Lauren
@laurenwallace.bsky.social
Policy. Leftie. Scorpio. Tiramisu enthusiast. Crocheting is my new personality. Thoughts are my own.
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Our laid off colleagues are officially no longer with the Law Center as of last month, but we’re doing one last push to raise money to support them through our mutual aid fund.
December 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Our laid off colleagues are officially no longer with the Law Center as of last month, but we’re doing one last push to raise money to support them through our mutual aid fund.
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Sean Astin has been elected as the new President of the actors union SAG-AFTRA
September 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Sean Astin has been elected as the new President of the actors union SAG-AFTRA
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One week ago—with half an hour of notice given to the union, and in the midst of bargaining for our second contract—the National Women’s Law Center announced it would be eliminating 20% of staff, laying off 32 of our colleagues (including 21 members of our unit).
September 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
One week ago—with half an hour of notice given to the union, and in the midst of bargaining for our second contract—the National Women’s Law Center announced it would be eliminating 20% of staff, laying off 32 of our colleagues (including 21 members of our unit).
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This is telling: People I spoke to are talking about CDC in the past tense.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say
"I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.
www.statnews.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is telling: People I spoke to are talking about CDC in the past tense.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
3 more days…hopefully
August 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
3 more days…hopefully
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this is just straight-up dictatorship and it’s repulsive and pathetic our newspapers and TV stations still won’t say so. there is no emergency. there is no precedent for this in US history. Trump is establishing military and paramilitary control of the capital
August 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
this is just straight-up dictatorship and it’s repulsive and pathetic our newspapers and TV stations still won’t say so. there is no emergency. there is no precedent for this in US history. Trump is establishing military and paramilitary control of the capital
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🚨 ALERT🚨 DC Police (MPD) has announced that they will start collaborating with ICE at traffic checkpoints. What does this mean 👉🏽
August 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🚨 ALERT🚨 DC Police (MPD) has announced that they will start collaborating with ICE at traffic checkpoints. What does this mean 👉🏽
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Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
With @texastribune.org
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
With @texastribune.org
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers
Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney…
www.propublica.org
August 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
With @texastribune.org
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
With @texastribune.org
A pox on all their houses
Bondi: "Our secret weapon here in DC is US Attorney Jeanine Pirro"
August 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A pox on all their houses
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For people who don’t know DC, this is less than the crowd on the Constitution Avenue *sidewalk* on a normal Saturday in June, July, or August.
June 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
For people who don’t know DC, this is less than the crowd on the Constitution Avenue *sidewalk* on a normal Saturday in June, July, or August.
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Two of the most unstable guys getting into a fight isn’t a distraction, this is just something they do, don’t be a nerd
June 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Two of the most unstable guys getting into a fight isn’t a distraction, this is just something they do, don’t be a nerd
It’s confirmed. I’m officially 5’8”.
June 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It’s confirmed. I’m officially 5’8”.
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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
I never doubted my ability to count until I started doing tapestry crochet.
May 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I never doubted my ability to count until I started doing tapestry crochet.
Everytime I get on TikTok it’s just people being anti-Black…y’all are exhausting.
May 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Everytime I get on TikTok it’s just people being anti-Black…y’all are exhausting.
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If you were curious about how Ryan Coogler and his team constructed that musical sequence in Sinners, here’s a clip of him explaining it.
(Via The NY Times 😒)
(Via The NY Times 😒)
May 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If you were curious about how Ryan Coogler and his team constructed that musical sequence in Sinners, here’s a clip of him explaining it.
(Via The NY Times 😒)
(Via The NY Times 😒)
Why is lesbian shit generally not that good. Good ideas, but poor execution. We deserve amazing content at least some of the time. But there’s something always missing…
April 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Why is lesbian shit generally not that good. Good ideas, but poor execution. We deserve amazing content at least some of the time. But there’s something always missing…
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ah so now that it's been demonstrated that these drugs produce across-the-board reductions in mortality, we will *take them away* because all the fat shaming was never about health at all
AND ALSO: www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/... "We will no longer offer help for to become what we tell you you have to be, because we literally want you to fail so that y'all will just die, already."
April 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
ah so now that it's been demonstrated that these drugs produce across-the-board reductions in mortality, we will *take them away* because all the fat shaming was never about health at all
Loneliness is not having someone I can talk to who played The Last of Us Part II and is currently watching the HBO series.
April 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Loneliness is not having someone I can talk to who played The Last of Us Part II and is currently watching the HBO series.
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LOVE. TO. SEE. IT.
April 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
LOVE. TO. SEE. IT.
I had no idea Michael B. Jordan had a twin...Das crazy!
April 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I had no idea Michael B. Jordan had a twin...Das crazy!
Wow...someone just told me that JD Vance killed the Pope...that's crazy.
April 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Wow...someone just told me that JD Vance killed the Pope...that's crazy.
So the guy with the biggest ego in the galaxy, the one who thinks he’s the most powerful person on the planet, doesn’t have the power to call up a country and bring a man home. When are people going to stop being fooled by this guy?
April 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
So the guy with the biggest ego in the galaxy, the one who thinks he’s the most powerful person on the planet, doesn’t have the power to call up a country and bring a man home. When are people going to stop being fooled by this guy?