laura tremaine
@lauratremaine.bsky.social
writer + podcaster in los angeles ✨
oklahoma raised, californian by choice
a lot more political here than in other spaces
oklahoma raised, californian by choice
a lot more political here than in other spaces
Do you ever see all these Best Of book lists and think you read all the wrong stuff this year?
December 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Do you ever see all these Best Of book lists and think you read all the wrong stuff this year?
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This is unfortunately and sadly who we are now….
December 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
This is unfortunately and sadly who we are now….
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Today is World AIDS Day, a day that reminds me of the decades-long fight for dignity, science, and compassion. We’ve come so far because activists, researchers, and communities refused to be ignored.
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Today is World AIDS Day, a day that reminds me of the decades-long fight for dignity, science, and compassion. We’ve come so far because activists, researchers, and communities refused to be ignored.
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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
December 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
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Just to review, in the last week the President of the United States:
- Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party
- Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children
- Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats
Those are just factual statements.
- Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party
- Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children
- Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats
Those are just factual statements.
November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Just to review, in the last week the President of the United States:
- Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party
- Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children
- Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats
Those are just factual statements.
- Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party
- Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children
- Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats
Those are just factual statements.
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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I read 1984.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.
I know what I’m seeing.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.
I know what I’m seeing.
September 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I read 1984.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.
I know what I’m seeing.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.
I know what I’m seeing.
Heartwood by Amity Gaige will likely end up as one of my top reads of the year.
It’s *sort of* about the search for a young nurse who has disappeared while hiking the Appalachian Trail, but don’t go into this one thinking it’s a thriller or a mystery. It’s really a meditation.
It’s *sort of* about the search for a young nurse who has disappeared while hiking the Appalachian Trail, but don’t go into this one thinking it’s a thriller or a mystery. It’s really a meditation.
August 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Heartwood by Amity Gaige will likely end up as one of my top reads of the year.
It’s *sort of* about the search for a young nurse who has disappeared while hiking the Appalachian Trail, but don’t go into this one thinking it’s a thriller or a mystery. It’s really a meditation.
It’s *sort of* about the search for a young nurse who has disappeared while hiking the Appalachian Trail, but don’t go into this one thinking it’s a thriller or a mystery. It’s really a meditation.
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You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
August 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
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TRUMP: “A lot of people are saying maybe we’d like a dictator.”
He’s saying it. Are you listening? 🇺🇸
He’s saying it. Are you listening? 🇺🇸
August 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
TRUMP: “A lot of people are saying maybe we’d like a dictator.”
He’s saying it. Are you listening? 🇺🇸
He’s saying it. Are you listening? 🇺🇸
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📌The President of the United States posted a FAKE VIDEO TO THE WORLD of a kneeling Barack Obama being placed in handcuffs, and we are supposed go along like it is just another day.
Our press has so completely lost the thread it would be laughable if it wasn't so damn dangerous and disgusting.
Our press has so completely lost the thread it would be laughable if it wasn't so damn dangerous and disgusting.
July 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
📌The President of the United States posted a FAKE VIDEO TO THE WORLD of a kneeling Barack Obama being placed in handcuffs, and we are supposed go along like it is just another day.
Our press has so completely lost the thread it would be laughable if it wasn't so damn dangerous and disgusting.
Our press has so completely lost the thread it would be laughable if it wasn't so damn dangerous and disgusting.
Just finished What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown (while in stunning Botswana on safari) and it is one of my favorite books of the year so far.
July 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Just finished What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown (while in stunning Botswana on safari) and it is one of my favorite books of the year so far.
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Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
July 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
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I worked at Planned Parenthood.
They diagnose cancers while still treatable. They help women decide what birth control works for them. They help those working through mental health challenges.
Defunding them just harms people who already struggle to find places to get care.
They diagnose cancers while still treatable. They help women decide what birth control works for them. They help those working through mental health challenges.
Defunding them just harms people who already struggle to find places to get care.
June 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I worked at Planned Parenthood.
They diagnose cancers while still treatable. They help women decide what birth control works for them. They help those working through mental health challenges.
Defunding them just harms people who already struggle to find places to get care.
They diagnose cancers while still treatable. They help women decide what birth control works for them. They help those working through mental health challenges.
Defunding them just harms people who already struggle to find places to get care.
I think I need to write a whole essay on how one thing said to us by one person just one time can affect the whole trajectory of our lives and career.
June 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I think I need to write a whole essay on how one thing said to us by one person just one time can affect the whole trajectory of our lives and career.
The coverage of the Bezos wedding yesterday was so saturated that I dreamed about it last night. I mean this is not a thing I care about in the least. One example of how the things that flood our feed also flood our mind and spirit, mostly in the worst ways. The algorithm controls everything.
June 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The coverage of the Bezos wedding yesterday was so saturated that I dreamed about it last night. I mean this is not a thing I care about in the least. One example of how the things that flood our feed also flood our mind and spirit, mostly in the worst ways. The algorithm controls everything.
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A win! Federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to bar international students from enrolling at Harvard. The preliminary injunction, issued by a Boston court, allows roughly 7,000 Harvard students and recent graduates to continue studying and working legally in the U.S.
June 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A win! Federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to bar international students from enrolling at Harvard. The preliminary injunction, issued by a Boston court, allows roughly 7,000 Harvard students and recent graduates to continue studying and working legally in the U.S.
I’m hosting a Journal Party on Substack this weekend.
You should come!
secretstuff.substack.com/p/journal-pa...
You should come!
secretstuff.substack.com/p/journal-pa...
June 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I’m hosting a Journal Party on Substack this weekend.
You should come!
secretstuff.substack.com/p/journal-pa...
You should come!
secretstuff.substack.com/p/journal-pa...
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A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.
June 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.
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For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.
June 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.
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The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org
June 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org
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Who is posting the best coverage of the situation in LA with ICE
June 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Who is posting the best coverage of the situation in LA with ICE
I read a whole novel today (Tilt by Emma Pattee - really good!) and that is pretty much the perfect way to spend Sunday.
May 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I read a whole novel today (Tilt by Emma Pattee - really good!) and that is pretty much the perfect way to spend Sunday.