Lisa
@makkie5.bsky.social
Originally from PA. In CA for over 30 years. Two wonderful grown daughters. Democrat and very disappointed and scared.
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CBS has become state regime media.
A Message to CBS from MeidasTouch
By Ben Meiselas
www.meidasplus.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
CBS has become state regime media.
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The truth is rationed and obscured while the women who survived these horrors are dragged back through them yet again. Predators remain protected. Evidence is hoarded, withheld, erased. The truth is being smothered in real time & witnessing it is fucking horrific.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
What Was Stolen
Survivors, Silence, and the Injustice of It All
open.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The truth is rationed and obscured while the women who survived these horrors are dragged back through them yet again. Predators remain protected. Evidence is hoarded, withheld, erased. The truth is being smothered in real time & witnessing it is fucking horrific.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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THIS 100%!
I've been saying for years I'd rather pay a bit more in taxes than to pay insurance premiums, copays/coinsurance, and worry about medical bankrupcy.
We also need to counter the insurance lobbies who are working to keep their masters in business.
I've been saying for years I'd rather pay a bit more in taxes than to pay insurance premiums, copays/coinsurance, and worry about medical bankrupcy.
We also need to counter the insurance lobbies who are working to keep their masters in business.
December 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
THIS 100%!
I've been saying for years I'd rather pay a bit more in taxes than to pay insurance premiums, copays/coinsurance, and worry about medical bankrupcy.
We also need to counter the insurance lobbies who are working to keep their masters in business.
I've been saying for years I'd rather pay a bit more in taxes than to pay insurance premiums, copays/coinsurance, and worry about medical bankrupcy.
We also need to counter the insurance lobbies who are working to keep their masters in business.
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-Sandy Hook should have ended children being slaughtered in schools, instead Republicans rallied to defend guns.
-Jan. 6, 2021 should have ended Trump, instead Republicans rallied to defend treason.
-The Epstein Files should end rich men's lust for rape, instead Republicans rally to defend scum.
-Jan. 6, 2021 should have ended Trump, instead Republicans rallied to defend treason.
-The Epstein Files should end rich men's lust for rape, instead Republicans rally to defend scum.
December 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
-Sandy Hook should have ended children being slaughtered in schools, instead Republicans rallied to defend guns.
-Jan. 6, 2021 should have ended Trump, instead Republicans rallied to defend treason.
-The Epstein Files should end rich men's lust for rape, instead Republicans rally to defend scum.
-Jan. 6, 2021 should have ended Trump, instead Republicans rallied to defend treason.
-The Epstein Files should end rich men's lust for rape, instead Republicans rally to defend scum.
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Teachers are the best of us. Mary McLeod Bethune was one of these leading beacons who educated, motivated, and created a better world. She wrote,"There can be no divided democracy, no class government, no half free country..." @hcrichardson.bsky.social #WomenInHistory
youtu.be/ImnWEv3SN_Q?...
youtu.be/ImnWEv3SN_Q?...
Mary McLeod Bethune | Episode 7, The Declaration in Action
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Teachers are the best of us. Mary McLeod Bethune was one of these leading beacons who educated, motivated, and created a better world. She wrote,"There can be no divided democracy, no class government, no half free country..." @hcrichardson.bsky.social #WomenInHistory
youtu.be/ImnWEv3SN_Q?...
youtu.be/ImnWEv3SN_Q?...
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it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
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#ResistanceRoots
Today in History, 1941: Hitler issues his “Night and Fog” (Nacht und Nebel) decree, ordering that members of the resistance working to undermine the Nazi military be arrested and brought for trial by special courts, circumventing conventions governing the treatment of prisoners. /1
Today in History, 1941: Hitler issues his “Night and Fog” (Nacht und Nebel) decree, ordering that members of the resistance working to undermine the Nazi military be arrested and brought for trial by special courts, circumventing conventions governing the treatment of prisoners. /1
December 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
#ResistanceRoots
Today in History, 1941: Hitler issues his “Night and Fog” (Nacht und Nebel) decree, ordering that members of the resistance working to undermine the Nazi military be arrested and brought for trial by special courts, circumventing conventions governing the treatment of prisoners. /1
Today in History, 1941: Hitler issues his “Night and Fog” (Nacht und Nebel) decree, ordering that members of the resistance working to undermine the Nazi military be arrested and brought for trial by special courts, circumventing conventions governing the treatment of prisoners. /1
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“Fight Club”?
Nice to see Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, and Warren pushing back on Schumer’s weak AF midterm strategy, but talk is not enough because he ain’t changing.
One of them needs to step up and challenge him for the leadership slot. Right now!
Nice to see Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, and Warren pushing back on Schumer’s weak AF midterm strategy, but talk is not enough because he ain’t changing.
One of them needs to step up and challenge him for the leadership slot. Right now!
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“Fight Club”?
Nice to see Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, and Warren pushing back on Schumer’s weak AF midterm strategy, but talk is not enough because he ain’t changing.
One of them needs to step up and challenge him for the leadership slot. Right now!
Nice to see Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, and Warren pushing back on Schumer’s weak AF midterm strategy, but talk is not enough because he ain’t changing.
One of them needs to step up and challenge him for the leadership slot. Right now!
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Oh hey, I found the war on christmas
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Oh hey, I found the war on christmas
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EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: Newly released emails show Jeffrey Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell that Donald Trump “spent hours at my house,” “knew about the girls,” and “that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.”
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: Newly released emails show Jeffrey Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell that Donald Trump “spent hours at my house,” “knew about the girls,” and “that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.”
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Newsom: "I give Jeffries and Schumer tremendous credit. They've galvanized people of all political stripes -- rural, urban, suburban -- on the issue that defines so many problems in so many ways, and that's healthcare, and the anxiety people are about to feel with 100% to 388% increase in premiums."
November 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Newsom: "I give Jeffries and Schumer tremendous credit. They've galvanized people of all political stripes -- rural, urban, suburban -- on the issue that defines so many problems in so many ways, and that's healthcare, and the anxiety people are about to feel with 100% to 388% increase in premiums."
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Mayor Elect Zohran Mamdani is STILL out chatting it up with the people. He was trying to do content but the voters kept popping up.🥹
November 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Mayor Elect Zohran Mamdani is STILL out chatting it up with the people. He was trying to do content but the voters kept popping up.🥹
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The national media isn’t going to mention this, so it’s up to the rest of us to do it.
November 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The national media isn’t going to mention this, so it’s up to the rest of us to do it.
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So the terms we had Bukele agree to were basically “no lawyers, no abortions.”
No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.
democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.
democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
So the terms we had Bukele agree to were basically “no lawyers, no abortions.”
No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.
democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.
democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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Absolutely shocking that the Chinese govt pressured a UK university to shut down research about forced labour in Xinjiang and the links to global supply chains. The work of Laura Murphy and her team had been instrumental in getting Chinese companies sanctioned.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Absolutely shocking that the Chinese govt pressured a UK university to shut down research about forced labour in Xinjiang and the links to global supply chains. The work of Laura Murphy and her team had been instrumental in getting Chinese companies sanctioned.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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I can’t wait for the media to tell us in 2029 all about Trump’s steep cognitive decline and psychosis while he was president, with numerous examples that they just discovered through extensive research and sourcing.
October 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I can’t wait for the media to tell us in 2029 all about Trump’s steep cognitive decline and psychosis while he was president, with numerous examples that they just discovered through extensive research and sourcing.
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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"Wake up, babe! Another young Republican operative just had his insanely racist text messages leaked."
@eggerdc.bsky.social on Trump's 30 year old nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel with a "Nazi streak" in Morning Shots, only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-golden...
@eggerdc.bsky.social on Trump's 30 year old nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel with a "Nazi streak" in Morning Shots, only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-golden...
The Golden Age of Sh*tposters
They’ve risen to higher and higher ranks in the MAGA ecosystem. But has one of them finally gone too far?
www.thebulwark.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"Wake up, babe! Another young Republican operative just had his insanely racist text messages leaked."
@eggerdc.bsky.social on Trump's 30 year old nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel with a "Nazi streak" in Morning Shots, only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-golden...
@eggerdc.bsky.social on Trump's 30 year old nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel with a "Nazi streak" in Morning Shots, only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-golden...
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Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)
October 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
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Kentucky opened its 2026 ACA marketplace window shopping this week – and again, residents are seeing big premium spikes because of expiring tax credit enhancements. A typical 60-year-old couple making $85,000 is facing a $23,700 increase in annual premiums. (1/4)
October 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Kentucky opened its 2026 ACA marketplace window shopping this week – and again, residents are seeing big premium spikes because of expiring tax credit enhancements. A typical 60-year-old couple making $85,000 is facing a $23,700 increase in annual premiums. (1/4)
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“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...