Laura Ruby

Over and over again

the issue was never that conservatives couldn't gain access to elite spaces; the issue is that once they got there they didn't receive the level of deference and respect they felt they deserved

Once again, my fellow nerds, I am begging you to remember that giving into bullies only guarantees they'll be back.

You've got to punch Biff Tannen in the face, McFly, or he'll rule over you forever.

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

The confederates are so funny. The rest of us are out here being normal, and they’re like “remember that time we came in second place in a war?”

E. coli outbreak in Florida linked to raw milk The E. coli outbreak comes as Trump officials face pressure to loosen regulations on raw milk

21 sick, including 6 kids, from raw milk in Florida. Thanks Kennedy.

Before you see a hundred or so posts saying that Texas has issued arrest warrants for the absent Dem legislators, you should be aware that they are civil warrants issued by the House that are not effective outside the state

www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...

I’ve always believed that the political destiny of great nations has often turned on weak men’s reaction to the equivalent of “Jenny laughed when I asked her to the Spring Formal”

I cannot express my delight that she is my 82 year old suburban mom’s favorite Congressperson *specifically because she talks this way*.

For those asking: “How can I help?”

We will need legal counsel.

I usually try to do everything on my own, but I cant imagine that finding affordable and effective legal counsel will be easy. If you have any recommendations, I’ll gladly take them.

Shoot me a DM 📩

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.

"My analysis of the network's FEC disbursements reveals that, at most, $11 million of the $678 million raised from individuals has made its way to candidates, campaigns, or the national party committees….

This represents a fundraising efficiency rate of just 1.6 percent."

If I were a political party out of power, I would get on YouTube every day at the same time to run down the latest political news and alert the public what the party was doing about each issue.

If you're a Harvard grad, please call the president's office and tell him you expect him to hold firm and cut ZERO "deals" with Trump. (617) 495-1502

www.harvard.edu/president/co...

AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’ If AI can analyze information, crunch data and deliver a slick PowerPoint deck within seconds, how does the biggest name in consulting stay relevant?

Finally found the ONE good thing AI can do www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mcki...

Graff, quoting Louis Fischer: “He [Hitler] would destroy democracy. Yet democracy tolerated him and helped him take office in order to destroy democracy. This peaceful death of German democracy is one of the strangest chapters in history.”

Illinois law notably does not require congressional districts to be contiguous.

Democrats theoretically could draw a new map that makes every district a Harris+11 seat and doom the three Republicans, or at least eliminate two of them and make the other seats around Harris+16

Okay, *now you can start to worry about data being manipulated.

My family lived on a shoestring budget and I didn’t attend preschool. But I was (secretly) reading well before kindergarten, and I’m pretty sure it was at least partly due to Sesame Street.

This is gutting.

The P in PBS now stands for Privately Funded, I guess, so:

Ghislaine Maxwell quietly moved to cushy new Texas prison as she pushes for deal to tell-all on Epstein, his associates Ghislaine Maxwell has quietly been moved to a far more favorable Texas prison camp as she hashes a possible deal to divulge secrets about her sex-crimes accomplice Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump transfers Ghislaine from Florida to cush Texas club fed camp as initial inducement to exonerate Trump as negotiation for pardon/commutation continues nypost.com/2025/08/01/u...

This is absolutely within reach to keep someone sheltered. Without that basic need met, it’s very hard to build anything sustainable. If you can, please help. If you can’t, please share.

This is an object lesson in the importance of force and violence in politics. ICE is able to flaunt the law because they're willing to use both. Until members of Congress start showing up with breaching teams and armed security, the law is irrelevant. Just a piece of paper.

Congrats!

In 2020, a right-wing lawyer went to the home of a federal judge in NJ and shot the judge’s husband and killed her son, Daniel Anderl.

Since then, judges nationwide have been receiving pizzas they didn’t order, delivered to the judges’ homes.

And are told it was ordered by Daniel Anderl.

Vile.

I…wow. That clerk might need to go touch some grass. Or have a cocktail.

what

This is great news. It is also as clear as a signal that Congress wants to keep the Department of Education and most of it's programs. So why is the Supreme Court allowing Trump to fire its employees and end those programs?