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Laurie Brookins

@lauriebrookins.com
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Freelance journalist, The Hollywood Reporter, Travel + Leisure, and other pubs. I was @StyleWriterNYC over at the bad place. Also a survivor of one of many failed versions of the felon’s ego magazine. Yes, it was as bad as you think. I have stories.

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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 20h
In the meantime, this administration is focused on a ballroom, a gaudy, oversized arch, changing the name of AI because a stupid man thinks he’s clever, and what must be an exorbitant printing cost so passports can look nicer when they are mailed out. These incompetent people do not care about you.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 29/09/2026
Quit threatening. Do it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Kimmel to Mamdani: "I live in Los Angeles and that is not the reception our mayor would get"
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 28/09/2026
This is brilliant.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 25/09/2026
I guess Roberts, Kavanaugh and Barrett really enjoyed that state dinner last night.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 25/09/2026
Michelle Obama supported American designers. Jill Biden supported American designers. Melania Antoinette shops her closet and throws on a Saint Laurent blouse and Dolce & Gabbana pants for the China state dinner. She could’ve worked with Jason Wu or Phillip Lim or — gasp! — paid retail. But no.
The miserable First Couple.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 24/09/2026
He almost called it “my house,” and then corrected himself. The lying liar fools no one.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 24/09/2026
The White House effort to ban reporters is obviously a First Amendment issue. But it’s also explicitly about Trump thinking that th building and the presidency are *his* and not things the public is temporarily allowing him to use. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Completely heartbreaking. We owe our servicemembers so much more than these forever wars.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In 9 months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Secured millions in worker restitution from DoorDash and UberEats -Launched the first stage of his universal childcare program -Cracked down on bad landlords -Balanced NYC's budget without cutting major social services This is what leadership looks like.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In term 1, Trump took a strong economy he inherited from Obama, threw in some tax cuts, didn’t mess with it much, & took credit for it. In term 2, Trump decided that he wanted to completely reshape the economy according to his own dumbass beliefs and now we’re Trump University.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 22/09/2026
It would be a shame if the world’s most insecure man learned that Byron Donalds and Mike Rogers were erasing all traces of an association with him — especially after he endorsed them. Sorry, Byron and Mike, but that particular stink attaches to you forever. And when you lose, he’ll deny knowing you.
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informed-voter9.bsky.social @informed-voter9.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The same people who defunded PBS are now funding Trump TV.
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Katherine @wordwatcher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 22/09/2026
How soon before he shows up there wearing a fake uniform and fake medals?
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 21/09/2026
I hope his rage over this causes another stroke. Come on, karma, do your work.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 21/09/2026
Necessary reading today: www.acluaz.org/news/first-a...
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First Amendment 101: Freedom of the Press - ACLU of Arizona
The First Amendment guarantees that “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.” Learn more about your rights!
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 21/09/2026
All the commons Hate him perniciously
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Brian Poindexter For Congress @poindexterforcongress.com · 15/09/2026
You deserve the facts about who Max Miller is. The sheriff of one of Ohio’s largest counties says: “Thirty-four years in law enforcement tells me: Max Miller does not belong in power.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 19/09/2026
Wish this made the rounds more than whatever hasan piker is doing This is a far better story about Michigan politics. American politics.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 20/09/2026
Everything he’s been doing since he offered to buy votes for $5,000 each is proof he knows he can’t run on his record.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 19/09/2026
If true (and I have no doubt it’s true), it should be the biggest scandal in a White House already teeming with scandals.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 18/09/2026
When everyone has gone home to their families and it’s just him and Natalie late at night in front of the fire, I bet he says stuff more batsh*t crazy than this, if only to impress her.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 17/09/2026
Also, who would be most pleased if the lying orange felon took a wrecking ball to the Kennedy Center? One guess.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 16/09/2026
Pathetic in so many ways.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I was asked how I would protect Michigan communities from data centers. Here’s my plan:
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When the public finally learns the full accounting of the damage done in this war, it’ll probably be too late to hold anyone in the Trump administration accountable. But this is insane. And they’re lying to the American people.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Please do not stop speaking out 👇
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/09/2026
Our vote is under attack. So don’t wait until Election Day. Check your registration. Know your polling place. Make a plan. VOTE EARLY. They’re counting on confusion, delays and people giving up. This is not the election to wing it!!! #GetReadyToVote
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Macklemore can sue Robert Kraft for Tortious Interference for economic harm and I hope he does. Discovery would be fun: "Which other stadium owners did you talk to?" and "We need all related emails, text messages and contracts between you and them and you and Sheeran and Sheeran's team."
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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you for your attention to this matter...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Vote like your life depends on it. Because it does.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hello. This is your reminder that the Russians secretly paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s private island wedding reception. The entire family is on the take and they believe the American people are suckers who won’t care. We care.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We're in a moment where the challenges we face have more to do with the ways that politicians are bought off than actually having a conversation with the broader public. If Mike Rogers had showed up, he'd say that this race is about him or me. It's not. It's about you.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 16/09/2026
This story mentions “the board” several times throughout the story. “The board.” “The board.” “The board.” But with the exception of Rep. Beatty, an ex-officio member who opposes “the board’s” actions, not a single other member of the board is named. Why? Name them. We should know who they are.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 14/09/2026
I, an old turtle, Will wing me to some wither’d bough
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 14/09/2026
Not only enormously talented, Bob Mackie also was the kindest, most good-humored man, always. They do not make them like him anymore. I do hope tonight someone mentions his contributions to TV history, notably his work for Cher and Carol Burnett. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/b...
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Bob Mackie, Ballyhooed Costume Designer for Cher and Carol Burnett, Dies at 87
The 'Sultan of Sequins' won nine Emmys and earned three Oscar noms. 'A woman who wears my clothes is not afraid to be noticed,' he once said.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/09/2026
"Twelve years into our endless era of Trump, mainstream outlets remain reluctant to tell the public in stark terms that their president is an orange bag of gas and flimflam whose promises are as much of a hoax as his increasingly grotesque hair."
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“Trump Dividend” is the new Trump Steaks
The con artist in chief’s latest scam.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 12/09/2026
I’m still thinking about the little boy yesterday who honored the family member lost on 9/11 by cheering Knicks in Five while also noting the Jets had not yet risen to the challenge. That is New York, my friends.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 12/09/2026
So. Effing. True.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.metrotimes.com/news/mike-ro...
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Mike Rogers opposed 9/11 responder health care not twice, but nine times - Detroit Metro Times
Newly uncovered record shows Mike Rogers repeatedly opposed efforts to establish, advance, or fund medical care for people sickened after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 12/09/2026
So, did all the family members of 9/11 victims who were pleading for answers yesterday hear this? He cares far more about being buddies with MBS than he cares about any 9/11 victims or any everyday American. Prove me wrong, I dare you. He is a monster.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 11/09/2026
Thank goodness for that last man who spoke, wish I could buy him a beer. #911ceremony
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
"It is indeed provocative, though not in the way the Times meant, for POTUS to either be lying about his role responding to the deadliest attack on US soil or so addled he thinks he was pulling away chunks of cement & narrowly escaping death from a tumbling building that then never actually tumbled"
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The muted response to Trump 9/11 fantasy is a media failure
It’s not “disputed.” He’s delusional.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 11/09/2026
These people praising Vance while standing on the podium reading the names is too much.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 11/09/2026
Oh, gee, JD Vance just showed up. After the speech he just gave, why even bother. #911
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