Patricia Lafond-Valade

Retired RN/Nursing Supervisor/Nursing Instructor/Infection Control Nurse, Proud liberal Democratic activist

[Jamie Class @JamieClass5]

@maddenifico I love this for him.

It’s brilliant.

What a shame lesser networks folded under similar lawsuits.

[Michael Vidal @mvbooks2]

@maddenifico I am not sure which he fears most. The subpoenas around Jan 6 or the requests for information around his finances.

[Bez(os) Mastodon @[email protected] @Bez78829056]

@maddenifico Also

[NS Dave @dave1oakns]

@maddenifico What’s truly amazing is that Donald Trump’s lawyers were unable to see that this would come.
Like everything else Donald Trump gets involved in this case is falling apart. He had better hope the BBC doesn’t go too hard on him when he’s ordered to pay their legal fees.

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

Pete Buttigieg Appreciation Post

Former Secretary of Transportation
Speaks 8 languages
Harvard Degree and Rhodes Scholar
Served in Afghanistan
Devoted family man
All-around good guy
Will make an awesome president someday

I support Pete Buttigieg!
Who is with me? ✋

[Mia @MiaForTrump]

🚨 BIG MOVE: Gavin Newsom calls for a national tax on billionaires — “It’s time for an economic reset.”

Thumbs up if you support making billionaires pay their fair share! 💙🇺🇸

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

One way to push back against an authoritarian is to mock him.

trump is so weak and insecure he is now demanding our respect.

So I’m sending him my favorite picture below.

Feel free to retweet and send your favorite picture or video to @realDonaldTrump.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Maybe Vance doesn't know this history because it's in one of the books his administration banned.

The difference between Watergate and now is that back then, Republicans actually did something about a law-breaking president. Today, they only roll over for their cult leader.

[Patricia Lafond-Valade @pattyvalade]

@krassenstein I'm here for it ! Long overdue.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Edward Norton: “Trump is worse than Nixon and McNamara by far, Trump and Hegseth. We’re in a level of incompetency and grift and corruption that is unprecedented in the history of this country”

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Trump: "If you don't respect the President, you're gonna have a problem."

No I won’t. You don’t scare me you clown.

You are the one who will have a problem. Mark it.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

THIS is exactly what @ABC and others should have done to Trump instead of caving and giving in and paying him off with millions of dollars.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

Who else believes Jared Kushner should face a treason investigation?

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Thank you, Secretary Kennedy, for releasing the $700 million in behavioral health funding my father’s administration authorized.
But it should not have taken this long. The delay cost lives.
Putting people living on the streets first is right. They are the easiest to see and the easiest to ignore.

I have no problem with the mission.

I have a problem with one sentence in the guidance: STREETS grants cannot pay for harm reduction.

Harm reduction is not an ideology. It is a clean syringe, naloxone in a backpack, fentanyl test strips in a pocket. A place where someone can be kept breathing instead of being found dead.

I personally know people whose lives were saved by harm reduction. I know you do too. I know what they have done with those lives since. Not one of them would be in recovery today if they didn’t have access to harm reduction. The would be dead.

Anyone serious about recovery knows harm reduction saves lives. Ask people in the rooms. Ask the families keeping naloxone in the kitchen drawer.

If you want the Great American Recovery to mean something, fund what keeps people on this side of the grave. We do recover, but only if we make it out alive.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

JD Vance is right that Watergate would only be a 12-hour story today. That’s because Watergate looks like fucking child’s play compared to the crimes committed by Trump and his administration.

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

Do you support the removal of all members of the trump administration?

YES or NO? 👇

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Ho-lee-shit!!!

Thanks to journalist Katie Phang and Trump's corrupt and incompetent acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Epstein files are about to explode into one of the biggest scandals in American history.

A federal judge dropped a bombshell ruling Thursday, ordering the Justice Department to stop protecting explosive documents that the Trump administration has desperately fought to keep hidden from the public.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan slammed the DOJ, siding with Katie Phang in the first-ever lawsuit enforcing the Epstein Files Transparency Act — a bill that passed Congress with near-unanimous support in 2025.

Now Acting AG Todd Blanche is forced to explain why he's been illegally blocking the release of shocking material, including:

ㆍ Names redacted from emails referencing a "torture video" and sexual activity with minors

ㆍ Identities of co-conspirators listed in a draft federal indictment

ㆍ FBI interview notes from a victim who says Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump when she was just 13 years old — and that Trump assaulted her

Instead of doing his job, Blanche arrogantly claimed the court had zero authority to even hear the case. That gamble just blew up in his face.

When you refuse to contest the allegations in federal court, those allegations are legally admitted. Judge Sullivan called it straight:

"The Attorney General has conceded that he is in violation of the Act."

Blanche also never reviewed foreign-language documents in the files and has blown past the legal deadline (December 19, 2025) to explain his shady redactions — by more than six months.

This ruling is massive because the original transparency law had no real teeth. Katie Phang's legal team cleverly used the Administrative Procedure Act to crack the door wide open. Now any journalist, researcher, or watchdog can walk through it.

The judge flat-out rejected the DOJ's excuses. "There is no competing harm to the government” from simply following the law," he wrote.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Thank you John Harwood for shoving a sock in this Trump’s talking piece trash mouth, Laura Ingraham! 🤣

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: GET HIM! Congressman Jamie Raskin DISMANTLES Mike Johnson after he whined that Democrats will investigate Republican corruption if we win the midterms.

The MAGA Speaker walked face-first into this one...

"If we were to lose the midterms, heaven forbid, these Democrats, y'all impeachment's not even the big concern," said Johnson. "They will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the President's family, the Cabinet, his donors and friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. I’ll take care of you."

Oh, the horror! Imagine if Congress actually exercised its oversight powers to rein in the most lawless President in American history as he loots the treasury, lines his pockets from crypto scams, starts foreign wars on behalf of Israel, and covers up his own involvement in Jeffrey Epstein's massive child sex trafficking ring.

Raskin saw the jaw-dropping Johnson clip and quickly pounced—

"1. Speaker Johnson, you’re obsessing about losing the House but don’t seem to realize it’s because you have no program for the country other than illegal disastrous tariffs, illegal disastrous war and humiliating invertebrate submission to your unraveling cult master," wrote Raskin.

"2. You’re projecting onto us your own comically failed and obsessive investigations into President Biden, the Southern Poverty Law Center, James Comey, George Soros, etc."

"3. We obviously must confront the debilitating corruption and authoritarianism you have enabled, but at the same time we’re going to move America forward on all the public goods you have thwarted, like the health care of the people, increasing the minimum wage and protecting our environment."

"4. I agree that you 'run the protection program' and 'take care' of all MAGA violators!"

That last point is worth paying attention to. Johnson sounds exactly like a mafia don in a low budget gangster flick, which is presumably a habit he picked up from his cult leader Donald. The Republican Party is now indistinguishable from a criminal organization. They violate the Constitution daily while turning a blind eye to Trump's endless parade of lawbreaking.

Johnson's speech has become an accidental campaign ad for Democrats. If you care about upholding the law and restoring our democracy, you have to vote blue.

What do you want Democrats to prioritize when we retake power? Sound off!

Please ❤️ and share if you'll NEVER vote Republican for as long as you live!

[Patricia Lafond-Valade @pattyvalade]

@mjfree Anyone who followed Trump's Twitter feed from 12/19/20 onward knew exactly who was planning to show up, they were all announcing their intentions to participate. Individuals and groups, self-identified "militias" all responded with enthusiasm and bravado.