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LauraGG

@lauragraham.bsky.social
216 followers 649 following 169 posts

Forest dweller, peace lover, coffee drinker, Speech-Language Pathologist, California Dem. Sarcasm? Yes. Hate? No.

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Francis Ford Copulate @francis-f-copulate.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
this new series is actually disappointing…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I’ll just note again that we are completely unprepared in our political discourse for a world in which Biden/Democrats had <actually> proposed what it’s now clear voters actually wanted. The SOCIALISM & “Dems have veered too far left” headlines from the GOP & Ezra Klein basically write themselves.
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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I am wondering why Lisa Leher from the @nytimes.com did not discuss the data that suggests political violence in the US in the current era mostly comes from the right. Seems like a strange fact to ignore. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...
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Like School Shootings, Political Violence Is Becoming Almost Routine
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Steven Crayne @startinggate.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
My wife takes care of dementia patients for a living, she said it so obvious he has dementia. Even the town idiot's know this but not @jaketapper.bsky.social
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 27/03/2025
Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This segment from @maryannefranks.bsky.social is an incredibly tight argument that captures the breadth of the Trump assault on free speech perfectly and in less than a minute. Spread it far and wide.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
According to a source I have at the CIA, Director Radcliffe lied today under oath. Signal is absolutely not loaded on agency computers. As a matter of fact it’s specifically prohibited as an outside app. Skype is allowed for conference calls but not Signal. He’s lying. @markwarner.bsky.social
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Right now, there’s an important race happening that will shape the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the next 10 years. Judge Susan Crawford is ready to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of all Wisconsinites. Make a plan to vote early today — don’t wait until April 1st: wisdems.org/vote
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Find Your Voting Locations | WISDEMS Voter Protection Team
This searchable map shows you early voting and dropbox info for hundreds of villages, towns, and cities across Wisconsin. Enter the address you're registered at and your options will pop up!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/03/2025
asked about texting war plans to a Signal group, Pete Hegseth deflects by attacking Jeffrey Goldberg as a "discredited so-called journalist." (MAGA's only plays are whataboutism and attacking the messenger. Every. Time.)
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jules, cowbell a f @catsrule0000.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
the problem with General Brown was that he is not General White (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
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Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Turmoil at Pentagon (Gift Article)
The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. reflects the president’s insistence that the military’s leadership is too mired in diversity issues and has lost sight of its combat role.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/01/2025
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
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Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
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Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 27/11/2024
We want Bluesky to be a great home for journalists, publishers, and creators. Unlike other platforms, we don't de-promote your links. Post all the links you want — Bluesky is a lobby to the open web.
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Fun Fact: Anti-immigrant Elon Musk worked illegally on a student visa and faced concerns he would be “deported” when he started life in the United States. www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-wa...
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Elon Musk Was Illegal Migrant Worker Who Abused his Student Visa
His brother also lied to border agents. Now he is campaigning against “open borders.”
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Biden/Dems: We want to forgive student loan debt Media: Moral hazard, non-universal redistribution is unfair, THE DEBT, we can't possibly afford this Trump/GOP: We want to extend the 2017 tax cuts Media: What if we treat as worthy of analysis the GOP's claim that this won't cost anything? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
There have been a lot of times where I feel like we need to have honest discussions on the left about what has worked and what hasn’t, share observations without judgement, but it feels like there isn’t much space for it. I think it’s holding us back. I wonder how and where we can accomplish that.
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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This is exactly right. Trump’s big advantage is that he’s playing tic-tac-toe without a pencil but somehow convinces people he’s multiverse time-travel chess.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/11/2024
the thing about being a political junkie is you have extremely difficult time conceptualizing how someone could be totally ignorant of politics but i would strongly encourage you to imagine the kind of person who googled “did biden drop out?” on november 4th and then cast a ballot on november 5th
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Trump will be the oldest president ever and is already showing cognitive decline. Yes, he'll be in the White House, but probably not in the driver's seat. I think that's why Elon Musk worked so hard to elect Trump and to position himself within the administration.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Oddly, you never hear Fox News viewers criticized or even questioned for inhabiting a hermetically sealed bubble. It’s almost as if this entire canard is about the right’s ability to infect, infest, and dominate us.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”
Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid:

“Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s.

Over half of those deported were US citizens.”
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LauraGG @lauragraham.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I am Trump. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
How many Manosphere podcasters and YouTubers spend a lot of time in feminist or queer spaces? Conservative white Evangelicals with Jews, Muslims, atheists, etc.? And so on. These “echo chamber” and “bubble” accusations mostly go one way, and often amount to “you must spend your time listening to me”
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Without exception, when mainstream parties adopt the rightwing framework on immigration, crime, national identity, etc, it is far-right parties that benefit. That’s true even in countries where the information environment is a lot less f***ed than what we have to work with here.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Trump is now < 50%, and leads Harris < 2%. This election was extremely close. That margin will have enormous consequences. But it’s small enough that instead of debating which vulnerable groups and standards of decency Dems should abandon, they could just focus on how to better defend both.
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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Donald Trump is now (1) below 50% popular vote and (2) has a margin of popular vote victory roughly HALF of Hillary's victory in 2016. They believe the left has to lay down and shut up because of this "landslide" victory.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This is why I said we needed to hold off on the day-after hot takes about What The Election Means. We still don’t have all the numbers but it’s clear any talk of a “mandate” was wildly overblown. He won, yes. But only narrowly.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Authoritarians want you to betray each other but they also encourage you to betray yourself through an inner moral collapse- you give up your agency and let the leader "fix it," and you disregard your moral compass.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/11/2024
"A person who merely refuses to learn what can be known is not a skeptic, but rather an ignoramus; a person who raises questions but does not seek their answers is not a skeptic, but a bullshitter." defector.com/what-the-fuc...
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What The Fuck Is A "Vaccine Skeptic"? | Defector
At darker moments, contesting this kind of stuff in the wake of the 2024 election—and all the shameless, shameful, unforgivable work the American media did to produce that election’s outcome—feels as ...
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 15/11/2024
I feel like not enough has been made of the fact that Trump's pick to be in charge of the nation's health is an ex-heroin addict carrying a dead carnivorous worm around in his brain.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Amazing work, NPR. I'm sure the sounds of iron lungs whirring away will go great with a soft bassoon intro when Morning Edition covers the "political headwinds" of a polio resurgence.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not a “skeptic” of vaccines. He has said there are no safe or effective vaccines. He is a foe of vaccines.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
If any foreign governments want the USA and its people to survive they should immediately announce that if the US drops mandatory vaccinations it will be subjected to a travel ban and freight quarantine. Do not wait til after RFK is confirmed and starts the next pandemic.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14/11/2024
Gaetz is a literal pedophile and the GOP loves it. They are the Epstein party
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DTwyman @dtwyman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
So, today RFK Jr said he never knew anybody who was autistic when he was child. Given that his Aunt Eunice founded a day camp for children with autism (1962) & went on to found the Special Olympics in 1968, I’m going to have to put this in the RFK Jr lies folder. Clueless about his own family!
Adding this to the long list of RFK Jr’s lies:

"I never saw anybody who was autistic when I was a kid," Kennedy claimed.

"Never." He added that men his age—Kennedy is 70— don't have "full blown
autism," which he defined as "wearing helmets" and "not being toilet trained" and "head-banging, stimming, toe-walking."
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Reporters proceeded to repeatedly astonish Collins by hiding a teddy bear behind their backs, then making it reappear.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
✋ '...for democratic resilience and resistance to triumph, “a sufficient number of citizens must still prefer a democratic form of government and have some degree of trust in democratic institutions.”'
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