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Laura S. 🇨🇦

@lauralaz.bsky.social
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Copy editor, writer, collagist. Coast of Maine

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 15h
Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.
The marquee at Cedar Culture Center with the message "We love our Somali neighbors" written out.
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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 14h
© Ed Freeman
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 19h
So a bunch of guys in plainclothes surrounded a man in a car and shot him, then the government disappeared him and refuses to release any information about his condition or whereabouts
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is incitement. Racist incitement.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We’re sick of ICE terrorizing our neighbors. Sick of it. Like the brave people of Minneapolis, we have zero tolerance for federal agents lawlessly unleashing violence on our streets.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We're maybe a week away from a Trump official shouting "White Power!" at one of these conferences.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
this shit is beyond parody, man. It truly is the make a wish presidency. now Trump is getting an award!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"We're going to target the right-wing hate machine against the kind of immigrants who come here to become accountants" seems like a really smart play right before the midterms, good luck with this one, Reichsmarschall Vance
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So after the White House spokespersons tried to justify his inexplicable remarks, saying that he wasn't calling for Iran to nuke Los Angeles and San Diego, Trump *doubles down* Literally daring them to bomb the California cities
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Julián Curo-Churata, dead in a Trump concentration camp. ICE cited “convictions for driving with expired vehicle registration” and an unspecified judgment against him in favor of the Maryland comptroller (taxes). He "had volunteered to leave the country on his own, but a judge denied the request."
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Laurel father and husband died in ICE custody in Louisiana
Julián Curo-Churata lived in Laurel for about 17 years before he was detained in June by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. He died in the agency’s custody on Sept. 29.
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Laura S. 🇨🇦 @lauralaz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Adorable
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 07/10/2026
What a healthy democracy we have.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 07/10/2026
Trump won't stop starting wars until he is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Laura S. 🇨🇦 @lauralaz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Same!
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pryluky. One more child’s life taken by Russia. 📷: State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Chernihiv Region
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
"What will it take for you to admit you are ever wrong?" -- Troy Jackson nails Susan Collins on her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 8 years to the day after Collins cast the vote that doomed Roe v Wade
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🕯️🕯️🕯️The bodies of four children were recovered from the rubble of their home in Pryluky, destroyed by a russian missile.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Do they know that?
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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Centaur
Alt: Centaur
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 05/10/2026
Heating oil hit $6.02 a gallon in Maine Friday, a record. NEADA projects $2,939 to heat an oil-burning Maine home this winter, up 77%. The HHS office that runs heating aid was fired April 1, 2025, and never replaced; the president's budget zeroes the program. Collins's answer: a pipeline.
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Heating Oil Is Up 77 Percent in Maine. The Federal Office That Sends Heating Aid Was Fired Eighteen Months Ago.
NEADA projects $2,627 to heat an oil-burning home this winter, up $878. The HHS staff that ran LIHEAP was fired on April 1, 2025, never rehired, and the president's budget zeroes the program.
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Russian jet powered drones over Kyiv detected . Air raidn siren alert is on . People are urged to seek shelter
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Explosions in Kyiv. City is under drone attack
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And now we find that Russia is cultivating pneumonic plague in test tubes.
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Putin warns West that Russia is ready to use every weapon to protect Kaliningrad
The Russian leader insists Moscow is "not threatening anyone" and is merely responding to statements by Western leaders.
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Make them crawl. This is now our American republic. We are the shithole nation.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil.
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John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How do you even parody this shit?
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The flashback at the beginning of a dystopian film
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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Might as well light the Constitution on fire at this point.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
alert the press -- Trump is conked out in the Oval Office again
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So... with that direct line to the secretary, the Office will report whenever anything happens that suggests our nation is not "blessed?" Or is not following the Bible? Or has too little testosterone? Just like the founders intended, or something?
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Laura S. 🇨🇦 @lauralaz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Great ad
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Perfect
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Babyn Yar. 85 years since the tragedy. On September 29–30, 1941, nearly 34,000 Jews were murdered here by the Nazis. Around 100,000 innocent people lost their lives at Babyn Yar during the occupation.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s a close race but this might be one of the dumbest things he’s ever done and that’s saying A LOT.
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Laura S. 🇨🇦 @lauralaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dreamboat
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Trump thinks that because he's changed the name of AI, now all concerns expressed about it previously are a hoax. The illogic is breathtaking. (Note that in this clip he's also lying about economic growth.)
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But the techbro's morality is going to save us.
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April Fools Joke: This Is Fine Dog Meme
ALT: April Fools Joke: This Is Fine Dog Meme
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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
our product could wipe out humanit— investors:
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Shut Up And Take My Money!
Alt: Shut Up And Take My Money! Meme from Futurama
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This child is 13 and was testifying without an attorney present. Monsters.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
okay, strong closing message
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