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Writer. Researcher. Liberal. Wife. Mom. Grandma. Dragged kicking & screaming into the digital age. I research TV shows, write novels and babysit grandkids. #neverX #books #history #SCBWI
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Donald Trump did

If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

This video Paige and I did explaining what happened in court today is going viral. Thank you for all the nice comments and to the thousands of new subscribers. I hope you find it useful. youtu.be/5HRmolBoM_k

This is why we have due process; because random people speculating about things is a terrible way to run a government. Without due process, we're all just vigilantes. At its core, that's what this is about. Due process and the rule of law. Everything else is window dressing.

🚨Trump has fired more Veterans than any president in modern history. Now he wants to gut 80,000 jobs from the VA—including the folks caring for Vets with toxic exposure. Sen. Tammy Duckworth is done being polite: “He hugs the flag, then sh*ts on America.”

What an ignorant fool… 🤬 people.com/rfk-jr-claim...

They never don't look painfully stupid

Democracy isn’t dying in darkness it’s being dismantled at the hands of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. @allisonjriggs.bsky.social won this election fair and square back in November. Her opponent is a petulant Confederate cosplayer who can’t handle losing. Concede Jefferson Griffin.

WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?

DHS, the new Gestapo

WATCH LIVE: Fighting Oligarchy Tour with AOC And Bernie Sanders in LA

LIVE: AOC is just started speaking at her largest rally yet in Los Angeles. Watch HERE: www.youtube.com/live/T2449Ua...

The dream is dead

If they had anyone worth noting, their face would be plastered across state media. They don’t. This is human trafficking.

Imagine being a small business with debt, that you used to import products you had manufactured in china. In the time it took to make the products, tariffs were added, that more than doubled your cost. They are crushed Are there any states offering support for their businesses ?

My law firm is currently litigating 49 voting and election cases in 21 states. States with the most cases: AZ, GA, NC, NV, FL, LA, PA. I expect new cases will be filed this week.

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/

new hubble image to cleanse the timeline ✨

NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

I long for the days when the stock market wasn't crashing as often as planes and helicopters.

NEWS: Consumer sentiment PLUNGED 11% this month to a preliminary reading of 50.8, the second-lowest reading on records going back to 1952. April’s reading was lower than anything seen during the Great Recession.

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

Warren Urges S.E.C. to Investigate Trading Around Trump’s Tariff Pause You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...

We went from Putin gate, to Signal gate then tariff gate and he's still in the White House. 😡

Donald Trump just put tariffs on a penguin. No — I’m not joking.

If the point of Donald Trump’s tariffs was to destroy the US economy By making consumer goods unaffordable Tanking the stock market Setting up America for crushing retaliation And pissing off all of our allies He’s doing a helluva job

The slime oozing down the White House walls is palpable.

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: It has come to my attention that several agencies are now offering WiFi for you to use with your PERSONAL devices. If I were you, I would NOT use that WiFi. I suspect it's a way for DOGE to monitor your personal communications.

Christian nationalists don’t actually believe in heaven or hell or they wouldn’t act the way they do…

It continues to be horrible. We can't let them erase history. open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...

More than 40% of retired workers apply for Social Security by phone. Trump wants to end this service on April 14. This will crowd our Social Security offices, which already have 30 million visits/year, and are facing cuts and closures because of Trump. This must be stopped.

We Should Have Seen What Sally Mann Saw 40 Years Ago: A 12-year-old girl is in the midst of a profound transition. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o... You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...

The Tax Foundation estimates that the f*ckwit felon's tariffs could knock the US GDP by roughly 0.7% & cost about 500k US jobs. The stable genius will obliterate our economy that under Biden was called the envy of the world. It'll be yet another Trumptastrophe. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Listening to the Speaker of The House, I'm going to assume... 1. No resignations will occur, 2. There will be no congressional hearings, 3. Nothing is going to happen. Our entire federal government is fucked...