wileylorente
@cwlorente.bsky.social
Retired newspaper reporter, ghostwriter, magazine & book editor; former member National Writers Union; liberal Democrat, reader, crocheter, cook, old lady
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I consider myself a fairly patient person, but I can't listen to another second of this ridiculous, wheezing idiot. I'm done. Nothing he is saying aligns with anything that is really happening in the real world.
December 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I consider myself a fairly patient person, but I can't listen to another second of this ridiculous, wheezing idiot. I'm done. Nothing he is saying aligns with anything that is really happening in the real world.
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Stay on Epstein. Trump wants to distract you any way he can, because he knows the Epstein files can bury him. Don’t get off topic. Epstein is the story.
July 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Stay on Epstein. Trump wants to distract you any way he can, because he knows the Epstein files can bury him. Don’t get off topic. Epstein is the story.
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We should see this in every store. If they cannot post it they do not get our business.
Businesses in California and throughout the country are putting this up. I absolutely love it.
July 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
We should see this in every store. If they cannot post it they do not get our business.
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The New York Times reports Jonathan Braun—a violent felon with ties to Jared Kushner, whose sentence Trump commuted—has been sent back to prison after new charges, including assaulting a 3-year-old. In court, he ranted about his lawyer and flipped off spectators. His fifth arrest.
June 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The New York Times reports Jonathan Braun—a violent felon with ties to Jared Kushner, whose sentence Trump commuted—has been sent back to prison after new charges, including assaulting a 3-year-old. In court, he ranted about his lawyer and flipped off spectators. His fifth arrest.
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Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!
June 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!
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NEW: Duck Durbin addresses the Whistleblower letter accusing above of telling the courts to fuck off during Bove’s judicial nomination hearing.
June 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
NEW: Duck Durbin addresses the Whistleblower letter accusing above of telling the courts to fuck off during Bove’s judicial nomination hearing.
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Trump has to be out of office. Today. No more of this deranged, enraged, stupid old man who thinks the world is only about HIM. He is a manifest threat to humanity
June 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Trump has to be out of office. Today. No more of this deranged, enraged, stupid old man who thinks the world is only about HIM. He is a manifest threat to humanity
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The Illinois secretary of state asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department after learning that it violated state law by sharing data from automatic license-plate readers with a Texas sheriff seeking a woman who had an abortion.
Giannoulias Calls for Investigation After Suburban License-Plate Data Shared With Police in Texas Seeking Woman Who Had Abortion
Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias asked the attorney general to review the matter. He also is creating an audit system to ensure police departments don’t run afoul of a 2023 law banning the distrib...
news.wttw.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The Illinois secretary of state asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department after learning that it violated state law by sharing data from automatic license-plate readers with a Texas sheriff seeking a woman who had an abortion.
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It’s wild to me that there are still people out there saying “they won’t/can’t do that because it’s against the law.”
Have you been in a coma for the last five months or…
Have you been in a coma for the last five months or…
June 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It’s wild to me that there are still people out there saying “they won’t/can’t do that because it’s against the law.”
Have you been in a coma for the last five months or…
Have you been in a coma for the last five months or…
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The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive was about to launch an exhibition of historic quilts, when federal funding earmarked to conserve them had been canceled.
These fragile quilts by Black craftspeople need to be preserved — but the federal government has pulled the funds
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive was about to launch an exhibition of historic quilts, when federal funding earmarked to conserve them had been canceled.
n.pr
June 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive was about to launch an exhibition of historic quilts, when federal funding earmarked to conserve them had been canceled.
And in Chicago, immigrants were called to come in for a "routine" meeting, and when they arrived, they were arrested by Trump's Goons. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
MSN
www.msn.com
June 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
And in Chicago, immigrants were called to come in for a "routine" meeting, and when they arrived, they were arrested by Trump's Goons. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
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For all Hegseth’s talk about making our military stronger and more lethal, implementing this un-American transgender military ban will do the opposite.
It shrinks our fighting force.
It undermines readiness.
It jeopardizes our national security.
www.advocate.com/news/tammy-d...
It shrinks our fighting force.
It undermines readiness.
It jeopardizes our national security.
www.advocate.com/news/tammy-d...
Combat vet Tammy Duckworth leads Democrats’ final plea to stop Pentagon purge as trans military ban begins
“Mr. Secretary, do not implement this ban," the Illinois senator wrote in a letter to Pete Hegseth.
www.advocate.com
June 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
For all Hegseth’s talk about making our military stronger and more lethal, implementing this un-American transgender military ban will do the opposite.
It shrinks our fighting force.
It undermines readiness.
It jeopardizes our national security.
www.advocate.com/news/tammy-d...
It shrinks our fighting force.
It undermines readiness.
It jeopardizes our national security.
www.advocate.com/news/tammy-d...
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Awesome!
June 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Awesome!
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Remind me. Who's the world laughing at?
Hint: Not Biden.
Hint: Not Biden.
June 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Remind me. Who's the world laughing at?
Hint: Not Biden.
Hint: Not Biden.
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Make no mistake: Illinois is leading the nation in strengthening women’s health care.
With the passage of HB 3637, we are expanding the ways we shield our providers from punishment for delivering life-saving health care.
We are not going back.
With the passage of HB 3637, we are expanding the ways we shield our providers from punishment for delivering life-saving health care.
We are not going back.
May 31, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Make no mistake: Illinois is leading the nation in strengthening women’s health care.
With the passage of HB 3637, we are expanding the ways we shield our providers from punishment for delivering life-saving health care.
We are not going back.
With the passage of HB 3637, we are expanding the ways we shield our providers from punishment for delivering life-saving health care.
We are not going back.
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It’s finally infrastructure week, now that Biden and the Democrats did the infrastructure bill!
May 31, 2025 at 4:03 AM
It’s finally infrastructure week, now that Biden and the Democrats did the infrastructure bill!
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So we’ve got $90 million to throw the parade he wanted, but we don’t have the money to fix North Carolina. Got it!
May 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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I won a court order stopping the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle the Department of Education. The court’s decision preserves key protections for students and nearly $800M in funding for schools serving low-income children in IL: tinyurl.com/5t2e95hn
May 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I won a court order stopping the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle the Department of Education. The court’s decision preserves key protections for students and nearly $800M in funding for schools serving low-income children in IL: tinyurl.com/5t2e95hn
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Harvard's Sidechat. Who agrees?
May 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Harvard's Sidechat. Who agrees?
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The GOP knows Trump’s Tax Scam with massive Medicaid cuts is wildly unpopular. That’s why they held their hearing at 1 AM — to hide their bill from the American people. Don’t let them get away with it. If a Republican represents you, demand that they reject this bill: indivisible.org/reso...
May 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The GOP knows Trump’s Tax Scam with massive Medicaid cuts is wildly unpopular. That’s why they held their hearing at 1 AM — to hide their bill from the American people. Don’t let them get away with it. If a Republican represents you, demand that they reject this bill: indivisible.org/reso...
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THIS!
The same people who say Adriana Smith should stay hooked up to machines so a fetus can gestate inside her dead body for 7 months because “it’s a sacrifice a mother would make” can’t fathom a mother crossing the border with her children in hopes of providing a better life for them.
May 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
THIS!
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I have a question for all the right-wingers going nuts because of James Comey's post:
Should all the people who were chanting violent threats to Mike Pence on Jan 6, while also beating up police, have been pardoned?
Should all the people who were chanting violent threats to Mike Pence on Jan 6, while also beating up police, have been pardoned?
May 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I have a question for all the right-wingers going nuts because of James Comey's post:
Should all the people who were chanting violent threats to Mike Pence on Jan 6, while also beating up police, have been pardoned?
Should all the people who were chanting violent threats to Mike Pence on Jan 6, while also beating up police, have been pardoned?
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Yes, we noticed. You're still here.
May 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Yes, we noticed. You're still here.