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Lorri Mitchell

@sweetilla.bsky.social
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Proud Minnesotan. Wife, mom, grandma, retired educator, fly fishing, biking, tree planting, walk abouts in the woods, river monitoring and lots more outside stuff. Yah, love my naughty Golden Retriever.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 9h
3 kids and one other have been killed at an elementary school in Oregon. Kids should be picking out Halloween costumes—not hiding from a gunman. Our kids deserve leaders who will do everything they can to keep them safe from gun violence. Inaction is not an option.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h
{gift link} wapo.st/4yiUDPx
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is such a stupid, shameless lie for *many* reasons . . . But does this dishonest idiot think parents would watch their child get on a school bus on Monday and not even think to question their whereabouts until they showed up again on Thursday? What a fool.
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Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer.com · 15/10/2026
Today began the UK rape trial of the actor Russell Brand. Which reminded me of the time last year when DOJ official Ed Martin boasted to X about hanging out with this accused sexual predator—while he was awaiting trial. youtube.com/shorts/cMNn6...
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Russell Brand trial begins
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
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John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Six days after ICE shot him in the Bronx, Oscar Belgal remains in MDC Brooklyn, and still hasn’t gotten surgery to remove the bullet in his neck. “He has experienced a loss of sensation in half of his face, as well as hearing loss in his left ear.” Gift link: www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/14/l...
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ICE never identified themselves during NYC shooting of Oscar Belgal, who still has bullet in neck: lawyers
The Legal Aid Society, which now represents the 28-year-old father, filed a habeas corpus petition in Brooklyn Federal Court Wednesday, seeking his “immediate release on reasonable conditions.”
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Good story in WaPo. Excellent ruling from Judge Ana Reyes. Remember these names, Gregory WISCHER and Jessica BOWRON, as you would Quisling. They approved turning hundreds of towering trees into woodchips. fallows.substack.com/p/barbarians... www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...
washingtonpost.com
In blistering ruling, judge says Trump’s golf plans spurred ‘breakneck’ tree removal
A federal judge rejected the administration’s rationale for cutting down trees and ordered it to stop until she conducts more hearings.
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Lorri Mitchell @sweetilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I guess we know what she does with her spare time!
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 14/10/2026
HHS gave disabled CDC and NIH employees 20 days to submit medical documentation for our reasonable accommodation requests. We submitted it on time. We have receipts. And HHS closed our cases anyway, claiming our documentation was missing. Now we're left in limbo.
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HHS scraps disability accommodations over missing paperwork. Employees say they have receipts 
A union leader for CDC headquarters employees said the Health and Human Services Department closing out these accommodation requests was “a deliberate choice to clear the backlog."
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Kacey Musgraves with the lethal clap back to Kristi Noem. 😂😂
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“This makes plain the implicit quid pro quo in these lucrative deals offered to Trump’s family and friends: If you compel Ukraine to surrender, we will enrich you beyond reckoning…Putin is attempting to leverage…Trump’s weakness for corruption.” (Gift article) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin
The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.
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Lorri Mitchell @sweetilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You get those commercials too? 🤭
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If you don't live in DC, may be hard to appreciate scale of nihilist, grifter-based desecration of what has always distinguished the nation's capital, and what so many people have worked so hard for so long to sustain and improve. Backhoe-based counterpart to wartime damage we see in news footage.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The United States is now importing fuel from Russia, per President Trump.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
STATEMENT OF ABBE LOWELL AND NORM EISEN, COUNSEL FOR FED GOVERNOR LISA COOK, IN RESPONSE TO WHITE HOUSE "HEARING" ANNOUNCEMENT
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nothing pithy or view-from-nowhere-journalisty to say about this. Pete Hegseth needs to be removed from public office, at a bare minimum, and as soon as possible.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Joel Pett
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Most people use AmEX for the points. In the Amb. Kimberly Guilfoyle texts, it's so the money "won't show" I was an ambassador myself & I've never seen anything like this She denies it, but you can smell this one from Athens! More on @CNN.com 👇
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 $𝟒𝟔𝟒 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐦 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐎𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭🚨 Autocratic regimes are marked by massive corruption. Republicans are corruptly wasting billions of our taxpayer money on #IceLawlessness, like this fleet of useless & overpriced planes which was a giant kick back for a donor.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jesus Christ
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Martin Soto went out for diapers. He came home eight months later.
The asylum seeker, who led a hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE facility, was released with an ankle monitor late Tuesday.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Mr. Hearn was deprived of his liberty, indicted for a crime he didn't commit, threatened w/ incarceration of up to 10 years & endured defaming of his name" Former Olympian charged w/ discredited Reflecting Pool criminal case asks for Dept of Interior watchdog probe of agency
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump: "My Rally crowds & enthusiasm are unbelievable! Nobody has seen anything like it. We are flipping races all over... the Dumocrats never counted on this. Thanks you to the great Networks covering the Rallies in full. They are being rewarded with BIG RATINGS. Watch for the 'Midterm Surprise!'"
Trump: "My Rally crowds and enthusiasm are unbelievable! Nobody has ever seen anything like it. We are flipping races all over the place. The Fake News knows it, but they don’t want to be truthful with their viewers. It’s all happening! The Dumocrats never counted on this. Thanks you to the great Networks that are covering the Rallies in full. They are being rewarded with BIG RATINGS. Watch for the 'Midterm Surprise!' President DJT"
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Stadtmueller, a Reagan appointee in Wisconsin, orders the release of an ICE detainee in part because of the "systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a community note for the ages.
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🚨 Suicide. RIGHT. Simon Andriesz proved Lutnick lied about the close relationship AFTER the pedo sex trafficker's conviction. 🧾 www.thebanker.com/content/0228... 👉 How US commerce secretary's #Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower 🧾 BBC: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies
The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No could possibly have predicted that Trump calling Democrats “sons of bitches” would not be on today’s front page of the NYT, & Jake Tapper would be platforming Kevin Hassett to lie with impunity on the Sunday shows. 🧐🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️
NYT front page 10/4Hassett and Tapper on CNN today
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Susan Collins chairs the committee that writes ICE's budget. ICE's two biggest jailers both send her campaign checks. She's one of nine. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Jon Husted voted for $45 billion in ICE detention money on July 1. Nine weeks later, CoreCivic's CEO maxed out to his campaign. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Subverting democracy isn't new to John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney Barrett. All three were on George W. Bush's "Florida Recount Team," which lay the groundwork for stopping vote counting in Florida—and Bush v. Gore, the politically-motivated SCOTUS decision that gave Bush the election.
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Interviewee at The Bulwark argued recently one of Vance’s most important projects is to signal to MAGA base that—despite being married to the daughter of immigrants and the father of mixed kids—he, too, is a true believer in the myth that immigration poses an existential threat to white America.
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ellenahzulu.bsky.social @ellenahzulu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BOTH OF MISSOURI'S SENATORS LYING ABOUT JACK SMITH ON THE SAME DAY. "...Hawley said Smith went through Melania Trump’s “personal drawers.” But Smith was appointed special counsel months after the Aug. 8, 2022, FBI search of Mar-a-Lago in connection with the classified documents scandal..."
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Lorri Mitchell @sweetilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Examples? And what would you say to parents who are seeking a safe space for their children and young teens who are online?
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a good day to google "Foxconn," "Wisconsin," "Trump," "2018," "13,000 jobs" and "didn't happen, didn't even come close"
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"To say that we're gob smacked is an understatement" Cultural Landscape Foundation blisters Team Trump for shutting down public comment on Trump Monumental Arch Group says Trump Admin has deemed 1000's of public concerns about Arch to be "meaningless, unimportant & of no value whatsoever"
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Grassley has repeatedly made clear to Iowa GOP grandees that in the event of his death in office, he expects his grandson and designated heir, Pat Grassley, speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives, to succeed to his senate seat. Applying the principle of dynastic succession.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Also, hoo boy.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Possibly the best example of American democracy and governance in the era of Trump.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 23/09/2026
The ICE officer who shot a Venezuelan man in Austin was not using a body camera during the Sunday incident, according to news reports. The officer was issued a body camera, but it is unclear why he was not wearing the device during the shooting.
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Reports: ICE officer in Austin shooting was not wearing body cam
The recent ICE recruit was issued a body camera, reports said. It’s not clear why he was not using the device during the Sunday shooting.
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Ray Steele @raysteelenews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Also, @cnn.com says some of its staff also were denied access to the White House this morning by the Secret Service.
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Spencer Green @spencergreen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think Trump really believed that by banning CNN from the White House, its reporters were no longer able to cover any others events where he appeared. Because he's bat-shit crazy.
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I will never get over how incredibly stupid this is. Do they not know what risk pools are? Do they not know what insurance is???
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
war criminal admitting war crimes in an undeclared by Congress war that was not in fact a war except when he wants to call it a war
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/09/2026
Today, Country First released a new ad. I'm a veteran, and I won't stand by while Trump turns our Military into a political weapon. Troops don't belong at polling locations. Yet Trump refuses to rule it out. Keeping our Military away from the Ballot Box isn't partisan, It's American.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Did you know ICE is detaining 12 Somalis at Guantanamo Bay? One of them has two traffic tickets. The worst of the worst. Take a look at Substack: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 19/09/2026
22 of our servicemembers have been killed in Trump's illegal war. Not 18 like we were told. The Pentagon hid four more heroes' deaths from us for months. Congress cannot let them get away with this. I wrote a bill we can pass to stop this egregious playbook immediately.
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
1) untrue 2) that would only be true in a national economic crisis
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it.
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cornplanter's letter is available on the website of the National Archives (although perhaps not for long!) founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Now hearing that Kennedy Center employees have been told they will be teleworking for the next 7 days.
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