Lauren Byrne
@laurenbyrne.bsky.social
Avid learner, love being outside, reading, swimming, mushroom foraging, and family. Opposed to war. #genjones
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. And Godspeed to all those breaking bread with mixed political families. 🙏🏽🧡🍁
#SNLThanksgiving
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#SNLThanksgiving
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A Thanksgiving Miracle - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. And Godspeed to all those breaking bread with mixed political families. 🙏🏽🧡🍁
#SNLThanksgiving
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#SNLThanksgiving
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👏👏 Damn right, call him on his BS.
Arizona attorney general threatens legal action against Mike Johnson for failing to seat Adelita Grijalva
The Democrat accused Johnson of playing “political games” by delaying the swearing-in ceremony.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
👏👏 Damn right, call him on his BS.
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If military equipment breaks, our service members shouldn't have to wait around for greedy military contractors to fly out and overcharge us to repair it.
I’ve got a bipartisan bill to put a stop to this. Let's get it done.
I’ve got a bipartisan bill to put a stop to this. Let's get it done.
August 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If military equipment breaks, our service members shouldn't have to wait around for greedy military contractors to fly out and overcharge us to repair it.
I’ve got a bipartisan bill to put a stop to this. Let's get it done.
I’ve got a bipartisan bill to put a stop to this. Let's get it done.
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Demonstrators gather around Washington, D.C.'s to protest the federal government's takeover.
August 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Demonstrators gather around Washington, D.C.'s to protest the federal government's takeover.
Trump fires US Labor Department's statistical leader after weaker than expected jobs report - www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Trump fires US Labor Department's statistical leader after weaker than expected jobs report
U.S President Donald Trump on Friday ordered that the commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika L. McEntarfer, be fired after data showed employment growth was weaker than expected last month.
www.reuters.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Trump fires US Labor Department's statistical leader after weaker than expected jobs report - www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Statement by Weijia Jiang on behalf of the WHCA on Trump excluding the @wsj.com from the White House press pool as punishment for its coverage:
July 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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#HaikuSaturday #haiku
5/7/5:
skimming the water
a small darting spark of green--
hawkpond dragonfly
short form:
a green
darting spark--
hawkpond dragonfly
Please add a version if you feel like it.
5/7/5:
skimming the water
a small darting spark of green--
hawkpond dragonfly
short form:
a green
darting spark--
hawkpond dragonfly
Please add a version if you feel like it.
June 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
#HaikuSaturday #haiku
5/7/5:
skimming the water
a small darting spark of green--
hawkpond dragonfly
short form:
a green
darting spark--
hawkpond dragonfly
Please add a version if you feel like it.
5/7/5:
skimming the water
a small darting spark of green--
hawkpond dragonfly
short form:
a green
darting spark--
hawkpond dragonfly
Please add a version if you feel like it.
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“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” -Steve Martin
June 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” -Steve Martin
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Why are these harsh immigration operations only happening in Blue states? You mean there are NO undocumented immigrants working anywhere in South Dakota or Florida or Texas? 🤔
June 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Why are these harsh immigration operations only happening in Blue states? You mean there are NO undocumented immigrants working anywhere in South Dakota or Florida or Texas? 🤔
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This is why healthcare is too expensive.
"Here’s a wild-but-true factoid: 10 of the 20 largest companies on the new Fortune 500 list derive profit from the 340B program. I guess you can’t throw off tens of billions of profits without titans of industry figuring out how to get their hands on it."
"Here’s a wild-but-true factoid: 10 of the 20 largest companies on the new Fortune 500 list derive profit from the 340B program. I guess you can’t throw off tens of billions of profits without titans of industry figuring out how to get their hands on it."
June 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This is why healthcare is too expensive.
"Here’s a wild-but-true factoid: 10 of the 20 largest companies on the new Fortune 500 list derive profit from the 340B program. I guess you can’t throw off tens of billions of profits without titans of industry figuring out how to get their hands on it."
"Here’s a wild-but-true factoid: 10 of the 20 largest companies on the new Fortune 500 list derive profit from the 340B program. I guess you can’t throw off tens of billions of profits without titans of industry figuring out how to get their hands on it."
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I have a special, extra edition of the Status Kuo today that addresses the situation in LA and Trump’s federalization of 2,000 members of the National Guard.
Time to brush up on Title 10, the Posse Comitatus Act, the Insurrection Act, and more! open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
Time to brush up on Title 10, the Posse Comitatus Act, the Insurrection Act, and more! open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
Trump Deployed the National Guard. But What Does That Mean?
Title 10 federalization, the Insurrection Act and Posse Comitatus
open.substack.com
June 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I have a special, extra edition of the Status Kuo today that addresses the situation in LA and Trump’s federalization of 2,000 members of the National Guard.
Time to brush up on Title 10, the Posse Comitatus Act, the Insurrection Act, and more! open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
Time to brush up on Title 10, the Posse Comitatus Act, the Insurrection Act, and more! open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
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Gina Ortiz Jones, a Filipino American who served as under secretary of the Air Force during the Biden administration, won a runoff election on Saturday to become the mayor of San Antonio, making her the first openly gay leader of the seventh-largest city in the country.
Gina Ortiz Jones, a Progressive, Is Elected San Antonio’s Mayor
Ms. Jones, a former under secretary of the Air Force under the Biden administration, prevailed over Rolando Pablos, a conservative with ties with to Gov. Greg Abbott.
trib.al
June 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Gina Ortiz Jones, a Filipino American who served as under secretary of the Air Force during the Biden administration, won a runoff election on Saturday to become the mayor of San Antonio, making her the first openly gay leader of the seventh-largest city in the country.
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Hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians marched in silence outside the Israeli Defense Ministry, holding portraits of Palestinian children killed in Israel’s war on Gaza.
June 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians marched in silence outside the Israeli Defense Ministry, holding portraits of Palestinian children killed in Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Forever President!🇺🇸
May 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Forever President!🇺🇸
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Why the FUCK did SIXTEEN Democratic Senators just vote for Trump’s crypto-coin bill?!?!
WHY IS EVERYONE CORRUPT?!?
WHY IS EVERYONE CORRUPT?!?
May 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Why the FUCK did SIXTEEN Democratic Senators just vote for Trump’s crypto-coin bill?!?!
WHY IS EVERYONE CORRUPT?!?
WHY IS EVERYONE CORRUPT?!?
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Germany's "Gestapo Law" said that if someone was arrested by the Gestapo that the administrative courts could not get involved. That means they denied people a chance to be heard by a court---habeas corpus. That is what ICE/Homeland Security is doing to people, so they are acting like the Gestapo.
May 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Germany's "Gestapo Law" said that if someone was arrested by the Gestapo that the administrative courts could not get involved. That means they denied people a chance to be heard by a court---habeas corpus. That is what ICE/Homeland Security is doing to people, so they are acting like the Gestapo.
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May 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Sen. Bernie Sanders urged CBS News parent company Paramount not to settle the $20 billion lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump.
In a letter to Paramount’s lead shareholder, Shari Redstone, Sanders argued that settling would be “a grave mistake.” wapo.st/4k9pK9H
In a letter to Paramount’s lead shareholder, Shari Redstone, Sanders argued that settling would be “a grave mistake.” wapo.st/4k9pK9H
May 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Sen. Bernie Sanders urged CBS News parent company Paramount not to settle the $20 billion lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump.
In a letter to Paramount’s lead shareholder, Shari Redstone, Sanders argued that settling would be “a grave mistake.” wapo.st/4k9pK9H
In a letter to Paramount’s lead shareholder, Shari Redstone, Sanders argued that settling would be “a grave mistake.” wapo.st/4k9pK9H
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Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday plans to sign an executive order to restrict the mass collection and sharing of autism-related data for Illinois residents, in response to the country’s top health secretary’s rhetoric around the cause of autism.
In response to RFK Jr., Pritzker to sign first in nation executive order protecting autism data
The governor's office said the executive order is in response to rising concerns about efforts to create federal autism registries or databases without legal safeguards or accountability.
buff.ly
May 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday plans to sign an executive order to restrict the mass collection and sharing of autism-related data for Illinois residents, in response to the country’s top health secretary’s rhetoric around the cause of autism.
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