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LauraBeverage.bsky.social

@laurabeverage.bsky.social
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Reawakened activist after the election debacle of Nov. 2016. Fierce mom and grandmom, fighting for a better future for them all. Unsolicited DM's will get you blocked, as will a whiff of MAGA, and I'm not here to private chat with strangers.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 05/10/2026
Arrival in Alaska. I wish someone moved to help.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
JD Vance insists Trump's taxpayer-funded campaign ads are "not partisan" and that he's "sure some people don't like it"
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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He's lying, he knows he's lying, and he lies as effortlessly as Trump. I remain of the opinion that this guy is likely to spend some period of time as POTUS between now and 2028 and he's going to be vile.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: Trump just caved — claiming online that his super PAC will now pay for those propaganda ads taxpayers had previously been funding.
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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One says "God made Trump."
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CapeCodCritter @capecodcritter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The ADs are not PSAs. The ads spread lies, therefore propaganda. There are laws against Trump using taxpayer funds to pay for the ads. The ads prove Low-T JD doesn’t know the the definition of partisan. www.huffpost.com/entry/vance-...
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JD Vance Says There's Nothing Partisan About Taxpayer-Funded Pro-Trump Ads
While the vice president said there was nothing unusual about the PSAs, the commercials featured many of Trump’s go-to attacks on his enemies.
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 05/10/2026
While the vice president said there was nothing unusual about the PSAs, the commercials featured many of Trump’s go-to attacks on his enemies.
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Vance Can't See Anything Partisan About Taxpayer-Funded Pro-Trump Ads
While the vice president said there was nothing unusual about the PSAs, the commercials featured many of Trump’s go-to attacks on his enemies.
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Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
An observation — from reading, yes, but also from experience: Very few political types have less respect for people than the populists do.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 05/10/2026
Vice President JD Vance told reporters that he sees no problem with the campaign-style TV ads featuring Trump that are being produced using taxpayer dollars and airing ahead of the midterm elections. “They are not partisan; it’s not like we’re advocating for a particular candidate.”
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Vance Sees “Nothing Unusual” in Taxpayer-Funded Ads Promoting Trump
Some critics have decried the ads as likely illegal, and potentially an impeachable offense.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That is not the legal criteria, and he knows it.
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LauraBeverage.bsky.social @laurabeverage.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sure they're not. She says with dripping sarcasm. I DON'T WANT MY TAX DOLLARS GOING TO ANYTHING WITH TRUMP SPEAKING ON IT.🤬🤬🤬
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Unikitty Unleashes Fiery Rage
ALT: Unikitty Unleashes Fiery Rage
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 05/10/2026
Donald Trump has used taxpayer money to fund a series of ads touting himself and attacking Democrats. trib.al/wDEY3xn
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JD Vance Says Trump’s Weird Midterm Ads Are “Not Partisan”
Donald Trump has used taxpayer money to fund a series of ads touting himself and attacking Democrats.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One of these was literally a Trump 2024 campaign ad. The only difference is that it now says "paid for by the US government"
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Stadtmueller, a Reagan appointee in Wisconsin, orders the release of an ICE detainee in part because of the "systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Driver-volunteers go to homes to drop off diapers, baby formula, toilet paper, groceries... "Drivers switch routes and cars, write addresses on paper, and carry a water bottle so they can drop the paper in water and obscure the addresses if stopped... kansasreflector.com/2026/10/02/t...
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Trump's immigration sweeps leave southwest Kansas communities looking for way forward • Kansas Reflector
DODGE CITY — Southwest Kansas communities reeling from President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown — which included random stops to check status — are looking for ways to recover as fear continues ...
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Want to make a difference on social justice but overwhelmed by EVERYTHING that needs fixing? I made a 10-minute Take Action Worksheet for accomplished progressives ready to pick their lane and put their energy where it matters. Get it here: bit.ly/4rDIEKM
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
OH GREAT.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
OK folks, our next workshop is here. Coming up on 10/15 at 12 noon ET, we're going to walk you through exactly how the landscape of political action is going to change after the midterms, and what YOU can do in 2027 to make sure we see accountability. www.rippleeffectinstitute.com/how-to-be-an...
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The Ripple Effect Institute
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South Jersey NOW Indivisible @sjnowindivisible.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The next meeting is Wed., Oct. 14, at 7 pm at the Mt Laurel Community Center. Doors open at 6:30 pm for coffee, cake, and mingling! Please bring a donation for the food bank for our Mutual Aid Group. Also, please bring a donation (no matter how small) to help fund our Nov. 4th party and postcarding.
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atburlco.bsky.social @atburlco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
32 Days Until Election Day. How can we make a difference? Critical ATBC Meeting: Thursday, Oct 8th at 7 pm New Location: Mt. Laurel Community Center.Community Center. (1 of 4)
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South Jersey NOW Indivisible @sjnowindivisible.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Join us at a special Ark Road Resistance rally Tuesday, 10/6, 4:30 - 5:30 PM, Ark Road at Rt 38 in Mt. Laurel to urge Congress to stop the practice of holding hearings on kids kidnapped by ICE and who are forced to testify in court without legal counsel.
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Steve Schmidt @thewarningses.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
HAWKWARD! 🏀 Hawks. Hawkeyes. Eric Schmitt mixed up the basketball teams while accusing Jack Smith of perjury. Meanwhile, Washington was floating him as a potential VP. The latest from The Warning on the Seven P’s — and the consequences of skipping them: steveschmidt.substack.com/p/hawkward
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Hawkward!
Eric Schmitt shoots an airball at Jack Smith as Washington talks him up for VP
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pathetic…..
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's Tuesday and it's time for SIDEBAR Live! Join me at 5:30 pm ET and we'll kick off today's show with @macfarlanenews.bsky.social who was at Former Special Counsel Jack Smith's testimony today before Senate Judiciary! youtube.com/live/x8ZPTJn...
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LIVE: Katie Phang Gives UPDATES on BREAKING NEWS - 9/29/2026
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
WH says Trump's new TV ads aren't campaign ads because he's not on the ballot One of them IS his campaign ad - - Same footage from 2024, minus the donate link, plus a govt funding tag Taxpayers are $1.7M in More @forbes.com👇 -TN
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Trump’s Controversial Taxpayer-Funded Ads Could Violate These Laws
Congress has long blocked government funds from being used on propaganda, though the Trump administration claims they’re “public service announcements.”
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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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LauraBeverage.bsky.social @laurabeverage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jack Smith testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee anntelnaes.substack.com/p/jack-smith...
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Jack Smith testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee
Republicans still turn a blind eye to the Jan 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Smut has absolutely saved my sanity this year and I will bear no shame when I share my reading list from 2026 at the end of the year. (Secretly waiting to see who has the courage to option Deep End.) (Also anxiously awaiting the TV adaptation of Fourth Wing.)
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FTR, because I am thinking about this a lot due to my kid’s high school curriculum: private property ownership in America is based on genocidal land theft from indigenous people. It is also at the root of our current housing crisis. How anyone can claim private property ownership is a “benefit” of
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A house in a state that isn’t trying to kill everyone. Dental implants. Groceries.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kid was asked to draw something representing capitalism. They drew a factory full of workers on one side, a billionaire on top of a pile of money on the other side, and a bunch of arrows with $$$ symbols moving from the workers to the billionaire. Nailed it.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The transcript, which CBS News New York exclusively obtained from a source, shows the victim told campus police more than three weeks after the alleged assault, "I can say with 100% confidence I was raped."" I mean JESUS CHRIST. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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DA in Cornell University case says he never saw transcript of campus police interview with alleged rape victim
Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten says he never saw a transcript of a conversation between an alleged rape victim and investigators showing what she told Cornell University campus p...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026
oh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Want to make a difference right now—but feel completely stuck about how to be effective in your activism? You don’t need to take on every crisis. You need to find your place in the work. bit.ly/4rDnCvC
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Her lawyer says the statement she made and the allegations in the lawsuit are the same.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just me sitting here 38-34 years later rolling through every single incident of sexual assault and rape culture I experienced in college that at the time was considered just part of the college experience.
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LauraBeverage.bsky.social @laurabeverage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am so, so sorry you had to go through this, Elizabeth. No one should endure anything like this.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Man. That new Taylor Swift song, Cleveland!, just has me smiling ear to ear. Happiness is infectious.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And one more thing: you will NEVER successfully turn out the vote for the long haul if you don't make people feel like they belong to the movement. It's actually a critical feature of political mobilization to CREATE COMMUNITY. GAH.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is snarky, funny and lovely, the meetups are great because everyone gets it and you don't have to explain any way you feel about *waves hands* any of this horror, and it makes everyone involved feel seen. People are *desperate* for belonging and joy right now. Don't be an asshole by denying it.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This post really pissed me off. As someone who has been an activist for forty years and training activists, organizers and non-profit leaders for 15 years, one of the most relevant factors for continued engagement is whether people enjoy the work, feel like they belong, and find community in it.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This seems fine, I can’t think of any reasons why we might need counterterrorism expertise right now
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Cornell gang r*ape case has me wanting to burn down everything. An ESSAY?! For drugging and r*aping a woman for SEVEN HOURS and advertising it on the fraternity group chat? And no one stopped it, called security, did a damn thing? ARE YOU FCKING KIDDING ME?
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There are no circumstances in which any of them should ever have any say over any aspect of student safety ever again. Fucking shameful.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I want every administrator involved in that Cornell rape case to be forced to resign.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just put this up on my Insta but it might as well be here too.
Slide: 5 Ways to Get involved in Activism Right Now. Want to make a difference but not sure where to start? Start here.

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