Chris Lombardi
Bronx-born Philadelphian. #Journalist. #Author of 'brilliant but disturbing' books from The New Press and Mumblers Press. No longer on Substack; find me on Medium, WagingNonviolence.org, On Watch, and an oped near you.
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- @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social breaks down that trillion-dollar defense budget Kegseth is so proud of thewarhorse.org/trump-dod-bu...
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- Tomorrow's International Conscientious Objector Day! Join U.S. Air Force CO’s Juan Bettancourt and Joy Metzler and Israeli CO Max Kersch,who was among 130 reservists confronting the costs of that war, in a Voices of Conscience webinar! . #civmilsky #veterans centeronconscience.org/voices-of-co...
- Gay and Trans Kids in French Canada Sound an Unexpected Global Alarm! by @jfinn6511 medium.com/prismnpen/ga...
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- Reposted by Chris LombardiHouse Republicans’ tax bill would grant the Treasury Secretary the ability to accuse any nonprofit of being a “terrorist supporting organization” without basic due process. No president should have the power this bill provides to punish their political opponents.
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- Reposted by Chris LombardiI will never forget that the week Qatar decided to bribe the president of the United States with a plane, CNN decided to focus on the age and health of an ex-president. Shame.
- br00t4c@mastodon.social - Haitians Say: Send Trump, Bukele And The True Terrorists To Cecot #VivAnsanm #AlleviateMassSuffering #TrumpThreats #USCoreGroup #GranGrif popularresistance.org/haitians-say...
- Reposted by Chris LombardiSure, everyone under the sun is going to run in 2028—I get it. We can walk and chew gum, but our NUMBER ONE PRIORITY must be taking back the House and Senate so we can IMPEACH and REMOVE that POS with the $400 million flying bribe —in 2026!
- Reposted by Chris LombardiThis is so fucking evil and I hope de Oliveira sues them for violation of her civil rights. Also, they weren’t “threatening” to arrest her.
ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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- Tomorrow's International Conscientious Objector Day! Join U.S. Air Force CO’s Juan Bettancourt and Joy Metzler and Israeli CO Max Kersch,who was among 130 reservists confronting the costs of that war, in a Voices of Conscience webinar! . #civmilsky #veterans centeronconscience.org/voices-of-co...
- Reposted by Chris LombardiImagine being worth billions of dollars and deciding to suck up to a guy who ordered the murder and dismemberment of a journalist he didn't like because you might be able to make another billion dollars Maybe just spend the money you have and keep whatever is left of your integrity?
- Reposted by Chris LombardiSchool vouchers aren’t about “freedom.” They’re a workaround to dodge diversity! They allow this this to happen… • Reject LGBTQ+ students • Exclude kids with disabilities • Teach whitewashed curriculum And draining public schools to do it. #DontDefundPublicSchools
- Reposted by Chris LombardiThe ultra-rich shouldn’t pay lower tax rates than teachers and firefighters. It’s that simple. My bill ensures that everyone pays their fair share — and extends the solvency of Social Security and Medicare indefinitely. www.newsweek.com/social-secur...
- Reposted by Chris LombardiPretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post. techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
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- Reposted by Chris LombardiIf you are watching DOJ target a Harvard researcher or Trump's political opponents and think its vindictive, politically motivated and improper, then you understand why courts must stop giving the Trump administration a "presumption of regularity." www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
- Reposted by Chris LombardiThat is in fact what this administration has done.
- Strandjunker@mstdn.social - I still think it’s backwards that mass shooters owning assault weapons is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.
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- Reposted by Chris LombardiNo one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious.
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- Reposted by Chris LombardiNo, you’re not crazy. They are deporting brown people and importing white people.
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- Reposted by Chris LombardiBen of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress: "They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"
- Reposted by Chris LombardiI will always be grateful to the first group of regular folks who just began to picket Tesla in mid February. Folks showed up took photos of themselves and kept showing up.
- SINCE MARCH. He could likely write a book about life at Bluebell. wapo.st/3H7JRGU
- Wisconsin Veterans Voice Concerns as Trump's VA Cuts Loom | Military.com www.military.com/daily-news/2...
- Trump fired the Librarian of Congress without cause! Send an email to your representative to stop Trump's attack on the Library of Congress. action.everylibrary.org/emailhayden via @everylibrary.bsky.social
- The dissenters in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization knew what came next: "the curtailment of women’s rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens." slate.com/news-and-pol...
- Fred Kaplan @slate.com : "One can only wonder how many listening devices and cybertools the Qataris will plant inside that plane before turning it over to the White House." slate.com/news-and-pol...
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- This is happening nearly every day. nymag.com/intelligence...
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- The emoluments clause doesn't exist? nymag.com/intelligence...
- Stopped clock time: I agree with Josh Hawley?. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/o...
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- Reposted by Chris LombardiJeffries: "Millions of people in this country are struggling to live paycheck to paycheck ... and Donald Trump is publicly defending accepting a $400 million flying palace from a close ally of Iran and Hamas? I mean, you can't make this stuff up."
- Reposted by Chris LombardiMan who had a student kidnapped and trafficked because she wrote something he didn't like yuks it up with man who had a journalist dismembered with a hacksaw because he wrote things the man didn't like.
- Reposted by Chris Lombardipolitical strategy aside, “a religious charity should work with the white supremacist administration to help achieve its goals as an exercise in message discipline” is both morally vacuous and incredibly stupid
- Reposted by Chris LombardiNever, ever forget that we are a persistent, powerful, and winning movement. Medicaid saves lives every day, and we must save Medicaid for the 80 million people who rely on it for health care. Keep calling your Members of Congress to say: #NoMedicaidCuts!
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- JUST IN: Judge Xinis says the DOJ has failed to file a privilege log regarding invocation of the state secrets privilege in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case. She's giving them until 3pm or will construe it as "intentional refusal" to comply. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Chris LombardiThe U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Transportation are illegally forcing states to comply with the administration’s immigration policies or give up billions of dollars in funding for disaster relief and transportation. I’m suing to stop this unlawful overreach.
- Reposted by Chris LombardiAOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?
- Reposted by Chris Lombardithey Bernied the generically liberal white boy who survived a school shooting
- Reposted by Chris LombardiJust hit me that the importing of white folks from South Africa and exporting of brown people is actually, literally an attempt at a great replacement
- lin11c@toad.social - @Npars01 Quite the rogues gallery. Worst of the worst. I would love to see them lose most of their "fortunes" to a wealth tax. Let's do it! We have to move the overton window on this issue. www.npr.org/2024/08/06/n...
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- Reposted by Chris LombardiThe GOP says they’re going after “fraud and abuse” in Medicaid, but what they’re really doing is cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from a program that delivers care to the poorest Americans.
- Reposted by Chris LombardiThe Racist MAGA Grift Corrupting America Raising 750K for a white woman who used the N-word, accepting luxury planes from Qatar, welcoming white South Africans "refugees" - it's a racist grift & MAGA is laughing all the way to the bank. With @parkermolloy.com open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
