Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩
@lesleyabravanel.bsky.social
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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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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Thanks to Joe Biden, America’s economy is soaring ahead of its rivals www.ft.com/content/1201...
House Republican: Trump 'doesn’t have control of the base' www.alternet.org/trump-republ...
House Republican: Trump 'doesn’t have control of the base'
As death threats and infighting threaten a mass exodus of House Republicans from Congress, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) says President Donald Trump is losing control of his base, reports Axios."Rep. Marj...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
House Republican: Trump 'doesn’t have control of the base' www.alternet.org/trump-republ...
House speaker says the quiet part out loud on latest Trump policy proposal www.alternet.org/Bank/trump-h...
House speaker says the quiet part out loud on latest Trump policy proposal
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) is warning the White House that "most House Republicans don’t have an appetite for extending enhanced Affordable Care...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
House speaker says the quiet part out loud on latest Trump policy proposal www.alternet.org/Bank/trump-h...
Jewish groups at Penn sound alarm over Trump admin seeking information on Jewish employees: “Across history, the compelled cataloging of Jews has been a source of profound danger,” said a letter criticizing the lawsuit forward.com/fast-forward...
Jewish groups at Penn sound alarm over federal lawsuit seeking information on Jewish employees
“Across history, the compelled cataloging of Jews has been a source of profound danger,” said a letter criticizing the lawsuit.
forward.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Jewish groups at Penn sound alarm over Trump admin seeking information on Jewish employees: “Across history, the compelled cataloging of Jews has been a source of profound danger,” said a letter criticizing the lawsuit forward.com/fast-forward...
Trump’s 'unusual government intervention' is putting American taxpayers 'at risk': experts www.alternet.org/send/trump-g...
Trump’s 'unusual government intervention' is putting American taxpayers 'at risk': experts
The Trump administration is trading over $10 billion dollars of taxpayer money for ownership stakes in companies in what Ana Swanson in The New York Times calls an "unusual strategy."A New York Times ...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Trump’s 'unusual government intervention' is putting American taxpayers 'at risk': experts www.alternet.org/send/trump-g...
Aide to Republican state senator arrested for burning a house with 2 people inside: report www.alternet.org/the-right-wi...
Aide to Republican state senator arrested for burning a house with 2 people inside: report
The legislative assistant to North Carolina's Republican State Senator Norman Sanderson has been arrested for “willfully” and “maliciously” burning a house with two people inside in Raleigh, according...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Aide to Republican state senator arrested for burning a house with 2 people inside: report www.alternet.org/the-right-wi...
Supreme Court blamed for 'ethically vacant' Trump's likely escape from criminal prosecution www.alternet.org/trump-ethics...
Supreme Court blamed for 'ethically vacant' Trump's likely escape from criminal prosecution
Although he says President Donald Trump is "well on his way to becoming the most corrupt president in American history, Thomas B. Edsall writes in the New York Times that despite that, he is likely to...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Supreme Court blamed for 'ethically vacant' Trump's likely escape from criminal prosecution www.alternet.org/trump-ethics...
How China played Trump in a game of 'whack a mole': analysis www.alternet.org/china-played...
How China played Trump in a game of 'whack a mole': analysis
Foreign Affairs writer Jonathan A. Czin writes that Chinese leader Xi Jinping has played President Donald Trump and is now reaping the rewards.Although "Trump promised to unleash an economic fusillade...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
How China played Trump in a game of 'whack a mole': analysis www.alternet.org/china-played...
Florida’s dangerous move to end school vaccine standards floridapolitics.com/archives/767...
Rana Alissa: Florida’s dangerous move to end school vaccine standards
Florida’s proposal ending school vaccine standards threatens children’s safety statewide.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Florida’s dangerous move to end school vaccine standards floridapolitics.com/archives/767...
The DeSantis decimation of Florida's public education continues as UWF finds one leadership finalist: interim President Manny Diaz. Yikes. floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/24/u...
UWF finds one leadership finalist: Interim President Manny Diaz • Florida Phoenix
Manny Diaz Jr. is the sole finalist to become the next University of West Florida president, the Pensacola school announced over the weekend. The move furthers Gov. Ron DeSantis’ mission to remake the...
floridaphoenix.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The DeSantis decimation of Florida's public education continues as UWF finds one leadership finalist: interim President Manny Diaz. Yikes. floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/24/u...
The Trump regime just wiped nursing off the list of professional degrees — a shift that could drain an already fragile workforce and put patient care at risk. By reclassifying the field, they’re slashing loan and forgiveness options for future nurses.
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The Trump regime just wiped nursing off the list of professional degrees — a shift that could drain an already fragile workforce and put patient care at risk. By reclassifying the field, they’re slashing loan and forgiveness options for future nurses.
DOJ purge 'deliberately kneecaps' public safety: ex-prosecutors www.alternet.org/news-politic...
DOJ purge 'deliberately kneecaps' public safety: ex-prosecutors
President Donald Trump's weaponization of the U.S. Department of Justice is weakening investigations in civil rights and national security, among other things, according to The Guardian.This weaponiza...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
DOJ purge 'deliberately kneecaps' public safety: ex-prosecutors www.alternet.org/news-politic...
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This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
A Trump voter is begging Congress to free his wife after ICE locked her up for months over two paid-off checks under $60. Donna Hughes-Brown, a green-card holder for nearly 50 years, was pulled off a plane, denied food and water, caged. Even he admits it: this is Trump’s America
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
A Trump voter is begging Congress to free his wife after ICE locked her up for months over two paid-off checks under $60. Donna Hughes-Brown, a green-card holder for nearly 50 years, was pulled off a plane, denied food and water, caged. Even he admits it: this is Trump’s America
Trump’s cut to the Continuum of Care grant criteria cuts funding for permanent supportive housing by 50%. 170,000 people could become newly homeless. This is an outrageous attack on the most vulnerable of populations.
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Trump’s cut to the Continuum of Care grant criteria cuts funding for permanent supportive housing by 50%. 170,000 people could become newly homeless. This is an outrageous attack on the most vulnerable of populations.
Here’s why Trump banned AP reporters — but not photographers www.alternet.org/msn/trump-ap/
Here’s why Trump banned AP reporters — but not photographers
An Associated Press (AP) lawsuit against the Trump administration has revealed a curious White House position on press access, the New York Times reports.The White House banned the Associated Press (A...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Here’s why Trump banned AP reporters — but not photographers www.alternet.org/msn/trump-ap/
'Embarrassing' for Trump: Halligan’s job as US attorney is toast after Comey ruling www.alternet.org/halligan-tru...
'Embarrassing' for Trump: Halligan’s job as US attorney is toast after Comey ruling
A federal judge dismissed the criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Leticia James after deciding Lindsey Halligan, the interim U.S. Attorney who brough...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
'Embarrassing' for Trump: Halligan’s job as US attorney is toast after Comey ruling www.alternet.org/halligan-tru...
Fox News political reporter: Math 'dicey for the GOP' as Republicans try to hold the House www.alternet.org/fox-news-gop...
Fox News political reporter: Math 'dicey for the GOP' as Republicans try to hold the House
Fox News reporter Chad Pergram explains that following the shocking resignation of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who will vacate her seat in January, the math in Congress points to a bleak reali...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Fox News political reporter: Math 'dicey for the GOP' as Republicans try to hold the House www.alternet.org/fox-news-gop...
New book reveals the 'rot of the MAGA mind' www.alternet.org/rot-maga-mind/
New book reveals the 'rot of the MAGA mind'
In Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, political theorist Laura K. Field explains how "under [President Donald] Trump, post-liberal intellectuals have abandoned tradition for radicalism a...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
New book reveals the 'rot of the MAGA mind' www.alternet.org/rot-maga-mind/
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America makes 3rd world countries appear more stable and law abiding
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
America makes 3rd world countries appear more stable and law abiding
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James Carville is nearly always right. This gives me hope.
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
James Carville is nearly always right. This gives me hope.
I agree with James Carville regarding economic rage. It’s appalling that saving what’s left of Democracy isn’t the first priority, but having enough money to feed oneself & one’s family does loom large. He’s certainly correct about raising the minimum wage to $20 an hr, college tuition & child care.
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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This is all because of Republican Jesus.
Whom the CristoFascists have INVENTED to fit their own anti-Christian ideology.
@lesleyabravanel.bsky.social
Whom the CristoFascists have INVENTED to fit their own anti-Christian ideology.
@lesleyabravanel.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is all because of Republican Jesus.
Whom the CristoFascists have INVENTED to fit their own anti-Christian ideology.
@lesleyabravanel.bsky.social
Whom the CristoFascists have INVENTED to fit their own anti-Christian ideology.
@lesleyabravanel.bsky.social
MAGA evangelicals have 'coopted' Jesus and turned Christianity into an 'absurd farce': analysis www.alternet.org/maga-christi...
MAGA evangelicals have 'coopted' Jesus and turned Christianity into an 'absurd farce': analysis
President Donald Trump’s "wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the MAGA evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression," writes The Guardian's Bi...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
MAGA evangelicals have 'coopted' Jesus and turned Christianity into an 'absurd farce': analysis www.alternet.org/maga-christi...
Expert derails the public's hopes about the Epstein files www.alternet.org/2674337049/
Expert derails the public's hopes about the Epstein files
The victims of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have found themselves entangled in a war between the Democrats and Republicans as doubts emerge on whether either can be trusted to help them fig...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Expert derails the public's hopes about the Epstein files www.alternet.org/2674337049/
Inside the 'blatant lies and hypocrisy' that saturate the Trump admin: analysis www.alternet.org/trump-lies-h...
Inside the 'blatant lies and hypocrisy' that saturate the Trump admin: analysis
President Donald Trump been violating his oath, and "lying nonstop in all conceivable venues, ever since," he took office, writes Jill Lawrence in The Bulwark, and "American life and America itself ar...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Inside the 'blatant lies and hypocrisy' that saturate the Trump admin: analysis www.alternet.org/trump-lies-h...