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Hallie Speight

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Recovering Russian lit scholar. Attorney. Wife and mother. Feminist. Left-leaning patriot. Lemur enthusiast. Rosa Diaz is my spirit animal.

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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · Nov 27

Post your favorite comics panel

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[email protected] @keepingtherepublic.bsky.social · 37m

Not a surprising list of enablers: Schwarzman, Thiel, Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc. Shame on all of them for their utter disrespect for American life and traditions. Boycott and spread the list. None of these greedy people should ever have a place of honor in our public life again

Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 2h

Here are the corps that are donating to the ballroom which now will cost $300M. We may not be able to boycott some of these corps, but we can call them, protest at their HQ, or if you own their stock, disinvest in them or go to a shareholders meeting and speak up….and

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[email protected] @keepingtherepublic.bsky.social · 2h

Memo to NYT leadership: If your national political team is too jaded/bored to notice the speed and efficiency of the government’s move to autocracy or the growing strength of opposition protest, maybe replace them—before your paper becomes an American version of the South China Morning Post.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d

Just from a “lede with the news” perspective, do you really want “Little Urgency” and “Old Pitch” as your top two headlines on Page One?

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14h

Knew it!

The White House on Tuesday did not answer questions about the bunker, but one of the administration officials said the new structure would also have enhanced security features.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12h

I should probably have just published this in the morning, but I had some thoughts about the East Wing — particularly given something Trump said during his 2020 speech accepting the GOP nomination. www.pbump.net/o/the-presid...

The president has never understood that the White House (and government) aren’t his

Even if only intuitively, Donald Trump knows that the White House is a storehouse of power. He understands that, like the government itself, it is an institution that our impartial democratic system h...

www.pbump.net

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Why is Apple, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Blackstone, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and others financing the destruction of the WH and desecration of the grounds, something that is infuriating to huge chunk of the American population? Do you hate your customers that much?

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Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 17h

listen we all know how to solve this

make 👏 Platner 👏 do 👏 an 👏 interview 👏 with 👏 Chotiner 👏

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”

Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 16h

If you’re driving around in unmarked cars, wearing masks, and kidnapping people, you’re not one of the good guys.

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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 15h

Thomas Jefferson is turning over in his grave rn

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 16h

"The surrender by [UVA] has significant constitutional problems. And represents a huge expansion of federal power that [R's] have would have never tolerated in the past - we have the right to run our universities" - VA Senate Majority Leader @ssurovell.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2025/10/brea...

"The surrender by the University of Virginia has significant constitutional problems. And represents a huge expansion of federal power that Republicans have would have never tolerated in the past - we have the right to run our universities" - VA Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 16h

The University of Virginia has capitulated to Trump on transgender and race (affirmative action) issues.

The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

That includes any race-based scholarships and programs, including any promotion of external scholarships that consider race, and DEI trainings and workshops. Institutions were also told they should no longer prioritize “underrepresented groups” for admissions or hiring, and they must prohibit transgender students from playing on sports teams and using facilities designated for women and girls.

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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 1d

I am not normally a plaid person but YES

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

For my forever Space Sis: 🎂

💞

James 🎃 Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Carrie Fisher's birthday

Carrie Fisher as Leia Organa in the closing scene of Start Wars IV: A New Hope. She is smiling and looking to the side.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2d

He hates American values and principles. He hates democracy. He despises the Constitution and its constraints. He hates most Americans. All he desires is money, power and staying out of jail. Am I missing something?

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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 1d

I had the same red shoes as in the video. I loved those shoes.

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Thoughts 💭 in vibration @thoughtprovokin88.bsky.social · 1d

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t understand why anyone’s debating this — a Nazi tattoo is a non starter, full stop.

This is a race for a U.S. Senate seat. The bar for candidates to clear doesn’t have to be insanely high, but it should at least be off the ground

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Abigail Spanberger @abigailspanberger.com · 1d

I will always protect reproductive freedom in Virginia.

Full stop.

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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon of bugs bunny standing next to a monster with the name lamia on the bottom

ALT: a cartoon of bugs bunny standing next to a monster with the name lamia on the bottom

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 1d

His one strength was messaging and story and now he's outdone "I am not a crook."

NOTUS @notus.com · 1d

Graham Platner denied that he was a “secret Nazi” Tuesday after a video surfaced showing a tattoo that resembles a Nazi Totenkopf symbol on his chest.

He said he got the ink while on a drunken trip to Croatia during his time in the U.S. Marines.
www.notus.org/campaigns/gr...