Laurel
@laurelwrites.bsky.social
Reader, writer, quilter, lover of dogs. Canadian-American living in North Carolina.
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📌URGENT: Trump's regime is trying to turn Stars & Stripes into state-run media.
I was the ME of S&S.
It's MANDATED BY CONGRESS to be an editorially independent paper that reports ON the troops FOR the troops.
So I type this with precision: The draft-dodging, America-attacking slob can KISS MY ASS.
I was the ME of S&S.
It's MANDATED BY CONGRESS to be an editorially independent paper that reports ON the troops FOR the troops.
So I type this with precision: The draft-dodging, America-attacking slob can KISS MY ASS.
Pentagon says it will ‘refocus’ Stars and Stripes content
The Pentagon suggested it would take over editorial decision making for Stars and Stripes, which has long retained independence under a congressional mandate.
www.stripes.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:01 AM
📌URGENT: Trump's regime is trying to turn Stars & Stripes into state-run media.
I was the ME of S&S.
It's MANDATED BY CONGRESS to be an editorially independent paper that reports ON the troops FOR the troops.
So I type this with precision: The draft-dodging, America-attacking slob can KISS MY ASS.
I was the ME of S&S.
It's MANDATED BY CONGRESS to be an editorially independent paper that reports ON the troops FOR the troops.
So I type this with precision: The draft-dodging, America-attacking slob can KISS MY ASS.
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Trump's big makeover: gone is a state that renders support and services to its citizens. In its place is a still larger state, to be more specific, a police state that exists to threaten and intimidate its citizens. www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/11/s...
Stephen Miller's Big Shift: Mother-Shooting Goons Replace VA Nurses and Psychologists - emptywheel
Donald Trump is taking services away from veterans, and then hiring them to invade blue cities as if they were Fallujah.
www.emptywheel.net
January 11, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Trump's big makeover: gone is a state that renders support and services to its citizens. In its place is a still larger state, to be more specific, a police state that exists to threaten and intimidate its citizens. www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/11/s...
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“You think you’re watching an innocent woman being shot and killed in cold blood by the federal government, but what you’re really watching is the death of the United States of America.”
@mcsweeneys.net gahhhh dammnnn this goes hard.
@mcsweeneys.net gahhhh dammnnn this goes hard.
What You’re Watching Isn’t What You’re Really Watching
“Federal and local officials dispute the circumstances that led an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer to fatally shoot a 37-year-old woman...
www.mcsweeneys.net
January 11, 2026 at 1:59 AM
“You think you’re watching an innocent woman being shot and killed in cold blood by the federal government, but what you’re really watching is the death of the United States of America.”
@mcsweeneys.net gahhhh dammnnn this goes hard.
@mcsweeneys.net gahhhh dammnnn this goes hard.
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“There is no objective standard of conduct that could possibly explain why beating police officers [in the January 6, 2021, insurrection] is peaceful but attempting to flee from them is terrorism,” writes Jonathan Chair in _The_Atlantic_. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Has Odd Views on Domestic Terrorism
The president seems to think that beating police officers is “peaceful,” but attempting to flee from them is terrorism.
www.theatlantic.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:34 AM
“There is no objective standard of conduct that could possibly explain why beating police officers [in the January 6, 2021, insurrection] is peaceful but attempting to flee from them is terrorism,” writes Jonathan Chair in _The_Atlantic_. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
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Voting rights advocates in Ohio worry that voters won’t realize the state has now banned grace periods for ballots sent through the mail. Lawmakers have not appropriated any money for educating the public on this change.
Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes
Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.
boltsmag.org
January 8, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Voting rights advocates in Ohio worry that voters won’t realize the state has now banned grace periods for ballots sent through the mail. Lawmakers have not appropriated any money for educating the public on this change.
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Call your senators! (Sorry, I know everything is on fire. It’s a lot.)
Tonight — thanks to all of YOU — House Democrats did something many thought impossible.
We forced the Republican-controlled House to vote on extending healthcare tax credits for working families.
And it PASSED.
The Senate must now do the same.
We forced the Republican-controlled House to vote on extending healthcare tax credits for working families.
And it PASSED.
The Senate must now do the same.
January 8, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Call your senators! (Sorry, I know everything is on fire. It’s a lot.)
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BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
open.substack.com/pub/yashar/p...
open.substack.com/pub/yashar/p...
BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Hours before it was set to air last night, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast.
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
open.substack.com/pub/yashar/p...
open.substack.com/pub/yashar/p...
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.
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Until last month, Forrest Smith was the only person at the National Park Service tracking and plugging leaking oil wells across U.S. national parks.
Now he’s gone — and the methane is still spewing.
Read the full story: https://nyti.ms/4hD6rWg
Now he’s gone — and the methane is still spewing.
Read the full story: https://nyti.ms/4hD6rWg
November 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Until last month, Forrest Smith was the only person at the National Park Service tracking and plugging leaking oil wells across U.S. national parks.
Now he’s gone — and the methane is still spewing.
Read the full story: https://nyti.ms/4hD6rWg
Now he’s gone — and the methane is still spewing.
Read the full story: https://nyti.ms/4hD6rWg
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Trump’s unfiltered vulgarity and misogyny are indisputably on display as his dementia-related disinhibition increases
President Piggy
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Trump’s unfiltered vulgarity and misogyny are indisputably on display as his dementia-related disinhibition increases
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The first reporter who responds to Trump by saying, "Why are you such a jerk?" will become a folk hero.
Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The first reporter who responds to Trump by saying, "Why are you such a jerk?" will become a folk hero.
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So here’s what apparently happened: they tried to indict Comey on the last day of the statute with a three-count indictment. The grand jury rejected one. Rather than cross it out or indicate on the indictment that only two of the three counts were voted upon, Halligan creates…/1
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
So here’s what apparently happened: they tried to indict Comey on the last day of the statute with a three-count indictment. The grand jury rejected one. Rather than cross it out or indicate on the indictment that only two of the three counts were voted upon, Halligan creates…/1
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VAN EPPS: “I fully support ICE”
TN-7 candidate Matt Van Epps (R) makes it clear he will be a rubber stamp for Trump’s lawless masked racial profiling army currently terrorizing brown people across the country a grabbing people with no due process, including citizens
TN-7 candidate Matt Van Epps (R) makes it clear he will be a rubber stamp for Trump’s lawless masked racial profiling army currently terrorizing brown people across the country a grabbing people with no due process, including citizens
November 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
VAN EPPS: “I fully support ICE”
TN-7 candidate Matt Van Epps (R) makes it clear he will be a rubber stamp for Trump’s lawless masked racial profiling army currently terrorizing brown people across the country a grabbing people with no due process, including citizens
TN-7 candidate Matt Van Epps (R) makes it clear he will be a rubber stamp for Trump’s lawless masked racial profiling army currently terrorizing brown people across the country a grabbing people with no due process, including citizens
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ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution.
OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.
wapo.st
October 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
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Bailing out Argentina is—if any rules of politics still exist—so mind-bogglingly stupid.
$40 BILLION. More than what was cut from USAID. Enough to pay for about half of what's cut from SNAP.
Meanwhile, US farmers are awaiting their bailout, which is Trump-inflicted and will not make them whole.
$40 BILLION. More than what was cut from USAID. Enough to pay for about half of what's cut from SNAP.
Meanwhile, US farmers are awaiting their bailout, which is Trump-inflicted and will not make them whole.
October 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Bailing out Argentina is—if any rules of politics still exist—so mind-bogglingly stupid.
$40 BILLION. More than what was cut from USAID. Enough to pay for about half of what's cut from SNAP.
Meanwhile, US farmers are awaiting their bailout, which is Trump-inflicted and will not make them whole.
$40 BILLION. More than what was cut from USAID. Enough to pay for about half of what's cut from SNAP.
Meanwhile, US farmers are awaiting their bailout, which is Trump-inflicted and will not make them whole.
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October 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Donald Trump and Republicans have nothing to offer the American people. So they feed their base lies about immigrants. Pathetic.
Leader Hakeem Jeffries lays it out.
Leader Hakeem Jeffries lays it out.
October 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Donald Trump and Republicans have nothing to offer the American people. So they feed their base lies about immigrants. Pathetic.
Leader Hakeem Jeffries lays it out.
Leader Hakeem Jeffries lays it out.
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Here's how the whole Jimmy Kimmel fiasco went down, step by step. Read this gift article for free. This is a major downgrade of what this country once stood for.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Here's how the whole Jimmy Kimmel fiasco went down, step by step. Read this gift article for free. This is a major downgrade of what this country once stood for.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
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September 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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The right side of Trump's face was drooping during a 9/11 commemoration today (Getty)
September 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The right side of Trump's face was drooping during a 9/11 commemoration today (Getty)
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"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
September 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
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Hidden camera FTW
DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt admitted that the government will "redact every republican" and "leave all the liberal, democratic people” on the Epstein client list.
He also said Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a minimum securithy prison as "a benefit to keep her mouth shut."
He also said Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a minimum securithy prison as "a benefit to keep her mouth shut."
September 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Hidden camera FTW
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