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Lauri Thompson

@lkthompson.bsky.social
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Mom, wife, retired 9-1-1 dispatcher in left leaning California. Loves hiking/backpacking, gardening & travel. Hoping America survives Trump & MAGA.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Reminder that if you have a mail ballot, it's never too early to return it!
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Ralph Wiggum's 'I'm Voted' Meme
ALT: Ralph Wiggum's 'I'm Voted' Meme
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/10/2026
"The United States military is far better than this. Senior officials should protest, and if necessary resign, rather than being complicit in the voyeuristic degradation of our democracy."
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Hegseth Wants You to Watch a Snuff Film
Neo-fascism as spectacles of violence.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Lauri Thompson @lkthompson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If this agreement comes to fruition, it's unlikely to make a significant impact on prices.
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So the U.S. consumes 15.3 million tons of diesel fuel per month. So we got the .3 covered between now and the election 🎂(1.9%) maybe. Because all Trump does is lie.
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Lauri Thompson @lkthompson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Do American's really want to purchase cheaper diesel from Russia that would allow Russia to continue their war in Ukraine &the killing of innocent people? Have we become that greedy & amoral?
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/10/2026
Your vote is not small to the people spending millions to make sure you never cast it. They know what happens when working people, young people, women, and every fed-up voter show up together. We flip Congress. They lose control. That’s the whole assignment. #BlueWaveIn30Days
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Lauri Thompson @lkthompson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Senator Schmitt should be censured for his implication that Jack Smith perjured himself & calling him a "dirt-bag" when in fact Schmitt & his aides willfully presented a false accusation of collusion by Smith w/Georgia officials surrounding election fraud investigations. Shameful.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Of course it was 6-3. People are going to have to vote in numbers too big to challenge. That's just how it is, unless states can block this somehow.
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Lauri Thompson @lkthompson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We have an incompetent government, from top to bottom.
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Jay Waters @jaywaters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The President of the United States is a liar.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hurting the president’s feelings isn’t a national security threat Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The first thing a Dem Congress does is pass a resolution saying the President is not immune from any prosecution, and remove it from SC jurisdiction.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Long after Trump is gone from office as the most despised, unpopular, and disastrous president in US history, the stink of Trump will remain forever on Republican politicians and appointees who backed him every step of the way, even when they try to claim they were independent.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I know this won’t happen, but the entire WH press corps should walk out. Trump craves attention and is obsessed with his coverage. Not covering his Oval Office Lie Sessions would hurt him more than just about anything.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I just booked my fall COVID and flu vaccines You should too, if only to annoy RFK Jr (or to protect the vulnerable around you)
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
House Republican leaders cancelled votes planned for Thursday. Members won’t return to Washington until Nov. 9.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Why do people only supposedly get the $5,000 if Republicans win in November? Republicans control everything and have for 2 years. Why didn’t they do it before? Why don’t they come back into session tomorrow and pass it right now? Because it’s all a lie, like everything else.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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Lauri Thompson @lkthompson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
He is a national embarrassment.
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 04/08/2026
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
For months, Senate Republicans said Jack Smith "spied" on Congress and broke the law. A judge just unsealed the files. Inside: routine phone records—that a call happened, when, how long. No message content at all. They lied. Here's the proof:
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While Trump Ranted On TV, He Was Losing Everywhere Else
The courts ruled against him again and again. Here’s the week he didn’t want you to see.
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This post should trigger an obvious question by any reporter: Mr. President, what is the lowest gas price you would consider abusive, and to whom should that be reported? Will it be asked? No.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
“And now, as the murky green water and floating blue chunks continue to plague the historic reflecting pool—which was completed in 1922—Trump has turned to conspiracy and nefarious forces to explain away his corrupt and incompetent operation.” www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...
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What Does the Slimy Green Pool Say About Competence?
A Saturday Prompt
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"[Donald Trump] has done things far worse than what the House Judiciary Committee in 1974 approved in the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon. Republican senators ended up going to the White House, saying, 'You don't have 33 votes in the Senate, you're done. So you need to resign.'"
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Oswald P Haygood @oswaldphaygood.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We live in a world where super villains are real, but super heroes are not
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"If you want to move to the next stage where we can work on [affordability, healthcare, and other issues] elect me for this one term and I will help get rid of Donald Trump sooner rather than later, and help push Democrats to fight this guy harder now because we don't have the luxury of time."
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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
absolutely...
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David Becker @beckerdavidj.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
There are observers watching the counting and ballot processing. Trump’s own US Atty watched it himself and said he’s seen no evidence of fraud. Trump has held complete power for 17+ months and found literally nothing. And he knows it. Our elections are transparent and secure. God Bless America.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If the farmers in Wisconsin thought Trump was going to come to your state and talk about solutions to the problems and issues you are facing right now, you were sorely mistaken. Because Trump doesn’t give a fuck about you. Never has never will. He wants your vote and money.
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Lauri Thompson @lkthompson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Vote out Republicans. This “weaponization fund” is tax money theft.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Trump continues his hard work today to bring down rising prices and solve the affordability crisis.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The Coolidge coin is actually quite a rare collectible precisely because the public didn't like it and the Treasury eventually melted most of them down. As a result, the rule against living persons on coins was instituted soon thereafter.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge in Miami just made a striking turnabout — essentially reopening Trump's $10 billion case against the IRS, saying that she wanted to investigate "grievous allegations" that the hasty deal to resolve it was "premised on deception."
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Judge Reopens Trump I.R.S. Suit, Questioning ‘Weaponization’ Fund
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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
If I were a pundit, I'd note that Paxton was likely to win, and Trump likely endorsed so he could claim credit. But I'm not a pundit.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 26/05/2026
These fucking demons told me that my neighbor wanted to eat my dog and now they want to talk about social trust evaporating
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/05/2026
CNN put together a montage of Trump officials, including Trump himself, saying over and over again for nearly three months now that gas prices are about to drop, any day now
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Can’t wait to watch all the people who criticized the JCPOA and excoriated Obama for “pallets of cash” try to sanewash Trump giving Iran even more cash for a worse deal than the JCPOA.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Fox poll: 71% of registered voters disapprove of Trump's handling of the economy 76% disapprove of Trump's handling of inflation 61% disapprove of trump's overall job performance 77% say the economy is in bad shape 51% say their family's finances are worse now than two years ago
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Quinnipiac poll: Just 33% of voters approve of the way Trump is handling the economy and 64% disapprove — the lowest approval on the economy Trump has received in either of his terms as president.
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Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Any DOJ settlement that gives the President a dollar -- or a direct material benefit -- is a plain-as-day violation of the Presidential Emoluments Clause: "The President shall not receive ... any other Emolument from the United States, or any of [the states]." Art II, S.1, cl. 7.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 19/05/2026
This is an unprecedented level of corruption. Trump is forcing the government to drop ALL tax audits of him, his family, and his businesses—giving him FULL IMMUNITY from prosecution. What is Trump hiding from the American people? Congress must step up and stop this corruption.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 19/05/2026
Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
New addition just inserted in settlement agreement: a promise that the IRS won't go after Trump, hjs companies, and hjis families for unpaid taxes. Potential huge additional cost to Treasury -- i.e. us -- all iin exchange for, well, nothing, an uncognizable lawsuit.
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