Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Today'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) 152144
Reposted by Laura Jedeedrandy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I 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: 28326
Reposted by Laura JedeedCharlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Brought 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 212037
Reposted by Laura JedeedAnnelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 20/09/2026After 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 1181
Reposted by Laura JedeedRavishing Rick Ruud van Nistelrooy @astroscounty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I’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. 0363
Reposted by Laura JedeedEvelyn 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." 1152
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Here's the perfect comic I cited in the conclusion of my most recent article, btw newrepublic.com/article/2150...newrepublic.comWe Need to Talk About the ApocalypseEnd-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... 18618
Reposted by Laura JedeedJohn 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. 14112
Reposted by Laura JedeedOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20/09/2026Every day is weirder than the day before. 7253469
Reposted by Laura Jedeedjay marie 🏳️⚧️ abolish ice @jmawork.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Everything I feared, supposed already, and more. 1245
Reposted by Laura JedeedTrey Grace @treygrace.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Phenomenal piece. This event really was scary given the ever-increasing ties between Christian dominionists and the government. 1238
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026How 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 Republicnewrepublic.comWe Need to Talk About the ApocalypseEnd-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... 26363138
Reposted by Laura JedeedAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The 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.opb.orgOregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new reportA first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities. 8130831809
Reposted by Laura JedeedRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Guy who is obviously on drugs: I built a supercomputer that is God and now I need subsidies 22295398
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I distinctly remember flying without a low-level fear of government-backed paramilitary thugs arbitrarily deciding my views and work constitute domestic terrorism 316317
Reposted by Laura JedeedPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The 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. 61832496
Reposted by Laura Jedeedceej @ceej.online · 19/09/2026got a new phone and had to wait like four hours to get back on bluesky. did you guys know there’s grass outside 80127380
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I 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 1017516
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If 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 9488
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The 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 4983
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Democratic advisers can only cum if they've just helped someone lose a winnable election 928350
Reposted by Laura JedeedMicah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026the 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 532649574
Reposted by Laura JedeedAdam P Knave @adampknave.com · 17/09/2026If 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. 219836
Reposted by Laura JedeedJeremy (he/ them) 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @jeremyrayne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026100% 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. 1476
Reposted by Laura JedeedBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I 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 5066001721
Reposted by Laura JedeedPOTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 17/09/2026(Unfortunately,) Skeet of the Day 🥇 #PotatosSkeetOfTheDay 0728
Reposted by Laura Jedeed45th Parallel Absurdist Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I 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. 39217
Reposted by Laura Jedeedhammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If we are serious about a vengeance tour, every person who appeared in court, making this happen should lose their law license for good 502488551
Reposted by Laura Jedeedolive consumer @machete.gay · 16/09/2026I 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. 3686
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Every 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" 4889
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I 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 2453283
Reposted by Laura Jedeedcapitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Please 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/ 918839
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Something 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 411515
Reposted by Laura JedeedMind Titan @porgus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A bacon egg and cheese is a popular bean dish created by Laura Jedeed. 1481
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Fellas, 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 2518016
Reposted by Laura Jedeedvortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 11/09/2026To 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. 531292
Reposted by Laura JedeedJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026W/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...nbcnews.comLutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer fundsA top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues. 1773207927
Reposted by Laura JedeedPBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/09/2026After 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/4yTjfzlto.pbs.orgWATCH: Trump leads RNC in pledge to 'cheat like hell' in November electionsAfter 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... 41921401
Reposted by Laura Jedeedsirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Primaries are where you send a message to the party. General elections are where you try to elect someone who isn't a fascist. 412424
Reposted by Laura JedeedRomeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 12/09/2026No 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. 1225
Reposted by Laura JedeedMike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026Just 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? 5758191881
Reposted by Laura JedeedPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Spoke 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.comA Year Ago, Charlie Kirk Was Killed. Meet the People Who Were Fired for Speaking Out About HimIn 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. 241142345
Reposted by Laura JedeedKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Dear 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. 543760840
Reposted by Laura Jedeedgamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026That’s how you fucking do it. 115524
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Five 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 griefrollingstone.com'Never Forget' Is Breaking AmericaI did two tours in Afghanistan after 9/11. The country I went to war for no longer exists 818537
Reposted by Laura JedeedNorth Easton @north-easton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Re-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."firewalledmedia.comCharlie Kirk Is Deadand we are burdened by what has been 0224
Reposted by Laura JedeedLaura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Here 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 3848