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Laura K Mac
@lauramac95.bsky.social
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Beer-league ballerina, hockey fan, mathy person
Dog person
Trans-inclusive normie feminist
Team shiitake

Profile pic = me after ballet class (selfie of a redheaded white woman in a gray sweatshirt & pink mask). Banner = my 3 dogs on the couch.
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Laura K Mac @lauramac95.bsky.social · Mar 2
kenwhite.bsky.social If You Add Popehat, That’s Extra @kenwhite.bsky.social · Feb 28
As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President.

I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.

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kenwhite.bsky.social If You Add Popehat, That’s Extra @kenwhite.bsky.social · Feb 28
This is a First Amendment question combined with a practical question. The answer is as follows.

First, the First Amendment protects advocating the moral and practical necessity of breaking the law in the abstract.
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alannawrites.bsky.social
Every trans person--including every trans child--deserves the chance to be fully themselves. I'm so sick of seeing trans folks harmed repeatedly and unrelentingly, against all reason and scientific precedent. To my trans friends--I'm so sorry the world keeps trying to dim your light.
December 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
lauramac95.bsky.social
This thread. Conservatives wanna talk? Okay!
ndrew.bsky.social Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21h
i know what conservatives think, its the whole reason i have zero respect for them
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h
CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.

It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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rincewind.run
I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines
Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for “marketing purposes.” It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear. Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared.
December 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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hencarnell.bsky.social
Ask and you shall receive... MS Now literally just posted on it
Rep. Sarah McBride makes rare personal remarks in opposing anti-trans bills
“My biggest regret in life is that I never had a childhood without that pain,” the congresswoman said on the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday morning.
www.ms.now
December 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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courtneymilan.com
A thing to remember is that this happens a lot and the reason cops aren't better at this is that they very rarely have to be.
wickdchiq.bsky.social Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 2d
There’s more:
BREAKING: During Karen Agnifilo's cross examination, Officer Featherstone testified that after bringing Luigi Mangione to Altoona police station, officers searched his backpack in a hallway and a room without overhead cameras and without Luigi present. He also testified that evidence envelopes were not closed until NYPD arrived.
December 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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cheryllynneaton.bsky.social
Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.
December 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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aubreygilleran.bsky.social
This article isn't political, but you can tell exactly who these people voted for, even if the estrangement wasn't about politics.
These Moms Are Done Being ‘Doormats’ for Their Estranged Children
Parents publicly blast their adult offspring for cutting them off, drawing tens of thousands of online followers.
www.wsj.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
The doing this workshop is an author, independent book publisher "also serves on the boards of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) and the AI firm, Inkbloom."
www.keithriegert.com
Keith Riegert
Keith Riegert is a professional author and CEO of Ulysses Press and Perfect Bound. He is based out of New York City.
www.keithriegert.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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karidru.bsky.social
I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.
It's a map focused on Central America, much of the US at top, part of Brazil at bottom. The murder strikes are marked in red. There's a cluster by Venezuela, and a line of three headed up to Haiti and DR. There's one to the North of Panama in the center of the Caribbean. Here's where it gets even more shocking: there's a line of 14 strikes in the Pacific stretching across the coastlines of Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Nowhere near Venezuela or the US.
December 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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soozuk.bsky.social
Never forget the time in 2020 Charlie Kirk (dead now) pretended to be a black guy on Twitter but forgot to switch accounts when giving himself a nice compliment.
Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11 As a black man. I think Charlie Kirk is great. 00:08 • 29/03/2020 - Twitter for iPhone C 四 Charlie Kirk @ @charliekirk11 Replying to @charliekirk11 Haha thank you. I bet all the liberals will speak over you and call you racist. You're truly great!
December 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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grudgie.bsky.social
This sums up Trump as well as anyone ever has
emilynussbaum.bsky.social Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 3d
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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naomikritzer.bsky.social
Saint Paul, Minnesota people. Are you in District 64A? IF YOU ARE IN DISTRICT 64A YOU HAVE AN ELECTION TODAY!

***TODAY***

I KNOW YOU JUST VOTED, BUT YOUR HOUSE REP GOT ELECTED MAYOR AND NOW IT'S TIME TO PICK HER REPLACEMENT.
A map of District 64A. The western boundary is the border of Minneapolis; the eastern boundary is 35E. On the north, it's mostly 94 but in some spots it's Selby; on the south, it's mostly Saint Clair but then at Hamline it extends down to Randolph.
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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evystadium.bsky.social
in the days since members have fled the discord, the chatbot wished people happy holidays and of course the anthropic exec responded and you just have to read this lmfao

www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...
Convo between an anthropic exec and a bot
December 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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grudgie.bsky.social
“Remigration” is a Nazi term and anyone using it as something they wish to do is a Nazi
December 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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pftompkins.bsky.social
This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
fascistdemtracker.bsky.social Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 7d
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
fascistdemtracker.bsky.social Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 7d
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
lauramac95.bsky.social
FUCK YEAH
joshisimmigration.bsky.social Josh Goldstein @joshisimmigration.bsky.social · 2d
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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antifaspyro.bsky.social
Joshua Henry's version of the song is an absolute banger BTW youtu.be/Y33tpBpyOZE?...
Rizwan Manji and Joshua Henry Perform 'Gaston' - Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration
YouTube video by ABC
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
lauramac95.bsky.social
"he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written"

^^ perfection
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · 3d
I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory

he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
Disney Developing Live-Action ‘Gaston’ Movie From Writer Dave Callaham And Producer Michelle Rejwan
Disney is in early development on a new live-action pic centered on the Beauty and the Beast character Gaston.
deadline.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
lauramac95.bsky.social
Absolutely all of this thread
trance.bsky.social Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 3d
Here's
the
thing

What's to be gained by any information. Gaston's story ends in B&B. He's shown mercy, stabs the Beast who showed him that mercy IN THE BACK, and dies.

I don't need nor want a

*record scratch*

Bet you wonder how I ended up here.

We don't need a retcon where he magically lives
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · 3d
I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory

he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
December 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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portiamcgonagal.bsky.social
Recipe I found:
girlwiththeironcast.com/apple-cider-...
Apple Cider Baked Donuts
Homemade apple cider infused donuts with warm spices, baked to moist fluffy perfection, and coated with cinnamon sugar.
girlwiththeironcast.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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zingherpolisci.bsky.social
For anyone who thinks resistance is futile, I would like to bring your attention to just how much less ambitious the administration’s domestic crackdown goals have become in recent months. They’re unpopular, fighting on all fronts, and on the retreat.
agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov AG Rob Bonta @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov · 3d
Today, for the first time in six months, Angelenos are living without the National Guard unlawfully deployed in their city.

Our team fought tirelessly against President Trump’s unlawful attempts to militarize American cities, and while the fight is not over, this is a step in the right direction.
December 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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pedsortho.bsky.social
It is revisionist history to say anything other than Trump’s coalition was built on old fashioned American racism.

He opened with “They’re not sending their best,” progressed to “shit hole countries,” and now we have pogroms in our cities.

Some may have held their nose, but they did vote for this.
dennycarter.bsky.social Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 4d
Felt like I needed to show the president's anti-Somali speech because one day people will tell her it never happened, that these words were never said by the American president.

badfaithtimes.com/tell-your-ki...
Tell Your Kids This Shit Is Racist
American children deserve to know they're being raised under a white supremacist regime.
badfaithtimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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blackamazon.bsky.social
This is the one time “just say no” works
akaharriet.bsky.social Harriet - Pumpkin Spite @akaharriet.bsky.social · 3d
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025
December 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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tusk81.bsky.social
“‘You want some chicken? You ain’t getting it here, bro,’ Wayne Davis can be heard taunting the agents through the door.”

“‘Go somewhere else,’ he can be heard saying through the door.”

www.wwltv.com/article/news...
'Go somewhere else': Manager locks Border Patrol out of Kenner store
In video shared with WWL, the manager can be heard taunting agents through the locked door.
www.wwltv.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM