Laurie McElhatton
@travelbug5.bsky.social
Looking for honest discourse, actual facts; I’m a champion for women’s rights, advocate for science and responsible action to combat climate change, sick of the corrupt GOP and clowns in orange turd’s cabinet. USA is now a joke thanks to MAGAts. Attorney.
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Of course he did. Anyone who believes otherwise is a complete idiot.
WaPo is reporting that Bradley told lawmakers that Hegseth DID give a kill order.
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Of course he did. Anyone who believes otherwise is a complete idiot.
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Biden shows a bit of cognitive decline:
@jaketapper.bsky.social writes a whole ass book.
Trump falls asleep at his own cabinet meetings and daily acts like the most demented psychopath on Earth:
@jaketapper.bsky.social says "that's just Trump being Trump."
That's why Jake Tapper is a damn clown.
@jaketapper.bsky.social writes a whole ass book.
Trump falls asleep at his own cabinet meetings and daily acts like the most demented psychopath on Earth:
@jaketapper.bsky.social says "that's just Trump being Trump."
That's why Jake Tapper is a damn clown.
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Biden shows a bit of cognitive decline:
@jaketapper.bsky.social writes a whole ass book.
Trump falls asleep at his own cabinet meetings and daily acts like the most demented psychopath on Earth:
@jaketapper.bsky.social says "that's just Trump being Trump."
That's why Jake Tapper is a damn clown.
@jaketapper.bsky.social writes a whole ass book.
Trump falls asleep at his own cabinet meetings and daily acts like the most demented psychopath on Earth:
@jaketapper.bsky.social says "that's just Trump being Trump."
That's why Jake Tapper is a damn clown.
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I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
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Berman cornered Cotton. Over and over again.
BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
December 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Berman cornered Cotton. Over and over again.
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1. Steve Witkoff, Trump's top negotiator for a peace deal in Ukraine, has an active financial partnership with Len Blavatnik, a billionaire sanctioned by the Ukrainian government. Witkoff and Blavatnik are co-developing ultra-luxury condos in NYC, a Popular Information investigation reveals.
Top Trump negotiator retains partnership with Ukraine-sanctioned billionaire
Steve Witkoff coached a top Putin aide on managing Trump and created a peace plan that mirrored Russian demands
popular.info
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
1. Steve Witkoff, Trump's top negotiator for a peace deal in Ukraine, has an active financial partnership with Len Blavatnik, a billionaire sanctioned by the Ukrainian government. Witkoff and Blavatnik are co-developing ultra-luxury condos in NYC, a Popular Information investigation reveals.
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They're not going after criminals and gang members they're just going after whoever the f*** they feel like. And I think they feel like white supremacists
Most immigrants arrested in Trump’s D.C. crackdown had no criminal records.
The “crime emergency” declared by Trump resulted in 932 arrests of immigrants with no criminal conviction or pending charge, federal data shows.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The “crime emergency” declared by Trump resulted in 932 arrests of immigrants with no criminal conviction or pending charge, federal data shows.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Most immigrants arrested in Trump’s D.C. crackdown had no criminal records
A Post analysis of federal data shows that the arrests of immigrants with no prior criminal record shot up sixfold during the Trump administration’s crackdown.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
They're not going after criminals and gang members they're just going after whoever the f*** they feel like. And I think they feel like white supremacists
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Taxpayers are paying for FBI Agents to escort Kash Patel's girlfriend's drunk friends home after nights of partying, and pulling elite tactical agents away from SWAT missions to chauffeur his girlfriend around.
...something, something, waste and fraud...
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
...something, something, waste and fraud...
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend’s pal a lift home: sources
FBI agents have grown increasingly concerned by Patel’s use of the bureau’s strapped resource.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Taxpayers are paying for FBI Agents to escort Kash Patel's girlfriend's drunk friends home after nights of partying, and pulling elite tactical agents away from SWAT missions to chauffeur his girlfriend around.
...something, something, waste and fraud...
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
...something, something, waste and fraud...
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
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It’s clear he’s selling pardons. It’s become a corrupt practice.
December 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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The U.S. Supreme Court: "ICE can racially profile people it arrests."
Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."
Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."
Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The U.S. Supreme Court: "ICE can racially profile people it arrests."
Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."
Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."
Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
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solar panels saved this school district so much money they were able to give their teachers $15k raises: www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/ark...
via @goodgoodgoodco.bsky.social
via @goodgoodgoodco.bsky.social
How one school district used solar panels to give teachers a $15K pay raise
The initiative has inspired other school districts in the area to follow suit.
www.goodgoodgood.co
December 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
solar panels saved this school district so much money they were able to give their teachers $15k raises: www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/ark...
via @goodgoodgoodco.bsky.social
via @goodgoodgoodco.bsky.social
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The US govt is screaming—in words, actions, and now a strategic document—that America has switched sides in the world, preferring authoritarians and a transnational white nationalism over liberal democracy.
Like Russia, a US foreign policy goal is to undermine the EU.
Will Europe finally listen?
Like Russia, a US foreign policy goal is to undermine the EU.
Will Europe finally listen?
‘Civilisational erasure’: US strategy document appears to echo far-right conspiracy theories about Europe
Official text, signed by Donald Trump, outlines plan to ‘cultivate resistance’ in EU nations to their ‘current trajectory’
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The US govt is screaming—in words, actions, and now a strategic document—that America has switched sides in the world, preferring authoritarians and a transnational white nationalism over liberal democracy.
Like Russia, a US foreign policy goal is to undermine the EU.
Will Europe finally listen?
Like Russia, a US foreign policy goal is to undermine the EU.
Will Europe finally listen?
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December 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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US military
Pentagon announces it has killed four men in another boat strike in Pacific
Strike comes amid congressional turmoil over legality of US attacks on suspected drug smugglers
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pentagon announces it has killed four men in another boat strike in Pacific
Strike comes amid congressional turmoil over legality of US attacks on suspected drug smugglers
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pentagon announces it has killed four men in another boat strike in Pacific
Strike comes amid congressional turmoil over legality of US attacks on suspected drug smugglers
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
US military
Pentagon announces it has killed four men in another boat strike in Pacific
Strike comes amid congressional turmoil over legality of US attacks on suspected drug smugglers
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pentagon announces it has killed four men in another boat strike in Pacific
Strike comes amid congressional turmoil over legality of US attacks on suspected drug smugglers
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Four missile strikes on a speedboat isn't about stopping drug traffickers and drugs.
It's about eliminating eye witnesses and evidence.
It's about eliminating eye witnesses and evidence.
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Four missile strikes on a speedboat isn't about stopping drug traffickers and drugs.
It's about eliminating eye witnesses and evidence.
It's about eliminating eye witnesses and evidence.
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🚨When 16-year-old Joel Andre, one of Portland, Maine’s most beloved young soccer stars, vanished into immigration detention with his family, the shock rippled through local schools and left classmates terrified their families could be next.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/maine-stud...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/maine-stud...
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
🚨When 16-year-old Joel Andre, one of Portland, Maine’s most beloved young soccer stars, vanished into immigration detention with his family, the shock rippled through local schools and left classmates terrified their families could be next.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/maine-stud...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/maine-stud...
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Sorry, but it’s naive to believe that this SCOTUS would ever “defer” to a non-rightwing agenda. And, in any event, we dont have time to wait around and see. Roberts is an expert at running out the clock. On Day One we need to *pack* the Court (not “reform” it)
Here’s the fix: win simple majorities, eliminate antidemocratic impediments to passing laws that help everyone, pass laws that help everyone, eliminate antidemocratic impediments to enacting transformative laws that help everyone. Congress leads, executive follows, SCOTUS defers—or gets reformed.
December 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Sorry, but it’s naive to believe that this SCOTUS would ever “defer” to a non-rightwing agenda. And, in any event, we dont have time to wait around and see. Roberts is an expert at running out the clock. On Day One we need to *pack* the Court (not “reform” it)
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Ding ding ding ding
I've been saying for the better part of a year that Trump is on a mission to decriminalize corruption. To make it the legal equivalent of jaywalking.
I feel that more strongly now than I ever had.
I feel that more strongly now than I ever had.
Trump announces a pardon of Henry Cuellar: "I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!"
December 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Ding ding ding ding
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She's spot on. Maddow on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night.
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
She's spot on. Maddow on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night.
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#EpsteinFiles #Trump #Maxwell #Death #Coverup
👉 No one believes Epstein killed himself. Not Trump, not his partner Ghislaine Maxwell, not his brother, not Dr Baden
👉 No one believes Epstein killed himself. Not Trump, not his partner Ghislaine Maxwell, not his brother, not Dr Baden
October 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
#EpsteinFiles #Trump #Maxwell #Death #Coverup
👉 No one believes Epstein killed himself. Not Trump, not his partner Ghislaine Maxwell, not his brother, not Dr Baden
👉 No one believes Epstein killed himself. Not Trump, not his partner Ghislaine Maxwell, not his brother, not Dr Baden
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George Retes is an American citizen and veteran who was unjustly pepper-sprayed, arrested, and imprisoned for three days by ICE.
Yet he won't be intimidated by this lawless administration. He's speaking up and telling his story as part of a new $250k @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social campaign. 👇
Yet he won't be intimidated by this lawless administration. He's speaking up and telling his story as part of a new $250k @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social campaign. 👇
December 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
George Retes is an American citizen and veteran who was unjustly pepper-sprayed, arrested, and imprisoned for three days by ICE.
Yet he won't be intimidated by this lawless administration. He's speaking up and telling his story as part of a new $250k @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social campaign. 👇
Yet he won't be intimidated by this lawless administration. He's speaking up and telling his story as part of a new $250k @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social campaign. 👇
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Alabama officials cut off funding for a public library that refused to bar access to the "The Handmaid's Tale" and other books they deemed sexually explicit to anyone under 18.
Thankfully, @everylibrary.bsky.social has stepped up to provide funding to allow the library to remain open for now.
Thankfully, @everylibrary.bsky.social has stepped up to provide funding to allow the library to remain open for now.
Fairhope Public Library accepts donations to cover withheld state…
The Fairhope Public Library was presented with over $42,000 in donations from EveryLibrary during its regular meeting Monday. The funds were raised after…
1819news.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Alabama officials cut off funding for a public library that refused to bar access to the "The Handmaid's Tale" and other books they deemed sexually explicit to anyone under 18.
Thankfully, @everylibrary.bsky.social has stepped up to provide funding to allow the library to remain open for now.
Thankfully, @everylibrary.bsky.social has stepped up to provide funding to allow the library to remain open for now.
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage: