Laura Prochnow Phillips
@laurahooq.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, editor, integrative health coach, certified mindfulness and self-compassion instructor, big fan of all the arts. Progressive. Compassion for all. She/her.
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If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Stand up. Fight back. Impeach, prosecute, remove, and abolish all parts of the current regime and its supporters. Build back better. This is the bare minimum.
January 17, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Stand up. Fight back. Impeach, prosecute, remove, and abolish all parts of the current regime and its supporters. Build back better. This is the bare minimum.
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We could feed and educate our kids, house our neighbors, live longer, fuller, healthier lives, have time and space to create and rest and dream.
It should be this way and it can be this way, but we have to beat the fascists by demanding something better than our old, wretched status quo.
It should be this way and it can be this way, but we have to beat the fascists by demanding something better than our old, wretched status quo.
January 17, 2026 at 6:14 PM
We could feed and educate our kids, house our neighbors, live longer, fuller, healthier lives, have time and space to create and rest and dream.
It should be this way and it can be this way, but we have to beat the fascists by demanding something better than our old, wretched status quo.
It should be this way and it can be this way, but we have to beat the fascists by demanding something better than our old, wretched status quo.
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Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
French troops deploying to Greenland because the United States might try to take it over.
Today in 2026 sentences.
Today in 2026 sentences.
❗️An initial group of 🇫🇷French mountain troops has arrived in 🇬🇱Greenland to prepare for the reception and deployment of the main contingent. French authorities have stated that additional land, aviation, and naval units will be dispatched in the coming days.
January 17, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
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I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.
Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 5:31 PM
I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.
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This is getting lost in Trump's ongoing occupation of Minnesota, but Trump used the US military to steal $500 million from Venezuela and place it in a bank account in Qatar.
So Trump ordered US military to kidnap President of Venezuela, Trump demanded $billions in oil to avoid more kidnapping, now Trump is laundering proceeds through Qatar? What is Jared’s cut?
I don't understand how this is legal...? www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
January 16, 2026 at 3:27 AM
This is getting lost in Trump's ongoing occupation of Minnesota, but Trump used the US military to steal $500 million from Venezuela and place it in a bank account in Qatar.
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The great @usefulnoise.bsky.social made a request that we all write something about what life in Minnesota is like for folks who live elsewhere or might be outside our normal neighbothis-Bluesky footprint. So I went to cursed Facebook and wrote this. Maybe it will help you share your own thoughts.
January 13, 2026 at 3:40 PM
The great @usefulnoise.bsky.social made a request that we all write something about what life in Minnesota is like for folks who live elsewhere or might be outside our normal neighbothis-Bluesky footprint. So I went to cursed Facebook and wrote this. Maybe it will help you share your own thoughts.
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The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:
January 13, 2026 at 6:20 PM
The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:
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Impeach Trump, Noem, Kennedy, Oz, the whole lot. And constantly push for it. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have the votes. Make the GOP keep voting for fascism again and again. Make them own it all.
January 12, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Impeach Trump, Noem, Kennedy, Oz, the whole lot. And constantly push for it. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have the votes. Make the GOP keep voting for fascism again and again. Make them own it all.
Excellent thread about real v fake political arguments
Bear with me for a thread.
Republicans have mastered the art of making excuses for horrific things they want and forcing an argument online and in media over the *excuse* rather than the deed. It ends up in completely fake arguments. Rufo & others basically admit this.
Republicans have mastered the art of making excuses for horrific things they want and forcing an argument online and in media over the *excuse* rather than the deed. It ends up in completely fake arguments. Rufo & others basically admit this.
January 11, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Excellent thread about real v fake political arguments
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I think the misogynist contempt that’s evident as a motivation in the murder of Renee Good makes her killing by a state actor more similar to so-called private violence—eg domestic violence homocides—than some arguments that rely on a firm distinction between state and private violence can sustain.
January 11, 2026 at 8:29 PM
I think the misogynist contempt that’s evident as a motivation in the murder of Renee Good makes her killing by a state actor more similar to so-called private violence—eg domestic violence homocides—than some arguments that rely on a firm distinction between state and private violence can sustain.
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Well, those boots were not made for walking
January 11, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Well, those boots were not made for walking
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When people say “stop making things political”, they mean you should stop making them feel uncomfortable that the system that oppresses you benefits them.
January 11, 2026 at 3:05 PM
When people say “stop making things political”, they mean you should stop making them feel uncomfortable that the system that oppresses you benefits them.
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To be clear, a man who shoots a woman in the face and then proceeds to call her a fucking bitch is a man who hates women and should never ever be allowed to possess a gun.
He should also never be allowed to teach firearm safety. And yes, Jonathan Ross was in fact a firearms instructor.
He should also never be allowed to teach firearm safety. And yes, Jonathan Ross was in fact a firearms instructor.
January 10, 2026 at 3:36 AM
To be clear, a man who shoots a woman in the face and then proceeds to call her a fucking bitch is a man who hates women and should never ever be allowed to possess a gun.
He should also never be allowed to teach firearm safety. And yes, Jonathan Ross was in fact a firearms instructor.
He should also never be allowed to teach firearm safety. And yes, Jonathan Ross was in fact a firearms instructor.
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They didn’t just hate Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Gretchen Whitmer, and Kamala Harris. They hate me. They hate you. They hate any woman who isn’t performing attractive feminine submission for their pleasure.
January 9, 2026 at 10:30 PM
They didn’t just hate Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Gretchen Whitmer, and Kamala Harris. They hate me. They hate you. They hate any woman who isn’t performing attractive feminine submission for their pleasure.
This is a brilliant thread! Thank you @andreagrimes.com
This. We can break the videos down frame-by-frame, but as long as they show a woman who rejected the authority of a fascist state, fascists will say she deserved it—and so, in their view, does anyone who isn't actively assisting the fascist state in body or, importantly, belief.
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
January 10, 2026 at 1:24 AM
This is a brilliant thread! Thank you @andreagrimes.com
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As I reported my book, I noted an uptick in openly misogynistic behavior and language among law enforcement and their "back the blue" and 2A supporters.
Part of white supremacy and the "warrior mindset" is misogynistic paternalism -- women need protection except when they are bitches.
Part of white supremacy and the "warrior mindset" is misogynistic paternalism -- women need protection except when they are bitches.
January 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
As I reported my book, I noted an uptick in openly misogynistic behavior and language among law enforcement and their "back the blue" and 2A supporters.
Part of white supremacy and the "warrior mindset" is misogynistic paternalism -- women need protection except when they are bitches.
Part of white supremacy and the "warrior mindset" is misogynistic paternalism -- women need protection except when they are bitches.
This is an extremely important and illuminating thread. Thank you, @williamcson.bsky.social
Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.
January 8, 2026 at 7:00 PM
This is an extremely important and illuminating thread. Thank you, @williamcson.bsky.social
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we’re never returning to “normal “
that world is dead and gone
we create a new one, or we live in hell
that world is dead and gone
we create a new one, or we live in hell
January 8, 2026 at 3:51 AM
we’re never returning to “normal “
that world is dead and gone
we create a new one, or we live in hell
that world is dead and gone
we create a new one, or we live in hell
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It's 100% on purpose that no media outlets have pointed out that Trump in Venezuela did precisely what Putin did in Ukraine:
They feel entitled to it like a spoiled brat, regardless of rules, and took it.
They are one in the same.
They feel entitled to it like a spoiled brat, regardless of rules, and took it.
They are one in the same.
January 6, 2026 at 9:19 PM
It's 100% on purpose that no media outlets have pointed out that Trump in Venezuela did precisely what Putin did in Ukraine:
They feel entitled to it like a spoiled brat, regardless of rules, and took it.
They are one in the same.
They feel entitled to it like a spoiled brat, regardless of rules, and took it.
They are one in the same.
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Tell me you've missed the past 10 years of US politics without telling me you've missed the past 10 years of politics—
Schumer: "Republicans must -- if there was ever a time, they must step up to the plate. This is the time. And if they don't, they're gonna feel the heat from their constituents."
January 6, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Tell me you've missed the past 10 years of US politics without telling me you've missed the past 10 years of politics—
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ACA tax credits expired on 12/31. Trump is not complying w Epstein release but what's come out is damning. Dead bodies in the Carribbean. Fragile peace in Ukraine and the Middle East. So House floor time next week will be dedicated to... rolling back shower head and energy efficiency standards.
January 2, 2026 at 11:40 PM
ACA tax credits expired on 12/31. Trump is not complying w Epstein release but what's come out is damning. Dead bodies in the Carribbean. Fragile peace in Ukraine and the Middle East. So House floor time next week will be dedicated to... rolling back shower head and energy efficiency standards.
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Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed
December 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed