Laurie
@lavsplack.bsky.social
Mom and grandma, knitter and reader.
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A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.
June 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.
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Hypocrisy. Leave it to Leavitt.
June 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Hypocrisy. Leave it to Leavitt.
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Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"
June 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
June 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
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For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government.
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
June 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government.
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
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We should be investing in rural communities and making them better places to build a life & raise a family - not shutting down rural hospitals by choking off their funding.
Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.
Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.
Hundreds of rural hospitals are at risk of closing, threatening critical care
Hospital officials told CBS News the closure was driven by the same factors that have closed other rural hospitals: low reimbursement rates.
www.cbsnews.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We should be investing in rural communities and making them better places to build a life & raise a family - not shutting down rural hospitals by choking off their funding.
Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.
Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.
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Our team of CDC'ers and public health supporters, thought this moment was notable, too! We are proud to have you, @drtomfrieden.bsky.social, with us in the fight for public health and CDC. #CDCsaveslives #saveCDC
Striking.
SEN. DURBIN: Do you know the #1 cause of preventable death in America today?
SEC. KENNEDY: Number one cause…not sure what you're talking about
SEN. DURBIN: I'm talking about tobacco. You fired the head of CDC’s Office on Smoking & Health and eliminated their efforts from your budget
SEN. DURBIN: Do you know the #1 cause of preventable death in America today?
SEC. KENNEDY: Number one cause…not sure what you're talking about
SEN. DURBIN: I'm talking about tobacco. You fired the head of CDC’s Office on Smoking & Health and eliminated their efforts from your budget
May 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Our team of CDC'ers and public health supporters, thought this moment was notable, too! We are proud to have you, @drtomfrieden.bsky.social, with us in the fight for public health and CDC. #CDCsaveslives #saveCDC
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It’s hardly surprising that the same people who were fine with older Americans dying from Covid have no issues with cutting Medicare.
May 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It’s hardly surprising that the same people who were fine with older Americans dying from Covid have no issues with cutting Medicare.
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@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: "Reality is that hospitals are gonna close, nursing homes are gonna shut down, people are going to die if these Medicaid cuts and their efforts to detonate parts of the ACA are successfully enacted into law."
May 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: "Reality is that hospitals are gonna close, nursing homes are gonna shut down, people are going to die if these Medicaid cuts and their efforts to detonate parts of the ACA are successfully enacted into law."
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Thrilled to learn from DOJ's argument that the 14th Amendment applied to the "children of former slaves, not illegal immigrants, who didn't exist as a class yet" that modern firearms are not protected by the Second Amendment!
May 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Thrilled to learn from DOJ's argument that the 14th Amendment applied to the "children of former slaves, not illegal immigrants, who didn't exist as a class yet" that modern firearms are not protected by the Second Amendment!
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99% of Social Security's revenue goes directly to beneficiaries and 99.7% of benefits are paid accurately and on time.
But DOGE is creating the conditions for waste, fraud, and abuse as they cut staff and close field offices across the country.
But DOGE is creating the conditions for waste, fraud, and abuse as they cut staff and close field offices across the country.
Social Security Is Affordable and Popular - WORT-FM 89.9
On today’s show, host Allen Ruff speaks with Nancy J. Altman about the status of Social Security under the Trump administration.
www.wortfm.org
May 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
99% of Social Security's revenue goes directly to beneficiaries and 99.7% of benefits are paid accurately and on time.
But DOGE is creating the conditions for waste, fraud, and abuse as they cut staff and close field offices across the country.
But DOGE is creating the conditions for waste, fraud, and abuse as they cut staff and close field offices across the country.
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BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.
Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
May 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.
Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
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The Washington Post bragging about Pulitzer winner Ann Telnaes, the political cartoonist who left the Post because it had turned into an anti-journalism partisan rag, is one of the most shameless examples of misplaced self-congratulations in recent memory.
May 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The Washington Post bragging about Pulitzer winner Ann Telnaes, the political cartoonist who left the Post because it had turned into an anti-journalism partisan rag, is one of the most shameless examples of misplaced self-congratulations in recent memory.
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Yesterday, editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. In January, she resigned from the Washington Post after 17 years following the paper's leadership killing her cartoon below.
Read: charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/democracy-...
Read: charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/democracy-...
May 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Yesterday, editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. In January, she resigned from the Washington Post after 17 years following the paper's leadership killing her cartoon below.
Read: charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/democracy-...
Read: charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/democracy-...
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THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS.
Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”
Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”
Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
May 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS.
Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”
Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”
Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
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Asked on Meet the Press if he is required to "uphold the Constitution," he replies, "I don't know." Perhaps he does not recall taking the oath of office twice and swearing before the American public "to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution."
May 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Asked on Meet the Press if he is required to "uphold the Constitution," he replies, "I don't know." Perhaps he does not recall taking the oath of office twice and swearing before the American public "to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution."
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Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
May 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
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The latest Fed survey shows how companies are responding to higher tariffs, and the top response is that companies are passing cost increases through to consumers.
In last place: "Relocating production or services to the U.S.”
Source: www.apolloacademy.com/how-are-firm...
In last place: "Relocating production or services to the U.S.”
Source: www.apolloacademy.com/how-are-firm...
May 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The latest Fed survey shows how companies are responding to higher tariffs, and the top response is that companies are passing cost increases through to consumers.
In last place: "Relocating production or services to the U.S.”
Source: www.apolloacademy.com/how-are-firm...
In last place: "Relocating production or services to the U.S.”
Source: www.apolloacademy.com/how-are-firm...
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Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today:
He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution
He’s fine with a recession
Americans can do with less
Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution
He’s fine with a recession
Americans can do with less
Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
May 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today:
He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution
He’s fine with a recession
Americans can do with less
Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution
He’s fine with a recession
Americans can do with less
Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
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The physical embodiment of Greed thinks other people can get by with fewer goods.
Trump: "I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls ... they don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five."
May 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The physical embodiment of Greed thinks other people can get by with fewer goods.
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This should really be all anyone needs to know. He only cares about giant corporations and the oligarchs that fund him.
Everyone else? Good luck.
Everyone else? Good luck.
May 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This should really be all anyone needs to know. He only cares about giant corporations and the oligarchs that fund him.
Everyone else? Good luck.
Everyone else? Good luck.
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He stood there on Jan 20 and falsely mouthed the words to protect and defend our Constitution.
Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.”
Translation: No.
Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.
Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.”
Translation: No.
Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.
May 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
He stood there on Jan 20 and falsely mouthed the words to protect and defend our Constitution.
Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.”
Translation: No.
Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.
Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.”
Translation: No.
Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.