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Laura Maguire
@lumagoo.bsky.social
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Child free dog momma, crazy plant lady, master of disguises, queen of puddings, liqueurist
Former Director of Research & Advancement for nationally syndicated radio program Philosophy Talk
PhD in Philosophy (Stanford)

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Love this idea! You want our taxes? Then comply with the constitution and quit your corrupting.
Employers across blue states withhold federal taxes from worker paychecks every year and send that money straight to the IRS. State legislatures can order them to stop. Pass a law requiring every employer in the state to redirect federal tax withholdings to a state escrow account instead of D.C. The money then sits in state control. Does the federal government want access? Then they can submit to independent audit proving funds will be allocated according to congressional appropriations, not redirected through executive action. Demonstrate spending complies with constitutional limits and active court orders. Prove compliance with anti-commandeering doctrine and due process protections. Pass the audit, get the money. Fail it, the billions stay in escrow until constitutional compliance can be verified. The escrow mechanism also functions as anti-corruption compliance oversight. States aren’t refusing to remit taxes arbitrarily. They’re establishing accountability for an executive that operates above constitutional limits. When the administration runs pay-for-pardon schemes, accepts private jets from foreign governments in violation of the emoluments clause, and uses federal resources for quid pro quo arrangements, states have authority to demand verification that tax dollars aren’t financing corruption before releasing funds.
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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In the final stages of filtering my plum liqueur, made with Santa Rosa plums from my garden. The one on the right has been filtered through a metal coffee filter, and the one on the left has additionally gone through a paper coffee filter. It takes forever, but the clarity achieved is worth it.
Two glass pitchers sit side by side on a kitchen counter. They are each half full of a red liquid and there is a light shining behind them, revealing that the liquid on the right is brighter and thus more transparent than the one on the left. Close up of two glass pitchers sitting side by side, half full of a red liquid with a light shining behind them, revealing that the liquid on the right is brighter and thus more transparent than the one on the left.
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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And I discovered the slow-mo effect on my phone camera!
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Gorgeous afternoon today at Thornton Beach in Daly City. Temps were in the mid 70s and not a cloud in the sky.
Woman in a sun hat takes a selfie at the beach with friend and dogs blurry behind her A woman walks barefoot at the edge of the water on the beach with the sun shining brightly and reflecting on the wet sand A woman on the beach almost in silhouette from the bright low sun throws a ball from a chuckit for a dog A woman on the beach almost in silhouette from the bright low sun throws a ball from a chuckit for a dog
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Ridiculous appointment by Lurie. Not only has she zero relevant experience, but she also couldn't have been bothered to vote in the last three elections.
Alcaraz, who is of Filipina-Chinese heritage, does not speak Chinese. Her voting record in San Francisco is spotty: She did not cast a ballot in last year’s Democratic primary, a loaded ballot featuring myriad state and local issues as well as the presidential contest. She also did not vote in the February 2022 election featuring the school board recall and a State Assembly contest, nor in the November 2019 municipal election featuring races for mayor, DA, school board and five ballot propositions.
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Three of the four Christmas puddings I made yesterday. I'll steam the last one tomorrow.

#XmasPud
Three dark fruit puddings sit on three plates
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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The first three puddings are now being steamed. I'll leave them on for eight to ten hours. The fourth one I'll steam tomorrow.

#XmasPud
Two lidded pudding molds, one red, one clear, sit atop a canning rack inside a huge pot with steam rising up around the molds A large metal pudding mold with lid sits inside a pot with a glass lid, which has condensation on the inside from the rising steam
November 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Adding the first can of draft Guinness to the mix (I added two cans total).

#XmasPud
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Four and a half lbs of dry ingredients.

#XmasPud
Large stainless steel mixing bowl with flour and other dry ingredients
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Five and a half lbs of fresh fruit, dried fruit, and fruit peels, soaked in four different kinds of liquor and fruit juices.

#XmasPud
Large stainless steel mixing bowl full of small pieces of fruit
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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We're all feeling optimistic, mofo!

Creepy Cuomo is out and Mamdani has won!!
2 hours ago Andrew Cuomo optimistic as NYC mayoral election sees high turnout: 'We feel good' By Matt Troutman The mayoral race's historic high turnout is good sign for Andrew Cuomo's chances, his dogged spokesman Rich Azzopardi said. "We feel good," he said. "We got the turnout we wanted." A whopping 1.85 million voters — and counting — have cast ballots in the high-stakes race, according to Board of Elections totals. [Photo of Creepozoid waving after voting for himself today]
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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The swimming sisters AKA the soggy doggies. Today at McLaren Park in San Francisco.
October 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
Image from British comedy show, The Mighty Boosh. Three men in sunglasses and red leather jackets with very long white fringes, and an ape in sunglasses stand in front of a green van.
October 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Jacobin can seriously go fuck themselves with this BS. So women, Black Americans, LGBT Americans, and disabled Americans should STFU because Platner is the cishet, white, male, gun-toting populist we need on the left? Does this Brando idiot actually hear himself?? Unbelievable.
Main text: So almost as soon as Mills, the party establishment’s handpicked candidate, entered the race against Platner, he has all of a sudden been hit with a series of damaging stories about dumb things he said more than a decade ago on the internet: offensive statements about black Americans and women; his use of the words “retard” and “gay” as derogatory terms; his support for fighting tyranny with semiautomatic rifles, indistinguishable from any National Rifle Association ad in the past twenty years; and now a tattoo he drunkenly got with his military buddies in Croatia that he didn’t realize at the time was a Nazi symbol. (Platner has now apologized and had the tattoo redone.) One of the other controversies is that he wore an “antifa supersoldier” label on his military gear. Side quote: How does any of this square with what the Democratic establishment has been saying about cancel culture and inviting working-class men back into the tent?
October 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Bad at inferring, bad at trolling, good at getting blocked. Byeee, AH!
October 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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You gotta love that Catherine Connolly rode a bike to vote on Friday. #Aras25

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/24/ireland-votes-for-next-president-as-polls-predict-landslide-for-catherine-connolly
Catherine Connolly rode her bike to the polling station this morning. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Media (woman standing next to her bicycle, which is leaning against a wall)
October 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Happy 3rd anniversary to me and this girl, my incredible Jackie! She was my second foster dog and my first foster fail. I love her more than anything!! 😍😍😍
Cute black puppy sits on the sidewalk. Handsome black dog poses next to a river. Cheeky black dog with her face covered in sand licks her nose on the beach. Goofy black dog lies on her back with her paws by her face. She looks like she's laughing.
October 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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GTFOOH, Fascists! Go back to your Xitter cesspool where you're welcome.
Clearsky list of "Top Blocked Last 24H" which is all new governmental Bsky accounts, with @whitehouse-47 at the top of the list.
October 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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I'm going to go with yes.
DVD cover of "Triumph of the Will," Leni Riefenstahl's movie glorifying Hitler and the Nazis
October 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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The Supreme Court Wants to Convert Your Kids

Great article by @elienyc.bsky.social

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
What this case shows is that the Republicans on the Supreme Court are as much at war with “facts,” “science,” and “experts” as any MAGA yokel watching TikTok doctors and doing “their own research.” The difference between these Republicans and those refusing vaccines and taking Ivermectin is not education or enlightenment; it’s just that the Supreme Court justices have really good health insurance and can get a same-day appointment with the best doctor of their choice every time they get the sniffles.
October 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Not surprised who was willing to give up their "principles" for a 6- or 7-figure paycheck. Any of the comedians I had heard of who went were already well established as complete AHs... CK, Chappelle, Ansari, Burr, Carr.

They deserve to be skewered publicly. May it continue.
Perhaps the likes of Chappelle, Ansari and CK felt there was less at stake because, by their own estimation, they have already suffered cancellation. Except that their exile from public life appears to include fresh Netflix specials and Grammy awards. Louis CK should count himself lucky; if he’d been caught with his dick in his hand in Najd, rather than Colorado, he may well have retained neither of those appendages (punitive limb amputation is an actual thing). CK’s stance on murderous dictatorships seems to have changed since this full-throated criticism of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. But fair play to him in one sense for getting out of his comfort zone – he has a whole bit about giving up weed and yet here he is visiting a place where getting stoned is common. CK has defended himself thus: “I struggled about going once I heard what everybody was saying.” Truly, a man of integrity.
October 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Jackie and Gigi wish everyone a happy National Black Dog Day!

They want to let you know that black dogs like them don't get adopted at the same rates as lighter colored dogs. But look how beautiful they are!

#AdoptABlackDog #NationalBlackDogDay
Two black dogs lying together on a deck with their backs to the camera, looking out into a garden. Two black dogs curl up together on a dog bed. Two blacks dogs stand one behind the other in a field of tall dry grass. Two black dogs play together on a beach.
October 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Want to avoid SF parking cops?

Tough luck.
A screenshot of the website in question shows it is no longer functional. It says: RIP In rare lightning speed, the SF government changed their site within hours of this site going live. I can't get data from it anymore.
September 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Right on cue, the anti-park people are STILL whining on Nextdoor after winning their recall. Welcome to "progressive" San Francisco!
September 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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A voice of sanity amid the chaos. Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause (no paywall):

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What are we to make of a man who called for the execution of the American president, and then was executed himself? What are we to make of an NFL that, on one hand, encourages us to “End Racism,” and, on the other, urges us to commemorate an unreconstructed white supremacist? And what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself.
September 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM