@rlavery2.bsky.social
Former Republican, Pro Democracy
Believer in personal freedom - all of it.
The only thing Republicans hate more than Democrats is the TRUTH
Believer in personal freedom - all of it.
The only thing Republicans hate more than Democrats is the TRUTH
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Seems like Schlesinger & Kinzer could have written a sequel to “Bitter Fruit”
January 3, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Seems like Schlesinger & Kinzer could have written a sequel to “Bitter Fruit”
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BREAKING: Epstein survivors issue a new statement blasting Trump’s DOJ for failing to release all Epstein files and for not redacting survivors’ identities
December 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
BREAKING: Epstein survivors issue a new statement blasting Trump’s DOJ for failing to release all Epstein files and for not redacting survivors’ identities
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CBS: We won’t run a negative story about the Trump administration unless they comment on the record.
Trump Administration: No comment.
CBS: Awww, Jeeze. Guess we can’t talk about them sending people to be tortured and possibly murdered. Sorry. Fair and balanced.
#RadioFreeAmerica
Trump Administration: No comment.
CBS: Awww, Jeeze. Guess we can’t talk about them sending people to be tortured and possibly murdered. Sorry. Fair and balanced.
#RadioFreeAmerica
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
CBS: We won’t run a negative story about the Trump administration unless they comment on the record.
Trump Administration: No comment.
CBS: Awww, Jeeze. Guess we can’t talk about them sending people to be tortured and possibly murdered. Sorry. Fair and balanced.
#RadioFreeAmerica
Trump Administration: No comment.
CBS: Awww, Jeeze. Guess we can’t talk about them sending people to be tortured and possibly murdered. Sorry. Fair and balanced.
#RadioFreeAmerica
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“‘Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices,’ Alfonsi wrote, according to the outlets. ‘It is factually correct.’”
Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi “said she learned Saturday that CBS News' new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, had ‘spiked our story,’ calling the decision ‘not an editorial decision’ but ‘a political one.’” people.com/60-minutes-s...
'60 Minutes' Segment Pulled by CBS' New Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, a Decision Its Correspondent Calls ‘Political’
CBS News' editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, abruptly pulled a planned 60 Minutes segment focused on Venezuelan men deported by the Trump Administration to a notorious El Salvador prison, a last-minute move...
people.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
“‘Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices,’ Alfonsi wrote, according to the outlets. ‘It is factually correct.’”
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While we stand by the reporting in our 60 Minutes piece about El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison, it was missing crucial information—specifically about how woke campus protestors would benefit from a few weeks there to see how good they have it.
by Bari Weiss
by Bari Weiss
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
While we stand by the reporting in our 60 Minutes piece about El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison, it was missing crucial information—specifically about how woke campus protestors would benefit from a few weeks there to see how good they have it.
by Bari Weiss
by Bari Weiss
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ME Sen Susan Collins voted for RFK Jr to oversee our nation’s health. Measles is highly contagious and had almost been eradicated
prior to the addled Kennedy’s appt
prior to the addled Kennedy’s appt
What began in the fall as a trickle of measles infections in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, has since grown into an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people, prompted more than 250 residents to quarantine and unsettled many more.
A Measles Outbreak Brings With It Echoes of the Pandemic
In South Carolina, parents struggle to deal with infections that have brought quarantines and remote learning. Health care workers are bracing for an increase in cases.
nyti.ms
December 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
ME Sen Susan Collins voted for RFK Jr to oversee our nation’s health. Measles is highly contagious and had almost been eradicated
prior to the addled Kennedy’s appt
prior to the addled Kennedy’s appt
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This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.
December 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.
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Universal healthcare is a moral imperative. It unleashes creativity. It unleashes small business.
I often think about what Maine would look like if all of my friends who work incredibly hard didn't have to worry about healthcare.
I often think about what Maine would look like if all of my friends who work incredibly hard didn't have to worry about healthcare.
December 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Universal healthcare is a moral imperative. It unleashes creativity. It unleashes small business.
I often think about what Maine would look like if all of my friends who work incredibly hard didn't have to worry about healthcare.
I often think about what Maine would look like if all of my friends who work incredibly hard didn't have to worry about healthcare.
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Release the boat strike video.
December 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Release the boat strike video.
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Over the last 6 months, the Justice Department has demanded full, unredacted voter rolls from dozens of states.
The goal? To build the federal government’s first-ever national database of registered voters using their private info.
The goal? To build the federal government’s first-ever national database of registered voters using their private info.
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Over the last 6 months, the Justice Department has demanded full, unredacted voter rolls from dozens of states.
The goal? To build the federal government’s first-ever national database of registered voters using their private info.
The goal? To build the federal government’s first-ever national database of registered voters using their private info.
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“FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville, according to three people with knowledge of the incidents.”
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend’s pal a lift home: sources
FBI agents have grown increasingly concerned by Patel’s use of the bureau’s strapped resource.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville, according to three people with knowledge of the incidents.”
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
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Abbe Lowell, the attorney who is representing Letitia James: “I can't tell you a time in the federal system...where a federal prosecutor thought a case was strong enough to bring to a grand jury, and the grand jury said no.” @kaitlancollins.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Abbe Lowell, the attorney who is representing Letitia James: “I can't tell you a time in the federal system...where a federal prosecutor thought a case was strong enough to bring to a grand jury, and the grand jury said no.” @kaitlancollins.bsky.social
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I have no idea why media continues to hype this person as a serious political commentator, but to go even further and float him as a viable presidential candidate is just farcical.
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I have no idea why media continues to hype this person as a serious political commentator, but to go even further and float him as a viable presidential candidate is just farcical.
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Understand that the Halligan thing is 100% Pam Bondi's fuck-up. She could have appointed Halligan Special Attorney and this thing would still be alive.
So it's not just that HALLIGAN is an incompetent bigot.
It's that Bondi is too.
So it's not just that HALLIGAN is an incompetent bigot.
It's that Bondi is too.
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Understand that the Halligan thing is 100% Pam Bondi's fuck-up. She could have appointed Halligan Special Attorney and this thing would still be alive.
So it's not just that HALLIGAN is an incompetent bigot.
It's that Bondi is too.
So it's not just that HALLIGAN is an incompetent bigot.
It's that Bondi is too.
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🔥 WATCH: “Republicans in Congress cut all THIS (Medicaid, SNAP) so they could pay for THAT (tax cuts for the rich)… follow the money.”
@warnock.senate.gov joins Coach Sully to use the cups to show who Republicans are really fighting for — the richest among us.
@warnock.senate.gov joins Coach Sully to use the cups to show who Republicans are really fighting for — the richest among us.
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
🔥 WATCH: “Republicans in Congress cut all THIS (Medicaid, SNAP) so they could pay for THAT (tax cuts for the rich)… follow the money.”
@warnock.senate.gov joins Coach Sully to use the cups to show who Republicans are really fighting for — the richest among us.
@warnock.senate.gov joins Coach Sully to use the cups to show who Republicans are really fighting for — the richest among us.
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This plaque is posted at West Point. Alcoholic TV talk show chatterbox Pete Hegseth wants to court-martial Arizona Senator Mark Kelly for repeating what is written on it.
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This plaque is posted at West Point. Alcoholic TV talk show chatterbox Pete Hegseth wants to court-martial Arizona Senator Mark Kelly for repeating what is written on it.
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If CBP, Customs and Border Protection, is only supposed to operate within 100 miles of the U.S. border, what are they doing leading operations in Charlotte, North Carolina?
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
If CBP, Customs and Border Protection, is only supposed to operate within 100 miles of the U.S. border, what are they doing leading operations in Charlotte, North Carolina?
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Jeffrey Epstein survivors released a new video urging Congress to vote to release the Epstein files
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Jeffrey Epstein survivors released a new video urging Congress to vote to release the Epstein files
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Odd that the DoJ is opening an investigation into the Epstein files since they said in July that there was no client list and nothing to release.
November 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Odd that the DoJ is opening an investigation into the Epstein files since they said in July that there was no client list and nothing to release.
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My friend @drannieandrews.com will be Lindsey Graham's opponent.
She is a pediatric surgeon who has performed spinal surgeries on children, running against a grownup with no spine. Dr. Andrews is poised to perform a full Lindsey-ectomy on the United States Senate.
She is a pediatric surgeon who has performed spinal surgeries on children, running against a grownup with no spine. Dr. Andrews is poised to perform a full Lindsey-ectomy on the United States Senate.
November 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
My friend @drannieandrews.com will be Lindsey Graham's opponent.
She is a pediatric surgeon who has performed spinal surgeries on children, running against a grownup with no spine. Dr. Andrews is poised to perform a full Lindsey-ectomy on the United States Senate.
She is a pediatric surgeon who has performed spinal surgeries on children, running against a grownup with no spine. Dr. Andrews is poised to perform a full Lindsey-ectomy on the United States Senate.
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Megyn Kelly in 2017: " If Roy Moore wants to go to the US Senate and he has a history of assaulting 14- and 16-year-old girls, it's a problem."
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Megyn Kelly in 2017: " If Roy Moore wants to go to the US Senate and he has a history of assaulting 14- and 16-year-old girls, it's a problem."