Laura Joan Friedrichs
@fjl49.bsky.social
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Last night—I took to the Floor and joined a letter led by @trahan.house.gov demanding that Trump restore more than $2 billion in mental health and addiction recovery funding. Late last night, they reversed course, and funding will be restored. A small mercy and important victory, in a sea of chaos!
January 15, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Last night—I took to the Floor and joined a letter led by @trahan.house.gov demanding that Trump restore more than $2 billion in mental health and addiction recovery funding. Late last night, they reversed course, and funding will be restored. A small mercy and important victory, in a sea of chaos!
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1 piece of chicken.
1 piece of broccoli.
1 corn tortilla.
And 1 other thing. Hunger.
1 piece of broccoli.
1 corn tortilla.
And 1 other thing. Hunger.
January 14, 2026 at 9:26 PM
1 piece of chicken.
1 piece of broccoli.
1 corn tortilla.
And 1 other thing. Hunger.
1 piece of broccoli.
1 corn tortilla.
And 1 other thing. Hunger.
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Trump & RFK Jr. just ripped away billions to help communities tackle the fentanyl crisis & get mental health care.
So much for Make America Healthy Again & saving Americans from addiction.
Republicans need to join me in demanding this gets reversed.
So much for Make America Healthy Again & saving Americans from addiction.
Republicans need to join me in demanding this gets reversed.
HHS cuts $2 billion in mental health, addiction grants
Many of the affected grant programs have bipartisan support and President Donald Trump has supported them in the past.
rollcall.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Trump & RFK Jr. just ripped away billions to help communities tackle the fentanyl crisis & get mental health care.
So much for Make America Healthy Again & saving Americans from addiction.
Republicans need to join me in demanding this gets reversed.
So much for Make America Healthy Again & saving Americans from addiction.
Republicans need to join me in demanding this gets reversed.
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You get two dolls, a hunk of chicken, one piece of broccoli, and a corn tortilla
Golden Age!
Golden Age!
Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."
January 14, 2026 at 9:24 PM
You get two dolls, a hunk of chicken, one piece of broccoli, and a corn tortilla
Golden Age!
Golden Age!
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How many moms need to get shot in the face before members of congress support a sec Noam impeachment?
January 14, 2026 at 9:26 PM
How many moms need to get shot in the face before members of congress support a sec Noam impeachment?
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January 14, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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On the topic of abiding by the law, The Trump administration was required by law to release all the Epstein files by December 19th yet has still not released nearly all of the files.
January 12, 2026 at 1:26 PM
On the topic of abiding by the law, The Trump administration was required by law to release all the Epstein files by December 19th yet has still not released nearly all of the files.
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Chris Murphy: "The amount of training that's given to an ICE officer has been cut in half by this administration. The number of days of training they get are 47. You know why they get 47 days? As an homage to the vanity of POTUS. No wonder the number of violent incidents are going through the roof."
January 11, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Chris Murphy: "The amount of training that's given to an ICE officer has been cut in half by this administration. The number of days of training they get are 47. You know why they get 47 days? As an homage to the vanity of POTUS. No wonder the number of violent incidents are going through the roof."
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Rather than backing down, "you should confront ICE in the streets, and everyone should have their phone out at all points in time filming these interactions," says @amandamarcotte.bsky.social.
On the pod, Trump wants you to think his power is absolute. It isn't:
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
On the pod, Trump wants you to think his power is absolute. It isn't:
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
Trump’s Rage Explodes at GOPers as Their Defiance of Him Visibly Grows
As Republicans start breaking with Trump on more fronts, a writer who ably dissects his psychoses explains how this reveals that his power is not absolute—and why that should inform our resistance to ...
newrepublic.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Rather than backing down, "you should confront ICE in the streets, and everyone should have their phone out at all points in time filming these interactions," says @amandamarcotte.bsky.social.
On the pod, Trump wants you to think his power is absolute. It isn't:
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
On the pod, Trump wants you to think his power is absolute. It isn't:
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
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We just had a week that changed everything, including my view of impeachment. Before: Wait until 2027. Now: Embrace it in 2026 and hold hearing-like forums to spotlight the many articles of impeachment filed against Trump and his cabinet. My latest @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/embracing-...
Embracing Impeachment
The case against Trump and his cabinet keeps growing—and the argument for waiting is no longer convincing.
www.thebulwark.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 PM
We just had a week that changed everything, including my view of impeachment. Before: Wait until 2027. Now: Embrace it in 2026 and hold hearing-like forums to spotlight the many articles of impeachment filed against Trump and his cabinet. My latest @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/embracing-...
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Most dystopian stuff I saw last week (always a competition) - Renee Good haters sharing a fake rap sheet that listed her age as 35 and her birth year as 1980.
It was the low quality that got me; audience so ready to believe "she deserved it," doesn't care if the math on the hoax doc is right.
It was the low quality that got me; audience so ready to believe "she deserved it," doesn't care if the math on the hoax doc is right.
January 12, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Most dystopian stuff I saw last week (always a competition) - Renee Good haters sharing a fake rap sheet that listed her age as 35 and her birth year as 1980.
It was the low quality that got me; audience so ready to believe "she deserved it," doesn't care if the math on the hoax doc is right.
It was the low quality that got me; audience so ready to believe "she deserved it," doesn't care if the math on the hoax doc is right.
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Her last "threatening" words to the ICE agent were, with a smile, "I'm not mad at you."
His last words to her, after he shot her in cold blood, were "Fucking bitch."
Perhaps, perpetually lying JD Vance is as big a sociopath as Jonathan Ross.
His last words to her, after he shot her in cold blood, were "Fucking bitch."
Perhaps, perpetually lying JD Vance is as big a sociopath as Jonathan Ross.
January 10, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Her last "threatening" words to the ICE agent were, with a smile, "I'm not mad at you."
His last words to her, after he shot her in cold blood, were "Fucking bitch."
Perhaps, perpetually lying JD Vance is as big a sociopath as Jonathan Ross.
His last words to her, after he shot her in cold blood, were "Fucking bitch."
Perhaps, perpetually lying JD Vance is as big a sociopath as Jonathan Ross.
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The latest in the Epstein Files is here:
@khanna.house.gov & Rep. Thomas Massie move to get a Special Master appointed to compel compliance by the Trump DOJ with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
I've got the latest incl. the big subpoenas out of House Oversight to Epstein’s long-time lawyer and accountant.
youtu.be/C3akkwLuk5U?...
I've got the latest incl. the big subpoenas out of House Oversight to Epstein’s long-time lawyer and accountant.
youtu.be/C3akkwLuk5U?...
Trump DOJ SHOCKED After Congress BRINGS EPSTEIN FILES to COURT
YouTube video by Katie Phang
youtu.be
January 10, 2026 at 12:25 PM
The latest in the Epstein Files is here:
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👉👉"JD Vance’s kids growing up to discover their pudgy, eyeliner-wearing dad is a revoltingly fake Christian, racist liar, & murder apologist is gonna be the best reality show of the 2030s." ~John Fugelsang taking on the VP's whimpering about the imminent arrest of the murderer of an unarmed civilian
January 10, 2026 at 12:58 PM
👉👉"JD Vance’s kids growing up to discover their pudgy, eyeliner-wearing dad is a revoltingly fake Christian, racist liar, & murder apologist is gonna be the best reality show of the 2030s." ~John Fugelsang taking on the VP's whimpering about the imminent arrest of the murderer of an unarmed civilian
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For years, JD Vance has worn Catholicism like political body armor—invoked when useful, ignored when inconvenient. This week, that armor shattered. In a blistering rebuke, the National Catholic Reporter branded Vance a “moral stain” for his response to the ICE killing
January 10, 2026 at 1:08 PM
For years, JD Vance has worn Catholicism like political body armor—invoked when useful, ignored when inconvenient. This week, that armor shattered. In a blistering rebuke, the National Catholic Reporter branded Vance a “moral stain” for his response to the ICE killing
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This is a list of people who can be ousted this year.
Let's get to work.
Let's get to work.
Here's the 38 House Republicans who won by less than 15 points *and* whose districts Trump won by less than 15 points (or lost, in a few cases), via @the-downballot.com.
Only 13 of them vote to extend the enhanced #ACA tax credits.
The other 25 all voted NO.
Only 13 of them vote to extend the enhanced #ACA tax credits.
The other 25 all voted NO.
January 9, 2026 at 8:56 PM
This is a list of people who can be ousted this year.
Let's get to work.
Let's get to work.
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Renee Good's last words
"I'm not mad at you," the 37-year-old mom told the ICE agent who murdered her, per new cell phone footage released Friday. Then he shot her in the face three times and called her a "fuckin' bitch."
Always read @lebassett.bsky.social
www.laura-bassett.com/p/renee-good...
"I'm not mad at you," the 37-year-old mom told the ICE agent who murdered her, per new cell phone footage released Friday. Then he shot her in the face three times and called her a "fuckin' bitch."
Always read @lebassett.bsky.social
www.laura-bassett.com/p/renee-good...
Renee Good's last words
"I'm not mad at you," the 37-year-old mom told the ICE agent who murdered her, per new cell phone footage released Friday. Then he shot her in the face three times and called her a "fuckin' bitch."
www.laura-bassett.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Renee Good's last words
"I'm not mad at you," the 37-year-old mom told the ICE agent who murdered her, per new cell phone footage released Friday. Then he shot her in the face three times and called her a "fuckin' bitch."
Always read @lebassett.bsky.social
www.laura-bassett.com/p/renee-good...
"I'm not mad at you," the 37-year-old mom told the ICE agent who murdered her, per new cell phone footage released Friday. Then he shot her in the face three times and called her a "fuckin' bitch."
Always read @lebassett.bsky.social
www.laura-bassett.com/p/renee-good...
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Dis his father teach him to shout "fucking bitch" at women?
January 9, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Dis his father teach him to shout "fucking bitch" at women?
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I'm old enough to remember when CBS News and journalists like Edward R. Murrow held power to account, instead of capitulating to it.
January 7, 2026 at 5:01 PM
I'm old enough to remember when CBS News and journalists like Edward R. Murrow held power to account, instead of capitulating to it.
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They’re going to handle this the way they handled the Epstein files.
January 9, 2026 at 9:30 PM
They’re going to handle this the way they handled the Epstein files.
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Vance's stance is, almost literally, "Well, she shouldn't have mouthed off like that. She asked for it."
When Vance insists, contra the videos, that Good threatened the ICE agent and "had it coming", what he means is that he, like Ross, feels threatened by any woman who has the audacity to use her voice in the public sphere.
This deeply misogynist worldview is core to MAGA.
This deeply misogynist worldview is core to MAGA.
January 9, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Vance's stance is, almost literally, "Well, she shouldn't have mouthed off like that. She asked for it."