Lauren
imbisstube.bsky.social
Lauren
@imbisstube.bsky.social
Politics, health policy, rstats, and various diversions.
Pittsburgh hometown, live in MD. YIMBY. Toddler mom.
Did JD Vance drop a trophy on the Pope?
April 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Been traveling this week (mostly Pittsburgh) and the Garcia/El Salvador story is coming up all the time. Main topic at Dem town halls/campaign events, I'm overhearing people talking about it at cafes, etc.

There's a DC CW that Dems should pivot to some issue that polls better. Not their choice imo
April 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
A lot fewer people will have chronic disease if they die young from measles
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Gift link to WSJ piece slamming Trump J6 pardons. This is a good graph that lays waste to the idea Trump pardoned innocents.

www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
January 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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The thing is it’s impossible to square the need to pardon your family out of fear of a lawless president with the need to attend his inauguration to preserve democratic norms. If you have to do the former there no longer are democratic norms.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden, in final act in office, issues pardons to his family members, due to 'unrelenting attacks' from Trump and allies.
January 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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This is madness. If other countries want to sell us solar on the cheap so we can expedite adoption of clean energy, let them. Either climate change is a crisis, or it isn't.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
US sets tariffs for solar panels from Southeast Asian nations
U.S. trade officials announced on Friday a new round of tariffs on solar panel imports from four Southeast Asian nations after American manufacturers complained that companies there are flooding the market with unfairly cheap goods.
www.reuters.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:27 AM
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Dems are somehow responsible for anarchists in portland who don’t even vote for them while republicans are not responsible for the proud boys who stormed the capitol on Trump’s behalf.
November 29, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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If you spend your whole campaign disavowing something, you can’t claim afterwards the voters gave you a mandate to do it.
November 30, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Remember when the Republican Party impeached a President for having a consensual affair with an adult woman intern?

Wonder what happened to those people.
November 21, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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November 9, 2024 at 7:51 PM