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Laura Rich

@laurarich.bsky.social
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Former journalist surviving in the diaspora. mastheadatthemargin.substack.com

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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
And this IS why you shut down the government, it's worth fighting for, Dems should stand behind that, own it.
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
NOT ENOUGH is being made of the violent misogyny of the disappearing of the East Wing. @19thnews.org
19thnews.org
First ladies made history in the East Wing. It was razed for Trump’s ballroom.
The East Wing is home to the Office of the First Lady and has played a key role in women’s visibility in the White House.
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
open.substack.com/pub/masthead...
open.substack.com
What comes after the top of the masthead
How Bob Cohn crossed the chasm from editorial and business.
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
As journalism as a career evolves, there are so many paths, as I have pointed out in my Substack column "Journalists, where are they now" -- Bob Cohn's is a great story of building on journalism for a great career on the business side. Link in comments.
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
mastheadatthemargin.substack.com/p/journalist...
mastheadatthemargin.substack.com
Journalists—where are they now?
In and out of the industry, people are on the move. Here's the latest.
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Joining the Substack throng. I hope you enjoy, share, subscribe! mastheadatthemargin.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Or inept. But probably they just thought no one would notice the math isn’t about tariffs.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This was….five months ago
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A reminder to reporters: Because Trump tariff numbers are made-up nonsense, using the phrase “reciprocal tariffs” is lying to your audience. The phrase itself is propaganda. They are not reciprocal.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Schumer & Jeffries should resign from leadership, they are not equipped to lead the opposition party against an authorarian regime.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The headlines SHOULD say something along the lines of: For second time, Trump violates the law to help Putin, this time in bid to end democracy.
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Many a woman will recognize this tone in the petty messages they get from exes trying to "catch" them or "punish" them for not being duly submissive in all interactions.
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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
COME WORK WITH ME! Are you a local journalist looking to spend a year diving into an accountability project of importance to your community? @propublica.org is accepting our next round of Local Reporting Network proposals. Deadline: April 14 *Applying will be more fun than doing your taxes.
propublica.org
ProPublica Opens Application for Five New Local Partners for Its 50 State Initiative
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
We are soon to be living under the operating system of King Rao. (A good read when it's only escapist dystopian fiction not a glimpse into a future state.)
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
How to stop Elon, according to Grok:
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Recommendations from Musk's Grok on how to stop Elon's illegal activities in accessing data and firing workers:
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Elon's management model in a nutshell, playing out across our government. * flatter structures <--fire the middle managers * strategic decision-making concentrated at the top <--Elon, Trump, cronies * everything below optimized and executed by AI and specialized teams <--fire everyone else
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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 14/02/2025
Bad headline from Reuters and too many others. Vance was gaslighting the free world into rolling back regulations so that his puppetmasters Thiel and Musk have an easier time highjacking elections with their allies in Russia www.reuters.com/world/europe...
reuters.com
Vance uses Munich speech to criticize Europe for censoring free speech
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance on Friday used his speech at the Munich Security Conference to criticize Europe for what he said was censorship of free speech and said the continent faces a "threat from within," without offering any specifics on ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I use 5 Calls, super easy, no excuses. Inundating politicians with calls from constituents lets them know which issues to fight for in order to keep their jobs.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"You can't shoot values"?? What TF does that even mean? More to the point, does he have any idea what he is saying.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
In the three weeks Elon Musk has been in charge of unilaterally slashing government spending, the U.S. government has paid one of his companies, SpaceX, more than $43 million.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Breakfast this morning, NPR on the smart speaker, spewing all kinds of unwanted news out of the current administration. Son, 13, asks genuinely: Is this Fox News? Me: No it's just actually the news, it's that bad
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
This is some straight up Nazi sh*# right here: “We will support everyone at the federal, state and local levels who joins this critical mission to take back our communities... and use all available tools to address obstruction and other unlawful impediments to our efforts to protect the homeland.”
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Begins Immigration Arrests in Chicago
Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney general, went to Chicago to observe as a host of agencies launched the operation as part of the Trump administration’s stepped-up deportation efforts.
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Can every other MAGA person please work with this woman's therapist? "...a therapist had helped change her view of the attack by telling her she was “not a victim of Jan. 6; I was a volunteer.” “I lost my critical thinking... Now I know it was a cult, and I was in a cult.”
nytimes.com
Trump Pardoned Her for Storming the Capitol. ‘Absolutely Not,’ She Said.
Pamela Hemphill, 71, of Boise, Idaho, who served 60 days in prison, said it would be “an insult to the Capitol Police” if she accepted the pardon.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 16/01/2025
your salary is your employers monthly subscription fee for you
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Huh. It was Democrats running Congress with a wide margin back when “America was great.” And Republicans in the chaos before and after. Weird.
Graph of US HOuse of Rep margins by party and year
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I try to remember to say this at the end of every year. If you buy my books, thank you. If you buy them as ebooks or audiobooks, thank you. If you buy them used, thank you. If you borrow them from a library, thank you. If you borrow them from a friend or steal them from an enemy, thank you. ❤️
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The insider DC sheets keep running articles about Democrats bewailing Bidens pardon. I’m able to keep a pretty close tabs on the opinions of engaged Democrats via emails to TPM. And the actual opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of the decision. In fact, more or less universal support.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/12/2024
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Low-information Congresspeople
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
An academic study found that on July 13, 2024 — the day Musk endorsed Trump — there was a systemic change across Twitter resulting in massive increases in reach for Musk and other accounts supporting Trump. This should be a scandal.
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Tom Eblen @tomeblen.com · 15/11/2024
I'm starting a Dark Brandon suggested to-do list for @joebidenbsky.bsky.social before he leaves office: 1) Order FBI background checks for all Trump cabinet nominees, 2) Award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. More to come. Add your suggestions below.
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The best news since before nine days ago.
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hey @bsky.app , how about a vomit emoji? Because that’s about how I feel with every shared story right now.
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Buckle up: 4 years of doom-scrolling ahead
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
It is definitely “nicer” here, but the news is just as terrible.
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
wait why does the dept of government efficiency have two co-chairs
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Laura Rich @laurarich.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
😂
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