Laurent
@lcindc.bsky.social
Historian by training. Career in a completely different field but still interested in it. Other interests: opera, Saint-Simon, Proust, US politics (such as they are), many tv shows. Franco-American in DC.🇺🇲🇲🇫🏳️🌈
This kind of comment is so tiresome. He doesn't act like this because he is a man. He acts like this because he is a moron and an asshole. They come in both genders. The opposite as well.
September 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This kind of comment is so tiresome. He doesn't act like this because he is a man. He acts like this because he is a moron and an asshole. They come in both genders. The opposite as well.
Canceled my Hulu subscription. Interestingly, I didn't get an option to explain why. Just some preset reasons (I'm cheap, I'm poor, this service is too good for me, etc.)
September 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Canceled my Hulu subscription. Interestingly, I didn't get an option to explain why. Just some preset reasons (I'm cheap, I'm poor, this service is too good for me, etc.)
Well, I work next door to City Center. I was never afraid until now, but the thought that I could run into him on my way to or from work is pretty terrifying, tbh.
IIRC Stephen Miller lives right over CityCenterDC, which is a luxury mall right downtown. So he’s either lying about his own experience downtown or he’s the biggest little pissbaby imaginable.
Stephen Miller on DC residents: "For the first time in their lives, they can use the parks, they can walk on the streets. You have people who can walk freely at night without having to worry about being robbed or mugged. They are wearing their watches again."
August 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Well, I work next door to City Center. I was never afraid until now, but the thought that I could run into him on my way to or from work is pretty terrifying, tbh.
Fox News finds it profitable because lots and lots of people are thirsty for it. Fox News is a symptom, not a cause.
June 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Fox News finds it profitable because lots and lots of people are thirsty for it. Fox News is a symptom, not a cause.
The average American has 3 friends
May 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The average American has 3 friends
I wonder if Trump will be sending troops, in a kind of Bizarro 1956...
Orban gets rushed out of Budapest in a motorcade as his attempt to outlaw protests is totally ignored.
Putin's puppet is likely finished. Just a matter of time now.
Putin's puppet is likely finished. Just a matter of time now.
April 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I wonder if Trump will be sending troops, in a kind of Bizarro 1956...
That'd be good, but when you're a movement that's 99% cosplaying moral superiority on the internet, it's not really an option.
March 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
That'd be good, but when you're a movement that's 99% cosplaying moral superiority on the internet, it's not really an option.
Have they issued a statement yet to explain that they won't seek accountability for the Signal scandal because they're "focused on kitchen table issues and are working across the aisle on bipartisan solutions that work for all Americans?"
Senate Democrats are STILL voting to confirm Trump’s henchmen!
JFC. What is it going to take for these idiots to wake up and find their spines?
JFC. What is it going to take for these idiots to wake up and find their spines?
The Dems who just voted to confirm Trump's Navy Secretary, John Phelan:
Coons (DE)
Cortez Masto (NV)
Gallego (AZ)
Hassan (NH)
Hickenlooper (CO)
Kaine (VA)
Kelly (AZ)
King (ME)
Reed (RI)
Rosen (NV)
Shaheen (NH)
Warner (VA)
Coons (DE)
Cortez Masto (NV)
Gallego (AZ)
Hassan (NH)
Hickenlooper (CO)
Kaine (VA)
Kelly (AZ)
King (ME)
Reed (RI)
Rosen (NV)
Shaheen (NH)
Warner (VA)
March 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Have they issued a statement yet to explain that they won't seek accountability for the Signal scandal because they're "focused on kitchen table issues and are working across the aisle on bipartisan solutions that work for all Americans?"
One fun part of growing older is to witness how nostalgia moves foward in time with every generation. There are now people who talk of the 80s as an age of innocence...
This is an example of how nostalgia for the old days is simply nostalgia for when you were younger.
The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.
The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.
March 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
One fun part of growing older is to witness how nostalgia moves foward in time with every generation. There are now people who talk of the 80s as an age of innocence...
"I will, however, continue to vote for his nominees almost without fail..." Fucking clowns.
March 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"I will, however, continue to vote for his nominees almost without fail..." Fucking clowns.
I guess it may be meaningful...but also, oh wow, a strongly worded letter!
Very important. Reprehensible to abandon this. We promised to protect Ukraine 30 years ago.
Two GOP Senators, Grassley and Tillis, just joined a *very* harsh letter from Dems calling on Rubio to reinstate contract tracking abducted Ukrainian children.
"It must remain the policy of the US to pursue accountability for the Russian Federation’s atrocities in Ukraine."
"It must remain the policy of the US to pursue accountability for the Russian Federation’s atrocities in Ukraine."
March 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I guess it may be meaningful...but also, oh wow, a strongly worded letter!
Day 1: Trump: Biden forgot to say the magic words; everything he did is void.
Days 2-3: 10 million posts/opeds about the magic words: needed or not?
Day 5: Lawsuit filed! Open and shut case! Take that Trump!
Day 371: SCOTUS 4 to 5 affirms need for the magic words; voids all US legislation.
Days 2-3: 10 million posts/opeds about the magic words: needed or not?
Day 5: Lawsuit filed! Open and shut case! Take that Trump!
Day 371: SCOTUS 4 to 5 affirms need for the magic words; voids all US legislation.
March 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Day 1: Trump: Biden forgot to say the magic words; everything he did is void.
Days 2-3: 10 million posts/opeds about the magic words: needed or not?
Day 5: Lawsuit filed! Open and shut case! Take that Trump!
Day 371: SCOTUS 4 to 5 affirms need for the magic words; voids all US legislation.
Days 2-3: 10 million posts/opeds about the magic words: needed or not?
Day 5: Lawsuit filed! Open and shut case! Take that Trump!
Day 371: SCOTUS 4 to 5 affirms need for the magic words; voids all US legislation.
Sorry, but this is BS. It's handing the Republicans a win just so she can congratulate herself on how principled she is being. The bit about how it would be bad for future Dem presidents not to censure is particularly rich. Sure, there will be no heckling of dem presidents now because of this vote.
March 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Sorry, but this is BS. It's handing the Republicans a win just so she can congratulate herself on how principled she is being. The bit about how it would be bad for future Dem presidents not to censure is particularly rich. Sure, there will be no heckling of dem presidents now because of this vote.
If so, it was easy enough for them to get one.
Not as important as you think.
In 2021, Dems were trying to avoid a shutdown. That gave McConnell “cards” thst Schuner doesn’t hold because now the GOP would be fine with a shutdown. A shutdown would simply accelerate their agenda of dismantling the government.
In 2021, Dems were trying to avoid a shutdown. That gave McConnell “cards” thst Schuner doesn’t hold because now the GOP would be fine with a shutdown. A shutdown would simply accelerate their agenda of dismantling the government.
March 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
If so, it was easy enough for them to get one.
This leaves unclear who exactly the Left voted for, purposefully, I imagine.
The US left really isn't anwhere near big enough to swing national elections but aside from that I don't really countenance liberals whose primary interaction with The Left is complaining that an imaginary large number of them didnt vote or purposely voted against their entire body of convictions.
January 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This leaves unclear who exactly the Left voted for, purposefully, I imagine.
I guess nobody told those governors that Congressional Dems have no power whatsoever and that we should stop expecting them to do something.
January 31, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I guess nobody told those governors that Congressional Dems have no power whatsoever and that we should stop expecting them to do something.
Maybe some action will be taken. Congress critters love flying in and out of DCA and recently even forced the airport to accommodate more flights than it wanted to. You'd think even Republicans have an interest in DCA being safe. Any one of them could be on the next flight to go down.
WAPO: “.. Just 24 hours before the collision of American Eagle Flight 5342 and an Army Black Hawk .. another jet trying to land there had to make a second approach after a helicopter appeared near its flight path, according to an audio recording ..”
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Live updates: Day before D.C. plane crash, another jet had to abort first landing at Reagan National
The American Airlines plane operating as American Eagle Flight 5342 collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Maybe some action will be taken. Congress critters love flying in and out of DCA and recently even forced the airport to accommodate more flights than it wanted to. You'd think even Republicans have an interest in DCA being safe. Any one of them could be on the next flight to go down.
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the major error was believing decadence was about lifestyle issues as opposed to personal responsibility. a decadent society isn't a place where people party too much, its a place where no one tries to stop a trump like figure until its too late
January 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
the major error was believing decadence was about lifestyle issues as opposed to personal responsibility. a decadent society isn't a place where people party too much, its a place where no one tries to stop a trump like figure until its too late
Weaving?! Is it really necessary to use his own delusional term to describe his random ramblings?
January 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Weaving?! Is it really necessary to use his own delusional term to describe his random ramblings?
And yet, it still manages to make it partially about him (Those of us who...). Whoever writes these things, the stench remains.
December 30, 2024 at 3:56 PM
And yet, it still manages to make it partially about him (Those of us who...). Whoever writes these things, the stench remains.
I just think these people are lying, maybe to themselves, more likely to the interviewer, about why they voted for Trump.
At the risk of being one of the elitists who talks down to rural voters like this, I just can’t even conceptually think of how to reach people who look at Harris and Trump and see Trump as the serious one. It’s not an elitism thing so much as a “what world are you seeing?” thing.
Someone we talked to recently voted for Trump in part because Harris' campaign, with all the high-profile celebrities, seemed un-serious to her.
We can have all the judgments we want about how anyone could look at those two candidates and say Harris was less serious, but I think there's more there.
We can have all the judgments we want about how anyone could look at those two candidates and say Harris was less serious, but I think there's more there.
December 30, 2024 at 3:31 PM
I just think these people are lying, maybe to themselves, more likely to the interviewer, about why they voted for Trump.
These people were always going to vote for Trump, for cultural or tribal reasons. What they're saying now is mere rationalization of their vote from an economic pov, precisely because they know it makes no sense in this respect. It shows their awareness of this fact, not their ignorance.
It’s easy for liberals to sneer at these voters and call them stupid but it’s a massive failure on the part of the Democrats to lose this messaging battle in the first places
"low-income Americans who voted for Trump say they are counting on him to keep their benefits intact"
Do you laugh? Cry? Mock? Sympathize? I genuinely don't know.
Do you laugh? Cry? Mock? Sympathize? I genuinely don't know.
December 27, 2024 at 12:39 PM
These people were always going to vote for Trump, for cultural or tribal reasons. What they're saying now is mere rationalization of their vote from an economic pov, precisely because they know it makes no sense in this respect. It shows their awareness of this fact, not their ignorance.
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Lack of youth is not the problem. The staffers who tell the members what to do are in their 20s and 30s. The US is actually ruled by a bunch a Tracy Flicks fresh out of school.
This piece says several younger Democrats are toppling some of the oldest ranking members
And then with the exception of AOC, the "younger Democrats" in question are, like, 52, 60, 61, 72
I guess Harris is also 60 and seemed strikingly young compared to Biden and Trump but man Congress needs youth
And then with the exception of AOC, the "younger Democrats" in question are, like, 52, 60, 61, 72
I guess Harris is also 60 and seemed strikingly young compared to Biden and Trump but man Congress needs youth
Nancy Pelosi has been urging colleagues to back Rep. Gerry Connolly over AOC as the replacement for current Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin.
December 13, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Lack of youth is not the problem. The staffers who tell the members what to do are in their 20s and 30s. The US is actually ruled by a bunch a Tracy Flicks fresh out of school.