Alexandra Acker-Lyons
@alackerlyons.bsky.social
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Political dork, Democrats, repro rights, women, democracy. Avid reader. Mom. Colorado.
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alackerlyons.bsky.social
Seems to be thinking about his mortality a lot more....
alackerlyons.bsky.social
This is excellent. Articulates what so many of us are thinking.
brianbeutler.bsky.social
A reader recently emailed me a question I've been asked 100 times: How do we—the little guys—turn the tide. It got me thinking about a related but in some sense more challenging question: What would a national resistance that we could place our faith in look like? www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-rev...
alackerlyons.bsky.social
PoliticAL Update 10.10.25: youtu.be/cMWpsEmo-Vo
TN-7. Lots of Senate news and Matt Yglesias' piece sounding the alarm again. Groups and funders are ready for the fake Antifa crackdown. Norway has a sense of humor. And The Daily Show makes me buy an inflatable dinosaur.
PoliticAL Update 10.10.25: Democrats must win the Senate
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sifill.bsky.social
“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.

NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize
alackerlyons.bsky.social
A Latina leader from Venezuela gets the Nobel Peace Prize instead of the orange monster? Poetic justice. Norway has a sense of humor.
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thedailyshow.com
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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newyorkstateag.bsky.social
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
alackerlyons.bsky.social
More this, please.
schumer.senate.gov
The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:
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vanhollen.senate.gov
They are stealing taxpayer dollars from blue states because Democrats in Congress refuse to give Trump a blank check for his authoritarianism.

Corruption. Coercion. Blackmail. Lawlessness. 

I won’t bend the knee to a wannabe dictator and his cronies. We will prevail.
alackerlyons.bsky.social
And that should be the message instead of just ACA subsidies.
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thebulwark.com
Republicans are heading into the government shutdown "with a big, brazen lie. The lie is so big and so brazen that it’s almost not worth addressing, because doing so gives the claim far more credibility than it deserves." Almost.

NEW from @citizencohn.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...
The Republican Shutdown Argument is a Giant Lie
No, Democrats aren’t trying to fund health care for “illegal aliens.”
www.thebulwark.com
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donmoyn.bsky.social
This is absolutely a lie. There is no reason shutdowns trigger layoffs. They never have before. Trump is simply using the shutdown as an excuse to take federal employees hostages and to further gut the government.
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atrupar.com
Trump: "When you shut it down, you have to do layoffs. So, we'd be laying off a lot of people that are going to be very affected, and they're gonna be Democrats."
alackerlyons.bsky.social
PoliticAL Update 9.26.25: youtu.be/VesQa-F2gPw Under the weather. Under the radar: GA Public Service Commission, PA Supreme Court, VA state house women. Do what you can in NJ. WE ARE IN IT. And Connie Britton!
PoliticAL Update 9.26.25: Under the weather and under the radar
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thebulwark.com
Lindsey Halligan after Mar-a-Lago was raided:

“It's up to the sitting president to ensure that our criminal system does not unravel into retaliatory or political prosecutions of former presidents and other government officials.”
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darthbluesky.bsky.social
LOOOOOOOL
atrupar.com
Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
alackerlyons.bsky.social
PoliticAL Update 9.20.25: youtu.be/759BV-89mtg A day late due to some tech issues. Democracy - oy. Republicans get some good candidates. More scary fallout from Charlie Kirk's assassination. Kamala spills the tea. And The Word is back!
PoliticAL Update 9.20.25: Democracy. Oy.
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realmaplesyrup.bsky.social
I just cancelled Disney+ and paid about $150 to purchase every single episode of Bluey from another streaming platform. TBH Blue is 75% of the television my family watches anyway.
alackerlyons.bsky.social
If all these conglomerate-owned streamers keep capitulating to authoritarianism, there will be nothing left to watch.
alackerlyons.bsky.social
Because voters will really care about this in 14 months
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish.

The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.
‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts
Social media accounts that appear to be connected to the 16-year-old shooter are littered with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views, The Denver Post found.
www.denverpost.com
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nberlat.bsky.social
wrote about Charlie Kirk's history of promoting political violence. if you want to oppose political violence, you need to repudiate the attack on Kirk, but you also need to be honest about what he advocated for, and not celebrate that. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/whitewashi...
Whitewashing Charlie Kirk Promotes Political Violence
The murder of Kirk was evil. Lying about him is also wrong.
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