Josh McLaurin
@joshforgeorgia.bsky.social
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia. Attorney, Double Dawg, State Senator, District 14.
www.joshmclaurin.com
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Josh McLaurin
@joshforgeorgia.bsky.social
· Sep 22
I’m running for lieutenant governor, but I have a problem. Nobody knows wtf a lieutenant governor is.
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I just voted NO on the bill that fails to prevent the looming health care crisis and fails to rein in Trump’s lawless actions, but I won’t give up — and I urge the American people to stay in the fight despite this disappointing outcome.
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I just voted NO on the bill that fails to prevent the looming health care crisis and fails to rein in Trump’s lawless actions, but I won’t give up — and I urge the American people to stay in the fight despite this disappointing outcome.
Just a quick reminder that Georgia Democrats won our first non-federal statewide seats since 2006 on Tuesday by a margin of *25 points*
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November 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Just a quick reminder that Georgia Democrats won our first non-federal statewide seats since 2006 on Tuesday by a margin of *25 points*
Twenty-
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If anyone is wondering how it feels in Georgia tonight, the answer is: good
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
If anyone is wondering how it feels in Georgia tonight, the answer is: good
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them.
After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer."
www.calonews.com/featured-top...
After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer."
www.calonews.com/featured-top...
November 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them.
After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer."
www.calonews.com/featured-top...
After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer."
www.calonews.com/featured-top...
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12% of Americans will lose access to food resources when SNAP benefits expire in 8 days
October 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
12% of Americans will lose access to food resources when SNAP benefits expire in 8 days
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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
Corollary to this is: the ultimate weakness of all the trauma-burdened MAGA guys is that they will have nothing compelling left to say when emotionally well-adjusted Democrats acknowledge their failures and chart a new course - MAGA is incapable of the same
Increasingly clear that Dems accepted Biden as the way out in 2020 primarily because of the false belief Trumpism was a blip to be weathered like a storm - now, Dem elites/insiders starting to understand it’s a persistent alternative to Democratic failure to innovate or be bold
October 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Corollary to this is: the ultimate weakness of all the trauma-burdened MAGA guys is that they will have nothing compelling left to say when emotionally well-adjusted Democrats acknowledge their failures and chart a new course - MAGA is incapable of the same
Increasingly clear that Dems accepted Biden as the way out in 2020 primarily because of the false belief Trumpism was a blip to be weathered like a storm - now, Dem elites/insiders starting to understand it’s a persistent alternative to Democratic failure to innovate or be bold
October 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Increasingly clear that Dems accepted Biden as the way out in 2020 primarily because of the false belief Trumpism was a blip to be weathered like a storm - now, Dem elites/insiders starting to understand it’s a persistent alternative to Democratic failure to innovate or be bold
Re: this and the optics of demolishing the White House, I think it is fair to say that Trumpist political forces can’t help but self-sabotage at some point because 1) their whole thing is to break taboos and 2) the fix is never quite enough
lol, great, so we're now subsidizing Argentine ranchers at the expense of American ranchers. Seems politically sustainable, no questions from me.
*US SEEKS TO QUADRUPLE BEEF PURCHASES FROM ARGENTINA: POLITICO
*US SEEKS TO QUADRUPLE BEEF PURCHASES FROM ARGENTINA: POLITICO
October 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Re: this and the optics of demolishing the White House, I think it is fair to say that Trumpist political forces can’t help but self-sabotage at some point because 1) their whole thing is to break taboos and 2) the fix is never quite enough
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The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
October 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.
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“It is important to demonstrate that authoritarian gains are not permanent. That liberal society has the will to undo their grotesqueries.
Demolishing the Trump ballroom and restoring the East Wing will be symbolic. But symbolism matters to authoritarians.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...
Demolishing the Trump ballroom and restoring the East Wing will be symbolic. But symbolism matters to authoritarians.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...
We Will Tear Down the Trump Palace Ballroom and Casino
Thinking like a dissident movement.
www.thebulwark.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“It is important to demonstrate that authoritarian gains are not permanent. That liberal society has the will to undo their grotesqueries.
Demolishing the Trump ballroom and restoring the East Wing will be symbolic. But symbolism matters to authoritarians.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...
Demolishing the Trump ballroom and restoring the East Wing will be symbolic. But symbolism matters to authoritarians.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...
Still thinking about this
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Still thinking about this
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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Taking my own advice to not be afraid of cringe, I think there’s something interesting about how Trump’s counter to millions of people marching in the streets against him was … AI generated videos. Images, stripped of humanity, isolated from and even hostile to the outside world
October 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Taking my own advice to not be afraid of cringe, I think there’s something interesting about how Trump’s counter to millions of people marching in the streets against him was … AI generated videos. Images, stripped of humanity, isolated from and even hostile to the outside world
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Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.
October 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.
Hot take: I’m not sure there’s a limit to how long the Republicans will endure the shutdown. They’re steeped in decades of conspiracy theory and anti-government messaging. The difference we’re seeing is Democrats starting to play hardball (for once). Honestly don’t know how long it will last.
October 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Hot take: I’m not sure there’s a limit to how long the Republicans will endure the shutdown. They’re steeped in decades of conspiracy theory and anti-government messaging. The difference we’re seeing is Democrats starting to play hardball (for once). Honestly don’t know how long it will last.
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BREAKING: Judge Illston says she is expanding her TRO blocking shutdown RIFs as to any AFSCME and AFL-CIO members or bargaining units to include NFFE, SEIU, and NAGE union members or bargaining units AND any members/units removed under EO 14251 whose removal is subject to legal dispute.
October 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
BREAKING: Judge Illston says she is expanding her TRO blocking shutdown RIFs as to any AFSCME and AFL-CIO members or bargaining units to include NFFE, SEIU, and NAGE union members or bargaining units AND any members/units removed under EO 14251 whose removal is subject to legal dispute.
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It's really important for Americans to understand right now that dismantling democracy isn't a thing that you wave a magic wand and make happen. It's a process. It's a fight.
It's a fight you choose when you're worried about losing, and it's a fight you're not guaranteed to win.
It's a fight you choose when you're worried about losing, and it's a fight you're not guaranteed to win.
August 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It's really important for Americans to understand right now that dismantling democracy isn't a thing that you wave a magic wand and make happen. It's a process. It's a fight.
It's a fight you choose when you're worried about losing, and it's a fight you're not guaranteed to win.
It's a fight you choose when you're worried about losing, and it's a fight you're not guaranteed to win.
A sort of side quest I’ve got is for the American public, in perpetuity, to word-associate “Vance” with “Hitler”
Vice President JD Vance scoffed off the story, saying that “I refuse to join the pearl clutching.” Look man, it's really okay to condemn literal Nazi rhetoric!
It’s Getting Worse.
The Trump administration’s assault on the rest of us is intensifying.
www.thebulwark.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A sort of side quest I’ve got is for the American public, in perpetuity, to word-associate “Vance” with “Hitler”
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Today, Trump's trying to make us comfortable with masked agents on the streets.
Tomorrow, Trump's looking to leverage this power, take advantage of our elections, and scare voters away.
We must call this what it is: a power grab that echoes the rise of authoritarian regimes.
Tomorrow, Trump's looking to leverage this power, take advantage of our elections, and scare voters away.
We must call this what it is: a power grab that echoes the rise of authoritarian regimes.
October 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Today, Trump's trying to make us comfortable with masked agents on the streets.
Tomorrow, Trump's looking to leverage this power, take advantage of our elections, and scare voters away.
We must call this what it is: a power grab that echoes the rise of authoritarian regimes.
Tomorrow, Trump's looking to leverage this power, take advantage of our elections, and scare voters away.
We must call this what it is: a power grab that echoes the rise of authoritarian regimes.
JD was in his 30s when he texted me that Trump might be America’s Hitler
October 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
JD was in his 30s when he texted me that Trump might be America’s Hitler
These are the same guys that wither when people call them fascists or authoritarians. But *this* is the kind of inflammatory rhetoric that risks causing political violence
Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"
October 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
These are the same guys that wither when people call them fascists or authoritarians. But *this* is the kind of inflammatory rhetoric that risks causing political violence
Nothing more popular in Georgia right now than a “sea of data centers”
$10B hospital project backed by Burt Jones includes sea of data centers
$10B hospital project backed by Burt Jones includes sea of data centers
Computer storage warehouses are envisioned to comprise the bulk of a $10 billion Butts County megaproject site along I-75 owned by Burt Jones’ father, according to a filing.
www.ajc.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Nothing more popular in Georgia right now than a “sea of data centers”