📚Laura Weatherspoon🌳
@lauraweatherspoon.bsky.social
Life long reader, gardener, dog lover, and Democrat. My most recent obsession is The Criterion channel. Although I live in NC now, I will always be a Californian in my heart.
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What we’re finding out during the Trump presidency is that while lying & misleading people is great for getting elected in America today, it’s a comically bad way to govern. Science doesn’t care about your feelings, neither does reality. The Trump Show will have disastrous outcomes for all of us.
We knew they were vile but now we can officially call ICE puppy kickers. 🤬
TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer.
(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
February 6, 2026 at 4:25 PM
We knew they were vile but now we can officially call ICE puppy kickers. 🤬
Unbelievable 🤦🏻♀️ Another story where AI turns out to be real people operating remotely. In this case it was taxis. I love the idea of getting rid of my car and instead occasionally using an automated taxi but not one controlled by someone who lives thousands of miles away!
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Unbelievable 🤦🏻♀️ Another story where AI turns out to be real people operating remotely. In this case it was taxis. I love the idea of getting rid of my car and instead occasionally using an automated taxi but not one controlled by someone who lives thousands of miles away!
Hilarious
The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring
![To:
Jeffrey Epstein[jeevacation@gmail.com]
From:
Sent:
Wed 7/15/2009 1:56:13 AM
Subject:
Re: florida visit?
good typing!
oh well, looks like it's a long flight anyhow... edmonton is so far away from EVERYTHING.
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>
wrote:
i am tied up until aug
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:41 PM,
wrote:
You planted a seed with your invite today. I have next Wed thru Sunday off (July 22-26), my last vacation for months.
I was going to take polo lessons in Calgary but I (DON'T) think my body can handle it! I pull a muscle every time, and I'm starting to realize my budding polo career might have to take a back seat to my actual job.
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February 6, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Hilarious
Has anyone ever demanded a male journalist or lawyer or politician smile more? Why aren’t women allowed to be professional and take their job seriously?
Vance: There was a moment in the Oval Office, I wasn't even in there, but Trump was talking to Kaitlan Collins. Trump says, 'Why don't you ever smile?' And it's actually, like, so perceptive. Have some fun.
February 5, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Has anyone ever demanded a male journalist or lawyer or politician smile more? Why aren’t women allowed to be professional and take their job seriously?
Good refresher for this moment.
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In this thread, I lay out more than a dozen facts about Trump and his child-molester friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
I challenge you to read the whole thread and then decide what the odds are that Trump did not abuse girls or tolerate his pals Epstein and Maxwell doing so.
In this thread, I lay out more than a dozen facts about Trump and his child-molester friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
I challenge you to read the whole thread and then decide what the odds are that Trump did not abuse girls or tolerate his pals Epstein and Maxwell doing so.
February 4, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Good refresher for this moment.
If Republicans were so concerned about the border & immigration then where’s the legislation? They control the WH, SC, & both branches of congress. They could pass all kinds of reforms that the SC would rubber stamp. For example: Laws that fine employers of undocumented workers. So?
February 3, 2026 at 5:32 PM
If Republicans were so concerned about the border & immigration then where’s the legislation? They control the WH, SC, & both branches of congress. They could pass all kinds of reforms that the SC would rubber stamp. For example: Laws that fine employers of undocumented workers. So?
Terrific idea!!!! 🏆 I’m so tired of the pretense that these politicians pay no attention to politics. Johnson is the absolute worst.
Opposition candidates might be able to put together a very effective campaign ad by simply clipping every time one of these bozos says "I was unaware", "I haven't seen that", "I didn't know" on live TV and stringing them together with a tagline like "Vote for someone who is paying attention"
February 2, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Terrific idea!!!! 🏆 I’m so tired of the pretense that these politicians pay no attention to politics. Johnson is the absolute worst.
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Have been saying / writing for a year now:
- Trump 1.0: how many lies / day
- Trump 2.0: how many impeachable offenses / day
- Trump 1.0: how many lies / day
- Trump 2.0: how many impeachable offenses / day
February 2, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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This is his revenge on all the artists who refused to perform. ETTD and he “touched” the Kennedy Center therefore the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts is dead. R.I.P. ⚰️ What rises in its place will be a gaudy Trump building with the Kennedy name erased.
February 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is his revenge on all the artists who refused to perform. ETTD and he “touched” the Kennedy Center therefore the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts is dead. R.I.P. ⚰️ What rises in its place will be a gaudy Trump building with the Kennedy name erased.
Love this 😁👌
That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are fighting Nazis in the streets.
February 1, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Love this 😁👌
🥺 this goes right to my heart. 🎯
Regardless of their level of involvement, one thing that’s clear is there’s not one person named in the Epstein files who believed those girls were people.
February 1, 2026 at 3:34 PM
🥺 this goes right to my heart. 🎯
No doubt all the people kicked off SNAP are thanking her for getting rid of the “handout.” I’m sure that all the energy, tech, and automobile companies & the farmers are rushing to give back their handouts as well.
Brooke Rollins: "The American dream is not being on a food stamp program. The American dream is not being on all these programs. That should be a hand up, not a handout. As of yesterday, we have moved 1.75 million people off of SNAP."
January 30, 2026 at 3:42 PM
No doubt all the people kicked off SNAP are thanking her for getting rid of the “handout.” I’m sure that all the energy, tech, and automobile companies & the farmers are rushing to give back their handouts as well.
Phrenology is back. 🤦🏻♀️
In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
January 28, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Phrenology is back. 🤦🏻♀️
Wow. Callus beyond belief. Also projection. I’ve always been skeptical of the idea that Trump set up his own assassination plot but when he says things like this, it gives me pause. 🧐
Um, holy shit? This has gotta be up there in the most crass & worse things Trump has ever said
January 28, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Wow. Callus beyond belief. Also projection. I’ve always been skeptical of the idea that Trump set up his own assassination plot but when he says things like this, it gives me pause. 🧐
😂 I love this so much.
January 26, 2026 at 5:05 AM
😂 I love this so much.
While we non-MAGAs are aghast at the way ICE agents are conducting themselves, it appears that some LEO are taking note. Punishing uppity citizens is becoming SOP. Is this what the taxpayers want?
January 26, 2026 at 4:57 AM
While we non-MAGAs are aghast at the way ICE agents are conducting themselves, it appears that some LEO are taking note. Punishing uppity citizens is becoming SOP. Is this what the taxpayers want?
When you base your entire ethos on self, acts of bravery on behalf of a greater good are perplexing.
I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage
January 26, 2026 at 4:46 AM
When you base your entire ethos on self, acts of bravery on behalf of a greater good are perplexing.
This is a punch in the gut. She saw the shooting. She knows the government is lying about that. She also knows they are looking for her so she’s too afraid to go home. 😱
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 3:18 AM
This is a punch in the gut. She saw the shooting. She knows the government is lying about that. She also knows they are looking for her so she’s too afraid to go home. 😱
I can never used to how anti-Christian these evangelical pastors are. He’s not merely downplaying the execution of a citizen, he’s supporting ICE because of we don’t deport all the immigrants we “won’t have a civilization.” Does he really believe we are all God’s children?
A Christian pastor urges everyone to support ICE terrorists, describing their murder of Alex Pretti as merely "messy."
January 25, 2026 at 3:09 AM
I can never used to how anti-Christian these evangelical pastors are. He’s not merely downplaying the execution of a citizen, he’s supporting ICE because of we don’t deport all the immigrants we “won’t have a civilization.” Does he really believe we are all God’s children?
There are real heroes appearing on a daily basis. Bozeman saw a man being ripped from his car. He watched & recorded as ICE drove off leaving the car, windows down, open to anyone. Bozeman found the man’s ID & address. He secured the car & then went to tell the victim’s pregnant wife what happened.
"The feeling I had of just complete helplessness in the face of utter despair was soul-crushing." And he was the witness, the person actually detained.
Ben Bozeman joins @timmiller.bsky.social to discuss the ICE detention of a corrections officer recruit in Maine:
Ben Bozeman joins @timmiller.bsky.social to discuss the ICE detention of a corrections officer recruit in Maine:
January 24, 2026 at 2:30 AM
There are real heroes appearing on a daily basis. Bozeman saw a man being ripped from his car. He watched & recorded as ICE drove off leaving the car, windows down, open to anyone. Bozeman found the man’s ID & address. He secured the car & then went to tell the victim’s pregnant wife what happened.
The original sin of this country was slavery and we continue to bathe in its poison. Generations are still taught that other cultures, other races are inferior and can be treated with contempt.
January 24, 2026 at 2:06 AM
The original sin of this country was slavery and we continue to bathe in its poison. Generations are still taught that other cultures, other races are inferior and can be treated with contempt.
This is beautiful. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.
In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
January 23, 2026 at 3:23 PM
This is beautiful. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The Board of Peace that Trump is setting up gives me both relief & new anxieties. Trump is setting this up so he can continue to be a world leader with power. That means he understands that his presidency ends in 3 years. Phew!
January 21, 2026 at 7:24 PM
The Board of Peace that Trump is setting up gives me both relief & new anxieties. Trump is setting this up so he can continue to be a world leader with power. That means he understands that his presidency ends in 3 years. Phew!
He insulted the PM & didn’t know they speak German in Switzerland. He completely mixed-up Greenland & Iceland. He spoke to this international VIP audience like they were MAGA. He also threatened Canada. This speech that should have been rigorously prepared was a disaster, because he is a disaster.
“Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.”
January 21, 2026 at 3:50 PM
He insulted the PM & didn’t know they speak German in Switzerland. He completely mixed-up Greenland & Iceland. He spoke to this international VIP audience like they were MAGA. He also threatened Canada. This speech that should have been rigorously prepared was a disaster, because he is a disaster.
There is no bottom to his narcissism.
Trump: "I was gonna call it the Gulf of Trump, but I thought I would be killed if I did that. I wanted to."
January 20, 2026 at 8:36 PM
There is no bottom to his narcissism.