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I am a former newspaper reporter who does media consulting these days. Also an extreme dog lover and mom to two older teens who keep me in check if I start to think I’m cool or knowledgeable.

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This is perhaps the most ridiculous/insane/laughable/galling thing I’ve seen recently (and I’ve seen a lot of ridiculous/insane/laughable/galling things recently).

The Hill: GOP senator calls for probe into Ketanji Brown Jackson attending Grammys

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08.02.2026 13:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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They have $85 billion and military-grade weapons. We have bake sales and whistles.

06.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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06.02.2026 16:06 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

This woman should never be able to get a job in this country ever again. Ever.

06.02.2026 15:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I typed “no words.” But this can’t go unanswered. This regime hauls people to prison camps for having dark skin. Murders people in broad daylight. It is destroying institutions. It’s time for accountability. For everyone, every enabler and elected official who isn’t fighting every minute, every day.

06.02.2026 15:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I say it again and again...the Repugnican party must be totally obliterated in the upcoming elections, so that there will never be even the remotest possibility that a shitshow like this can ever happen again.

Vote as if your very existence depends on it ... BECAUSE IT DOES!!!

05.02.2026 13:27 — 👍 7479    🔁 2142    💬 374    📌 116

I sincerely respect that. I made the personal decision to do otherwise. Seeing it is a gut punch, knocks the wind out of you. People need to feel that, and tragically, reading that he posted something vile and racist can’t convey the revulsion this post causes. It just sounds like any other day.

06.02.2026 15:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Aaron Parnas. Fact-based, non-histrionic, tireless.
@aaronparnas.bsky.social

06.02.2026 12:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When Tulsi Gabbard is seizing ballots, and ICE is abducting small children, and, well, everybody is in the Epstein Files, it’s easy to miss stories like this.

06.02.2026 10:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell with white text over his shoulder: Trump's quislings

MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell with white text over his shoulder: Trump's quislings

@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social: Treasury Secy. Bessent is Trump’s most tortured accomplice youtu.be/-D3YcOIvCM8?...

06.02.2026 04:52 — 👍 214    🔁 77    💬 20    📌 4

“This is the tipping point” … yada yada … “The tide is turning” … yawn … “He’s hit a new low” … files nails … “Republicans are breaking from him” … Lisa Murkowski is troubled by this

06.02.2026 06:39 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I have hit the point in this nightmare where I believe I will just go cry myself to sleep. @thebulwark.com

06.02.2026 06:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Quite the closing words from the judge too:

03.02.2026 02:00 — 👍 609    🔁 135    💬 11    📌 4

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02.02.2026 14:03 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Dear Kristi Noem: This Congressman is carrying the bags of a father and son you put through hell. He did not make a slick, self-promotion video. He is not wearing a costume, and has no entourage. There is no microphone in sight. He is a patriot, and you are pathetic. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social

02.02.2026 07:08 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2

This might be my favorite Bluesky comment of all time!

31.01.2026 00:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very true. I’m not sitting around doing nothing while waiting, I promise.

31.01.2026 00:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

30.01.2026 16:44 — 👍 24780    🔁 7996    💬 445    📌 305
Hundreds of Sacramento students hold walkout to protest ICE
YouTube video by KCRA 3 Hundreds of Sacramento students hold walkout to protest ICE

Inspiration on a day it’s sorely needed: High school students from across the Sacramento region walked out of class to the California Capitol. @maddow.bsky.social
@msnownews.bsky.social

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30.01.2026 23:01 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

This man can’t put together a coherent sentence even when he’s “owning the libs.”

28.01.2026 15:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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And this. An army of MAGA loyalists who worship Trump like he’s a god. There are a lot of them. Many of them are armed. And they are not normal people.

28.01.2026 15:37 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The media is complicit for not showing these videos. If they truly want to chronicle reality this should be the top story.

28.01.2026 15:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m waiting for karma for these people. Why is it taking so long?

28.01.2026 15:19 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Don’t impeach Noem. It’ll divert time and media from Trump’s disgusting campaign of cruelty and tyranny. Impeach HIM.

What he told ABC about the assault of @ilhanmn.bsky.social: “I don't think about her. I think she's a fraud. She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her."

Let that sink in. #WTF

28.01.2026 12:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I know he is doing far worse things, but why does the man capitalize the word polls and other random words. Either Wharton didn’t teach basic grammar and writing or he’s an idiot (this one).

23.01.2026 16:11 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

As she absolutely should be! 💛

23.01.2026 16:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Tribe: GOP theatrics during Jack Smith’s testimony show ‘future of our country’ is at stake
YouTube video by MS NOW Tribe: GOP theatrics during Jack Smith’s testimony show ‘future of our country’ is at stake

“Tell the truth and be courageous.” Advice from @tribelaw.bsky.social on profound threats facing the country. “The rule of law is in grave danger,” he tells @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social after GOP lawmakers spread histrionics and lies during the testimony of #JackSmith
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23.01.2026 15:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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TODAY, Friday January 23rd, 2026:

We are ALL residents of Minnesota.

We ALL want #ICE_OutForGOOD 🚫 🧊

Also: #ICE_OUT4ReneeGood 💔

23.01.2026 08:02 — 👍 24437    🔁 6819    💬 459    📌 217

This is beyond outrageous. I don’t care how vulnerable your job is, have principles! I just don’t understand how Dems have bungled this so bad. It’s very simply right versus wrong. There are not two sides here.

23.01.2026 15:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Upset about #ice ? Call your senators today/friday and tell them to defund or limit funding. The house already voted, but the senate votes next week. This is a rare moment when Democrats also have power and leverage indivisible.org/campaigns/ho...

23.01.2026 01:31 — 👍 55    🔁 23    💬 2    📌 0

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