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Laura Pratte

@laurapratte.bsky.social
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Über liberal woman of a certain age; wife for half my life so far; mom of two kidults, one teenager, one dog, one puppy, and three cats; won’t tolerate intolerance; amateur photog; reader of non-fiction; dissectologist; GF baker extraordinaire

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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
No one will ever convince me that time is linear. Déjà vu is real and happened today while I was working on a spreadsheet watching a show I’ve never seen before, down to the dialogue. It is not the first time and surely not the last.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Reproductive violence finally has a name. How does the U.S. fit into the U.N.’s new definition? It took until July 7, 2026, for the world’s leading human rights body to call forcing someone to be pregnant—or forcing them not to be—what it is: (cont.) msmagazine.com/2026/07/25/u...
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A Groundbreaking U.N. Resolution Calls Forced Pregnancy What It Is: Reproductive Violence
It took until July 7, 2026, for the world's leading human rights body to call forcing someone to be pregnant—or forcing them not to be—what it is: reproductive violence. In a landmark resolution adopt...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My latest piece was originally written for Democracy Docket members. They decided to share this one with everyone because of the stakes for this election. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
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The GOP has a plan to undermine free and fair elections. We must stop them
The GOP is not acting like a party trying to persuade voters to support its candidates — because it isn’t.
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We need a class action lawsuit against this regime for the damage they have done to our election system.
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
MAGAts, Repugnants, whatever the hell that blob defiling the Oval Office is…
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I think we should offer an alternative to book banning pressure; put the banned books in a room that only can be accessed by youth who have parental permission. Nothing creates a disobedient and curious child faster than denying them access to something to which the person next to them can access.
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Saturday fun: I made the executive decision to stop saying “bless you” when someone sneezes. I’ve replaced it with “be gone, demon” and embarrassed my family by yelling it at the driver next us after he sneezed. Good times.
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I have MANY concerns with AI and the plans for future utilization. AI robots to educate our children?! There is a wide swath of people who have lost their curiosity, and seem to think that we are at the end of discovery. All knowledge obtained and uploaded to the cloud. We are a stagnant nation.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/03/2026
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
You know the KKK has been super quiet since Donny-Shits-His-Pants went and Made Racism Open Again…oh, wait. Never mind. They just hung up their robes and pointy hats in the coat room. The Klan meetings are held all over federal and local government now. They even have press conferences!
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/01/2026
Funny how the right is outraged at Fanone flipping off a congressman just days after celebrating a president flipping off a working American .
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2026
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I will forever be grateful that I was born the same year as the genius movie that is Blazing Saddles came out.
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Oh dumb, precious idiot, blind opossum Senator Chris McDaniel. If this was a game of Password…
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
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Jes 👊🇺🇸🔥 (Admin@antifa.org) @jestastrophy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
This man is actually fucking EVERYTHING.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Are we?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Frost: For so long, the right wing has held up patriotism as a vibe, as an aesthetic. But patriotism is more than bald eagles and flags and beer. Patriotism is about loving the people who live in the damn country — every single one of them.
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Is there a word for a sense of deep dissatisfaction, depression, and discontentment that happens every year around your birthday? There should be.
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tmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Wake Up America‼️ “And gradually, though no one remembers exactly how it happened, the unthinkable becomes tolerable. And then acceptable. And then legal. And then applaudable.” We’re at the breaking point. Don’t let them gaslight you anymore before it’s too late. #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Take over major cities. Cause chaos and violence. Bring in even more federal agents to “suppress” violence. Get folks scared to disrupt by killing a few activists here and there. Man the polls with armed troops or “postpone” the ‘26 election entirely because of chaos and violence.
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Fetterman saying that we’re the good guys (we’re not) is like the Repugnants declaring they are Christians (they aren’t) and J6ers declaring they are patriots (hell no). Actions speak louder than words and their actions are hateful, unlawful, despicable, and inhuman. May they rot and leave no trace.
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Christian Nationalism ≠ Christianity. Christian Nationalism = weaponized “religious” terrorism.
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I need someone with social media savvy to make a series of videos showing what it would look like “If Liberals Talked Out Loud About Social Issues With the Same Confidence as Conservatives!” I deserve a medal for not knocking an old man’s gold Make America Great Again hat clean off his racist head.
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I will condemn until the day I die the people who voted for this not just once but twice. I want a memorial walk of shame built with the names of these deluded idiots carved in stone for all to remember what happens when delusion replaces education.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
“Missouri’s referendum system exists to ensure lawmakers can’t insulate themselves from accountability. When 300,000 people sign their names to challenge a law, they aren’t offering a suggestion. They are exercising a constitutional veto belonging to the voters alone.” ~Jason Hancock
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 14/12/2025
Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
BILL BURR: “If someone’s working 160 hours a month and can’t make their rent, you’re not paying them enough. Maybe you should just be worth $900,000,000… How does a CEO take a f*cking 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
There is nothing conservative about the Conservative Party. They are an extremist group and are the number one threat to the safety and welfare of our country. There are many lax hands and voices that landed us in this mess but we need to come together to fight the actual threat. Oust them all.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/12/2025
Hundreds of kids in S Carolina are being quarantined right now because of a measles outbreak. I don’t have patience for niceties when it comes to this crap, so if you’re an anti-vaxxer, keep your damn kids at home and don’t travel for the holidays. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Can you imagine basing your entire personality and worldview on hating a large swath of the country? Maybe we need a scientific study to see how small they have shrunk parts of their brain through hate. Devolution for all to see.
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I expected this of the meme generation (sorry guys) as it aged into eligibility for federal and political fields. Who knew the Boomer generation’s last gasp would be lead by immoral, classless, tasteless, and completely debased discourse in what should be a serious conversation?
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
People who make logical arguments (e.g. make childcare and education affordable, stagnant wages, etc.) when faced with articles and news such as this are completely missing the point. This is not an attempt to solve real problems. It is the misogynistic and christo-fascist need to dominate women.
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Watching the Repugnant Party’s long con crash land due to their choice of Donny as a “useful idiot” to carry out their plan to create a religious state is honestly the best outcome of this shititude. They wanted a man with no moral compass but got one whose compass points to him alone.
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
“American exceptionalism” is a lie sold by the haves who don’t want to upset the status quo, but the Epstein controversy has done just that. It has shined a light on everything we assumed about their rarified world, showing what happens behind the gold curtain is so much worse than we imagined.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The alpha and omega is ready for beta testing. Christian Skynet, brought to you by white men with their own God Complex. Android Jesus won’t save you.
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Stop framing SNAP and Medicaid benefits as a freebie for poor people and start framing it as corporations profiteering by keeping wages lower than the cost of living.
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
How many pregnant MAGAts are suddenly afraid of Tylenol but super duper okay with generic acetaminophen?
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Who wants to tell the poster that they voted in an adjudicated rapist that is living on the government dime for his senility care and golf trips?
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Laura Pratte @laurapratte.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Do you ever wonder if this type of undeserved self-confidence is partially a result of the “Boy Mom” aesthetic? They give off mollycoddled and always-been-told-I-am-special vibes.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt. And that’s wrong.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
🔥 @adammockler.com : “Every time one of these tragic shootings happens everybody’s at each other’s throats about which side did it but we’re missing a broader pattern in 🇺🇸— this was another white young white dude in his 20’s… an acceleration of radicalization of young men…”
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