Lauren Barnhart
@laurenrbarnhart.bsky.social
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I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
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Clearly RFK Jr. is not aware the individual pediatricians he thinks parents should discuss vaccines with are the same pediatricians who have been collectively calling out his bull$hit for decades.
Vaccines are safe and effective.
Pass it on.
Vaccines are safe and effective.
Pass it on.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Clearly RFK Jr. is not aware the individual pediatricians he thinks parents should discuss vaccines with are the same pediatricians who have been collectively calling out his bull$hit for decades.
Vaccines are safe and effective.
Pass it on.
Vaccines are safe and effective.
Pass it on.
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All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
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More people have died in ICE detention in 2025 than any year since 2004.
The government has a legal and moral obligation to provide people in its custody with medical care and livable conditions.
The government has a legal and moral obligation to provide people in its custody with medical care and livable conditions.
Four ICE detainee deaths in four days spark alarm as arrests grow
At least 30 detainees have died in 2025, prompting concerns about deteriorating conditions at facilities even as the agency has received an infusion of cash from Congress.
wapo.st
December 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
More people have died in ICE detention in 2025 than any year since 2004.
The government has a legal and moral obligation to provide people in its custody with medical care and livable conditions.
The government has a legal and moral obligation to provide people in its custody with medical care and livable conditions.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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Denying infants a safe and effective Hepatitis B vaccine at birth in Guinea-Bissau, where ~19% of adults are currently infected with Hepatitis B, is akin to the Tuskegee Syphilis Study where black men with syphilis were deliberately left untreated to study the natural progression of disease.
December 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Denying infants a safe and effective Hepatitis B vaccine at birth in Guinea-Bissau, where ~19% of adults are currently infected with Hepatitis B, is akin to the Tuskegee Syphilis Study where black men with syphilis were deliberately left untreated to study the natural progression of disease.
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there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
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As we welcome white Afrikaners from South Africa and deny entry to any other refugees. There is nothing subtle about what is happening here.
The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent.
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:19 AM
As we welcome white Afrikaners from South Africa and deny entry to any other refugees. There is nothing subtle about what is happening here.
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FRIDAY REMINDER: I am an independent legal journalist. Law Dork is my full-time job and how I do this work — here and there.
There's a lot of middling or worse legal coverage out there, but I think I do a pretty good job — and give you the docs to decide for yourself.
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There's a lot of middling or worse legal coverage out there, but I think I do a pretty good job — and give you the docs to decide for yourself.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
FRIDAY REMINDER: I am an independent legal journalist. Law Dork is my full-time job and how I do this work — here and there.
There's a lot of middling or worse legal coverage out there, but I think I do a pretty good job — and give you the docs to decide for yourself.
Subscribe: www.lawdork.com
There's a lot of middling or worse legal coverage out there, but I think I do a pretty good job — and give you the docs to decide for yourself.
Subscribe: www.lawdork.com
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Don’t look away. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
December 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Don’t look away. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
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immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
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John James Witherspoon, fallen in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
"He was proud to fulfill his greatest heart’s desire to serve & we are so proud of him." "He was there to defend the freedom, sovereignty, and ancestral lands of innocent people; compared it to our history as Native Americans." #3E
"He was proud to fulfill his greatest heart’s desire to serve & we are so proud of him." "He was there to defend the freedom, sovereignty, and ancestral lands of innocent people; compared it to our history as Native Americans." #3E
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
John James Witherspoon, fallen in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
"He was proud to fulfill his greatest heart’s desire to serve & we are so proud of him." "He was there to defend the freedom, sovereignty, and ancestral lands of innocent people; compared it to our history as Native Americans." #3E
"He was proud to fulfill his greatest heart’s desire to serve & we are so proud of him." "He was there to defend the freedom, sovereignty, and ancestral lands of innocent people; compared it to our history as Native Americans." #3E
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If your origins are Southern Italian, Irish, Polish etc. some version of this claim - the immigrant is a criminal underclass incompatible with the true Americans - has been around forever. They hate that the idea of America is more important than any group.
Stephen Miller: "If Somalia keeps failing, if these societies all over the world continue to fail, you have to ask yourself if you bring those societies into our country & then give them unlimited free welfare, what do we think is going to happen? You're going to replicate the conditions they left"
December 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
If your origins are Southern Italian, Irish, Polish etc. some version of this claim - the immigrant is a criminal underclass incompatible with the true Americans - has been around forever. They hate that the idea of America is more important than any group.
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RFK Jr. has thoughts about breastfeeding.
I have thoughts about paid parental leave.
I have thoughts about paid parental leave.
December 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
RFK Jr. has thoughts about breastfeeding.
I have thoughts about paid parental leave.
I have thoughts about paid parental leave.
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Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
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NEW: The DOJ will potentially treat opponents of Trump’s policies as “domestic terrorists,” according to a leaked memo. The move appears to represent the department’s first attempt to implement Trump’s calls to target left-wing activists and others who protest his policies.
Leaked Memo: DOJ To List, Target Anti-Trump Activists as ‘Domestic Terrorists’
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
NEW: The DOJ will potentially treat opponents of Trump’s policies as “domestic terrorists,” according to a leaked memo. The move appears to represent the department’s first attempt to implement Trump’s calls to target left-wing activists and others who protest his policies.
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BREAKING: Advice for new moms from old white men. 🤰
Look, we are all about breastfeeding. We think it’s the right choice for women who can, especially in the first 6m. But if you cannot breastfeed your baby, using formula is FINE.
Using formula doesn’t make you a bad mom. Listening to 🧠🪱 may.
Look, we are all about breastfeeding. We think it’s the right choice for women who can, especially in the first 6m. But if you cannot breastfeed your baby, using formula is FINE.
Using formula doesn’t make you a bad mom. Listening to 🧠🪱 may.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
BREAKING: Advice for new moms from old white men. 🤰
Look, we are all about breastfeeding. We think it’s the right choice for women who can, especially in the first 6m. But if you cannot breastfeed your baby, using formula is FINE.
Using formula doesn’t make you a bad mom. Listening to 🧠🪱 may.
Look, we are all about breastfeeding. We think it’s the right choice for women who can, especially in the first 6m. But if you cannot breastfeed your baby, using formula is FINE.
Using formula doesn’t make you a bad mom. Listening to 🧠🪱 may.
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“We are at war with Europe, not with Ukraine. This war will not end until we defeat Europe.”
If it acts like an aggressor, quacks like an aggressor, then it probably is russia.
They want to take over the entire continent. Take their word for it.
If it acts like an aggressor, quacks like an aggressor, then it probably is russia.
They want to take over the entire continent. Take their word for it.
December 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“We are at war with Europe, not with Ukraine. This war will not end until we defeat Europe.”
If it acts like an aggressor, quacks like an aggressor, then it probably is russia.
They want to take over the entire continent. Take their word for it.
If it acts like an aggressor, quacks like an aggressor, then it probably is russia.
They want to take over the entire continent. Take their word for it.
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84 years ago today: Pearl Harbor, the culmination and consequence of two decades of retreat into isolationism, nationalism, nativism, protectionism, and a refusal to defend democracy and confront the dictators.
We have started down that path again.
conversationswithbillkristol.org/conversation...
We have started down that path again.
conversationswithbillkristol.org/conversation...
Robert Kagan: Trump's Foreign Policy & The New World Disorder
On Trump’s foreign policy and the new world disorder
conversationswithbillkristol.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
84 years ago today: Pearl Harbor, the culmination and consequence of two decades of retreat into isolationism, nationalism, nativism, protectionism, and a refusal to defend democracy and confront the dictators.
We have started down that path again.
conversationswithbillkristol.org/conversation...
We have started down that path again.
conversationswithbillkristol.org/conversation...
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The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
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(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The WSJ confirms that in the leadup to Pete Hegseth's serial war crimes in the Caribbean, he made clear to commanders that our military code *was not to be followed*—no questions were to be asked of any orders. It led to the resignation of the top commander in the Caribbean.
Exclusive | Hegseth Asked Top Admiral to Resign After Months of Discord
The relationship between the Pentagon chief and Adm. Alvin Holsey had been rocky since Trump’s inauguration.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The WSJ confirms that in the leadup to Pete Hegseth's serial war crimes in the Caribbean, he made clear to commanders that our military code *was not to be followed*—no questions were to be asked of any orders. It led to the resignation of the top commander in the Caribbean.
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It's tedious to say: "You should know SOMETHING about US history. Especially if you are prez."
But Jesus H. Christ: These are *exactly* the slurs used on:
-German immigs from B Franklin time onward.
-Irish immig through 1800s.
-Italians/ Greeks/ Poles/ Jews in 1900s
-Asians/Africans/LatAms passim
But Jesus H. Christ: These are *exactly* the slurs used on:
-German immigs from B Franklin time onward.
-Irish immig through 1800s.
-Italians/ Greeks/ Poles/ Jews in 1900s
-Asians/Africans/LatAms passim
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
It's tedious to say: "You should know SOMETHING about US history. Especially if you are prez."
But Jesus H. Christ: These are *exactly* the slurs used on:
-German immigs from B Franklin time onward.
-Irish immig through 1800s.
-Italians/ Greeks/ Poles/ Jews in 1900s
-Asians/Africans/LatAms passim
But Jesus H. Christ: These are *exactly* the slurs used on:
-German immigs from B Franklin time onward.
-Irish immig through 1800s.
-Italians/ Greeks/ Poles/ Jews in 1900s
-Asians/Africans/LatAms passim
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One of the many things about this crowd that amazes and/or horrifies me is that they think they’re the first people to even encounter a situation or problem. There’s no history or experience. There’s just a guy with an MBA and a haircut saying, “I bet no one’s pushed this button before!”
I’m just a foreign policy wonk, standing in front of the GOP, asking them to read at least one fucking book about the history of US interventions in Latin America. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
One of the many things about this crowd that amazes and/or horrifies me is that they think they’re the first people to even encounter a situation or problem. There’s no history or experience. There’s just a guy with an MBA and a haircut saying, “I bet no one’s pushed this button before!”
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We're doing pogroms in America now
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
We're doing pogroms in America now
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Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara notes the MPD will not work with federal agents & says "In moments like this, I know how real the fear is in our community. People are going to want to speak out, protest, & exercise their 1st Amendment rights. We will absolutely defend people's right to do just that"
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara notes the MPD will not work with federal agents & says "In moments like this, I know how real the fear is in our community. People are going to want to speak out, protest, & exercise their 1st Amendment rights. We will absolutely defend people's right to do just that"