Liz
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I’ve decided my goal in life is to help bring back curiosity, nuance, and joy.
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I’ve decided my goal in life is to help bring back curiosity, nuance, and joy.
Oh look, Pence is running for president now, too.
That’s three GOP candidates less than a year into the felon’s presidency.
That’s three GOP candidates less than a year into the felon’s presidency.
Pence rebukes Trump for his comments on Khashoggi's murder:
"I would not have made that statement... I think it's very important that we never cast aside our deep commitment to freedom, to freedom of the press. Had I been given the opportunity... that meeting would have gone a little different."
"I would not have made that statement... I think it's very important that we never cast aside our deep commitment to freedom, to freedom of the press. Had I been given the opportunity... that meeting would have gone a little different."
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Oh look, Pence is running for president now, too.
That’s three GOP candidates less than a year into the felon’s presidency.
That’s three GOP candidates less than a year into the felon’s presidency.
This story (thread) is crazy
SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Employee of a Federal Official Charged with Conspiracy to Falsely Report Violent Attack and Giving False Statements to Law Enforcement
A New Jersey woman was charged with conspiring and falsely reporting to law enforcement that she had been violently assaulted with a firearm due to her employment with a federal official.
www.justice.gov
November 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This story (thread) is crazy
The party of states’ rights
This is not about crafting good regulation, it is about control of laws by big tech who bought a coin-op president. Also Congress already rejected this www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump administration drafts an executive order regulating state AI laws
The draft executive order, according to a person familiar with the matter, would try to block states from enacting their own laws regulating AI.
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The party of states’ rights
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Many years ago, I noticed a friend of mine doing this about everything from math concepts to cultural references, and I'd spent so many years trying to seem cool and in-the-know, and this was a legitimate revelation (which is embarrassing to admit, but ultimately so helpful)!
The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
November 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Many years ago, I noticed a friend of mine doing this about everything from math concepts to cultural references, and I'd spent so many years trying to seem cool and in-the-know, and this was a legitimate revelation (which is embarrassing to admit, but ultimately so helpful)!
I’m going to keep saying this, but do discharge petitions for every unpopular thing Trump has done. Put out a tariffs one, call it the “Ronald Reagan Anti-Taxation via Tariffs act” and have the ghost of Mitch McConnell co-sponsor it in the Senate.
By forcing this vote, a bipartisan majority in the House is pushing back on Trump's assault on workers rights and his disastrous gutting of the federal workforce.
I'm proud to stand with @Golden.house.gov and the public servants who keep our country running.
I'm proud to stand with @Golden.house.gov and the public servants who keep our country running.
November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I’m going to keep saying this, but do discharge petitions for every unpopular thing Trump has done. Put out a tariffs one, call it the “Ronald Reagan Anti-Taxation via Tariffs act” and have the ghost of Mitch McConnell co-sponsor it in the Senate.
This has been so shocking that I don’t know how to get over this enough to move on with my day.
The facts are complicated, but here’s a summary of what appears to have happened based on the filings and today’s hearing:
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This has been so shocking that I don’t know how to get over this enough to move on with my day.
1) I have not practiced criminal law in a long time, and this is giving me genuine anxiety just reading it.
2) I cannot recommend subscribing to lawfare enough
2) I cannot recommend subscribing to lawfare enough
This is almost unreal incompetence.
Here's how this area of inquiry was discussed in Monday's opinion.
In short, this is the afterthought, the ~it couldn't be this, could it?~ moment in the opinion: "If this procedure did not take place, then the Court is in uncharted legal territory ..."
Here's how this area of inquiry was discussed in Monday's opinion.
In short, this is the afterthought, the ~it couldn't be this, could it?~ moment in the opinion: "If this procedure did not take place, then the Court is in uncharted legal territory ..."
November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
1) I have not practiced criminal law in a long time, and this is giving me genuine anxiety just reading it.
2) I cannot recommend subscribing to lawfare enough
2) I cannot recommend subscribing to lawfare enough
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You know about Trump and Zelesnkyy’s call, but have you heard about the call between Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince?
Watch my statement below. Mr. President, release the transcript.
Watch my statement below. Mr. President, release the transcript.
November 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
You know about Trump and Zelesnkyy’s call, but have you heard about the call between Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince?
Watch my statement below. Mr. President, release the transcript.
Watch my statement below. Mr. President, release the transcript.
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I present my review of "Unfettered," John Fetterman's memoir. In between petty grievances about doing his job, Fetterman asserts that he's feeling good.
Two days after "Unfettered" came out, Fetterman fell directly on his face from ventricular fibrillation, a life-threatening heart rhythm disorder.
Two days after "Unfettered" came out, Fetterman fell directly on his face from ventricular fibrillation, a life-threatening heart rhythm disorder.
John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure | Defector
John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that he’s turned a corner and has everything under control. Fetterman was a “stubborn asshole” (his words), he was clinically depressed, he wa...
defector.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I present my review of "Unfettered," John Fetterman's memoir. In between petty grievances about doing his job, Fetterman asserts that he's feeling good.
Two days after "Unfettered" came out, Fetterman fell directly on his face from ventricular fibrillation, a life-threatening heart rhythm disorder.
Two days after "Unfettered" came out, Fetterman fell directly on his face from ventricular fibrillation, a life-threatening heart rhythm disorder.
Republicans: Kids who get cancer deserve to be punished for it.
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Republicans: Kids who get cancer deserve to be punished for it.
I posted this yesterday, and today I am learning that there was another successful discharge petition yesterday about basically undoing Trump’s illegal collective bargaining EO, and so I ask again, why aren’t we doing this all the time? @whipkclark.bsky.social @jimmcgovernma.bsky.social
Maybe someone can help me out with this, but why aren’t Dems using the discharge petitions as weapons to force positions on votes? Like Johnson is saying he won’t call a vote on the Senate ACA, show a bunch of House Rs refusing to sign on? @housedemocrats.bsky.social @ayannapressley.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I posted this yesterday, and today I am learning that there was another successful discharge petition yesterday about basically undoing Trump’s illegal collective bargaining EO, and so I ask again, why aren’t we doing this all the time? @whipkclark.bsky.social @jimmcgovernma.bsky.social
I’m not entirely convinced Palantir’s CEO is not just Taika Waititi doing performance art
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I’m not entirely convinced Palantir’s CEO is not just Taika Waititi doing performance art
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Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman.
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman.
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Look I’m not out here handing anything to Rs, but I was just watching @jonathankarl.bsky.social on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social talk about Pence on 1/6. Knowing how many cowards folded since then, it’s honestly astounding that Pence (of all people) was brave, patriotic, and took his oath seriously
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Look I’m not out here handing anything to Rs, but I was just watching @jonathankarl.bsky.social on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social talk about Pence on 1/6. Knowing how many cowards folded since then, it’s honestly astounding that Pence (of all people) was brave, patriotic, and took his oath seriously
This is fox so obviously there will be no pushback, but they say this stuff on other channels and just once I’d like someone to say, “do you actually think that? Or are you lying. It’s objectively untrue so you’re either lying or being lied to.”
Scott Turner shamelessly lies: "When we came into this administration, our fiscal house was not in order. Inflation was at an all time high."
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is fox so obviously there will be no pushback, but they say this stuff on other channels and just once I’d like someone to say, “do you actually think that? Or are you lying. It’s objectively untrue so you’re either lying or being lied to.”
I talk about this so often. Check my skeets for receipts. My friend and I literally talked about how the versions of us in the second Warren term universe are THRIVING.
If a candidate wanted my guaranteed vote, they would copy Warren’s entire platform
If a candidate wanted my guaranteed vote, they would copy Warren’s entire platform
Somewhere in the multiverse there is a Warren Presidency, and I wish I could verse-jump to it. #everythingfeministeverywhereallatonce
"If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known about Epstein's sex offenses involving underage girls, then Summers cannot… teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else." - @warren.senate.gov
www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/p...
November 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I talk about this so often. Check my skeets for receipts. My friend and I literally talked about how the versions of us in the second Warren term universe are THRIVING.
If a candidate wanted my guaranteed vote, they would copy Warren’s entire platform
If a candidate wanted my guaranteed vote, they would copy Warren’s entire platform
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I’d love for someone to write the piece about how the “return” to these kinds of practices is connected to a convoluted embrace of, but total psychic disconnection to, things poor people with no access to healthcare or medicine tried out of desperation but make it mainstream again.
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I’d love for someone to write the piece about how the “return” to these kinds of practices is connected to a convoluted embrace of, but total psychic disconnection to, things poor people with no access to healthcare or medicine tried out of desperation but make it mainstream again.
Trump administration loves sex traffickers
The person who’s reported on this the most thoroughly is @davidbix.bsky.social, and this is a good place to start:
Vince and Linda McMahon Named in New 'Ring Boy' Sex Abuse Lawsuit Against WWE
WWE founders “knew or should have known” about employee who allegedly assaulted teen employees in 1980s, per five new John Does who have come forward.
www.rollingstone.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Trump administration loves sex traffickers
Reeeeeeeaally curious to get @jaketapper.bsky.social’s take on this.
This is not a Tapper slam either. This is a story that has been extremely important to him.
This is not a Tapper slam either. This is a story that has been extremely important to him.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Reeeeeeeaally curious to get @jaketapper.bsky.social’s take on this.
This is not a Tapper slam either. This is a story that has been extremely important to him.
This is not a Tapper slam either. This is a story that has been extremely important to him.
Quick! Can someone ask ppl running for president (Ted Cruz, JD Vance) if they think licenses should be pulled for asking the president questions he doesn’t like?
Cruz will say of course not, he came out against Carr previously. Vance will hem and haw. Let’s lean into the lame duck stuff.
Cruz will say of course not, he came out against Carr previously. Vance will hem and haw. Let’s lean into the lame duck stuff.
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Quick! Can someone ask ppl running for president (Ted Cruz, JD Vance) if they think licenses should be pulled for asking the president questions he doesn’t like?
Cruz will say of course not, he came out against Carr previously. Vance will hem and haw. Let’s lean into the lame duck stuff.
Cruz will say of course not, he came out against Carr previously. Vance will hem and haw. Let’s lean into the lame duck stuff.
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Once the House votes, the Senate should take it up ASAP.
There isn’t any justification to vote to keep the Epstein files hidden. The American people deserve answers.
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Once the House votes, the Senate should take it up ASAP.
“Our guest”
An ABC News reporter asked about U.S. intelligence findings that MBS ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
Trump interrupted, attacked the reporter, then defended MBS: "He knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest by asking something like that."
Trump interrupted, attacked the reporter, then defended MBS: "He knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest by asking something like that."
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
“Our guest”
I am seriously considering running for the House for some work life balance.
The House is in session next year for… 112 whole days.
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I am seriously considering running for the House for some work life balance.
Nobody on Bluesky is voting for MTG. There is no need to argue about her motives. She’s not convincing anyone here. Let them fight. Have conversations with people in your real life about who she really is.
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Nobody on Bluesky is voting for MTG. There is no need to argue about her motives. She’s not convincing anyone here. Let them fight. Have conversations with people in your real life about who she really is.
Take away his power to tariff! Put that in a discharge petition! Make them own this crappy economy during the holiday season! And call it something just obnoxious like the Ronald Reagan Anti-tariff act.
Maybe someone can help me out with this, but why aren’t Dems using the discharge petitions as weapons to force positions on votes? Like Johnson is saying he won’t call a vote on the Senate ACA, show a bunch of House Rs refusing to sign on? @housedemocrats.bsky.social @ayannapressley.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Take away his power to tariff! Put that in a discharge petition! Make them own this crappy economy during the holiday season! And call it something just obnoxious like the Ronald Reagan Anti-tariff act.