Laura Wind-Norton
@lwindnorton.bsky.social
I will not give into the lies.
I will not give into the fear.
I will not give into the fear.
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Can I let you in on a little secret?
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Can I let you in on a little secret?
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
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Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
October 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
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Stephen froze like a deer in the headlights and pretended to have connection issues because he unintentionally gave away the game plan.
“Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations."
Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.
“Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations."
Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.
October 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Stephen froze like a deer in the headlights and pretended to have connection issues because he unintentionally gave away the game plan.
“Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations."
Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.
“Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations."
Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.
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Bookmark this
September 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Bookmark this
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LGBTQ people and our history will never be erased, and the lives taken at Pulse will never be forgotten.
In the dead of night, Ron DeSantis ordered the rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse memorial painted over — defacing a sacred space in the heart of Orlando that honors the 49 lives stolen in one of the deadliest massacres in U.S. history.
August 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
LGBTQ people and our history will never be erased, and the lives taken at Pulse will never be forgotten.
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An estimated 38% of the total corporate cash savings created by Trump and Republicans’ budget bill will flow to just four Big Tech companies: Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet.
Just so happens that each donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
Talk about a return on investment.
Just so happens that each donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
Talk about a return on investment.
August 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
An estimated 38% of the total corporate cash savings created by Trump and Republicans’ budget bill will flow to just four Big Tech companies: Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet.
Just so happens that each donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
Talk about a return on investment.
Just so happens that each donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
Talk about a return on investment.
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If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
August 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
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We are fast approaching a Hunger Games dystopia.
August 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
We are fast approaching a Hunger Games dystopia.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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June 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Full version👇😂👍sound on!
June 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Full version👇😂👍sound on!
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NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill"
On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill
Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill
Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
June 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill"
On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill
Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill
Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
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No.
Universities do not have to be "in sync with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
They are institutions of learning led by scholars who follow their research in search of knowledge. They support free inquiry and learning.
They are not political pawns.
Universities do not have to be "in sync with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
They are institutions of learning led by scholars who follow their research in search of knowledge. They support free inquiry and learning.
They are not political pawns.
Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
May 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
No.
Universities do not have to be "in sync with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
They are institutions of learning led by scholars who follow their research in search of knowledge. They support free inquiry and learning.
They are not political pawns.
Universities do not have to be "in sync with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
They are institutions of learning led by scholars who follow their research in search of knowledge. They support free inquiry and learning.
They are not political pawns.
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Straight white men we need to organize and be in the front lines.
This is it we have been called upon. No more letting the minorities and women do the fighting.
As being the only demographic with protection from the government we have to take point.
So white boys let’s fuck them up.
This is it we have been called upon. No more letting the minorities and women do the fighting.
As being the only demographic with protection from the government we have to take point.
So white boys let’s fuck them up.
May 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Straight white men we need to organize and be in the front lines.
This is it we have been called upon. No more letting the minorities and women do the fighting.
As being the only demographic with protection from the government we have to take point.
So white boys let’s fuck them up.
This is it we have been called upon. No more letting the minorities and women do the fighting.
As being the only demographic with protection from the government we have to take point.
So white boys let’s fuck them up.
We're just reaching the point that folks understand the power of AI and the need for there to be regulation to protect us all. And also so much for that "leave it to the states" attitude.
-A 10-year ban on state AI regulations
-A "nonprofit killer" clause that would stifle dissent
-Selling off public lands to Big Oil
It's not just healthcare/food assistance cuts for the poor and tax breaks for the rich in the GOP's "big, beautiful bill."
It's much worse.
-A "nonprofit killer" clause that would stifle dissent
-Selling off public lands to Big Oil
It's not just healthcare/food assistance cuts for the poor and tax breaks for the rich in the GOP's "big, beautiful bill."
It's much worse.
May 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
We're just reaching the point that folks understand the power of AI and the need for there to be regulation to protect us all. And also so much for that "leave it to the states" attitude.
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-A 10-year ban on state AI regulations
-A "nonprofit killer" clause that would stifle dissent
-Selling off public lands to Big Oil
It's not just healthcare/food assistance cuts for the poor and tax breaks for the rich in the GOP's "big, beautiful bill."
It's much worse.
-A "nonprofit killer" clause that would stifle dissent
-Selling off public lands to Big Oil
It's not just healthcare/food assistance cuts for the poor and tax breaks for the rich in the GOP's "big, beautiful bill."
It's much worse.
May 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
-A 10-year ban on state AI regulations
-A "nonprofit killer" clause that would stifle dissent
-Selling off public lands to Big Oil
It's not just healthcare/food assistance cuts for the poor and tax breaks for the rich in the GOP's "big, beautiful bill."
It's much worse.
-A "nonprofit killer" clause that would stifle dissent
-Selling off public lands to Big Oil
It's not just healthcare/food assistance cuts for the poor and tax breaks for the rich in the GOP's "big, beautiful bill."
It's much worse.
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1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting
May 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier
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“The consequence will be empty shelves in US stores in a few weeks and Covid-like shortages for consumers and for firms using Chinese products as intermediate goods.” — Apollo Global Management Chief Economist Torsten Slok.
Empty shelves, trucking layoffs lead to a summer recession in Apollo's shocking trade fight timeline
U.S. consumers could start to notice trade-related shortages in their local stores next month, according to Apollo.
www.cnbc.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“The consequence will be empty shelves in US stores in a few weeks and Covid-like shortages for consumers and for firms using Chinese products as intermediate goods.” — Apollo Global Management Chief Economist Torsten Slok.