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Laura Kinsale

@laurakinsale.bsky.social

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#frogtifa Outlaw masks on law enforcement officers!! ICE is a terrorist organization. Corruption corruption corruption. Musk is a parasite. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Photo Carlin Stiehl via the LA Times #GreatPyrenees puppies so you know it’s Real Laura Kinsale.

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Laura Kinsale @laurakinsale.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Nell Scovell @nellscovell.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman remembered as funny, savvy and 'a true leader'

Friends and colleagues remembered her as grounded, kind and compassionate.

www.pbs.org

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

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NPR @npr.org · 7h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Laura Kinsale @laurakinsale.bsky.social · 3h

Far right lunatic right there.

Laura Kinsale @laurakinsale.bsky.social · 3h

Yes and Jack Smith planted those piles of boxes in his bathroom, and hired the van and piled more on the stage in the MAR ballroom.

They think we’re utter fools.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 4h

The search on Mar-a-Lago happened in August 2022. Jack Smith was appointed Special Counsel in November 2022.

Time, how does it work

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

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Laura Kinsale @laurakinsale.bsky.social · 3h

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 8h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Laura Kinsale @laurakinsale.bsky.social · 7h

Corruption beyond any sanity. Beyond the stars.
Vance: What 50K? What tape? What? What? Whaaaaaa? It’s not so bad is it?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t about politics; it’s about ownership of the scoreboard. When the scoreboard changes owners, the game changes. The sale no one voted on...and why you should care.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Problembear @problembear.bsky.social · 7h

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 1d

NoKings.org
For the love of America 🇺🇸

#NoKings | Oct 18th

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Karma's Dad @karmasdad.bsky.social · 1d

So donations to the Salvation Army feed the oppressors? Remember that when you see their kettles everywhere next month.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 2d

I live in Minnesota.

This is OBSCENE. Just despicable, the lowest and most vile lie.

Abusing the assassination of our Speaker Emerita, her husband and her dog. Utterly beneath contempt.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Only one thing could top the honor of speaking at the No Kings rally, and that's the honor of speaking at No Kings 2. See you October 18th!

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Laura Kinsale @laurakinsale.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most terrifying thing to me yet. I’ve been counting so hard on free and fair elections in 2026. But it’s now impossible to be able to believe in the outcome. I hope states like New Mexico can get out of Dominion contracts but I doubt it.

Thomas Veil @thomasveil.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly what bothers me. Saying you’re going to “restore integrity” is designed to make people think the previous Dominion system was corrupt—and it wasn’t. They’re planning on “fixing” something which isn’t broke. Which is code for “We’re going to break it.”

And slapping the name

Laura Kinsale @laurakinsale.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect R&D funds will fund the military for about 24 hours, so there’s that.

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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 1d

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

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Laura Kinsale @laurakinsale.bsky.social · 1d

Oh gee

Laura Kinsale @laurakinsale.bsky.social · 1d

Well, at least in this poll, he’s lagging far behind Allred in a head-to-head w GOP, so.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices

Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil

Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world

Founder2: ok that works

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Laura Kinsale @laurakinsale.bsky.social · 1d

Oh well, corruption corruption corruption

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

1) WHY isn't this a bigger story? High food prices were cited time and again as a major 2024 campaign issue?

2) Democrats said said over and over again this was going to happen.

3) Why didn't the MSM take it more seriously, when trump LIED over and over again about bringing food prices down???

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