Laura Clawson
@lauraclawson.bsky.social
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The White House is now citing "national security" for everything it does. Seriously, check out these headlines. It's just the last few weeks.
If you know authoritarian history, then you know how menacing this is.
If you know authoritarian history, then you know how menacing this is.
December 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
The White House is now citing "national security" for everything it does. Seriously, check out these headlines. It's just the last few weeks.
If you know authoritarian history, then you know how menacing this is.
If you know authoritarian history, then you know how menacing this is.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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I’m so glad we put so much financial and political support behind the tech industry so they can come up with amazing new ideas like charging you 23% more for the same groceries
#BREAKING: Instacart says it will halt a practice that used AI to adjust the cost of groceries for different shoppers after a study found some customers were paying as much as 23% more for the same items.
Ending Item Price Tests on Instacart | Instacart
Over the past couple weeks, there’s been a lot written about Instacart and how pricing works on our platform . Some of that coverage raised fair questions. Much of it included misconceptions and misin...
www.instacart.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I’m so glad we put so much financial and political support behind the tech industry so they can come up with amazing new ideas like charging you 23% more for the same groceries
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
There’s just so much kindness and deep-down decency on display in this video and it comes across as entirely genuine.
It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love.
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
Happy Hanukkah
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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December 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
There’s just so much kindness and deep-down decency on display in this video and it comes across as entirely genuine.
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*Literally all investigations of firms with ties to Trump crypto businesses or involving Trump donors have been dropped.
*The pattern of non-enforcement for crypto is different from other SEC cases
*The pattern of non-enforcement for crypto is different from other SEC cases
December 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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While a bunch of journalists were at the Kennedy Center taking pictures today, I asked the VP of Facilities and Operations at the Kennedy Center a direct question:
“Matt, is this the first time that you’ve defaced a public building?“
Only at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/q-and-a-de...
“Matt, is this the first time that you’ve defaced a public building?“
Only at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/q-and-a-de...
December 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
While a bunch of journalists were at the Kennedy Center taking pictures today, I asked the VP of Facilities and Operations at the Kennedy Center a direct question:
“Matt, is this the first time that you’ve defaced a public building?“
Only at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/q-and-a-de...
“Matt, is this the first time that you’ve defaced a public building?“
Only at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/q-and-a-de...
I had no idea. I always thought when you had a toilet rat you just had to wait for it to drown.
December 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I had no idea. I always thought when you had a toilet rat you just had to wait for it to drown.
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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
I’m opposed to the austerity mindset but one place I’ll embrace it is “let’s pay peanuts for vaccines and save millions on treating painful and dangerous preventable illnesses.”
I know people are rightly going to be worried about child health, their own health. But we also can't afford this. Like, John Hopkins did an estimate (next link) and every measles case during outbreaks cost on average $43,000 to treat. That kid who got tetanus cost $1 million dollars to treat /1
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
December 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I’m opposed to the austerity mindset but one place I’ll embrace it is “let’s pay peanuts for vaccines and save millions on treating painful and dangerous preventable illnesses.”
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Here in Delaware we have a statue of Thomas Garrett, a white man found guilty of obstructing the recapture of fugitives from slavery – ordered to pay damages to the point of ruin for it.
We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.
We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.
December 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Here in Delaware we have a statue of Thomas Garrett, a white man found guilty of obstructing the recapture of fugitives from slavery – ordered to pay damages to the point of ruin for it.
We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.
We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.
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This is so painfully dumb. As a zillion others have noted LOTS of people who use and need a wheelchair to get around can walk short distances with effort. But also: Do they really imagine there’s some huge pool of people who’d go to the trouble of FAKING A DISABILITY to skip a ten minute line?
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines.
on.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
This is so painfully dumb. As a zillion others have noted LOTS of people who use and need a wheelchair to get around can walk short distances with effort. But also: Do they really imagine there’s some huge pool of people who’d go to the trouble of FAKING A DISABILITY to skip a ten minute line?
This article is so frustrating because there's important new stuff in here but the structure is so bad -- it rambles, it treats stuff we've known forever and its own scoops as if they're equally revelatory -- that its impact is blunted.
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
This article is so frustrating because there's important new stuff in here but the structure is so bad -- it rambles, it treats stuff we've known forever and its own scoops as if they're equally revelatory -- that its impact is blunted.
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I get these overtures to debate this or that person and let me ask you something. Why, in god’s name, would I do that? Is this high school? Do I have abs again??? Stacked bangs? What’s debating do in 2025??
December 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I get these overtures to debate this or that person and let me ask you something. Why, in god’s name, would I do that? Is this high school? Do I have abs again??? Stacked bangs? What’s debating do in 2025??
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Rep. Beatty is on the Kennedy Center’s board and says she was not allowed to speak out against renaming it.
Also, coincidentally, she has over 67,000 followers on X, yet almost no views on any of her posts.
Also, coincidentally, she has over 67,000 followers on X, yet almost no views on any of her posts.
December 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Rep. Beatty is on the Kennedy Center’s board and says she was not allowed to speak out against renaming it.
Also, coincidentally, she has over 67,000 followers on X, yet almost no views on any of her posts.
Also, coincidentally, she has over 67,000 followers on X, yet almost no views on any of her posts.
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I think reading the commentary here is a much, much better way to deal with Trump's rant
Thanks to those who are enduring it
Thanks to those who are enduring it
December 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I think reading the commentary here is a much, much better way to deal with Trump's rant
Thanks to those who are enduring it
Thanks to those who are enduring it
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Truly insane that the networks took this speech live after refusing to do the same for Biden in 2022
In a nationwide address that major US TV networks are carrying live, President Trump announces 1,450,000 military members will receive a "warrior dividend" of $1776 before Christmas.
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Truly insane that the networks took this speech live after refusing to do the same for Biden in 2022
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"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million."
Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
America First, at America’s first public university.
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
www.dailytarheel.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million."
Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
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I have to stop calling everybody I've ever met to pick up my sons. Fatherhood doesn't stop on "announcement day."
We could never afford to send both to daycare. One stayed home until the other went to TK at a public school. It should be easier for families than this. Let's fight for it.
We could never afford to send both to daycare. One stayed home until the other went to TK at a public school. It should be easier for families than this. Let's fight for it.
Matt Ortega is fighting for an affordable future
Fight for a future you can afford—and the freedom to live it.
secure.actblue.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I have to stop calling everybody I've ever met to pick up my sons. Fatherhood doesn't stop on "announcement day."
We could never afford to send both to daycare. One stayed home until the other went to TK at a public school. It should be easier for families than this. Let's fight for it.
We could never afford to send both to daycare. One stayed home until the other went to TK at a public school. It should be easier for families than this. Let's fight for it.
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If you want an unvarnished take on the grift and like phenomena damaging our country, in my opinion, no one has explained it better than @hunterub.bsky.social did just now at Uncharted Blue. www.unchartedblue.com/epstein-trum...
Epstein, Trump, and the culture of endless grift
Make America Great Again was never more than a bottom-tier confidence game
www.unchartedblue.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
If you want an unvarnished take on the grift and like phenomena damaging our country, in my opinion, no one has explained it better than @hunterub.bsky.social did just now at Uncharted Blue. www.unchartedblue.com/epstein-trum...
This is absolutely shocking and appalling from an outlet I rely on to do better by its readers and the public at large.
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is absolutely shocking and appalling from an outlet I rely on to do better by its readers and the public at large.
Really waiting for the Dubai chocolate bubble to burst and people to realize it’s not good.
December 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Really waiting for the Dubai chocolate bubble to burst and people to realize it’s not good.
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For my family and yours, I'm running for Congress.
We cannot afford this broken system any longer. Higher premiums. Expensive groceries. A criminal administration's knee on our neck while the powerful pick our pockets. It's unsustainable and it must end.
I'm ready for the fight.
We cannot afford this broken system any longer. Higher premiums. Expensive groceries. A criminal administration's knee on our neck while the powerful pick our pockets. It's unsustainable and it must end.
I'm ready for the fight.
Matt Ortega for Congress
Fight for a future you can afford—and the freedom to live it.
mattortega.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
For my family and yours, I'm running for Congress.
We cannot afford this broken system any longer. Higher premiums. Expensive groceries. A criminal administration's knee on our neck while the powerful pick our pockets. It's unsustainable and it must end.
I'm ready for the fight.
We cannot afford this broken system any longer. Higher premiums. Expensive groceries. A criminal administration's knee on our neck while the powerful pick our pockets. It's unsustainable and it must end.
I'm ready for the fight.
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I've told this story before, but an editor once told me I didn't get an interview for a job because they were looking for non-white people.
After spending a bit more time in the industry I realized I'd been completely unqualified. Charitably, they were trying to spare my feelings.
After spending a bit more time in the industry I realized I'd been completely unqualified. Charitably, they were trying to spare my feelings.
The real story: with decreased opportunity, these white men experience the success of people of color as symbolic.
When humanities jobs cratered, I was told I wasn't getting hired because I was white. The disappearance of hundreds of jobs, reinterpreted as the fault of a small handful of people.
When humanities jobs cratered, I was told I wasn't getting hired because I was white. The disappearance of hundreds of jobs, reinterpreted as the fault of a small handful of people.
December 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I've told this story before, but an editor once told me I didn't get an interview for a job because they were looking for non-white people.
After spending a bit more time in the industry I realized I'd been completely unqualified. Charitably, they were trying to spare my feelings.
After spending a bit more time in the industry I realized I'd been completely unqualified. Charitably, they were trying to spare my feelings.
Am I going to read this immediately, or do I have the impulse control to wait until an appropriate time to enjoy it with some (homemade) eggnog (in an ordinary glass, I should add in case it turns out the catalog includes some kind of precious festive eggnog glasses)?
GREAT NEWS! This year’s Williams-Sonoma catalog is powered by AI! defector.com/the-2025-hat...
December 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Am I going to read this immediately, or do I have the impulse control to wait until an appropriate time to enjoy it with some (homemade) eggnog (in an ordinary glass, I should add in case it turns out the catalog includes some kind of precious festive eggnog glasses)?