LauraBird
@laurawordbird.bsky.social
Librarian, dog mom, chaos goblin
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LauraBird
@laurawordbird.bsky.social
· Jan 20
Been saying since 2017 that checks and balances only work if they actually like, check and balance shit.
Where are the people so fucking concerned about free speech on college campuses now that the president is threatening death for lawmakers he doesn't like?
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Where are the people so fucking concerned about free speech on college campuses now that the president is threatening death for lawmakers he doesn't like?
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A mutation in the flu virus means this year’s flu season is expected to be a bad one, potentially even worse than last year’s record-breaking season. www.huffpost.com/entry/severe...
Experts Are Sounding The Alarm On This Winter Virus — Here’s What You Should Know
It's currently starting to hit the United Kingdom and is also popping up in Canada and Japan.
www.huffpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A mutation in the flu virus means this year’s flu season is expected to be a bad one, potentially even worse than last year’s record-breaking season. www.huffpost.com/entry/severe...
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Just thinking about the part in the silly YA fantasy series THE HUNGER GAMES when it turned out the president was part of an elite sex-trafficking ring of often underage survivors and the other powerful people from the Capitol all knew about it. Fantasy!! What an imaginative genre!
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Just thinking about the part in the silly YA fantasy series THE HUNGER GAMES when it turned out the president was part of an elite sex-trafficking ring of often underage survivors and the other powerful people from the Capitol all knew about it. Fantasy!! What an imaginative genre!
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anyone who talks about birthrate decline in the West without mentioning immigration as a solution is a white supremacist.
Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
anyone who talks about birthrate decline in the West without mentioning immigration as a solution is a white supremacist.
Every accusation an admission etc
CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Every accusation an admission etc
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welcome back. if you're just joining us, nazis are defending pedophiles
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
welcome back. if you're just joining us, nazis are defending pedophiles
Spouse: we're not really going to get into people defending pedophilia to defend Trump territory are we?
Me: well, that's not NOT happening
Me: well, that's not NOT happening
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Spouse: we're not really going to get into people defending pedophilia to defend Trump territory are we?
Me: well, that's not NOT happening
Me: well, that's not NOT happening
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
Is the fighting in the room with us now, Chuck?
Schumer: "However this vote turns out, this fight will and must continue. Democrats must fight."
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Is the fighting in the room with us now, Chuck?
Wow, Dems really saw folks feeling hope for the first time in a year and were like "welp, that's enough of that".
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Wow, Dems really saw folks feeling hope for the first time in a year and were like "welp, that's enough of that".
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Democratic leadership:
YOU MUST VOTE HARDER.
Democratic voters:
VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Democratic leadership:
WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.
YOU MUST VOTE HARDER.
Democratic voters:
VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Democratic leadership:
WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Democratic leadership:
YOU MUST VOTE HARDER.
Democratic voters:
VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Democratic leadership:
WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.
YOU MUST VOTE HARDER.
Democratic voters:
VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Democratic leadership:
WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.
Uh. Yeah
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Uh. Yeah
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
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I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
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Republicans took away your healthcare. We refused to fight back. Please rush us $3
Can't wait for tomorrow's fundraising email from the Democratic Party.
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Republicans took away your healthcare. We refused to fight back. Please rush us $3
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if you see anyone expressing shock that a candidate who exudes warmth and authenticity and wants to improve the quality of life for working class people won over a rapist whose entire campaign was
"that guys a terrorist" that's not a smart person. you don't have to listen to that person anymore.
"that guys a terrorist" that's not a smart person. you don't have to listen to that person anymore.
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
if you see anyone expressing shock that a candidate who exudes warmth and authenticity and wants to improve the quality of life for working class people won over a rapist whose entire campaign was
"that guys a terrorist" that's not a smart person. you don't have to listen to that person anymore.
"that guys a terrorist" that's not a smart person. you don't have to listen to that person anymore.
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Just a reminder: senate republicans have “gone nuclear” twice in the last two months to ram through over 150 Trump appointees. Now they’re acting like they just learned about it.
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Just a reminder: senate republicans have “gone nuclear” twice in the last two months to ram through over 150 Trump appointees. Now they’re acting like they just learned about it.
Settle for letting the bar be in hell for long enough and suddenly the bar being above ground seems unfair.
I don’t understand why anyone’s debating this — a Nazi tattoo is a non starter, full stop.
This is a race for a U.S. Senate seat. The bar for candidates to clear doesn’t have to be insanely high, but it should at least be off the ground
This is a race for a U.S. Senate seat. The bar for candidates to clear doesn’t have to be insanely high, but it should at least be off the ground
October 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Settle for letting the bar be in hell for long enough and suddenly the bar being above ground seems unfair.
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If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side
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they're getting on this website because they're running out of gas and understand that the juiciest segment of libs now exist on a platform that isn't owned by one of their oligarch allies. when faced with increasing uncertainty of their own power, all they understand is theatrics and the spectacle.
October 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
they're getting on this website because they're running out of gas and understand that the juiciest segment of libs now exist on a platform that isn't owned by one of their oligarch allies. when faced with increasing uncertainty of their own power, all they understand is theatrics and the spectacle.
Art reflects life reflects art reflects life
October 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Art reflects life reflects art reflects life
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Oh wow, Rolling Stone going appropriately hard here. I did not have that on my 2025 bingo card.
#LongCOVID
« Tout cela suggère une crise de santé publique qui se prépare pour une génération d'Américains. »
— @rollingstone.com
« Tout cela suggère une crise de santé publique qui se prépare pour une génération d'Américains. »
— @rollingstone.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Oh wow, Rolling Stone going appropriately hard here. I did not have that on my 2025 bingo card.
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The GOP’s “clean” continuing resolution is pretty dirty.
Because it goes to Nov 21.
But ACA open enrollment starts November 1. THREE WEEKS BEFORE.
So premiums would be locked in.
And by signing on, Dems would be giving up their main argument before negotiations even start.
That’s not “clean”.
Because it goes to Nov 21.
But ACA open enrollment starts November 1. THREE WEEKS BEFORE.
So premiums would be locked in.
And by signing on, Dems would be giving up their main argument before negotiations even start.
That’s not “clean”.
October 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The GOP’s “clean” continuing resolution is pretty dirty.
Because it goes to Nov 21.
But ACA open enrollment starts November 1. THREE WEEKS BEFORE.
So premiums would be locked in.
And by signing on, Dems would be giving up their main argument before negotiations even start.
That’s not “clean”.
Because it goes to Nov 21.
But ACA open enrollment starts November 1. THREE WEEKS BEFORE.
So premiums would be locked in.
And by signing on, Dems would be giving up their main argument before negotiations even start.
That’s not “clean”.