Laura Dronen
@dronen.bsky.social
Comms and Digital with the North Dakota Democratic-NPL | IAMAW member | life-long Fargoan | watercolor painter | novice crocheter | widow
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."
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The Trump administration is going to try very hard not to release the complete September 2 video or accompanying documents. They're going to try not to release the complete Epstein files.
To which the response should be: No Kings. No Cover-ups.
To which the response should be: No Kings. No Cover-ups.
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The Trump administration is going to try very hard not to release the complete September 2 video or accompanying documents. They're going to try not to release the complete Epstein files.
To which the response should be: No Kings. No Cover-ups.
To which the response should be: No Kings. No Cover-ups.
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If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.
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legitimate military targets
December 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
legitimate military targets
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
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“table-sized”
December 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“table-sized”
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i kind of hate how much these guys can’t be bothered to dress themselves well or even visibly take care of themselves
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
i kind of hate how much these guys can’t be bothered to dress themselves well or even visibly take care of themselves
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It's also about an insane echelon of elite media that is totally indifferent to the basic facts of the people they lift up. She got a vasoline-lensed feature profile in the NYT weeks ago!
December 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It's also about an insane echelon of elite media that is totally indifferent to the basic facts of the people they lift up. She got a vasoline-lensed feature profile in the NYT weeks ago!
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KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
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Trump has pardoned people convicted of seditious conspiracy (Stewart Rhodes & Enrique Tarrio) and who have provided a vehicle for terrorists to exchange money (Binance CEO "CZ" Changpeng Zhao)
And at least ten of the people Trump has pardoned have been rearrested
And at least ten of the people Trump has pardoned have been rearrested
New in PN: The hysteria over Biden's pardons seems extra ridiculous now
"Trump has perverted the pardon power far beyond the most questionable actions of any other modern president, emboldening a diverse cast of crooked politicians and outright fraudsters in a new American age of corruption."
"Trump has perverted the pardon power far beyond the most questionable actions of any other modern president, emboldening a diverse cast of crooked politicians and outright fraudsters in a new American age of corruption."
The hysteria over Biden's pardons seems extra ridiculous now
Trump's abuse of the pardon power makes everything else look like child's play.
www.publicnotice.co
November 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Trump has pardoned people convicted of seditious conspiracy (Stewart Rhodes & Enrique Tarrio) and who have provided a vehicle for terrorists to exchange money (Binance CEO "CZ" Changpeng Zhao)
And at least ten of the people Trump has pardoned have been rearrested
And at least ten of the people Trump has pardoned have been rearrested
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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This is *depraved* -- glamor shots & an exculpatory feature for a woman who shit on the key central tenets of journalism, repeatedly.
NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!
NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This is *depraved* -- glamor shots & an exculpatory feature for a woman who shit on the key central tenets of journalism, repeatedly.
NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!
NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!
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GOP all year: “we will never negotiate with Democrats we own the whole government suck it!!”
GOP TODAY: “Gosh golly if they would just bail us out we’d be happy to negotiate why are they so unreasonable?”
Dems: “uh, here in dc to negotiate..”
GOP:
GOP TODAY: “Gosh golly if they would just bail us out we’d be happy to negotiate why are they so unreasonable?”
Dems: “uh, here in dc to negotiate..”
GOP:
two men are standing next to each other on a sidewalk and one of them is wearing a baseball jersey .
ALT: two men are standing next to each other on a sidewalk and one of them is wearing a baseball jersey .
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
GOP all year: “we will never negotiate with Democrats we own the whole government suck it!!”
GOP TODAY: “Gosh golly if they would just bail us out we’d be happy to negotiate why are they so unreasonable?”
Dems: “uh, here in dc to negotiate..”
GOP:
GOP TODAY: “Gosh golly if they would just bail us out we’d be happy to negotiate why are they so unreasonable?”
Dems: “uh, here in dc to negotiate..”
GOP:
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if @neguse.house.gov has to *rewrite your dumb question* about Donny’s shutdown on the fly? you absolutely suck at journalism www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/s/...
November 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
if @neguse.house.gov has to *rewrite your dumb question* about Donny’s shutdown on the fly? you absolutely suck at journalism www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/s/...
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And to be clear, most Dem-leaning pundits *also* discuss the bogieman rather than the reality. They are so far up the ass of DC conventional wisdom that the bogieman is more real than the reality to them. It's more real to *everyone* at this point.
November 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
And to be clear, most Dem-leaning pundits *also* discuss the bogieman rather than the reality. They are so far up the ass of DC conventional wisdom that the bogieman is more real than the reality to them. It's more real to *everyone* at this point.
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The reality of the Democratic Party -- what its elected officials actually do with the power they are given -- is almost entirely immaterial to US political discourse. Happens off-stage, basically.
Discourse is dominated by a kind of collective hallucination, a bogieman invented by its opponents.
Discourse is dominated by a kind of collective hallucination, a bogieman invented by its opponents.
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The reality of the Democratic Party -- what its elected officials actually do with the power they are given -- is almost entirely immaterial to US political discourse. Happens off-stage, basically.
Discourse is dominated by a kind of collective hallucination, a bogieman invented by its opponents.
Discourse is dominated by a kind of collective hallucination, a bogieman invented by its opponents.
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This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
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Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
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If you needed more proof that much of the pundit class covered the Harris campaign by listening to what the GOP was saying about it and not listening to campaign itself.
Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
November 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
If you needed more proof that much of the pundit class covered the Harris campaign by listening to what the GOP was saying about it and not listening to campaign itself.
Why am I getting Carson Wentz AI slop?!
October 31, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Why am I getting Carson Wentz AI slop?!
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once again, i think electoral college maps shape people's sense of political reality in incredibly destructive ways
It gets crazier. Source in Maryland Gov Wes Moore's admin tells me they informed Trump officials that the ailing counties were in Appalachia, and the Trump people were surprised to hear this!
(Supports @jamellebouie.net's point about MAGA's Balkanized vision of US)
newrepublic.com/article/2022...
(Supports @jamellebouie.net's point about MAGA's Balkanized vision of US)
newrepublic.com/article/2022...
October 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
once again, i think electoral college maps shape people's sense of political reality in incredibly destructive ways
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Elon Musk's involvement in politics really hurt Tesla sales.
"Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between October 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles."
"Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between October 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles."
October 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Elon Musk's involvement in politics really hurt Tesla sales.
"Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between October 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles."
"Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between October 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles."
This is who I picture when you say Winklevoss twins.
October 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is who I picture when you say Winklevoss twins.