Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩
@lesleyabravanel.bsky.social
Blue check Xpat, disco-loving, fascism fighting, ex gossip columnist, author, ghost writer, game show champ, twin mama, Mrs., hot sauce collector, Bloody Mary maven, #TurdReichRedux resistor stuck in Floriduh & can't believe we're doing this again
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Why America’s economy is soaring ahead of its rivals
The country’s outperformance is rooted in long-term productivity growth that is the envy of the developed world. Could Trump’s policies endanger its lead?
www.ft.com
Thanks to Joe Biden, America’s economy is soaring ahead of its rivals www.ft.com/content/1201...
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Mike Johnson will go down in history as the most spineless, incompetent and narrow-minded Speaker in American history. Johnson is seriously deranged. He actually seems to believe his personal extremist partisan policy preferences are ordained by God. He is a threat to democracy and the rule of law.
'Spoke volumes': MAGA TV outlet takes a shot at Mike Johnson for ducking questions www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...
'Spoke volumes': MAGA TV outlet takes a shot at Mike Johnson for ducking questions
LindellTV, the pro-Trump, conservative online streaming and media platform founded by election-denier MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, criticized Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Monday after he ...
www.rawstory.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Mike Johnson will go down in history as the most spineless, incompetent and narrow-minded Speaker in American history. Johnson is seriously deranged. He actually seems to believe his personal extremist partisan policy preferences are ordained by God. He is a threat to democracy and the rule of law.
'Spoke volumes': MAGA TV outlet takes a shot at Mike Johnson for ducking questions www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...
'Spoke volumes': MAGA TV outlet takes a shot at Mike Johnson for ducking questions
LindellTV, the pro-Trump, conservative online streaming and media platform founded by election-denier MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, criticized Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Monday after he ...
www.rawstory.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
'Spoke volumes': MAGA TV outlet takes a shot at Mike Johnson for ducking questions www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...
Angry Democrats brew 'furious civil war' after 'lousy' shutdown deal www.rawstory.com/angry-democr...
Angry Democrats brew 'furious civil war' after 'lousy' shutdown deal
A "furious civil war" is brewing in the Democratic Party after members of the Democratic caucus voted with Republicans Sunday to advance a measure aimed at ending the ongoing government shutdown, repo...
www.rawstory.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Angry Democrats brew 'furious civil war' after 'lousy' shutdown deal www.rawstory.com/angry-democr...
GOOD FOR THE 2 FL federal prosecutors who JUST resigned after being asked to join a grand jury investigation into former DOJ officials because it went against their ethics. Allies find 'gung-ho' Miami prosecutor to target Trump-Russia investigators www.alternet.org/russia-trump/
Allies find 'gung-ho' Miami prosecutor to target Trump-Russia investigators
Far-right influencers are looking to Miami as a venue to pursue "long-promised charges of a 'grand conspiracy'" against President Donald Trump’s perceived adversaries, according to a New York Times re...
www.alternet.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
GOOD FOR THE 2 FL federal prosecutors who JUST resigned after being asked to join a grand jury investigation into former DOJ officials because it went against their ethics. Allies find 'gung-ho' Miami prosecutor to target Trump-Russia investigators www.alternet.org/russia-trump/
Trump glitz is leaving him blind to 'existential' threat: analyst www.rawstory.com/trump-glitz-...
Trump glitz is leaving him blind to 'existential' threat: analyst
New York Times White House reporter Erica Green writes that despite President Donald Trump's campaign trail promises, the issue of affordability has become a thorn in his crown. And he's doing little ...
www.rawstory.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Trump glitz is leaving him blind to 'existential' threat: analyst www.rawstory.com/trump-glitz-...
'Silence spoke volumes': MAGA network fumes after House speaker refuses to take questions www.alternet.org/the-right-wi...
'Silence spoke volumes': MAGA network fumes after House speaker refuses to take questions
LindellTV, the pro-Trump, conservative online streaming and media platform founded by election-denier MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, criticized Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) Monday after he ref...
www.alternet.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
'Silence spoke volumes': MAGA network fumes after House speaker refuses to take questions www.alternet.org/the-right-wi...
GOP insiders are 'focused on' the next party leader — but Trump could leave them 'screwed' www.alternet.org/trump/trump-...
GOP insiders are 'focused on' the next party leader — but Trump could leave them 'screwed'
As soon as President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, Vice President JD Vance and his close advisers came up with a plan to cement him as the heir apparent to MAGA, Newsweek reports, but some say t...
www.alternet.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
GOP insiders are 'focused on' the next party leader — but Trump could leave them 'screwed' www.alternet.org/trump/trump-...
Trump stuns with angry threat against air traffic controllers--and then a bribe www.alternet.org/the-right-wi...
Trump stuns with angry threat against air traffic controllers: 'Didn’t step up' to fight Dems
As thousands of flights have been canceled due to the historic government shutdown, leaving airports without air traffic controllers, President Donald Trump on Monday issued a scathing threat — and th...
www.alternet.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Trump stuns with angry threat against air traffic controllers--and then a bribe www.alternet.org/the-right-wi...
Trump ignores 'existential' political threat in favor of 'new Ballroom at the White House': expert www.alternet.org/msn/trump-af...
Trump ignores 'existential' political threat in favor of 'new Ballroom at the White House': expert
New York Times White House reporter Erica Green writes that despite President Donald Trump's campaign trail promises, the issue affordability has become a thorn in his crown. And he's doing little to ...
www.alternet.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Trump ignores 'existential' political threat in favor of 'new Ballroom at the White House': expert www.alternet.org/msn/trump-af...
'Tone-deaf' Trump is in a 'crisis of his own making': analysis www.alternet.org/news-politic...
'Tone-deaf' Trump is in a 'crisis of his own making': analysis
Italian-English digital newspaper La Voce di New York argues that with President Donald Trump's approval sinking and the historic shutdown still lingering, he is not only "tone-deaf" and in denial abo...
www.alternet.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
'Tone-deaf' Trump is in a 'crisis of his own making': analysis www.alternet.org/news-politic...
Americans traveling abroad advised to prep for 'confrontational conversations' about Trump www.alternet.org/traveling-tr...
Americans traveling abroad advised to prep for 'confrontational conversations' about Trump
Travel experts are advising Americans traveling abroad to be prepared for "confrontational coversations" about President Donald Trump by curious and concerned international citizens, CNN reports.“Pret...
www.alternet.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Americans traveling abroad advised to prep for 'confrontational conversations' about Trump www.alternet.org/traveling-tr...
Leaked Document Reveals Maxwell Escalating Trump Pardon Effort www.nationalmemo.com/ghislaine-ma...
Leaked Document Reveals Maxwell Escalating Trump Pardon Effort
A new document obtained by House Judiciary Committee Democrats shows that Ghislaine Maxwell, serving 20 years in a country club prison, is preparing to ask President Donald Trump to commute her senten...
www.nationalmemo.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Leaked Document Reveals Maxwell Escalating Trump Pardon Effort www.nationalmemo.com/ghislaine-ma...
SOME GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE: Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
SOME GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE: Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
WSJ blasts Trump for causing 'political damage' to the GOP www.alternet.org/trump-editor...
WSJ blasts Trump for causing 'political damage' to the GOP
The Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal blasted President Donald Trump in an editorial for "suggesting that voters are idiots" for not buying into his tariffs while promising Americans a $2,000 t...
www.alternet.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
WSJ blasts Trump for causing 'political damage' to the GOP www.alternet.org/trump-editor...
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Wondering if this is a retribution reaction to his being booed at the NFL game in Washington.
Notice F47 always does something childish after he feels slighted.
Notice F47 always does something childish after he feels slighted.
'Infuriating': Trump's Sunday night pardon spree angers critics www.alternet.org/trump-pardon...
'Infuriating': Trump's Sunday night pardon spree angers critics
President Donald Trump went on a Sunday night pardon spree, granting full clemency to at least 77 individuals involved in promoting alternate electors in battleground states after the 2020 election, i...
www.alternet.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Wondering if this is a retribution reaction to his being booed at the NFL game in Washington.
Notice F47 always does something childish after he feels slighted.
Notice F47 always does something childish after he feels slighted.
Angry Democrats explode in 'widespread backlash' to 'lousy' shutdown deal www.alternet.org/2674281076/
Angry Democrats explode in 'widespread backlash' to 'lousy' shutdown deal
A "furious civil war" is brewing in the Democratic Party after eight members of the Democratic caucus voted with Republicans Sunday to advance a measure aimed at ending the ongoing government shutdown...
www.alternet.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Angry Democrats explode in 'widespread backlash' to 'lousy' shutdown deal www.alternet.org/2674281076/
The one thing that's almost as bad as Trump's cruelty: analysis www.alternet.org/trump-cruelt...
The one thing that's almost as bad as Trump's cruelty: analysis
The New Republic's Michael Tomasky argues that President Donald Trump's inane ideas "sound great to people who know nothing," and that while his cruelty is a signature, his "sheer idiocy" is just as b...
www.alternet.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The one thing that's almost as bad as Trump's cruelty: analysis www.alternet.org/trump-cruelt...
Democrats finally find Trump's 'kryptonite': analysis www.alternet.org/trump-krypto...
Democrats finally find Trump's 'kryptonite': analysis
President Donald Trump, argues New York Times opinion writer E.J. Dionne Jr., "had a lot to do with this new appreciation for empathy and the thrashing of Republicans at the polls," and the Democrati...
www.alternet.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Democrats finally find Trump's 'kryptonite': analysis www.alternet.org/trump-krypto...
Leak: Epstein accomplice preparing to ask Trump to commute her sentence www.alternet.org/maxwell-trum...
Leak: Epstein accomplice preparing to ask Trump to commute her sentence
A new document obtained by House Judiciary Committee Democrats shows that Ghislaine Maxwell, serving 20 years in a country club prison, is preparing to ask President Donald Trump to commute her senten...
www.alternet.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Leak: Epstein accomplice preparing to ask Trump to commute her sentence www.alternet.org/maxwell-trum...
'Infuriating': Trump's Sunday night pardon spree angers critics www.alternet.org/trump-pardon...
'Infuriating': Trump's Sunday night pardon spree angers critics
President Donald Trump went on a Sunday night pardon spree, granting full clemency to at least 77 individuals involved in promoting alternate electors in battleground states after the 2020 election, i...
www.alternet.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
'Infuriating': Trump's Sunday night pardon spree angers critics www.alternet.org/trump-pardon...
'Grotesque': Lindsey Graham slammed for blaming shutdown on Dem 'political terrorism' www.alternet.org/lindsey-grah...
'Grotesque': Lindsey Graham slammed for blaming shutdown on Dem 'political terrorism'
Raw Story reports that Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo Sunday that the historic government shutdown will end "today" and that the Democrats were guilty of "political terr...
www.alternet.org
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
'Grotesque': Lindsey Graham slammed for blaming shutdown on Dem 'political terrorism' www.alternet.org/lindsey-grah...
Trump mocked after he spent 20 minutes 'battling' to keep his eyes open during speech www.alternet.org/trump-sleepi...
Trump mocked after he spent 20 minutes 'battling' to keep his eyes open during speech
Before a man fainted in the Oval Office where the administration was announcing price cuts for weight-loss drugs, President Donald Trump struggled to stay awake for 20 minutes in a now-viral photo tha...
www.alternet.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Trump mocked after he spent 20 minutes 'battling' to keep his eyes open during speech www.alternet.org/trump-sleepi...
Trump's son makes the case he's the 'rightful heir to MAGA' as speculation about 2028 grows www.alternet.org/donald-trump...
Trump's son makes the case he's the 'rightful heir to MAGA' as speculation about 2028 grows
In their latest look at how the 2028 presidential election is shaping up on the Republican side of things, the Washington Post analyzes the early field, but says there's room for 'some surprises.'The ...
www.alternet.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Trump's son makes the case he's the 'rightful heir to MAGA' as speculation about 2028 grows www.alternet.org/donald-trump...
“This is a disgusting and heartbreaking act of antisemitism, and it has no place in our beautiful city,” Mamdani wrote. “As Mayor, I will always stand steadfast with our Jewish neighbors to root the scourge of antisemitism out of our city.” forward.com/culture/7822...
Mamdani's first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
After someone spraypainted a swastika on a yeshiva, Zohran Mamdani condemned antisemitism. Somehow, this generated conspiracy theories.
forward.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“This is a disgusting and heartbreaking act of antisemitism, and it has no place in our beautiful city,” Mamdani wrote. “As Mayor, I will always stand steadfast with our Jewish neighbors to root the scourge of antisemitism out of our city.” forward.com/culture/7822...
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Sounds exaxctly like "SOCIALISM" to me.
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Sounds exaxctly like "SOCIALISM" to me.