Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What about a mini-mushroom cloud over Mar-a-Lago instead? 100
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is the result when you have a Groyper-occupied Government. Regular national socialist messaging paired with the corruption of a West African junta. 000
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 19/09/2026@gelliottmorris.com Making an (inconsistently updated) table of all the model and prediction market forecasts of the midterms I could find. Here’s the latest update: 000
Reposted by LaurencePride Ott 🦦 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 06/09/2026It is funny that for the longest time people insisted there was some mass of apathetic voters that could be mobilized by challenging the neoliberal status quo but it turns out they just wanted neoliberalism that was nicer to grandma and meaner to Abdul 18589116
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Knocked on 100 doors with a friend for the @scottwiener.bsky.social campaign yesterday in SF. Can’t wait to do it again! 000
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 05/09/2026My bsky38.com ballot, with a shoutout to @gelliottmorris.com in particular. 000
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Was a great time at SF's Sydney Goldstein Theater for Annie Lowery and @ezraklein.bsky.social's wide-ranging discussion on administrative bloat and efficiency this evening. The auditorium was packed — and for such a nerdy subject! 000
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The case of the fugitive ICE thug is basically just this meme. 000
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 26/08/2026One of the most important and informative threads you'll read in months. 000
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 23/08/2026From yesterday’s exuberant rally for @scottwiener.bsky.social. The poster is a reference to Scott’s nickname among many of his Chinese immigrant supporters, 长颈鹿 (“the giraffe”). 100
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Awesome to see my state senator elected to Congress (albeit in am adjacent district), in spite of a $5.3 million campaign to install a vote for more military aid to the Likud. 000
Reposted by LaurenceBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Mamdani is succeeding in part by projecting joy Ossoff is succeeding in part by projecting steely ferocity We’re in a moment when attitude is nearly as powerful as ideology, because we all need courage. And these are two ways of summoning it 10271181249
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This is actually the Korean Central News Agency. Except Ri Chun-hee is fucking Chairman Kim. 001
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 01/08/2026There were 7 battleground states in the last election, which means that citizens of 43 states were simply ignored. This system doesn’t give rural states like Wyoming, North Dakota, or Vermont “a voice.” 010
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 26/07/2026From the Ed Sheeran concert in San Jose last night. Really glad I went. I’ll be withholding the video of my brother and I singing wildly off-key. 100
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Putting in a strong recommendation for “A Time to Love and A Time to Die” by Erich Maria Remarque, better known as the author of All Quiet on the Western Front. There are few who can paint as full a portrait of every character they name — no matter how minor — as Remarque can. 000
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 19/07/2026What a game. Of note: based on what I could find, Argentina taking 117 minutes to register a single shot is the longest a team has ever taken to do so in any World Cup match since at least 1966. 000
Reposted by LaurenceJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 09/07/20261) Interesting "Dems Not in Disarray" front-page framing. 2) Point Dems need to keep making: -Virtually every Dem leader has now come out publicly against Platner. -Virtually every GOP party leader still all-in for Ken Paxton. (And, of course, for Trump) This is not a "both sides" situation. 431625432
Reposted by LaurenceDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/07/2026absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers 25941041220
Reposted by LaurenceCabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 04/07/2026new metaphor just dropped 1136285078729
Reposted by LaurenceJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I think Democrats like Cory Booker should take a hard look in the mirror and consider why Jeff Bezos loves their tax cut proposals so much. Billionaires would love to see a weak state with a gutted fiscal capacity. 803613618
Reposted by Laurencederek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/05/2026this is really heartwarming. two men exchanging symbolic tokens of things the other has no interest in (football, peace) 188110541791
Reposted by Laurenceonion person @junlper.beer · 06/05/2026funniest thing i’ve ever seen 433241365344
Reposted by LaurenceCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026>Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson were all on Russian payroll >Orban loses in Hungary >Rod Dreher immediately leaves Budapest >The Daily Wire fires half their staff was all the right-wing conspiracy posting about USAID just massive fucking projection? 552912609
Reposted by LaurenceMatt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 27/04/2026People will just get on the internet and lie. Like, most of the people listed there have been actively involved in protesting & community engagement. One of them (Stancil) was the subject of months' worth of harassment for "bad opsec" and protesting *too* visibly. Clout is a hell of a drug! 612622
Reposted by Laurencemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/04/2026i didn't realize how literally she was pulling wires without understanding them. manually typing shit into the prompter lmao 844824670
Reposted by LaurenceTrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 13/04/20264 new Senate race ratings changes over at Cook Political, and each one is a doozy in its own right: #NCSen: Toss Up -> Lean D #GASen: Toss Up -> Lean D #OHSen: Lean R -> Toss Up #NESen: Solid R -> Likely R Further evidence that the Senate map is shifting left in real-time. 3378
Reposted by LaurenceJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 10/04/2026The University of Michigan has been measuring consumer sentiment since 1952. We just got the first Iran-afflicted measure for April, and it's at the lowest level ever recorded. 10322341025
Reposted by Laurencetrevin @trevinflickinger.com · 09/04/2026Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate 3662701850
Reposted by LaurenceRoBat out of Hellême @rbelleme.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I have seen one good example of this plate 7174581470
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Kevin Sorbo is 67. He doesn’t get to pretend to be some stupid Groyper born after 9/11 who sincerely believes the country’s biggest city isn’t vastly safer today than it was back then. 030
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 05/04/2026youtu.be/ljwUlY9WW1Iyoutu.beMANUEL / GAS GAS GAS【Official Lyric Video】【頭文字D/INITIAL D】YouTube video by avex 000
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 04/04/2026This is the funniest hard news article you’ll ever read. Whichever editor approved this is amazing.nytimes.comNo One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In 100
Reposted by LaurenceJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/03/2026using graduation of US Marines as an opportunity to harvest some of their relatives for deportation 50993362
Reposted by LaurenceDan Cassino @dancassino.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Also, treating MAGA like it’s a stable political ideology (akin to liberal, moderate, libertarian, etc) leads to conceptual problems. If someone decides that they don’t approve of Trump, they’re much more likely to decide that they’re not MAGA than to be a Trump disapproving MAGA voter. 516329
Reposted by LaurenceWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/03/2026The role of the next Attorney General will be the complete annihilation of Trump’s Justice Department, with as many of its current employees as possible rotting in a cell after the conclusion of a four-year term. 28969193
Laurence @laurence1084.bsky.social · 24/03/2026The @financialtimes.com ran a near-identical version of this story earlier this *month.* I’m voting for the candidate who promises to put heads on fucking pikes. 184
Reposted by LaurenceGeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 21/03/2026For those paying attention, this new paper out of Auckland (hi mum!) puts Patrick Condon's silly diagram out to pasture. Turns out that housing demand isn't actually perfectly elastic. Who knew?! 1297
Reposted by LaurenceMicah @rincewind.run · 20/03/2026it's hard not to keep coming back to the fact that they could simply have Not Done This they could have not bombed Iran! the strait would be open! we wouldn't be staring down a massive global economic crisis! none of this had to happen! 4844901005
Reposted by LaurenceHaribo's_Biggest_Hater @jkmcguee.bsky.social · 09/03/2026A lot of people replying to this in bad faith pretending that the people who don't support stealing for fun are just super pro corporations. But actually it's antisocial behavior and those same people start to feel entitled to a lot of shit that's not theirs and it doesn't end at WF. 117823
