lkivett
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Democracy Takes Work. Worth It For My Kids. 🗽Vote blue to save it. 💙🗳️ 🇺🇸 Blue dot in TX. End Citizens United / Bring back Fairness Doctrine.
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@lkivett.bsky.social
· Mar 13
Someone needs to tell me why the (unqualified) Cabinet Secretaries
hired to gut/eliminate the Departments they now head
get a TAXPAYER-PAID salary for doing it?
WHY ARE WE TOLERATING THIS? 😠
hired to gut/eliminate the Departments they now head
get a TAXPAYER-PAID salary for doing it?
WHY ARE WE TOLERATING THIS? 😠
He wants public hangings to show “masculine leadership.”
…another billionaire aching for the Gilded Age. 🙄
…another billionaire aching for the Gilded Age. 🙄
Palantir co-founder calls for public hangings to show ‘masculine leadership’
‘If I’m in charge later, we won’t just have a three strikes law. We will quickly try and hang men after three violent crimes,’ Lonsdale wrote on X
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
He wants public hangings to show “masculine leadership.”
…another billionaire aching for the Gilded Age. 🙄
…another billionaire aching for the Gilded Age. 🙄
I’m trying to act shocked that the felon in charge isn’t winning his trade war…
China’s exports grow 5.9% in November, while U.S. shipments drop 29%
While exports from China to the U.S. have fallen for most of the year, shipments have surged to other places, including Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and the European Union.
www.nbcnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I’m trying to act shocked that the felon in charge isn’t winning his trade war…
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Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
Anyone surprised? 🙄
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Anyone surprised? 🙄
That’s the way to do it. 👏
Yesterday, I held a music festival in my district to register voters and speak directly to young people who don’t usually attend political events. 4,500 tickets. Music + advocacy go hand in hand. Madsoul Festival 2025 was a success.
December 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
That’s the way to do it. 👏
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Absolutely.
It’s clear he’s selling pardons. It’s become a corrupt practice.
December 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Absolutely.
This. We aren’t angry about the right things. Wake up.
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This. We aren’t angry about the right things. Wake up.
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One Admiral resigned rather than carry out an illegal order, while the other Admiral followed those orders. One Admiral has no job, but he has his dignity and our respect, while the other needs a lawyer and a pardon
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
One Admiral resigned rather than carry out an illegal order, while the other Admiral followed those orders. One Admiral has no job, but he has his dignity and our respect, while the other needs a lawyer and a pardon
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So he’s saying when he was a podcaster he was being paid to lie and invent conspiracies for his listeners but now he has to tell the truth.
December 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
So he’s saying when he was a podcaster he was being paid to lie and invent conspiracies for his listeners but now he has to tell the truth.
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The plot thickens. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
December 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The plot thickens. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Agree.
"What are believed to be ICE agents" is not a sentence the news should have to use to report on law enforcement operations.
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Agree.
This has got to end.
FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This has got to end.
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The Golden Age.
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Golden Age.
Good to hear.
Family of Colombian man killed in illegal U.S. strike files human rights challenge
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
Family of Colombian man killed in U.S. strike files human rights challenge
In a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas, the first challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats argues that the death was an extrajudicial killing.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Good to hear.
Agree
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Agree
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well done Colorado Senator Bennet 👏👏👏
www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...
www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...
Sen. Bennet temporarily blocks dozens of Trump nominees from being confirmed
A slate of more than 80 of President Donald Trump's nominees are on hold after Colorado's Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet called out a Senate rule that temporarily blocked them from being confirmed.
www.yahoo.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
well done Colorado Senator Bennet 👏👏👏
www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...
www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...
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FOX: “Congressman Jim Himes (D) said they were shown the unedited video of that second strike — he says, 'What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I've ever seen in my time in public service.’”
December 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
FOX: “Congressman Jim Himes (D) said they were shown the unedited video of that second strike — he says, 'What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I've ever seen in my time in public service.’”
This ⬇️
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This ⬇️
Absolutely.
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Absolutely.
Makes me angry and breaks my heart that this is where we are.
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Makes me angry and breaks my heart that this is where we are.
Hard to wrap my head around this.
December 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Hard to wrap my head around this.
Right 🙄
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Right 🙄