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Laura Jedeed
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Freelance Journalist, allegedly. Bylines: Politico, TNR, The Nation, Rolling Stone. I have a newsletter and you should read it: https://bannedinyourstate.com

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What is happening on this day
A version of the "friendship ended" meme with trump and Mamdani clasping hands with x's through two pictures of Marjorie Taylor Greene in each corner. Text: "friendship ended with MTG. Now Zohran is my best friend"
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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A very dorky teenager holding a katana Text: When You were partying The classics sex Language of metaphor I studied When you were having premarital I mastered While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity I cultivated Syntax and verse And now that the world is on fire and the barbarians are at the gate you have the audacity to come to me for help?
November 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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You know that one part of the Disney movie where everything starts going wrong for the villian and they start screaming uncontrollably at the henchmen and the protagonists and basically everyone because it's all crumbling around them?

It's very that
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 17m SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH! 872 1.02k 3.01k Avatar Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 1h This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP??? President DJT Avatar Washington Examiner @WashingtonExaminer · 12h Democratic veterans in Congress urge service members to refuse unspecified unlawful orders washingtonexaminer.com/policy/ www.washingtonexaminer.com Dem veterans in Congress urge service members to refuse unlawful orders None of the Democrats specified what illegal orders they should be concerned about or what to do if they believe they are given one.
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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This is Trump every single day now
wint @dril and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad. 11:42 PM · Dec 28, 2014
November 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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"Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre; and such a warre, as is of every man, against every man….."
An ink plate drawing of a very large man with a sword and staff, compromised of many smaller men, looking over a pastoral landscape with a castle on it. It is from the cover of Hobbes' Leviathan
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Looking into it
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November 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Fellas is it fascist to want to fight fascism because you believe your country has the potential to be a good place
Alice Faust ‪@alicefaust.bsky.social‬ Follow Holding the national myth above yourself, fascist rhetoric. ‪Laura Jedeed‬ ‪@laurajedeed.bsky.social‬ · 15h There's never been a country like our country. Born in blood and fire, founded in freedom and slavery We've never lived up to our big ideas but by God we've held onto those ideas for 250 years I'll die before I let those bastards kill my beautiful homeland
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Yes!! He was persuasive to Latino voters!!!!!! Is this a trick question?!
Of course, the Latino vote is large and diverse—spanning backgrounds, geography, and socioeconomics. Still, Trump made gains across the board. Of particular note, Trump won 47 percent of votes among Latino men, according to AP projections. He also produced double digit gains in majority-Hispanic counties along the Mexico border in Texas and in Southern Florida.
November 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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15-year-olds aren't "barely legal" it is literally illegal to fuck them

You know. Because they're children
Republican Accountability @AccountableGOP Megyn Kelly in 2018: " There's no consenting for a 14 or even a 17 year old." Megyn Kelly today: "Jeffrey Epstein…was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old." Pictures of a young Megyn Kelly and older Megyn Kelly speaking, it's a stillframe from a video
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Rosen is being very clear, but not in the way she might prefer. The six defectors told President Trump, in the most direct way possible, that if he hurts the American people badly enough, the Democrats will cave. He can get anything he wants from them by brutalizing the rest of us. This is why you do not negotiate with terrorists or give in to blackmail. Giving in buys a brief reprieve, sure, but all you've really done is shown your enemies that their tactics work. They'll be back, and their threats will escalate along with their demands. These soft- hearted moderates who surrendered to spare us pain have secured an iron-clad guarantee of far worse future suffering.
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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A scene from Lord of the Rings. A man holds the One Ring which is labeled "fascism." Elrond, labeled "Leftists," says "Cast it into the fire. Destroy it!" Isildur, labeled "Liberals," says "No, I can compromise with it"
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Again, these are all images I have saved from every time the Dems do the same fucking thing
A scorpion riding atop a frog. Text: "The scorpion won't sting me if I grovel and beg enough"
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Don't mind me, just going through my saved images folder and posting everything that applies this morning
Lucy yanking the football away from Charlie Brown. Lucy is labeled "right-wing media and politicians" while Charlie Brown is labled "Democrats with delusions of bipartisanship"
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Good morning
Comic: A donkey in a rumpled shirt and glasses peers at a clipboard as he talks to a man in a MAGA hat. Donkey: "Let's say we were to reduce the proposed spending for this bill by 15%. Hypothetically, could that be enough to earn your vote?" MAGA: "I literally believe you rape babies to death and drink their blood to live forever" Donkey: "I see. So...how about 20%"
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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We are on the cusp of finding out whether the Republicans want this shutdown to be indefinite
28 minutes ago Michael Gold Reporting from the Capitol Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, has not yet voted, and his vote would be needed for consideration of this spending measure to move forward.to be indefinite
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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We're never gonna reopen, are we
NEW YORK POST NOVEMBER 8, 2025 Trump urges Republicans to end Obamacare, send funds straight to 'the people' as gov't shutdown drags on President Trump is trying to turn up the heat on Congress to end the government shutdown, blasting off a pair of posts from Mar-a-Lago urging Senate Republicans to end the...
November 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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This is the most insane paragraph I've read in a mainstream paper maybe ever

Heritage Foundation authored Project 2025. Russ Vought was VP at Heritage Action. What in the literal fuck are you talking about
The turmoil has implications for more than Roberts's job. Founded in 1973, the Heritage Foundation has been a pillar of the conservative movement and was the ideological and policy engine behind the Reagan administration. But as Reagan's party transformed into Trump's, younger think tanks have gained traction with the donors and advisers closest to the president; this year, Heritage officials were mostly frozen out of senior roles. The issues at Heritage echo other battles at right-wing institutions and in the conservative movement that have been aggravated by Trump's embrace of people and views once relegated to the fringes of Republican politics.
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Just watched Trump cope and seethe for over an hour at the Florida Business Council and I personally think he should continue this strategy in a country where people are struggling to buy food
wint @dril ♡ turning a big dial taht says trans on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right 2:03 AM Mar 15, 2017
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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IT IS A GLORIOUS DAY IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF NEW YORK CITY, TOVARICH
A communist propaganda poster with a woman holding wheat and waving a scythe, and a man holding what appears to be an atom and waving a hammer. The hammer and sickle cross to form the, well. Hammer and sickle
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Nick Fuentes is getting the bad boy treatment from the New York Times, which means it is once again time to shout into the wilderness about his creepy goblin hands
Nick Fuentes doing his weird little show in a shit and tie. One of his hands is outstretched and both the palms and fingers are long and creepy, or at least I think so Fuentes has his hands down on the desk and again, creepy fingers imo Nick Fuentes saluting and you can really see how strange his overly long palm is and how oddly angled his fingers are Michelle Goldberg writes: Nick Fuentes was Charlie Kirk's Bitter Enemy. Now He's Becoming His Successor There is a picture of Fuentes that has to be retouched because this mf simply does not look like that. Vaguely movie star, cheekbones, the whole nine yards. Unrecognizable
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Bringing sadomasochistic epistemology to the masses again
Diane Yap @RealDianeYap Oct 31 The point of EBT is to ensure people don't starve to death. That's it. Even if we agree that's a worthwhile goal, it can be achieved with Nutraloaf. Nutraloaf provides the correct incentives: you won't starve and you'll be motivated to earn enough money to eat real food again. A screenshot with a picture of a truly revolting block of food on a paper plate, with text: Nutraloaf Food Nutraloaf is a bland, nutritionally complete food, often called "prison loaf," served to inmates who misbehave. It is made by blending various ingredients like vegetables, beans, and starches into a dense, unappetizing loaf that can be eaten without utensils. While @LauraJedeed Nov 1 ♡ Laura Jedeed This is such a weird thing to think about. I have to assume it is your fetish and I wish you would keep it to yourself C ♡ 140 2.1K Nov 1 Feudal Chinese... @jesuslov.. A fetish? Lady, you need some help 71 & ♡ Laura Jedeed @LauraJedeed Nov 1 It's not MY fetish, I'M not the one one-hand- typing about punishment food ♡ 49 A @jesuslov... • Nov 1 Feudal Chinese ... Literally nobody here brought that word up or so much as thought about it in association with this topic until you did, woman ♡ Laura Jedeed @LauraJedeed 9h I'm sorry you had to find out this way. Go ahead. Look up "bdsm nutraloaf" and see what happens C 18 & Feudal Chinese Fr... @jesusloves... Oh my God. I wouldn't have thought those combination of words was possible but you already searched them up beforehand? You really are one sick puppy... 10 @LauraJedeed 1m Laura Jedeed Don't shoot the messenger If someone is talking about overt cruelty towards someone there is a 100% chance that [concept] BDSM will hit in the search results. This works every time, I encourage you to try it for yourself next time
November 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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WaPo sent me a survey this morning so I'm sending some constructive feedback
The Washington Post What new features or benefits would make your subscription more valuable? You should consider a feature where billionaires don't control the editorial section and where your coverage reverts to the hard-hitting journalism of a couple years ago so that I can stop explaining to my friends and acquaintances that I have to have a subscription for work and that if I could cancel I would do so yesterday Democracy dies in darkness indeed. The Washington Post Please indicate your first name and last initial. First name Laura Last Initial J Thank you for your time. Please leave any additional comments about your Washington Post subscription. Es not too late to be a real newspaper agam Please call 1-800-477-4679 or submit a request online if you have any immediate service or billing issues
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Anyway I think if I accidentally put a Nazi symbol on my chest and kept it there for 18 years I would be a lot less whiny and a lot more embarrassed but I'm built different I guess
Maine @TheMaineWonk “I am running as a Democrat, despite my party trying to destroy my life.” Platner to a room full of 700 Mainers in the town of Damariscotta, population: 2200. A picture of an aggrieved and scruffy Platner in a sweatshirt; a different pictuer of a bunch of older white people sitting in a large gathering place
October 29, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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A Very Serious Organization clearly
The Coolidge Reagan Foundation – which has previously lodged complaints against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee – urged Bragg and the DOJ to investigate and prosecute Mamdani over the potentially illegal campaign cash, which flowed in from Australia, Turkey, France, Canada, Germany and other countries.
October 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Here's another fun law of politics: that underlined number really needs to stay low. If you hold high office, you don't want that number, specifically, to get too high

9.1% isn't good but it's not catastrophic. Let's see how that goes if things continue like this
Text. Underlined position designated by stars on either end Millions of U.S. Gen Zers are not in employment, education, or training, but American men are struggling to find opportunities more than women are. *Currently 9.1% of men ages 20 to 24 are unemployed* compared to just 7.2% of women, a gap that’s persisted since the thick of the pandemic. As more women funnel into AI-proof industries like health care, men are still on the hunt for jobs in tech and financial services slowly being overtaken by automation.
October 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM