Laura Scalzo
@laurascalzo.bsky.social
Writer. Reader.
Rep: MSB/APL Agency
LauraScalzo.com
📍DC
Rep: MSB/APL Agency
LauraScalzo.com
📍DC
Pinned
“Scalzo takes the reader on a journey through well-researched history, supernatural curiosity, and a deep appreciation for life and death and even tragedy. I found myself inside the mind of this young lady, and I forgot that I was reading a book. I don’t remember that happening to me before.”
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
Worth mentioning that Sam Darnold was kicked to the curb, sidelined, and overlooked prior to becoming a Super Bowl winning quarterback. Keep going mates, wherever you are, and I’ll do the same.
February 9, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Worth mentioning that Sam Darnold was kicked to the curb, sidelined, and overlooked prior to becoming a Super Bowl winning quarterback. Keep going mates, wherever you are, and I’ll do the same.
Listen, I’m a jewel thief, ok? I’m gonna brag about how I make more money than the jewelry store down the street and in the future everyone who does it this way also will. The NYT’s is gonna feature me as a predictor of things to come.
Good?
Good?
fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Listen, I’m a jewel thief, ok? I’m gonna brag about how I make more money than the jewelry store down the street and in the future everyone who does it this way also will. The NYT’s is gonna feature me as a predictor of things to come.
Good?
Good?
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Way better, baby. 🖤🖤🖤
The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
February 8, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Way better, baby. 🖤🖤🖤
Next time let’s elect a president that doesn’t want to kill anything he can’t fuck why don’t we. (Gift link)
Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...
Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...
Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Next time let’s elect a president that doesn’t want to kill anything he can’t fuck why don’t we. (Gift link)
Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...
Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...
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bring back shame
February 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
bring back shame
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“We parted company at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words.”
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
![I am all at a loose end since you left; I feel as if I haven't seen you for ten years. Every conversation that I have with my mother is about you. Everyone here loves you dearly.
Under what constellation were you born then, to be blessed with such qualities, so diverse and so rare?
I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone. We got on well together, didn't we? It was very agreeable.
It was so good that I do not want to share the pleasure with anyone else. If you happen to use Croisset in one of your books, do disguise it so that nobody recognizes it. I would appreciate it. The memory of your visit is just for the two of us, for me. That is how selfish I am.
I particularly missed you last night, at ten o'clock. There was a fire, over at my wood-merchant's. The sky was pink and the Seine was the colour of red-currant syrup. I worked at the pumps for three hours and I came home as weary as the Turk with the giraffe? [...]
One of the Rouen newspapers (Le Nouvelliste) reported your visit to Rouen, so that on Saturday after I had left you I met several bourgeois in a state of indignation over the fact that I had not put you on display. A former magistrate took the prize: 'If we had known that she was here... we would have... we would have ..? - five-minute pause, he's looking for the word - We would have... smiled at her.' That would have been rather meagre, don't you think?
[...]
To love you 'more' is difficult for me. But I do embrace you most tenderly.
Your letter this morning, so melancholy, stirred me. We parted company just at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words. All of the doors between the two of us are not yet open. You inspire a great respect in me and I do not have the courage to ask you questions, Farewell, I kiss your sweet and lovely countenance, and I am
Your
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February 7, 2026 at 12:06 AM
“We parted company at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words.”
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
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Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge.
We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.
We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.
February 4, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge.
We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.
We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.
Funeral Rites for Wash Post
Pro Walmart
Whatever George Will is talking about
Pro Ice
Anti urban life
Military Action in Iran
Pro Walmart
Whatever George Will is talking about
Pro Ice
Anti urban life
Military Action in Iran
February 5, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Funeral Rites for Wash Post
Pro Walmart
Whatever George Will is talking about
Pro Ice
Anti urban life
Military Action in Iran
Pro Walmart
Whatever George Will is talking about
Pro Ice
Anti urban life
Military Action in Iran
Watching the worst try to tell us they control art and music reminds me why I’m excited for my friend’s new book, coming out in May from @microcosm.bsky.social. The DC story is art up not power down no matter how much they want you to think otherwise.
microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/book...
microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/book...
February 4, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Watching the worst try to tell us they control art and music reminds me why I’m excited for my friend’s new book, coming out in May from @microcosm.bsky.social. The DC story is art up not power down no matter how much they want you to think otherwise.
microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/book...
microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/book...
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Starting in April, I’m teaching a six-week writing workshop at the wonderful Writers & Books in Rochester, NY. If you live in the area, please join me.📚💚
wab.org/event/bright...
wab.org/event/bright...
Bright Beginnings: Writing Your YA Novel - Writers & Books
A 6-week workshop with Melissa Ostrom Location: Writers & Books, 740 University Ave, Rochester NY Price: Members $320 | General Public $360 One need-based scholarship available Minimum Enrollment: 7...
wab.org
February 3, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Starting in April, I’m teaching a six-week writing workshop at the wonderful Writers & Books in Rochester, NY. If you live in the area, please join me.📚💚
wab.org/event/bright...
wab.org/event/bright...
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Im excited about Bad Bunny's superbowl performance!
#SupportImmigrants
#SupportImmigrants
February 2, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Im excited about Bad Bunny's superbowl performance!
#SupportImmigrants
#SupportImmigrants
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Unreal. He’s shutting down the Kennedy Center, after his flunkies caused mass defections of artists?
Everything the man touches turns to ash. Our cultural heritage; destroyed. Our national treasures; plundered.
Everything the man touches turns to ash. Our cultural heritage; destroyed. Our national treasures; plundered.
Trump: "I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass anything."
February 1, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Unreal. He’s shutting down the Kennedy Center, after his flunkies caused mass defections of artists?
Everything the man touches turns to ash. Our cultural heritage; destroyed. Our national treasures; plundered.
Everything the man touches turns to ash. Our cultural heritage; destroyed. Our national treasures; plundered.
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Buttigieg on Fox News: "When you see an American woman opening the door to her home and on her doorstep finds half a dozen federal agents in tactical gear that is more tricked out than what I would take outside the wire in Afghanistan -- I think most people get that that is wrong."
January 31, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Buttigieg on Fox News: "When you see an American woman opening the door to her home and on her doorstep finds half a dozen federal agents in tactical gear that is more tricked out than what I would take outside the wire in Afghanistan -- I think most people get that that is wrong."
This is a Möbius strip of WTF. My brain just locked out.
On the other hand, the more outrageous the better. Let’s make something new with the broken pieces.
On the other hand, the more outrageous the better. Let’s make something new with the broken pieces.
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
January 31, 2026 at 12:29 AM
This is a Möbius strip of WTF. My brain just locked out.
On the other hand, the more outrageous the better. Let’s make something new with the broken pieces.
On the other hand, the more outrageous the better. Let’s make something new with the broken pieces.
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A different kind of April fools
*SUPREME COURT SETS BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ARGUMENTS FOR APRIL 1
*SUPREME COURT SETS BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ARGUMENTS FOR APRIL 1
January 30, 2026 at 4:04 PM
A different kind of April fools
*SUPREME COURT SETS BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ARGUMENTS FOR APRIL 1
*SUPREME COURT SETS BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ARGUMENTS FOR APRIL 1
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Reposted by Laura Scalzo
The federal government is executing American citizens in the middle of the street for exercising their constitutional right to freedom of speech.
This is tyranny. No free people can accept this kind of government. We need to bring an end to the Trump regime.
This is tyranny. No free people can accept this kind of government. We need to bring an end to the Trump regime.
January 24, 2026 at 5:47 PM
The federal government is executing American citizens in the middle of the street for exercising their constitutional right to freedom of speech.
This is tyranny. No free people can accept this kind of government. We need to bring an end to the Trump regime.
This is tyranny. No free people can accept this kind of government. We need to bring an end to the Trump regime.
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I wrote a short piece on my trip to Texas and how it confirmed for me why we can’t fund this version of ICE.
The Department of Homeland Security is lawless. We need to demand reforms.
The Department of Homeland Security is lawless. We need to demand reforms.
My Trip to Texas Confirmed We Can’t Fund this Version of ICE
The young father was shaking as he held his fidgety two-year-old daughter who impatiently sucked on a lollipop.
www.chrismurphyct.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:28 PM
I wrote a short piece on my trip to Texas and how it confirmed for me why we can’t fund this version of ICE.
The Department of Homeland Security is lawless. We need to demand reforms.
The Department of Homeland Security is lawless. We need to demand reforms.
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I wish I could remember who said they wish they had cultural power but they're trying to use political power in its place. They can remove the signs. They cannot remove all the histories, primary documents, and collective knowledge of the past, and their attacks underscore why these things matter.
Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
January 22, 2026 at 11:15 PM
I wish I could remember who said they wish they had cultural power but they're trying to use political power in its place. They can remove the signs. They cannot remove all the histories, primary documents, and collective knowledge of the past, and their attacks underscore why these things matter.
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Big shout out and solidarity fist bump to our friends in the Twin Cities striking today, and everyone that's with them.
Stay safe, stay warm, and stay loud.
Stay safe, stay warm, and stay loud.
January 23, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Big shout out and solidarity fist bump to our friends in the Twin Cities striking today, and everyone that's with them.
Stay safe, stay warm, and stay loud.
Stay safe, stay warm, and stay loud.
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I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.
January 23, 2026 at 12:04 AM
I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.
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Important news for us writers from across the NYC subway tracks:
January 22, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Important news for us writers from across the NYC subway tracks:
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paradoxically, the minute you accept a job as a pundit, you become unqualified for it. this is because punditry belongs in dive bars and union meetings and the like. the only good pundit is some mouthy fuck with nothing to lose
January 22, 2026 at 3:34 PM
paradoxically, the minute you accept a job as a pundit, you become unqualified for it. this is because punditry belongs in dive bars and union meetings and the like. the only good pundit is some mouthy fuck with nothing to lose