Celia Ashley
@ashleycab.bsky.social
Ret. public lawyer. Not giving up on democracy, justice, and fairness. 🇺🇸🌎⚖️📚❤️🦋 [Block porn/blanks]
We must address our record wealth gap.
Imagine an economy that serves people and planet, not just profit. Doughnut Economics by K. Raworth.
We must address our record wealth gap.
Imagine an economy that serves people and planet, not just profit. Doughnut Economics by K. Raworth.
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Celia Ashley
@ashleycab.bsky.social
· Dec 4
Calling and writing your reps should become a habit. Why bother if your Reps are MAGA? 1. It reinforces democratic process. 2. Margins are slim and it reminds them of obligations to all their voters. 3. It creates a record. 4. Exercising your rights will make you feel better. We’ve got this.
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Every bit of this is awful, most especially the very private private school: Zuckerberg’s Compound Had Something That Violated City Code: A Private School www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
Zuckerberg’s Compound Had Something That Violated City Code: A Private School
www.nytimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Every bit of this is awful, most especially the very private private school: Zuckerberg’s Compound Had Something That Violated City Code: A Private School www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
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Reported out and wrote about the current state of the Proud Boys, militias, and similarly styled far-right groups. They were the bleeding edge of the right in Trump I, but in Trump II, they’ve been superseded. The federal government is the vanguard now. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Where Have the Proud Boys Gone?
The Trump administration has left them with little to do.
www.theatlantic.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Reported out and wrote about the current state of the Proud Boys, militias, and similarly styled far-right groups. They were the bleeding edge of the right in Trump I, but in Trump II, they’ve been superseded. The federal government is the vanguard now. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Wolff: This is a key issue right now in the way the White House is looking at the Epstein scandal.
The fear is that Ghislaine Maxwell can tie Donald Trump to the details of what Trump and Epstein called the P*ssy Committee.
The Committee consisted of their efforts to get girls for Prince Andrew.
The fear is that Ghislaine Maxwell can tie Donald Trump to the details of what Trump and Epstein called the P*ssy Committee.
The Committee consisted of their efforts to get girls for Prince Andrew.
August 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Wolff: This is a key issue right now in the way the White House is looking at the Epstein scandal.
The fear is that Ghislaine Maxwell can tie Donald Trump to the details of what Trump and Epstein called the P*ssy Committee.
The Committee consisted of their efforts to get girls for Prince Andrew.
The fear is that Ghislaine Maxwell can tie Donald Trump to the details of what Trump and Epstein called the P*ssy Committee.
The Committee consisted of their efforts to get girls for Prince Andrew.
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The press freedom crisis in America isn't only billionaires bowing down at big outlets like CBS, the Post. In L.A., elsewhere, indie journalists at protests are getting beat up or arrested by cops, a chilling sign of an authoritarian U.S. police state
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/los-...
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/los-...
In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death | Will Bunch
On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest — the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.
www.inquirer.com
August 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The press freedom crisis in America isn't only billionaires bowing down at big outlets like CBS, the Post. In L.A., elsewhere, indie journalists at protests are getting beat up or arrested by cops, a chilling sign of an authoritarian U.S. police state
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/los-...
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/los-...
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This is the way.
Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”
August 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This is the way.
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Constitution sections on due process and foreign gifts just vanished from Congress' website
Include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials. www.404media.co/constitution...
Include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials. www.404media.co/constitution...
Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website
Part of Article I Section 8, and all of Sections 9 and 10, which address things like habeas corpus, nobility, and militias, are gone from Congress's website for the Constitution.
www.404media.co
August 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Constitution sections on due process and foreign gifts just vanished from Congress' website
Include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials. www.404media.co/constitution...
Include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials. www.404media.co/constitution...
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The new books arrived, looking great! @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The new books arrived, looking great! @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social
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I see why he bankrupted casinos.
August 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I see why he bankrupted casinos.
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Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...
There Is an Information Blackout at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Detention Camp
Public records related to Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp have...
talkingpointsmemo.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...
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Newsom: He knows he’s going to lose in the midterms, and we have the opportunity to de facto end the Trump presidency in less than 18 months.
That’s what’s at stake. That’s why we’re putting a stake in the ground. We’re not drawing lines just to draw lines—we’re holding the line: on democracy.
That’s what’s at stake. That’s why we’re putting a stake in the ground. We’re not drawing lines just to draw lines—we’re holding the line: on democracy.
August 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Newsom: He knows he’s going to lose in the midterms, and we have the opportunity to de facto end the Trump presidency in less than 18 months.
That’s what’s at stake. That’s why we’re putting a stake in the ground. We’re not drawing lines just to draw lines—we’re holding the line: on democracy.
That’s what’s at stake. That’s why we’re putting a stake in the ground. We’re not drawing lines just to draw lines—we’re holding the line: on democracy.
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According to NYT the problem is not Trump’s Justice Department regularly lying to judges, but judges refusing to believe their lies. NYT is a Trump collaborator.
August 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
According to NYT the problem is not Trump’s Justice Department regularly lying to judges, but judges refusing to believe their lies. NYT is a Trump collaborator.
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Odd
Why didn't Todd Blanche talk to the victims to get the names of the perpetrators?
August 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Odd
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ordered the ICE raids that terrorized LA to stop.
Over to you, Chief Justice Roberts!
Over to you, Chief Justice Roberts!
Bass: We just heard that the administration’s experiment failed. The raids that were happening in Los Angeles—the random pulling and snatching of people off the streets based on the language they spoke, their appearance, where they work—the court has said that can no longer happen.
August 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ordered the ICE raids that terrorized LA to stop.
Over to you, Chief Justice Roberts!
Over to you, Chief Justice Roberts!
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In an effort to attract new recruits, ICE is offering incentives including signing bonuses of up to $50,000 and student loan forgiveness/repayment options.
No student loan debt forgiveness for teachers, nurses or other vital professionals!
No student loan debt forgiveness for teachers, nurses or other vital professionals!
August 3, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In an effort to attract new recruits, ICE is offering incentives including signing bonuses of up to $50,000 and student loan forgiveness/repayment options.
No student loan debt forgiveness for teachers, nurses or other vital professionals!
No student loan debt forgiveness for teachers, nurses or other vital professionals!
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A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation
University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas
The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.
lailluminator.com
August 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation
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Remember when Republicans were against pedophiles?
August 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Remember when Republicans were against pedophiles?
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A system that allows a convicted criminal rapist tyrannical traitor to gain full totalitarian control of the U.S. govt without so much as a guardrail in place to protect us from him and his deranged destructive immoral corrupt agenda is a highly flawed and broken system.
August 1, 2025 at 5:21 AM
A system that allows a convicted criminal rapist tyrannical traitor to gain full totalitarian control of the U.S. govt without so much as a guardrail in place to protect us from him and his deranged destructive immoral corrupt agenda is a highly flawed and broken system.
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I guess that will be the very LAST correct report we will ever get from Pedolini
I guess that will be the very LAST correct report we will ever get from Pedolini
Trump orders firing of labor statistics chief hours after data showed jobs growth slowed
US president claimed without evidence that Erika McEntarfer had ‘faked’ employment figures in the run-up to last year’s election
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I guess that will be the very LAST correct report we will ever get from Pedolini
I guess that will be the very LAST correct report we will ever get from Pedolini
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