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Laurie Brookins

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Freelance Journalist, The Hollywood Reporter and other publications. Also a survivor of one of many failed versions of TFG’s ego magazine. Yes, it was as bad as you think.

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I can’t stand his face. I can’t stand his voice. I live for the day both just go away.

11.08.2025 21:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The thing to remember as he talks today about his plans is that he possessed the EXACT SAME AUTHORITY to send the National Guard while Jan. 6th was happening, and he chose not to do so, instead delighting in these and other images on live TV.

Also, #TrumpIsAPedophile. Release the #EpsteinFiles

11.08.2025 18:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes. Because when he enacts martial law, he will use that opportunity to pause elections. That authority lies not with him, but with Congress — which means it easily could happen, given the toadies and ass-kissers currently in charge.

11.08.2025 18:22 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We really need to go back to calling these lowlifes weird as much as we possibly can …

11.08.2025 18:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump deploying National Guardsmen in DC exposes one of his big lies about January 6th.

Kash Patel falsely claimed for years that the Democrats failed to take Trump up on his offer to deploy the Guard on Jan. 6.

But Trump could have deployed the DC Guard himself and didn’t. Now he does.

11.08.2025 12:05 — 👍 1814    🔁 559    💬 42    📌 22

The only place that needs liberating is the White House from these idiots who are driving up prices, killing jobs, and wrecking the economy.

11.08.2025 12:48 — 👍 141    🔁 35    💬 2    📌 1

Thoroughly hacky — and the epilogue she’s forced to write ends with “of.” Who ON EARTH ends their novel with a preposition? Honestly? I wanted to throw something at the screen at that moment.

11.08.2025 01:02 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ugh, this hurts my heart

11.08.2025 00:52 — 👍 4782    🔁 1185    💬 138    📌 31

The dog swimming around in the water toward the end is among my most and least favorite parts, because it completely plays on the audience’s fears, and it’s also a nice shoutout to the original Jaws. And least because of course I worry about that cute little dog.

11.08.2025 00:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fun Fact: Donald Trump is responsible for 21.4% of the national debt.

10.08.2025 12:33 — 👍 2981    🔁 1354    💬 103    📌 68

Will our “President” condemn this?

11.08.2025 00:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Deleting a post about Israel “accidentally” killing international journalists because I missed that they had declared them terrorists.

Everyone involved in this genocide needs to be sent to The Hague

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10.08.2025 23:41 — 👍 3504    🔁 842    💬 48    📌 12

Will our “President” hold Netanyahu responsible? Or will he merely invite him to another cushy visit to Mar-a-Lago?

Monsters, both of them.

11.08.2025 00:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

I do not find this on home pages of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ; only a small headline on The Guardian. A journalist has been murdered. Where is the outrage--about anything?
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza aje.io/0pa37x via @AJEnglish

10.08.2025 23:37 — 👍 525    🔁 229    💬 36    📌 10
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Mark Kelly: "I hope we got something out of this. Putin is a war criminal. This is not a show of strength to allow him to fly into the United States to land here to negotiate with our president."

10.08.2025 15:05 — 👍 22941    🔁 6536    💬 1385    📌 437

. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com is literally the only on-air journalist calling out the WH Press Corps for not doing its job. This conversation needs to get louder and more widespread. I am sick of the inane questions asked of a dictator-in-training. The WH Press Corps needs to up its game, quickly.

10.08.2025 23:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ask him, WH Press Corps. Ask him what he thinks about this, and don’t ask in some bullshit yes-or-no way that allows him to squirm out of it because he needs an escape from this tragedy. Do your jobs.

@washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @nbcnews.com @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social @cnn.com @msnbc.com

10.08.2025 23:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

10.08.2025 22:33 — 👍 12059    🔁 9821    💬 608    📌 1649
Hounds, “Hands Off DC”
YouTube video by Seth Abramson Hounds, “Hands Off DC”

In preparation for what is going to happen at 10AM tomorrow in DC, Hounds has released this song.

It’ll be on streaming services on Tuesday.

So... this is the loudest, hardest-driving, most unforgiving Hounds song ever released. And it’s extremely NSFW.

But the situation calls for such an anthem.

10.08.2025 22:26 — 👍 584    🔁 228    💬 34    📌 30

What’s one more law or set of rules to break?

10.08.2025 21:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He thinks hiding their portraits will diminish them in some way. But the act only reveals his pettiness and his obvious insecurity that previous Presidents are favored more than he.

10.08.2025 20:20 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A program created by President Obama in 2015. But don’t tell the felon that part, he’d immediately order it closed.

10.08.2025 20:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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10.08.2025 19:40 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The way he held the bottle and drank the water, my dad did the same thing in the early years following his diagnosis. And when Tr*mp walked down the ramp and needed help. And when he bumped into the podium a week ago, and kept going as if it didn’t happen. His depth perception is gone. All familiar.

10.08.2025 19:33 — 👍 24    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

Trump is Ignoring Laws and Procedures to Build His Tacky Ego Ballroom

There, fixed that for you, WaPo.

10.08.2025 17:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“F*ck ICE, and f*ck the Trump administration. Go touch grass. Get a hobby.” 🔥 👀

10.08.2025 12:49 — 👍 2429    🔁 713    💬 53    📌 49

Listen to the man

10.08.2025 12:24 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

As the Emma Thompson story goes around about the felon calling her for a date the day her divorce from Branagh became final in 1998, a Getty Images search shows he was dating Ol’ Melania throughout that year. So he would’ve dumped her if Emma had said yes? We could’ve avoided those blood-red trees?

10.08.2025 01:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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donald trump speaking into a microphone and saying " i don t take any responsibility at all " Alt: donald trump speaking into a microphone and saying " i don t take any responsibility at all "

Many more people would be alive today if Donald John Trump had taken responsibility from the beginning and had been serious about lockdowns from the beginning, instead of denying both the problem and responsibility because he didn’t want to be blamed for it. This should live in infamy:

10.08.2025 00:45 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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