Maria Lorraine
@marialorraine.bsky.social
Thinking about the American version of the WWII French Resistance: clever, organized, relentless.
Journalist: Medicine.
Wine drinker, cook, gardener, singer.
Journalist: Medicine.
Wine drinker, cook, gardener, singer.
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Maria Lorraine
@marialorraine.bsky.social
· Sep 27
All the President's Men (9/9) Movie CLIP - People's Lives Are in Danger (1976) HD
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“Nothing's riding on this except the 1st Amendment, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country.”
Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee, Washington Post editor, on breaking the story of Pres. Nixon’s corruption & sabotage of the Democratic Party.
“All the President’s Men”
y2u.be/FEdL1_zOyz4
“Nothing's riding on this except the 1st Amendment, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country.”
Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee, Washington Post editor, on breaking the story of Pres. Nixon’s corruption & sabotage of the Democratic Party.
“All the President’s Men”
y2u.be/FEdL1_zOyz4
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“Hey, look what I found in the back of this closet. One million documents! Can you believe it?”
The Justice Department said Wednesday that it may need a "few more weeks" to release its records on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after discovering more than a million potentially relevant documents. n.pr/48V8GS8
DOJ says it may need a 'few more weeks' to finish releasing Epstein files
The Justice Department said Wednesday that it may need a "few more weeks" to release its records on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after discovering more than a million potentially relevant documents.
n.pr
December 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
“Hey, look what I found in the back of this closet. One million documents! Can you believe it?”
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Well, those recordings should be interesting to listen to. Basically, there's enough Epstein stuff to take down just about anyone he wanted to take down.
December 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Well, those recordings should be interesting to listen to. Basically, there's enough Epstein stuff to take down just about anyone he wanted to take down.
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‘‘Tis the season to be manic.
December 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
‘‘Tis the season to be manic.
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Having a normal Christmas morning
December 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Having a normal Christmas morning
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I hadn’t read the full court documents regarding JP Morgan and Jess Staley. They do a good job explaining why Jeffrey Epstein needed Staley and that bank in order to run his sex trafficking operation at that scale.
December 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I hadn’t read the full court documents regarding JP Morgan and Jess Staley. They do a good job explaining why Jeffrey Epstein needed Staley and that bank in order to run his sex trafficking operation at that scale.
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12 Artists Who Showed Some Spine in 2025... just wonderful and read to the byline/description at the end! open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
12 Artists Who Showed Some Spine in 2025
In a year when too many of our pop culture favorites let us down, these creative people were willing to take a stand (and pull no punches)
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
12 Artists Who Showed Some Spine in 2025... just wonderful and read to the byline/description at the end! open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Again and again, it becomes more obvious that Mark Kelly et al were correct in highlighting that our military has a duty to refuse illegal orders from trump and his posse.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds a lower court block on Trump’s attempt to send the National Guard to Chicago, ruling the president unlawfully used an archaic statute to federalize hundreds of state troops.
Supreme Court Upholds Block to Trump’s Chicago Military Takeover
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Again and again, it becomes more obvious that Mark Kelly et al were correct in highlighting that our military has a duty to refuse illegal orders from trump and his posse.
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🧵Let’s be clear:
CECOT is part of Trump’s immigration machine.
Just because the torture is on foreign soil doesn’t wash the blood off Trump's hands.
It's why CBS yanked the 60 Minutes report.
They don't want people to know that Trump is outsourcing torture and brutality.
Details below.
CECOT is part of Trump’s immigration machine.
Just because the torture is on foreign soil doesn’t wash the blood off Trump's hands.
It's why CBS yanked the 60 Minutes report.
They don't want people to know that Trump is outsourcing torture and brutality.
Details below.
December 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
🧵Let’s be clear:
CECOT is part of Trump’s immigration machine.
Just because the torture is on foreign soil doesn’t wash the blood off Trump's hands.
It's why CBS yanked the 60 Minutes report.
They don't want people to know that Trump is outsourcing torture and brutality.
Details below.
CECOT is part of Trump’s immigration machine.
Just because the torture is on foreign soil doesn’t wash the blood off Trump's hands.
It's why CBS yanked the 60 Minutes report.
They don't want people to know that Trump is outsourcing torture and brutality.
Details below.
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Now that Nolan’s Odyssey is almost here, I gotta share one of Roger Ebert’s best lines. In re: Troy
December 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Now that Nolan’s Odyssey is almost here, I gotta share one of Roger Ebert’s best lines. In re: Troy
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Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Todd Blanche was Trump’s criminal defense attorney before he took office, and nothing has changed since then.
December 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Todd Blanche was Trump’s criminal defense attorney before he took office, and nothing has changed since then.
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You know it.
You know it.
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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You know it.
You know it.
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Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
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I can’t even with this.
“Battleships”?
“Golden Fleet”?
Honest to Pete what is happening
“Battleships”?
“Golden Fleet”?
Honest to Pete what is happening
President Trump will announce on Monday a new type of large warship he is calling “battleships,” marking a step toward achieving the president’s vision for a new “Golden Fleet.”
Trump To Announce Navy Will Buy New ‘Battleship’
The new warship will be the latest in what the White House envisions as a “Golden Fleet.”
on.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I can’t even with this.
“Battleships”?
“Golden Fleet”?
Honest to Pete what is happening
“Battleships”?
“Golden Fleet”?
Honest to Pete what is happening
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Robert Redford, Roberta Flack, Diane Keaton and Brian Wilson are among the cultural luminaries who died this year. Their ideas and personalities helped shape our culture, and they still have plenty to tell us. Here is a tribute to just some of them, in their voices.
Artists We Lost in 2025, in Their Words
Robert Redford, Roberta Flack, Diane Keaton and Brian Wilson are among the cultural luminaries who died this year.
nyti.ms
December 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Robert Redford, Roberta Flack, Diane Keaton and Brian Wilson are among the cultural luminaries who died this year. Their ideas and personalities helped shape our culture, and they still have plenty to tell us. Here is a tribute to just some of them, in their voices.
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RFK JR.
Death is the policy.
RFK JR.
Death is the policy.
Who put Dr. Death in charge of American health????
Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated.
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
December 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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RFK JR.
Death is the policy.
RFK JR.
Death is the policy.
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Renaming the Kennedy Center, our national fine arts center, after such a coarse, lowbrow, and ignorant buffoon is America at its very stupidest.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Renaming the Kennedy Center, our national fine arts center, after such a coarse, lowbrow, and ignorant buffoon is America at its very stupidest.
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I’m currently outside of the Kennedy Center:
December 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I’m currently outside of the Kennedy Center:
Unnecessary deaths and illness. Measles.
Getting very tired of a clown with no medical experience creating public policy that will kill or permanently harm millions of children and adults.
of “protecting” the lives of so many children and adults
Getting very tired of a clown with no medical experience creating public policy that will kill or permanently harm millions of children and adults.
of “protecting” the lives of so many children and adults
December 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Unnecessary deaths and illness. Measles.
Getting very tired of a clown with no medical experience creating public policy that will kill or permanently harm millions of children and adults.
of “protecting” the lives of so many children and adults
Getting very tired of a clown with no medical experience creating public policy that will kill or permanently harm millions of children and adults.
of “protecting” the lives of so many children and adults
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Murderers. And now moving on to killing American citizens next by taking away their healthcare.
THEY DON'T CARE IF YOU LIVE OR DIE.
THEY DON'T CARE IF YOU LIVE OR DIE.
December 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Murderers. And now moving on to killing American citizens next by taking away their healthcare.
THEY DON'T CARE IF YOU LIVE OR DIE.
THEY DON'T CARE IF YOU LIVE OR DIE.
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Republican Rep. Jim Jordan wanted to keep Jack Smith’s testimony hidden from the public bc he knew the prosecutor would make Trump look awful.
He was onto to something:
Smith found
“powerful evidence that Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January 2021.
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan wanted to keep Jack Smith’s testimony hidden from the public bc he knew the prosecutor would make Trump look awful.
He was onto to something:
Smith found
“powerful evidence that Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January 2021.
Why Jim Jordan wanted to keep Jack Smith’s testimony hidden from the public
After the hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin said Jordan “made an excellent decision in not allowing Jack Smith to testify publicly,” but the comment was a pointed joke.
www.ms.now
December 19, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Republican Rep. Jim Jordan wanted to keep Jack Smith’s testimony hidden from the public bc he knew the prosecutor would make Trump look awful.
He was onto to something:
Smith found
“powerful evidence that Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January 2021.
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan wanted to keep Jack Smith’s testimony hidden from the public bc he knew the prosecutor would make Trump look awful.
He was onto to something:
Smith found
“powerful evidence that Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January 2021.
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The President of the most powerful nation on Earth should not be concentrating on golf courses and remodeling a bathroom.
This is what happens when the US elects a stupid guy who develops dementia.
Force him to resign.
@apnews.com
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The President of the most powerful nation on Earth should not be concentrating on golf courses and remodeling a bathroom.
This is what happens when the US elects a stupid guy who develops dementia.
Force him to resign.
@apnews.com
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
December 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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The President of the most powerful nation on Earth should not be concentrating on golf courses and remodeling a bathroom.
This is what happens when the US elects a stupid guy who develops dementia.
Force him to resign.
@apnews.com
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The President of the most powerful nation on Earth should not be concentrating on golf courses and remodeling a bathroom.
This is what happens when the US elects a stupid guy who develops dementia.
Force him to resign.
@apnews.com
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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(2/2) President Kennedy proudly stood for justice, peace, equality, dignity, diversity, and compassion for those who suffer. President Trump stands in opposition to these values, and his name should not be placed alongside President Kennedy's.
Trump's handpicked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center
President Donald Trump’s handpicked board has voted to rename Washington’s leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center.
apnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
(2/2) President Kennedy proudly stood for justice, peace, equality, dignity, diversity, and compassion for those who suffer. President Trump stands in opposition to these values, and his name should not be placed alongside President Kennedy's.
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I've spent 30 years fighting to protect free and fair elections. From county courtrooms to the U.S. Supreme Court, I've argued and won cases that have helped decide elections. I started Democracy Docket to share most important information and analysis with you. Sign-up now. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
December 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I've spent 30 years fighting to protect free and fair elections. From county courtrooms to the U.S. Supreme Court, I've argued and won cases that have helped decide elections. I started Democracy Docket to share most important information and analysis with you. Sign-up now. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0