Megan
@meganlaser.bsky.social
Epidemiologist, Wisconsinite, nerd, mom. Opinions are my own.
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i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--
December 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--
My new work laptop replaced one of the Ctrl buttons with a Copilot button and I will hold a grudge about it until all AI is dead
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
My new work laptop replaced one of the Ctrl buttons with a Copilot button and I will hold a grudge about it until all AI is dead
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
I saw an advanced screening of Get Out in Atlanta, absolutely top tier theater experience
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I saw an advanced screening of Get Out in Atlanta, absolutely top tier theater experience
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If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
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we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
Just wait until those same mothers of kids who overdosed hear who the president just pardoned....
Batya might be just fine with a dudetrustme basis for a terrorist designation, but Americans with a functioning moral compass actually expect a plausible public rationale for who is to be treated as a terrorist in our name.
December 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Just wait until those same mothers of kids who overdosed hear who the president just pardoned....
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December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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bring back NBC's Kings
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
bring back NBC's Kings
found it hard to believe that i was crying over president james garfield like i didn't even know who he was before this series 😭
Anyone else watching Netflix's Death By Lightning, the miniseries about the assassination of James Garfield? I've been really enjoying it (I'm 3 out of 4 episodes in) www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jop...
Death by Lightning | Official Trailer | Netflix
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November 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
found it hard to believe that i was crying over president james garfield like i didn't even know who he was before this series 😭
hell yeah postal workers
A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
hell yeah postal workers
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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Girlfriend To Stay Underneath Blanket For Next 5 Months https://theonion.com/girlfriend-to-stay-underneath-blanket-for-next-5-months-1819575780/
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Girlfriend To Stay Underneath Blanket For Next 5 Months https://theonion.com/girlfriend-to-stay-underneath-blanket-for-next-5-months-1819575780/
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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The One Big Beautiful Bill dedicates $170 billion to immigration enforcement, or $12,142 per unauthorized immigrant. By comparison, the federal government spends $8,990 per child each year.
Money talks; Congress is saying kids aren't as important.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Money talks; Congress is saying kids aren't as important.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
That Extra ICE Funding Could Buy a Lot of School Meals
Whatever their views on America’s immigration laws, most Americans probably have no idea how much the US is spending to enforce them. That’s in part because congressional Republicans and President Don...
www.bloomberg.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The One Big Beautiful Bill dedicates $170 billion to immigration enforcement, or $12,142 per unauthorized immigrant. By comparison, the federal government spends $8,990 per child each year.
Money talks; Congress is saying kids aren't as important.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Money talks; Congress is saying kids aren't as important.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
can it be First In First Out?
Dems in ARRAY
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
can it be First In First Out?
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In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
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I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
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I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.
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Policymakers are stuck in a 1960s view of economic hardship, where poverty (and program eligibility) comes from lack of employment. We have 70 years of evidence: bad jobs with unpredictable schedules and variable earnings are a larger source of hardship.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The Tyranny of the Low-Quality Job
For decades, a job has been seen as the key to escaping poverty. A major new study turns the question on its head: What if hardship is the result of employment, as opposed to the absence of it?
www.bloomberg.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Policymakers are stuck in a 1960s view of economic hardship, where poverty (and program eligibility) comes from lack of employment. We have 70 years of evidence: bad jobs with unpredictable schedules and variable earnings are a larger source of hardship.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Tax billionaires into millionaires
Most of them will suffer substantial losses, but unless they are leveraged to the hilt I doubt it impacts much other than their net worth rankings and egos.
Somebody who is worth $10B and loses 90% of it is still beyond fantastically wealthy.
Somebody who is worth $10B and loses 90% of it is still beyond fantastically wealthy.
October 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Tax billionaires into millionaires
holy fucking shit
Scrolling through the Major Events Timeline at the bottom of Trump’s attempt to justify his destruction of the East Wing.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
October 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
holy fucking shit
Obviously the best thing is to not get a Nazi tattoo and the second best is to have removed it long ago. But why isn't he now filming a video going to a tattoo artist in Maine and getting it covered up and talking about how people can learn and grow? Instead he's doubling down?!
I don't like the 79-year-old filibuster-lover either, but Jon and his pod bros are pushing a guy who carries the insignia of the Schutzstaffel on his chest and says that's not a big deal. He's either a Nazi or an idiot who is too proud to admit an enormous mistake. Give me a break about "perfect."
October 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Obviously the best thing is to not get a Nazi tattoo and the second best is to have removed it long ago. But why isn't he now filming a video going to a tattoo artist in Maine and getting it covered up and talking about how people can learn and grow? Instead he's doubling down?!