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Laurie McElhatton

@travelbug5.bsky.social

Looking for honest discourse, actual facts; I’m a champion for women’s rights, advocate for science and responsible action to combat climate change, sick of the corrupt GOP and clowns in orange turd’s cabinet. USA is now a joke thanks to MAGAts. Attorney.

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While 42 million Americans lose SNAP benefits starting today, Trump and his billionaire friends celebrated Halloween with a “Gatsby Themed Party” at Mar a Lago. Trump and his wealthy supporters party while millions of Americans literally do not know where their next meal is coming from #ProudBlue

01.11.2025 18:16 — 👍 28    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 0

Where are all the MAGA cultists who ranted endlessly when egg prices went up under Biden? They’re quiet as a church mouse now — even though grocery prices are up, housing costs are up, household furnishing costs are up, and electricity prices are through the roof.

Maybe it was never about prices? 🤷🏼‍♂️

01.11.2025 16:50 — 👍 1147    🔁 285    💬 73    📌 15

King Louis XVI was executed on 21 Jan.1793. His wife Marie Antoinette followed on 16 Oct. 1793. Their opulence and lack of concern for the plight of starving citizens in France sealed their fate. Today Trump revels in excess and opulence at Mar A Lago while millions go hungry. #ProudBlue

01.11.2025 19:23 — 👍 21    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 1
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Scott Bessent is on television going full on Trump with his lies about the cost of living going down. There is little to no push back from the media. It’s like living in a nightmare!

01.11.2025 19:29 — 👍 126    🔁 51    💬 15    📌 5
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Complete insanity. Right in front of her daughter. This thug has no ID or anything.

What are we doing?

01.11.2025 04:06 — 👍 4161    🔁 2153    💬 417    📌 181

Some rare great abortion news in tonight’s newsletter:

- A federal court ruled that the FDA violated the law by imposing unnecessary restrictions on mifepristone

- The New York Supreme Court rejected Texas’ attempt to issue a judgement against an abortion provider here

Happy Halloween!

01.11.2025 00:34 — 👍 1549    🔁 389    💬 15    📌 5

Oh Mylanta!

Please give this a listen, as Adam Schiff sounds the alarm.

WTH is really going in Venezuela?

This is way too much Firepower to try and stop some drug trafficking.
People are being blown up without any real explanation.

Americans deserve anwsers.
#Resist
#ProudBlue
#ONEV1

31.10.2025 22:13 — 👍 205    🔁 112    💬 15    📌 7

Kristi Noem is obsessing about how "unsafe" foreign truckers are.
What about HER decade of 20 speeding tickets, 3 failures to stop, a citation for driving without a license, and 6 failures to appear?

31.10.2025 21:48 — 👍 1609    🔁 543    💬 87    📌 33

My gawd, Republicans 😔

31.10.2025 20:05 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

‪👇‬ Trump saw what happened to the former Prince Andrew. Trump wants to block the Epstein files and claim he barely knows Epstein.

31.10.2025 19:41 — 👍 25    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0

Is his finger on the trigger? Video quality too low to assess trigger discipline

31.10.2025 22:16 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

🐂💩 I've seen pictures of 4 children from one family each zip tied. They ranged from 4 years old to 12 years old! All crying with officers yelling at them and calling them names! All 4 kids and their dad were citizens! Mom was in the process of naturalization! Parents are now missing! ICE cruelty!

31.10.2025 22:16 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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JPMorgan alerted regulators to over $1B in suspicious Epstein transactions: NYT JPMorgan Chase (JPM) alerted the U.S. government to over $1B in suspicious transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein and some Wall Street names, The New York Times reported.

JPMorgan alerted regulators to over $1B in suspicious Epstein transactions: NYT

ground.news/article/jpmo...

31.10.2025 22:16 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Americans are feeling the squeeze. While Trump and his billionaire cabinet are focused on screwing you over to fill their pockets, Democrats are focused on helping you build a better life for your family.

Don’t forget that when you vote next week.

31.10.2025 20:58 — 👍 103    🔁 32    💬 6    📌 3
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Government Ordered to Pay Food Stamp Benefits During Shutdown

So the Trump administration lied to federal courts about its ability, authority, and willingness to continue to fund SNAP because it wanted to spend Halloween and Thanksgiving using hungry kids as pawns.

These people are monsters.

And none are Christian.

31.10.2025 22:01 — 👍 990    🔁 352    💬 48    📌 7

“I alone can fix it”

31.10.2025 21:17 — 👍 95    🔁 28    💬 4    📌 0

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

30.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 10784    🔁 3079    💬 498    📌 168

Huge win for democracy! 🗳️
Trump’s voter suppression scheme just got struck down in court. The proof-of-citizenship rule is gone protecting millions of Americans’ right to vote.

#VotingRights #DemocracyWins
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

31.10.2025 20:50 — 👍 178    🔁 89    💬 4    📌 0
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ICE sent into frenzy to return longtime Trump golf employee mistakenly deported to Mexico A longtime former employee at one of President Donald Trump's golf clubs was mistakenly deported to Mexico, The New York Times reported — sending U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement into a mad sc...

Here it is.

Proof that Trump hires illegal immigrants.

Alejandro Juarez showed up at his routine ICE check-in and was deported to Mexico.

Turns out he was a 10-year Trump golf club employee.

Noem now saying it was a deportation mistake & scrambling to get him back.

31.10.2025 03:24 — 👍 319    🔁 195    💬 19    📌 17
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REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

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The largest war ship in the world has been moved to the Caribbean, along with other ships, bombers, amphibious vehicles and more.

That’s a lot of firepower to stop small vessels carrying drugs.

It looks a lot more like preparation for war.

Congress needs to get involved before it’s too late.

31.10.2025 01:25 — 👍 15686    🔁 6232    💬 1190    📌 421
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Trump's DOE will make LGBTQ+ nonprofit workers ineligible for student loan forgiveness Trump's Department of Education is making workers of LGBTQ+ nonprofits ineligible for student loan forgiveness.

www.advocate.com/politics/stu...

30.10.2025 23:45 — 👍 7    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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I came across this, very interesting facts! 👇

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Trump sets lowest refugee cap in U.S. history at 7,500, mostly for Afrikaners — CBS News The Trump administration on Thursday announced it would set the lowest refugee admissions cap in U.S. history at 7,500 spots.

Refugees are okay in small numbers as long as they are white apartheid babies.

apple.news/Ab2z9QdtQSzi...

30.10.2025 19:48 — 👍 14    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0
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Had. To. Share. After. Seeing. On. Facebook 😢

30.10.2025 23:05 — 👍 1723    🔁 490    💬 119    📌 68
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Pentagon orders state National Guards to form "quick reaction forces" for deployments CBS News has confirmed that the Pentagon ordered all state National Guards to form what they're calling "quick reaction forces" available for rapid deployments to address potential civil unrest. CBS N...

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30.10.2025 23:38 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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They’re not redistricting — they’re preparing the battlefield. If Trump gets 5 extra seats in Congress, he’ll have the votes to declare emergency rule in any city that dares to dissent. #Prop50VoteYes

30.10.2025 20:55 — 👍 229    🔁 169    💬 5    📌 5

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