Laurie Stephens

Laurie Stephens

@lauriestephens.bsky.social

“Mostly retired” writer, former CP journo and press secretary to Premier Bob Rae, mother of two awesome kids, living the best life in Meaford with her partner and doggos.🇨🇦🌻🌈

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Obi-Wan, a grey mackerel tabby with a white muzzle and green eyes, perched on a fuzzy blanket. He has his ears half-cocked and a smug look on his face.

forewarned: heavy thread, cat grief.

our miserycat has his final vet trip this afternoon, after a night I wasn't really sure he would make it through, and to say that it is giving me a big depresh is putting it mildly.

Obi-Wan was a tough cat to love, sometimes, but we did it anyway.

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Too many people, including some news media, let the truth be trampled upon without thought for what is happening to us and our nation.

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DOGE staffer had ‘God-level’ Social Security access, whistleblower says Members of Congress demand investigations after complaint alleges unprecedented breach of Americans’ data

USAID public servants lost our careers, pensions, and healthcare. Some lost their homes. Some lost their children’s tuition. Some colleagues died by suicide. Now we learn our Social Security numbers were stolen and exposed too.

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I’d be grouchy too if I was missing an ear.

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This is Van Gogh. He has one ear. I found him two years ago at Christmas time. He's a good cat, but he's pretty grouchy. He was super skinny and malnourished when I found him, so life has been good for him since.

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Questions mount for Hegseth over possible US involvement in strike on Iranian school Democrats have written to ask the defence secretary whether the US was responsible, but he says the issue is being investigated.

Hegseth said there would be no stupid rules of engagement for Trump's war against Iran.

So they blew up a school full of children and have shown no remorse. How Christian.

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6 hours ago

Still no censure of Tommy Tuberville, Randy Fine, or Andy Ogles, who are openly promoting hate against Muslims while the US is bombing Iran, killing the Ayatollah, and people like Lindsey Graham are calling it a "religious war" DURING RAMADAN.

How do you think this all ends, folks?

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Trump’s attack on Iran and the plot against your vote Donald Trump is planning to use his attack on Iran to justify a power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms.

Trump is setting the stage to claim extraordinary powers to take over the 2026 elections — from banning mail-in voting to imposing new obstacles to voter registration. All of this will be justified on the grounds of national security. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

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Yes. This is transparently the plan. It is a destructive and unconstitutional plan. And it can be stopped. It can even be turned into an electoral issue that hurts Trump. But only if we face this now.

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I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is.

People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)

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Elon Musk is now worth $845 billion.

Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025.

Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high.

See the problem here?

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A Governor Criminalizes Trump’s Election Interference, Another Red Seat Flips Blue, Teen Trumpet Player Walks Free, and Khalil Dines With Mayor Mamdani Plus, Bondi suffers two court losses

🚫They can’t deport who they want.
🚫They can’t appoint who they want.
🚫They can’t send troops to polls.
🚫They can’t bury Epstein truth.

These resistance wins are devastating for the regime.

Read it all:

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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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"Epstein ordered a 16-year-old girl to give him a massage while he was on the phone with Donald Trump - moments before sexually assaulting her...'Let's go, let's go!'" - @JTCestkowski goes over the disgusting Epstein files revelation against Trump

FULL VIDEO ⬇️

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Not a Dime More for Trump’s Illegal War Funding the war means supporting it

We can't afford basic services for veterans,
but your tax dollars can afford:

$98,329 for a grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home

$5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad

$2 million for Alaskan king crab

$6.9 million worth of lobster tail

$225 million in furniture

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Sign of cognitive decline #3,007:

Loss of filter for inappropriate languge.

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Page One.

@nytimes.com

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15 hours ago

Short-term memory loss IS a classic symptom of advanced dementia. Experienced it with my mom. Either way, he’s dangerous.

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I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

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LANDERS: Why did the FBI seize election records in AZ?

TRUMP: They probably thought the election was rigged

LANDERS: It wasn't though

TRUMP: Oh really? How do you know?

LANDERS: Your own AG said it

TRUMP: If you say it wasn't rigged, you're a rotten reporter

LANDERS: Where's the evidence?

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Elon Musk seeks mistrial in Twitter lawsuit, citing ‘animosity’ in San Francisco Former Twitter shareholders sued Musk, alleging that he intentionally sought to drive down the company’s value before his October 2022 purchase of the company.

live your life in such a way that if you’re ever on trial you’re not so universally loathed that it’s impossible to find an unbiased jury

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Monsters.

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On Monday, Israeli forces killed eight members of the Hamdan family.

The victims were father Ahmad Hamdan, mother Najiba Aloul, their daughters Kawthar, Fatima and Batoul, and the latter's children Jihad and Fatima Zayour.

The son, Mohammed, later succumbed to wounds sustained in the strike.

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Just a reminder that Iran did not always have this government, they had a socialist government and in 1953 the US overthrew it to protect the profits of BP oil, that is what fascists do and they are still doing it. What the US is doing today with Israel will only weaken the globe.

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Wow! The fuel price and restrictions already hitting hard. Farmer friend was prevented from filling a jerry can of diesel at the servo for his tractor.
Many of us need jerry cans of fuel for all sorts of stationary engines, and mowers too. A ban on jerry cans is nuts.

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DISTRACTIONS DON’T WORK.

COVERUPS WON’T WORK.

NOT EVEN WAR.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

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The Independent

Read more: trib.al/fMtk1ko

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Another hush money payment.

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Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image - 1970 YouTube video by Gene Tourangeau

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