Jill Lawrence

YouTube video by Cathy Fink Marcy Marxer IT AINT GONNA GO AWAY - ODE TO THE EPSTEIN FILES

OMG. The folk duo we used to take our little kids to hear decades ago is now singing about the Epstein Files.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AG...

And second, here's Alex Martin, sitting as concertmaster this weekend at the Deer Valley (Utah) Music Festival, tuning the orchestra. 2/2

Composer Matt Novack Launches Spacecat Music & Sound - Your One-Stop Shop For Audio in Games, Film, TV, Podcasts, and Beyond - SHOOTonline Composer Matt Novack (Miracle Workers, Harley Quinn, Murderville, Medical Police) has officially launched Spacecat Music & Sound, a comprehensive audio studio offering original music composition, soun...

A two-part proud-mom post about my musical guys.
First, Greg Martin is a creative partner in this new music and sound company. 1/2 www.shootonline.com/spw/composer...

If you’re an immigrant with legal status who’s committed 0 crimes you can be sent to a torture prison where you’ll be raped and dehumanized.

If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.

Opinion: President Vance? Brace yourself for it. Trump is already deteriorating When we were worried about Biden's age and capacity, we at least knew a stable vice president was standing by. Republicans don't have that.

What now? I think we know. I wrote this last October. www.yahoo.com/news/opinion...

Spoiler: Tillis broke his word, crossed his “line in the sand” and abandoned his principles by voting to confirm Pirro tonight.

Next month’s job numbers are the street you grew up on and the last thing you ate.

Kellyanne Conway "eclipsed 50 Hatch Act violations on Twitter" and TV trying to influence elections while she was a senior WH official, and was recommended for removal from her post in 2019. But Trump ignored the recommendation, of course. www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

Office of Special Counsel launches investigation into ex-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith The investigation comes after GOP Sen. Tom Cotton requested that Smith be investigated for “unprecedented interference in the 2024 election.”

LOL. Trump has launched an investigation into Jack Smith for Hatch Act violations. As a reminder, the penalties for violating the Hatch Act are 1. Removal from federal service, 2. Demotion, 3. Suspension. OH NOOOOOO! www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

I Am Suing the Department of Justice for the Epstein Files Training Videos On July 20th, I was the first to report the existence of training videos instructing FBI personnel how to flag mentions of Trump and others in the Epstein files. Today, I'm suing for those videos.

BREAKING: I am suing the Department of Justice for the training videos instructing FBI personnel to flag mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein files. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/i-am-suing...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner's biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
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“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

are all the wannabe dictators on some kind of signal group chat or something

Not With a Bang, but With a Truth Social Post The president is rattling a nuclear saber as a distraction.

Trump has initiated a new era in which the chief executive can use threats regarding the most powerful weapons on Earth to salve his ego and improve his political fortunes. Once upon a time, America was governed by serious people. No longer.

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Don’t forget the mass J6 pardons. Historic for sure.

ARE YOU A WOMAN successfully running something big in Washington?

The commissioner of labor statistics?

The archivist of the United States?

The librarian of Congress?

The director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery?

A top general or admiral?

TOO BAD. TRUMP WANTS YOU GONE.

Prices are going up. Job prospects are going down.

But don't worry – Donald Trump's got a $200 million ballroom for you.

Do it.

More laughs. Keep ‘em coming, please and thank you.

30 Million Jobs Added in August Report Big America. Records broken. Trump good.

Sometimes, after you rage and mourn, all that’s left is to laugh. Thanks @charlotteclymer.bsky.social
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Oct. 1, 2024: Government information was the gold standard, whether you wanted to know how many people died in a war or what to wear the next day. We should be able to count on our government for facts and truth. But ... we won’t be able to if Trump and Vance win. www.thebulwark.com/p/say-goodby...

Say Goodbye to Truth as We Know It If Trump and Vance Win We’ll miss government facts and science when they’re gone.

Hopefully a bunch of knowledgeable people will be assembling real data, so the true facts will be available. But it just kills me to not be able to trust government data. That was one of the things I feared most before the election. Especially as a journalist. www.thebulwark.com/p/say-goodby...

Trump’s Big, Hideous Ballroom Even with everything else going on, some crimes against taste are too outrageous to ignore.

"One wants to say of Trump what Lincoln said about Stephen Douglas: “He is blowing out the moral lights around us...he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty [in] the public mind.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-big...

Trump demands firing of BLS chief after soft jobs report The monthly jobs report showed just 73,000 jobs in July, with big reductions to May's and June's numbers

Heading directly into Orwell territory right now. www.politico.com/news/2025/08... Trump demands firing of BLS chief after soft jobs report - POLITICO

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades. For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a trusted public media system that informs, educates, and serves communities across the country. Through partnerships with local stations and producers, CPB has supported educational content, locally relevant journalism, emergency communications, cultural programming, and essential services for Americans in every community. “Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” said CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison. “CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.”

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:

Not only is today’s employment report uniquely bad, but revisions to the prior months show that, on average, we have seen 35k net new jobs created for the last 3 months:

JAN: +111K
FEB: +102K
MAR: +120K
APR: +158K
MAY: +19K
JUN: +14K
JUL: +73K

No way to put lipstick on this pig.

I'm glad Trump is gutting the EPA. My family's tire-burning business is on fire! | Opinion Every morning I wake up, open the doors to my family tire-burning and tainted-meat-sales business and thank God for President Donald J. Trump.

Speaking of being on fire, @rexhuppke.bsky.social is writing sentences like this one: "We used to have to hide the fact that we smoke our delicious precooked meats over the artisanal tire fires, but not anymore." www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

“Color is neither a poison or a crime.”