Evie
@evie55.bsky.social
Proud Liberal Democrat. Blue dot in a red state. Wife, Mother, Gramma, Nana. Cancer survivor. Love animals, nature, music, books and like minded people. 💙🦋💙🦋💙 🚫MAGA, 🚫Crypto, 🚫Porn, 🚫DM’s
Trump declares 'emergency' one day before deadline to reveal his finances in court www.rawstory.com/trump-financ...
Trump declares 'emergency' one day before deadline to reveal his finances in court
President Donald Trump declared an 'emergency' to block the release of his financial records to the BBC one day before a court-ordered deadline.The BBC sought the financial information after Trump sue...
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@michellegoldberg.bsky.social interviewed Abdul El-Sayed on election eve. Her post-election column (inc other interviews) is worth your time if you’re interested in what comes next. 🎁 🔗 gift link
Opinion | Abdul El-Sayed Thinks Progressives Have a Way to Win. I Hope He’s Right. (Gift Article)
Abdul El-Sayed is quick, magnetic, overflowing with infectious confidence. But he also has a blind spot endemic to his movement.
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There's no good reason for this, except that the extremely corrupt Trump crime regime is white supremacist. No thought was given to these people's contributions to their communities, nor their talents or abilities. wapo.st/4wFFK9U
TPS for Haitians officially ends, putting thousands out of work and in limbo
A federal judge allowed the Trump administration to terminate temporary protected status for 350,000 Haitians, meaning they are likely to lose their jobs and be at risk of deportation.
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'Stonewalled': Furious AG sues Trump admin for obstructing Epstein compound probe www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst...
'Stonewalled': Furious AG sues Trump admin for obstructing Epstein compound probe
A furious attorney general who says acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has been stonewalling his Jeffrey Epstein investigation has filed suit against the Justice department, according to a new repor...
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Trump panics over progressive Dem’s 'real shot' at ousting MAGA senator: ‘Get ready’ www.rawstory.com/trump-267766...
Trump panics over progressive Dem’s 'real shot' at ousting MAGA senator: ‘Get ready’
President Donald Trump issued a call to Michigan voters Wednesday to support Sen. Mike Rogers (R-MI) in the upcoming general election following the strong performance of Democratic Senate candidate Ab...
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Speaking at the Minnesota Farmfest, the three-day agricultural trade show and exhibition, Rollins boasted about booting 5 million Americans – including children – off of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. www.rawstory.com/brooke-rolli...
‘You’re proud?’ Trump official’s brazen admission leaves analyst floored
Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins made a startling admission Tuesday while speaking at a trade show in Minnesota, one so brazen that journalist Prem Thakker was left taken aback.Speaking at the Mi...
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“Well, I wish you hadn’t done that. Now I’m going to arrest you,” Dennison-Gibby recalled the officer, whom she identified as a U.S. marshal, telling her. wapo.st/3RSQ6nU
Arrested at Reflecting Pool, woman details ‘heartbreaking’ toll case has taken
Sophie Dennison-Gibby was one of three defendants charged with a misdemeanor related to Reflecting Pool damage. The charges were all dropped.
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GOP scheme to stifle democratic initiatives goes down in flames www.rawstory.com/missouri-gop...
GOP scheme to stifle democratic initiatives goes down in flames
In a defeat for Republicans, Missouri voters have rejected Amendment 4, a legislature-led initiative to crack down on direct democracy.The measure was defeated, according to projections from the Assoc...
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'Tidal forces' turning against Trump as scandals throw GOP 'off the rails': analysis www.rawstory.com/trump-republ...
'Tidal forces' turning against Trump as scandals throw GOP 'off the rails': analysis
As President Donald Trump's unpopularity grows and Republicans face two serious scandals, an analyst signaled on Tuesday that the GOP could see "end of age vibes." In analysis from Josh Marshall, the ...
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At this point, Thom Tillis has nothing left to lose but his principles, so he made sure to toss them overboard too.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"
Blumenthal on Blanche's "walk back" of Trump's slush fund: "Commentators have talked about 'loop holes.' There are no loop holes here. This document itself is a sham ... tomorrow Donald Trump's counsel can go to court and seek to establish that thug fund if he chooses to do so."
🔥 Here's Whitehouse's entire remarkable speech opposing Blanche: "What's left of this committee when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has DOJ been asked what became of the $50k that the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our R colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, & speak no evil."
Whitehouse on Blanche: "Today is a sad and embarrassing day"
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One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · 2d agoBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Incredible nonsense from John Cornyn. True, the harm to Epstein’s victims can’t be remedied by a “no” vote. But why should Blanche’s corrupt cover-up of the Epstein files—in violation of a Congressional mandate(!)—be rewarded by “yes”? Can’t get any more craven than this.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoCornyn justifies his support for Blanche: "That's one of those things that can't be remedied by a 'no' vote"
ok how many GOP members of congress are secretly dying/dead? this is getting out of hand
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday😳 Rep. Pete Stauber indicates there's something gravely wrong with Tom Emmer's health: "You have no idea what Congressman Emmer is dealing with right now. If you did, you would've never made that comment. He's fighting for his damn life today!"
Bessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."
Staggering lawsuit backfires as judge threatens to expose Trump's finances: report www.rawstory.com/trump-bbc-la...
Staggering lawsuit backfires as judge threatens to expose Trump's finances: report
One of President Donald Trump's own lawsuits is forcing him to expose his finances, according to new reporting.A federal magistrate judge in Florida ruled on Tuesday that Trump has to turn over detail...
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We are dumb. The US withdrew from WHO. DOGE severely downsized a CDC lab that deals with outbreaks like cyclospora. We are in the middle of a cyclospora outbreak, with 11,000 cases in Michigan. Measles hits a 30 yr high. Now this. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/h...
Former Officials Protest U.S. Plan to Defund Pan American Health Organization (Gift Article)
The group of former health and national security officials warned that Americans will be more vulnerable to infectious disease threats.
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John Cornyn and Thom Tillis just caved. They had real leverage. On Judiciary, either one could have stopped Todd Blanche’s nomination cold. What did they get? A legally dubious memo rescinding the $1.8B slush fund and an unsigned statement on Trump’s tax protections.
“I’ve been audited every year for my entire life, which — I have a lot of wealthy friends that were never audited to this day, they were never audited. I was audited,” Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office on Monday. “I was treated very unfairly by the I.R.S.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity (Gift Article)
The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.
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The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
Republicans might have the vote, but Democrats need to make it as painful and costly as possible.
Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · 2d ago"Democrats need to make this next week as visible and painful as possible for the GOP." www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-sheep-...
Rachel Maddow sounds the alarm as Trump faces an attack he doesn't grasp: 'Not a drill!' www.rawstory.com/maddow-cyber...
Rachel Maddow sounds the alarm as Trump faces an attack he doesn't grasp: 'Not a drill!'
President Donald Trump has made America less safe by punching a hole in the nation's ability to defend against a certain kind of attack from Iran, MS NOW's Rachel Maddow warned on Monday, and they're ...
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The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists who oppose the Trump administration's deportation agenda. n.pr/3TyDYsK
The DOJ is increasingly charging ICE protesters with criminal conspiracy
The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists who oppose the Trump administration's deportation agenda.
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Cornyn lost his primary. Tillis is walking. Neither has a donor, a term, or a future to protect. Both caved before lunch Monday. www.JackHopkinsNow.com
