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Laura Gale

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Recovering journalist ☮️ Chicago

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Laura Gale @lauragale.bsky.social · 5h
Just what we need. Another rogue surveillance tool.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 13h
A criminal president with the power to appoint a corrupt Attorney General is a true weakness of our system. It immediately creates the largest criminal cartel on Earth.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Starting to worry that Supreme Court granting Trump the right to commit brazen crimes against US with no accountability was a bad idea. No possible way anyone could have foreseen this at the time. <sarcasm emoji>
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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
An op-ed by the guy who should be running the DNC, but somehow isn’t. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/o...
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Opinion | Want to Avoid Another Jan. 6? Defeat These Republicans. (Gift Article)
The 2028 election is on the ballot right now.
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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.” G. Orwell, “1984”
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Newsletter time. Alito is on the ballot in the midterms, in case creeping fascism wasn’t enough of a reason to vote. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
This November, Vote Like Alito Is on the Ballot
In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent gives Democrats another reason to vote in November. Plus: How Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s Medicaid unmasked the racists.
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Laura Gale @lauragale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think about this a lot. ⬇️ How will we help or re-educate these young people? I don’t think there is a “going back” to the old ways. There will need to be a new way forward and it’s going to take a lot of time and a lot of work.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remember it was Trump that called for the destruction of 2 American cities.
Not Mamdani. Not El-Sayed.
Not any Muslim.
Trump.
A white, billionaire, rapist, pedophile.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Obviously none of this is true, but incidentally: It is wild to talk about tax revenue as “profits.”
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Laura Gale @lauragale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Who will conduct the arrests? The problem is that there is no law at the federal level unless the executive branch enforces it. It’s a terrible loophole.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It seems like it should be a much bigger deal that Trump just completely fabricated a “deal” that he supposedly brokered between Putin and Zelenskyy to stop bombing energy infrastructure when both Russia and Ukraine denied it and never stopped bombing.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk.
NYT headline: A provocative streamer creates headaches for El-Sayed in key Senate race
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is basically extortion. "Nice little state you got here ... let's hope nothing happens to it if you don't vote the way I want you to."
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I know just enough economics to know this is fucking gibberish
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 14/09/2026
The bond market is warning that 45 years of Republican tax cuts and exploding debt may finally force ordinary Americans to pay for a party the wealthy already enjoyed... hartmannreport.com/p/is-america...
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Is America About to Get the Biggest “Special Assessment” in History?
The bond market is warning that 45 years of Republican tax cuts and exploding debt may finally force ordinary Americans to pay for a party the wealthy already enjoyed...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
They are supposed to be doing the jobs they are getting paid by taxpayers to do, not using their positions and government resources to fly around the country doing partisan political campaign events.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“If I’m paying for your wedding, at some point, you’re going to owe me something" Helluva story from @propublica.org today. Read every word.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
"It is indeed provocative, though not in the way the Times meant, for POTUS to either be lying about his role responding to the deadliest attack on US soil or so addled he thinks he was pulling away chunks of cement & narrowly escaping death from a tumbling building that then never actually tumbled"
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The muted response to Trump 9/11 fantasy is a media failure
It’s not “disputed.” He’s delusional.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yuuuuup…
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 10/09/2026
Votesafe dot org is an Elon Musk–run data vacuum, and under no circumstances should you click on it.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
2/ Ellison and Weiss need 10 million viewers for the 60 Minutes debut episode to be considered a success. Don't help them get to that number. My latest: jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/dont-watch...
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Don’t watch the Bari Weiss version of 60 Minutes
Even if the new show looks and sounds like the old show, remember that it’s now being run by people with a Trump-friendly political agenda and little respect for fact-based journalism.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Doubt America has devolved into a dictatorship and a kleptocracy? Jared Kushner is not a govt official. He’s just the son in law of Trump. Where are the experts? Where are the professionals appointed and confirmed? What a disgrace . www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/w...
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Putin Meets Witkoff and Kushner in Moscow to Discuss Ukraine War
President Vladimir V. Putin ordered a pause in strikes on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, ahead of the meeting with President Trump’s envoys: his son-in-law Jared Kushner and the businessman Steve Witkoff.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Occasional reminder that there is an ICC arrest warrant against Putin for war crimes in connection with the mass abduction of Ukrainian children.
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Laura Gale @lauragale.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’ve said from the beginning that political reporters should not have been assigned to cover him. It should have been crime reporters.
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holdmybooks @holdmybooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm also tired of how the media dances around Trump is actually not in charge and probably hasn't been at all for all of his second term. archive.is/https://www....
uring a White House meeting last week, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll brought his concerns about the future of the Army under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directly to President Trump—a sign of how far tensions between the two Pentagon leaders had escalated, and of the dysfunction inside the building, four people familiar with the conversation told us.

Trump was surprised when Driscoll told him how many generals and other top officers had been fired, pushed out, or passed over for promotion under Hegseth, one of the people said. Driscoll argued that the Army could not transform itself the way it needs to, because of the departure of so many leaders, this person said, adding that Trump expressed concern about the deep cuts to the Army’s senior leadership. Driscoll informed the president of his intention to resign—and by today, Driscoll was on his way out.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE.
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catwhisperer @catwhisperer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Laura Gale @lauragale.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Their philosophy for everything is if you don’t count it, it doesn’t exist or didn’t happen.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/08/2026
oh look, dems can easily leverage messaging to hijack, create, or redirect entire newscycles by exploiting the infotainment media's obsession with scaled ad engagement, who could have possibly imagined such a thing
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Who is Natalie Harp? Sen. Jon Ossoff puts Trump aide in spotlight
The former TV news anchor began working for Trump in 2022 and has become a close aide during his second term.
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Laura Gale @lauragale.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It’s the sin of omission to keep their consumers in the dark.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Most major media still won't say directly that the U.S. is sliding toward dictatorship. Will they ever sound the alarm, or will they be part of the most shameful episode of journalism neglect in our nation's history? My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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The media are missing the story of our lives: a looming dictatorship
News outlets’ downplaying of the danger is shameful journalism neglect
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/08/2026
Fox News graphic claims falsely that the average price of gas one year ago was $4.13, lower than it is right now. It was actually $3.14!
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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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The Final Battle for America's Democracy
January 3, When the Republican House Refuses to Seat the Democrat Majority-Elect to the 120th Congress
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2025
Trump: "The MMR I think should be taken separately. This is based on what I feel."
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Laura Gale @lauragale.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Where indeed? 🤬
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
❗️Zelensky: Today, many were shocked by another video of the Russian drone safari against people in Kherson. The man was injured by the explosion. The world must see this. It must see every fact that Russia has gone mad, and every fact that the Russian military enjoys killing and mocking people.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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Laura Gale @lauragale.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This just makes me sick. Who are we as a country?
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Laura Gale @lauragale.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
When will you start the shadow cabinet you promised a couple years ago? I’m not donating until I see some resistance.
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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is your periodic reminder that the worst people in American society elected a 34-time convicted felon to be their president.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump mentioned Maduro tonight as part of his election conspiracies. I stand by my prediction that he is going to make a deal with Maduro where he will say Venezuela was part of a conspiracy with China to rig 2020 in the US. That line tonight was another step to that happening.
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Laura Gale @lauragale.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
How do you get through to the people who think that if the president says it, it must be true?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Trump is saying the 2016 election (when Obama was president) was fair, and the 2024 election (when Biden was president) was also fair, but the 2020 election (when some guy named Trump was president) was a piece of crap.
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Catherine @accomplishedseer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation declares they're calling the shots in government. Politicians apparently serve the Heritage Foundation. Approximately 81% to 82% of their revenue comes from individual supporters. Only the upper class has representation. The working class funds their bishops.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It's very sad to watch a subpar mind further disintegrate in real time, but it is also essential for American journalists to make clear to readers that everything the President of the United States is now saying publicly is an utter and frighteningly dementia-fueled hallucination
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Senator Raphael Warnock speaks on the hate and bigotry toward Michelle Obama and women in general. #Pinks
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 14/06/2026
Mitch McConnell will receive a level of medical care he has spent his entire career preventing other Americans from having
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Laura Gale @lauragale.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
What a disgrace.
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