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Laurent

@lcindc.bsky.social
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Historian by training. Career in a completely different field but still interested in it. Other interests: opera, Saint-Simon, Proust, US politics (such as they are), many tv shows. Franco-American in DC.🇺🇲🇲🇫🏳️‍🌈

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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Omg. They tried to apply Girard's theory.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
They can't because a large segment of their potential base cares more about symbolic affirmation than about concrete action.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve had a premonition of a thousand annoying takes First off, Talarico has permission to say any goddamn thing he wants to beat Paxton, it ain’t a lie if you tell it to a hog Second, this is a non-statement unless you believe trans girls playing sports endangers safety or fairness
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
OMG
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
That's key. See also JD Vance and his family. Having close personal relationships with individual members of a minority allows racists to feel principled and "objective" rather than, well, racist, when oppressing said minority. Works also for homo/transphobia.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The way the outfits here create flashes of blue and white is very mesmerizing.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
So, it will look like a Miami swimming pool... I guess it's consistent with the cheesy resort hotel aesthetic that seems to be his beau ideal.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Was that ever in doubt? Maybe it's because I despise the fashion industry, but it was always clear to me that the movie was a shameless paean to it. On a related note, those two belts really looked exactly the same.
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 24/04/2026
Aziz Huq, professeur de droit américain : « Péter Magyar doit éviter de commettre les mêmes erreurs que Joe Biden »
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Aziz Huq, professeur de droit américain : « Péter Magyar doit éviter de commettre les mêmes erreurs que Joe Biden »
Dans une tribune au « Monde », le chercheur estime que le prochain premier ministre hongrois ne pourra redémocratiser le pays qu’en évitant d’être, comme l’a été Joe Biden envers Donald Trump, réticent à sanctionner les libertés prises par son prédécesseur, Viktor Orban, avec la loi et la Constitution.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Hey, @wmata.com, maybe tell your bus drivers to stop the bus at the (snow-free) designated stop rather than half a block away, just next to to 4-foot-high snow bank, and not to scold passengers who couldn't fly over the snow bank into the bus by telling them he doesn't have to stop for them.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This kind of comment is so tiresome. He doesn't act like this because he is a man. He acts like this because he is a moron and an asshole. They come in both genders. The opposite as well.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Canceled my Hulu subscription. Interestingly, I didn't get an option to explain why. Just some preset reasons (I'm cheap, I'm poor, this service is too good for me, etc.)
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Well, I work next door to City Center. I was never afraid until now, but the thought that I could run into him on my way to or from work is pretty terrifying, tbh.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
So, I received that....
Screen capture of propaganda email from the Social Security Administration saluting the BBB
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Fox News finds it profitable because lots and lots of people are thirsty for it. Fox News is a symptom, not a cause.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The average American has 3 friends
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil monkeys.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I wonder if Trump will be sending troops, in a kind of Bizarro 1956...
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
That'd be good, but when you're a movement that's 99% cosplaying moral superiority on the internet, it's not really an option.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Have they issued a statement yet to explain that they won't seek accountability for the Signal scandal because they're "focused on kitchen table issues and are working across the aisle on bipartisan solutions that work for all Americans?"
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
One fun part of growing older is to witness how nostalgia moves foward in time with every generation. There are now people who talk of the 80s as an age of innocence...
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"I will, however, continue to vote for his nominees almost without fail..." Fucking clowns.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I guess it may be meaningful...but also, oh wow, a strongly worded letter!
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Day 1: Trump: Biden forgot to say the magic words; everything he did is void. Days 2-3: 10 million posts/opeds about the magic words: needed or not? Day 5: Lawsuit filed! Open and shut case! Take that Trump! Day 371: SCOTUS 4 to 5 affirms need for the magic words; voids all US legislation.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Sorry, but this is BS. It's handing the Republicans a win just so she can congratulate herself on how principled she is being. The bit about how it would be bad for future Dem presidents not to censure is particularly rich. Sure, there will be no heckling of dem presidents now because of this vote.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If so, it was easy enough for them to get one.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This leaves unclear who exactly the Left voted for, purposefully, I imagine.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I guess nobody told those governors that Congressional Dems have no power whatsoever and that we should stop expecting them to do something.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Maybe some action will be taken. Congress critters love flying in and out of DCA and recently even forced the airport to accommodate more flights than it wanted to. You'd think even Republicans have an interest in DCA being safe. Any one of them could be on the next flight to go down.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
the major error was believing decadence was about lifestyle issues as opposed to personal responsibility. a decadent society isn't a place where people party too much, its a place where no one tries to stop a trump like figure until its too late
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Weaving?! Is it really necessary to use his own delusional term to describe his random ramblings?
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
And yet, it still manages to make it partially about him (Those of us who...). Whoever writes these things, the stench remains.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I just think these people are lying, maybe to themselves, more likely to the interviewer, about why they voted for Trump.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
These people were always going to vote for Trump, for cultural or tribal reasons. What they're saying now is mere rationalization of their vote from an economic pov, precisely because they know it makes no sense in this respect. It shows their awareness of this fact, not their ignorance.
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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
*taps chart*
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Lack of youth is not the problem. The staffers who tell the members what to do are in their 20s and 30s. The US is actually ruled by a bunch a Tracy Flicks fresh out of school.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
If the shooter had been Joe Biden, it would also be legal (or at least immune from prosecution), right?
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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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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Just canceled my subscription to the WP. Should have done it sooner.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Now Trump can pardon hundreds of thugs who beat cops in an attempt to storm the Capitol to stop the electoral count and Dems can’t criticize that because of Hunter is the world’s stupidest take.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Has anyone actually read the complete list of people Trump already pardoned & their crimes? I have. Every damn one of them. GTFOH w/your both sideisms & false moral equivalencies. People are sick of that old BS. I’m so tired of our hand-wringing weakness & refuse to participate.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This attitude is easily explained by the inability of our political and judicial system to bring Trump to account in the 4 years when he was out of power. Right or wrong, it's hard to believe that now that he is back in the WH, he'll somehow be held in check by the same system.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Marc Bloch will deservedly in the Pantheon.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Lol holding a president accountable for a coup, what a ridiculous third-world thing to do
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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This may have been making the rounds already, but I saw it this morning and it made me cackle. H/t @rbendig.bsky.social
A sequence of humorous mistranslations of the German titles of Bach cantatas (examples: Valet will ich dir geben, "I will give a deer to the valet;" Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, "My dear seal, you are such a schmuck").
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
As I was saying...
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I think every Democrat in the Capitol building should start using the other gender's bathroom, and when called out by a Republican, demand the complainer prove they're not just using the bathroom corresponding to their "biological sex", as required. Could be fun.
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
2016-2020 has shown how much our political system rests on practically unenforceable laws and norms that can very easily be ignored at virtually no cost. Real question: was anything done in the last 4 years to at least try to remedy some of that?
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Laurent @lcindc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
#shelfies
Photo of poster's book shelf.
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