Laura Rich
@laurarich.bsky.social
Former journalist surviving in the diaspora. https://mastheadatthemargin.substack.com
And this IS why you shut down the government, it's worth fighting for, Dems should stand behind that, own it.
The Republican One Big Ugly Bill cut $186 billion from SNAP.
That’s the largest cut to nutritional assistance in American history.
And now the extremists want to force millions more to go hungry.
Enough.
That’s the largest cut to nutritional assistance in American history.
And now the extremists want to force millions more to go hungry.
Enough.
October 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
And this IS why you shut down the government, it's worth fighting for, Dems should stand behind that, own it.
NOT ENOUGH is being made of the violent misogyny of the disappearing of the East Wing.
@19thnews.org
@19thnews.org
First ladies made history in the East Wing. It was razed for Trump’s ballroom.
The East Wing is home to the Office of the First Lady and has played a key role in women’s visibility in the White House.
19thnews.org
October 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
NOT ENOUGH is being made of the violent misogyny of the disappearing of the East Wing.
@19thnews.org
@19thnews.org
As journalism as a career evolves, there are so many paths, as I have pointed out in my Substack column "Journalists, where are they now" -- Bob Cohn's is a great story of building on journalism for a great career on the business side.
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May 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As journalism as a career evolves, there are so many paths, as I have pointed out in my Substack column "Journalists, where are they now" -- Bob Cohn's is a great story of building on journalism for a great career on the business side.
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Or inept. But probably they just thought no one would notice the math isn’t about tariffs.
Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.
April 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Or inept. But probably they just thought no one would notice the math isn’t about tariffs.
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This was….five months ago
April 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This was….five months ago
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A reminder to reporters: Because Trump tariff numbers are made-up nonsense, using the phrase “reciprocal tariffs” is lying to your audience. The phrase itself is propaganda. They are not reciprocal.
April 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
A reminder to reporters: Because Trump tariff numbers are made-up nonsense, using the phrase “reciprocal tariffs” is lying to your audience. The phrase itself is propaganda. They are not reciprocal.
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Schumer & Jeffries should resign from leadership, they are not equipped to lead the opposition party against an authorarian regime.
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Schumer & Jeffries should resign from leadership, they are not equipped to lead the opposition party against an authorarian regime.
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The headlines SHOULD say something along the lines of:
For second time, Trump violates the law to help Putin, this time in bid to end democracy.
For second time, Trump violates the law to help Putin, this time in bid to end democracy.
March 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The headlines SHOULD say something along the lines of:
For second time, Trump violates the law to help Putin, this time in bid to end democracy.
For second time, Trump violates the law to help Putin, this time in bid to end democracy.
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
February 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
Many a woman will recognize this tone in the petty messages they get from exes trying to "catch" them or "punish" them for not being duly submissive in all interactions.
The Trump DOJ is big mad about their finest legal minds being humiliated in court
February 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Many a woman will recognize this tone in the petty messages they get from exes trying to "catch" them or "punish" them for not being duly submissive in all interactions.
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COME WORK WITH ME!
Are you a local journalist looking to spend a year diving into an accountability project of importance to your community?
@propublica.org is accepting our next round of Local Reporting Network proposals.
Deadline: April 14
*Applying will be more fun than doing your taxes.
Are you a local journalist looking to spend a year diving into an accountability project of importance to your community?
@propublica.org is accepting our next round of Local Reporting Network proposals.
Deadline: April 14
*Applying will be more fun than doing your taxes.
ProPublica Opens Application for Five New Local Partners for Its 50 State Initiative
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
www.propublica.org
February 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
COME WORK WITH ME!
Are you a local journalist looking to spend a year diving into an accountability project of importance to your community?
@propublica.org is accepting our next round of Local Reporting Network proposals.
Deadline: April 14
*Applying will be more fun than doing your taxes.
Are you a local journalist looking to spend a year diving into an accountability project of importance to your community?
@propublica.org is accepting our next round of Local Reporting Network proposals.
Deadline: April 14
*Applying will be more fun than doing your taxes.
We are soon to be living under the operating system of King Rao. (A good read when it's only escapist dystopian fiction not a glimpse into a future state.)
February 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We are soon to be living under the operating system of King Rao. (A good read when it's only escapist dystopian fiction not a glimpse into a future state.)
How to stop Elon, according to Grok:
February 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
How to stop Elon, according to Grok:
Recommendations from Musk's Grok on how to stop Elon's illegal activities in accessing data and firing workers:
February 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Recommendations from Musk's Grok on how to stop Elon's illegal activities in accessing data and firing workers:
Elon's management model in a nutshell, playing out across our government.
* flatter structures <--fire the middle managers
* strategic decision-making concentrated at the top <--Elon, Trump, cronies
* everything below optimized and executed by AI and specialized teams <--fire everyone else
* flatter structures <--fire the middle managers
* strategic decision-making concentrated at the top <--Elon, Trump, cronies
* everything below optimized and executed by AI and specialized teams <--fire everyone else
February 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Elon's management model in a nutshell, playing out across our government.
* flatter structures <--fire the middle managers
* strategic decision-making concentrated at the top <--Elon, Trump, cronies
* everything below optimized and executed by AI and specialized teams <--fire everyone else
* flatter structures <--fire the middle managers
* strategic decision-making concentrated at the top <--Elon, Trump, cronies
* everything below optimized and executed by AI and specialized teams <--fire everyone else
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Bad headline from Reuters and too many others. Vance was gaslighting the free world into rolling back regulations so that his puppetmasters Thiel and Musk have an easier time highjacking elections with their allies in Russia www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Vance uses Munich speech to criticize Europe for censoring free speech
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance on Friday used his speech at the Munich Security Conference to criticize Europe for what he said was censorship of free speech and said the continent faces a "threat from within," without offering any specifics on ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Bad headline from Reuters and too many others. Vance was gaslighting the free world into rolling back regulations so that his puppetmasters Thiel and Musk have an easier time highjacking elections with their allies in Russia www.reuters.com/world/europe...
I use 5 Calls, super easy, no excuses. Inundating politicians with calls from constituents lets them know which issues to fight for in order to keep their jobs.
We're getting more calls now than at any time since I've been in Congress. I'm helping out on the phones, talking to constituents about what I'm doing to stand up for the country and federal workers under attack by Trump and Elon Musk.
I welcome your calls, I am listening, and your voice matters.
I welcome your calls, I am listening, and your voice matters.
February 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I use 5 Calls, super easy, no excuses. Inundating politicians with calls from constituents lets them know which issues to fight for in order to keep their jobs.
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One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.
February 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.
"You can't shoot values"?? What TF does that even mean? More to the point, does he have any idea what he is saying.
Hegseth at NATO summit: "We can talk all we want about values. Values are important. But you can't shoot values."
February 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"You can't shoot values"?? What TF does that even mean? More to the point, does he have any idea what he is saying.
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In the three weeks Elon Musk has been in charge of unilaterally slashing government spending, the U.S. government has paid one of his companies, SpaceX, more than $43 million.
February 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
In the three weeks Elon Musk has been in charge of unilaterally slashing government spending, the U.S. government has paid one of his companies, SpaceX, more than $43 million.
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
Breakfast this morning, NPR on the smart speaker, spewing all kinds of unwanted news out of the current administration.
Son, 13, asks genuinely: Is this Fox News?
Me: No it's just actually the news, it's that bad
Son, 13, asks genuinely: Is this Fox News?
Me: No it's just actually the news, it's that bad
January 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Breakfast this morning, NPR on the smart speaker, spewing all kinds of unwanted news out of the current administration.
Son, 13, asks genuinely: Is this Fox News?
Me: No it's just actually the news, it's that bad
Son, 13, asks genuinely: Is this Fox News?
Me: No it's just actually the news, it's that bad
This is some straight up Nazi sh*# right here:
“We will support everyone at the federal, state and local levels who joins this critical mission to take back our communities... and use all available tools to address obstruction and other unlawful impediments to our efforts to protect the homeland.”
“We will support everyone at the federal, state and local levels who joins this critical mission to take back our communities... and use all available tools to address obstruction and other unlawful impediments to our efforts to protect the homeland.”
Trump Administration Begins Immigration Arrests in Chicago
Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney general, went to Chicago to observe as a host of agencies launched the operation as part of the Trump administration’s stepped-up deportation efforts.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This is some straight up Nazi sh*# right here:
“We will support everyone at the federal, state and local levels who joins this critical mission to take back our communities... and use all available tools to address obstruction and other unlawful impediments to our efforts to protect the homeland.”
“We will support everyone at the federal, state and local levels who joins this critical mission to take back our communities... and use all available tools to address obstruction and other unlawful impediments to our efforts to protect the homeland.”