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@lisaloe.bsky.social

Law professor & book author of Corporatocracy, Political Brands & Corporate Citizen; Brennan Center fellow; board of CREW; campaign finance expert. Podcaster of Democracy & Destiny. I’m a lawyer not your lawyer. https://soundcloud.com/profciara #beans

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Latest posts by lisaloe.bsky.social on Bluesky

Donald Trump is the David Koresh of politics.

He is going down and he is trying to burn it all down with him. The DOJ needs to work faster than his legion of soldiers.

24.12.2025 00:24 — 👍 106    🔁 21    💬 11    📌 2
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#Texas lawmakers wrote a bill to help private schools… by taking money from public schools. Talarico calls out the obvious: working families don’t benefit, rich parents do.

24.12.2025 05:51 — 👍 45    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 1
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The charitable take is that the DOJ bungled the Epstein file release. The honest one is that this is by design. Cause confusion as a cover-up. Keep the shiny object moving.

If you can’t keep up, this is a solid recap of last night’s document dump — holiday edition.

24.12.2025 02:48 — 👍 1548    🔁 557    💬 78    📌 21

Name that spineless anonymous Republican behind the quote, the very one who’ll still vote with Johnson to kill healthcare… and millions of Americans.

24.12.2025 05:52 — 👍 20    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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That’s not how GDP works. But it is how propaganda works.

24.12.2025 04:02 — 👍 2632    🔁 768    💬 271    📌 65
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In a letter to UNSC Venezuela asked to formally denounce grave act of use of force, hijacking and piracy committed by US on 10 Dec 2025 in int waters of the Caribbean, against private vessel engaged in lawful int trade transporting Venezuelan oil, whose crew members were kidnapped and remain missing

23.12.2025 18:32 — 👍 384    🔁 173    💬 13    📌 9

“The same systems that made sure Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color were last in line for clean air, safe housing, and political power are the same ones making sure we’re also first in line to drown, burn, or be displaced.” - @merirei.com

My first for @unicornriot.bsky.social

20.12.2025 13:59 — 👍 762    🔁 407    💬 24    📌 5
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👇👇👇👇

23.12.2025 14:52 — 👍 17622    🔁 6359    💬 313    📌 269
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CBS pulled the 60 Minutes CECOT segment, but Canada aired it anyway.

The segment was streaming via Global TV and YouTube (since taken down). Having a VPN set to Canada helped. 🇨🇦

My take, there is no reason we shouldn’t see this. Most of it was known information, easily searchable.
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23.12.2025 02:15 — 👍 6047    🔁 2214    💬 222    📌 105

Thank you! Happy & safe holidays to all! 💚❤️💙

23.12.2025 14:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you, my friend! 🙏🏽
Happy safe Holidays to all!
💚❤️💙✨

23.12.2025 14:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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A mix of small to large accounts, all vetted. Repost the pack for best results. Have a happy Holiday!🎄

Smash the Follow All 👣
Repost ♻️
Like💙
Comment 💬
Memes⛄️
New 🆕 Peeps in the comments 🎄
Release the #Epstein Files!

21.12.2025 14:53 — 👍 342    🔁 218    💬 114    📌 1

Merry Christmas, my friend, and Happy safe Holidays to all!
💚❤️💙✨

23.12.2025 14:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wishing All a Blessed & Beautiful Holiday.
Gifting you a vetted PowerPack of Powerful Protectors Passionately Preserving Democracy.
This pack includes writers, comedians, actors, musicians and incredible Dems who give it their all every single day.
🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
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22.12.2025 05:17 — 👍 82    🔁 42    💬 30    📌 14

Bari Weiss speaks about wanting to have "contentious disagreements" on news stories

But Sharyn Alfonsi said that when she found out Weiss was killing the 60 Minutes story about CECOT, Weiss refused to discuss it

That's not honest journalism

It's catering to a political agenda

The MAGA agenda

22.12.2025 15:49 — 👍 666    🔁 233    💬 44    📌 10

Very well said by one of my very favorite people!👇🏽

If I may add as a Texan - too much noise is coming from outside the state. We have a fab year ahead of us, and a wealth of talent on our bench!
Both Crockett & Talarico are amazing candidates - we’ll hear them out & head to the polls. We got this!🤠

22.12.2025 13:51 — 👍 49    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 1
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A Message to CBS from MeidasTouch By Ben Meiselas

CBS has become state regime media.

22.12.2025 15:36 — 👍 10103    🔁 3276    💬 534    📌 183

The greatest military in human history foiled by…windmills.

Did Don Quixote write this policy?

22.12.2025 17:35 — 👍 50    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 0
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This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.

And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

22.12.2025 16:37 — 👍 29864    🔁 5143    💬 980    📌 448
Jasmine Crockett speaks at a lectern

Jasmine Crockett speaks at a lectern

JD Vance: “her street girl persona is about as real as her nails”

Jasmine Crockett: “How about you stop worrying about me, until we are on the Senate floor together & work to stop your boss from bankrupting our country while engaging in the largest corruption scheme we’ve ever seen?!”

22.12.2025 15:38 — 👍 9451    🔁 1765    💬 532    📌 125
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INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE

This could’ve been avoided 30 years ago.

Maria Farmer’s 1996 FBI complaint has been unearthed in the Epstein files. It was the first time he was reported to the authorities. And they buried it.

“If the FBI had listened to me in 1996, there would’ve been no more victims.”

22.12.2025 16:15 — 👍 4094    🔁 1689    💬 142    📌 61
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Tell Congress: Demand Speaker Johnson hold a vote IMMEDIATELY on the ACA tax credit extension Contact Congress today!

Mike Johnson closed the House down early to avoid a vote on extending ACA tax credits. Nice try, Mike—all that does is give us more time to rally up support.

Let's get loud as hell, folks, and make sure every member of Congress knows where we stand:
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

22.12.2025 00:33 — 👍 10190    🔁 3398    💬 440    📌 160
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And this is how they will bleed the ACA, allowing it to self-implode—likely ending the protections that all Americans benefit from. Just maddening.

21.12.2025 20:27 — 👍 67    🔁 35    💬 2    📌 0
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Republicans decided to go home for the holidays, leaving millions of Americans staring down massive health care premium hikes.

They didn’t just clock out. They walked away from people’s lives. NOTE: These are all red or purple districts.

21.12.2025 18:25 — 👍 1923    🔁 913    💬 134    📌 51
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'Ready to name names?' Epstein survivor reveals plan to back DOJ into a corner — Raw Story Public speaker, trauma educator and Jeffrey Epstein survivor Jess Michaels was pressed Sunday on whether she was “ready to name names” after the Justice Department’s botched release of its files on Ep...

Pressed on MSNOW about “naming names,” survivor Jess Michaels made it clear: if DOJ keeps hiding files and breaking the law, survivors may expose what the government won’t. Saying, “we have attorneys, and those attorneys have all of the information.”

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

apple.news/AamtEquX0QgO...

21.12.2025 19:36 — 👍 466    🔁 222    💬 37    📌 19

Sharyn Alfonsi wrote a devastating email, blaming her boss and the Trump regime for striking a 60 Minutes CERCOT story, knowing it would probably be leaked, consequences be damned.

‼️ Is *any true patriot* with their hands on the full and unredacted Epstein files paying attention?

#EndFascism

22.12.2025 13:21 — 👍 360    🔁 147    💬 10    📌 5
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Basically, the Deputy Attorney General of the United States taking the 5th on national TV to avoid answering why he did one of the most disgusting things any DOJ official has ever done in US history.

21.12.2025 16:55 — 👍 7844    🔁 2736    💬 408    📌 146

Cajun being one of my favorite people is not hyperbole. We know each other from the campaign trail going back to 2019 in Iowa, neither of our home states.
We travel the country FOR our country, working for candidates we believe can do the job.
Follow @cajunblue.bsky.social; she’s the real deal! ❤️‍🔥🥰

22.12.2025 13:51 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Very well said by one of my very favorite people!👇🏽

If I may add as a Texan - too much noise is coming from outside the state. We have a fab year ahead of us, and a wealth of talent on our bench!
Both Crockett & Talarico are amazing candidates - we’ll hear them out & head to the polls. We got this!🤠

22.12.2025 13:51 — 👍 49    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 1

Sharyn Alfonsi wrote a devastating email, blaming her boss and the Trump regime for striking a 60 Minutes CERCOT story, knowing it would probably be leaked, consequences be damned.

‼️ Is *any true patriot* with their hands on the full and unredacted Epstein files paying attention?

#EndFascism

22.12.2025 13:21 — 👍 360    🔁 147    💬 10    📌 5

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