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Julie Laumann

@julielaumann.bsky.social
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Center-left Democrat, committed to human rights, police reform, climate action, gun control. NYU GSAS '00 (energy security; EU Energy Union)

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Julie Laumann @julielaumann.bsky.social · 8h
“In the anonymous vote, 48 lawmakers voted for Tobias Rausch, meaning that he likely received the support of some members of mainstream parties that have officially refused to work with the AfD.” #Germany
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Constantine Alexander @alexanderca.bsky.social · 11h
India Cut 130 Million From Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi. Public anger is growing over an exercise that is disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w...
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India Cut 130 Million From Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi (Gift Article)
Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government.
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Julie Laumann @julielaumann.bsky.social · 11h
The fruits of RFK's anti-vax crusade on full display. #MAHA
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h
Page One in Philly:
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h
“.. The catch? Children and their parents can’t pick the stocks or reject donated shares, and they can’t sell for five years.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h
MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvalt: “Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and…hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
———————————— “What is left for him to try, and what could states, courts, and the people do in response?” National Emergency Declaration Armed Federal Agents at the Polls Seizure of Election Materials Failure to Seat Congressional Democrats Undermining Voter Confidence By Rick Hasen—🎁GIFT LINK🎁
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How Trump Can—and Cannot—Still Mess With the Midterms (Gift Article)
If everyone remains vigilant and ready, we should make it safely to January.
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Julie Laumann @julielaumann.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“The country singer drew a historic crowd of 73,538 fans at Gillette Stadium while wearing a "Free Palestine" shirt. His band also wore supportive jerseys weeks after the venue's owner banned rapper Macklemore.” Zach Bryan breaks stadium record in protest
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Zach Bryan wears "Free Palestine" shirt at Gillette Stadium concerts weeks after Macklemore-Robert Kraft controversy
After Macklemore was barred from opening for Ed Sheeran at Gillette Stadium for pro-Palestinian comments, musician Zach Bryan wore a "Free Palestine" shirt during his Friday and Saturday shows.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Interestingly, the governor used her executive authority this summer to restore the voting rights to thousands of Virginians in line with this measure. They’ll now be able to vote on this, effectively removing this from being about the whims of future governors.
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Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights for Thousands With Past Felony Convictions - Bolts
This is the only state that was banning people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Arguably the biggest democracy referendum next month: Virginia is one of only three states where the state constitution says people should lose their right to vote FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIFE if they are convicted of any felony. This measure would allow anyone to vote after prison.
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“It’s Time”: Virginians Will Decide Whether to Repeal Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Ban on Voting - Bolts
Voters will decide this year whether to end Virginia’s uniquely harsh felony disenfranchisement rules. They'll also vote on abortion, gay marriage, and redistricting.
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🚨While negotiating peace in Ukraine, Trump’s envoys agreed to work on a $20 billion Russian oil deal involving investors tied to their business networks and requiring U.S. approval. (free article) theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/putin-rais...
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Themistocles’ Wall🇲🇽🇵🇷🇨🇷🇭🇳🇻🇪🇵🇦🇬🇵🇸🇻🇧🇿🇳🇮🇧🇷🇨🇴🇪🇨🇺🇾🇧🇴🇦🇷 @themistocleswall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
FREE ARTICLE LINK www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/s...
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This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature (Gift Article)
Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.
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Julie Laumann @julielaumann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.” This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature
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This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature
Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
👀 A chart of corruption... 🎁 NYT: U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets w/Trump’s envoys Kushner & Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new Qs about conflicts of interest. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
Chart from New York times article on potential Lukoil investor group that has ties to Trump, his family and allies.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think people like to see joyfulness and friendliness from political leaders instead of just dour seriousness all the time. Not much of that in Colorado politics (either party). Hick used to have it. Cory Gardner had it. Mike Johnston is probably the best version of it now.
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Julie Laumann @julielaumann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Kushner once again leveraging his nepotistic sinecure to lavishly feather his nest. #corruption #TrumpCrimeFamily
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CNN @cnn.com · 03/10/2026
A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4AIwBQs
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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 02/10/2026
Russian blogger Alexey Podnebesny, who has called himself an "anti-feminist" and has been associated with the incel movement, was sentenced to three years in prison in a case involving "indecent acts" with a 15-year-old follower. meduza.io/en/news/2026...
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Russian blogger Alexey Podnebesny sentenced to three years for indecent acts with a 15-year-old girl — Meduza
A St. Petersburg court sentenced blogger Alexey Podnebesny to three years in a penal colony for indecent acts involving a minor, Mediazona reported.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business on the September jobs report: "The numbers do not look good. I'm looking at 29,000 jobs added. That is well below expectations for 90,000, and our unemployment rate jumps up to 4.2%. A significant slowdown."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Listening to Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit wave away the sexual assault charges against DeShaun Watson — even saying “winning is the best deodorant” — was pretty jarring, especially this week.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not a novel observation by any means but the irony here, of course, is that it is precisely the UK’s successful approach to multiculturalism that has allowed us to generate a brown white nationalist.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. How is that .. number bigger than 100%? Apparently because earlier pledges were withdrawn.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/p...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again  Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!
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Julie Laumann @julielaumann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Between this lie and the mythical $54 billion South Korean investment, the internal GOP polling for Iowa and Alaska must be brutal.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most powerful animating force in my former political party is white Christian Nationalism.👇
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 01/10/2026
The family of Renee Good, the Minneapolis woman who was fatally shot by a federal immigration enforcement agent near her home in January, filed two federal lawsuits Thursday alleging wrongful death, among other contentions.
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Live: Renee Good’s family files lawsuits over fatal shooting by ICE agent
Renee Good was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in south Minneapolis by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.
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Julie Laumann @julielaumann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Since assuming office, Paxton left 730 workdays blank on his official calendars and took over 275 out-of-state trips to such places as California wine country, Caribbean resorts and European tourism hot spots, costing Texas taxpayers at least $1.9 million …It is unclear how he financed the travel.”
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Inside Ken Paxton's jet-setting lifestyle: California wineries, European hot spots and ski resorts
When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched his campaign for Senate last year, he skipped the local pageantry.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: Meta found a way to turn massive data centers into “pilot models” and cash in on a 1980s tax credit. The result? Meta avoided nearly $4 billion in taxes last year alone. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Steve Cavendish @scavendish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Witnesss: Pike, at one point, told people in the execution chamber that "the vein in my arm feels like it's about to bust"
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike, who was supposed to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, is still alive after the state tried and failed to execute her on Wednesday. TDOC officials refused to comment after the state’s second failed execution this year. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/30/c...
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Christa Pike survives botched lethal injection attempt - Nashville Banner
Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike for a 1995 murder, but the lethal injection failed. Pike survives and was moved to a medical facility.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I guess progress these days means going from rape academies to rape Ivy Leagues
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BIG WIN for making the Epstein Files public Judge Kollar-Kotelly grants summary judgment to us at @democracydefendersfund.org Orders DOJ to get busy giving us the docs. We will hold their feet to the fire!
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Klobuchar on Schmitt: "He's not aware that there's also women's sports ... because they wanted to do this to distract everyone, I would say they got their comeuppance"
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One suit, filed against New York, Massachusetts, and California, asks the U.S. Supreme Court to end shield laws—which would allow the conservative states to extradite abortion providers (among other horrors).
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The second suit, which names 30 providers, organizations, and pharmacies, seeks injunctions, damages—and threatens RICO claims down the line.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio
The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you need a refresher about the issues involved in release of Vol. 2 of Jack Smith’s report, you’re not alone. The case was briefed months ago, but has been sitting on the court’s docket waiting for oral argument. I wrote about it back then: joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-pas...
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Trump's Past Is Catching Up With Him
We’ve discussed Trump’s ongoing efforts to prevent the release of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on the now-dismissed classified documents prosecution against the president.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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