Mimi

@progressivemimi.bsky.social

💙Retired higher ed exec, Progressive and open-minded gramma of two precious girls. Married. 🚫DMs please. 🚫MAGA Please 🚫Porn Is he dead yet?

The law is that “Although the WH is not required to open its doors to the news media, once it establishes press facilities for credentialed journalists, it cannot deny access based on the content of a journalist’s coverage.” That's exactly what Trump is doing. joycevance.substack.com/p/its-a-nice...

It’s a Nice First Amendment You’ve Got There…

Mea culpa for the long post on a Saturday night, but read on and see if you don’t agree that it’s essential.

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7/ This did not begin in 2026. James Bamford reported that during the 2016 election an Israeli contact told Roger Stone Trump would lose “unless we intervene,” offered “critical intel” & promised an “October Surprise.” Few MSM outlets covered this at all www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The Trump Campaign's Collusion With Israel

While US media fixated on Russian interference in the 2016 election, an Israeli secret agent's campaign to influence the outcome went unreported.

thenation.com

📌Now that you soft-ballers in the press FINALLY understand this felon is playing hardball, it's time for you to band together and refuse to cover the WH. Start calling it the way WE see it. The way it IS: A lawless regime hellbent on destroying this country. Get your heads out of your asses.

Collectively, the convicted fraudsters Trump pardoned have stolen $2 BILLION from their victims. Hardworking Americans screwed over because Trump let the fraudsters off easy. So let’s go after fraud. Let’s start with the biggest fraudster in American history. He’s sitting in the Oval Office.

How not surprising that a president who acts like a petty mob boss is holding one of our nation’s treasured institutions hostage until we meet his conditions—that is, putting his stupid name on the building. I say we just put it in mothballs until he is gone.

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I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one

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Ro Khanna on why Speaker Johnson sent the House home early: He doesn’t want Epstein to become the issue before the midterms, and he doesn’t want votes on the Iran war to become the issue.

Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?

Newsom: "Look what happened in Vietnam. They got slapped with a 46% tariff. Until they didn't. Because Eric Trump visited Vietnam in the middle of negotiations. Met with the prime minister, who had a press conference with Eric Trump announcing they had just approved a new golf course in record time"