Lisa Varella
@lisavarella.bsky.social
Character matters. Nobody is above the law. Respect for the US Constitution is crucial, and violations of our civil rights will not be tolerated. We must stand together against tyranny and hold our leaders accountable.
Great article. It's a shame that Senator Ed Markey's bill won't go anywhere, thanks to Republicans who believe in unrestricted capitalism. So, thousands of people are dying because of their greed. It's more important that investors are making a killing. You just can't have too many yachts!
Looking to turn a quick profit, private equity firms buy medical facilities and then unload them just a few years later, often leaving devastation in their wake.
trib.al/I7p7Y22
trib.al/I7p7Y22
The Private Equity Firms That Gobble Up Hospitals and Spit Them Out
Looking to turn a quick profit, the firms buy medical facilities and then unload them just a few years later, often leaving devastation in their wake.
trib.al
December 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Great article. It's a shame that Senator Ed Markey's bill won't go anywhere, thanks to Republicans who believe in unrestricted capitalism. So, thousands of people are dying because of their greed. It's more important that investors are making a killing. You just can't have too many yachts!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b... The government targeted public funding to punish specific editorial decisions it disagreed with,” she said in a recent interview with The New York Times. “That’s not a funding dispute dressed up as a constitutional case; that’s textbook First Amendment retaliation.”
NPR’s C.E.O. Was a Right-Wing Target. Then the Real Trouble Started.
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b... The government targeted public funding to punish specific editorial decisions it disagreed with,” she said in a recent interview with The New York Times. “That’s not a funding dispute dressed up as a constitutional case; that’s textbook First Amendment retaliation.”
Why wouldn't Trump aid in the spread of Russian propaganda? He's Putin's puppet! MAGA morons will never face that reality.
The idea that the Trump administration would assist the foreign founders of an illegally funded media outlet aimed at reaching American audiences with Russian propaganda might seem outlandish.
Truth is stranger than fiction. lnk.thebulwark.com/4pj2vMz
Truth is stranger than fiction. lnk.thebulwark.com/4pj2vMz
December 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Why wouldn't Trump aid in the spread of Russian propaganda? He's Putin's puppet! MAGA morons will never face that reality.
Starvation, thanks to the kind generosity of the pro-life Christian Republican party.
Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
www.propublica.org
December 30, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Starvation, thanks to the kind generosity of the pro-life Christian Republican party.
The CDC Shooting Isn't What Broke Me | MedPage Today share.google/poYahO2VjvBP...
Yep. I get it. It's time to go.
Yep. I get it. It's time to go.
Opinion | The CDC Shooting Isn't What Broke Me
Continuing to show up to work at an agency I no longer trust is devastating
share.google
December 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The CDC Shooting Isn't What Broke Me | MedPage Today share.google/poYahO2VjvBP...
Yep. I get it. It's time to go.
Yep. I get it. It's time to go.
No shit. Trump will destroy the economy, blame it on Biden, and his moronic supporters will believe his excuses.
With little apparent appetite in either political party to rein in debt, nothing will happen until there is a crisis that jolts the public into realizing the full dimensions of the problem, writes Kenneth Rogoff.
How Low Can the Dollar Go?
It took a decade for the U.S. economy to recover from Nixon. This time could be worse.
foreignpolicy.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
No shit. Trump will destroy the economy, blame it on Biden, and his moronic supporters will believe his excuses.
Reposted by Lisa Varella
Trump sympathizes with how stressful it would be for Putin to have to stop killing people for a while because of how inconvenient it would be for him to resume it. This whole thing is a farce. A charade. Putin is playing Trump like the useful idiot that he is.
December 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Trump sympathizes with how stressful it would be for Putin to have to stop killing people for a while because of how inconvenient it would be for him to resume it. This whole thing is a farce. A charade. Putin is playing Trump like the useful idiot that he is.
www.propublica.org/article/911-...
Wow. Great article.
Wow. Great article.
They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.
Tracing the fallacy of 911 call analysis through the justice system, from Quantico to the courtroom.
www.propublica.org
December 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
www.propublica.org/article/911-...
Wow. Great article.
Wow. Great article.
Reposted by Lisa Varella
The Trump administration's National Security Strategy rejects the values of the post-1945 international order, argues Kori Schake.
The Only War the White House Is Ready for Is Culture War
The new U.S. National Security Strategy is a moral and strategic disaster.
foreignpolicy.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The Trump administration's National Security Strategy rejects the values of the post-1945 international order, argues Kori Schake.
Reposted by Lisa Varella
Nothing to see here. This is definitely a normal post that perfectly demonstrates appropriate behavior for a man with grave responsibilities to the nation and absolutely, positively does not show psychological derangement and incapacity to serve as president under section 4 of the 25th Amendment.
December 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Nothing to see here. This is definitely a normal post that perfectly demonstrates appropriate behavior for a man with grave responsibilities to the nation and absolutely, positively does not show psychological derangement and incapacity to serve as president under section 4 of the 25th Amendment.
www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...
Very disturbing.
Very disturbing.
Newly released Epstein file links Trump to murdered newborn baby dumped in Lake Michigan
Donald Trump's name appears on a newly released Epstein file in which a purported victim makes allegations about a newborn baby being murdered and dumped in Lake Michigan.The Justice Department releas...
www.rawstory.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...
Very disturbing.
Very disturbing.
Reposted by Lisa Varella
Reposted by Lisa Varella
Isn't that an inspirational Christmas message?
December 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Isn't that an inspirational Christmas message?
Reposted by Lisa Varella
I guess a little decency on Christmas Eve just isn't possible with him.
Trump: “Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly. We no longer have Open Borders, Men in Women’s Sports, Transgender for Everyone, or Weak Law Enforcement … “
December 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I guess a little decency on Christmas Eve just isn't possible with him.
Reposted by Lisa Varella
Chuck Redd, a drummer and vibraphone player, has hosted the Kennedy Center's annual holiday “Jazz Jams” since 2006.
Kennedy Center Annual Christmas Eve Concert Canceled Over Trump Name Change
www.newsweek.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Chuck Redd, a drummer and vibraphone player, has hosted the Kennedy Center's annual holiday “Jazz Jams” since 2006.
Reposted by Lisa Varella
President Farquaad needs to get ahold of himself and read that pesky document he swore an oath to defend.
December 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
President Farquaad needs to get ahold of himself and read that pesky document he swore an oath to defend.
"The problem is that what began as a tool to grow the economy out of downturns hardened into an ideology. Tax cuts became a religion, pursued regardless of circumstances, even as deficits ballooned, debt exploded, and interest payments on that debt grew larger than the entire defense budget."
Great read. Spread it far and wide. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
Mitt Romney Is Right: Tax the Rich Before the Pitchforks Come Out
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Mitt Romney Is Right: Tax the Rich Before the Pitchforks Come Out
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Mitt Romney Is Right: Tax the Rich Before the Pitchforks Come Out
The One Percent’s Problem Isn’t Envy. It’s Math.
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"The problem is that what began as a tool to grow the economy out of downturns hardened into an ideology. Tax cuts became a religion, pursued regardless of circumstances, even as deficits ballooned, debt exploded, and interest payments on that debt grew larger than the entire defense budget."
Reposted by Lisa Varella
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
December 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
Reposted by Lisa Varella
Reposted by Lisa Varella
Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.
December 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.
Reposted by Lisa Varella
This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!!
Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!
Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!!
Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!
Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!
Reposted by Lisa Varella
