Laurie Stephens

@lauriestephens.bsky.social

“Mostly retired” writer, former CP journo and press secretary to Premier Bob Rae, mother of two awesome kids, living the best life in Meaford with her partner and doggos.🇨🇦🌻🌈

“When a country with less than five percent of the world's population has nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and makes up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings, it's time to stop saying guns make us safer.” ..(DaShanne Stokes) .. (cartoon David Horsey)

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Folks from the Women's March have been arrested at the Capitol for protesting ICE. Shout out to the women who are putting their lives and livelihoods on the line to get their message out: ABOLISH ICE.

ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->

Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · yesterday

Fed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.

B. Defendants’ Noncompliance Is Intentional And Not In Good Faith. Having found that Defendants are in violation of the January 16 Forensic Imaging Order, the burden now shifts to Defendants to show that they were unable to comply. Affordable Media, 179 F.3d at 1239 (9th Cir. 1999). They fail to make that showing. Upon review of the parties’ submissions and counsel’s representations at the hearing, it does not appear that Defendants’ noncompliance is due to an inability to comply. Instead, the clear and convincing evidence shows that Defendants have acted intentionally and not in good faith.

El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

In the 1950s we had 700 different chemicals in our food Today we have over 10,000 in our food In Europe, they only have 700 still today. Kelloggs makes the safer Canadian version and the American version. Two different options, same manufacturer. Americans have been sold out sadly.

Waking up to Sharia Law in NYC is crazy. Knicks won, crime is down, 2,000 toddlers are going to school for free, parents got “date night” with nyc babysitters, they’re building housing on city land, small businesses are saving money and selling ice cream. Its sunny out i should go get one.

i’m goin to bed but regardless of outcome it is absolutely undeniable that we are in the midst of a progressive surge that was made possible in no small part by the ground game tactics the dsa fine tuned and scaled for mamdani where nyc goes, so goes the nation!

#Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers on @PatMcAfeeShow, live on ESPN, after the first question: "I'm gonna plead the 5th like that absolute coward Tony Fauci. Absolute coward. Are you kidding me? What are you scared of, Tony? I thought you were science?" OH FUCK YOU, ARRON, another asshole jock with no clue

Michael Popok on Todd Blanche's tax relief scheme for the Trump family: "How can you settle a case and have a super pardon for Donald Trump when the underlying case was illegitimate?"

With Blanches approval republicans have given the final stamp of approval for Trump to run the most corrupt presidency in history and never forget that Blanche has been pushing Trumps efforts to interfere in elections. Goodby deceny, goodbye law and order, goodbye democracy

Trump's Acting AG Todd Blanche has reportedly met with conservative faith leaders and promised that the anti-abortion laws will be "permanent in every state" if confirmed. Senators will vote on his confirmation today.

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