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lawrencecp.bsky.social @lawrencecp.bsky.social · 13h

A World Series for trump to hate: a team from a blue city in a blue state vs. a team from Canada - the would-be 51st state that wouldn't play ball with him. Go Baseball!

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lawrencecp.bsky.social @lawrencecp.bsky.social · 13h

Go Canada!

Analysis | Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll

lawrencecp.bsky.social @lawrencecp.bsky.social · 1d

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Just a reminder: trump is a convicted rapist.

What the jury found Donald Trump did to E. Jean Carroll was in fact rape, as commonly understood, even if it didn't fit New York law's narrow definition, says Judge Lewis A. Kaplan.

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

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lawrencecp.bsky.social @lawrencecp.bsky.social · 2d

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trump diplomacy: only trump matters

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

Opinion | I resigned from the military because of Trump

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"

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lawrencecp.bsky.social @lawrencecp.bsky.social · 4d

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I could not swear to follow a commander in chief who seems so willing to disregard the Constitution.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

lawrencecp.bsky.social @lawrencecp.bsky.social · 4d

says it all

lawrencecp.bsky.social @lawrencecp.bsky.social · 7d

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Amerika

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7d

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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lawrencecp.bsky.social @lawrencecp.bsky.social · 11d

trump gives new/old meaning to "White House"

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Opinion | Trump’s Louis XIV Moment

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lawrencecp.bsky.social @lawrencecp.bsky.social · 17d

"Trump is refashioning the presidential residence into a palace; our democracy is now a members-only club."

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Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

lawrencecp.bsky.social @lawrencecp.bsky.social · 17d

History tends to repeat itself.
Just sayin'.

lawrencecp.bsky.social @lawrencecp.bsky.social · 20d

I can't imagine those trump2028 hats didn't make vance uncomfortable, too.

lawrencecp.bsky.social @lawrencecp.bsky.social · 20d

oh, amerika

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USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

Trump’s escalating attacks on vaccines shock public health leaders

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27d

Trump pushed Kimmel into going full resistance lib for the biggest audience he will ever have. Another masterclass from the president.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27d

Kimmel is not holding back on Trump at all

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 27d

I remember when the press was on a weeks-long feeding frenzy because of concerns over the (former) president’s mental state. That concern seems gone 🙄🙄🙄

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27d

Kimmel's show put together a montage of Trump insisting dozens of times yesterday to "DON'T TAKE TYLENOL." Complete insanity.

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lawrencecp.bsky.social @lawrencecp.bsky.social · 28d

Fire the experts.
Medicine "based on what I feel."
Paging Doctor Moron....

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Trump promoted long-debunked claims that vaccines can cause autism as he called for changes to the childhood immunization schedule sought by anti-vaccine activists.

Sinclair Won’t Air Jimmy Kimmel’s Return on Its 38 ABC Stations

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 28d

If you make extravagantly obnoxious demands, you have to stick with them especially when you are extravagantly obnoxious. That would be Sinclair. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

The preemption means that 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' will remain unavailable for some of the U.S. despite its return after a nearly week-long suspension.

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lawrencecp.bsky.social @lawrencecp.bsky.social · Sep 21

Amerikan Fascists

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Trump Demands That Bondi Move ‘Now’ to Prosecute Foes

lawrencecp.bsky.social @lawrencecp.bsky.social · Sep 17

One wonders if plans are in the works to replace the MLK holiday with one that honors St. Charlie.

He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him.

lawrencecp.bsky.social @lawrencecp.bsky.social · Sep 17

amerika today

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