Laura ✨💗🌎

NewWire tweets: "Americans set to pay more for cars, coffee, adn clothing as average U.S. tariff rate jumps to high not seen since Great Depression — WaPo"

this is crazy bc some of you need new clothes

US sides with El Salvador on eliminating presidential term limits, prompting democracy debate | CNN The US State Department has voiced rare support for El Salvador’s decision to abolish presidential term limits, paving the way for President Nayib Bukele to seek indefinite reelection. Critics argue t...

The U.S. State Department officially supports El Salvador’s removal of presidential term limits—flashing a warning of what’s to come in America.

The Trump regime will likely attempt the same, with support from a complicit Congress and Supreme Court.

And when they do, we the people will fight back.

Also everyone who ever gets impeached was legitimately elected, that's the entire point of the thing

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Finally exiting quarantine after a wedding turned out to be a super spreader event.
I WISH I’d known about the summer surge—I’m visiting my parents after 8 months away & have been quarantining elsewhere to protect my dad.
test, mask, and isolate if you are feeling sick or have been exposed ! #covid

Today is Moving Day for me so I thought I’d compile all the Moving Tips I think of to help with your next move! List starts here:

1. Never move
2. Simply live where you live now, forever
3. Whatever stress your current home causes you is lower than the years of stress racked up in one day of moving

I’m sorry to say it has happened. I have in fact found something in my open tabs from months ago that I needed and would not have found again otherwise.

Judicial appointment is one of several ways U.S. attorneys can be appointed in the absence of a Senate-confirmed U.S. attorney.

When you have an AG who said on her first day that it was the end of the independence of the DOJ, though, this sort of action, while ridiculous, is not surprising.

ICE just prevented me from entering an immigration detention facility in my district—a clear violation of federal law.

Members of Congress have the right to immediately access these facilities. Listen here 👇

I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.

Epstein’s "little black book" totals 97 pages, containing 1,571 names and roughly 5,000 phone numbers. At least 38 names are mysteriously circled, including Donald Trump's.

“I got my hands on a copy,” writes Leland Nally. “I made close to 2,000 phone calls.”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I think the idea that “The President is simultaneously an institution beyond the reach of criminal law and also a private person who can file $10 billion defamation suits when he dislikes a news article” is not very sensible.

ICYMI, we are going down a path as a nation that will destroy our country.

This is an all hands on deck situation.

We really don't have much more time to put a stop to this tyranny.

Unless you want to live in a fascist regime forever, you better roll up your sleeves, and find some way to help!

Rubio moves to strip US visas from eight Brazilian judges in Bolsonaro battle Move by Marco Rubio is latest attempt by Trump administration to help former president avoid justice over alleged coup

The Trump administration views itself a friend of right-wing autocrats everywhere.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like.

I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.

Transforming ‘zombie tracks’ into an 8.6-mile bike-and-walk greenway for North Jersey After years of being told "it can't happen," advocates celebrate as construction begins on the 8.6-mile Essex-Hudson Greenway

After years of being told "it can't happen," advocates celebrate as construction begins on the 8.6-mile Essex-Hudson Greenway

This is bonkers. It’s one thing to “reclaim” insults as a point of pride (ie “deplorable”), it’s another entirely to even insinuate that racial slurs are even remotely similar in usage to calling someone a nazi AND that taking the negative connotation away from nazism is a normal or desired end goal

damn

Even if what’s happening is, at least in part, meant as a distraction, I’m starting to think the story has legs. Why not just release the Epstein file if there’s no there there? open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

👇🎯 Norms and duct tape worked for a long time. Sort of. But we’re all out of norms, & we’ve shredded our last rolls of tape.

Did he say THE FBI is contacting media????

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

Police who keep their identities secret are, quite literally, secret police. I don’t know why this is even controversial. You don’t get to yank people off the streets while hiding your face and identity and still retain the respectability of an accountable, democratic police force.

<all together now>

Just so we’re clear, he wants us to pay more for goods we get from Brazil because he wants to save a foreign political crony on trial for corruption.

Not seeing the “America First” mentality here…

once again encouraging everyone to read this passage from They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945 and reflect a little on the rapidly changing character of the united states we are living through.

Twitter’s antisemitic Chatbot raises new questions about the lack of intellectual diversity on Bluesky.

Everything about "no tax on tips" is so aggravatingly dumb and dishonest. Payroll tax is still owed, so it's not even true.

And most restaurant workers don't make enough to owe federal taxes, so they don't even benefit from this -- but are actively harmed by cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.