Laura
@gobosox54.bsky.social
Lover of democracy, cats, bird watching, TV and travel. Lifelong Democrat from New England🌻
This one made me laugh.. youtu.be/9Hc9_p0XIoY?...
Let's talk about the Trump admin posting its economic illiteracy on main....
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December 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This one made me laugh.. youtu.be/9Hc9_p0XIoY?...
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During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
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In just a few generations, it's gone from "women need you & you'll get one as a mate/domestic servant regardless of how you act" to "women can survive on their own & will only mate with you if you bring something to the table" and WOW men are not adjusting well.
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
In just a few generations, it's gone from "women need you & you'll get one as a mate/domestic servant regardless of how you act" to "women can survive on their own & will only mate with you if you bring something to the table" and WOW men are not adjusting well.
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
Verifiably true at town government and Democratic Town Committee levels! My DTC sent text messages to every single newly registered young Democrat in town inviting them to our caucus. Anyone with interest could have gone to the state convention. Sadly not a one responded.
from a state party director
December 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Verifiably true at town government and Democratic Town Committee levels! My DTC sent text messages to every single newly registered young Democrat in town inviting them to our caucus. Anyone with interest could have gone to the state convention. Sadly not a one responded.
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The 14th Amendment says that all people born in America, regardless of race are citizens and have a right to equal protection under the law. For SCOTUS to be remotely confused on that text speaks to their racism, not the Constitution (1/3) www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
Supreme Court agrees to decide if Trump may end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide if President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship with an executive order is constitutional, offering the justices an opportunity to revisit w...
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December 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The 14th Amendment says that all people born in America, regardless of race are citizens and have a right to equal protection under the law. For SCOTUS to be remotely confused on that text speaks to their racism, not the Constitution (1/3) www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
The people responsible for this are unspeakably cruel.
December 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The people responsible for this are unspeakably cruel.
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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 6:03 PM
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.
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"Postliberals often wildly misconstrue the history of liberal thought, interpreting the ideology’s core value to be libertine 'autonomy.'"
Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social reminder that post-liberals erase egalitarian liberalism from the story entirely:
jacobin.com/2025/12/post...
Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social reminder that post-liberals erase egalitarian liberalism from the story entirely:
jacobin.com/2025/12/post...
Postliberals Don’t Understand What’s Wrong With America
Frustrated with the state of America, some on the Right have come to embrace postliberalism, an ideology that seeks to invigorate conservative politics by rejecting equality.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"Postliberals often wildly misconstrue the history of liberal thought, interpreting the ideology’s core value to be libertine 'autonomy.'"
Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social reminder that post-liberals erase egalitarian liberalism from the story entirely:
jacobin.com/2025/12/post...
Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social reminder that post-liberals erase egalitarian liberalism from the story entirely:
jacobin.com/2025/12/post...
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We allow billionaires to thrive, but let the majority of Americans drown in medical debt.
A universal, affordable health care system should be the baseline — not the exception.
A universal, affordable health care system should be the baseline — not the exception.
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
We allow billionaires to thrive, but let the majority of Americans drown in medical debt.
A universal, affordable health care system should be the baseline — not the exception.
A universal, affordable health care system should be the baseline — not the exception.
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@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.
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Supreme Court Agrees to Review Trump Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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This is the story tonight. Every Dem who was in that room should be telling us what they saw.
Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."
December 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is the story tonight. Every Dem who was in that room should be telling us what they saw.
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i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
Donald Trump’s racist attack on Somali Americans
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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December 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
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How quickly we forget the BS excuses Republicans make up for military invasions. Does anyone remember weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?!?!
It’s almost always about oil. Another GOP president wants to use U.S. soldiers as pawns for big oil in his sick pursuit for money & power.
It’s almost always about oil. Another GOP president wants to use U.S. soldiers as pawns for big oil in his sick pursuit for money & power.
Trump is threatening to attack a country with more oil than Iraq | CNN Business
The United States appears ready for war with Venezuela, a prospect that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro this weekend attributed to America’s desire to control the country’s vast oil reserves.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
How quickly we forget the BS excuses Republicans make up for military invasions. Does anyone remember weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?!?!
It’s almost always about oil. Another GOP president wants to use U.S. soldiers as pawns for big oil in his sick pursuit for money & power.
It’s almost always about oil. Another GOP president wants to use U.S. soldiers as pawns for big oil in his sick pursuit for money & power.
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Ken Burns made a documentary about Americans who declared "No kings!" and rose up against the military occupation of their cities. What could possibly be polarizing about that? [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/a...
What ‘The American Revolution’ Says About Our Cultural Battles
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November 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Ken Burns made a documentary about Americans who declared "No kings!" and rose up against the military occupation of their cities. What could possibly be polarizing about that? [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/a...
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We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
“Neil deGrasse Tyson’s personal checklist for navigating the modern information landscape“. youtu.be/o4I_hOz_MLw?...
How to Tell What’s Real Online
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November 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“Neil deGrasse Tyson’s personal checklist for navigating the modern information landscape“. youtu.be/o4I_hOz_MLw?...
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About 40% of SNAP recipients are children. Around half of ALL children in the country are covered by Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
And the so-called “party of family values” gutted both programs by billions of dollars.
Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.
And the so-called “party of family values” gutted both programs by billions of dollars.
Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
About 40% of SNAP recipients are children. Around half of ALL children in the country are covered by Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
And the so-called “party of family values” gutted both programs by billions of dollars.
Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.
And the so-called “party of family values” gutted both programs by billions of dollars.
Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.
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Riddle me this, how in the fuck is this making our communities any safer? This ICE agent sprays this disabled woman directly in the face in St Paul, Minnesota with pepper spray and then throws her to the ground. I hope she sues the hell out of ICE for this‼️#Abolish 🧊🧊🧊
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Riddle me this, how in the fuck is this making our communities any safer? This ICE agent sprays this disabled woman directly in the face in St Paul, Minnesota with pepper spray and then throws her to the ground. I hope she sues the hell out of ICE for this‼️#Abolish 🧊🧊🧊
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This is a hugely important story. I wrote about its consequences already in "Road to Unfreedom" and we know much more now. If we want to be a democracy we have to create structures of factuality rather than selling our future to the loudest yeller in another country.
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is a hugely important story. I wrote about its consequences already in "Road to Unfreedom" and we know much more now. If we want to be a democracy we have to create structures of factuality rather than selling our future to the loudest yeller in another country.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has defied three child s*x-abuse networks: the one in the Catholic Church, the fictional one in QAnon, and now the Trump-Epstein ring.
newrepublic.com/article/2036... via @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2036... via @newrepublic.com
Good for Marjorie Taylor Greene (but She’s Still a Loopy Racist)
The shock announcement didn’t surprise everyone. She’s been tilting away from MAGA and toward America First for quite some time.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene has defied three child s*x-abuse networks: the one in the Catholic Church, the fictional one in QAnon, and now the Trump-Epstein ring.
newrepublic.com/article/2036... via @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2036... via @newrepublic.com
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“It's unconscionable, but it's a reality that we've accustomed ourselves to dealing with.” slate.trib.al/iDV9LaJ
How Planned Parenthood Got Defunded
Why clinics are closing from Mississippi to Manhattan.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
“It's unconscionable, but it's a reality that we've accustomed ourselves to dealing with.” slate.trib.al/iDV9LaJ
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