Laura Chapin
@laurachapin.bsky.social
Feminist, relentless abortion rights advocate, foodie, world traveller, music lover, childless cat lady, proud Coloradan with Texas roots. Molly Ivins & Diane Nash are my heroes. The Chicks song "The Long Away Around" pretty well covers it.
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is that a foil tray of plain macaroni?
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
is that a foil tray of plain macaroni?
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The two Americas:
Hard working Honduran college student deported, Honduran drug kingpin (what bribes exist?) pardoned
Hard working Honduran college student deported, Honduran drug kingpin (what bribes exist?) pardoned
November 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The two Americas:
Hard working Honduran college student deported, Honduran drug kingpin (what bribes exist?) pardoned
Hard working Honduran college student deported, Honduran drug kingpin (what bribes exist?) pardoned
Did a little #shopsmall in Montrose yesterday and bought myself a recycled wood cookbook holder at small business collective/antiques mall. I think it's beautiful - and it was only $38!
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Did a little #shopsmall in Montrose yesterday and bought myself a recycled wood cookbook holder at small business collective/antiques mall. I think it's beautiful - and it was only $38!
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Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Five-byline alert: 🚨
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Five-byline alert: 🚨
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Beating OU and a&m makes it a good year regardless of whatever else happens.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Beating OU and a&m makes it a good year regardless of whatever else happens.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...
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America Abroad: Just as lawless.
November 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
America Abroad: Just as lawless.
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It should go without saying, but the president has no authority to do this, and anyone reporting the story needs to say as such.
November 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It should go without saying, but the president has no authority to do this, and anyone reporting the story needs to say as such.
This is why Rep Jason Crow and Senators Mark Kelly ad Elissa Slotkin made that video.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This is why Rep Jason Crow and Senators Mark Kelly ad Elissa Slotkin made that video.
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
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Around half of #ACA enrollees are people who are self-employed.
The other half mostly work for small businesses which don't provide healthcare coverage for their employees.
The ACA is VITAL to small businesses.
The other half mostly work for small businesses which don't provide healthcare coverage for their employees.
The ACA is VITAL to small businesses.
When health care tax credits expire, it’s working people who pay the price. Maine deserves leadership that protects affordable health care — not let premiums soar because of inaction.
www.pressherald.com/2025/11/24/m...
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Maine small business owners bracing for soaring health care premiums if ACA tax credits expire
They join self-employed workers at a roundtable Monday to discuss the potentially devastating increases with U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-1st District, and Gov. Janet Mills.
www.pressherald.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Around half of #ACA enrollees are people who are self-employed.
The other half mostly work for small businesses which don't provide healthcare coverage for their employees.
The ACA is VITAL to small businesses.
The other half mostly work for small businesses which don't provide healthcare coverage for their employees.
The ACA is VITAL to small businesses.
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Cheung is 10 years younger than me, looks 10 years _older_ somehow, and bears a strong semblance to a man-sized butt plug.
He’s another of this admin’s sterling examples of the “peasant-coded” belief, as Jamelle Bouie put it, that evil turns people ugly from the inside out.
He’s another of this admin’s sterling examples of the “peasant-coded” belief, as Jamelle Bouie put it, that evil turns people ugly from the inside out.
November 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Cheung is 10 years younger than me, looks 10 years _older_ somehow, and bears a strong semblance to a man-sized butt plug.
He’s another of this admin’s sterling examples of the “peasant-coded” belief, as Jamelle Bouie put it, that evil turns people ugly from the inside out.
He’s another of this admin’s sterling examples of the “peasant-coded” belief, as Jamelle Bouie put it, that evil turns people ugly from the inside out.
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Tim Walz's son Gus has NVLD, a learning disability.
Trump has never known the type of love from anyone, much less his father, that Tim Walz so openly demonstrates for his son.
Trump has never known the type of love from anyone, much less his father, that Tim Walz so openly demonstrates for his son.
November 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Tim Walz's son Gus has NVLD, a learning disability.
Trump has never known the type of love from anyone, much less his father, that Tim Walz so openly demonstrates for his son.
Trump has never known the type of love from anyone, much less his father, that Tim Walz so openly demonstrates for his son.
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Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
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As a reporter, I can't imagine standing by quietly while a powerful person I was reporting on spoke to a colleague like that.
It just wouldn't be in me to keep my mouth shut.
It just wouldn't be in me to keep my mouth shut.
Trump rants at reporter calling her stupid 5 times and no one stands up to him. That sucks. Business as usual. Dictator.
November 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
As a reporter, I can't imagine standing by quietly while a powerful person I was reporting on spoke to a colleague like that.
It just wouldn't be in me to keep my mouth shut.
It just wouldn't be in me to keep my mouth shut.
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
Tim Walz's son Gus has NVLD, a learning disability.
Trump has never known the type of love from anyone, much less his father, that Tim Walz so openly demonstrates for his son.
Trump has never known the type of love from anyone, much less his father, that Tim Walz so openly demonstrates for his son.
November 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Tim Walz's son Gus has NVLD, a learning disability.
Trump has never known the type of love from anyone, much less his father, that Tim Walz so openly demonstrates for his son.
Trump has never known the type of love from anyone, much less his father, that Tim Walz so openly demonstrates for his son.
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Also if you’re unwilling to be confrontational with powerful people you just should not be a journalist. You aren’t cut out for it.
November 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Also if you’re unwilling to be confrontational with powerful people you just should not be a journalist. You aren’t cut out for it.
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I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face
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Our community is mourning the loss of Sen Faith Winter. Her leadership and kindness touched so many. More information about this tragedy can be found here.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Our community is mourning the loss of Sen Faith Winter. Her leadership and kindness touched so many. More information about this tragedy can be found here.
coloradosun.com/.../faith-wi...
coloradosun.com/.../faith-wi...
I don't just blame Olivia Nuzzi and her tacky box color. I also blame the dumbass, unethical men who inexplicably indulged her because they were having sex with her, hoped they would, or in a total absence of taste or discernment found her charming.
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I don't just blame Olivia Nuzzi and her tacky box color. I also blame the dumbass, unethical men who inexplicably indulged her because they were having sex with her, hoped they would, or in a total absence of taste or discernment found her charming.