Jill Lawrence
@jilldlawrence.bsky.social
Opinion writer. Pvs: Editor at USA Today Opinion and National Journal, campaign reporter at USA Today and AP. Author, "The Art of the Political Deal: How Congress Beat the Odds and Broke Through Gridlock." My work: https://jilllawrence.com
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We’re Led by an Administration of Liars
And the Comey case hypocrisy is as bad as the incompetence.
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Do you remember what Trump's nominees said under oath at their confirmation hearings? I read the transcripts so you don't have to. Unlike Comey, targeted for a "lie" that seems nonexistent, they repeatedly misled and lied to Congress—and we're all paying the price. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-admi...
Once again Trump & Co. are making clear the kind of America they want. It sent me into a funk until I remembered this piece and the optimism I felt writing it. Their America will never be. It is, to borrow an apt historical phrase, "a lost cause." Thank goodness.
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Virginia Candidates Show You Can Try to Kill DEI, But You’ll Fail
Talk about a Lost Cause.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Once again Trump & Co. are making clear the kind of America they want. It sent me into a funk until I remembered this piece and the optimism I felt writing it. Their America will never be. It is, to borrow an apt historical phrase, "a lost cause." Thank goodness.
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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Oh my. When you've lost the Babylon Bee …
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Oh my. When you've lost the Babylon Bee …
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Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
It was a salve — and tremendously reassuring — to read this today after everything Trump said yesterday and overnight. Thanks @markhertling.bsky.social
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I Helped the Army Remember Its Values. I Wish I Could Do the Same for the Country.
The virtues we uphold define who we are as soldiers or civilians, individuals or a nation.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It was a salve — and tremendously reassuring — to read this today after everything Trump said yesterday and overnight. Thanks @markhertling.bsky.social
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Omfg.
Q: Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
November 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Omfg.
At what point will someone or something make this stop? And by “this,” I mean the whole damn thing. It’s unbearable, unsustainable, unAmerican.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
At what point will someone or something make this stop? And by “this,” I mean the whole damn thing. It’s unbearable, unsustainable, unAmerican.
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This dude was vetted six ways from Sunday. Can’t say he wasn’t vetted enough. Vetted by multiple administrations.
November 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This dude was vetted six ways from Sunday. Can’t say he wasn’t vetted enough. Vetted by multiple administrations.
Another excellent #Thanksgiving2025 read, this one from @editorialboard.bsky.social's "resident pastor," Rev. Daniel Schultz. www.editorialboard.com/a-thanksgivi...
A Thanksgiving for immigrants
Rev. Daniel Schultz on the community we were meant to be and to do.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Another excellent #Thanksgiving2025 read, this one from @editorialboard.bsky.social's "resident pastor," Rev. Daniel Schultz. www.editorialboard.com/a-thanksgivi...
"A childhood friend, who asked to be identified only as Muhammad because he feared Taliban reprisals, said that Mr. Lakanwal had suffered from mental health issues and was disturbed by the casualties his unit had caused." gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan, a Childhood Friend Said
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November 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"A childhood friend, who asked to be identified only as Muhammad because he feared Taliban reprisals, said that Mr. Lakanwal had suffered from mental health issues and was disturbed by the casualties his unit had caused." gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"I didn’t care about him, and why should I have? I’d taken an oath, and he had been a predator who had chosen his path." An uplifting and humbling story for #Thanksgiving2025. Gift link. 🎁 wapo.st/4pcFbkw
Guest column | I put a man in prison for life. We’re both proof that people can change.
Sometimes, life gives you a second chance to understand someone you once condemned.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"I didn’t care about him, and why should I have? I’d taken an oath, and he had been a predator who had chosen his path." An uplifting and humbling story for #Thanksgiving2025. Gift link. 🎁 wapo.st/4pcFbkw
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Bowser also said she's confident D.C. will get statehood.
"I personally think it will take a specific carveout from the filibuster for 'democracy' votes that will make democracy stronger. Making D.C. is a state is one of them," she said.
"I personally think it will take a specific carveout from the filibuster for 'democracy' votes that will make democracy stronger. Making D.C. is a state is one of them," she said.
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Bowser also said she's confident D.C. will get statehood.
"I personally think it will take a specific carveout from the filibuster for 'democracy' votes that will make democracy stronger. Making D.C. is a state is one of them," she said.
"I personally think it will take a specific carveout from the filibuster for 'democracy' votes that will make democracy stronger. Making D.C. is a state is one of them," she said.
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CNN on the D.C. shooter: He came here from Afghanistan in 2021. He applied for asylum in December 2024, went through another vetting process, and was approved for asylum in April of this year under the Trump administration.
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
CNN on the D.C. shooter: He came here from Afghanistan in 2021. He applied for asylum in December 2024, went through another vetting process, and was approved for asylum in April of this year under the Trump administration.
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These two things are true:
1) Shooting National Guard members is horrific and criminal.
2) So is putting National Guard members in harm’s way to score political points.
1) Shooting National Guard members is horrific and criminal.
2) So is putting National Guard members in harm’s way to score political points.
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
These two things are true:
1) Shooting National Guard members is horrific and criminal.
2) So is putting National Guard members in harm’s way to score political points.
1) Shooting National Guard members is horrific and criminal.
2) So is putting National Guard members in harm’s way to score political points.
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A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
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Place National Guard in harm’s way for no good reason. Two members are tragically and unnecessarily shot. The reckless regime’s response: We’re sending 500 more National Guard troops! What a disgrace.
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Place National Guard in harm’s way for no good reason. Two members are tragically and unnecessarily shot. The reckless regime’s response: We’re sending 500 more National Guard troops! What a disgrace.
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And President Trump should NOT use this tragedy to justify more troops in any American city — this is already a gross abuse of power.
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
And President Trump should NOT use this tragedy to justify more troops in any American city — this is already a gross abuse of power.
WV gov later said they were in critical condition. abcnews.go.com/Politics/2-m...
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
WV gov later said they were in critical condition. abcnews.go.com/Politics/2-m...
For some reason this is speaking to me right now.
Toad looked around.
He saw that Frog was not there.
“I AM ALL ALONE!” screamed Toad.
He saw that Frog was not there.
“I AM ALL ALONE!” screamed Toad.
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
For some reason this is speaking to me right now.
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After Democrats swept all statewide Virginia offices in November 2025 and picked up more than a dozen seats in the House of Delegates, a widening debate shows the GOP struggling to process the magnitude of its losses — and to figure out what comes next ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/were-...
‘We’re toast’: Virginia GOP erupts in finger-pointing after sweeping Democratic wins • Ohio Capital Journal
Rick Buchanan didn’t expect to walk out before the first session even ended.The chair of the 5th Congressional District GOP Committee had arrived at the Donald W. Huffman Advance — the Republican…
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November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
After Democrats swept all statewide Virginia offices in November 2025 and picked up more than a dozen seats in the House of Delegates, a widening debate shows the GOP struggling to process the magnitude of its losses — and to figure out what comes next ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/were-...
Priorities ➡️ "Trump’s intense focus...and insistence on realizing his vision over the objections of his own hire, historic preservationists and others concerned by a lack of public input reflect his singular belief in himself as a tastemaker and obsessive attention to details."🎁link
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Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Priorities ➡️ "Trump’s intense focus...and insistence on realizing his vision over the objections of his own hire, historic preservationists and others concerned by a lack of public input reflect his singular belief in himself as a tastemaker and obsessive attention to details."🎁link
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Here's a gift link to the @nytimes.com article about Trump aging in office. Fair? Unfair? Enough? Too much? Should we require presidents to release certain health details? (Also, remember "executive time" from the first term?) 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
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November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Here's a gift link to the @nytimes.com article about Trump aging in office. Fair? Unfair? Enough? Too much? Should we require presidents to release certain health details? (Also, remember "executive time" from the first term?) 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...