Lauren L.
@leftylauren.bsky.social
Speculative fiction, Spanish-language, native plants, pottery, desserts, dogs, horses. Not necessarily in that order.
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Billionaires and their minions are working to dismantle the structure of our society. Repairing economic damage from trump crimes will take months to years; rebuilding science will take decades; but the #climate and #biodiversity damage to our planet will last for centuries. We can't delay any more.
May 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Billionaires and their minions are working to dismantle the structure of our society. Repairing economic damage from trump crimes will take months to years; rebuilding science will take decades; but the #climate and #biodiversity damage to our planet will last for centuries. We can't delay any more.
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The House just passed Trump’s budget.
The vote was 215-214
It would have failed with 215-215 if a House Dem didn’t die in office yesterday.
The vote was 215-214
It would have failed with 215-215 if a House Dem didn’t die in office yesterday.
May 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The House just passed Trump’s budget.
The vote was 215-214
It would have failed with 215-215 if a House Dem didn’t die in office yesterday.
The vote was 215-214
It would have failed with 215-215 if a House Dem didn’t die in office yesterday.
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Democrats ran three older people with cancer knowing they had cancer, they died within months of being sworn in, and that helped clear the way for Republicans to starve kids across the country. I cannot begin to tell you how much I hate it here.
With a 215-214 margin, the three Dem-won seats with vacancies loom large.
215-214, House Republicans vote to PASS their multi-trillion-dollar MAGA bill, sending it to the Senate
Massie & Davidson vote NO.
Andy Harris votes PRESENT.
Garbarino & Schweikert miss the vote.
All other Republicans vote YES.
Democrats vote NO.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Massie & Davidson vote NO.
Andy Harris votes PRESENT.
Garbarino & Schweikert miss the vote.
All other Republicans vote YES.
Democrats vote NO.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
May 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Democrats ran three older people with cancer knowing they had cancer, they died within months of being sworn in, and that helped clear the way for Republicans to starve kids across the country. I cannot begin to tell you how much I hate it here.
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🚨🚨🚨The Data Don't Lie:
Democrats, NOT Republicans, Are Good for the Economy Across Almost Every Metric
A MUST READ guest analysis from Penn State Emeritus Professor Ron Gebhardtsbauer
(open to read free)
Please RT: we need to correct the record. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Democrats, NOT Republicans, Are Good for the Economy Across Almost Every Metric
A MUST READ guest analysis from Penn State Emeritus Professor Ron Gebhardtsbauer
(open to read free)
Please RT: we need to correct the record. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
The Data Don't Lie
Democrats, NOT Republicans, Are Good for the Economy Across Almost Every Metric
open.substack.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
🚨🚨🚨The Data Don't Lie:
Democrats, NOT Republicans, Are Good for the Economy Across Almost Every Metric
A MUST READ guest analysis from Penn State Emeritus Professor Ron Gebhardtsbauer
(open to read free)
Please RT: we need to correct the record. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Democrats, NOT Republicans, Are Good for the Economy Across Almost Every Metric
A MUST READ guest analysis from Penn State Emeritus Professor Ron Gebhardtsbauer
(open to read free)
Please RT: we need to correct the record. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
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it's jolting how little AI skepticism has reached the general public. i've had many acquaintances ask whether i use AI for research and seem shocked when i tell them it's completely useless for that purpose. my wife recently told her colleagues about hallucinations and it was news to all of them.
May 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
it's jolting how little AI skepticism has reached the general public. i've had many acquaintances ask whether i use AI for research and seem shocked when i tell them it's completely useless for that purpose. my wife recently told her colleagues about hallucinations and it was news to all of them.
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Who knew a fish could express "What the fuck was that?" with such ease.
May 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Who knew a fish could express "What the fuck was that?" with such ease.
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Meanwhile, I am very into this 2024 paper. Focusing on UK rewilding gardening, discusses the politics of 'messiness' as reflective of a younger, left-er demographic as compared to the formal and orderly 'proper' gardening of the conservative, elderly right.
doi.org/10.1002/pan3...
doi.org/10.1002/pan3...
April 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Meanwhile, I am very into this 2024 paper. Focusing on UK rewilding gardening, discusses the politics of 'messiness' as reflective of a younger, left-er demographic as compared to the formal and orderly 'proper' gardening of the conservative, elderly right.
doi.org/10.1002/pan3...
doi.org/10.1002/pan3...
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Gun registry? No. Autism registry? Yes?
Fuck ALL the way off.
Fuck ALL the way off.
April 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Gun registry? No. Autism registry? Yes?
Fuck ALL the way off.
Fuck ALL the way off.
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If the next US governing regime merely wants to restore pre-2024 state capacity, it's going to take what will feel like a New Deal-style expansion from the baseline
Folding 27 NIH institutes and centers down into *8*, which is even worse than the rumored plan for 15, is catastrophic for American biomedical research. Completely insane.
April 17, 2025 at 5:36 AM
If the next US governing regime merely wants to restore pre-2024 state capacity, it's going to take what will feel like a New Deal-style expansion from the baseline
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(The lesson was: if you’re going to fuck with something bigger and meaner than you, use a quick targeted attack and then run away really fast. (This is the way I always try to operate, too.)
April 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
(The lesson was: if you’re going to fuck with something bigger and meaner than you, use a quick targeted attack and then run away really fast. (This is the way I always try to operate, too.)
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The past four Republican administrations have tanked the US economy. But I know multiple Democrats who include their pronouns in the footer of their emails. I have never felt more politically homeless.
April 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The past four Republican administrations have tanked the US economy. But I know multiple Democrats who include their pronouns in the footer of their emails. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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United States Disappeared Tracker: 1214 and growing.
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April 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
United States Disappeared Tracker: 1214 and growing.
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public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
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Yes. If these people gave a shit about "bringing good jobs back to America," they would be fighting to improve the quality of the jobs we already have. There's nothing inherent to the work of a taxi driver or waitress that has to be less secure than a 1950s factory worker.
April 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Yes. If these people gave a shit about "bringing good jobs back to America," they would be fighting to improve the quality of the jobs we already have. There's nothing inherent to the work of a taxi driver or waitress that has to be less secure than a 1950s factory worker.
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I’m used to humans wanting to do things that can get them killed. Maybe too used to it.
April 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I’m used to humans wanting to do things that can get them killed. Maybe too used to it.
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A reminder to reporters: Because Trump tariff numbers are made-up nonsense, using the phrase “reciprocal tariffs” is lying to your audience. The phrase itself is propaganda. They are not reciprocal.
April 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
A reminder to reporters: Because Trump tariff numbers are made-up nonsense, using the phrase “reciprocal tariffs” is lying to your audience. The phrase itself is propaganda. They are not reciprocal.
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A common tic among right-wingers and conspiracy theorists is to describe someone engaging in debate as "silencing debate"
www.bmj.com/content/374/...
www.bmj.com/content/374/...
March 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A common tic among right-wingers and conspiracy theorists is to describe someone engaging in debate as "silencing debate"
www.bmj.com/content/374/...
www.bmj.com/content/374/...
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Concern for “free speech” by the right was always a facade for a reactionary culture war, antagonistic to the civil liberties that create it. It’s a victimhood complex of absolutists who get butthurt the second someone challenges their ideas. Their glee in criminalizing dissent is no surprise to me.
Threats to free speech have almost exclusively come from the right for decades. Since 2016, Republicans have been restricting voting, criminalizing protest, defunding libraries, passing 'dont say gay' bills and meddling w/ curricula. Nothing remotely equivalent from Dems.
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It wasn't 50x worse before the election.
March 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Concern for “free speech” by the right was always a facade for a reactionary culture war, antagonistic to the civil liberties that create it. It’s a victimhood complex of absolutists who get butthurt the second someone challenges their ideas. Their glee in criminalizing dissent is no surprise to me.
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we're deciding, at scale, that laws do not apply to republicans during an election cycle
Just before Musk's event in Green Bay tonight, the WI Supreme Court unanimously declined to bar him from handing out $1 million payments to voters
Wisconsin Supreme Court refuses to take case challenging Elon Musk's $1 million payments
The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court has refused to hear a last-minute attempt by the state’s Democratic attorney general to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to...
apnews.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:06 AM
we're deciding, at scale, that laws do not apply to republicans during an election cycle
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WI DOJ is bringing a butter knife to a gun fight with announced plans for a lawsuit.
Musk is violating the law and should be arrested. The majority of Americans would watch with rapt and happy attention Musk’s perp walk
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Musk is violating the law and should be arrested. The majority of Americans would watch with rapt and happy attention Musk’s perp walk
bsky.app/profile/asie...
The action should include arrest and a perp walk. Let Musk put his mug shot next to Trump’s.
bsky.app/profile/asie...
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Time to act is now, @govevers.wisconsin.gov
Musk is flagrantly violating Wisconsin law, literally seeking to buy an election.
Arresting and holding him as a flight risk would be a statement the the #RuleOfLaw matters in WI and applies to all.
PS: would, btw, be incredibly popular.
Musk is flagrantly violating Wisconsin law, literally seeking to buy an election.
Arresting and holding him as a flight risk would be a statement the the #RuleOfLaw matters in WI and applies to all.
PS: would, btw, be incredibly popular.
March 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
WI DOJ is bringing a butter knife to a gun fight with announced plans for a lawsuit.
Musk is violating the law and should be arrested. The majority of Americans would watch with rapt and happy attention Musk’s perp walk
bsky.app/profile/asie...
Musk is violating the law and should be arrested. The majority of Americans would watch with rapt and happy attention Musk’s perp walk
bsky.app/profile/asie...
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There was one singular person the Trump team wanted to kill. They thought they tracked him to his girlfriend’s place, presumably in a civilian apartment building in Sana’a. So they dropped bombs on the neighborhood and leveled the building. Reactions from the group:
“amazing job”
“Excellent”
“👊🇺🇸💥”
“amazing job”
“Excellent”
“👊🇺🇸💥”
March 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
There was one singular person the Trump team wanted to kill. They thought they tracked him to his girlfriend’s place, presumably in a civilian apartment building in Sana’a. So they dropped bombs on the neighborhood and leveled the building. Reactions from the group:
“amazing job”
“Excellent”
“👊🇺🇸💥”
“amazing job”
“Excellent”
“👊🇺🇸💥”
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anyway calling these "war plans" when they were actually plans to blow up an apartment building full of civilians because the girlfriend of a guy we don't like lived there sounds more like "terrorism plans" or perhaps even more accurately "terrorism factory creation plans"
March 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
anyway calling these "war plans" when they were actually plans to blow up an apartment building full of civilians because the girlfriend of a guy we don't like lived there sounds more like "terrorism plans" or perhaps even more accurately "terrorism factory creation plans"
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Liberals and progressives are the only ones with any agency, according to most political discourse. You *never* hear about a conservative need to understand liberals. It’s always on the left to fix things.
This is what everyone always means when they complain about "polarization"
www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/03/97338/
www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/03/97338/
March 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Liberals and progressives are the only ones with any agency, according to most political discourse. You *never* hear about a conservative need to understand liberals. It’s always on the left to fix things.
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When elite, "serious" civil society institutions (ahem, foundations) talk about "polarization," somehow it always ends up meaning those mean liberals not wanting to socialize with people who don't share their values, rather than on the people who want to roll back half a century of civil rights law.
This is what everyone always means when they complain about "polarization"
www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/03/97338/
www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/03/97338/
March 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
When elite, "serious" civil society institutions (ahem, foundations) talk about "polarization," somehow it always ends up meaning those mean liberals not wanting to socialize with people who don't share their values, rather than on the people who want to roll back half a century of civil rights law.