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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Quick reminder that Democrats are about to win Georgia.

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Thank you to Sen. Mark Kelly for coming to Georgia to support Democrats up and down the ballot!

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Just as important as getting past the Trump era will be understanding what happened. The accountability won’t be there without understanding / reflection

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Reproductive Freedom for All @reproductivefreedomforall.org · 11/08/2026

We’re excited to endorse @keishaforga.bsky.social, @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social, @tanyaforgeorgia.bsky.social, and Judge Penny Brown Reynolds 🙌🏾 With one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, it has never been more important to elect leaders in Georgia who will defend reproductive freedom.

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Did you know on May 19 a record 2,000,000 Georgians voted in the primary election, and Georgia Democrats got 54% of those votes? Did you know that’s the highest primary vote share since 1998, the last time we won the Governor’s mansion?

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Oh no; it appears Donald Trump has endorsed against my campaign for Lieutenant Governor with all thirty-one percent of his approval rating.

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

30 minutes until Trump hands the midterms to Georgia Democrats

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The MAGA plot to subvert the 2026 midterm elections is coming into focus. 1. Declassify docs to claim 2020 was stolen. 2. Declare a "national emergency" to seize control of the election apparatus. 3. Hope the "national security" predicate keeps courts out. www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...

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MAGA media's laughable propaganda about Trump's popularity is instrumental to the plot to subvert elections

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Before GRANT, LAGOA, and WILSON, Circuit Judges.
GRANT, Circuit Judge:
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." U.S. Const. amend I. The First Amendment, incorporated against the States in 1868, is this country's written commitment to the idea that freedom of speech is essential to freedom of thought, and that both are essential to maintaining our liberty. The Supreme Court has long been clear that teaching and scholarship are due some measure of protection under the Amendment. But how much? And in what contexts? That Court has not had to say, but this one is now put to the test. The State of Florida legislated a broad set of speech restrictions banning certain viewpoints relating to race, color, sex, and national origin in various settings. The provision at issue here bars Florida's educators from promoting or endorsing those distavored ideas when instructing students. Its prohibition applies not only in primary and secondary education, where states traditionally exercise a great deal of control, but also in public colleges and universities, where the state government's role has been far more limited.
When several groups of professors challenged Florida's new restrictions, the State cast about for an existing case or doctrine that could support its speech ban in the university setting. Finding none, it tried to marry public-employee speech cases with government speech doctrine, resulting in a new rule: if the

government pays a professor's salary, it has total control over her classroom speech.
That is not a blessed union. Florida's salary-for-speech rule is a breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse in the very places the State's own statutes recognize as centers of inquiry-classrooms where students are trusted to puzzle through ideas that are good and bad, easy and hard, ideally getting ever closer to the truth. This new rule also runs headlong into the Supreme Court's repeated, if imprecise, endorsements of academic freedom. If the First Amendment offers any boundary of protection at all for public university classrooms, this statute crosses it.
Nor does this Court's leading academic speech precedent,
Bishop v. Aronov, demand the outcome Florida seeks. 926 F.2d 1066 (11th Cir. 1991). In fact, it counsels the opposite. The restriction in that case was imposed by one university, against one professor, relating to speech about one thing— personal religious views that got in the way of the course's well-understood parameters.

That precedent makes clear that universities and even other government entities have crucial authority to shape curricular content, discipline teachers, and take other steps to guide and govern postsecondary education. But the speech ban Florida's political leaders seek to impose here is different in both nature and degree from these ordinary concerns. The rule Florida developed for this case does not withstand scrutiny.
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Document: 156-1 Date Filed: 07/07/2026 Page:
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The ideas Florida targets may well be noxious. Or maybe
not.
Either way, in this context the First Amendment trusts students to figure it out for themselves. We affirm the district court's preliminary injunction.

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This is why I have waged war against predatory car booting in Georgia. The issue resonates with voters more than pundits expect because it’s actually about declining third spaces and the cost of living.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I see a lot of “so-and-so is a birthright citizen” because their parents weren’t citizens when they were born on American soil. But the truth is, we’re all birthright citizens, unless we have been naturalized.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Dolezal is the Republican I’m running against for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia. He is an election denier and has to be stopped. I just won the primary and became the Democratic nominee last week. My website is joshforgeorgia.com - would love to have you on the team.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/06/2026

BREAKING: Georgia lawmakers have taken redistricting off the table as a result of public pressure. The state will no longer consider a new, racist map that would have diluted Black voting power. This victory makes it loud and clear: Our demands are working.

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Last night I became Georgia Democrats’ nominee for Lieutenant Governor. I’m honored to have this chance to chart a new course for Georgia state government for the first time in 20 years. Very grateful to my friends and supporters for the hard work to get this far. Let’s get it done in November.

Graphic of Josh McLaurin with the banners “thank you” at the top and “Election Day Nov. 3” at the bottom

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Honored to have Stacey Abrams’s endorsement in my campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia. Election Day (primary runoff) is this Tuesday!

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Georgia: did you know there’s a primary runoff? Early voting June 8-12 (including June 6 if you’re in Gwinnett, DeKalb, Fulton, or Cobb) Election Day June 16!

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Over the last 48 hours, my campaign for Lieutenant Governor received the endorsement of Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. I’m incredibly grateful to both of them for their endorsement and leadership. We are building the team that will win in Georgia for the first time in 20 years!

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

When I’m asked about “hope” on the campaign trail, I often mention Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The federal government brought its full weight down on him - illegal deportation, violation of court orders, state-sponsored smears, torture prison, contrived indictment - yet he’s back home and still standing.

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I’m excited to be in the June 16 runoff for the Democratic nomination for GA’s Lieutenant Governor. We won 115/159 counties last night with 41.4% of the vote - we’re heading into the runoff in the lead. Grateful to all my friends and supporters who worked hard for this result. Four weeks to go!

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

580,000+ Democratic early voters in Georgia - expecting to hit a million Dem primary voters in total on Election Day this Tuesday. If you’re looking for an indication of what November will be like in Georgia… here it is.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 14/05/2026

Corporations and politicians have worked together to obstruct workers’ ability to join together in unions and build power, especially in the South. Community benefits agreements are the way forward. More from Nashville and Middle Tennessee CLC President @unionwoman.bsky.social:

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We Have the Power to Turn Manufacturing Investments Into Good Jobs in the South

Community benefit agreements can secure strong labor protections, environmental standards, and local investments.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/05/2026

Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.” (Published Dec. 2022)

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She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Kemp has called a special session in Georgia for June 17, to do the same thing the other southern states are doing. It’ll be all hands on deck to try to protect Black voting power in Georgia.

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Alito’s primary strategic weakness (and the reason the incumbent scotus will lose to a popular reform movement) is his arrogant belief that his legal reasoning is stronger than the forces it masks

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026

i have said this before but the hate you have for citizens united is imo more properly reserved for buckley v. valeo

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 04/05/2026

I’m in a union — I have friends everywhere.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

“More blue districts” is not the same as protecting Black voting power - this is something that must be made clear as the VRA is demolished and redistricting wars continue to escalate

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 28/04/2026

On Workers Memorial Day, America’s unions mourn the workers who have lost their lives or been injured or made ill on the job. Every worker should be able to go home after their shift safe and healthy, and we’ll keep fighting like hell to make that a reality for every worker.

Hold the line for safe jobs. Workers Memorial Day | April 28 | AFL-CIO

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

About to appear on GPB for the Atlanta Press Club debates at 6:30 pm! Livestream available. Excited to make my case for the May 19 primary.

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Early voting for the primary in Georgia begins in 3 days

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Jon Ossoff is gonna smoke Mike Collins

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Really grateful to have the Georgia AFL-CIO’s endorsement in my race for Lieutenant Governor. As income/wealth inequality and corporate greed keep getting worse, it matters immensely to have the trust of working people in building a campaign to fight back. Thankful to my friends in organized labor.

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Suddenly more excited for JD to come stump for Georgia Republicans at my alma mater, UGA, this week

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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 08/04/2026

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

IMO there’s been a big shift between when Trump’s unhinged posts / rants were coded as powerful versus now, when they are coded as not. Don’t know if it’s as simple as public opinion shifting, but there’s clearly a sense everyone has been tired of it for months—including his 2024 coalition.

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Bill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

got to share this @bencollins.bsky.social banger with some colleagues today and am now sharing it here because he really did nail it

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