US judge again blocks Postal Service's mail-in voting restrictions
By Nate Raymond BOSTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Boston extended on Friday a ban stopping President Donald Trump's administration from implementing a new U.S.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Johnson: It took them 72 hours to come up with a bill to do redistricting. Can you imagine if they worked that hard to fix education or health care? Newsom: The governor right now, in not 72 hours but in 7.2 seconds, could affix his signature on a piece of paper and provide Medicaid expansion…
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My gosh. Fetterman pretended to be sick to avoid meeting three paralyzed veterans from rural PA…and then went to do a Fox interview on Israel. He agreed to meet a lawmaker who drove from PA to talk about homeless and working people…and then bailed & met pro-Israel Bruce Pearl.
One morning in June, three paralyzed military veterans in wheelchairs from rural Pennsylvania arrived at the office of Sen. John Fetterman for a long-awaited meeting to discuss legislation that would improve their care.
Fetterman's staff greeted them with bad news: The Pennsylvania Democrat had to cancel. He'd told his staff he may have eaten something bad and wasn't feeling well, according to people familiar with the matter.
Less than an hour after his staffers met with the veterans in his place, Fetterman walked into his office, showing no signs of illness. He had an appointment he didn't want to miss, he told staff: an interview on Fox News to discuss Israel and the war in Iran."He was available. He just chose not to meet with us," Williams said.
Even when Fetterman does agree to meetings, he often cancels, according to former staffers.
Also last April, Fetterman agreed to take a meeting with another state lawmaker, Liz Hanbidge, who drove down from Pennsylvania to introduce herself, and to discuss programs that help the homeless and working poor in her county. But when Hanbidge arrived, according to staffers who were present, Fetterman claimed he hadn't agreed to the meeting. The aides spent more than an hour pleading with him to talk to her; staffers eventually met with Hanbidge in his place.
Fetterman did take another meeting that day-with Bruce Pearl, the former college basketball coach and Israel advocate. The pair discussed legislation that would affect college sports, and Pearl thanked Fetterman for his stance on Israel, Pearl said in an interview.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How do you defeat a president who’s trying to sabotage the midterms? 1. Use drop boxes. 2. Vote EARLY in person. 3. If mailing in your ballot, put it in the mail AT LEAST two weeks before Election Day. 4. Vote in person on Election Day. 5. Share these instructions with everyone you know.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
NEW: Missouri Supreme Court pauses Republican gerrymander for the midterms, netting democrats 1 seat. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Missouri Supreme Court pauses GOP gerrymander, likely netting Democrats 1 House seat
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that voters can decide the fate of the GOP-passed gerrymander via a referendum this fall.
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NPR @npr.org · 03/09/2026
The billionaire investor is under two subpoenas from the House Oversight Committee. But in his lawsuit, Black says the panel doesn't have the authority to compel him to share nondisclosure agreements. n.pr/4qVRKCb
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Leon Black defies subpoena to testify in Epstein inquiry and sues House panel
The billionaire investor is under two subpoenas from the House Oversight Committee. But in his lawsuit, Black says the panel doesn't have the authority to compel him to share nondisclosure agreements.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In the first eleven months of 2025, 10,109 doctoral-trained scientists left the federal government. The losses were concentrated in agencies that fund medical research, regulate environmental standards and model climate. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/more-than-...?
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 04/09/2026
Trump allows in MORE rejected beef tariff free! 330,000 Metric Tons from Brazil this time!
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Some good news www.cnn.com/2026/09/03/p...
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Missouri Supreme Court blocks Trump-backed US House map and orders it be put to a vote | CNN Politics
The Missouri Supreme Court has unanimously blocked new congressional districts backed by President Donald Trump from being used in the November election and ordered a statewide vote on whether to upho...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: A sailor who jumped from the USS Abraham Lincoln this month in what his wife describes as a suicide attempt is now facing disciplinary action from the Navy, according to his wife and charging documents reviewed by MS NOW.
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Navy sailor who jumped off USS Lincoln faces disciplinary charges
The sailor on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier who jumped overboard in an attempt to die by suicide has been charged with violations and could have his pay docked.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A destitute and rusted USS Abraham Lincoln docked at a port in eastern Thailand today, marking its first full stop since deployment nearly 300 days ago. The Lincoln has been supporting the U.S. war against Iran. Families of servicemembers voiced concerns over the mental health of their loved ones.
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Images show rust-covered USS Abraham Lincoln pulling into Thailand's notorious 'Sin City' - AOL
The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for nearly 10 months to support the U.S. war against Iran
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's almost like he’s some kind of narcissist or something 🤔
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/09/2026
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social on Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the liberal minority to prevent Trump from building his ballroom: “He says what Trump has done is…likely unlawful. That’s pretty striking.”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is, absolutely, positively an illustration (one of countless many) of Trump's (1) ignorance and (as Jim Stewartson points out) Trump's (2) pathological narcissism and (3) psychosis.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
To have any Republican Senator who voted to confirm the Fox News weekend TV host complain NOW about utterly unfit/in over his head Petey Hegseth is laughable. Except it’s not funny because America is less safe and less secure because of Hegseth.👇
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Death threats and a newborn baby. @sofiakinzinger.bsky.social on her and Adam’s journey. Join me on Substack. @adamkinzinger.substack.com
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A dog takes his first steps on a custom 3D printed prosthetic after weeks of fittings and physiotherapy, and his gait changes instantly.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis is calling on Trump to fire Pete Hegseth: “I have never witnessed more inept management of the brave men & women who serve our country.He is intimidated by competence and retreats to ginning up culture wars instead of soberly attending to the vital work of our national defense”
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Sasha Hupka @sashahupka.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hi Maricopa County! I'm hearing some voters recently received notices like the one below asking them to confirm their address, despite not moving. I'm looking into this and I need your help. If you got one and haven't moved, can you let me know at shupka@votebeat.org? Thanks!
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Democrats: CBS must not be invited/allowed to host any debate in which Dem candidate appears. The penalty for gutter racism and toadyism to a MAGA/fascist regime is that you do not get accorded treatment as a real news outlet. PERIOD.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 29/08/2026
It’s an unusual sight: In many of Wyoming’s primaries last week, Republican voters chose candidates who defended the state’s voting systems and election workers, over those who amplified Trump’s lies about voter fraud.
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Wyoming Voters Oust GOP Faction that Wants to Crack Down on Elections  - Bolts
In a break with the Trump era, the winner of the secretary of state primary strongly defends election systems, and the far-right Freedom Caucus lost a lot of ground in the legislature.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
DOJ election monitors reportedly tried to access voting machines in Wyoming last week. I’ve spent thousands of hours reporting on past efforts by Trump allies to access machines & copy data. Mark my words: State officials need to be ready for this to happen again. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
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Wyoming Governor Objects to ‘Very Odd’ D.O.J. Election Monitoring (Gift Article)
Governor Mark Gordon, a Republican, said he was concerned by the behavior of election observers who visited a polling station in Cheyenne.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Looking for another reason to crawl bare ass naked across broken glass for miles to vote against every Republican up and down the ballot in November? Here you go.👇
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 28/08/2026
Today, a new law in Missouri restoring voting rights to tens of thousands of people on probation and parole takes effect. As Bolts reported, this restriction on felony disenfranchisement will shift more voting power to Black voters in the state.
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GOP-Run Missouri Becomes Latest State to Roll Back Felony Disenfranchisement - Bolts
A new law will restore voting rights for tens of thousands of people on probation and parole. It’s a departure from other GOP bills this session to restrict democracy.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As a reminder why it's not good that Laura Loomer has the ability to purge people, read this absolutely spectacular piece from Julia Curlee, some of the best writing I've read recently. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Agnifilo: What you are saying is that you and others have information about other people who have committed sexual assault and that this DOJ also has that information… Epstein survivor Dani Bensky: Yes.
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