Lisa Maatz
@lisamaatz.bsky.social
Recovering #DC pol. #ChildlessDogLady
#Feminist strategist.
Looking for #GoodTrouble.
#Advocacy #grassroots #GenderEquity expert.
#VotingRights advocate.
#DogMom #momsky
#Ohio #LakeErie
#GoBucks
Consultant & speaker.
My opinions only, RP≠endorsement.
#Feminist strategist.
Looking for #GoodTrouble.
#Advocacy #grassroots #GenderEquity expert.
#VotingRights advocate.
#DogMom #momsky
#Ohio #LakeErie
#GoBucks
Consultant & speaker.
My opinions only, RP≠endorsement.
Pinned
Lisa Maatz
@lisamaatz.bsky.social
· May 15
Most Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds
The bottom 60% of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," according to a new analysis.
www.cbsnews.com
Only 40% of U.S. households make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," according to a new analysis. www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
This young man has it exactly right.
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This young man has it exactly right.
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
“Shut up. You had me at despot.”
❤️
❤️
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“Shut up. You had me at despot.”
❤️
❤️
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
The attack on immigrants and the attack on public education have a dark nexus in this regime strategy:
“Terrorize families into hiding. Watch enrollment crumble. Use the collapse to justify privatization, vouchers, and defunding.”
Support the kids fighting back.
open.substack.com/pub/thejenni...
“Terrorize families into hiding. Watch enrollment crumble. Use the collapse to justify privatization, vouchers, and defunding.”
Support the kids fighting back.
open.substack.com/pub/thejenni...
The Kids Are Alright and They Won’t Back Down
The regime targets kids with terror. They answer with organizing, solidarity, and power the state can’t control.
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The attack on immigrants and the attack on public education have a dark nexus in this regime strategy:
“Terrorize families into hiding. Watch enrollment crumble. Use the collapse to justify privatization, vouchers, and defunding.”
Support the kids fighting back.
open.substack.com/pub/thejenni...
“Terrorize families into hiding. Watch enrollment crumble. Use the collapse to justify privatization, vouchers, and defunding.”
Support the kids fighting back.
open.substack.com/pub/thejenni...
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
that's it have a lovely weekend do not, i repeat DO NOT read anything else about Robert Kennedy Jr today. I warned you
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
that's it have a lovely weekend do not, i repeat DO NOT read anything else about Robert Kennedy Jr today. I warned you
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
Marge Greene announces she is resigning from Congress, that she doesn’t want to go through a brutal primary against a Trump backed opponent, and says Trump has treated her like a battered wife and has been hateful to her and is trying to destroy her.
November 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Marge Greene announces she is resigning from Congress, that she doesn’t want to go through a brutal primary against a Trump backed opponent, and says Trump has treated her like a battered wife and has been hateful to her and is trying to destroy her.
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."
November 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly to Stephen Miller: “I got shot at serving our country in combat, and I was there when your boss sent a violent mob to attack the Capitol. I know the difference between defending our Constitution and an insurrection, even if you don’t.”
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly to Stephen Miller: “I got shot at serving our country in combat, and I was there when your boss sent a violent mob to attack the Capitol. I know the difference between defending our Constitution and an insurrection, even if you don’t.”
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
Critics are skeptical that Trump’s intention to sign the bill requiring the release of the Epstein files into law is genuine. “There is simply no mechanism to verify whether the Trump administration withholds, buries, or scrubs the most damaging material,” said Political Wire’s Taegan Goddard.
Congress Passes Bill on Releasing Epstein Files as Questions Swirl Over Trump’s Next Moves
The measure to release the files passed with near-unanimous support in both the House and Senate.
truthout.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Critics are skeptical that Trump’s intention to sign the bill requiring the release of the Epstein files into law is genuine. “There is simply no mechanism to verify whether the Trump administration withholds, buries, or scrubs the most damaging material,” said Political Wire’s Taegan Goddard.
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
Trump‘s decisive defeat in reference to the Epstein case will force Putin‘s hand to extract from Trump possible concessions as soon and fast as possible. Putin and his circle will most certainly fear that Trump‘s time could come to an end faster than thought. Expect this.
November 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Trump‘s decisive defeat in reference to the Epstein case will force Putin‘s hand to extract from Trump possible concessions as soon and fast as possible. Putin and his circle will most certainly fear that Trump‘s time could come to an end faster than thought. Expect this.
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
Listen…If y’all want to talk honesty, then let’s be honest about all of it.
The promises, the hypocrisy, the receipts.
Because what you campaigned on and what you’re doing? Two very different things.
The promises, the hypocrisy, the receipts.
Because what you campaigned on and what you’re doing? Two very different things.
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Listen…If y’all want to talk honesty, then let’s be honest about all of it.
The promises, the hypocrisy, the receipts.
Because what you campaigned on and what you’re doing? Two very different things.
The promises, the hypocrisy, the receipts.
Because what you campaigned on and what you’re doing? Two very different things.
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
This post is just in remembrance of a brave human being.
This is for Virginia Giuffre.
This is for Virginia Giuffre.
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This post is just in remembrance of a brave human being.
This is for Virginia Giuffre.
This is for Virginia Giuffre.
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
Swalwell: Kristi Noem and Tom Homan, you should familiarize yourselves with this room. Get to know that witness chair — you’re going to be parked in it for a long time. Accountability is coming.
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Swalwell: Kristi Noem and Tom Homan, you should familiarize yourselves with this room. Get to know that witness chair — you’re going to be parked in it for a long time. Accountability is coming.
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
Women are watching abusive dynamics play out on the national stage and for many it feels very, very familiar to what they’ve experienced regularly—
I hope midterms are a referendum
I hope midterms are a referendum
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Women are watching abusive dynamics play out on the national stage and for many it feels very, very familiar to what they’ve experienced regularly—
I hope midterms are a referendum
I hope midterms are a referendum
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
This
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
If you are one of the male reporters who was there and stood idly by when that piece of crap insulted the female reporter, you're a weak, spineless coward who should be ashamed of yourself.
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
If you are one of the male reporters who was there and stood idly by when that piece of crap insulted the female reporter, you're a weak, spineless coward who should be ashamed of yourself.
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
Well done elder white women in Nebraska using their social status for good: “We love the immigrants“ www.klkntv.com/we-love-the-...
#PissedOffGrandmas
#NoICEDetentionCenters
#PissedOffGrandmas
#NoICEDetentionCenters
'We love the immigrants': Nebraska grandparents protest McCook ICE facility
A group called "Pissed Off Grandmas" gathered outside of the governor's mansion to sing in protest on Monday.
www.klkntv.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Well done elder white women in Nebraska using their social status for good: “We love the immigrants“ www.klkntv.com/we-love-the-...
#PissedOffGrandmas
#NoICEDetentionCenters
#PissedOffGrandmas
#NoICEDetentionCenters
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
Me too
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Me too
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
Reposted by Lisa Maatz
"Quiet, piggy!"
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
"Quiet, piggy!"
Gerrymandering: Out of 131 legislative races in Ohio in 2026, maybe seven to 10 are actually competitive, being generous. The others are not. That's pathetic. It's a disgrace. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/19/g...
Gerrymandering Ohio politicians make sure at least 121 elections in 2026 are predetermined • Ohio Capital Journal
Are you satisfied, Ohio? Are you happy you kept politicians in charge of redistricting? Out of 131 legislative races in Ohio in 2026, maybe seven to 10 are actually competitive. The others are not. Th...
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Gerrymandering: Out of 131 legislative races in Ohio in 2026, maybe seven to 10 are actually competitive, being generous. The others are not. That's pathetic. It's a disgrace. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/19/g...