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Michael Laser

@mlaser54.bsky.social
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• Writer of novels (Futura; Eulogy; 6-321; Old Buddy Old Pal; My Impending Death; etc.) and other things (The Word-Lover’s Lexicon). • michaellaser.com

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
My letter in today's Sunday Record.
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Pete says it very well.
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
My letter in the New York Times. (Scroll down - it's the 3rd letter on the page.) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/o...
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Opinion | Seeking to Stop a Slide Into Autocracy
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Who does this? Who stacks human beings like lumber? The villains of dystopian scifi, that’s who. But this being done on the orders of our president, with our tax dollars. And most of these men haven’t been convicted of a crime. It’s a show of brute force—and it's monstrous. @vanhollen.senate.gov
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Nice juxtaposition here.
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Super Bowl USAID Save Foreign Aid
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
MIKE LUCKOVICH APPRECIATION POST @mluckovich.bsky.social is one of the greatest political cartoonists of all time. Thank you for 3 decades of scathing satire, remarkable insight and helping us all laugh to avoid weeping openly. 🙏 Your longtime fan, Mar🐫
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"You'll never have to vote again," Trump said last July. Are most Americans okay with this? I don't think so. Time to take this threat seriously. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump tells Christians they won't have to vote after this election
It was not clear what the former president meant by his remarks.
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Couldn't sleep. Nightmarish visions. Maybe this will help.
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Written 4 years ago, but painfully apt right now: "Rhinoceros" meets the Trump era. medium.com/@michaellase...
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Monstrosity
A Play by Michael Laser
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Is there room over here for the sort of infantile/hilarious memes that were so common at the Other Place? It's the one thing I miss. I hope some of that nonsense will show up here soon.
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
What I've wished for ever since... a month and a half ago.
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
"Musk is now threatening to financially back a primary challenge to any Republican senator who opposes Trump’s nominees." Memo To: Supreme Court Do we still think money is speech, and the richest man in the world gets to shape Congress to his liking? www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
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Charlie Sykes: Elon Musk's threat to primary GOP detractors is a symptom of a much larger problem
We have a conjunction of massive wealth and massive political power with the absence of accountability. Will anybody stand up and say, "Stop"?
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Philosophical question: Can 2 opposite things both be true?
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
If you’re seeing this, there’s a good chance you already know 90% of what’s in this essay. But I needed to set it down anyway, for the record.
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Sleepwalking into Catastrophe
We’ve gone quiet, haven’t we?
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is excellent. theliberaltomwatson.substack.com/p/goodbye-re...
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Goodbye Resistance, Hello Opposition
For those of us who refuse to get in line, to accommodate the rollback of civil and human rights, what is our choice? I think the answer is opposition.
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
An alarming little nugget from today's Washington Post: An architect of Project 2025, Vought says he will force federal agencies entrusted with producing reliable, nonpartisan, independent statistics to bow to the president’s will. [cont'd in comments below] www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | The GOP’s top priority for 2025: Repeal the laws of arithmetic
Republicans are reinventing math to justify extending pricey Trump tax policies.
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
a practical guide to resisting, for those in a position to slow down the slide to tyranny. thecycle.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...
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How to be Sand in the Gears of Tyranny
A Guest Essay by Emily Galvin-Almanza
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
If you haven’t figured out a holiday gift for someone in your life who loves words, may I recommend... www.amazon.com/Word-Lovers-...
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The Word-Lover's Lexicon: A Whimsical Collection of Uncommon, Amusing, and Useful Words (Including the Ones You Meant to Look Up but Didn’t)
Amazon.com: The Word-Lover's Lexicon: A Whimsical Collection of Uncommon, Amusing, and Useful Words (Including the Ones You Meant to Look Up but Didn’t): 9798218124670: Laser, Michael: Books
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
In Colum McCann’s novel Apeirogon, two fathers (one Israeli, one Palestinian) have lost their young daughters to violence: one killed by a suicide bomber, the other by a soldier’s rubber bullet. A passage in the center of the book deserves to be more widely read. See the thread of excerpts below.
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Replace innocent dinosaur with our next Secretary of the Interior.
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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Marty Baron on Fresh Air, listing the ways Trump may threaten a free press. (A long list! See comments below for excerpts.) www.npr.org/transcripts/...
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Veteran news editor expects Trump 'to go after the press in every conceivable way'
Former Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron says he thinks Trump is "salivating for the opportunity to prosecute and imprison journalists." New Yorker editor David Remnick agrees.
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