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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 16m

Trump’s tragedy: the US becomes an autocracy and the presidency, a dictatorship theconversation.com/trumps-trage...

Trump’s tragedy: the US becomes an autocracy and the presidency, a dictatorship

Blood-and-soil style violent nationalism infuses everything the Trump administration is doing.

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 12h

#NeverForget that Trump freed this guy first.

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VashCorinthian @rattgirl.bsky.social · 17h

"Trump is taking the US in an extreme direction, attacking freedom of speech, having masked secret police kidnapping people in broad daylight and cracking down on institutions and the courts. When the president is this volatile and authoritarian, of course we have to be prepared for anything.”

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

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction to a Nobel snub."It’s good that Trump supported the recent ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Any step toward ending the suffering in Gaza is welcome. But one late contribution does not erase years of enabling violence and division.”

'Have to be prepared for anything': Norway braces for Trump’s reaction to a Nobel snub

Hours before the official announcement of the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize — and smack in the middle of an alleged deal between Israel and Hamas — Norway is bracing itself for a potential President...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 16h

'Republican’s worst nightmare': Dems winning shutdown war as GOP 'lacks strategy' www.alternet.org/gop-dems-shu...

'Republican’s worst nightmare': Dems winning shutdown war as GOP 'lacks strategy'

"Allowing Obamacare premiums to soar appears to be one step too far" for Americans affected by the government shutdown, which is why the Democrats appear to be winning the "health care shutdown war," ...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 16h

'Disgusting': MAGA melts down over Democrats’ 'vile' shutdown victory lap www.alternet.org/smartnews/ho...

MAGA melts down over Democrats’ 'vile' shutdown victory lap

As polls continue to show that more Americans blame the Republicans for the government shutdown, vice president JD Vance led a MAGA meltdown over the Democrats' victory lap, The Daily Beast reports.S...

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

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction to a Nobel snub."It’s good that Trump supported the recent ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Any step toward ending the suffering in Gaza is welcome. But one late contribution does not erase years of enabling violence and division.”

'Have to be prepared for anything': Norway braces for Trump’s reaction to a Nobel snub

Hours before the official announcement of the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize — and smack in the middle of an alleged deal between Israel and Hamas — Norway is bracing itself for a potential President...

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

"Matt Gaetz is a key part of the right side of the antisemitic horseshoe. He has been doing this for months now, echoing neo-Nazi conspiracies in the process. This is dangerous rhetoric [and] mainstreams antisemitic lunacy." www.alternet.org/send/matt-ga...

Matt Gaetz digs his heels in after fundraising PAC blasts his bizarre barcode 'lie'

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) went on right-wing podcaster Tim Pool's show and made a bizarre claim alleging that congressional members and candidates wore name badges with QR codes linked to a fundr...

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

NOT QUITE ON DAY 1: Great if the remaining hostages are released, but "A signing ceremony doesn't create peace. It's a photo op meant to generate adulation & praise for Trump. It is not the end of this story. It does not end the conflict between Israel & Palestine"--Ben Rhodes

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

Respectfully disagree': MAGA loyalist 'not a fan' of Trump ‘negotiating with terrorists’ in alleged Gaza peace deal
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'Respectfully disagree': MAGA loyalist 'not a fan' of key Trump policy push

Trump loyalist Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) went on "Fox & Friends" Thursday where, according to Mediate, he "dumped on the Israel-Hamas deal being promoted by President Donald Trump."The deal, which...

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

As Trump turns American cities into civil war zones for no damned reason, Norweigians are recoiling at the notion of a Nobel for the convicted felon/adjudicated rapist who employs, pardons & enables antisemites. But IMAGINE they give it to Kushner & Witkoff INSTEAD?

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ALT: a man wearing 3d glasses is holding a bag of popcorn

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

VP 'waiting in the wings': Trump’s second check-up this year raises red flags about declining health www.alternet.org/trump-melani...

VP 'waiting in the wings': Trump’s second check-up this year raises red flags about declining health

Just six months after having his annual physical at Walter Reed Medical Center, President Donald Trump is headed back to the hospital Friday for what the White House is calling a "routine yearly check...

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

'There’s something rotten there': 'Darker' more 'sinister' reason for Trump’s shutdown revealed www.alternet.org/trump-epstei...

'There’s something rotten there': 'Darker' more 'sinister' reason for Trump’s shutdown revealed

There's a simple reason President Donald Trump and the Republicans are keeping the government shut down, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) says: To block the release of the files of the late convicted sex traffic...

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

'Biblical jabberwocky': How Trump’s 'prosperity gospel hucksterism' is robbing his followers blind www.alternet.org/trump-evange...

'Biblical jabberwocky': How Trump’s 'prosperity gospel hucksterism' is robbing his followers blind

President Donald Trump, who sees himself as "a preacher for the white Christian church of MAGA" is taking his "messianic" far-right movement to the bank, writes Salon's Chauncey DeVega.Although Americ...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 23h

Ok, ok, hear me out. Since Israelis and Palestinians may be worshipping Trump like the messiah if this thing goes through, how bout we give him over to them, to rule the land and leave us the f alone. I will personally deliver the Nobel Prize to him if that could happen.

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 23h

'What’s going on with Marjorie?' Trump is upset over breakup with his 'MAGA Queen' www.alternet.org/send/trump-m...

'What’s going on with Marjorie?' Trump is upset over breakup with his 'MAGA Queen'

As the once fiercely loyal Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) continues to turn against President Donald Trump in the wake of the government shutdown, the president, reports The Daily Beast, is not ha...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 23h

‘Out of their minds’: In wake of possible Gaza deal, not everyone thinks Trump deserves peace prize www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Eric Trump leads MAGA calls for president to win Nobel Peace Prize

Donald Trump has long lobbied for the accolade and could be closer than ever to getting it

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

Nice to see Sen. Gallego and Kelly going to bat for Adelita Grijalva, as they and everyone else should be.
Speaker Johnson is stalling her swearing-in because her vote would help finally reveal the Epstein files.

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

Wanna know why Stephen Miller froze after mentioning “plenary authority"? He knew he said the quiet fascist takeover part out loud.

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

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do."

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

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do."

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

'Can't just flip a switch': Ex-Trump economist warns farmers won't forget admin's betrayal
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'Can't just flip a switch': Ex-Trump economist warns farmers won't forget admin's betrayal

Joe Glauber, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) during President Donald Trump’s first term, told Fortune that the president's latest bailout of farmers affected by his...

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

Trump admin's 'show of force' in US cities can't 'shore up a flailing president': analysis
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Trump admin's 'show of force' in US cities can't 'shore up a flailing president': analysis

President Donald Trump's plans for mass deportations are, according to Salon's Sophia Tesfaye, "meant to provoke a response to justify harsh crackdowns on Trump’s political foes. She noted that "his p...

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

Trump & his Republicans are fighting to ensure that Americans in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and a bunch of other red states pay TWICE what they paid before for healthcare.

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

Why are Democrats fighting back so hard in this shutdown? Under the Republican budget plan, your family's health care costs could double or even quadruple next year.

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

Figures that if you live in a red state, you’re getting screwed the hardest by Trump and his Republican buddies. The top 10 states facing the highest projected premium increases are all Republican led.

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