Liz Hobbins
@lizlaurel.bsky.social
Lover of democracy and I don’t know how 5 November happened.
No DMs please - I won’t answer.
No DMs please - I won’t answer.
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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement?
The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.
At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.
The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.
At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.
October 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement?
The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.
At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.
The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.
At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social why hasn’t the Dem caucus seen to this? The people of Grijalva’s district are being denied the representation they voted for.
The constitution does not explicitly say that members have to be sworn in by the Speaker.
Question for @normornstein.bsky.social - does the Speaker have to swear in a new Representative? Couldn’t a federal judge do it, like they do for presidents?
October 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social why hasn’t the Dem caucus seen to this? The people of Grijalva’s district are being denied the representation they voted for.
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Never ever forget how the elite US media enabled candidate Trump to lie and gaslight about #Project2025
The so called neutral media also own the mess - then heap of garbage fire that has engulfed American democracy.
They own this.
The so called neutral media also own the mess - then heap of garbage fire that has engulfed American democracy.
They own this.
October 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Never ever forget how the elite US media enabled candidate Trump to lie and gaslight about #Project2025
The so called neutral media also own the mess - then heap of garbage fire that has engulfed American democracy.
They own this.
The so called neutral media also own the mess - then heap of garbage fire that has engulfed American democracy.
They own this.
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Great Read!
From the Jim Crow South to the 2023 Polish victory over autocratic rule, history teaches and inspires.
Authoritarians are not invincible. When countered by a sustained, unified, HOPEFUL opposition, autocratic movements CAN be defeated!
🎁 Article
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
From the Jim Crow South to the 2023 Polish victory over autocratic rule, history teaches and inspires.
Authoritarians are not invincible. When countered by a sustained, unified, HOPEFUL opposition, autocratic movements CAN be defeated!
🎁 Article
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Great Read!
From the Jim Crow South to the 2023 Polish victory over autocratic rule, history teaches and inspires.
Authoritarians are not invincible. When countered by a sustained, unified, HOPEFUL opposition, autocratic movements CAN be defeated!
🎁 Article
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
From the Jim Crow South to the 2023 Polish victory over autocratic rule, history teaches and inspires.
Authoritarians are not invincible. When countered by a sustained, unified, HOPEFUL opposition, autocratic movements CAN be defeated!
🎁 Article
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
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The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall and people were eating your pets in Ohio.
September 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall and people were eating your pets in Ohio.
Listening to John Kasick talk on #KatyTur about how the GOP will return to small government principles after Trump because after all, small government is second nature to the GOP. He has not been paying attention.
August 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Listening to John Kasick talk on #KatyTur about how the GOP will return to small government principles after Trump because after all, small government is second nature to the GOP. He has not been paying attention.
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Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators
Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators
DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover
Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators
DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover
August 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators
Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators
DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover
Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators
DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover
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In recent years, crime in DC has hovered at decades-long lows. This is just another example of Trump needlessly deploying the National Guard for political theatrics.
He ought to take our troops more seriously.
He ought to take our troops more seriously.
August 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
In recent years, crime in DC has hovered at decades-long lows. This is just another example of Trump needlessly deploying the National Guard for political theatrics.
He ought to take our troops more seriously.
He ought to take our troops more seriously.
The Washington Post has removed “Democracy Dies In Darkness” from both the print and digital editions.
At least now they’re being honest about their bent.
Jeff Bezos has ruined this paper. Katherine Graham must be turning in her grave.
#washingtonpost
#democracy
#Bezos
At least now they’re being honest about their bent.
Jeff Bezos has ruined this paper. Katherine Graham must be turning in her grave.
#washingtonpost
#democracy
#Bezos
July 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The Washington Post has removed “Democracy Dies In Darkness” from both the print and digital editions.
At least now they’re being honest about their bent.
Jeff Bezos has ruined this paper. Katherine Graham must be turning in her grave.
#washingtonpost
#democracy
#Bezos
At least now they’re being honest about their bent.
Jeff Bezos has ruined this paper. Katherine Graham must be turning in her grave.
#washingtonpost
#democracy
#Bezos
Who couldn’t see this coming? The blame, I mean.
When experts warned for months that the NWS “is being destroyed” by Trump’s personnel cuts, Howard Lutnick assured Congress that forecasting won’t be affected. Now TX officials are blaming a faulty forecast by NWS for the deadly impact of a storm. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Texas Officials Blame Agency Gutted by Trump for Results of Deadly Storm
Experts warned for months about cuts to NWS and NOAA
open.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Who couldn’t see this coming? The blame, I mean.
Nero fiddles while Rome burns.
tl/dr: Trump: “Let them eat crypto”
Even as the stock market crashed, President Trump was in Florida at his Doral golf resort and Mar-a-Lago club helping pump up family businesses, evidence that Trump continues to monetize the presidency. A NYT behind-the-scenes look with Theodore Schleifer and Zolan Kanno-Youngs nyti.ms/3XPqyIa
April 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Nero fiddles while Rome burns.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social will you be doing Politics chat today - should we try for YouTube?
April 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social will you be doing Politics chat today - should we try for YouTube?
@hcrichardson.bsky.social having very bizarre things happen to your FB feed - now 29 March is the last thing I see on your feed - don’t know how else to reach you so I thought I would try Bluesky. This all seems very strange.
April 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social having very bizarre things happen to your FB feed - now 29 March is the last thing I see on your feed - don’t know how else to reach you so I thought I would try Bluesky. This all seems very strange.
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I did this little video on trump invoking the alien enemies act
March 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I did this little video on trump invoking the alien enemies act
Everyone keeps asking when GOP lawmakers are going to step up. I think the answer is obvious and we cannot conceive of it: those folks have been threatened. See what Trump and Vance did in public? Imagine how much worse that message has been in private.
March 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Everyone keeps asking when GOP lawmakers are going to step up. I think the answer is obvious and we cannot conceive of it: those folks have been threatened. See what Trump and Vance did in public? Imagine how much worse that message has been in private.
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Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist.
He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.
He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.
February 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist.
He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.
He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.
@amnanawaz.bsky.social watching your interview with Rep Jodey Arrington - you missed 2 opportunities. First, 50% of the workforce did NOT sit idly at home for 5 years, they were working remotely. Second, isn’t it the House’s job to oversee and find waste, fraud, and abuse?
February 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
@amnanawaz.bsky.social watching your interview with Rep Jodey Arrington - you missed 2 opportunities. First, 50% of the workforce did NOT sit idly at home for 5 years, they were working remotely. Second, isn’t it the House’s job to oversee and find waste, fraud, and abuse?
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IRS funding ensures the rich pay their fair share in taxes. Trump’s attack on the IRS isn’t aimed at protecting ordinary Americans — it’s protecting rich Americans.
February 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
IRS funding ensures the rich pay their fair share in taxes. Trump’s attack on the IRS isn’t aimed at protecting ordinary Americans — it’s protecting rich Americans.
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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
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This is not just a musing from a dude with some various ideas. The next step is to hollow out the judiciary and also not follow their rulings, which have been against Musk’s efforts. This is a very obvious coup, for those not paying attention.
February 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is not just a musing from a dude with some various ideas. The next step is to hollow out the judiciary and also not follow their rulings, which have been against Musk’s efforts. This is a very obvious coup, for those not paying attention.
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What you mean is they are fucking lies. Hundreds of them. — Claims about USAID funding are spreading online. Many are not based on facts apnews.com/article/usai...
Claims about USAID funding are spreading online. Many are not based on facts
False and misleading social media posts are circulating online as the Trump administration moves to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development.
apnews.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
What you mean is they are fucking lies. Hundreds of them. — Claims about USAID funding are spreading online. Many are not based on facts apnews.com/article/usai...
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Every decent human being at the Super Bowl should take a knee during the National Anthem.
February 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Every decent human being at the Super Bowl should take a knee during the National Anthem.
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To America’s 2.3 million federal employees:
Don’t accept a buyout.
Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.
And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?
Sincerely,
Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor
Don’t accept a buyout.
Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.
And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?
Sincerely,
Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor
February 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
To America’s 2.3 million federal employees:
Don’t accept a buyout.
Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.
And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?
Sincerely,
Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor
Don’t accept a buyout.
Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.
And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?
Sincerely,
Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor