Lauren Bar
@sparkleparty.bsky.social
Lover of books, politics, trivia, disco balls, animals, Match Factory, candy, podcasts and sports.
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🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com
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Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.
September 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.
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Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."
h/t @msnbc.com
h/t @msnbc.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."
h/t @msnbc.com
h/t @msnbc.com
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In a 15-page dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson torched the Supreme Court’s Tuesday ruling allowing President Trump’s mass government layoffs to resume.Trump in February issued an executive ord...
KBJ Rips “Senseless” Supreme Court Decision on Trump’s Mass Firings
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called out her colleagues for greenlighting Trump’s “legally dubious” layoffs in the federal government.
newrepublic.com
July 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
In a 15-page dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson torched the Supreme Court’s Tuesday ruling allowing President Trump’s mass government layoffs to resume.Trump in February issued an executive ord...
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This is what an authoritarian regime would do. Hidden deep in Trump’s 1,100-page bill that passed the House today is a provision that would block federal courts from enforcing contempt charges against government officials who violate court orders.
May 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is what an authoritarian regime would do. Hidden deep in Trump’s 1,100-page bill that passed the House today is a provision that would block federal courts from enforcing contempt charges against government officials who violate court orders.
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The fact that the attorney general's last job before this one was lobbying for the Qataris is a little on the nose.
May 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The fact that the attorney general's last job before this one was lobbying for the Qataris is a little on the nose.
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May 9, 2025
May 9, 2025
Yesterday afternoon, President Donald Trump withdrew his nomination for interim U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
May 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
May 9, 2025
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April 30, 2025
April 30, 2025
This morning the Bureau of Economic Analysis released a report showing an abrupt reversal in the U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
April 30, 2025
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April 24, 2025
April 24, 2025
“Vladimir, STOP!” wrote President Donald Trump on his social media site this morning.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
April 24, 2025
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This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode the deficit.
3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
They're trying to get away with it again.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode the deficit.
3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
They're trying to get away with it again.
April 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode the deficit.
3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
They're trying to get away with it again.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode the deficit.
3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
They're trying to get away with it again.
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The worst catastrophes of history are caused by men who are malevolent, ignorant, and have exceptional wills.
April 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The worst catastrophes of history are caused by men who are malevolent, ignorant, and have exceptional wills.
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it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”
April 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”
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I don’t do this often and promise not to make a habit of it, but just this once: WE TRIED TO WARN YOU!!!!!
April 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I don’t do this often and promise not to make a habit of it, but just this once: WE TRIED TO WARN YOU!!!!!
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social
“Let’s get in good trouble.
“My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.”
According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.
“Let’s get in good trouble.
“My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.”
According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.
April 1, 2025
Today Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made history.
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April 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
“Let’s get in good trouble.
“My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.”
According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.
“Let’s get in good trouble.
“My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.”
According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.
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Dear Canadian Friends,
We’re sorry. Please know that most Americans did not vote and do not support the lunacy that has broken our relationship with your fine country. Know that we are with you and look forward to when this nonsense is over.
Signed,
An American friend
We’re sorry. Please know that most Americans did not vote and do not support the lunacy that has broken our relationship with your fine country. Know that we are with you and look forward to when this nonsense is over.
Signed,
An American friend
March 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Dear Canadian Friends,
We’re sorry. Please know that most Americans did not vote and do not support the lunacy that has broken our relationship with your fine country. Know that we are with you and look forward to when this nonsense is over.
Signed,
An American friend
We’re sorry. Please know that most Americans did not vote and do not support the lunacy that has broken our relationship with your fine country. Know that we are with you and look forward to when this nonsense is over.
Signed,
An American friend
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March 30, 2025
March 30, 2025
On the Fox News Channel this morning, Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett said: “President Trump has a long run vision of a golden age of America and we’re working really, really h...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 6:25 AM
March 30, 2025
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Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.
March 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.
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It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein
March 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein
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“It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques—techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life.”
-Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 1950
-Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 1950
March 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques—techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life.”
-Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 1950
-Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 1950
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AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person.
I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person
I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.
I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person
I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.
March 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person.
I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person
I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.
I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person
I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.
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⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️
STARTING TOMORROW.
Nevada. Arizona. Colorado.
You, me, and Bernie.
Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙
See you there 💪🏽🌞
STARTING TOMORROW.
Nevada. Arizona. Colorado.
You, me, and Bernie.
Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙
See you there 💪🏽🌞
March 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️
STARTING TOMORROW.
Nevada. Arizona. Colorado.
You, me, and Bernie.
Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙
See you there 💪🏽🌞
STARTING TOMORROW.
Nevada. Arizona. Colorado.
You, me, and Bernie.
Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙
See you there 💪🏽🌞
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March 17, 2025
March 17, 2025
From 1942 to 1945, the Code Talkers were key to every major operation of the Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
March 17, 2025
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