LauraRutherford (she/her/frog)
@lrutherford.bsky.social
Wife, mother and proud Nana. Atheist. Progressive politics. I amplify liberal messaging. I vet before following back. I welcome opposing opinions, but I can't abide crap.
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This AFTER remains of a 30 ft boat washed ashore, with burned bodies inside & packages (small) of what residue tests establish was nothing more than Marijuana; which is legal for recreational use in several states. It's just murder.
apnews.com/article/boat...
apnews.com/article/boat...
US military strikes 5 more alleged drug boats, killing 8 and possibly leaving survivors
The U.S. military says it has struck five alleged drug-smuggling boats over two days. The attacks killed a total of eight people while others jumped overboard and may have survived.
apnews.com
January 1, 2026 at 7:37 PM
This AFTER remains of a 30 ft boat washed ashore, with burned bodies inside & packages (small) of what residue tests establish was nothing more than Marijuana; which is legal for recreational use in several states. It's just murder.
apnews.com/article/boat...
apnews.com/article/boat...
Mamdani: "The cost of childcare will no longer discourage young adults from starting a family, because we will deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few"
January 2, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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I’ll never ever believe that Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris lost their elections and Jack Smith’s damning testimony only helps to cement that for me.
January 1, 2026 at 4:24 AM
I’ll never ever believe that Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris lost their elections and Jack Smith’s damning testimony only helps to cement that for me.
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New in PN: The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys
"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."
"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."
The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys
But freedom of speech includes freedom to not praise the king.
www.publicnotice.co
December 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New in PN: The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys
"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."
"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."
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The J6 Pipe Bomber stated that the reason he placed the pipe bombs at the DNC & RNC because he believed that the 2020 election was stolen, & no one in Congress was taking it seriously.
Now who was the one that kept on saying that the election was stolen??
youtu.be/4xgayuaun2U?...
Now who was the one that kept on saying that the election was stolen??
youtu.be/4xgayuaun2U?...
BREAKING: Justice Department makes BOMBSHELL announcement
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The J6 Pipe Bomber stated that the reason he placed the pipe bombs at the DNC & RNC because he believed that the 2020 election was stolen, & no one in Congress was taking it seriously.
Now who was the one that kept on saying that the election was stolen??
youtu.be/4xgayuaun2U?...
Now who was the one that kept on saying that the election was stolen??
youtu.be/4xgayuaun2U?...
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If Marjorie Taylor Greene *really* cared about the Epstein victims, she would read the names of the perpetrators on the House floor (where she would have immunity) before she leaves office.
December 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
If Marjorie Taylor Greene *really* cared about the Epstein victims, she would read the names of the perpetrators on the House floor (where she would have immunity) before she leaves office.
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When and if sane and honest people ever again control the U.S. government, one of the first things they should do is enact a tax on large accumulations of wealth. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/if-the-market-were-working-well-we
December 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
When and if sane and honest people ever again control the U.S. government, one of the first things they should do is enact a tax on large accumulations of wealth. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/if-the-market-were-working-well-we
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🚨BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi has all but confirmed the existence of the conspiracy probe, pulling back the curtain on the potential next stage in Trump’s campaign of retribution against anyone who has stood in his way. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Organizing Vast Conspiracy Investigation Against Trump Enemies, Bondi Admits
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🚨BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi has all but confirmed the existence of the conspiracy probe, pulling back the curtain on the potential next stage in Trump’s campaign of retribution against anyone who has stood in his way. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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I hear they’re developing a new reality show for Trump & Co.
Apparently it’s European.
Apparently it’s European.
December 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I hear they’re developing a new reality show for Trump & Co.
Apparently it’s European.
Apparently it’s European.
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Montana is leading the way to get dark money out of our elections. This is a blue print for other states
truthout.org/articles/mon...
truthout.org/articles/mon...
Montana Has an Ambitious Plan to End Dark Money in Elections
Polls suggest 74 percent of voters in the state will back a ballot initiative to counter the effects of Citizens United.
truthout.org
December 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Montana is leading the way to get dark money out of our elections. This is a blue print for other states
truthout.org/articles/mon...
truthout.org/articles/mon...
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Friends — Here's one "big idea" for how we can start to fix the system in 2026. Let me know your thoughts.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
December 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Friends — Here's one "big idea" for how we can start to fix the system in 2026. Let me know your thoughts.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
December 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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This isn’t gaffe level incompetence; it’s a fundamental inability to distinguish aggressor from victim.
No country should ever be represented like this.
Future textbooks won’t struggle with this moment. 👇
No country should ever be represented like this.
Future textbooks won’t struggle with this moment. 👇
December 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
This isn’t gaffe level incompetence; it’s a fundamental inability to distinguish aggressor from victim.
No country should ever be represented like this.
Future textbooks won’t struggle with this moment. 👇
No country should ever be represented like this.
Future textbooks won’t struggle with this moment. 👇
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Due process is the legal requirement that people be given a fair & adequate legal procedure before being punished, brutalized, or deprived of life, liberty, or property.
Either everyone has it, or no one does.
Are you OK with giving up your right to due process?
Are you OK with #IceLawlessness?
Either everyone has it, or no one does.
Are you OK with giving up your right to due process?
Are you OK with #IceLawlessness?
December 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Due process is the legal requirement that people be given a fair & adequate legal procedure before being punished, brutalized, or deprived of life, liberty, or property.
Either everyone has it, or no one does.
Are you OK with giving up your right to due process?
Are you OK with #IceLawlessness?
Either everyone has it, or no one does.
Are you OK with giving up your right to due process?
Are you OK with #IceLawlessness?
Just...no.
Lawyers for Tina Peters — the Colorado election denier serving a nine-year state prison sentence for her role in a voting system data breach — asked the Colorado Court of Appeals last week to release her after President Donald Trump granted Peters a legally meaningless “pardon” earlier this month.
Following Trump’s ‘Pardon,’ Tina Peters Asks Colorado Appeals Court to Release Her
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Just...no.
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December 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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🎙️ There are a lot of Americans fighting in Ukraine. What can you tell them?
🇺🇸 Trump: I don't think that's right.
🎙️ What will be the consequences for Russia if the treaty is violated?
🇺🇸 Trump: Russia is very generous; it's willing to let them [Ukraine] recover.
🇺🇸 Trump: I don't think that's right.
🎙️ What will be the consequences for Russia if the treaty is violated?
🇺🇸 Trump: Russia is very generous; it's willing to let them [Ukraine] recover.
December 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
🎙️ There are a lot of Americans fighting in Ukraine. What can you tell them?
🇺🇸 Trump: I don't think that's right.
🎙️ What will be the consequences for Russia if the treaty is violated?
🇺🇸 Trump: Russia is very generous; it's willing to let them [Ukraine] recover.
🇺🇸 Trump: I don't think that's right.
🎙️ What will be the consequences for Russia if the treaty is violated?
🇺🇸 Trump: Russia is very generous; it's willing to let them [Ukraine] recover.
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Trump sympathizes with how stressful it would be for Putin to have to stop killing people for a while because of how inconvenient it would be for him to resume it. This whole thing is a farce. A charade. Putin is playing Trump like the useful idiot that he is.
December 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Trump sympathizes with how stressful it would be for Putin to have to stop killing people for a while because of how inconvenient it would be for him to resume it. This whole thing is a farce. A charade. Putin is playing Trump like the useful idiot that he is.
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AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt — Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt"
December 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt — Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt"
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I chatted with someone earlier who was looking for the link to the searchable DOJ released Epstein files.
I forget who was asking.
Here you go everyone:
www.justice.gov/epstein
I forget who was asking.
Here you go everyone:
www.justice.gov/epstein
December 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I chatted with someone earlier who was looking for the link to the searchable DOJ released Epstein files.
I forget who was asking.
Here you go everyone:
www.justice.gov/epstein
I forget who was asking.
Here you go everyone:
www.justice.gov/epstein
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Here’s an example of how not to speak to me. This condescending doomerism is unattractive and unproductive. “Oh sweetie, just roll over and give up” is a shitty message.
Exactly. Bless her heart, she and others want so badly for the country to not have fallen. At some point they’re going to have to acknowledge the facts. I hate it happened, but it did. Until everyone can acknowledge we have to use plans that DONT involve laws (that they won’t honor) we’re fucked.
December 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Here’s an example of how not to speak to me. This condescending doomerism is unattractive and unproductive. “Oh sweetie, just roll over and give up” is a shitty message.
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The Ukrainian delegation on the left
Putin’s delegation on the right-by all rights, the US flag s/b removed….
Putin’s delegation on the right-by all rights, the US flag s/b removed….
December 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The Ukrainian delegation on the left
Putin’s delegation on the right-by all rights, the US flag s/b removed….
Putin’s delegation on the right-by all rights, the US flag s/b removed….