Laurie Asseo
@fifteenmoons.bsky.social
Retired journalist in DC. Horse and cat lover. Loyal Little. Free DC from Trump Authoritarianism!
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Laurie Asseo
@fifteenmoons.bsky.social
· Jul 25
As a DC resident, I don’t have any members of Congress to call, but I have one advantage—proximity to the White House:
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Grocery prices. Gas prices. Prescription drug prices. Overall prices. Over just three days, Trump made false claims about all of them. | Fact check
Fact check: Trump’s lying spree about inflation
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Grocery prices. Gas prices. Prescription drug prices. Overall prices. Over just three days, Trump made false claims about all of them. | Fact check
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The White House knows it tried to steal an election and stage a coup in Jan. 2021 with their help. Now it wants to bury the evidence beneath pardons. State AGs, you know what you need to do.
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The White House knows it tried to steal an election and stage a coup in Jan. 2021 with their help. Now it wants to bury the evidence beneath pardons. State AGs, you know what you need to do.
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Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
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Bless this reporter for fact-checking lying Donald right to his face!
Bless This Reporter For Fact-Checking Trump To His Face
His response was pathetic.
www.thegodpodcast.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Bless this reporter for fact-checking lying Donald right to his face!
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Beyond the marquee races Democrats elected their first district attorney in Bucks County, Pa., since the 1800s, took control of 28 Connecticut towns from the GOP and won their biggest majority in the New Jersey legislature since the Watergate era.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Democrats swept elections far beyond the big races in referendum on Trump
Beyond the big governors and New York mayor contests, Democrats on Tuesday flipped city councils, school boards and county commissions.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Beyond the marquee races Democrats elected their first district attorney in Bucks County, Pa., since the 1800s, took control of 28 Connecticut towns from the GOP and won their biggest majority in the New Jersey legislature since the Watergate era.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
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REMINDER: President Biden NEVER cut SNAP payments, never even had a government shutdown.
In fact, he cut child poverty in half.
He cut child hunger, too.
I miss having a REAL President.
In fact, he cut child poverty in half.
He cut child hunger, too.
I miss having a REAL President.
November 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
REMINDER: President Biden NEVER cut SNAP payments, never even had a government shutdown.
In fact, he cut child poverty in half.
He cut child hunger, too.
I miss having a REAL President.
In fact, he cut child poverty in half.
He cut child hunger, too.
I miss having a REAL President.
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Just a reminder that Walmart scams more than $2 billion off the American taxpayer every single month because of SNAP. If you think mega corporations are not the true welfare queens, think again.
42 million hungry Americans are a product of a system where big biz grifts and GOP blame the poor.
42 million hungry Americans are a product of a system where big biz grifts and GOP blame the poor.
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Just a reminder that Walmart scams more than $2 billion off the American taxpayer every single month because of SNAP. If you think mega corporations are not the true welfare queens, think again.
42 million hungry Americans are a product of a system where big biz grifts and GOP blame the poor.
42 million hungry Americans are a product of a system where big biz grifts and GOP blame the poor.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Also on Saturday. 🤡
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Also on Saturday. 🤡
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NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
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It would cost $38 billion to extend ACA credits next year and prevent millions of people from losing their healthcare.
Reminder: Trump sent $40 billion to Argentina for no reason.
@lofgren.house.gov
Reminder: Trump sent $40 billion to Argentina for no reason.
@lofgren.house.gov
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It would cost $38 billion to extend ACA credits next year and prevent millions of people from losing their healthcare.
Reminder: Trump sent $40 billion to Argentina for no reason.
@lofgren.house.gov
Reminder: Trump sent $40 billion to Argentina for no reason.
@lofgren.house.gov
A Light in Very Dark Days: Nancy Pelosi and AIDS www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
A Light in Very Dark Days: Nancy Pelosi and AIDS
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A Light in Very Dark Days: Nancy Pelosi and AIDS www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
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Now we know why he’s going to their game tomorrow.
November 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Now we know why he’s going to their game tomorrow.
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NYT: The tax cuts come amid “steep cuts to health care for the elderly and food stamps for the poorest Americans.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
NYT: The tax cuts come amid “steep cuts to health care for the elderly and food stamps for the poorest Americans.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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Back when a president could be a decent human being. One even went on to build housing for the disadvantaged.
Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath?
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
November 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Back when a president could be a decent human being. One even went on to build housing for the disadvantaged.
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abundantly clear that the six monsters currently running the Supreme Court do not think trans people are real and want them to go away
they know what will happen to someone presenting as the other sex when their passport doesn’t match and they want it to happen
their power must be broken
they know what will happen to someone presenting as the other sex when their passport doesn’t match and they want it to happen
their power must be broken
Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 AM
abundantly clear that the six monsters currently running the Supreme Court do not think trans people are real and want them to go away
they know what will happen to someone presenting as the other sex when their passport doesn’t match and they want it to happen
their power must be broken
they know what will happen to someone presenting as the other sex when their passport doesn’t match and they want it to happen
their power must be broken
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There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
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“The jury seems to find all this funny. We can’t see the jurors on the screens in the dedicated media space, but a reporter in the courtroom confirms that they struggle at times to contain their smiles—and one juror in particular must cover her face with her notebook to conceal herself cracking up.”
Here's my piece for @lawfaremedia.org on my experience covering the Sandwich Guy trial. Warning: longer than 280 characters!
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...
Sandwich Guy, Thrower of Hoagie–Or Hero?
The trial ended in an acquittal. But the proceedings felt like a strange sort of performance art—highly amusing and highly menacing at the same time.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
“The jury seems to find all this funny. We can’t see the jurors on the screens in the dedicated media space, but a reporter in the courtroom confirms that they struggle at times to contain their smiles—and one juror in particular must cover her face with her notebook to conceal herself cracking up.”
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Wild how propaganda turns empathy into anger and billionaires into “job creators.”
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Wild how propaganda turns empathy into anger and billionaires into “job creators.”
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Remember DNC, it doesn't matter who you run, Fox news will call them a socialist. You could endorse the corpse of Ronald Reagan and their first segment would be "Extreme socialist Reagan picked by Soros to destroy America"
Stop caring what fox news says, and listen to your base. It clearly works.
Stop caring what fox news says, and listen to your base. It clearly works.
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Remember DNC, it doesn't matter who you run, Fox news will call them a socialist. You could endorse the corpse of Ronald Reagan and their first segment would be "Extreme socialist Reagan picked by Soros to destroy America"
Stop caring what fox news says, and listen to your base. It clearly works.
Stop caring what fox news says, and listen to your base. It clearly works.
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#Voters #MadeTheirPoint Love this cartoon 🌊🌊💙
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
#Voters #MadeTheirPoint Love this cartoon 🌊🌊💙
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”