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Lauren Mahon

@leekvs.bsky.social
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She/her, because fuck TERFs. Greyhound aficionado (the dogs not the bus company). Pequeño Keeblero.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 22h
You forgot to mention that Oilers—who make up most of the engine room crew—start at $58,046.40 and are getting 0% raises through 2029.
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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 15h
shiiiit if I got a whale I could get a plastic ferry at a Mariners game next year and make them fight
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farner @farnerb0cken.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
men who sacrifice liberty for bibberty deserve neither
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Jeff Nusser @nusscoug.podcastvseveryone.com · 17h
Oh man fuck right off with this anti-union shit. Solidarity with the workers, for whom this was not even remotely their first step in this fight for fair working conditions. ✊
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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 16h
Attn: supposedly progressive Democrat appears to be unclear on why strikes are in fact the way to address workers' issues
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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 21h
🤮 Fuck Megyn Kelly.
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 22h
Another way in which Ferguson has been a disappointment... and I had not heard about this one til now.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seattle Times editorial board complains about $30,000 bonus for Sound Transit head, but apparently had no problem with $50,000 bonuses for three Seattle police command staff (Barnes, Sayles, and Powell), all of them just thank-yous for taking top jobs here.
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Sound Transit CEO's $30,000 bonus shows a big disconnect | Editorial
When private corporations award employees performance bonuses, that’s between the corporation and their shareholders. Not so with a public utility.
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Share the Cities Collective @sharethecities.bsky.social · 22h
If you live in Bob Kettle’s district in Seattle it is very important he hears from you loudly (and politely) this budget season. He’s big on respectability politics 🙃 . 1. No cuts to housing 2. Fund tenant services 3. No cuts to housing 4. Fund tenant services www.seattle.gov/council/memb...
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Bob Kettle - Council | seattle.gov
District 7 (Downtown to Magnolia, including Queen Anne, Uptown, Westlake, Interbay, Eastlake, South Lake Union, and Belltown)
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23h
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This wasn't the earliest for me but a definite standout nonetheless.
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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I just learned this very year the name of this (Disney!!) TV movie where a girl is murdered by being pushed down a well, and then there's a scene where her doll is seen falling down it too. I think I accidentally saw the scene when I was like 5 or 6? NOT COOL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_o...
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Child of Glass - Wikipedia
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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This isn't nearly as embarrassing as it should be; I left off my high school hair metal phase which would have had Jon Bon Jovi's soundtrack for Young Guns II 😳
My 9 Albums: The sound that made me
Rid of Me, PJ Harvey
Exile in Guyville, Liz Phair
New Adventures in Hi-Fi, R.E.M.
Te Deum, Arvo Pärt
Long Gone Daddy, Hank Williams
Van Lear Rose, Loretta Lynn
Off the Deep End, Weird Al
She's So Unusual, Cyndi Lauper
Heavy Jelly, Soft Play
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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What happened this morning: Read the baggage claim story. Read your bio. Went to your media searching for greyhound pic. Found it, satisfied now. 😊 (Hi Dasher!)
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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wait is this sort of bullshit the reason people are attacking the innocent, beautiful em dash? 🤬
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I really wish the world’s most dangerous, extreme anti-vaccine activist & conspiracy theorist, RFK Jr, who is a eugenicist & a MAHA dude who repeatedly peddles vile lies, had not been put in charge of the US health system Here he is telling truly horrific, dangerous lies about HPV & COVID vaccines
RFK Jr saying that the HPV vaccine increases the risk of cervical cancer & the Covid vaccine increases the risk of Covid—these are 2 dangerous lies
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No notes
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A brief but harmless period of weightlessness @hughsheehy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Classic republican, can’t tell if someone is the wrong age to try to pick up
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh yeah that’s the good stuff
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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
throwing my iced coffee in the face of the first dude who shows up to the interview in a sweatsblazer
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️
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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
(I never regretted the mockery)
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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This reasoning is exactly how I felt as a teenager thinking maybe someday I would want to have kids 🤣
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Alexandra Halaby 🇵🇸 @iskandrah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"This is very worrying. Issa Amro has been detained by the IDF for helping a family at risk of dispossession." (via Andrew Feinstein, @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social)
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Greyhound Pets, Inc. @greyhoundpetsinc.org · 02/10/2026
GPI Friday Available Dog Report ~ Brightwater walk with KEN, FRANK, TRUCK and CANDY. An easy walk this morning easing these new arrivals into learning about new sights, sounds and smells. At the kennel, Bev and Chris S spent time with PANDORA, JIMMY, GLEN, MISTY, EBONY, BARRY and LUCY. /1
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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm sure you can find helpers here in WA state, just saying
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.
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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Then who's gonna find the amulet?!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Takeaways from this piece (gift link): 1. The ads are clearly related to midterm politics 2. They are meant to assuage Trump's ego 3. Money comes from OBBBA DHS slush fund www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The future of the military is one computer shooting missiles at whoever it wants and thousands of soldiers who stand around looking sexy
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There's a special place in Hell for people like me. It's cushy. Comfortable seating and ample snacks. It's not nearly as painful as the Hell for ordinary people.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...
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Newsom vetoes insurance-claim bills: Is it ‘petty’ politics?
California governor rejects legislation sponsored by LA fire victims, who had spoken out against his wildfire-liability effort.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Who, Me? was a top secret, sulfurous, non-lethal chemical weapon developed by MIT-graduate Ernest Crocker for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services during World War II.[1][2] Who, Me? smelled strongly of fecal matter, and was issued in pocket atomizers intended to be unobtrusively sprayed on a German officer to humiliate him and, by extension, demoralize the occupying German forces.[3]

Who, Me? had a high concentration of extremely volatile sulfur compounds that were very difficult to control: more often than not, the person who did the spraying also ended up smelling as bad as the one targeted.[4] After two weeks, it was concluded that Who, Me? was a failure.
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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There is truly no comparison between the blood on Yoo's hand and that of Pike's. Yoo has participated in far more brutal atrocities and it's not even close. The fact that he's on TV and she's been in a cage is not an accident of the US legal system — it's the point
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That’s sad. I also nearly stopped my neighbor’s house from burning down, when I got ticked off at the arsonist. But I didn’t, instead I gave him matches and lighter fluid. But I was kinda peeve for a bit, there! This makes me look good.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s time for vampires, werewolves, seahags, and all the other wonderful creatures that can be alone with you in space as you drift along the unfathomable cosmos. So Monster Mash your way to the Space Hotel, which is opening in only two months!!!!!!!
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First ever space hotel slated to be operational by 2027trib.al/iswu2uU
2:23 PM • Mar 1. 2021
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wrote about the Trump administration attempting to deport an anti-Zionist Hasidic Jew to Israel, and what it says about the conditions of Jewish identity imposed by the administration's "anti-antisemitism" campaign. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/01/t...
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Trump Admin Trying to Deport Anti-Zionist Hasidic Jew “Home” to Israel
The Trump administration is trying to deport Yehonatan Ovadia, a Satmar Hasidic religious teacher in Rockland County, New York. His alleged offense: taking part in a 2023 protest against an Israeli fl...
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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bed heritage? Like... people historically slept in it?
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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