Pat Lauber
@patlauber.bsky.social
A blue dot in deep red Wyoming. I foster dogs and volunteer with my local theater company. I like my Irish heritage. Happily retired. Cancer survivor x2.
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So, seems like we’re not all that serious about fighting the war on drugs after all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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Former President of Honduras Is Freed From Prison After Trump Pardon
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December 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
So, seems like we’re not all that serious about fighting the war on drugs after all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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Met with some of my DOJ colleagues who are leaving. Each of these people are leading the worst drug cases, human trafficking, child predators: Everyone agreed there’s no point. Trump will pardon any and all of them for $$. We are done as a society.
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Met with some of my DOJ colleagues who are leaving. Each of these people are leading the worst drug cases, human trafficking, child predators: Everyone agreed there’s no point. Trump will pardon any and all of them for $$. We are done as a society.
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Nothing proves the Trump administration is made of mean whims based on lies better than a president who is murdering people in boats "because I am so strongly against drug trafficking" pardoning someone who trafficked more drugs than a hundred fishing boats could carry.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...
Trump says he will pardon former Honduran president serving sentence in drug-trafficking case | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Friday he intends to grant a “full and complete pardon” to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a move that would erase a major US drug-trafficking conviction ...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Nothing proves the Trump administration is made of mean whims based on lies better than a president who is murdering people in boats "because I am so strongly against drug trafficking" pardoning someone who trafficked more drugs than a hundred fishing boats could carry.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...
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Watching my cousin talk to a MAGA yesterday was a masterclass.
Cousin: “I can see your point about vaccines, but what about inoculations? I mean there’s nothing wrong with inoculation, right?
MAGA: “Well yeah sure but that’s different. Of course I’m all for inoculation.”
Cousin: “I can see your point about vaccines, but what about inoculations? I mean there’s nothing wrong with inoculation, right?
MAGA: “Well yeah sure but that’s different. Of course I’m all for inoculation.”
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Watching my cousin talk to a MAGA yesterday was a masterclass.
Cousin: “I can see your point about vaccines, but what about inoculations? I mean there’s nothing wrong with inoculation, right?
MAGA: “Well yeah sure but that’s different. Of course I’m all for inoculation.”
Cousin: “I can see your point about vaccines, but what about inoculations? I mean there’s nothing wrong with inoculation, right?
MAGA: “Well yeah sure but that’s different. Of course I’m all for inoculation.”
This Thanksgiving I’m going to travel about ten steps, from my kitchen to my dining room. I’m grateful for my kitchen, my dining room, and the food on my tanle.
November 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This Thanksgiving I’m going to travel about ten steps, from my kitchen to my dining room. I’m grateful for my kitchen, my dining room, and the food on my tanle.
My current foster dog, Russet. He’s a cuddly youngster that likes other dogs and all people. He would fit happily into any family. Apply to meet him through Black Dog Animal Rescue, Cheyenne, WY
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
My current foster dog, Russet. He’s a cuddly youngster that likes other dogs and all people. He would fit happily into any family. Apply to meet him through Black Dog Animal Rescue, Cheyenne, WY
Drump is a brutal tyrant.
President Donald Trump said Friday night that he's "immediately" terminating temporary legal protections for Somali migrants living in Minnesota. The state has the nation's largest Somali community. n.pr/43La07b
Trump says he's terminating legal protections for Somali migrants in Minnesota
President Donald Trump said Friday night that he's "immediately" terminating temporary legal protections for Somali migrants living in Minnesota. The state has the nation's largest Somali community.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Drump is a brutal tyrant.
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New in PN: @mattgertz.bsky.social on the Orbanization of the press
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
The Orbanization of the American press
"The really unnerving thing is Trump using state power to influence who a company gets sold to," Matt Gertz tells us.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
New in PN: @mattgertz.bsky.social on the Orbanization of the press
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
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this morning's Fox & Friends featured commercials for Trump Watches *and* Trump-branded handguns. a level of presidential grifting that was unfathomable a decade ago.
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
this morning's Fox & Friends featured commercials for Trump Watches *and* Trump-branded handguns. a level of presidential grifting that was unfathomable a decade ago.
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Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun. n.pr/48nQMqI
3 massive changes you'll see as the climate careens toward tipping points
Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun.
n.pr
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun. n.pr/48nQMqI
They’re not even attempting to hide the corruption.
Acceding to President Donald Trump's demands, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday that she has ordered a top federal prosecutor to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Trump political foes. n.pr/4i25hnd
At Trump's urging, Bondi says U.S. will investigate Epstein's ties to political foes
Acceding to President Donald Trump's demands, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday that she has ordered a top federal prosecutor to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Trump political foes.
n.pr
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
They’re not even attempting to hide the corruption.
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The thing about affordability is you won’t find it in Venezuela during an illegal war.
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The thing about affordability is you won’t find it in Venezuela during an illegal war.
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Republicans spent the entire week coming up with a plan to counter the Epstein Files.
Their brilliant strategy?
Do an investigation...but only on Democrats.
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Their brilliant strategy?
Do an investigation...but only on Democrats.
🤣
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Republicans spent the entire week coming up with a plan to counter the Epstein Files.
Their brilliant strategy?
Do an investigation...but only on Democrats.
🤣
Their brilliant strategy?
Do an investigation...but only on Democrats.
🤣
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Trump is opening an "investigation" because that precludes DOJ from being allowed to release the files.
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Trump is opening an "investigation" because that precludes DOJ from being allowed to release the files.
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“By 2050, plastics are expected to outweigh fish in the ocean.”
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MIT senior turns waste from the fishing industry into biodegradable plastic
MIT student Jacqueline Prawira’s invention, a biodegradable plastic made from fishing industry waste, tackles one of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges and was recently featured on CBS...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“By 2050, plastics are expected to outweigh fish in the ocean.”
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Here...they are:
1. Catherine Cortez Masto (D–Nevada)
2. Jacky Rosen (D–Nevada)
3. John Fetterman (D–Pennsylvania)
4. Dick Durbin (D–Illinois)
5. Tim Kaine (D–Virginia)
6. Maggie Hassan (D–New Hampshire)
7. Jeanne Shaheen (D–New Hampshire)
8. Angus King (I–Maine, caucuses with Democrats)
1. Catherine Cortez Masto (D–Nevada)
2. Jacky Rosen (D–Nevada)
3. John Fetterman (D–Pennsylvania)
4. Dick Durbin (D–Illinois)
5. Tim Kaine (D–Virginia)
6. Maggie Hassan (D–New Hampshire)
7. Jeanne Shaheen (D–New Hampshire)
8. Angus King (I–Maine, caucuses with Democrats)
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Here...they are:
1. Catherine Cortez Masto (D–Nevada)
2. Jacky Rosen (D–Nevada)
3. John Fetterman (D–Pennsylvania)
4. Dick Durbin (D–Illinois)
5. Tim Kaine (D–Virginia)
6. Maggie Hassan (D–New Hampshire)
7. Jeanne Shaheen (D–New Hampshire)
8. Angus King (I–Maine, caucuses with Democrats)
1. Catherine Cortez Masto (D–Nevada)
2. Jacky Rosen (D–Nevada)
3. John Fetterman (D–Pennsylvania)
4. Dick Durbin (D–Illinois)
5. Tim Kaine (D–Virginia)
6. Maggie Hassan (D–New Hampshire)
7. Jeanne Shaheen (D–New Hampshire)
8. Angus King (I–Maine, caucuses with Democrats)
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No one could accuse Donald of being woke.
November 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
No one could accuse Donald of being woke.
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The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for immigrants and Americans alike. n.pr/440Ovz4
Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people
The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for immigrants and Americans alike.
n.pr
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for immigrants and Americans alike. n.pr/440Ovz4
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"Patriotism is loving your country all the time, and your government...when it deserves it."
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
November 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"Patriotism is loving your country all the time, and your government...when it deserves it."
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
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The Trump admin has been hurriedly gutting Goddard Space Flight Center and is allegedly planning to actually demolish it with no notification to Congress.
Most of the Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Campus is planned to be demolished by March 2026, if not sooner.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The Trump admin has been hurriedly gutting Goddard Space Flight Center and is allegedly planning to actually demolish it with no notification to Congress.
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To me it’s not about whether Spanberger or Sherrill wins, it’s about the fact that after the complete destruction of America wrought by the GOP there’s still a question of who will win. America won’t recover unless we do something about disinformation and we sharply increase civic knowledge.
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
To me it’s not about whether Spanberger or Sherrill wins, it’s about the fact that after the complete destruction of America wrought by the GOP there’s still a question of who will win. America won’t recover unless we do something about disinformation and we sharply increase civic knowledge.
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Buckingham Palace said the king's brother will be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and not as a prince, and he will move from his Royal Lodge residence into "private accommodation." n.pr/3JCtJ1O
King Charles III strips Prince Andrew of his titles and evicts him from the Royal Lodge
Buckingham Palace said the king's brother will be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and not as a prince, and he will move from his Royal Lodge residence into "private accommodation."
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Buckingham Palace said the king's brother will be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and not as a prince, and he will move from his Royal Lodge residence into "private accommodation." n.pr/3JCtJ1O
Dictator from Day One.
Q: What did you mean when you said you're prepared to send 'more than the National Guard' into American cities?
TRUMP: if I want to enact a certain act, I'd be allowed to do whatever I want. The courts wouldn't get involved. Nobody would. I could send Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines -anybody I want
TRUMP: if I want to enact a certain act, I'd be allowed to do whatever I want. The courts wouldn't get involved. Nobody would. I could send Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines -anybody I want
October 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Dictator from Day One.
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Jason Miyares first claimed that 53 Virginians had been murdered by convicts out on early release; then he claimed it was 70. He made it all up. cardinalnews.org/2025/10/28/a...
After Cardinal News investigation, Office of Attorney General data refutes Miyares’ chief campaign claim
Attorney General Jason Miyares says 70 people died because offenders who should have been behind bars were out killing Virginians. Data from the Office of Attorney General and Department of Correct…
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October 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Jason Miyares first claimed that 53 Virginians had been murdered by convicts out on early release; then he claimed it was 70. He made it all up. cardinalnews.org/2025/10/28/a...
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5 years ago the Trump team presented Lesley Stahl with their 2,000 page “Health Plan.” It was mostly blank pages, over 200 press releases denouncing Obamacare and hundreds of pages of drivel from sources like transcripts of shows by Alex Jones “Infowars”. This should have ended right then.
October 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
5 years ago the Trump team presented Lesley Stahl with their 2,000 page “Health Plan.” It was mostly blank pages, over 200 press releases denouncing Obamacare and hundreds of pages of drivel from sources like transcripts of shows by Alex Jones “Infowars”. This should have ended right then.