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
Say what you will about @washingtonpost.com, but its local scoops wreck my day almost everyday. Good for the paper. Bad for those of us enduring the ruination of our home, and for what? This arch situation is ridiculous. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/3VhZ7YR
Trump’s arch will harm historic sites but must proceed, federal officials say
National Park Service officials acknowledge that President Donald Trump’s planned arch would harm dozens of historic sites but say it must move forward anyway.
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There is something to be said for a complicated person who sometimes, not often but sometimes, is on the exact same page as you and gets the job done. Like Rep. Thomas Massie trying to force an impeachment vote on Hegseth. www.contrariannews.org/p/how-i-got-...
How I Got Past Massie Derangement Syndrome
He’s no big-tent moderate, but he’s fearless on Trump, Epstein and Iran.
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This is why Trump can’t stand Black women. They don’t take his shit. Let’s appreciate Rep. Joyce Beatty for being the fighter we need. Trump: “I think you’re incompetent.” Beatty: “I know you’re incompetent.” Then she reminded him: “You had more bankruptcies than anybody in the room.” 🔥
“I just need to find three votes.” 😂 @borowitzreport.bsky.social, of course. www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-offe...
Trump Offers Supreme Court $5000 Each to Change Mail-in Voting Decision
In a leaked phone call with Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Trump said that the 7-2 decision meant “I just need to find three votes.”
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An hour thinking about something besides politics as we continue to explore the CT coast. Unless you count feminism, unavoidable when celebrating a powerful model of self-determination long before the '70s second wave, who liked to say that "if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move."
@radiofreetom.bsky.social: “Painful as it would be to see the Kennedy Center go bankrupt, it would be more painful to cave to Trump’s deeply cynical refusal to save a national treasure unless he gets his name on it.” Yes. Thank you. Great piece. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump’s Kennedy Center Shakedown
The only appropriate response is to refuse to accede to his demands.
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Glad @kim.senate.gov is calling out this “DC makeover” BS. “Overhaul” should also be banned. Trump is running roughshod over our beautiful capital and we’ll be working on repairs and restoration for years to come.
@andykimnj.bsky.social · 2d agoStop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done.
OMG this is so depressing. He extrapolates from right now and this is what he concludes, and he's dead-on. At age 10. 🙏 we can prove him wrong.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d ago“.. NYT asked a bunch of ten year olds what life will be like in 2050.” (via @shashj.bsky.social)
A celebrity who could have built anything chose to leave us this perfect set for a horror movie, right on the Connecticut River amid some of the most gorgeous scenery in America.
One Big Billionaires' Bill
Jill Lawrence@jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 2d agoTrump-GOP's 2025 tax policies in action: "Budget forecasters say payments are down 25%, or $96 billion, after falling 15% last year. That’s fueling complaints those investment breaks are providing a windfall for the tech world, and giving a bad deal to taxpayers." www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
Trump-GOP's 2025 tax policies in action: "Budget forecasters say payments are down 25%, or $96 billion, after falling 15% last year. That’s fueling complaints those investment breaks are providing a windfall for the tech world, and giving a bad deal to taxpayers." www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
Corporate tax payments plunge as AI feasts on new incentives
A generous tax break on capital investments Republicans created in 2025 wasn't designed specifically for the AI boom, but hyperscalers are making the most of it.
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Who knew that defacing the building, tearing up its trees, removing its sculptures, replacing the Board with political cronies, giving the finger to every performer who isn’t a Trump voter, and talking down its facilities daily would cause a revenue drop?
Kennedy Center could close as early as Tuesday, warns of bankruptcy, documents show
Officials said the center is facing “certain fiscal collapse” within weeks, insist that adding President Donald Trump’s name may be the only way to avoid bankruptcy.
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you don’t have to have the conversation on their terms and in fact you shouldn’t have the conversation on their terms more democrats should follow this playbook instead of existing in a constant defensive crouch
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoAbdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
Wish I lived in Kansas so I could vote for @adamhamilton.bsky.social for Senate. Great account of his debate with Sen. Roger Marshall from @melindakcmo.bsky.social and @dhellingkc.bsky.social kansascitystack.substack.com/p/roger-mars...
Adam Hamilton dominates in debate against Roger Marshall, who says tariffs are great for Kansas, calls Democrats a “one-horse pony”
By Melinda Henneberger and Dave Helling
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Trump's golf project will be far more expensive than anticipated and take way longer than anticipated. Plus it's already under way "without clearing the necessary bureaucratic hurdles or identifying how the project will be paid for." So, business as usual. 🙏 for our city. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4cGnO7i
Park Service works to fortify sea wall key to East Potomac golf project
Rebuilding the sea wall could add hundreds of millions of dollars to the project’s cost and push a completion date years down the road.
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Trump sets another record high for diesel prices, $6.16 a gallon gasprices.aaa.com No one has ever seen anything like it!
AAA Fuel Prices
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Why do all these Nazis keep showing up on Republican campaigns, it's a real mystery washingtonsun.com/senate/huste...
Husted Fires Political Director Over Past Nazi Posts
The former staffer had posted profile photos featuring Nazi officers and wore the attire in a group photo in 2018.
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Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).
Absolute insanity, coal and "misuse"-of-power edition: Trump is trying to force coal plants to stay open, which means dirtier energy, worse public health, and millions (possibly billions) more in costs to consumers. Fortunately a federal appeals court today said no. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4cHBq2a
Court deals blow to Trump’s plan to revive coal
Emergency orders forcing plants to remain open have cost ratepayers nearly $1 billion, according to utility filings.
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"You know what happens if you don’t vote? You go to hell.” Or maybe you get shot? Or maybe both? Today's GOP. 😱 talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/go...
Audience Member at GOP Convention Calls for Various Democrats to be ‘Shot’
Grim Look Toward 2028 JD Vance got what he wanted: a bunch...
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I wish I hadn't written this on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, so that I could write it now. It's all still true, and the final two paragraphs make clear what a tragedy that is for our country. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
9/11 anniversary: The attacks brought us together 20 years ago. Nothing can unite us now.
Polarization today is a disease, deeper and more poisonous than any division we had before or after a devastating attack on the homeland 20 years ago.
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This is a ripoff from the DeSantis presidential campaign. share.google/CroiTFKMQIOS...
Opinion | Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump have officially launched their battle of the egos
The battle of outsize egos between the Florida governor and Donald Trump could ruin them both long before Election Day 2024.
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoWow -- RNC video: "On June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker,' so God gave us Trump." It only gets more unhinged and culty from there.
I wish I hadn't written this on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, so that I could write it now. It's all still true, and the final two paragraphs make clear what a tragedy that is for our country. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
9/11 anniversary: The attacks brought us together 20 years ago. Nothing can unite us now.
Polarization today is a disease, deeper and more poisonous than any division we had before or after a devastating attack on the homeland 20 years ago.
usatoday.com
Dare you not to laugh (or at least snort) out loud at @borowitzreport.bsky.social's creative advice to Mark Carney on how to one-up Trump. open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Mark Carney Offers Americans $6000 to Vote Against Republicans
“And to be clear, we’re talking American dollars, not Canadian.”
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Maybe Trump will go for three hours tomorrow. This is madness. And masochism.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoTrump is having trouble reading and slurring heavily as he approaches 2 hours of speaking
Horrific though unsurprising report from @propublica.org: Ectopic pregnancy deaths have basically doubled since the end of Roe
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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