Laura Hazelett
@lolo447.bsky.social
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist, that is all.” -Oscar Wilde
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Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.
www.propublica.org
December 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
Absolutely unacceptable 😡
At my town hall this past weekend, a veteran told me he has been waiting six months for a mental health appointment.
That is a total failure to keep faith with someone who served this country.
That is a total failure to keep faith with someone who served this country.
‘Chronically Understaffed’ Veterans Affairs Plans 35,000 Cuts This Month, Report Says
The VA already slashed 30,000 jobs earlier this year as part of an agency-wide reorganization.
www.forbes.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Absolutely unacceptable 😡
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Not a day goes by that I don’t miss my dear friend Melissa. An incredible piece.
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story
www.rollingstone.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Not a day goes by that I don’t miss my dear friend Melissa. An incredible piece.
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Orders Cannabis Rules Relaxed, Easing Research www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Orders Cannabis Rules Relaxed, Easing Research
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Orders Cannabis Rules Relaxed, Easing Research www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Trump levels political attack on Rob Reiner in inflammatory post after his killing
Wow! The President is unhinged
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Wow! The President is unhinged
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Trump levels political attack on Rob Reiner in inflammatory post after his killing
President Donald Trump is blaming Rob Reiner’s outspoken opposition to the president for the actor-director’s killing, delivering the unsubstantiated claim in a post that seemed intent on decrying his...
apnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Trump levels political attack on Rob Reiner in inflammatory post after his killing
Wow! The President is unhinged
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Wow! The President is unhinged
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The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website.
No US government website can be trusted for science information.
No US government website can be trusted for science information.
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website.
No US government website can be trusted for science information.
No US government website can be trusted for science information.
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Hotter planet → worse air. Climate change accounted for around 49% of western US smoke particulate matter concentrations from 1997–2020 and for 58% of the region’s increasing trend in smoke particulate since 2010, according to a study. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/LBw650XH2nn
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Hotter planet → worse air. Climate change accounted for around 49% of western US smoke particulate matter concentrations from 1997–2020 and for 58% of the region’s increasing trend in smoke particulate since 2010, according to a study. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/LBw650XH2nn
You don’t say? Don the con
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
You don’t say? Don the con
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Commentary: For every meal a food bank provides, SNAP provides nine. The impact of even a temporary delay cannot be understated. Hunger does not discriminate by party, and everyone needs to eat. minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/03/f...
Food banks: Without SNAP, we can't handle the demand • Minnesota Reformer
Over half of SNAP participants are either seniors or children, and fewer than 5% of SNAP participants are able-bodied adults without children.
minnesotareformer.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Commentary: For every meal a food bank provides, SNAP provides nine. The impact of even a temporary delay cannot be understated. Hunger does not discriminate by party, and everyone needs to eat. minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/03/f...
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There is American blood on battlefields to protect the right to a free and fair vote. Intimidation like this spits on their sacrifice. It's about as anti-American as you can get.
November 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There is American blood on battlefields to protect the right to a free and fair vote. Intimidation like this spits on their sacrifice. It's about as anti-American as you can get.
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The hallmarks of authoritarianism are on full display in the US right now. Recognizing them—and sharing this knowledge with others—is step one for any successful effort to counter what’s happening.
What Authoritarian Regimes Do
As we speak, the Trump administration is abandoning principles of democracy and dismantling the rule of law. The willful destruction of the federal science apparatus is but one harmful and onerous asp...
blog.ucs.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The hallmarks of authoritarianism are on full display in the US right now. Recognizing them—and sharing this knowledge with others—is step one for any successful effort to counter what’s happening.
What shutdown? Trump isn't canceling travel, golf or his ballroom even with the government shuttered
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The audacity 🙄
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The audacity 🙄
What shutdown? Trump isn't canceling travel, golf or his ballroom even with the government shuttered
Shutdown? What shutdown? President Donald Trump is barreling along like the government isn't shuttered, keeping up international and domestic travel while construction crews race to transform the Whit...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
What shutdown? Trump isn't canceling travel, golf or his ballroom even with the government shuttered
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The audacity 🙄
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The audacity 🙄
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Accessibility is the *bare minimum* we owe our fellow humans.
October 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Accessibility is the *bare minimum* we owe our fellow humans.
Surprise surprise….. is America great yet?? apple.news/AGmRgqygITZ6...
America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy — The Atlantic
Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.
apple.news
October 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Surprise surprise….. is America great yet?? apple.news/AGmRgqygITZ6...
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Reposted by Laura Hazelett
The sooner the better...😎
October 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The sooner the better...😎
Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
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Resist 💪
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Resist 💪
Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.
apnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
apnews.com/article/pent...
Resist 💪
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Resist 💪
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A new Trump administration memo would have immense consequences for one key group: 25% of all federal employees are US military veterans. Republicans are putting the financial security of hundreds of thousands of veterans and their families at risk.
Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay
A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.
www.axios.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A new Trump administration memo would have immense consequences for one key group: 25% of all federal employees are US military veterans. Republicans are putting the financial security of hundreds of thousands of veterans and their families at risk.
Trump administration threatens no back pay for federal workers in shutdown
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Trump administration threatens no back pay for federal workers in shutdown
President Donald Trump’s administration is warning of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a shutdown.
apnews.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Trump administration threatens no back pay for federal workers in shutdown
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No matter what he cancels he can’t cancel himself off the Epstein list.
September 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
No matter what he cancels he can’t cancel himself off the Epstein list.
September 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan
join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice
www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...
join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice
www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...
August 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan
join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice
www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...
join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice
www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...
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The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for at least a week rose to the highest level since late 2021, according to Labor Department data.
Nearly 2 million Americans on unemployment, highest since pandemic era
Continuing unemployment claims jumped to 1.97 million in late July, according to a Labor Department report, highlighting a weakening labor market.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for at least a week rose to the highest level since late 2021, according to Labor Department data.