Lauren Macdonald
@maclauren.bsky.social
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Brewed in beautiful Decorah, Iowa ~San Diegan since ‘99 ~ YIMBY, feminist, BLM ~ E-🚲/ 🚉 enthusiast, D9 team member (opinions my own) ~ she/her ~
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Greenblatt with kinder words for Republicans who are affiliated with actual Hitler Youth than what he says about Zohran Mamdani
What was reported in @politico is offensive and very concerning. But I'm also glad that many leaders, including @EliseStefanik and @ReMikeLawler, spoke out strongly and swiftly against these hateful statements. This is what leadership looks like - and is how decency and morality can be modeled. politico.com/news/2025/10/1...
Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.
viner as we oning ut
Great. I love Hitler
Also ... we are officially under consideration for a Trump endorsement.
we’ve reached peak man
We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...
quotes from cybertruck owners
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The UAW has waded into the Maine Senate race with an endorsement for oyster farmer (and former Tune Inn bartender!) Graham Platner
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The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.
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🚨 If you live in the city of San Diego: we need your help! 🚨

Next Monday, Oct. 20th, our city council will be discussing an ordinance relating to resident safety and due process and your support is needed

A staff report summarizing the ordinance is here:
sandiego.hylandcloud.com
I’m going to lose my mind when we inevitably will bail these assholes out with taxpayer money.
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here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
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This is why those “who’s surprised?” comments really don’t move me because we act as if this is sectioned off into “politics” or “culture wars” and don’t affect the bedrock institutions in the society.
She is a school Counselor!!!!!!
From the school website identifying her.
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the normies are very mad
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"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé
I don’t disagree that contested primaries are good, but Schumer is tipping the scale here. Which of course he can do, but we who are sick of his shit can also organize to replace him with someone much better.
Schumer is spending his time convincing a 77(!) establishment candidate to run for the Maine Senate seat to prevent an exciting progressive from winning, meanwhile…..
Chris Van Hollen for Senate Minority Leader.

We need someone at the helm who understands the fight we're in and is willing to fight it. As far as I've seen, no one in the Senate Dem caucus is speaking with more clarity or conviction.
These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III. 

Looking forward to No Kings Day.
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Biden let Bibi play him for a fool, to his face, badly damaging his own political standing and that of his party, all in service of a genocidal campaign of retribution

all out of, as far as I can tell, a devout belief that Israel can do no wrong

that is his legacy and he brought it on himself
i do not have a lot of tolerance for people whining that Netanyahu fucked Biden over in order to get Trump in office so he could do whatever he wanted. yeah. he absolutely did that. that was obvious before 10/7.

there is no person on Earth more incompetent as a foreign policy thinker than Biden
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fact it didn’t fucking work. It didn’t work electorally, it didnt work geopolitically, it didn’t work for tens of thousands of dead palestinians

how did joe biden spend the lame duck? great question, calling on world leaders to continue supporting israel after the likud coalition helped elect trump
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The Dem establishment is going to back Mills over the absolute phenom outsider Platner in Maine, which tells you everything you need to know about how well they understand the current moment & how prepared they are to meet it.
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The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
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Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?
This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss
The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.
www.theatlantic.com
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Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?
A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”
Look & listen - this is what the Democratic base is hungry for and what our current Democratic leadership in Congress is not delivering.

If Schumer is successful getting 77 yo Gov Mills into this race those of us who can, need to send $, because Mills will have plenty of it.
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
HE WAS PAID 50 K IN A CAVA BAG, COME ON!
Shocking, that after 2 yrs of seeing shocking images out of Gaza, folks are clutched their pearls about Harris’s feelings being hurt! People were BEGGING her to choose a different path, laying out exactly what would happen and we are supposed to get upset that her book tour was interrupted? smh