Carrie Odgers Lax
@carrieolax.bsky.social
Oxford comma defender. Stick-shift driver. Avid gardener. If you drop by, we’re having sourdough pizza. she/her
@maryharris.bsky.social Just dropped by to say hey. :) Love What Next. Your interviews are unpretentious, smart, and thoughtful. You ask great questions and somehow manage to find the humor or hope even when it's all pretty bleak.
September 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
@maryharris.bsky.social Just dropped by to say hey. :) Love What Next. Your interviews are unpretentious, smart, and thoughtful. You ask great questions and somehow manage to find the humor or hope even when it's all pretty bleak.
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CNN: An auto parts maker in Detroit just had to layoff 100 workers and shut down a warehouse. The owner specifically blamed tariffs.
STEPHEN MIRAN: It's always convenient to blame political changes when your business fails
STEPHEN MIRAN: It's always convenient to blame political changes when your business fails
August 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
CNN: An auto parts maker in Detroit just had to layoff 100 workers and shut down a warehouse. The owner specifically blamed tariffs.
STEPHEN MIRAN: It's always convenient to blame political changes when your business fails
STEPHEN MIRAN: It's always convenient to blame political changes when your business fails
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Workers tell us it is hot in Western NY's apple orchards. On this day temps hit 96°. Plus there has been a number of heat waves over the last month or so. Despite the heat they are hard at work de-leafing the trees to encourage better fruit production and quality. #WeFeedYou
August 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Workers tell us it is hot in Western NY's apple orchards. On this day temps hit 96°. Plus there has been a number of heat waves over the last month or so. Despite the heat they are hard at work de-leafing the trees to encourage better fruit production and quality. #WeFeedYou
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Is decarbonization dead? @janeaflegal.bsky.social & I join Ezra Klein to talk through how Trump just shredded America's most ambitious climate policy, what survived, and where we go from here. Listen @nytimes.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
July 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Is decarbonization dead? @janeaflegal.bsky.social & I join Ezra Klein to talk through how Trump just shredded America's most ambitious climate policy, what survived, and where we go from here. Listen @nytimes.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
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Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
Trump just shredded America’s most ambitious climate policy. Jane Flegal and Jesse Jenkins discuss what this means for the future of renewable energy in the U.S.
open.spotify.com/episode/4Fbl...
youtu.be/vuW4PdhqKmo?...
Trump just shredded America’s most ambitious climate policy. Jane Flegal and Jesse Jenkins discuss what this means for the future of renewable energy in the U.S.
open.spotify.com/episode/4Fbl...
youtu.be/vuW4PdhqKmo?...
Has Trump Doomed Progress on Climate Change? | The Ezra Klein Show
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July 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
Trump just shredded America’s most ambitious climate policy. Jane Flegal and Jesse Jenkins discuss what this means for the future of renewable energy in the U.S.
open.spotify.com/episode/4Fbl...
youtu.be/vuW4PdhqKmo?...
Trump just shredded America’s most ambitious climate policy. Jane Flegal and Jesse Jenkins discuss what this means for the future of renewable energy in the U.S.
open.spotify.com/episode/4Fbl...
youtu.be/vuW4PdhqKmo?...
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I hope these craven cruel fucks never sleep well again. I hope they spontaneously generate a conscience and it plagues them Tell-tale Heart style.
I look forward to the day of accountability. We must fight with all we have to make sure that day comes.
I look forward to the day of accountability. We must fight with all we have to make sure that day comes.
July 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I hope these craven cruel fucks never sleep well again. I hope they spontaneously generate a conscience and it plagues them Tell-tale Heart style.
I look forward to the day of accountability. We must fight with all we have to make sure that day comes.
I look forward to the day of accountability. We must fight with all we have to make sure that day comes.
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So we know it’s going to pass let’s bookmark this and remember in November
July 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
So we know it’s going to pass let’s bookmark this and remember in November
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Today proves that Republicans were serious about one promise: to cut taxes for the wealthy. All the rest was bullshit.
July 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Today proves that Republicans were serious about one promise: to cut taxes for the wealthy. All the rest was bullshit.
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“Congress” didn’t pass this murder budget.
Republicans did it.
Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate.
Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due
Republicans did it.
Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate.
Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due
July 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“Congress” didn’t pass this murder budget.
Republicans did it.
Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate.
Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due
Republicans did it.
Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate.
Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due
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Lunacy. They just funded Trump’s private army.
July 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Lunacy. They just funded Trump’s private army.
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The House passed President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration bill in a 218-214 vote Thursday.
Here's how every lawmaker voted, including previously skeptical Republicans.
Here's how every lawmaker voted, including previously skeptical Republicans.
How every House member voted on Trump’s big tax bill
See how every lawmaker voted.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The House passed President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration bill in a 218-214 vote Thursday.
Here's how every lawmaker voted, including previously skeptical Republicans.
Here's how every lawmaker voted, including previously skeptical Republicans.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Senator Padilla was driven violently to his knees–as if made to kneel before the authority of the executive–because the administration called his questions “disrespectful”.
This should offend not just the other 99 Senators. It should offend the conscience of this country.
This should offend not just the other 99 Senators. It should offend the conscience of this country.
June 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Senator Padilla was driven violently to his knees–as if made to kneel before the authority of the executive–because the administration called his questions “disrespectful”.
This should offend not just the other 99 Senators. It should offend the conscience of this country.
This should offend not just the other 99 Senators. It should offend the conscience of this country.
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He is on DHS’s oversight committee and was part of her confirmation hearing…
What an absurd framing. The Secretary of Homeland Security is claiming she does not know who the Senaior Senator of California is, while holding a news conference in California. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Sen. Alex Padilla of California forcibly removed from DHS news conference
The Democrat was forced to the ground and handcuffed, according to his office. He later met with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem (R).
www.washingtonpost.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
He is on DHS’s oversight committee and was part of her confirmation hearing…
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You can find your reps' contact info at 5calls.org or reps.fyi (shortcut to Common Cause). Light up the fucking lines.
Yet again, yes it's okay to be pissed that Democrats aren't doing more.
But framing Democrats as the only ones with agency while Republicans hold the balance of power and still get to whoops-a-daisy into authoritarianism is bullshit.
Call your GOP reps.
But framing Democrats as the only ones with agency while Republicans hold the balance of power and still get to whoops-a-daisy into authoritarianism is bullshit.
Call your GOP reps.
June 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
You can find your reps' contact info at 5calls.org or reps.fyi (shortcut to Common Cause). Light up the fucking lines.
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Update: In the CECOT class AEA case, Chief Judge Boasberg denies as moot DOJ's request for a stay pending appeal due to the DC Circuit's "administrative stay," which I covered here (www.lawdork.com/p/dc-circuit...). He also, as I did, notes DOJ's sketchy timing.
![Six days later, Defendants appealed and sought to stay the Preliminary Injunction. On
the afternoon of June 10, they filed an emergency motion with the Court of Appeals asking for an
administrative stay and a stay pending appeal. See Emergency Motion for a Stay Pending Appeal and Administrative Stay, I.G.G. v. Trump, No. 25-5217 (D.C. Cir. June 10, 2025) (docketed 2:29 p.m.). They also — and, it appears, subsequently — asked this Court to stay the injunction pending appeal. See ECF No. 152 (PI Stay Mot.) (docketed 2:39 p.m.); id. at 2 (claiming that "this Court's immediate deadline" compelled "contemporaneous[l" filing of motions); but see Fed. R. App. P. 8(a) ("A party must ordinarily move first in the district court for... a stay of the judgment or order of a district court pending appeal" unless doing so "would be impracticable."). Several hours later, the Court of Appeals entered an administrative stay "to give [it] sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal." Per Curiam Order, J.G.G., No. 25-5217 (D.C. Cir. June 10, 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiftiw2dsqjieay5jqfcrzd7pe32ef2hhrfflcaes32bj6vpg3umxq@jpeg)
June 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Update: In the CECOT class AEA case, Chief Judge Boasberg denies as moot DOJ's request for a stay pending appeal due to the DC Circuit's "administrative stay," which I covered here (www.lawdork.com/p/dc-circuit...). He also, as I did, notes DOJ's sketchy timing.
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If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.
June 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.
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Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”
June 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”
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Deploying 700 Marines on U.S. soil against the will of local leaders and law enforcement is a dangerous abuse of power. Our military is a sacred trust meant to protect the American people, not be used by President Trump and Secretary Hegseth to strike fear into Americans. (1/2)
June 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Deploying 700 Marines on U.S. soil against the will of local leaders and law enforcement is a dangerous abuse of power. Our military is a sacred trust meant to protect the American people, not be used by President Trump and Secretary Hegseth to strike fear into Americans. (1/2)
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This indictment is another attempt at political intimidation from the Trump administration, but Rep McIver and Congress won’t back down from our jobs of oversight and holding this administration accountable.
This indictment is no more justified than the original charges. I will not be intimidated. My full statement:
June 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This indictment is another attempt at political intimidation from the Trump administration, but Rep McIver and Congress won’t back down from our jobs of oversight and holding this administration accountable.
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USAID isn't charity. It's a foreign policy tool with bipartisan origins that is critical in this dangerous global environment.
Gutting it means gutting our ability to compete and keep America safe.
Gutting it means gutting our ability to compete and keep America safe.
February 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
USAID isn't charity. It's a foreign policy tool with bipartisan origins that is critical in this dangerous global environment.
Gutting it means gutting our ability to compete and keep America safe.
Gutting it means gutting our ability to compete and keep America safe.
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The cruelty of this administration’s policies ripples through entire communities. Our focus must be on connection and compassion — not division. What the administration is doing is not making us safer, it is eroding our shared values of decency and honor.
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The cruelty of this administration’s policies ripples through entire communities.
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June 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The cruelty of this administration’s policies ripples through entire communities. Our focus must be on connection and compassion — not division. What the administration is doing is not making us safer, it is eroding our shared values of decency and honor.
op: justsayuhatebasketball (via TikTok)
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Trump’s bill blocks millions of families from the full Child Tax Credit—just to give billionaires another break.
June 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Trump’s bill blocks millions of families from the full Child Tax Credit—just to give billionaires another break.