lauriekins.bsky.social
@lauriekins.bsky.social
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BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.
August 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)
August 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Big fan of democracy but we'll have to admit it's an L of historic proportions to get subverted and destroyed not by some strategic genius but by possibly the dumbest man on earth
July 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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rfk jr's attitude toward anyone or thing that gets sick is "if he dies, he dies."
RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread (Gift Article)
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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When even Nancy Pelosi is saying Schumer fucked up, Schumer fucked up!
March 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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We should view the hypermajority of DOGE “savings” in one of three categories:

1) totally fake, but PR for Musk - like he always does
2) real, but super harmful cuts - like stopping cancer & Alzheimer’s research
3) ironically *creating* waste - bcuz contracts will eventually be paid, w/ penalties
February 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Hearing that @indivisible.org and @moveon.org are pissing off house dems by mobilizing their constituents to call them too much is frankly the single best endorsement I've ever heard for a political action groups.
February 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Steve Bannon pleads guilty to defrauding donors in a fundraising effort to build a wall along the southern US border, but he won't face jail time
Steve Bannon pleads guilty to defrauding voters in private border wall scheme | CNN Politics
Conservative firebrand Steve Bannon pleaded guilty to defrauding donors in a fundraising effort to build a wall along the southern US border in a deal that allowed him to avoid prison.
www.cnn.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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As far as what this means, the sky’s the limit as long as you’re willing the break the law - and the Trump administration has been aggressively breaking the law here
February 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Here's another free piece of strategic advice which is definitely worth what you paid for it. Stop yelling into the Bluesky void about how you don't like how your members of Congress are communicating (I mean, if you enjoy doing that, sure, but it's not effective). Instead do this one weird trick:
January 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
@cmere.bsky.social I need you to know that the new TZP Lacoste campaign is making me think of the Poem You Make of Me soooo hard
January 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week

and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it
January 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM