Libby Zorden
@libbyzorden.bsky.social
Old screaming liberal fighting lies, hypocrisy, and the MAGA idiocracy.
Prescriptivist (Thanks, Chris!)
Prescriptivist (Thanks, Chris!)
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Libby Zorden
@libbyzorden.bsky.social
· Oct 3
Aren't warrant checks like they ran on the United States citizens detained in the Chicago Apartment raid two nights ago unconstitutional without probable cause? Asking for a friend.
Let's be 100% clear here. Trump is out of moves to make. Passing anything other than the CR up for consideration in the Senate right now will trigger the Epstein discharge petition, setting it loose in the backyard to do zoomies. He's trapped- he's cornered.
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Let's be 100% clear here. Trump is out of moves to make. Passing anything other than the CR up for consideration in the Senate right now will trigger the Epstein discharge petition, setting it loose in the backyard to do zoomies. He's trapped- he's cornered.
Just to level set, if Trump were to send $2,000 bucks to every man woman and child in the country it would cost right at $700 billion dollars. The highest credible figure for tariff Revenue collected is around $400 billion, but I believe it's closer to 200 billion. That's probably about half 1/2
November 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Just to level set, if Trump were to send $2,000 bucks to every man woman and child in the country it would cost right at $700 billion dollars. The highest credible figure for tariff Revenue collected is around $400 billion, but I believe it's closer to 200 billion. That's probably about half 1/2
Paola Ramos is on MSNBC right now. She is the foremost expert in the United States on Latino voters in America. Listen and learn. Read her book defectors.
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Paola Ramos is on MSNBC right now. She is the foremost expert in the United States on Latino voters in America. Listen and learn. Read her book defectors.
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I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.
November 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.
Even if we pass the clean CR and open up the government today, funding will run out again in just 13 days and we will have to do this all over again. The 13-day CR is the only move the Republicans have that won't trigger the Epstein discharge petition. Once that happens, they will be down to 1/2
November 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Even if we pass the clean CR and open up the government today, funding will run out again in just 13 days and we will have to do this all over again. The 13-day CR is the only move the Republicans have that won't trigger the Epstein discharge petition. Once that happens, they will be down to 1/2
Just a reminder that Transportation secretary Pete buttigieg and the Biden Administration had the number of air traffic controllers on the rise again after declining steadily throughout Trump 1.0. Now it's declining again and assholes want to blame it on the Democrats - FUCK THAT
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Just a reminder that Transportation secretary Pete buttigieg and the Biden Administration had the number of air traffic controllers on the rise again after declining steadily throughout Trump 1.0. Now it's declining again and assholes want to blame it on the Democrats - FUCK THAT
With control of both the house and the Senate, the Democrats can take back authority to Levy tariffs and they should run on a promise to do precisely that- removal of all tariffs for starters. Aggressive antitrust enforcement actions and legislation can help too, but assholes will scream socialism.
Everywhere Democrats won this week, they won because they focused on the affordability crisis facing average working Americans. But an important question remains: What are they going to do about it? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-how-will-dems-deliver
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
With control of both the house and the Senate, the Democrats can take back authority to Levy tariffs and they should run on a promise to do precisely that- removal of all tariffs for starters. Aggressive antitrust enforcement actions and legislation can help too, but assholes will scream socialism.
Come on Chris Jansing. No caveats, and no euphemisms. Just call Trump's pronouncements the lies that they are.
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Come on Chris Jansing. No caveats, and no euphemisms. Just call Trump's pronouncements the lies that they are.
Phase one for gerrymandering is clumping all the Democrats into a small number of districts. That tends to produce a predictable result. When you take those clumps and break them up and spread them around- called dilution- is when the new districts become vulnerable to 10 plus point swings.
The most important fight for democracy is taking place around redistricting. I made this video to break it down for you. Please watch and share. youtu.be/cEKnZlsFkFE
Every Gerrymandering Case, Explained
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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November 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Phase one for gerrymandering is clumping all the Democrats into a small number of districts. That tends to produce a predictable result. When you take those clumps and break them up and spread them around- called dilution- is when the new districts become vulnerable to 10 plus point swings.
1 trillion dollars is $3,000 a piece for every man woman and child in America.
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
1 trillion dollars is $3,000 a piece for every man woman and child in America.
All roads, and all threads, lead to pedophile Island.
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
All roads, and all threads, lead to pedophile Island.
The last people in the world that Trump and Russ Vought should want to put in trauma are the air traffic controllers, but they did it anyway. Trump and his minions have materially degraded the quality of life of virtually every human on planet Earth. Li'l Bub doesn't care.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The last people in the world that Trump and Russ Vought should want to put in trauma are the air traffic controllers, but they did it anyway. Trump and his minions have materially degraded the quality of life of virtually every human on planet Earth. Li'l Bub doesn't care.
I don't even...
November 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I don't even...
For anyone listening to the Supreme Court arguments today- Samuel Alito is a fucking dildo. Also I find the level of deference to John Sauer versus the low-grade hostility towards Neil Katyal is generating some "banality of evil" vibes in brain.
November 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
For anyone listening to the Supreme Court arguments today- Samuel Alito is a fucking dildo. Also I find the level of deference to John Sauer versus the low-grade hostility towards Neil Katyal is generating some "banality of evil" vibes in brain.
Breakin' it on down to a level....
November 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Breakin' it on down to a level....
My theory of the case is that Lindsay Halligan has volunteered to sacrifice her law license in return for some unknown quid pro quo from Trump. It's hard to imagine getting a true bill on the charges for both Comey and James without fabricating, omitting, or misrepresenting something.
Raises the question: Were the grand jurors informed of the date when Richman resigned from the FBI?
DOJ sets out its case against Comey in the most detail yet.
But the evidence in the brief doesn’t show that Comey lied about authorizing someone at the FBI (Richman) to be an anonymous source in media reports.
And much of it relates to events that occurred *after* Richman resigned from the FBI!
But the evidence in the brief doesn’t show that Comey lied about authorizing someone at the FBI (Richman) to be an anonymous source in media reports.
And much of it relates to events that occurred *after* Richman resigned from the FBI!
November 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
My theory of the case is that Lindsay Halligan has volunteered to sacrifice her law license in return for some unknown quid pro quo from Trump. It's hard to imagine getting a true bill on the charges for both Comey and James without fabricating, omitting, or misrepresenting something.
So, we're saying that all Democrats are tainted if one strays even slightly from the approved path, but Republicans are covered and fully in compliance if they have even briefly aligned somewhat with the issue in question. This is the exact double standard we've been dealing with basically forever.
This is pundit-brain on Twitter, where they are increasingly confusing the GOP caricature of Democratic/left policies and messaging with *actual* Dem policies and messaging (which are admittedly sometimes not great!). Some opinion-havers are BlueSky-brained, sure, but I don't think it's as perverse.
I don't think it helps the debate about what Democrats should do to pick an obscure thing that some Democrat somewhere may have said -- like on teaching eighth grade algebra -- and then attribute it to Democrats generally.
November 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
So, we're saying that all Democrats are tainted if one strays even slightly from the approved path, but Republicans are covered and fully in compliance if they have even briefly aligned somewhat with the issue in question. This is the exact double standard we've been dealing with basically forever.
So, let's see if I've got this straight. Affordability is only good and desirable if the mechanism by which it comes about cannot in any way be referred to as socialist in nature. Okay. Got it.
November 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
So, let's see if I've got this straight. Affordability is only good and desirable if the mechanism by which it comes about cannot in any way be referred to as socialist in nature. Okay. Got it.
The state of Florida only has 6.6% of United States population, yet 22% of the people receiving Obamacare subsidies live in Florida.
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The state of Florida only has 6.6% of United States population, yet 22% of the people receiving Obamacare subsidies live in Florida.
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There is not a God damned thing in the Constitution indicating the founders intent to give even one speck of deference to the president. The so-called unitary executive theory is a wholly man-made construct of the religious ideologues/partisan apparatchiks who have infiltrated the Supreme Court.
Mary and I take on, in our new NYT op ed, the grave mistake in the reasoning of the Supreme Court which unleashed retribution prosecutions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
Opinion | How the Supreme Court Paved the Way for Revenge Prosecutions
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
There is not a God damned thing in the Constitution indicating the founders intent to give even one speck of deference to the president. The so-called unitary executive theory is a wholly man-made construct of the religious ideologues/partisan apparatchiks who have infiltrated the Supreme Court.
It makes the masochistic dildos feel like they've got some skin in the game or some warped-ass shit. So many find denying themselves to be an acceptable price to pay for the privilege of denying the others.
As open enrollment begins, remember that 80% (!) of the ACA subsidies about to expire go to people in states that Trump won in 2024.
Time and time again, Trump and MAGA Republicans will sell out their own voters — all to fund massive tax cuts for the super rich.
Time and time again, Trump and MAGA Republicans will sell out their own voters — all to fund massive tax cuts for the super rich.
November 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It makes the masochistic dildos feel like they've got some skin in the game or some warped-ass shit. So many find denying themselves to be an acceptable price to pay for the privilege of denying the others.
Li'l Bub is busy growing in his winter coat.
Hello carrot delivery service so happy to see you and you’re late
November 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Li'l Bub is busy growing in his winter coat.
Blue no matter who. Withholding your vote over ANY single issue is pure nihilism. Getting what you can get when you can get it, moving the ball forward and living with good enough for now is the only way to go when it's the only way to go. We know you're serious so don't hurt yourself to prove it.
October 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Blue no matter who. Withholding your vote over ANY single issue is pure nihilism. Getting what you can get when you can get it, moving the ball forward and living with good enough for now is the only way to go when it's the only way to go. We know you're serious so don't hurt yourself to prove it.