Laurie Banks 🦞

Strategic Marketer in Technology, Finance, Logistics. Novelist-Amelia Moss thriller series. Born and Bred Snarky Mainer. Ski. Swim. Jump around.

[Laurie Banks 🦞 @northgrrl]

@1pcornwell I hate shore entries. Only serve to remind me how weak I really am.🧐

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

With lingering concerns following the president’s recent physical exam, and the president’s prolonged absence from the public eye, the White House should make available the president’s physician to answer questions from the press.

[Laurie Banks 🦞 @northgrrl]

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[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BARTIROMO: What are you going to do about your perception? The Wall Street Journal describes you as 'scandal plagued'

PAXTON: The reality is they could say the same thing about Donald Trump

[Ally Sammarco @Ally_Sammarco]

And you had an affair with your 20-something producer after stalking her, then left your wife and kids for her so

[Laurie Banks 🦞 @northgrrl]

@1pcornwell Grew up in Northern Maine near Loring Air Force base. A sight like this happened every once in a while..everyone knew what it was and just accepted it.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

New details have been released about Palm Beach International Airport, recently renamed to Donald J. Trump International Airport.

Their new contract requires the airport to purchase Trump merchandise from Trump's own licensor, directly violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

[Mayo Clinic @MayoClinic]

A Mayo Clinic-developed artificial intelligence (AI) model can help specialists detect pancreatic cancer on routine abdominal CT scans up to three years before clinical diagnosis. It identifies subtle signs of disease before tumors are visible, when curative treatment may still be possible. The findings, published in Gut, mark a milestone in Mayo Clinic's multiyear research effort to enable earlier detection of one of the deadliest cancers.

Learn more: https://t.co/EJySSkaW3P

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Oh hey, “private donations” are no longer paying for the ballroom.

Who could have seen that coming?

[Laurie Banks 🦞 @northgrrl]

@1pcornwell Be a badass…. Create a badass.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump’s DOJ just filed what may be the most deranged written Motion ever. It reads more like a Truth Social post dictated by Trump himself. What an embarrassment.

The Motion is filled with inappropriate personal insults. It literally calls the National Trust for Historic Preservation name “FAKE” and says the group is “very bad for our Country.” It accuses them of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and frames their lawyer as “the lawyer for Barack Hussein Obama.”

This is an actual line from the filing: “because it is DONALD J. TRUMP, a highly successful real estate developer, who has abilities that others don't, especially those who assume the Office of President, this frivolous and meritless lawsuit was filed.”

This is how the Department of Justice is writing now?

Then comes the opportunism. The filing leans heavily on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner incident and uses it to push Trump’s long-standing obsession with building a ballroom. Instead of addressing what went wrong, it argues that none of this would have happened if Trump’s project already existed.

They claim “bipartisan support” because of support from…John Fetterman.

The lawsuit also claims at multiple points the ballroom won’t cost taxpayers anything—something we now know to be false.

Every DOJ lawyer who put their name on this should be ashamed. And it should be a major scandal that it appears that Donald Trump is the one who actually wrote this. So much for DOJ independence.

[Laurie Banks 🦞 @northgrrl]

@1pcornwell Cuties

[Laurie Banks 🦞 @northgrrl]

@1pcornwell Only if it starts to smell.

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

Fox used OLD footage to cover up the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap at a dignified transfer.

[Laurie Banks 🦞 @northgrrl]

@isberryauthor @AtriaMysteryBus @ITWDebutAuthors @AtriaBooks @simonschuster Just read this book on the advice of agent Jessica Berg of Rosecliff Literary. I couldn’t put it down, great prose, tension building, descriptions and suspense. Everything a thriller reader lives for! Looking forward to your next novel Ms. Berry.

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

BREAKING🚨 A man was choked to death by ICE guards, and DHS hid his body at a military base to block the autopsy.
His name was Geraldo Lunas Campos. When the county medical examiner finally performed an autopsy, the conclusion was devastatingly clear: his death was ruled a homicide.

But here is the detail that should make your blood run cold.

When another man recently died at that exact same #ICE facility, the Department of Homeland Security didn't call the local medical examiner. Instead, they moved his body to a nearby U.S. Army base.

And that Army base is now flat-out refusing to release the results of the autopsy.

This was revealed today by Senator Dick Durbin in a horrifying congressional hearing about the explosion of deaths in ICE custody under the Trump administration.

Eight people have already died in ICE custody in just the first two months of this year alone. Many of them died from easily treatable illnesses.

911 logs show ICE facilities are completely overwhelmed, ignoring basic human rights.

But moving a body to a military installation to dodge a local homicide investigation? That isn't just negligence. That is a coordinated, state-sponsored cover-up.

They are operating mass detention facilities with zero accountability. They are treating human beings like they are disposable. And when their guards cross the line, they use the full weight of the federal military apparatus to hide the evidence.
We are watching human rights abuses happen on American soil, funded by our tax dollars. We must demand the autopsy report.
Share this. Do not let them sweep these deaths under the rug.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

If you think BIRTH CONTROL pills are “a disrespect of life,” and can’t just say birth control is safe and effective for the overwhelming majority of women with your whole chest, you should NOT be America’s top doctor.

I'm voting NO on Casey Means for Surgeon General.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents illegally assaulted a 19-year-old U.S. citizen, and then kidnapped him, while admitting on camera they didn’t even know who he was, in Olathe, Kansas.

In the video, an agent is sitting on the teenager’s back as his 14-year-old brother screams that he’s a U.S. citizen, in a Walmart parking lot.

The agent responds:

“Well, we’re going to find that out since whoever drives this [pointing to the truck] isn’t.”

That sentence is the admission.

Because it shows the only thing they knew, at that moment, was something about the registered owner of the truck… not the person they had pinned to the pavement.

Vehicle registration tells you who owns a car. It does NOT tell you who is driving it.

Before law enforcement can detain someone, they need individualized reasonable suspicion tied to that person.

If they had not confirmed the driver matched the registered owner…
If they had not observed a crime…
If they had no warrant…

Then pinning him down, handcuffing him, and loading him into a vehicle raises serious Fourth Amendment concerns.

You don’t get to tackle someone first and figure out who they are later.

You don’t get to use force based on “we’ll find out.”

The issue isn’t just that he’s a U.S. citizen…

The issue is whether agents had lawful, INDIVIDUALIZED suspicion to detain him before they used force.

Because when law enforcement starts treating vehicle registration as automatic suspicion for whoever is behind the wheel…

That’s collective punishment.

And the Constitution does not allow that.

[Laurie Banks 🦞 @northgrrl]

I am an Axios fan - but what I read was 20 PEOPLE LOST THEIR JOB. Sorry, gents, that is nothing to brag about.
1 big thing: Axios CTO is living your coming reality https://t.co/bfA5XQMzuK #axiosam

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Stunning new polling reveals that Canada is more popular in the United States than Donald Trump is. Trump would hate it if you made this go viral.

[Laurie Banks 🦞 @northgrrl]

@GovPritzker @GovWesMoore @GovofCO Thank you. Thank you. Let’s hope the others stand with you to defeat the divisive tactics of tRump.