Michelle Chesebro
@michellechesebro.bsky.social
Dog&cat mom. Democrat. Avid reader. Music lover. Nature enthusiast. Attorney.
Name another song that mentions the word "Cry." 🎶 While Prince's 1st album to reach number one on the Billboard 200, "Purple Rain," hit that top spot on August 4, 1984, the lead single from the album, "When Doves Cry," was ending its 5-week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 on the same day.
Under Netanyahu, Israel seized 230 square miles of Lebanon, razed villages, expelled the native population and built new bases. There is no indication that Israel will leave this newly occupied land, but plenty of signals it intends to incorporate it into Israel. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Israel captured 230 square miles of Lebanon, razed villages and built new bases
The IDF has seized 230 square miles of Lebanese territory, where extensive construction is underway – including a base far from the Israeli border. Negotiations with Lebanon resumed today
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We are deciding whether we want to be a country of ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 2d agoBREAKING — Another person died at Delaney Hall. The family of Edwin Lopez Cornejo (age 39) said he was not receiving the medications required to treat his diabetes, and blames his death on the lack of medical care (via USA Today). www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
You, the taxpayer is paying for ICE for-profit scheme. Immigrants are commodities. Americans can’t afford food. #Affordability fortune.com/2026/01/20/h...
How you, the American taxpayer, funded an army-scale supersizing of ICE: 'Trump is militarizing immigration enforcement' | Fortune
“I just don’t think people have a sense of the scale,” said Bobby Kogan, a former adviser to the Biden administration's Office of Management and Budget.
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This hasn’t gotten much attention, but it should. While everyone was focused on Schedule F, the administration created something even broader. On July 30, a new OPM rule took effect that creates a second way to fire federal employees outside the normal civil service process.
🔥 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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Durbin: "Mr Blanche has aided and abetted the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States ... Blanche's willingness to casually lie under oath about he statement he made in a room full of witnesses shows the lengths he will go to to avoid offending President Trump."
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
🎂Celebrating Barack Obama: A President Who Made History On his birthday, Americans reflect on the legacy of the nation’s 44th president and the milestones that continue to shape U.S. history. #TheCityBrief
“The boss wants his money” Trump has been extorting companies for cash — as Trump has gotten involved in regulatory decisions that once were made by independent agencies. A mobster president. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
NEWS: For nearly 20 years, Epstein moved over $1B through the major banks. The banks looked away. Sen. Wyden’s 3-year probe exposes it all. But most damning? How Trump and the GOP tried to bury it.
Follow the Money: How Wall Street Bankrolled Epstein, and How the Trump Administration and CBS are Blocking The Truth
For nearly two decades, Jeffrey Epstein moved more than a billion dollars through some of the biggest banks in America. He withdrew millions in unexplained
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Another life. Another family forever changed. Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo should have gone home to his family. Instead, his family was asked to identify his body. Remember his name. 🕊️ Delaney Hall needs to be shut down. #SheShed
Name another song that mentions the word "Me." 🎶 The Beatles showed up on a US Billboard chart for the first time on August 3, 1963, when "From Me to You" made the 'Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100' chart, reaching a peak of #116 the following week. The song was the Beatles' first #1 hit on what
Everyone should know who Borlaug is. This is the legacy Musk and Trump destroyed.
KC@kcwinters.bsky.social · 2d agoTom Vilsack, former Secy of Agriculture & former gov of Iowa, profiles Dr. Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born scientist whose Green Revolution transformed global agriculture, saving more than a billion lives from famine in this 250 to 250 from @hcrichardson.bsky.social& team. youtu.be/JF46O8BgTq0?...
Name another song that mentions the word "These." 🎶 Written by Glenn Frey & Don Henley and released as the lead single from the Eagles 4th studio album of the same name, The song "One of These Nights," hit #1 on August 2, 1975 & stayed there for one week.
Name another song that mentions the word "Girl." 🎶 Written by Rick Springfield and released in the US as a single in February 1981, the song "Jessie's Girl" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 1, 1981 where it stayed for 2 weeks.
When it comes to Trump’s money laundering, this is just the tip of the iceberg. The Trump Soho laundered Russian mob money. Trump Panama laundered drug cartel money. Trump Azerbaijan laundered Iranian Revolutionary Guard money. Florida real estate was used to launder Russian oligarch money.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4d ago🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/
No wonder he wants that non-prosecution agreement so badly. The dude is a walking crime spree. Money laundering has been the family business for decades, but it's harder when you're president and everyone is watching your every move.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4d ago🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/
Means-tested programs like SNAP are shaped not just by benefit levels, but by hassle. And hassle is regressive: it hits hardest when you lack a car, flexibility, cash, or time. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-snaps-new-rules-make-eligible
A win! A federal court has denied xAI’s request to block Minnesota’s AI nudification law from taking effect. That means the law is set to go into effect today as scheduled.
The Pentagon is moving towards restoring as many as half of the roles that Hegseth cut during a "pugnacious" purge at DoD. Hegseth's downsizing included the firing or reassignment of staff dedicated to avoiding civilian casualties in war. www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...
Hegseth's swagger meets a reckoning as Pentagon moves to unwind 'pugnacious' purge: report
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is being pressured to backtrack after an airstrike gone wrong, according to The Atlantic.The Pentagon is moving towards restoring as many as half of the roles that Hegse...
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Name another song that mentions the word "Heart." 🎶 Written by Annie Lennox & David A. Stewart and released by the Eurythmics in June 1985, the song, "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" hit #1 on the UK Singles Chart on July 31, 1985. The song features Stevie Wonder on harmonica.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice suffered its 19th straight voter roll loss Friday, as a federal judge dismissed its Illinois lawsuit with prejudice and ruled the department lacks authority to seize the state’s unredacted voter database. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
After brutal Illinois defeat, Trump DOJ’s voter roll crusade is 0 for 19
DOJ has appealed nearly all of its voter roll defeats. Yet no court to date has ordered a state to provide the department with an unredacted statewide voter database.
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What the US government is doing to Dr. Fauci is the embodiment of what they are doing to scientific infrastructure overall.
Jeanine Pirro should be disbarred. It is absolutely indefensible and gross misconduct to rush through a criminal indictment for political reasons before an investigation has been completed, which resulted in false evidence being presented to a grand jury.
Think of Trump as a boil — an infected pustule on the giant ass of the American system. The boil would have become infected eventually because of deeper flaws in how the system has evolved. Let me introduce you to the first piece of why our system is failing: Jamie Dimon.
A Realist's Guide to the American System
Part 1: Dimon and the enshittification of everything
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"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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