LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh look, robberies are spiking in DC since the arrival of the National Guard. Raddatz doesn't mention that though. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh look, robberies are spiking in DC since the arrival of the National Guard. Raddatz doesn't mention that though. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
How did that work with Obama's birth certificate? Did the allegations stop?
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Is this 1938 Germany? The media is completely broken.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
For that, Democrats will need 60 votes in the Senate too. Come on, let's be realistic here.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
No, she hasn't left her job. She has not resigned and she's fighting the attempt to fire her. Get it right @nytimes.com
Eric Geller (@ericjgeller.com) reposted
Anthropic says a hacker used its Claude chatbot "to an unprecedented degree": Claude identified vulnerable companies, wrote infostealer malware, analyzed stolen files for extortion purposes, calculated extortion amounts, and wrote extortion messages. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
That's DemocratIC Party.
Maryland Democratic Party (@mddems.bsky.social) reposted
For all of the trolls: Wes Moore risked his life in Afghanistan. He earned a Bronze Star. Paperwork delayed it, and the Army fixed it in 2024. Fact. Check. Done. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump votes by mail. www.npr.org/2020/08/19/9...
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Pr...
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Reason #1,003 I no longer subscribe to the WaPo.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Reason #1,001 I canceled my WaPo subscription.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
The IDF has evidence he was the leader of a Hamas terrorist cell.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
That's all good for a sound bite but the mayor of NYC doesn't have the authority to raise taxes without the NY legislator and the governor's approval.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump is so freaking stupid and you can't fix stupid.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
There is an emperor of Japan, but it's a purely ceremonial position.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Jason Furman.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
So what? You guys need to get a grip. Our country is run by a fascist and we're at risk of losing our democracy while you continue to whine about Biden. Enough!
Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) reposted
More data showing that Democrats are in a stronger position right now than the chatter holds....Dems regain advantage in Party ID..... news.gallup.com/poll/692978/...
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
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LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
2/2 the Court can fairly reject many of the defendant's complaints about her conditions of confinement. Simply put, the defendant lies when it suits her."
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
From Ghislaine Maxwell's sentencing memo: "Taken together with the defendant's perjury in her civil deposition, her lies to Pretrial Services, and her blatant lies about her own weight while in BOP custody...
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
More both sides crap which is how we got to where we are today. My God, the media is hopelessly broken!
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm afraid it's time for a wartime consiglieri.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
The entire administration and the Republican Party is a disgrace.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Serious question, is there something wrong with his mouth that makes it look like he's always smirking or is he actually always smirking?
mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) reposted
incredible that mainstream media keeps announcing that the story they "missed" during the election was biden's age, even though it got constant coverage for years, and not "donald trump was close friends with notorious pedophile jeffrey epstein"
Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein.bsky.social) reposted
“We had no idea it was going to do what it did,” said Jeff Howell, the now-retired emergency manager in Yancey County, NC. “We had no reason to believe that this was going to be anything like what’s happened here — none whatsoever,” said Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly. @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
He checked Black/African American as well as Asian.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
The box he checked said "Black or African American". That's pretty clear to most people. He knew he wasn't Black, even at 17.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
America isn't a nation either. Nor is Asia.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
But Mamdani is NOT Black. Ethnicity vs nationality.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
He's not Black. He's not ethnically African. He wasn't even American at the time. His NATIONALITY was African not his ethnicity.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
That's nationality not ethnicity. He's ethnically South Asian.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Center for autism founded in 1955. www.linwoodcenter.org/about/history/
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
That's weird because I had a diagnosed autistic kid in my class in 1966. There was a center for autistic kids in my hometown in the early '60s.
Tim O’Brien (@timobrien.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
We may be witnessing "a bill so ill-timed,ill-designed and predictably harmful to the economy that it will be this era’s Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act,which accelerated the decline during the Great Depression,but has since become a poster child of Congress working against the country’s economic interest."
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Nothing good.
David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) reposted
I’m surprised they didn’t cut to a still shot and “Swan Lake.”
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Then write your own script. Just be careful using a mass marketed script. It doesn't carry as much weight.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't read from a script. Use your own words.
Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) reposted
Integrity. Honor. Decency. Compassion. There was a time when we had all of those traits in our President. Thank you Pres. Biden for taking the time to respect, recognize, and honor the incredible lives of Melissa and Mark Hortman, as well as their beloved Gilbert.
Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene.bsky.social) reposted
If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social)
Thanks Trump.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
He has vitiligo.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
No more running to Kacsmaryk in Texas for a nationwide injunction.
Hillary Rodham Clinton (@hillaryclinton.bsky.social) reposted
Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Mamdani refused to endorse Harris. Never forget.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Miller doesn't care. He has no morals,no empathy. He's a combination of Goebbels, Eichmann and Himmler.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Miller doesn't care, he has the empathy and morals of Adolph Eichmann.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Leavitt is Trump's Leni Riefenstahl
Courtney Nguyen (@fortydeucetwits.bsky.social) reposted
i am BEGGING you before you pop off about paywalls to go to your local library's website and scroll through their digital resources. mine gives me access to NYT, WSJ, WaPo and if its linked with PressReader or a similar app, all the news magazines, sports, fashion, hobby etc. FOR FREE.
Rep. Steven Woodrow (@woodrowforco.bsky.social) reposted
I’ve been saying this for years. Our MSM have failed us miserably. Because while they’re VERY PROFICIENT at holding Democrats accountable, they’re clueless about doing the same for Republicans. It hurts their feelings to point it out, but it’s necessary if they have any hope for improvement.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
“You would never know, as The New York Times churns out its usual policy-option thumb-suckers, that the United States is well down the road to dictatorship at home. That is the context in which a war with Iran will occur.”
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
I would too! What is the name of this law firm @nytimes.com?
John Lewis-Dickerson (@jlewisdickerson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
ARENDT: "The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality. Its most cherished virtue, correspondingly, is loyalty to the Leader, who, like a talisman, assures the ultimate victory...
Lakshya Jain (@lakshya.splitticket.org) reposted reply parent
Seriously, please do not let your brain get suckered into the same garbage that MAGA has fallen victim to. There is no need to go conspiracy-mode for easily explainable stuff. Donald Trump won. Rebekah Jones and the "Election Truth Alliance" are just misunderstanding and bastardizing data.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
It's performance theater from 2024.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Nazis were parents and had children too, even Nazi guards at the extermination camps who sent Jews to their death in the gas chambers.
Matteo Wong (@matteowong.bsky.social) reposted
You would not drive a car that, just once a decade, accelerates instead of braking. But the AI models reshaping the web are that: "a technology that works well enough for users to become dependent, but not consistently enough to be truly dependable." My latest, on the internet's janky AI future:
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Does Fredo even know what the definition of 'mongolid' is?
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
He's as dumb as a box of rocks.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Wasn't it the LA Sheriff's Dept., not the LAPD?
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Here's who helped clean up the Jan 6 mess, Dem Rep (now Senator) Andy Kim.
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted
For the love of god plz SOMEONE in the White House pool report on the legal authority invoked in this memorandum
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
This is exactly what Trump and his Nazi followers want.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, 'The Democrats are in disarray over Biden'. Bet on it.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
I want out of this dystopic alternate timeline.
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
How long until Musk sets up a superpac to defeat GOP House members and Senators voting for Trump's budget bill?😂
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
"Biden was old but governed normally. Trump governs erratically *because* he’s unglued. That’s the true cover-up, one the media is enabling when they seem more concerned with the mental condition of a former president than the escalating madness of the current one."
Bill Press (@billpress.bsky.social) reposted
"The only people left now [in the Republican Party] fit into two categories: either full-blown cultists or moral cowards."- @NormOrnstein.bsky.social bit.ly/Click-2-Listen
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Am I crazy or doesn't the new potential agreement allow enrichment?
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted
WITAODW: Who is the administrator of DOGE’s weed????
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Jeffries: "Every single public poll that has come out since the Trump presidency has had congressional Democrats winning the generic ballot. This is not speculative. In every single high-profile special election Ds have won. So the people are being very clear about who they trust more to govern."
Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
ICE (or maybe DEA? who knows?) shows up again in the same quiet Berkshires town, at a landscaping job site. This time business owners confronted the agents, demanded they show warrants or IDs. The agents refused. “I felt like I was in North Korea,” owner says. www.berkshireeagle.com/news/souther...
April Glick Pulito (@aprilglick.bsky.social) reposted
Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night. When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠
Mediocre melee player (@anchovymelee.bsky.social) reposted
How do famous right-wing influencers actually poll with young men in 2025? Rogan: 27% favorable, 35% unfavorable, 45% don't know/never heard of Theo Von: 21% fav, 16% unfav, 55% dk Andrew Tate: 12% fav, 47% unfav, 36% dk Source: iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/5...
Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) reposted
Pete Hegseth’s Defense Department tried to bar a CNN journalist from serving as a pool reporter for an upcoming foreign trip. Other reporters threatened to boycott the trip. Guess what happened next. The Pentagon caved. Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/pete-hegse...
Jessica Tarlov (@jessicatarlov.bsky.social) reposted
Between this and his West Point address, it’s pretty clear Donald Trump isn’t concerned with the troops and is just in it for himself. No mention of the fallen soldiers from our Commander in Chief.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
As true today as when LBJ first said it: “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
I belong to an internet forum with a lot of older members. The majority appear to get their "news" from YouTube. Terrifiying indeed.
James Fallows (@jfallows.bsky.social) reposted
Re-upping: If *anyone* *anywhere* in US journalism is planning a story this coming week on "Joe Biden's fitness," .. . ... Look at yourself in the mirror and focus on what is happening right now. Our problems, NOW, do not involve Joe Biden.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Fuck Jake Tapper and anyone who amplifies him and his book.
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
My take on the consequences of the media's "original sin." member.democracydocket.com/the-medias-o...
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump is talking about Bill Levitt, the developer and builder who built segregated towns and misappropriated millions from his charitable foundation. He sounds like someone Trump would admire.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh for Pete's sake, AOC is nothing but a performance artist. Give me a freaking break. Let's see her win a state wide contest first.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Reminder, Bill Levitt refused to integrate his housing developments and misappropriated millions from his charitable foundation. Sounds like just the kind of man Trump would admire.
Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) reposted
If you need a little hope this morning
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe take a look at the legislative history of those you are condemning. Funny how Bernie Sanders, Mr. I Named Post Offices, always gets a pass.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
Let's suppose no Democrats have died. The Republicans who didn't vote, voted present and/or voted no would have been under extreme pressure to vote for the bill. Do you really believe they wouldn't have bowed to the pressure? I sure don't.
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.
LauraH (@lauraky.bsky.social) reply parent
😭😭