Anne Laurie
@annelaurie.bsky.social
Blogs at Balloon-Juice.com
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A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
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It only took four of us making a two-minute public comment about the library at the city council meeting for the councilors to restore the funding the mayor’s office had cut.
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It only took four of us making a two-minute public comment about the library at the city council meeting for the councilors to restore the funding the mayor’s office had cut.
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When Pete Hegseth tweeted he was investigating me, Gabby laughed and laughed.
December 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
When Pete Hegseth tweeted he was investigating me, Gabby laughed and laughed.
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After months of holding steady, Trump’s approval rating has slid to the lowest of his second term in recent weeks as voters sour on his handling of the economy, according to a @nytimes analysis of public polling. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
Trump’s Approval Rating Dips as Views of His Handling of the Economy Sour
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
After months of holding steady, Trump’s approval rating has slid to the lowest of his second term in recent weeks as voters sour on his handling of the economy, according to a @nytimes analysis of public polling. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
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NYT: “.. a wave of companies have begun petitioning officials” for tariff relief. “Businesses that depend on foreign materials .. argue that tariffs .. are simply raising consumer prices .. rather than encouraging more manufacturing ..”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/b...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/b...
December 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
NYT: “.. a wave of companies have begun petitioning officials” for tariff relief. “Businesses that depend on foreign materials .. argue that tariffs .. are simply raising consumer prices .. rather than encouraging more manufacturing ..”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/b...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/b...
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everything else aside, I know a few people in their late 70s and early 80s, who are fit active people and while they might doze off in front of the TV sometimes in the late afternoon, they don't fall asleep while people are talking to them in the middle of the conversation thats not "normal"
Biden never slept through meetings but Jake Tapper wrote a whole book about how he was too old.
December 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
everything else aside, I know a few people in their late 70s and early 80s, who are fit active people and while they might doze off in front of the TV sometimes in the late afternoon, they don't fall asleep while people are talking to them in the middle of the conversation thats not "normal"
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oh look if it isn't the single most pro-trans rights President and world leader ever, boy I'm so glad the LGBT community rallied behind him strong when.... whats that? oh.... hm...
December 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
oh look if it isn't the single most pro-trans rights President and world leader ever, boy I'm so glad the LGBT community rallied behind him strong when.... whats that? oh.... hm...
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Let’s meet him half way.
MacKenzie gets to kick out the trap door.
MacKenzie gets to kick out the trap door.
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Let’s meet him half way.
MacKenzie gets to kick out the trap door.
MacKenzie gets to kick out the trap door.
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The fix to this, the only play we have, is to make Kennedy a liability by going at him harder.
For months, have been getting the question: why does Trump let RFK Jr get away with [shocking public health decision]?
The answer is that the two men are kindred spirits on many of these issues — including and especially vaccines.
The answer is that the two men are kindred spirits on many of these issues — including and especially vaccines.
Why is Trump letting RFK Jr dismantle agencies and upend public health?
Shared grievances and skepticism about vaccines, a growing personal bond — and a belief that it’s good politics.
Inside their alliance, with @emilydavies.bsky.social and Natalie Allison
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Shared grievances and skepticism about vaccines, a growing personal bond — and a belief that it’s good politics.
Inside their alliance, with @emilydavies.bsky.social and Natalie Allison
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
December 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The fix to this, the only play we have, is to make Kennedy a liability by going at him harder.
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This was how I convinced my mother birthright citizenship was the only way to go. I told her that somebody could just claim she wasn't a citizen tomorrow. Her parents are dead. All her birth certificate says is where she was born. Nothing about citizenship there.
I have *zero* proof of citizenship because my parents has no proof because their parents have no proof and their parents have no proof… you have to go back to the early 1900s to find anyone in my family becoming naturalized.
Everyone after that got it by being born here: a birthright, if you will.
Everyone after that got it by being born here: a birthright, if you will.
December 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This was how I convinced my mother birthright citizenship was the only way to go. I told her that somebody could just claim she wasn't a citizen tomorrow. Her parents are dead. All her birth certificate says is where she was born. Nothing about citizenship there.
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Yeah, make American healthy again.
December 7, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Yeah, make American healthy again.
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Training your immune system first via vaccination, even for illnesses for which the vaccine does not provide sterilizing immunity, is a good idea.
Makes intuitive sense to me. I’d rather give my body a training run before facing a dangerous pathogen.
Makes intuitive sense to me. I’d rather give my body a training run before facing a dangerous pathogen.
“These findings support proactive vaccination policies over reliance on infection-acquired immunity and inform rapid response strategies for future pandemic threats.”
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
December 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Training your immune system first via vaccination, even for illnesses for which the vaccine does not provide sterilizing immunity, is a good idea.
Makes intuitive sense to me. I’d rather give my body a training run before facing a dangerous pathogen.
Makes intuitive sense to me. I’d rather give my body a training run before facing a dangerous pathogen.
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When Chief Justice Roger Taney died, an anonymous 68-page pamphlet was published condemning him for the Dred Scott ruling. Historians have speculated that Charles Sumner wrote it based on the writer lauding the Declaration and that Sumner was the type of guy to write a 68-page hater pamphlet.
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
When Chief Justice Roger Taney died, an anonymous 68-page pamphlet was published condemning him for the Dred Scott ruling. Historians have speculated that Charles Sumner wrote it based on the writer lauding the Declaration and that Sumner was the type of guy to write a 68-page hater pamphlet.
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The father of the most well known DOGE Nazis, Luke Farritor, is a professor at Nebraska.
In a just world, Luke would never see a free day for the rest of his life over his role in ending PEPFAR and USAID.
In a just world, Luke would never see a free day for the rest of his life over his role in ending PEPFAR and USAID.
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The father of the most well known DOGE Nazis, Luke Farritor, is a professor at Nebraska.
In a just world, Luke would never see a free day for the rest of his life over his role in ending PEPFAR and USAID.
In a just world, Luke would never see a free day for the rest of his life over his role in ending PEPFAR and USAID.
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there has to be a term in psychology for people who think everyone/every party in American politics are terrible, but also they spend 23 hours a day talking about American politics?
Obsessive negativism? idk political hipsterism? hmmm
Obsessive negativism? idk political hipsterism? hmmm
December 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
there has to be a term in psychology for people who think everyone/every party in American politics are terrible, but also they spend 23 hours a day talking about American politics?
Obsessive negativism? idk political hipsterism? hmmm
Obsessive negativism? idk political hipsterism? hmmm
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Oh yeah, that'll work.
December 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Oh yeah, that'll work.
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Mark Kelly: “Jobs are down. Wages are flat. Costs are up & this President is asleep — Like literally, he’s falling asleep on the job. It’s hurting the American people — He’s doing nothing to try to help people with the cost of groceries, rent, & healthcare”
December 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mark Kelly: “Jobs are down. Wages are flat. Costs are up & this President is asleep — Like literally, he’s falling asleep on the job. It’s hurting the American people — He’s doing nothing to try to help people with the cost of groceries, rent, & healthcare”
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And since they blew every man on board to smithereens we have nothing to go on except their word - but we already know there's not a single trustworthy soul in the entire Trump administration.
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling vessels.
nbcnews.to
December 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
And since they blew every man on board to smithereens we have nothing to go on except their word - but we already know there's not a single trustworthy soul in the entire Trump administration.
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This article opens with a 3-year-old forced to represent herself in court. We live in a fundamentally sick country.
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
This article opens with a 3-year-old forced to represent herself in court. We live in a fundamentally sick country.
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I don't agree with every decision and I think the messaging could be improved but there was no saving the ACA this fall. They did make sure kids got fed and they can't yank SNAP again in Feb.+
December 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I don't agree with every decision and I think the messaging could be improved but there was no saving the ACA this fall. They did make sure kids got fed and they can't yank SNAP again in Feb.+
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People still think the shutdown was the GOP's fault. They know the GOP is responsible for their healthcare premiums.
And we get to do it again in Feb.
There is no one magic trick the Dems can do aside from win back Congress.+
And we get to do it again in Feb.
There is no one magic trick the Dems can do aside from win back Congress.+
December 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
People still think the shutdown was the GOP's fault. They know the GOP is responsible for their healthcare premiums.
And we get to do it again in Feb.
There is no one magic trick the Dems can do aside from win back Congress.+
And we get to do it again in Feb.
There is no one magic trick the Dems can do aside from win back Congress.+
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And even then, that just stops the bleed via legislation.
This a long fight and even when we do everything right, it is still going to mostly look like losing for a long time.
But giving up is unforgivable.
This a long fight and even when we do everything right, it is still going to mostly look like losing for a long time.
But giving up is unforgivable.
December 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
And even then, that just stops the bleed via legislation.
This a long fight and even when we do everything right, it is still going to mostly look like losing for a long time.
But giving up is unforgivable.
This a long fight and even when we do everything right, it is still going to mostly look like losing for a long time.
But giving up is unforgivable.
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Oh, we also got Grijalva seated, spooked the GOP into releasing 20,000 Epstein emails, and got the legislation forcing the DOJ to release the Epstein files.
That knocked the shutdown cave right out of the media. +
That knocked the shutdown cave right out of the media. +
December 6, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Oh, we also got Grijalva seated, spooked the GOP into releasing 20,000 Epstein emails, and got the legislation forcing the DOJ to release the Epstein files.
That knocked the shutdown cave right out of the media. +
That knocked the shutdown cave right out of the media. +
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It was 43 days news of Johnson keeping the House on recess while refusing to negotiate to lower healthcare premiums. Half a day of "Dems Cave." And an absolute ridiculous week of the GOP and Trump trying to manage the Epstein email and files mess.
December 6, 2025 at 8:18 AM
It was 43 days news of Johnson keeping the House on recess while refusing to negotiate to lower healthcare premiums. Half a day of "Dems Cave." And an absolute ridiculous week of the GOP and Trump trying to manage the Epstein email and files mess.
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yeah the key to understanding all of this is they genuinely believe their own shit that Dems import voters as immigrants and by killing immigration, the democratic base is non-existent
little to no attention on their side about actual demographic politics
little to no attention on their side about actual demographic politics
IMO they all think that ending birthright citizenship is the key to destroying the cathedral, at which point they will hold power eternal and can exercise the economic shit at their leisure.
December 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
yeah the key to understanding all of this is they genuinely believe their own shit that Dems import voters as immigrants and by killing immigration, the democratic base is non-existent
little to no attention on their side about actual demographic politics
little to no attention on their side about actual demographic politics