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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of talk from republicans over the last month about “violent rhetoric” from “the left.” They should consider holding up a mirror and look at their own organization, The Young Republicans. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 2d

Mockery is effective. Bonus, it’s my source of joy. They want us angry and lashing out.

Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 3d

A lot of people have made fun of this post but she is way closer to the truth than the genre of weirdo who gets mad at irony and jokes about fascism and thinks that we can only respond to it with earnest outrage

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 2d

My god, he’s such an idiot.

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 2d

I spent last Thanksgiving in New York City with my family. It was PERFECT. I’m internally pouting like a spoiled child because I’m not going this year. Your pictures bring such a huge smile to my face! Thank you!

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 2d

Fingers don’t kill people. People kill people. #ComeAndTakeIt

Am I doing this right?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck that guy

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 3d

New gender neutral bathroom just dropped.

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 3d

I approve of using AI as a mirror.

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 5d

You can cut the sexual tension with a knife.

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 5d

I should’ve put a trigger warning. Sorry about that!

Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 5d

Turning Point USA halftime show preview just dropped.

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 5d

The Trump administration put out a propaganda video in an attempt to show Chicago in chaos.

A couple of problems:
They used footage from Florida. There are no palm trees in Chicago.

The sign in the video is from the “Weed & Seed” program. You can clearly see the DC Police logo on the sign.

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 5d

Me too!!!

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 5d

This is what you see when you go to Dominion Voting’s website.

Dominionvoting.com

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 5d

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

www.nobelprize.org

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 5d

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Has anyone checked in on Trump this morning?

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 8d

I don’t want to live around, converse with, or even breathe the same air as the people who are okay w/ what is happening in our country. I have no grace for this mindset. None.

I’m not your friend. I’m not here to “keep the peace.” If you want to agree to disagree, I’ll gladly tell you to fuck off.

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Ben West @westbywest.bsky.social · 9d

Remember that SLMPD specifically cited SAPA in their inability to act on previous alarming behavior of the 2022 CVPA school shooter. #MOleg and frmr Gov. Parson have blood on their hands.

Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 9d

Missouri’s controversial GOP-backed gun law that banned local police from enforcing federal gun laws was rejected by SCOTUS.

The law imposed $50K fines for officers who enforced federal gun laws, including possession of firearms by some domestic violence offenders & weapons registration/tracking.

U.S. Supreme Court won't revive Missouri gun law that banned enforcement of federal rules

Missouri’s Second Amendment Preservation Act, passed in 2021 and signed by then-Gov. Mike Parson at a Kansas City gun shop, was criticized by local governments, local police and others. The U.S. Justi...

www.kcur.org

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 9d

“Despite the MO AG’s blatant attempts to overturn the will of the people, all patients expect & have the right for their medical records to be private. Politicians have no place in the exam room w/ patients & their medical providers, & that’s why we’ll keep fighting for patients & their rights.”

Missouri attorney general subpoenas Planned Parenthood for patient abortion records • Missouri Independent

Missouri's attorney general subpoenaed for health records of Planned Parenthood abortion patients as part of ongoing litigation around abortion access.

missouriindependent.com

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 9d

Missouri’s controversial GOP-backed gun law that banned local police from enforcing federal gun laws was rejected by SCOTUS.

The law imposed $50K fines for officers who enforced federal gun laws, including possession of firearms by some domestic violence offenders & weapons registration/tracking.

U.S. Supreme Court won't revive Missouri gun law that banned enforcement of federal rules

Missouri’s Second Amendment Preservation Act, passed in 2021 and signed by then-Gov. Mike Parson at a Kansas City gun shop, was criticized by local governments, local police and others. The U.S. Justi...

www.kcur.org