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Laurie Maffly-Kipp

@maffkipp.bsky.social
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Here to talk about all the officially prohibited things: religion, politics, race.

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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 13h
They're gonna make the big announcement at an Atlanta Hawkeyes game 😂
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The people who spent 15 years saying that society was George Orwell’s 1984 because rappers could say the N word but you can’t are now saying you must love the great machine that knows all of our wants and desires
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
She's bragging about starving children
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“In fact, Americans are saying thank you for raising ground beef prices.”
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remarkable that Trump understanding the consequences of his decisions makes the news
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026
OK news agencies and broadcasters with a presence in the White House Briefing Room, and indeed the WHCA: your test has arrived. It is not hard to pass. You just need to not attend WH Briefings for as long as this rule is in force. That’s it. Does your commitment to a free press mean anything or not?
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Donald J. Trump
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I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility!), and
Dollar subscription, an All Time Record, directly from the United States Government, under Crooked Joe Biden, in order to keep
as a result of their constant "reporting" FAKE NEWS! Media
and LIES when they're covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of
your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"My department has also dispatched three of our finest schooners to explore the part of our maps that say 'here be dragons.' We vow to get to the bottom of this mystery."
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wake up babe new Iran hostage crisis just dropped
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 16/09/2026
Just once, just absolutely once, I would like someone to ask Trump on camera how he thinks international trade works. Like, maybe, do an experiment with monopoly money and toy cars. "Ok, Donald, let's pretend I'm Canada and you're the US."
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Works for me. I'm just gonna take my wagon, pulled by Wright in harness with a team of seven oil CEOS.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
House Republican leaders cancelled votes planned for Thursday. Members won’t return to Washington until Nov. 9.
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
BELOW: Donald Trump honors the victims of 9/11 by flying his eyelids at half-staff.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
To every reporter who stands there as Trump shouts down one of your (almost always female) colleagues with insults and bullying behavior without standing up for them -- you know the rest of us can see and hear you, right?
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They have thought of it before, that's why there's a law against it.
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Laurie Maffly-Kipp @maffkipp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
History matters. Case in point.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Republicans think it's "normal" to back a Senate candidate who was indicted for securities fraud, was impeached by members of his own party, was accused of bribery by his own aides and was sued by his wife for divorce "on biblical grounds" after a long-running affair.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
if you're the abc news editor who wrote that the nyc mayor attending the 9/11 ceremony is attracting "growing criticism" solely because he's a muslim then you are the criticism you're writing about
ABC:
Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism
Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual remembrance ceremony.
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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
After escaping the rubble of the WTC, Trump barely had time to get aboard Flight 93, lead the uprising against the hijackers, and parachute to safety.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Nothing could possibly go wrong.
Donald J. Trump
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Ranchers and Farmers have always been a number one priority for me. They work very hard, are smart, efficient, and immaculately CLEAN, but for years I have heard that they have had a tremendous problem with the Big Processors, who many say are a nasty Monopoly. There are, essentially, 4 of them, a very non competitive number, and they make life miserable for our wonderful Farmers and Ranchers, and I can't let that happen, can I? So, in order to break this powerful monopoly, with much of its ownership based outside of the U.S., I am authorizing legal documents to be drawn in order to allow Farmers and Ranchers to be given the right to PROCESS THEIR OWN FOOD. This should move quickly. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Nice building you've got there, shame if something were to happen to it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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Trump Lawyers Warn That Kennedy Center Might Need Demolition if Not Fixed
In a court filing about honoring President Trump on the facade, the administration said that without a proper renovation the building might need to be “taken down.”
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Remember how Megyn Kelly said that Kamala Harris "slept her way" into politics by invoking her past relationship with Willie Brown? Well, she's now extremely outraged about Jon Ossoff saying Trump likes to "travel with Natalie." You should definitely take her comments very seriously.
Ossoff was clearly implying that Trump is having an affair w/his staffer. He was so determined to disparage Trump, he didn’t give one thought (or worse, he did) to how this would affect Natalie. Forever. 
 Don’t let the Democrats tell you they are for women. It’s a lie.
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Laurie Maffly-Kipp @maffkipp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
MAGA influencers turning into feminists before our eyes.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The last time men forced women back into the kitchen we put shrimp in Jello. We’ll do it again!
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
WaPo making same claim that’s been disproven again & again. Who do they imagine these people are, willing to pay the price of abandoning home, friends, lives they’ve built. “Sorry, kids, we’re leaving the only home you’ve ever known & all our friends to pay 7% state tax instead of 8%.”
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Spiggi @spiggitzfan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I smell U have French fries. I too like French fries.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 07/08/2026
Who says American ingenuity is dead? (Just don't look at the price) yetch.studio/products/lau...
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LAUNDRY CHAIR (PRE-ORDER)
The Laundry Chair is part chair, part storage solution. It has a movable rail for those clothes that aren’t dirty, but also not clean enough to go back in the drawer. Hang your clothes neatly instead ...
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/08/2026
Donald Trump dodged the draft but is happy to post photos of himself in uniform while he sends our kids to die in his war.
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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
oh cool so you created 5 million new jobs for those people right?
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
On the day that Barbara Synder, Douglas Girod and Ronald Daniels and the @aau.edu capitulated to the Trump administration, it's worth looking back at history. First. The Red Scare. @aau.edu was there to bend the knee to Senator Joe McCarthy and HUAC. 1/ www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares
Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I'm starting to suspect that my tax dollars are going to munitions I'll never use, either
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"I am very disappointed with Jeanine Pirro. She folded like an umbrella." - Donald Trump, who can't fold an umbrella
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
what's next? my taxes paying for roads I may never drive on?
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Welp
“⛽ Gas back to $4
 

Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Stock: Getty Images
The national average price of regular gas poked above $4 a gallon again this morning, hitting $4.003 on AAA's tracker.

Why it matters: Midterms are 106 days away, and the U.S. is teetering on returning to all-out war with Iran — a politically dangerous combination for the White House and the GOP.
A year ago, the average price was $3.14 a gallon. A month ago, it was $3.95. A week ago, it was $3.87.

Gas first topped $4 a gallon at the end of March. The price reached $4.56 ahead of Memorial Day weekend.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“The Guardian wins the ‘Caption of the Year’ competition: - William Merrin @theguardian.com
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Laurie Maffly-Kipp @maffkipp.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"What happened to you, Todd Blanche?"
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Laurie Maffly-Kipp @maffkipp.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Update: headline now changed to "fraught relationship." Huh.
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Laurie Maffly-Kipp @maffkipp.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
There's a lot of chatter today about the "complicated" relationship various people had with Lindsey Graham. I would say that this one wasn't all that complicated, but the NYT and I will just have to disagree.
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Lindsey Graham Had a Complicated Relationship With Black Voters (Gift Article)
Mr. Graham, a long-serving senator from South Carolina, was known for his ability to maintain relationships even with his political foes. But the support of Black voters remained elusive.
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Laurie Maffly-Kipp @maffkipp.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
All that time . . . and I could have been reorganizing my cabinets.
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25 Things You Can Do In 20 Minutes Or Less - It Starts With Coffee - Blog by Neely Moldovan — Lifestyle, Beauty, Motherhood, Wellness, Travel
sharing 25 things you can do in 20 minutes or less that will make you feel productive, accomplished, and great about yourself
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Mitch McConnell's fine, honey, he's running and playing on a farm upstate with all the other bigots
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
i vote for him to stand next to the building to monitor it
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Spoke to my friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He's still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes ... about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history
The mother in the attic from Psycho (face away from the camera)
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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I just played pickleball with my old friend Mitch McConnell, the senior Senator from Kentucky. The game lasted just shy of 20 minutes, after which time we enjoyed a lovely lunch at his southern mansion prepared by descendants of slaves he personally selected and purchased himself centuries ago.
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Laurie Maffly-Kipp @maffkipp.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The next big thing: write an article that brands historian leftist influencers (Heather Cox Richardson, @jbf1755.bsky.social , @kevinmkruse.bsky.social, Jill Lepore, etc.) as crypto-centrists. Stake your territory! Make your (completely wrongheaded) claim to fame!
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Dr. Twink, Microplastic Surgeon @subtlebeast.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off
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