laskyj.bsky.social
@laskyj.bsky.social
Common sense advocate
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And then think of what a cornered psychopathic human being with the morals and instincts of a rat and control of over five thousand nuclear warheads would do.
This is a very dangerous moment for the country and the world. A cornered rat will do anything to escape.
November 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Pam Bondi has posted rants and videos saying that there’ll be no mercy for those who threaten federal agents.

But she and her boss just pardoned a woman who threatened to shoot federal agents.

Why did this Florida woman get a pass? She’s MAGA.

Trump doesn’t care about federal agents. Never did.
Trump Pardons Two for Crimes Related to Jan. 6
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.

Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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So the Epstein vote isn't the only reason Mike Johnson should fear Rep. Yassamin Ansari. More of this, please.
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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America begins clapping back at Trump.

My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
America Begins Clapping Back at Donald Trump
In a week of political exits, a reminder that Trump’s time is coming soon, too.
www.newyorker.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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NEWS: A federal judge says Gregory Bovino lied under oath. The Department of Homeland Security has a massive credibility problem. Two federal judges in Chicago have ripped the government’s credibility.
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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At long fucking last, a group of Democratic strategy eggheads has grasped some fundamental truths about what has to change.
October 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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“At a moment when U.S. forces are building up across the Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela are at a boiling point, the departure of our top military commander in the region sends an alarming signal of instability within the chain of command...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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When Washington speaks, commanders must answer. But let’s not forget: Those commanders need a foundation of lawful, principled leadership to stand on. www.thebulwark.com/p/questions-...
Questions After Quantico
U.S. military commanders around the world will be working to provide steady leadership after Hegseth’s bravado and Trump’s bluster.
www.thebulwark.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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So Speaker Johnson gave the congress another week off. Paid of course, while they shut the govt down.

The GOP has made it clear they have no interest in compromise with Dems. So they will have to figure how to reopen their govt that they closed.

And they get another vacation
October 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Listen. I left evangelicalism but these motherfuckers are trying hard as hell to at least simulate all the antichrist warnings us Baptists had to sit through.
October 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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From the Editorial Board:

A beautiful early fall weekend in downtown Chicago. Sun-splashed lakefront. Families enjoying the museums and city sights. Packs of men in military fatigues carrying high-powered long guns.

Which of those images doesn’t belong?
Editorial: A sun-soaked Sunday in downtown Chicago, marred by a Trumpian show of force
Dozens of heavily armed immigration agents descend on downtown Chicago on a gorgeous early fall Sunday. What’s wrong with this picture?
trib.al
October 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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A top Mamdani adviser tells me internal data shows taking on Trump's authoritarian abuses resonates. It appeals to working class voters across all demographics, countering the frequent claim that this is a "distraction" from issues working people "really" care about.

newrepublic.com/article/2011...
October 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."
October 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Trump told military leaders today that US cities would become “training grounds.”

Do you understand it yet, America? This IS the talk of a dictator.

I’m not afraid to say that word. I’m afraid that my former party is going along with it.
September 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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You know Trump's long list of obvious and likely misdeeds. It's time for actual investigations. www.thebulwark.com/p/state-comm...
It’s Time for the States to Start Investigating Trump
Democratic-led state governments can hold the aspiring autocrat’s feet to the fire.
www.thebulwark.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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I'd be curious to know who much it cost the American taxpayers to flying generals in from all over the world so Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump would have a captive audience to witness their weird and dangerous witlessness live.
September 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Fox is showing viewers footage of vandalism from 2020. The White House is touting misleading statistics on violence. Trump’s allies are telling his base that the left is a dire threat, and even he is buying it. www.pbump.net/o/how-trumpw...
How Trumpworld inflates the perceived danger of the left
It is stipulated at the outset that there have been gruesome acts of political violence in recent months that appear to have been motivated by hostility to right-wing politics or the administration. T...
www.pbump.net
September 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM