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Lauren Stokes McClurg
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Trying to survive the next 4 years. Here for wisdom. Here for some sarcasm and humor too.
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The next time someone tells you that America isn’t a sick & racist country, just remind them that this nation is willing to accept treason, rape, and child abuse from a white president but not healthcare from a Black one.
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Call them!
Every Republican member of the Senate & House caused the stock market crash & predicted recession by refusing to use Congress’s constitutional authority over all tariffs to block the illegal Trump tariffs.

Tonight @ Last Word @ msnbc 10pm
April 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Every Republican member of the Senate & House caused the stock market crash & predicted recession by refusing to use Congress’s constitutional authority over all tariffs to block the illegal Trump tariffs.

Tonight @ Last Word @ msnbc 10pm
April 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I am so angry!
This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.
April 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.
April 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Absolutely correct!
We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.
April 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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March 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Fantastic thread…heartwarming and hopeful in the helltimes!
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Exactly!
The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.
March 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I’m sick! This feels like November 5th.
How badly do you have to fuck up being the Democratic leader that Trump is praising and congratulating you????
Trump congratulates @schumer.senate.gov on voting for the CR. Pathetic.
March 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.
March 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Someone please explain how anyone can be undecided about what is happening to our democracy. I get the 33% are MAGA and the 19% are complicit Republicans but undecided? Coma patients?
February 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This event got canceled because hundreds in our community emailed and called and demanded we would not sit quietly by and allow it to happen.
Meanwhile in my neck of the woods the insurrectionists are being celebrated.
February 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I voted for democracy today! @joshweil.bsky.social
February 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Is Bannon also autistic?
BREAKING: Steve Bannon just did a Nazi salute at CPAC.

THEY ARE TELLING YOU WHO THEY ARE!
February 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Meanwhile in my neck of the woods the insurrectionists are being celebrated.
February 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Soon to become another top reason young women will choose not to marry.
February 17, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.

How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65

Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
February 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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House Republicans unveiled their budget plan this week.

Here's the summary.

Step 1: Take billions from health care and kids' food.

Step 2: Give the money in tax cuts to the rich.

Step 3: Profit.
February 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I wonder if John Roberts is enjoying his breakfast this morning.
February 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I guess we have figured out the statement “I’ll just be a dictator on day one” actually meant “I’ll be a dictator starting from day one”.
February 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
In all the chaos this is your friendly reminder that women have been stripped of the right of bodily autonomy and therefore full citizenship.
February 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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So he has an EO to root out “ anti-Christian” bias. Isn’t that sort of DEI for Christian nationalists ?
February 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM