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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩

@lesleyabravanel.bsky.social

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Blue check Xpat, disco-loving, fascism fighting, ex gossip columnist, author, ghost writer, game show champ, twin mama, Mrs., hot sauce collector, Bloody Mary maven, #TurdReichRedux resistor stuck in Floriduh & can't believe we're doing this again

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · Dec 3

Thanks to Joe Biden, America’s economy is soaring ahead of its rivals www.ft.com/content/1201...

Why America’s economy is soaring ahead of its rivals

The country’s outperformance is rooted in long-term productivity growth that is the envy of the developed world. Could Trump’s policies endanger its lead?

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 17h

Hamas official says disarmament ‘out of the question’:Under the truce deal Israel is supposed to release prisoners, including some serving life sentences for deadly attacks, in exchange for hostages. At least America gets a military base for Hamas funders! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Hamas official says disarmament ‘out of the question’; Israel prepares prisoners for exchange – live

Under the truce deal Israel is supposed to release prisoners, including some serving life sentences for deadly attacks, in exchange for hostages

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 19h

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 19h

“Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened Plaintiff that, were she ever to reveal any of the details of the sexual and physical abuse of her by Defendant Trump,
Plaintiff and her family would be physically harmed if not killed.”
www.scribd.com/doc/31634105...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 19h

Reminder that this baseless indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James is part of Donald Trump’s corrupt weaponization of the criminal justice system against anyone who has sought to hold him accountable.

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 19h

Trump is following the authoritarian playbook by the letter. He plans to invoke the insurrection act and normalize the deployment of troops to his enemies.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h

Children that were kidnapped by invading Russian barbarians, not displaced.

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 19h

Halloween trick-or-treaters may be coming home empty-handed thanks to Trump's tariff war.

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 19h

The facts are there- Republicans are trying to take away the healthcare of millions to fund tax breaks for their rich friends.

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 19h

#NeverForget, and thank you President Biden.

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 20h

Market sell-off: Trump post lops off $2 trillion from stocks in a single day www.cnbc.com/2025/10/11/t...

Market sell-off: Trump post lops off $2 trillion from stocks in a single day

The unraveling shows the sway the president's one-man trade policy still has over the fate of the global economy.

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 20h

Trump admin 'treating national security like a timeshare' after Qatar-Idaho defense bombshell www.alternet.org/msn-uk/trump...

Trump admin 'treating national security like a timeshare' after Qatar-Idaho defense bombshell

Saying Qatar has played a "core part" in securing the impending Gaza peace deal, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Friday morning the creation of a new Qatari airforce facility in Idaho, acc...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 20h

Trump in Wonderland: the MAGA Universe and Chaos as a Charade lavocedinewyork.com/en/politics-...

Trump in Wonderland: the MAGA Universe and Chaos as a Charade

Donald Trump is the first president in American history to live in a parallel universe of his own making. A

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 20h

Conservatives want an ‘All American’ alternative to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show. Can you say Hispanophobia? www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Commentary: Conservatives want an 'All American' alternative to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show. Can you say Hispanophobia?

Let’s just call the Bad Bunny brouhaha what it really is: Politicians and their pundits leveraging Hispanophobia for votes, influence and donations.

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 20h

Why MAGA’s Bullying Will Fail www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Video: Opinion | Why MAGA’s Bullying Will Fail

The Opinion columnist David French breaks down how Trump and his supporters are using familiar pressure — and what backlash it could spark — at the round table in this week’s episode of “The Opinions....

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 20h

Wake up, MAGA: Trump’s disapproval rating is a real problem thehill.com/opinion/camp...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 20h

Maga row over Trump giving Qatar military facility in US: Criminal US president criticised by Republican supporters for allowing ‘foreign military base on American soil’ www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/...

Maga row over Trump giving Qatar military facility in US

US president criticised by Republican supporters for allowing ‘foreign military base on American soil’

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 20h

Pizzagate Guy Compares Trump Fighting Antifa to Rise of Hitler newrepublic.com/post/201521/... via @newrepublic

Pizzagate Guy Compares Trump Fighting Antifa to Rise of Hitler

Jack Posobiec’s comment was a little too on the nose.

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 20h

Pity poor Trump, whose Nobel hopes were dashed by common sense www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pity poor Trump, whose Nobel hopes were dashed by common sense | Dave Schilling

Maga supporters are upset the president didn’t receive the peace prize. One thing’s for sure: it’s all about him

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 20h

THIS WILL BE GOOD FOR AN ALREADY SHITTY ECONOMY: Trump administration begins laying off federal workers amid shutdown. More than 4000 positions will be eliminated across agencies, the government told a court Friday night. wapo.st/4mUH2s1

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 21h

Trump, convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, issues a Columbus Day proclamation to 'reclaim' the explorer's legacy of raping and pillaging www.npr.org/2025/10/11/n...

Trump issues a Columbus Day proclamation to 'reclaim' the explorer's legacy

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans.

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 21h

‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing. Convicted felon rapist Donald J(Effrey Epstein) Trump and his Maga allies have used the rightwing influencer’s killing to justify attacks on critics, experts say www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing

The president and his Maga allies have used the rightwing influencer’s killing to justify attacks on critics, experts say

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 21h

This can't be sitting well with MAGA Mengele and the rest of his antivax clowns: www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 1d

'Inconsistent with our core belief': This university is the first to reject Trump’s 'compact' www.alternet.org/news-politic...

'Inconsistent with our core belief': This university is the first to reject Trump’s 'compact'

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology became the first school to publicly reject President Donald Trump's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," which offered "preferential access ...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 1d

'Will come back to bite them': MAGA senator floating idea Republicans once vehemently opposed www.alternet.org/maga-filibus...

'Will come back to bite them':MAGA senator floating idea Republicans once vehemently opposed

Despite calls in 2024 for Senate Democrats to finally end the filibuster, it never happened. And now MAGA Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) is floating the idea to do just that despite Republican c...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 1d

The Candidate Caught in a Nazi Porn Scandal Is Today’s GOP Personified: He is the second Republican to be engulfed in a Nazi porn scandal in just over a year newrepublic.com/article/2015... via @newrepublic

The Candidate Caught in a Nazi Porn Scandal Is Today’s GOP Personified

Meet John Reid, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia. There’s a lot to learn.

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