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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

1. People may not “like” each post in the thread, but actually read them all.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Or from THIS president, anyway. A BENEVOLENT dictatorship might not be so bad, given what recent years have demonstrated about the wishes of the people.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 03/10/2026

Trump corrupted America's most innovative institution, the National Science Foundation, by stealing $1.4B mandated by Congress for research. 🧪 🧵

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tucker: “I never understood why 🇬🇧 fought World War 2?” 😕 Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…” Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?” RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…” Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bar Miransky, who survived the attack on the Supernova Festival by Palestinian Hamas on October 7th.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

But the LLM did not invent or deduce the Navier-Stokes equations. I am not saying I disagree with you in general, but this seems a particularly poor example.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Repaying his debts to Putin? DJT has never paid his debts, why should he start now?

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Does it even matter? Are the priorities of the 35-year-old stalker any worse than those of the president she is stalking? And does this president deserve a security clearance, given that whatever facts he learns or makes go straight to insider trading and/or to betraying Ukraine and South Korea?

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

One reason vote-by-mail remains under attack by Republicans is because of who it helps turn out.

Two New York Times charts on Colorado's all-mail voting, from research by Adam Bonica, Jacob Grumbach, Charlotte Hill, and Hakeem Jefferson.

Top chart, "Which Coloradans benefited most from all-mail voting," shows the difference between actual and projected turnout in Colorado's 2018 election. By race: African-American voters gained about 11 percentage points, Asian about 9, Latino about 8, white about 7.5. By education: less than a high school diploma about 10 points, high school diploma, some college, and bachelor's degree about 9 each, graduate degree about 7. By household wealth: $0 to $5k gained about 11 points, with gains shrinking as wealth rises to about 6 points for households over $500k.

Bottom chart, "Mailing every Coloradan a ballot increased voting across all age groups," plots actual 2018 turnout against projected turnout without all-mail voting, by age from under 30 to 90. Actual turnout is higher at every age. The gap is widest for the youngest voters, roughly 14 points near age 30, and narrows to about 5 points for voters in their 70s and 80s. Generations labeled Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, Silent Generation.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh, I DID read a book once, long ago! I think it mentioned a word like ... um ... could it have been "metaphor"?

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Um ... my post was a reply to a post about the real-world re-nazification of Germany. How many other real-world examples would you like? I am very surprised to see how much hostility my post has attracted!

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If nazification is part of human nature (as the rise of MAGA seems to have shown), then how could denazification work for more than a generation or two? A light version: in Star Wars, the son of the great heros Hans Solo and Princess Leia, Kylo Ren, turns to the evil side.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Pat Paulson, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, late 1960s?

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Next year? The next decade, more like!

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I think they have no cause to wonder. It is clear that Trump and his administration act solely in their personal interests, whether financial, reputatational, or vengeful.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Another good lawsplainer from Liz, posted on @atrupar.com's site. I think Carr belongs in jail for his numerous violations of the First Amendment, but that's just me.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Probably not even to the highest bidder! To his personal friends or family members or whoever bribes him!

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Daniel Lafleur Baron de Cadillac @lafleurmtl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

As a Canadian i would really appreciate you guys making the effort After all We Including French separatists ,socialists Gave a majority to à grey banker whose rightwing policies we hate Just to stand up to Trump The least you could is hold your nose Drop purity tests And elect sane honest people

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I thought we were, until recently. Apparently not.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Yes, there are people who believe in race science and who end up being anti-vaccine but this guy is not one of them. He is very much pro race science and ALSO very much pro vaccine. He ridicules MAGA for being anti vaccine. He is very pro science (but believes that only white people can do science).

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Yes, I know all this. But he is ALSO anti-MAGA. See below.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Yes, and that is how I play chess: I assume I can just play move after move without opposition. I am a very incompetent chess player.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I now see that this anti-vaccine post was sarcastic.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Actually, after reading more of his posts, I am now sure he was being sarcastic about vaccines. He is anti-left, yes, but he also thinks that MAGA is very stupid. Unfortunately, he is probably laughing at our taking his anti-vaccine post instead of realizing it was sarcastic.

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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

An innovative floating offshore solar project that generates electricity and converts seawater into drinking water. The farm near Gran Canaria produces 85 MW of renewable electricity while using that same power to operate reverse osmosis systems that desalinate seawater #ActOnClimate #renewables

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Maybe this is meant sarcastically? Maybe it is actually a pro-vaccine post clothed in anti-vaccine pro-MAGA language?

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I appreciate this interesting information. However, I do not believe that "protecting women's spaces" need always be a whitewashing euphemism. Regardless of JKR's views, II believe one can support "protecting women's spaces" without the addition of genocidal or eugenicist points of view.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Yes. And who would want to win against vaccines? Who would want to get measles? Those outcomes (getting measles and winning against vaccines) sound very bad to me.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I watched the 1st half, and from that formed my opinion that it was guilt by association. I saw quotes and actions by the other people, but not JKR. if you think I will find quotes and actions by JKR that are about OTHER than restricting spaces for women to cis-women, I will watch the 2nd half too.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yes, JK Rowling's beliefs are shared by a lot of very dubious and bad people, but I oppose assigning guilt by association.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Indeed, it was by far the easiest to respond to! Sorry about that! I can also quickly answer the post about guilt-by-association, which I will do now.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"An American president who has been in Iran's cross hairs for years" Feels like a key fact they're omitting here is that, four months prior, Donald Trump had assassinated the entire Iranian political leadership in a massive surprise attack

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A two-way exchange, so Europeans see how much better their actual current governments function than the U.S. and are less likely to fall prey to the far right or the far left.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Eloquent and thoughtful reply!

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Yup. And most people would, including the vast majority of people who think they wouldn’t but have never been tested.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

JKR supports preserving women-only spaces. Or, if you like, cis-women-only spaces. Even if you oppose this, it cannot be described simply as "anti-trans". Try mapping it onto black-white. White-people-only? White supremacy. Black-people-only? a necessary refuge. White people who transition to black?

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

But ... the vast majority of ALL people just do what's expected of them at the time, are not heroic, etc. Many people who seem perfectly well-meaning today would have been fine with being slave owners in the past. Very few oppose something their own current peer group supports.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Everyone is missing Tyler’s secondary point, which is that woke/progressive university liberals care a lot about race and gender but little or not about class (unionization, adjunct professors).

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CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick) @canadianchick.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Really good piece. Especially for a Canadian who has little knowledge of the mechanics of how the US Voting Rights Act was implemented.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

But (so far) there are no new damaging revelations about El-Sayed.

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Every position gets you some voters and loses you some voters (to the extent that anyone cares). It's not possible to tell what would have happened if Biden/Harris had had a different position on Israel. Yes, they lost the election, but you cannot know how the vote WOULD have gone otherwise.

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LAISSEZ LES BOO QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The biggest pain in the ass of a generation project and the thing slowing everything down is the interconnection queue and the cost of transmission system upgrades So the easiest thing to do is stick panels next to a dead coal plant and use their existing interconnection facilities and capacity

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Laurette @laurtuck.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yes, certainly, but I did not deny the Israeli genocide. You, however, denied the Sudanese genocide. Or so I thought. But this is silly, neither of us is going to convince the other in the least.

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