Profile avatar
laurisanne.bsky.social
18 posts 2 followers 9 following
Prolific Poster

This former US Atty supports the courage of Danielle Sassoon, the acting US Atty in SDNY, who put service ahead of self & refused to let politics interfere with prosecutions. True American hero. Thank you for your service, Danielle. You are the best of us. Who's with me?

Read it.

I don't like the look of this man. He is freakish.

“Today’s broligarchs” are “hell-bent on executing a hostile takeover of American democracy based on a political vision informed by junk libertarianism, comic books, & sci-fi/fantasy novels” - Brooke Harrington, author of “Offshore: Stealth Wealth & the New Colonialism” via Ken Silverstein 1/

“Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat *** Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group… that includes … right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, & journalists. We got their messages.” 5/30/24 1/ newrepublic.com/article/1820...

Call me crazy but I’m not sure the US govt should hand out defense tech contracts to companies backed by admirers of Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug who wrote about using “robot armies” to suppress dissent.

😳 Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer & blogger [who claims to have “coached” Peter Thiel & is DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen’s “good friend”] helped Milo, Bannon, & Breitbart launch the “alt right” into the mainstream in 2017. Remember the “alt right”? (10/5/17) 1/ www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jose...

The Tech Bros glorify themselves, technology, colonialism, imperialism, monarchy, billionaire-ism, accelerationism, & risk. They plan to colonize via “network states” & charter cities. They are obsessed w/ IQ & intrigued w/ race science & surveillance. They admire Curtis Yarvin & Nick Land. 1/

On 7/29/16, Tech billionaire Peter Thiel met w/ Kevin DeAnna who wrote under the pseudonyms ‘Gregory Hood’ & ‘James Kirkpatrick. In 2012, DeAnna (as Hood) had written that, “It’s time to fight for a country of our own. It’s time to stop being Americans. It’s time to start being White Men again.” 1/

It’s quite clear by now that the answer to “why is the Trump administration doing x terrible thing?” is that they are *trying* to dismantle America and destabilize the entire world.

This woman savages Elon Musk: "He cheats, he lies, he steals, and he bought a presidency. He has done nothing original other than to create things off of other people's ideas." Nailed it! 🔥

All corporate and establishment media that bent the knee to Trump...that kissed up to Republicans...that endured humiliation even as they called you the "enemy of the people." Was it worth it?

Sad but true. It's Putin and Musk versus the world.

A source stationed in Germany has sent me emails showing the principal at a Department of Defense school, Weisbaden Middle, telling teachers they can no longer allow books to be checked out until someone has reviewed them for compliance with Trump’s anti-trans, anti-diversity ex orders.

Totally irresponsible male recklesdly distributing his sperm.

DOGE is about to receive full access to IRS taxpayer data. On its own, that’s horrific. But it gets worse. The guy with access reposted content by Nick Fuentes (who advocates killing Jews) & says he was inspired to join DOGE by Ron Unz (an antisemitic Holocaust denier). This is beyond dangerous.

DOGE spreads misinformation about fraud because it wants to implement Project 2025 and give the rich more tax cuts www.npr.org/2025/02/16/g...

Folks, Elon's taking over air traffic control

Sarah Longwell and I discuss the awful speech by JD Vance in Munich—a humiliation for the U.S., and a confirmation that this administration isn't on the side of the democracies. And a coda on the contrasting admirable behavior by several attorneys at DOJ & SDNY. www.thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-h...

"Shutting off their devices whether done intentionally or not marked an alarming new step, 2 people said.The US attorneys are responsible for the fedl response to threats, including coordinating with state & local law enforcement & signing off on court filings." news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

Get rid of the US. We no longer want to join with them regardless.

Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

Have you heard about the SAVE Act? It's the newest effort at voter suppression by the House GOP & it's important for all of us. If you're a married woman or someone who doesn't have their birth certificate/passport handy, you're especially going to want to see this. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

UPDATE: We’re t-minus 30 minutes to midnight and the DOGE team has yet to bring the receipts.

www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/m...

Not even six hours apart.

the rage I felt reading this as the parent of a disabled 14yo

Glad that Senate Democrats get what I flagged last week. My article is below detailing how Trump's FCC has quietly been targeting his media critics.

For people who have been supporting Israel's war since last November which has killed at least 45,000 Palestinians and been called a genocide by Amnesty International, what are your thoughts about this?

He not only sounds frightful but also looks more grosse every time I view him.

Elon acolytes targeting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “It’s been a longtime goal of corporations that rely on Noaa data to prevent the agency from making the data public, instead of giving it directly to private corporations that create products based on it.”

Elon Musk and GOP members of Congress are knowingly sharing a doctored video of Rep Ilhan Omar. Musk especially hates her because she is a strong Black woman and he is an apartheid raised white supremacist. Their goal is to incite violence against her. www.mediaite.com/news/ilhan-o...

I am super worried Trump is now trying to demonise Canada with his hidous lies eg. accusing Canada of taking huge handouts from the US. It's as though he trying to roust up anger within the population against Canada, ultimately a potential enemy. This is how he divided the US.

An excellent piece by @timothysnyder.bsky.social and recommended strongly by @hcrichardson.bsky.social - Please read and spread the word!

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

NEW: The board president of a small WV nonprofit says they haven't received their HHS funding since the Trump/Musk budget freeze. They had to lay off 3 of 5 employees on Friday. An 86-yr-old woman is counting on them to take her dialysis tomorrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

Darren Beattie, the new head of public diplomacy at State, spent January 6 telling various black people — including Tim Scott — to “learn their place” and “take a knee to MAGA” www.thebulwark.com/p/even-as-hi...

The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.

The NIH diversity supplement pages have all been pulled down. What is a diversity supplement and why should the public care? A diversity supplement is funding to help diversify the research workforce. You may be wondering, “so what?”. Let me explain. www.nigms.nih.gov/Pages/PageNo...