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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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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mike Rogers wants to put a data center in your backyard because he's getting rich off of them.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
Arlington Cemetery is hallowed ground. A final resting place for our fallen heroes who were brave enough to serve. How dare this five-time draft dodger dishonor them by trying to erect a monument to his own vanity? Veterans will not let him get away with it.
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 01/10/2026
They’re helping him by hiding him from all but his most fervent voters, and they’re not wrong. Imagine that.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 01/10/2026
So much hypocrisy over the last decade, we need a new word for it.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 30/09/2026
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
Sneaky and incompetent is a terrible mix.
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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 · 29/09/2026
Thank you for using the correct verb in the headline above the image: “Lies.”
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 28/09/2026
I’d say “our spirits,” but I’m not sure how much longer I can persevere.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 28/09/2026
New York? Sure thing. Resign.
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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
They can’t stand that Melania Antoinette is being called out for the thoughtless look she wore to last night’s state dinner. And that most American designers do not want to dress her. Here’s a newsflash: She’s a very wealthy woman; she can afford retail.
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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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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 24/09/2026
Nobody in this WH respects the rule of law. Continuing to deny access should have been expected.
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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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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 23/09/2026
Don’t give him ideas.
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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 · 23/09/2026
Someone tell me why we should believe anything he says at this point? Is WaPo seriously still that gullible? You guys know he lies in every word he utters, right? Maybe get another source before publishing this. Just saying.
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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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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 22/09/2026
What percentage of that is going to become an ad budget, I wonder. Just saw an ad this morning of Donalds and his wife, very “we’re such a happy, average couple,” completely misrepresenting these grifters who are still gaming the charter-school system. But haven’t seen a single Jolly ad yet.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 22/09/2026
He’s told her how much he likes her legs. Bet every penny I have.
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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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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 22/09/2026
And now the song is in my head for the rest of the night. I am not mad about it.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 22/09/2026
I’m going to trust that Mamdani is playing 3D chess here against someone who cheats at checkers.
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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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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 21/09/2026
Actually, it is a right, but he’s never cared about those pesky amendments. Except the second one, of course, and that’s only because that one came with votes and money.
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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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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 21/09/2026
Damn, he’s just so good at this.
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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
Mehdi, read the damn room. Even centrist Dems agree Schumer isn’t fighting hard enough. You’re asking the wrong question. Ask Schumer what he’s doing to be in line with a party that demands change and accountability.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 20/09/2026
I’m voting no, but I fear it’s going to pass. People aren’t looking beyond paying lower property taxes; that’s all they want to see, and you can’t argue with them. DeSantis and his minions have made it sound so great, and unfortunately this column is likely too late to change the tide.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 20/09/2026
Someone please confirm that SNL will do a sketch about Eva Braun 2.0 and her capacious bag when the show returns this week.
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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 · 20/09/2026
I’m still going to side-eye the skirt. It’s a little short for someone climbing into a helicopter. I don’t think it’s professional.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 19/09/2026
Eva Braun 2.0 is already judged on the influence she has over him.
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 19/09/2026
Funny how her skirts keep getting shorter. I don’t judge how women dress, also because I write about it for a living. But I’m making an exception for her.
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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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