Layla
@laylalaughslast.bsky.social
Teacher. Writer. Many other things.
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while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
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AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
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I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.
It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.
It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.
Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?
October 30, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.
It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.
It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com
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*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
*goes back to work*
*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
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*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
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*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
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*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
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*checks the news* Oh ho--
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*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
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*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
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*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
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*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
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*checks the news* Oh ho--
August 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
*goes back to work*
*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
*goes back to work*
*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
*goes back to work*
*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
*goes back to work*
*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
*goes back to work*
*checks the news* Oh ho--
*goes back to work*
*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
*goes back to work*
*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
*goes back to work*
*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
*goes back to work*
*checks the news* Oh holy fuck.
*goes back to work*
*checks the news* Oh ho--
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This shit is so ANGER inducing and hitting me in a visceral place.
And you better fucking believe that if the white folks can sic the cops on a sitting representative and 20 year trial attorney for refusing to sign a piece of paper, they will do whatever they want to you.
And you better fucking believe that if the white folks can sic the cops on a sitting representative and 20 year trial attorney for refusing to sign a piece of paper, they will do whatever they want to you.
August 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This shit is so ANGER inducing and hitting me in a visceral place.
And you better fucking believe that if the white folks can sic the cops on a sitting representative and 20 year trial attorney for refusing to sign a piece of paper, they will do whatever they want to you.
And you better fucking believe that if the white folks can sic the cops on a sitting representative and 20 year trial attorney for refusing to sign a piece of paper, they will do whatever they want to you.
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Is that... a sandwich?
I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.
August 16, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Is that... a sandwich?
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Room key at the Watergate Hotel:
August 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Room key at the Watergate Hotel:
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Here is the deal.
The ugliness has been here since white colonizers arrived.
It didn’t start with Bork or Nixon.
Its always been.
The ugliness has been here since white colonizers arrived.
It didn’t start with Bork or Nixon.
Its always been.
August 14, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Here is the deal.
The ugliness has been here since white colonizers arrived.
It didn’t start with Bork or Nixon.
Its always been.
The ugliness has been here since white colonizers arrived.
It didn’t start with Bork or Nixon.
Its always been.
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Join Cascade PBS Tuesday, Sept. 16 for a free screening of the "Priced Out: Fear & resistance in WA mobile home parks" documentary at the University Place Pierce County Library. Check out more information and RSVP here:
Cascade PBS, Pierce Co. Library to host free documentary screening
Cascade PBS and the Pierce County Library District are hosting a free screening of Priced Out: Fear and resistance in WA mobile home parks. In the short documentary, the Cascade PBS investigative team...
www.cascadepbs.org
August 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Join Cascade PBS Tuesday, Sept. 16 for a free screening of the "Priced Out: Fear & resistance in WA mobile home parks" documentary at the University Place Pierce County Library. Check out more information and RSVP here:
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It's crazy how many "gang members" have been providing our food and building our homes and whatnot.
August 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
It's crazy how many "gang members" have been providing our food and building our homes and whatnot.
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8/12/25 is the 8th anniversary of the Charlottesville rally that resulted in the death of Heather Heyer, 2 others, + traumatic injuries to many more. Remembering is, in itself, a politically significant act, particularly in the present environment, so, while the statue is gone, the memory lives on.
August 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
8/12/25 is the 8th anniversary of the Charlottesville rally that resulted in the death of Heather Heyer, 2 others, + traumatic injuries to many more. Remembering is, in itself, a politically significant act, particularly in the present environment, so, while the statue is gone, the memory lives on.
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I disagree with a lot of people I really respect at this moment. I don't see the situation in the U.S. as they do. I think that people are refusing to land the fascism plane because they don't want to start actually thinking through what that means.
August 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I disagree with a lot of people I really respect at this moment. I don't see the situation in the U.S. as they do. I think that people are refusing to land the fascism plane because they don't want to start actually thinking through what that means.
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the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
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A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military.
And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
August 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military.
And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
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📌It's amazing how little attention this is getting, when it's crystal clear these anti-American, fascist Republicans would prefer nobody ever voted again.
Pretend what the unrelenting backlash would have been had ANYBODY in the Biden administration posted this.
Pretend what the unrelenting backlash would have been had ANYBODY in the Biden administration posted this.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted the video profiling Christian Nationalist Pastor Doug Wilson, who opposes same-sex marriage.
www.npr.org
August 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
📌It's amazing how little attention this is getting, when it's crystal clear these anti-American, fascist Republicans would prefer nobody ever voted again.
Pretend what the unrelenting backlash would have been had ANYBODY in the Biden administration posted this.
Pretend what the unrelenting backlash would have been had ANYBODY in the Biden administration posted this.
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The EPA said it will stop updating a database that companies use to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions from their supply chains. In July, EPA suspended the database's lead scientist because he signed a letter criticizing the Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/c...
August 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The EPA said it will stop updating a database that companies use to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions from their supply chains. In July, EPA suspended the database's lead scientist because he signed a letter criticizing the Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/c...
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Absolute fucking bullshit.
The U.S. Air Force is denying early retirement to all transgender service members with between 15 and 18 years of military service, opting instead to force them out with no retirement benefits, according to a memo seen by Reuters.
Air Force denies early retirement for group of transgender service members
The move is the latest escalation by the Trump administration as it seeks to bar transgender individuals from joining the U.S. military and remove all who are currently serving.
nbcnews.to
August 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Absolute fucking bullshit.
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Where is this version of Florida?
August 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Where is this version of Florida?