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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩

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Blue check Xpat, disco-loving, fascism fighting, ex gossip columnist, author, ghost writer, game show champ, twin mama, Mrs., hot sauce collector, Bloody Mary maven, #TurdReichRedux resistor stuck in Floriduh & can't believe we're doing this again

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · Dec 3

Thanks to Joe Biden, America’s economy is soaring ahead of its rivals www.ft.com/content/1201...

Why America’s economy is soaring ahead of its rivals

The country’s outperformance is rooted in long-term productivity growth that is the envy of the developed world. Could Trump’s policies endanger its lead?

Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 1h

‪AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned,from dangerous chemicals.You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing.There's no both sides to this. GOP votes against all of this.

Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 3h

'Our path out': Scientist reveals key solution to stopping Trump's 'authoritarian regime'
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'Our path out': Scientist reveals key solution to stopping Trump's 'authoritarian regime'

Rachel Cleetus — the policy director with the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists — recently wrote in the organization's blog "The Equation" that the "extreme harms" caused...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 3h

'Dangerous power grab': Veterans slam Trump's 'un-American' use of troops in US cities www.alternet.org/veterans-tru...

'Dangerous power grab': Veterans slam Trump's 'un-American' use of troops in US cities

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D) held a press conference Thursday afternoon with former U.S. Major Generals, Admirals, and veterans to discuss President Donald Trump's "reckless" militarization of Am...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 6h

'Not happy': Judge demands answers over 'serious concerns' Trump officials are ignoring her order www.alternet.org/trump-offici...

'Not happy': Judge demands answers over 'serious concerns' Trump officials are ignoring her order

A federal judge in Illinois says she has "serious concerns" about whether or not federal law enforcement agents are following her orders to avoid "violent encounters with protesters and journalists in...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 6h

Trump’s 'incompetent' leadership is not 'functional against actual threats in the world': historian www.alternet.org/news-politic...

Trump’s 'incompetent' leadership is not 'functional against actual threats in the world': historian

In a conversation with The Bulwark's Bill Kristol, historian Timothy Snyder discussed some glaring similarities between President Donald Trump, Stalinism and fascism. Snyder, author of "Bloodlands: Eu...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 9h

Former Fox host blasts Trump for 'doing whatever it takes to expand his power' www.alternet.org/Bank/trump-k...

Former Fox host blasts Trump for 'doing whatever it takes to expand his power'

Howard Kurtz, former host of FOX News Channel's "MediaBuzz" says that though President Donald Trump is hailed as a peacemaker abroad following the volatile ceasefire between Israel and terrorist organ...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 10h

TURD REICH REDUX: Trump admin. staffer reportedly in an 'I love Hitler' chat hasn't been fired by Trump yet. And now that the hostages have been released, thank Gd, some people are VERY quiet. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Lawrence: Trump admin. staffer reportedly in an 'I love Hitler' chat hasn't been fired by Trump yet

POLITICO reports that Trump staffer, Michael Bartels, still has a job working for Donald Trump despite participating in a racist group chat with other Young Republicans. After POLITICO published their...

Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 10h

Trump’s daughter-in-law offers herself up as a headliner for MAGA halftime show www.alternet.org/lara-trump-m...

Trump’s daughter-in-law offers herself up as a headliner for MAGA halftime show

President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law has offered herself up as a headliner for MAGA's alternative to the Bad Bunny halftime show during the Super Bowl, according to The Daily Beast.Lara Trump, wif...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 10h

Meet the 83-year-old Jewish activist who stars in Zohran Mamdani’s campaign ads: “Rosalind Petchesky is an 81-year old Jewish New Yorker who deeply inspires me,” Mamdani wrote forward.com/fast-forward...

Meet the 83-year-old Jewish activist who stars in Zohran Mamdani’s campaign ads

Rosalind Petchesky, a retired political scientist, first met Mamdani while lobbying with anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace.

Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 10h

Minister warns Trump pledge to make America a 'beacon for religious liberty' is 'a sham'
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Minister warns Trump pledge to make America a 'beacon for religious liberty' is 'a sham'

President Donald Trump's promise to transform America into a "beacon for religious liberty" is "a sham," writes Liz Reiner Platt and Rev. Fred Davie in Salon.Platt, a legal expert specializing in reli...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 11h

‘You can’t trust Trump’: Experts say Trump’s latest ‘diplomatic gambit is unlikely to go anywhere soon’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump’s Middle East ‘peace’ pitch to Iran falls flat in Tehran and Jerusalem

In a Knesset speech, Trump urged Israel to reconcile with its longtime foe Iran. Both governments dismissed the idea

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 11h

Wow, the WSJ finally woke up.

Republicans, Ditch MAGA and Return to the Basics: GOP traditionally stood for the rule of law, limited government and unity. It should again

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Opinion | Republicans, Ditch MAGA and Return to the Basics

The GOP traditionally stood for the rule of law, limited government and unity. It should again.

Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 22h

Trump's latest 'mad king presser' was more 'power crazed than usual': analysis www.alternet.org/mad-king-pre...

Trump's latest 'mad king presser' was more 'power crazed than usual': analysis

On an episode of The New Republic's "Daily Blast" podcast, host and journalist Greg Sargent speaks with fellow journalist Brian Beutler on how President Donald Trump seems "more crazed and power-mad t...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People: inspired by the European far-right political party Alternative for Germany, whose leaders have trivialized the Holocaust, revived Nazi slogans and denigrated foreigners.
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Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 1d

'A religion gone rogue': The political pendulum is stuck on Trump — here’s how to free it www.alternet.org/trump-maga-p...

'A religion gone rogue': The political pendulum is stuck on Trump — here’s how to free it

In a thinkpiece in Italian English digital newspaper La Voce di New York, columnist Grace Russo Bullaro writes that MAGA's cult-like grip on a typically swinging political pendulum is currently stuck,...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 1d

'Moral bankruptcy': House Speaker dismisses claim GOP rep beat girlfriend as not 'serious' www.alternet.org/the-right-wi...

'Moral bankruptcy': House Speaker dismisses claim GOP rep beat girlfriend as not 'serious'

When asked for comment on the news that Florida Republican Congressman Cory Mills was ordered by a judge to stay away from his ex-girlfriend who accused Mills of assaulting her, Speaker of the House M...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 1d

'Aggressive and unaccountable': Conservative warns Trump’s assault on America is 'getting worse' www.alternet.org/news-politic...

'Aggressive and unaccountable': Conservative warns Trump’s assault on Americans is 'getting worse'

Conservative writer Bill Kristol writes in his latest piece for The Bulwark that it's "less than a quarter of the way through the second [Donald] Trump administration" and "it's getting worse.""I mean...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA's 'fake Super Bowl' halftime a 'small ray of hope in our bleak political moment': analysis www.alternet.org/maga-superbo...

MAGA's 'fake Super Bowl' halftime a 'small ray of hope in our bleak political moment': analysis

Salon's Amanda Marcotte says that MAGA fury over Puerto Rican megastar Bad Bunny headlining the Super Bowl and their "fake" alternative to it shows how "pitifully out of touch" they are with pop-cultu...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 1d

Buckle up: Investors worried Trump's TACO trade is becoming 'riskier' www.alternet.org/trump-taco-t...

Buckle up: Investors worried Trump's TACO trade is becoming 'riskier'

Wall Street's reliance on the trade move that they have deemed "Trump Always Chickens Out" aka TACO is starting to make investors worried as the move, according to Axios, is becoming riskier.Although ...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 1d

The hostages are home now. Did the MAGA Jewish peeps leave all their outrage in Israel?

Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 2d

'Sickening': Leaked chats reveal racist, antisemitic, misogynistic texts among Young Republicans www.alternet.org/young-republ...

'Sickening': Leaked chats reveal 'insensitive and inexcusable' texts among Young Republicans

In an exclusive story, Politico got access to thousands of private messages revealing young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers and slavery, among other "insensitive and inexcusable" topics.The chat...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 1d

Under Trump, the future of the GOP is Nazism www.advocate.com/voices/young...

We now have solid proof that after Trump and Project 2025, the future of the GOP is Nazism

Opinion: Project 2025 is laying the groundwork for Nazism that is bubbling up in the next generation of Republican leaders, and texts revealed by Politico prove it, writes John Casey.

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 1d

HOPELESS: Tallahassee grand jury meets on DeSantii Hope Florida Foundation scandal www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l... via @tdonline

Tallahassee grand jury meets on Hope Florida Foundation case

A grand jury convened in Tallahassee at the Leon County Courthouse Oct. 14 to consider the Hope Florida Foundation controversy.

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 1d

'Do you like kids?' Epstein victim recounts Trump Mar-a-Lago meeting in new bombshell book www.alternet.org/trump-mar-a-...

'Do you like kids?' Epstein victim recounts Trump Mar-a-Lago meeting in new bombshell book

Vanity Fair magazine has published an exclusive excerpt of the forthcoming memoir of the late Virginia Giuffre, a victim of late Jeffrey Epstein, whom she met while working at President Donald Trump's...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's 'oversold' Middle East victory lap is a 'false' one: analysis www.alternet.org/trump-victor...

Trump's 'oversold' Middle East victory lap is a 'false' one: analysis

President Donald Trump's victory lap in the Middle East was a short one, and his declaration of a "new dawn" there may be a false one, according to a Washington Post column by Ishaan Tharoor. "The jo...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 1d

Another fine Florida Republican: Restraining Order Issued Against Florida GOP Congressman For ‘Harassing Communications’ Sent to Ex-Girlfriend www.mediaite.com/crime/restra...

Restraining Order Issued Against Florida GOP Congressman For ‘Harassing Communications’ Sent to Ex-Girlfriend

A Florida judge slapped Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) with a restraining order Tuesday requiring him to stay away from his ex-girlfriend, telling the congressman he found his testimony to not be believable.

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