LToddM
@ltoddm.bsky.social
Feminist grandmother. Former attorney, lifelong history student, and curious traveler. Moved from Texas to the Andes to the Rocky Mountains, and lucky to be here.
Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
In Texas 9th SD, Democrat Taylor Rehmet is leading three candidates-including Leigh Wambsganss, a well-known Christian nationalist activist who was supported by Trump, Texas GOP leaders and far-right donor Tim Dunn. The district includes Tarrant County, a +5% Trump county + bellwether for the state.
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Imagine being 34 years old and having to beat trump, musk, murdoch, and Andrew Cuomo TWICE to be mayor. Every news outlet against you the entire way.
And you win it in an absolute landslide
And you win it in an absolute landslide
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The thing about Johnson not swearing in Grijalva is that’s it a test for 2026.
If you think they will accept an outcome they don’t like, they will just Grijalva it.
So what’s the plan when the GOP says “we ain’t leaving, fuck you, make us.”
Because that IS what they are going to say.
If you think they will accept an outcome they don’t like, they will just Grijalva it.
So what’s the plan when the GOP says “we ain’t leaving, fuck you, make us.”
Because that IS what they are going to say.
November 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."
October 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
October 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
In response to the Washington Post defending Trump’s bulldozing the East Wing of the WH, I canceled my subscription to the paper I’ve read since growing up in Northern Virginia.
October 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.
Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers
It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously
One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously
One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
October 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Hegseth: "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, they you should do the honorable thing and resign."
September 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Less than 36 hours away from a shutdown, Republicans chose to fly to North Carolina instead of to DC to do their jobs. This field hearing is just another example of them exploiting tragedy to score political points.
September 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
oh my god we are _deep_ fucked, Cramer's got a success rate of precisely 0%. if he's saying the bubble isn't a bubble, it's absolutely going to burst like, tomorrow.
Ah man we’re screwed
September 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A Tarrant County, TX resident who has worked as an election judge criticized the county’s move to cut more than 100 polling sites.
“You’re not saving money,” she said. “You’re sacrificing democracy to save a buck.”
With @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
“You’re not saving money,” she said. “You’re sacrificing democracy to save a buck.”
With @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally
The decision by commissioners in Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, comes amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
www.propublica.org
September 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
“Russia can sustain extremely high levels of casualties and losses in human lives. They don’t care about people’s lives.” However, “it is painful for them to lose money...”
This is how the oil industry became the Ukrainians’ most important target."
This is how the oil industry became the Ukrainians’ most important target."
September 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
A few people turned up to see Barack Obama at London's O2 arena tonight
I'm not an expert on crowd sizes but the interviewer said 14,000 people were there. London mayor Sadiq Khan was among them. My report will be in the NYT's On Politics newsletter
www.nytimes.com/spotlight/on...
I'm not an expert on crowd sizes but the interviewer said 14,000 people were there. London mayor Sadiq Khan was among them. My report will be in the NYT's On Politics newsletter
www.nytimes.com/spotlight/on...
September 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I understand this ad is running in Texas this weekend during football games 👀
Holy shit www.youtube.com/watch?v=emiB...
September 21, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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September 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
September 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
September 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
September 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Before this year I would have given the idea a disinterested shrug, but I'm now pretty much all-in that Pritzker should be the 2028 nominee and it's not even close, head and shoulders above any plausible alternative.
September 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
He looks like the acid was just kicking in when someone said, “oh there you are. We’re starting a press conference. Put this on.”
September 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court — over the objection of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson — allows the Trump administration’s racial profiling of people working certain types of jobs in its immigration raids during litigation.
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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No. 25A169
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KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. U. PEDRO
VASQUEZ PERDOMO, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[September 8, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted. The July 11, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the Central District of California, case No. 2:25-cv-5605, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreibxmw7us44keftyrwzd2w3ycrn2gd5pb24kqw3syazwrqjmkq2mym@jpeg)
September 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill
August 31, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions.
They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry.
https://to.pbs.org/45HtATc
https://to.pbs.org/45HtATc
August 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM