Laura Morton
@lauramorton.bsky.social
Don't follow me; if I don't know you, I'll probably block you :D
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This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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The day the Access Hollywood tape was released.
July 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The day the Access Hollywood tape was released.
It's about time!!
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released.
NEW: A federal judge ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the Maryland man who was wrongly removed from the U.S. and sent to El Salvador without due process by the Trump administration — to be released from an ICE detention center, ruling his detention unlawful.
December 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
It's about time!!
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It’s clear the feds are intent on stoking fear and provoking Minnesotans.
Trump wants a show. Don’t give it to him.
Stay safe and remain peaceful if you’re interacting with ICE.
Trump wants a show. Don’t give it to him.
Stay safe and remain peaceful if you’re interacting with ICE.
December 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It’s clear the feds are intent on stoking fear and provoking Minnesotans.
Trump wants a show. Don’t give it to him.
Stay safe and remain peaceful if you’re interacting with ICE.
Trump wants a show. Don’t give it to him.
Stay safe and remain peaceful if you’re interacting with ICE.
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This quiet agreement and apathy also kept "good Germans" quiet during the atrocities of the Holocaust and Americans quiet during the round up of Japanese Americans. We can't let it happen again. Somalis in MN are largely legal, but they are being terrorized for 1) color, 2) religion, and ) politics.
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
December 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This quiet agreement and apathy also kept "good Germans" quiet during the atrocities of the Holocaust and Americans quiet during the round up of Japanese Americans. We can't let it happen again. Somalis in MN are largely legal, but they are being terrorized for 1) color, 2) religion, and ) politics.
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Witkoff, Kushner and Trump sold out Ukraine and our allies.
Thank god the info was leaked.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Thank god the info was leaked.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Witkoff, Kushner and Trump sold out Ukraine and our allies.
Thank god the info was leaked.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Thank god the info was leaked.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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NEW: Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
NEW: Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
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We are in a bizarre moment of diplomatic history. The purported "peace plan" that appeared a few days ago beings in Russian unreality and American weakness. Demanding everything of Ukraine and nothing of Russia, its purpose is imperialism and profiteering.
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...
Russian Unreality and American Weakness
Notes from a bizarre moment of diplomatic history
snyder.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
We are in a bizarre moment of diplomatic history. The purported "peace plan" that appeared a few days ago beings in Russian unreality and American weakness. Demanding everything of Ukraine and nothing of Russia, its purpose is imperialism and profiteering.
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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50% wanted the fight to continue, 50% didn't. I did, and called my moderate Dem senator, but we can have a subsidy vote in December and another shutdown on Jan. 30. I'm OK with this but not with the left cannibalizing each other.. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...
The shutdown is dragging on. But Americans aren’t tiring of Democrats’ demands. | CNN Politics
The federal government shutdown became the longest in history on Wednesday. It’s now in its 37th day.
www.cnn.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
50% wanted the fight to continue, 50% didn't. I did, and called my moderate Dem senator, but we can have a subsidy vote in December and another shutdown on Jan. 30. I'm OK with this but not with the left cannibalizing each other.. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...
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$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.
November 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.
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The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.
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Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.
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There is not one face of the Democratic Party. Tonight proved there are many faces, but each with a commitment to fight back against the reckless failure of the Trump regime and actually serve people.
Thank goodness.
Thank goodness.
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
There is not one face of the Democratic Party. Tonight proved there are many faces, but each with a commitment to fight back against the reckless failure of the Trump regime and actually serve people.
Thank goodness.
Thank goodness.
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It’s enraging the extent to which the corporate media is not relentlessly covering and showing this brutality.
It’s clear who the aggressors are. Keep remaining nonviolent, and record EVERYTHING. All of these masked ICE thugs will be held accountable.
November 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
It’s enraging the extent to which the corporate media is not relentlessly covering and showing this brutality.
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Fascism is a cult.
Cults always end the same way.
Cults always end the same way.
November 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Fascism is a cult.
Cults always end the same way.
Cults always end the same way.
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The person who is currently running our country has lost his mind and it’s time we start talking about it.
Trump said he has instructed the Defense Department to “prepare for possible action” in Nigeria over the country’s alleged killing of Christians.
Trump tells Defense Department to 'prepare for possible action' in Nigeria
The move came a day after Trump designated Nigeria a "country of particular concern" over alleged violations of religious freedom.
nbcnews.to
November 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The person who is currently running our country has lost his mind and it’s time we start talking about it.
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Not too sure MAGA Mike is going to like this new national ad buy from the DCCC
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Not too sure MAGA Mike is going to like this new national ad buy from the DCCC
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Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has now been waiting 36 days to be sworn in to office — setting a new record that any member of Congress has had to wait following a special election.
October 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has now been waiting 36 days to be sworn in to office — setting a new record that any member of Congress has had to wait following a special election.
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Thank you Will Bunch
The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down
From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, what’s troubling about Maine’s Nazi tattoo flap.
www.inquirer.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Thank you Will Bunch
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The Trump regime could tap into a $5 billion contingency fund to ensure people continue to be fed through SNAP.
They are refusing.
Republicans know the pain they’re causing to Americans—they do not care. The cruelty is the point.
They are refusing.
Republicans know the pain they’re causing to Americans—they do not care. The cruelty is the point.
Trump administration won't tap contingency fund to keep food aid flowing, memo says
The Trump administration says it won't use a roughly $5 billion contingency fund to keep food aid flowing in November amid the government shutdown.
apnews.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The Trump regime could tap into a $5 billion contingency fund to ensure people continue to be fed through SNAP.
They are refusing.
Republicans know the pain they’re causing to Americans—they do not care. The cruelty is the point.
They are refusing.
Republicans know the pain they’re causing to Americans—they do not care. The cruelty is the point.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?
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During Diwali, the five-day festival celebrated by Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, and Sikhs around the world, lamps are lit to celebrate the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance. See photos:
The Lights of Diwali 2025
During the five-day festival, celebrated by Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, and Sikhs around the world, lamps are lit to celebrate the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
During Diwali, the five-day festival celebrated by Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, and Sikhs around the world, lamps are lit to celebrate the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance. See photos: