Laurie Mann (@lauriemann.bsky.social)
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Worst US Presidents Donald Trump (47) Donald Trump (45) Andrew Johnson George W. Bush
Laurie Mann (@lauriemann.bsky.social) reply parent
It certainly would have been odd in the past. But under the Trump regime itās just Wednesday.
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He always makes threats even when he canāt possibly pull them off.
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The cowards always want to rewrite history rather than deal with the truth - The US turned away Jewish people to their deaths in the '30s and '40s, we had hundreds of years of legal slavery, women deserve full equal rights and have had them taken away under Republicans.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
So Trump is āvettingā museums. starting with the Holocaust Museum exhibit that calls out America for shutting the door on Jewish refugees. Erasing history is the oldest authoritarian play in the book. "He who controls the past controls the future" - George Orwell
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Yet more evidence that most people in the Trump regime are compulsive liars: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/h...
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True. The Trump Regime is incapable of telling the truth about anything.
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Yet more genuinely disgusting behavior by the Trump regime.
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Yet another example of the fact that Republicans always lie.
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It's also independent of any whims of the federal government.
Laurie Mann (@lauriemann.bsky.social)
We spent a few days at DisneyWorld in 1992 with our daughter, then 11. Since then, weāve focused more on Europe (as weāre history buffs). While we can enjoy traveling, weāll go to Europe, Australia, New Zealand & Hawaii and try some more cruises. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) reposted
Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who chose to break into an unauthorized area during an insurrection against the repeated warnings of law enforcement. She ignored those warnings and got killed through no one's fault but her own. She was a traitor. She doesn't deserve full military honors.
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Fascism at work
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RFKJR - itās the easy availability of guns
Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted
Saying you need an AR-15 to hunt is like saying you need dynamite to fish. Stop the nonsense.
Laurie Mann (@lauriemann.bsky.social) reply parent
We don't have decent gun laws on the federal level due to Republican inaction.
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Talk about a waste of money. Of course DOGE said nothing.
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Trump always chose the worst possible people for any major post in his regime, but the Republican Congress approved of all of them (and passed his Big, Bad Bill).
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Limiting who can get the COVID vaccine is yet another dangerous action by the science-hating Trump regime. The death rate from COVID dropped after the vaccine became widely available in 2021. If I have to go to Canada to get the vaccine in the future itāll be worth the trip.
Laurie Mann (@lauriemann.bsky.social)
Iāve been doing a lot of digital photography over the last 25 years. Managed to corrupt my Photos file about a year ago. Luckily had copies of them in iCloud. Should FINALLY have all my digital photos copied back to my laptop today
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Which include at least 3 of my ancestors in colonial Massachusetts and another one in about 1810 in New Hampshire. That was a disappointment to learn.
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There were also many slaveholders, especially in the north, who āonlyā had one or two enslaved people.
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Well, no. The Salem Witch Trials were caused by hysteria. Epstein & Maxwell were convicted of crimes.
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nolongerslowblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/whow...
Laurie Mann (@lauriemann.bsky.social)
I am getting old. #Worldcon was exhausting even though I mostly just sat at the FANAC table. I made it to at least six evening parties, six more parties than I had last year. Had some great dinners along the way. Our luggage got "lost" for the 2nd year in a row...it may be delivered tonight.
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An Epstein a day scares Trump & the Congress away.
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How true. John Roberts helped to lead ten useful decisions over the years but led an amazing number of bad decisions.
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Trump already did.
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Republicans spent years trying to kill the Affordable Care Act which most Americans liked. In 2017 & 2025 GOP passed massive tax bills that will hurt the poor and working classes while letting the rich pay a lower taxes. Republicans are "hitched" to these terrible bills BECAUSE THEY PASSED THEM.
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News 7/7/25 MSN: "That 2018 midterm election led to a GOP wipeout in the House, with the party losing 40 seats, including some districts in Trump-leaning territory," according to the outlet. "Democrats are planning to again hitch vulnerable Republicans to the cuts to social safety-net programs.""
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Under Trump, no Republicans will ever be held accountable even when people die.
Isabel Santos (@isabelsantos.bsky.social) reposted
Black women were a vital part of the American West, often working as ranch hands, drovers, and early rodeo performers. Though largely erased from mainstream history, women like Mary āStagecoach Maryā Fields broke barriers with courage and grit. They werenāt just helpingāthey were leading.
Liam Proven (@lproven.bsky.social) reposted
Recent droughts are 'slow-moving global catastrophe' - UN report buff.ly/x5wPSob From Somalia to mainland Europe, the past two years have seen some of the most ravaging droughts in recorded history, made worse by climate change, according to a UN-backed report.
Laurie Mann (@lauriemann.bsky.social) reply parent
Same thing happened in Nazi Germany in the 1930s & 40s. Facts did not matter - only Hitlerās declarations mattered.
George Monbiot (@georgemonbiot.bsky.social) reposted
Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.
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When Iām home for the Fourth, I usually watch 1776. I think when I get home, Iām going to watch 1776 & Hamilton on the same day.
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Summer (or "four years") of Oligarchy
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Only MAGAts ever called Trump's dreadful tax-the-poor, give-to-the-rich bill "Beautiful." It was the "Big Bad Bill". It's going to hurt many of the people who voted for him who are poor-middle class while helping his wealthy supporters. The rich sucking up money from people poorer than themselves.
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I made a donation & voted for him. Heād been a decent mayor of a small city. But heās been a poor Democratic senator. Iām not voting for him again.
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As is usual, Republicans work hard to protect dying industries while hamstringing forward-thinking, less polluting industries like solar & wind. Theyāll bring back woodcutters since people heated their homes & cooked their food using wood for thousands of years. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/c...
Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted
Take your masks off ICE, show us how proud you are adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
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Our government is truly SICK!
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Though if weāre now stuck going to war, it would be good to have some competent soldiers in place.
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Republicans always lie.
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Trump lies compulsively.
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That was sure different in 1974...sigh.
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Leave it to any Republican politician.
Paula Poundstone (@paulapoundstone.bsky.social) reposted
The Republican bill that takes heath care from millions is still hanging over our heads.
Laurie Mann (@lauriemann.bsky.social)
I put up a post that seemed bad enough to be real, but it turned out to be false according to Snopes. My apologies.
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We used to joke about "FloriduhMan" on Facebook...sounds like "TexasMan" needs to be added.
Laurie Mann (@lauriemann.bsky.social)
I've been taking a vacation from America for a few weeks. We got home Friday evening, so yesterday was the exhausting day of laundry, shopping, lawn mowing...so my protest right now is online only. nolongerslowblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/i-wi...
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Sick puppy.
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (@pressley.house.gov) reposted
šØUPDATE: Rümeysa Ćztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medicationsāa violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
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Donāt holdbyour breath.
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Yet another clueless Republican
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Republicans always lie
Laurie Mann (@lauriemann.bsky.social) reply parent
Sad but true. Hopefully he wonāt start a war to use lots of props.
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Canāt think of any Democrats whoād agree with that.
Kolchak (@kolchak.bsky.social) reposted
Cory Booker showing Chuck Schumer how to tell the people you hear them.
BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan.bsky.social) reposted
HOLY SHIT, IT'S 1:45AM AND SENATOR CORY BOOKER IS STILL ON THE SENATE FLOOR, DISRUPTING SHIT!!!! THIS IS WHAT WE NEED!!! THANK YOU, SEN. BOOKER!!! ššŖ
Laurie Mann (@lauriemann.bsky.social) reply parent
Republican politicians always lie.
PINO FOTUS (@pino-fotus.bsky.social) reposted
Please call your own Senators and request they join Cory Booker in this filibuster. He says he'll go into the morning and as far into the afternoon as he can, so anyone we can force into showing some moral courage can jump in when he's exhausted. Find their direct number hereā¦
Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) reposted
GO CORY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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MAGAts are imbeciles!
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Nepotism
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And Canada. Trump will start singing āBlame Canadaā ant minute now,
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How many Yemeni terrorists are there in North America???
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The rules are always different for white, male Republicans.
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The problem is about 1/3rd of Americans are getting exactly the government they wanted.
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Only Republicans
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The rules are always different for white, male Republicans.
Laurie Mann (@lauriemann.bsky.social) reply parent
He should never have won the Cabinet position. B
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Trump was looking for candidates stupider than he is.
Sari Beth Rosenberg (@sari.bsky.social) reposted
All of these mediocre white male diversity hires arenāt really working out for us, eh?
Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted
I feel confident in predicting history will judge this decade or so as the absolutely stupidest time in American history. Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.
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Tea party was not grass roots as it got plenty of cash from conservative dark money groups.
Clara Jeffery (@clarajeffery.bsky.social) reposted
This is incredibly insane and dangerous on so many fronts www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
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Deep enough to know whether Putin is circumcised or notā¦
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Hellacious, though we already knew how deep Trump was in Putinās pocket.
Martha Wells (@marthawells.com) reposted
On April 5, weāre uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trumpās unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/JVgfBFpQ
Laurie Mann (@lauriemann.bsky.social)
The āWhereās My Refundā thatās worked for years & seemed OK a few days ago now isnāt working. Itās a really minor thing butā¦itās yet another sign that the Trump/Musk regime is not working.
Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted
Whereās the uh, whereās the 1) Kennedy files 2) UFO proof 3) Epstein files 4) proof of chemtrails 5) and so on Also, why am i not in jail yet? So many people promised i would be. Hmm Itās like they were lied to
Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted
Iām so tired of hearing Rubio & other rightwingers now claiming that if youāre on a green card youāre a āguestā in this country. BS. Youāre a lawful permanent resident. The clue is in the name. If someone is a permanent resident in your home, are they the same as the guests who come and go? Come on.
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It canāt happen soon enough
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Disgusting but not surprising. Republicans donāt give a damn about the truth.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
I remember when Schumer refused to bring the Military Justice Improvement Act to the floor. It had 66 yes votes. I never got an answer as to why. They ended up watering it down and folding it into the NDAA.
Laurie Mann (@lauriemann.bsky.social)
Have my post cards to Donnie ready to go, though I know theyāll arrive a little late:
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Whatās really going on at Meta: www.huffpost.com/entry/meta-t...
Ricky Davila (@therickydavila.bsky.social) reposted
Iāll always be on the side of Congresswoman Sarah McBride. Bigots can go to hell.
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In every way possible, he's adolescent idiot.
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
āwe have to be able to commit war crimes to win warsā is the type of thing a 16-year-old dumbass says and ā well, yeah, hegseth is basically a 16-year-old dumbass
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No magic in Mike at all.
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Itās back from having a strong economy with rational people in charge.