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Laura Jedeed

@laurajedeed.bsky.social
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Journalist/Writer at firewalledmedia.com. Past bylines: Rolling Stone, Politico, TNR, The Nation, Slate, etc. Does not work for ICE Email: laura.jedeed@gmail.com Links: linktr.ee/laurajedeed

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today's the day: I'm going off-grid until October 21st. No phone, no Internet, no checking the news at all If there's something I ought to read about upon my return, feel free to drop a link in the comments to document the horrors (if you want, I'm not the boss of you)
Woods with a mossy ground cover and sunlight shining through
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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I grew up steeped in these mythologies and it's truly terrifying that the people who believe this shit run the most powerful military on earth. It still really hasn't sunk in for most normies how scary these people are so I'm thankful for every report like this here:
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Brought to mind @swordsjew.bsky.social’s caution in the intro to Wild Faith that - if you don’t know people who believe this - it takes work to accept that they mean it literally
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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
After being exposed in my teens and early 20’s to the kind of thinking that crystallized as the New Apostolic Reformation, I was grateful to get away from those people and have them be out of sight and mind for the next few decades Alas, they are in a position to inform national policy. This is bad
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Ravishing Rick Ruud van Nistelrooy @astroscounty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’ve thought about this for a while. As a believer, I believe that anyone thinking they can speed up the end of the world is a heretic and an idolater who thinks God is a genie, and they demand their damn wishes. And they make life a miserable existence for everyone else.
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Evelyn D. R. "Dell" Adams @dell-adams.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Intercession" is "prayer for the sake of someone else and for the kingdom of God, and it cannot be 'wimpy'—intercessors do not ask politely or take no for an answer. 'You collide with God violently until His will is released on the earth,' the website explains."
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here's the perfect comic I cited in the conclusion of my most recent article, btw newrepublic.com/article/2150...
newrepublic.com
We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse
End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democra...
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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Those who study and write about the New Apostolic Reformation and other Christian dominionist movements mention how difficult it is to get anyone to take these movements seriously.” Even though they are an important part of American collapse. Laura Jedeed’s beat.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20/09/2026
Every day is weirder than the day before.
Donald J. Trump & C
@realDonald Trump
At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War Era many years ago, at the Receptive Circle adjoining the Arlington Memorial Bridge, into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage. There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World.
Out of the 59 top cities and Capitals, Washington, D.C., IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT HAVE A TRIUMPHAL ARCH, but it will now and, by far, the greatest of them all! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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jay marie 🏳️‍⚧️ abolish ice @jmawork.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Everything I feared, supposed already, and more.
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sv-nutmeg.bsky.social @sv-nutmeg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So damn scary
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Trey Grace @treygrace.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Phenomenal piece. This event really was scary given the ever-increasing ties between Christian dominionists and the government.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How much influence is end times prophecy exerting over American policy right now? The short answer: more than one might like My latest for The New Republic
newrepublic.com
We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse
End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democra...
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Guy who is obviously on drugs: I built a supercomputer that is God and now I need subsidies
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I distinctly remember flying without a low-level fear of government-backed paramilitary thugs arbitrarily deciding my views and work constitute domestic terrorism
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Anthropic, Meta, and Google "breaking containment" incidents all resulted from setup errors (or a stunt) by the same company: Irregular. Irregular created a sandbox that wasn't really a sandbox because it had a live internet connection, and gave instructions that were then carried out online.
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ceej @ceej.online · 19/09/2026
got a new phone and had to wait like four hours to get back on bluesky. did you guys know there’s grass outside
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I just got done playing a convoluted pretend game with my niece and nephew, perhaps I should interview the imaginary people involved and pitch the story to a mainstream news outlet
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If I'm reading this right, Trump would like us to believe that Denmark will allow us to decide how to spend their money on Greenland's security, up to and including military base construction
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The tiny Colorado town closest to where I grew up, which had like 3 restaurants and grocery store, is now 10 times as big and has a spot that sells goddamn acai bowls. It has a movie theater. You can get sushi there I am so mad on behalf of my bored teenage self
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democratic advisers can only cum if they've just helped someone lose a winnable election
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
the problem for Dem consultants is that they haven't properly internalized that tech - not the rank and file, but the guys at the top - has completely turned against them and should now be treated as an implacable political enemy you can't win them back by playing nice on policy and you shouldn't
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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 17/09/2026
If you run to the right, you don't add voters. You lose them because your voters (RIGHTLY) think you've abandoned them won't vote for you. And the voters to the right you're trying to court - guess what you still aren't right enough for them. And the undecideds see a coward & won't vote for one.
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Jeremy (he/ them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jeremyrayne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
100% this. AI is toxic and evil, it degrades and corrodes everything it comes in contact with morally, intellectually, aesthetically. It doesn't have a brain or personality or will. Everything that's bad about it is 1:1 the way it was designed by the vile shitfucks who think it's god.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture
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POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
(Unfortunately,) Skeet of the Day 🥇 #PotatosSkeetOfTheDay
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45th Parallel Absurdist Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I believe I have a sol to the current AI datacenter debate which will satisfy everyone: we currently possess the technology to trap only those who believe in Roko’s basilisk in an inescapable torturous AI slop hell, while the rest of us live out our goddamn lives addressing actual problems.
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If we are serious about a vengeance tour, every person who appeared in court, making this happen should lose their law license for good
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olive consumer @machete.gay · 16/09/2026
I know this is a take that gets some people itchy (though I assume everyone like this has me blocked), but everyone who talks about the nefarious influence of Jews generally and also occasionally Zionism specifically and buttons on a note about Palestinians, caring about the latter is always a lie.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Is heroin addictive? Local user says no"
CULTURE

ALANA HOPE LEVINSON

Taylor Lorenz's Screen Time Is Almost 17 Hours a Day. 17!!!

The extremely online journalist and content creator doesn't believe in tech hygiene and yearns for a world where "inbox infinity" is celebrated.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Every time I post something like this I get comments like "uh that's already happened lol" and imagine being so optimistic that you think we've reached the end of this downward trajectory. Imagine being like "yep, it's all done, this is as bad as it gets"
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am very worried that AI will destroy wide swaths of society's ability to think, and thus render the masses docile, pliant and helpless in the face of technofeudalism I am not at all worried about Roko, his Basilisk, or any other AI superintelligence myth, and you cannot change my mind
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Please God let's not now say "well, Steve Bannon has a point". Remember! He's a fraud, liar, and fascist. He ran Cambridge Analytica and Trump's first campaign; cultivated white supremacists (including Stephen Miller); filled our media with conspiracies; tried to build a global fascist movement. 1/
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Something people should know about the ongoing GOP civil war: the Bannonite Wing dislikes AI the correct amount, as does Tucker Carlson And yes, this is causing all the problems you'd expect
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Mind Titan @porgus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A bacon egg and cheese is a popular bean dish created by Laura Jedeed.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fellas, there's no use fighting it. Like it or not, AI is going to replace all creative fields within the next two weeks and achieve superintelligence by the end of the year Humanity is basically obsolete. You simply cannot compete with a machine like this
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 11/09/2026
To my recent point about the left needing to develop propaganda literacy as one of the top three most critical tactical advances, everyone needs to emblazon, “Not sharing the disinfo/propaganda because that’s what they want” on their eyeballs. Repeat it as a mantra three times before you log on.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds
A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/09/2026
After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that "we want honesty in our elections," he led them in a pledge to "cheat like hell" and "go out and vote" in the midterm elections. to.pbs.org/4yTjfzl
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WATCH: Trump leads RNC in pledge to 'cheat like hell' in November elections
After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that “we want honesty in our elections,” he led them in a pledge to “cheat like hell” and “go out and vo...
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Primaries are where you send a message to the party. General elections are where you try to elect someone who isn't a fascist.
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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
No gives a shit about boring technocratic improvements to this code or decree or whatever the fuck arcanity of municipal governance had been reformed. Never have, haver will, and if that's what you're hoping to win elections, you're a fucking mark or a plant.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Spoke with some of 600+ people who were punished for Charlie Kirk-related speech over the past year — about the anxieties they’ve faced, the crazy reasons they were fired or even arrested, and what their life has been like since:
zeteo.com
A Year Ago, Charlie Kirk Was Killed. Meet the People Who Were Fired for Speaking Out About Him
In the year since the murder of the far-right commentator, those who were punished for comments about his death have met mixed fortunes. Over in Dallas, the GOP’s mad midterm Trumpapalooza began.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That’s how you fucking do it.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Five years ago, on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, I wrote about how things could have gone if we'd reacted differently. We could have emerged better and stronger, with a newfound sense of empathy. Instead, we vowed to Never Forget and here we are today: forever stuck in the anger stage of grief
rollingstone.com
'Never Forget' Is Breaking America
I did two tours in Afghanistan after 9/11. The country I went to war for no longer exists
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North Easton @north-easton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Re-posting this one from @laurajedeed.bsky.social for obvious reasons "This is a very good time not to post dumb shit or jeopardize yourself for a bit of engagement. [...] Good time to pour yourself a nice cup of tea, with or without bourbon, which is what I’m going to do right now."
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Charlie Kirk Is Dead
and we are burdened by what has been
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Here is a thread with example of how I deal with serious disagreements about trans rights in everyday life. You'll notice it's very different from cutting contact while also not allowing the issue to slide, and--if you read the thread--that it moved him on the subject
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