Laurakeet
@laurakeet.bsky.social
West Virginia lady with a cat, coupla kids, and a handful of correct opinions. I write big words for good causes. I like when little kids enjoy my bright hair.
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Laurakeet
@laurakeet.bsky.social
· Mar 27
a man in a suit and tie says edit edit edit in front of a shelf full of shoes
Alt: An old Project Runway clip showing Tim Gunn, a gray-haired man in a suit and tie, waving his hands and wiggling his face in consternation. The caption says edit edit edit.
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I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.
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All YIMBY ballot measures are currently winning in NYC by 10-point margins at least
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
All YIMBY ballot measures are currently winning in NYC by 10-point margins at least
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BIG SALE ALERT!!! 25% off everything in the shop!
We've got to make it the next two weeks until our book money hits, so we're doing one last huge sale! Great time to get spooky season goodies or to start stocking up on holiday gifts!
thebrokencircle.etsy...
We've got to make it the next two weeks until our book money hits, so we're doing one last huge sale! Great time to get spooky season goodies or to start stocking up on holiday gifts!
thebrokencircle.etsy...
September 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
BIG SALE ALERT!!! 25% off everything in the shop!
We've got to make it the next two weeks until our book money hits, so we're doing one last huge sale! Great time to get spooky season goodies or to start stocking up on holiday gifts!
thebrokencircle.etsy...
We've got to make it the next two weeks until our book money hits, so we're doing one last huge sale! Great time to get spooky season goodies or to start stocking up on holiday gifts!
thebrokencircle.etsy...
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I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.
we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased.
www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi.
This is *not* normal.
I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.
This is *not* normal.
I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.
September 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.
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MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
September 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
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Charlie Kirk spent his adult life promoting misinformation, hate, fear, and radicalism, and directing it at academics, vulnerable groups, and political opponents.
That’s his legacy.
That’s his legacy.
A colleague on campus today asked me why I’d forgo office w/a window & I reminded her I get active & credible death threats. When I ended up on the Turning Point professor list I got them for a month. We have got to raise better humans & change our gun laws.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
Live Updates: Charlie Kirk, Right-Wing Activist, Fatally Shot in Utah
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his adult life promoting misinformation, hate, fear, and radicalism, and directing it at academics, vulnerable groups, and political opponents.
That’s his legacy.
That’s his legacy.
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It is possible to hold both of these things true at the same time:
1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society
2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth
1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society
2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth
September 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It is possible to hold both of these things true at the same time:
1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society
2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth
1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society
2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth
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that fuckin newspaper
Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
Opinion | Do Not Re-Gerrymander California
If Democrats gerrymander California, they will lose the moral high ground.
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
that fuckin newspaper
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June 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I was very proud to be in West Virginia today. We showed up. These are small cities and towns! Our honk-and-wave was loudly supported. wvpublic.org/no-kings-eve...
‘No Kings’ Events Crisscross W.Va. - West Virginia Public Broadcasting
The national movement, which helped organize more than 2000 demonstrations nationwide, was named in response to what organizers call authoritarian overreach by President Donal Trump’s administration.
wvpublic.org
June 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I was very proud to be in West Virginia today. We showed up. These are small cities and towns! Our honk-and-wave was loudly supported. wvpublic.org/no-kings-eve...
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This is the third video of Morgantown protests for no king's day. This at the Colosium
June 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is the third video of Morgantown protests for no king's day. This at the Colosium
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June 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Without downloading any new pics where are you mentally
April 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Without downloading any new pics where are you mentally
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The bottom line of solidarity, and our way through: "When you stop caring about any group of people and their suffering, you lose part of your humanity, and you also become more vulnerable to the violence they’re experiencing."
My latest is a conversation with @sarahkendzior.bsky.social about dehumanization, fighting back, and what the oligarchs can't take away from us. "They want us to forget our own humanity, to surrender our humanity and to not know what it means to be a human being."
Sarah Kendzior: "Don't Give Up On Other People"
"If you still care, then I think there's still potential for this situation to be turned around," says Sarah Kendzior.
organizingmythoughts.org
April 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The bottom line of solidarity, and our way through: "When you stop caring about any group of people and their suffering, you lose part of your humanity, and you also become more vulnerable to the violence they’re experiencing."
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Really good point. These are cuts to research into cures for cancer and Alzheimer’s.
And Trump is doing them to corrupt universities and end free speech and free thought. They want to force in conservative ideas that have lost in a free marketplace, and use cancer money to do that
And Trump is doing them to corrupt universities and end free speech and free thought. They want to force in conservative ideas that have lost in a free marketplace, and use cancer money to do that
I do wish big-time media orgs would stop taking the bait of calling these cuts to "Brown" or "Harvard." These are cuts to alzheimers research, maternal health research, antiviral coronavirus innovations, not "insert school here." They are cuts to our medical future and scientific livelihood.
April 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Really good point. These are cuts to research into cures for cancer and Alzheimer’s.
And Trump is doing them to corrupt universities and end free speech and free thought. They want to force in conservative ideas that have lost in a free marketplace, and use cancer money to do that
And Trump is doing them to corrupt universities and end free speech and free thought. They want to force in conservative ideas that have lost in a free marketplace, and use cancer money to do that
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I…. Remain deeply enraged and annoyed by the language used to discuss misinformation and the whiteness of those using it
Marcus presents the findings of two joint research projects. He explores the legal conflict between free speech and state security interests, focusing on TikTok’s alleged manipulation tactics, discussing sound-based disinformation on the platform and the phenomenon known as “thirst trap propaganda”.
TikTok in the era of propaganda & disinformation
YouTube video by EU DisinfoLab
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April 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I…. Remain deeply enraged and annoyed by the language used to discuss misinformation and the whiteness of those using it
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I'm going to lose my mind a bit.
It does not actually matter whether the people targeted by Trump were saintly and hyper virtuous, or not. Honestly trying to create the narrative one way or the other is suspicious!
It's ultimately about this: people have rights under the law, & must be protected!
It does not actually matter whether the people targeted by Trump were saintly and hyper virtuous, or not. Honestly trying to create the narrative one way or the other is suspicious!
It's ultimately about this: people have rights under the law, & must be protected!
April 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I'm going to lose my mind a bit.
It does not actually matter whether the people targeted by Trump were saintly and hyper virtuous, or not. Honestly trying to create the narrative one way or the other is suspicious!
It's ultimately about this: people have rights under the law, & must be protected!
It does not actually matter whether the people targeted by Trump were saintly and hyper virtuous, or not. Honestly trying to create the narrative one way or the other is suspicious!
It's ultimately about this: people have rights under the law, & must be protected!
Important message for today. Sadly.
Alt text for folks who can’t see images:
“If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the Gl Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel:1-877-447-4487”
“If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the Gl Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel:1-877-447-4487”
April 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Important message for today. Sadly.
As the linked article says, “Let’s speak plainly once more: Kilmar Abrego Garcia will not return to the United States unless Donald Trump wants him to.”
Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely.
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines
Emergency Triad: Are we now a country of political prisoners and gulags?
www.thebulwark.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
As the linked article says, “Let’s speak plainly once more: Kilmar Abrego Garcia will not return to the United States unless Donald Trump wants him to.”
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Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Off
Sometimes older voters aren’t just naturally more conservative. It’s just that wealthier and whiter people tend to live longer and healthier lives.
nymag.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
I want to say something about the total gutting of NIOSH, in particular the 200-some people in Morgantown, WV. But I just don’t know what else to say that hasn’t been said about this pro-black-lung move. Our local march and protest tomorrow is going to be incredible.
April 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I want to say something about the total gutting of NIOSH, in particular the 200-some people in Morgantown, WV. But I just don’t know what else to say that hasn’t been said about this pro-black-lung move. Our local march and protest tomorrow is going to be incredible.
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Gen x just had the heart ripped out.
a close up of a man 's face with a mustache and a hat .
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a mustache and a hat .
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April 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Gen x just had the heart ripped out.
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Democrats: "What Booker did is just a stunt."
YES. TRY MORE STUNTS.
YES. TRY MORE STUNTS.
April 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Democrats: "What Booker did is just a stunt."
YES. TRY MORE STUNTS.
YES. TRY MORE STUNTS.