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Pat Lauber

@patlauber.bsky.social
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A blue dot in deep red Wyoming. I foster dogs and volunteer with my local theater company. I like my Irish heritage. Happily retired. Cancer survivor x2.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3h
President Donald Trump took a break this weekend from his nonstop, baseless accusations about mail voting fraud to remind his own supporters to cast their mail ballots in this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump backtracks and begs Republicans to vote by mail as Democrats’ odds of taking Congress improve
Trump’s latest demand that Republicans vote – even by mail – comes as polls show Democrats’ odds of taking both the House and Senate are improving.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h
Once again, Dunning and Kruger for the win.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
New in PN: Scenes from a personality cult "The ads are unambiguously illegal — & that’s the point. Again & again, this regime has broken the law not just to accomplish some immediate goal, but as a dominance display to say to everyone: Donald Trump does whatever he wants, & nobody can stop him."
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Scenes from a personality cult
Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/09/2026
Dead on balls accurate!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/09/2026
Fox correspondent: "I just spoke with President Trump about the situation with Iran ... he said, 'my question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up? They better behave'"
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Lesson learned from building the ballroom: Just say it’s for the military
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NPR @npr.org · 18/09/2026
A heavily redacted email from last year, reported first by NPR, reveals that DHS personnel shared a list of jurisdictions that offer election materials in non-English languages. It's unclear why. n.pr/4AfmXop
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A DHS email raises new questions about the Trump administration's election plans
A heavily redacted email from last year, reported first by NPR, reveals that DHS personnel shared a list of jurisdictions that offer election materials in non-English languages. It's unclear why.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Housing director Bill Pulte lies his ass off: "The cost of a new home is in some cases 20%, 30% lower than it was under Biden ... President Trump was crushed inflation."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Odd, that Republicans in Congress cruelly require work quotas from the poor, sick, and disabled to get federal money, while Republicans in Congress could never qualify for these quotas because of all the days they take off work, but still get FULL benefits from the federal government. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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NPR @npr.org · 14/09/2026
Federal agents may have broken state laws after the Department of Homeland Security began surging personnel for what it called the Unlawful Voter Initiative, a federal whistleblower alleges. n.pr/4yE1CTT
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Federal agents may have broken state laws in voter fraud hunt, whistleblower claims
Federal agents may have broken state laws after the Department of Homeland Security began surging personnel for what it called the Unlawful Voter Initiative, a federal whistleblower alleges.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“The United States will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
JFC RFK... wapo.st/4A8gbjU
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RFK Jr. uses military aircraft as he campaigns for GOP in midterms
The White House and Department of Health and Human Services lawyers signed off on the plan to let the health secretary use military jets, according to people familiar with the plan.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump’s idiotic tariff war with our lifelong ally Canada hurts Red States the most. Our Republican-controlled Congress sits idly by and abuses its own.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/09/2026
Well. To be fair, we were all hoping he would dye.
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NPR @npr.org · 04/09/2026
The Trump administration is taking the unprecedented step of creating lists of adult citizens who are eligible to vote in each state – but will not meet its own deadline 60 days before Election Day. n.pr/4h9rzoj
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The Trump administration still aims to make state citizenship lists ahead of midterms
The Trump administration is taking the unprecedented step of creating lists of adult citizens who are eligible to vote in each state – but will not meet its own deadline 60 days before Election Day.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/09/2026
NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...
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Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
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NPR @npr.org · 04/09/2026
The Trump administration is proposing a rule that would strip private schools and colleges of their tax-exempt status if they provide targeted help to students based on their race. n.pr/3Vdkcnd
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Trump administration pushes to remove tax exemption for private colleges with DEI policies
The Trump administration is proposing a rule that would strip private schools and colleges of their tax-exempt status if they provide targeted help to students based on their race.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Why did DHS create this website? More importantly, why since Democracy Docket published its story, is it now down? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS posts ‘Citizenship Lists Portal’ to advance Trump’s anti-voting order
It’s the latest sign that the federal government is hurtling forward with Trump’s anti-voting executive order.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you’re thinking for even 1 second that cooler minds will prevail, and that there aren’t actually DOJ lawyers who will in fact push to destroy the Kennedy Center I can tell you I’ve met with them and you are wrong. They’d quite willingly tear down the Lincoln Memorial for Trump.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
LEFT: Man who raped his own grandson. RIGHT: Man who wants to have sex with his own daughter. These are not well people.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It’s weird how the “small government” rugged individualist” “leave me alone” conservatives are all “let’s check everyone’s genitals.” There isn’t a more basic freedom than being free to call yourself what you want, dress the way you want, love whoever you want, and to have society leave you alone.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“Iran is a country run by religious extremists, y’all!!!”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Trump’s extended posting spree yesterday suggests that he’s literally *psychotic.* But the press is too terrified or timid to report that.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Trump’s energy secretary announced a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia BEFORE Trump knew what was in it. Then…Fox News complained…and Trump rewrote the deal overnight. Folks, this isn’t statecraft. It’s a CLOWN CAR… carrying nuclear material.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
When you ask Gemini AI if the current datacenter build-out is worth its cost…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Massie: "I don't think the problem is that our elections aren't secure because we control the House, Senate, White House, and to some degree we control the Supreme Court. So I ask my Republican colleagues, why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the damn elections!"
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Pat Lauber @patlauber.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
So embarrassing! I’m glad she’ll be out of office in a few months,
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
@ejeancarroll.bsky.social: "I don't understand how people can be afraid of a fat elderly man who wears apricot makeup, his hair done up like Tippi Hedren in The Birds and sits in a court room and moans and groans and complains”
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I don’t give a hoot about celebrity weddings but I do wish Taylor Swift would suddenly broadcast her wedding right as Trump starts his speech so the whole world instantly ignores him.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Marco Rubio: "Let me explain this in simple English: Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Donald Trump has already paid this $5M sum into a deposit account held by the United States District Court. E. Jean Carroll will receive her money shortly, after the SCOTUS clerk's office issues that Court's final judgment.
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Pat Lauber @patlauber.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It’s Lucy’s Gotcha Day. Celebrating a year of cuddles, walks, treats, and fiercely defending the homestead from the mailman.
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NPR @npr.org · 26/06/2026
Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office. n.pr/4aWVKvt
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Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump
Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
You and your vote are powerful—and this administration knows it. They’re afraid of it. Subscribe to my Newsletter, Civil Discourse, to stay informed. JoyceVance.Substack.com
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
HOLY SH*T, this parting statement by Scott Pelley is WILD: "New management has instructed me to INJECT FALSEHOODS AND BIAS into a politically sensitive story. I've been told to include assertions that are unverified." I bet he knows a LOT more, too. 🔥
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Trump's insecure and childish inability to ever admit to making a mistake is really going to catch up with him on this very public, obvious mistake. He's making possibly the worst verbal flub in American presidential history even worse by stamping his little feet in foolish defiance.
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Andan @andan.naos.org · 13/05/2026
The President of the U.S. just designated trans people (and their supporters!) terrorists and vowed to kill us all together. There's no nicing that. That's what this is. It also makes clear with "secular" that the Right Kind of murderous zealout is 👌 This asshole was never fit to be President.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/05/2026
Why did Trump pardon drug trafficker and Honduran president Juan Hernández? According to leaked audio tapes, it was an initial payment in part of a agreement between Trump, Bibi, and others to take down Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. english.elpais.com/internationa...
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‘Hondurasgate,’ the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments
A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of ...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 06/05/2026
Beef prices are up 11% in the last year under Trump. Had enough yet?
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Trump & The Gang Who Couldn’t Shoot Straits.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/05/2026
"Trump’s abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after Saudi Arabia suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, according to two U.S. officials."
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Trump’s abrupt U-turn on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz came after backlash from allies
Saudi Arabia, a key Gulf ally, suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, sources say.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Soon-to-be-fired White House Aide: "Yes, sir, I know how much you admire what Mr. Gentile did, but you can’t give him the Medal of Freedom. Why not just commute his sentence instead? And *please* don’t call his 10,000 victims ‘suckers’ in public. Why? Oh, just trust me.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/05/2026
Trump claims it's unconstitutional to seek congressional authorization for war
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Donald Trump, laughingstock of the world.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
People claiming that Jimmy Kimmel was hoping for the assassination of Donald Trump are so silly. There are PLENTY of ways for Melania to become a widow that wouldn't involve an assassination.
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Andan @andan.naos.org · 28/04/2026
It’s not demonizing if it’s description. If they don’t like those descriptions they could change their behavior and goals.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
THIS.
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