Author | Lightnews

Reposted by Liz

Kim @kimoco.bsky.social · 8h

This is what it used to look like inside the lobby area.

30 210 690

Reposted by Liz

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 14h

He bulldozed the White House during a government shutdown to build himself a ballroom, then sent a letter to the states saying that SNAP benefits for 42 million people may not go out in November to those who rely on it to eat.

230 1.8K 4.4K

Liz @lizziejp1.bsky.social · 5h

What. The. Fuck.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

The destruction of the White House is such an ungodly abomination that, of course, the New York Jets are involved.

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 7h

Alphabet
Altria
Amazon
Apple
Blackstone
Booz Allen Hamilton
Carrier
Caterpillar
Coinbase
Comcast
Google
Hard Rock International
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin
Meta
Microsoft
New York Jets
OpenAI
Palantir
Reynolds American
Ripple
Roblox
T-Mobile
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tether
Union Pacific Railroad

1

Reposted by Liz

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11h

BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says in a social media post the U.S. military conducted its eighth strike against an alleged drug vessel, this time in the Pacific Ocean.

Trump administration announces another strike on alleged drug-carrying boat, in the Pacific Ocean

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. military has conducted its eighth strike against an alleged drug vessel.

bit.ly

66 48 110

Reposted by Liz

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

Awful: Trump's $230 million shakedown from DOJ can be paid to him confidentially at first, without the public ever finding out about it until later, Rep Jamie Raskin tells me.

Raskin will formally demand full communications between WH and DOJ on this.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2021...

Trump’s Vile New $230 Million Shakedown of DOJ Just Got Even Worse

It’s bad enough that Trump wants—and DOJ will likely fork over—this tribute payment. Now, get this: It can probably be done at first without even being revealed publicly.

newrepublic.com

60 570 1.3K

Reposted by Liz

Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 12h

The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

160 1.5K 4.1K

Reposted by Liz

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

1.2K 2.8K 5.7K

Reposted by Liz

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

New reporting reveals Trump is demanding $230 million from the taxpayers as compensation for investigations into him by the DOJ.

4 25 43

Liz @lizziejp1.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Senator!

KOIN 6 News @koin6.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH LIVE: Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley is holding the floor of the Senate to denounce authoritarianism.

Merkley holds Senate floor to denounce authoritarianism

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley is holding the floor of the Senate to denounce authoritarianism.

www.koin.com

1

Reposted by Liz

Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 1d

That's great!

Here's the link to Senator Merkley's YouTube channel and the live feed happening now:
www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

130 1.6K 4.3K

Reposted by Liz

tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 1d

480 2.2K 3.6K

Reposted by Liz

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

Just a reminder that — in the middle of a shutdown — House Republicans are on a paid vacation solely to avoid releasing the Epstein files and lowering your health care costs.

59 870 3K

Reposted by Liz

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 1d

is organizations, both local and national have the opportunity to direct people to take further steps. Tonight @indivisible.org and its many partners are hosting a followup organizing call that anyone can attend to channel that energy into organizing power. So that's one pathway people can take

Mass Call: What's Next After No Kings? · No Kings

No Kings will be massive, powerful, and meaningful - but it won’t be the end of our work. Join movement leaders and fellow local activists after the big day to come together, celebrate what we accompl...

www.mobilize.us

1 20 51

Reposted by Liz

Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

970 7.9K 15K

Liz @lizziejp1.bsky.social · 1d

Clearly taking a page from their cult leader

Reposted by Liz

Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 2d

*This* is the story of the GOP — pedophiles (& protectors of them), incels, violent abusers of women, closet cases, fascists...cruel, disturbed men, broken by repression & "faith", taking it out on US.

They *cultivate* each other's deviance, knowing they can blackmail each other.
🧾 is.gd/Omtp56

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 2d

WTAF? What did I just read @swin24.bsky.social?

This. Cannot. Be. Real? Can it? 🤢 open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

☕ What’s the Tea?
Trump kept trying to get his ‘Project 2025’ architect laid!
Over the weekend, Zeteo’s newest political reporter, Swin Suebsaeng, sent me the latest scoop he’s got from inside the weird Trump administration and, well, wait for it:

By mid-2024, Donald Trump and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought were talking on the phone fairly regularly. But it often wasn’t about policy. Trump – when he had downtime from campaigning and plotting his fascist presidency – appeared preoccupied with getting the recently divorced Vought laid, two knowledgeable sources tell me. Trump spoke to Vought, a self-described Christian nationalist who’s now one of the president’s most hardline enforcers, about the “gorgeous” and “beautiful ladies” who roam Trump’s club, Mar-a-Lago, so often that it “weirded out” some of his advisers, in one source’s words. Trump offered to be Vought’s wingman. And Trump spoke crudely of all the “pussy” that Vought would surely get as the president’s favorite “bachelor.”

OK, now I need to go take a shower. Ugh!

3 22 62

Reposted by Liz

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

Here’s the other big problem: Treasury Secretary Bessent is sitting on a massive Epstein file containing thousands more bank documents that would help us continue to follow the money through his sex trafficking ring.

71 980 3.6K

Reposted by Liz

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

Banks are required by law to flag suspicious transactions right away so law enforcement can stop monsters like Epstein. JPMC is one of several banks that willingly chose not to alert law enforcement about Epstein's money laundering and trafficking payments.

21 620 3K

Reposted by Liz

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

In September, we got new explosive details about JP Morgan’s deep relationship with Epstein. The reports contained shocking details about how bank execs blew off internal warnings for years to keep Epstein on as a client, enabling his trafficking.

25 690 2.9K

Reposted by Liz

TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 2d

🚨🗳️NEW JERSEY UNRETURNED DEM MAIL BALLOTS🗳️🚨

10/20/25 Update:

Requested - 527,628
Returned - 225,251
Outstanding - 302,377

This is crunch time, NJ Dems. There are still over 300K mail ballots not yet returned. Some are in the mail. Others are still sitting on coffee tables. We need every last vote.

5 23 42

Reposted by Liz

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

www.nytimes.com

320 3.3K 9.3K

Reposted by Liz

Montclair Dems @montclairdems.bsky.social · 3d

Go #Mikie! #NoKings and #NoJacks. #voteblue

7 14

Liz @lizziejp1.bsky.social · 3d

Dammit

Reposted by Liz

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 3d

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯

Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚

And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋

youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

YouTube KidZuko clips of the first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow. Both of the clips have over 400,000 views each

52 2.2K 6.8K

Liz @lizziejp1.bsky.social · 3d

That vote is not gonna get itself out - hit the phones! Knock on doors!