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Laura Jedeed
@LauraJedeed
Freelance Journalist, allegedly. Politico, Rolling Stone, TNR, etc. I mostly post on bsky now, same handle laura.jedeed@gmail.com sgnl: laurajedeed.55
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Jul 23 • 39 tweets • 11 min read
The "Obama did a coup" thing is a pathetic attempt to distract from growing evidence that Trump and Epstein abused kids together. Also, it's total bullshit

Here's a fully-annotated point-by-point refutation of Gabbard's nonsense, evidence-free accusations:

🧵 For this thread we'll be comparing Gabbard's 7 basic accusations as written in her press release and parroted on Fox and now a White House press conference: dni.gov/index.php/news…

With the 118-page report she claims proves the accusations: dni.gov/files/ODNI/doc…

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Jul 6 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
I can at least partially explain why voters believed Trump: a liar who does nothing but lie

(Please keep in mind that "this is what happened" and "I think it's awesome that this happened" are two very different things. All of this is very bad! I'm not a fan!)

🧵 Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social Follow I see many clips of people who regret voting for TACO because they have been hurt. That's what it takes for the empathy-free to learn anything. But I am always mystified by never asking the follow up question: WHY DID YOU BELIEVE HIM? No one asks that question. To me it seems so fundamental July 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM Everybody can reply 603 reposts 62 quotes 2.8K likes 1) Low-info voters remember that life was better between 2016-2019 than it was from 2020 onward, and Trump made that a big part of his campaign. He promised a return to 2019

("But Trump was President in 2020!" Yep, and the GOP did a great job connecting Biden to COVID anyway)
Jun 22 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
A thread of conservative reactions to Trump's decision to start a war

Candace Owens: Furious, catty Candace Owens @RealCandaceO · 3h “A full payload of bombs was dropped” followed by “now is the time for peace”. Utterly deranged. If we had raised the 100 million Adelson gave him on Go Fund Me, maybe he would have kept his promises. Guess we’ll never know. Charlie Kirk: memory-holing his concerns and doing the pragmatic thing, per usual @charliekirk11 Iran gave President Trump no choice. For a decade he has been adamant that Iran will never get a nuclear weapon. Iran decided to forego diplo
Post ‪Laura Jedeed‬ ‪@laurajedeed.bsky.social‬ · 12m A thread of conservative reactions to Trump's decision to start a war Candace Owens: Furious, catty Candace Owens @RealCandaceO · 3h “A full payload of bombs was dropped” followed by “now is the time for peace”. Utterly deranged. If we had raised the 100 million Adelson gave him on Go Fund Me, maybe he would have kept his promises. Guess we’ll never know. ALT 2 11 Laura Jedeed ‪@laurajedeed.bsky.social‬ Charlie Kirk: memory-holing his concerns and doing the pragmatic thing In times like this, I find a lot of people say s...
Jun 14 • 41 tweets • 10 min read
It's .........very cosplay so far here at Trump's birthday parade. Those wigs must be so damn hot

Let's do this!

🧵 Really this is the Army's parade of course, and they seem to be doing a thing where they're dressed in uniforms of yore

Pleased to report they have chosen to wear the union blue and eschewed the rebel grey
Jun 14 • 40 tweets • 12 min read
Good morning, I am at the ghost town that is the Army Birthday Celebration, excited to experience what promises to be an incredibly stupid day

The Army Strength Competition is about to begin

Let's do this

🧵 A banner over a wide dirt road that says "Army Birthday Festival
A sign on a lamp post that says "In DC, we rise up against fascism. Deploying the military domestically is a sign democracy is failing
The Washington Mall: An empty field with the Washington Monument in the distance. Two large helicopters, many tents, and a stage can be seen far away. There's almost no one here Schedule for today:

9:00 AM (running late): strength competition

12:30 PM: fair with booths from sponsors like Palentir and Coinbase
6:30 PM: Big Beautiful Parade
Afterwards: concert

(Sponsor info courtesy of @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social)

motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
Jun 9 • 42 tweets • 7 min read
Hello from downtown LA, where the sun is setting and the tenor of the protests is shifting

It's been a long day and has all the markings of a long night

Let's do this

🧵 I've been live tweeting this protest for the last 4 hours over on the Other Site, check it out of you'd like to:

bsky.app/profile/lauraj…
Mar 4 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
We've heard about the teenage freak shows working for DOGE, but not as much about the other types of people actively destroying our government

By looking at the factions inside DOGE, we can get a better picture of where all this is going

It's not good 🧵 the original shibe inu doge, shrouded in black: mysterious DOGE employees are comfortably well-off, but have voluntarily chosen to work 80+ hour weeks for not a lot of money

Only three reasons why anyone would do this: fanatical devotion to a cause, Scrooge McDuck money, or both Scrooge McDuck diving into a vault full of gold coins
Mar 1 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Gather 'round while I tell you about the only scene in Atlas Shrugged that is actually good PLEASE STAY WITH ME HERE this is NOT a pro-Rand post it is the OPPOSITE just trust me bro come with me on this journey The Train Scene happens after most of the Randian supermen who run the world (read: wealthy CEOs who singlehandedly keep the world running through their ability to never sleep and to do their own metallurgical research) have quit and moved to a Network State out in Colorado
Feb 23 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
There are places in this country that serve as tactial testing grounds, places where you can see the future before it arrives. Coeur D'Alene, Idaho is one of those places -- I've written about it before

Today, men without badges detained a woman for speaking during a town hall Here's a Facebook video with full context. She is dragged out by men who do not appear to be police for pointing out that town halls are supposed to feature citizen comment

facebook.com/share/v/15cbJq…
Jan 21 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
I'll be doing a full write-up of what it was like to be in the arena for Trump's speech and bill signing today

Before I pass out from exhaustion, though, I want to write about Musk's salute from the perspective of someone who was in the audience I was 11 rows back, on the floor --about as close as it was possible to be. I was only able to see above the podium

The salute did not register. Not with me, not with anyone around me. I wasn't looking for it, didn't see the heart slap, didn't see the repeated gesture
Dec 14, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Got on TikTok six hours ago to see what's going on and I am here to tell you that the kids are both profoundly not alright and, simultaneously, the most alright any living generation has ever been

The revolution won't be televized but I think it might have a choreographed dance I've never seen anything like this. Only thing I can compare it to was the reaction to the George Floyd video, but that was a lot more angry and a lot less cheerfully nihilistic

No one in these videos has the slightest interest in protesting
Oct 30, 2024 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
Hello, I'm the journalist who wrote the article that is continuing to upset you so much. I am, once again, happy to answer your questions

🧵 I already answered your first round of questions, which you never directly responded to

I do, however, observe that you're attacking this issue from a new angle, so I assume you found my answers satisfactory and am glad I could help

Oct 26, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
There's this dystopian city-building Steam game that involves making interstellar jumps to find a new home (IXION)

Everything starts out normally enough for at the beginning, and you chalk up the weird little inconsistencies to developer oversights, until the end stage, when it becomes clear that you and everyone else on your ship has fallen victim to mass psychosis. Realizing this does not help: you are literally unable to tell what is real from what is not, whether you are hallucinating or having a moment of clarity

And this is when you remember
Oct 18, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Hi there, I'm the author of this article and would be happy to answer your questions

🧵 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗧𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗩𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲'𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗜𝗖?

I'm a freelance journalist, which means I come up with article ideas and pitch them to publications. I'm the person interested in NIC
May 24, 2024 • 45 tweets • 10 min read
Ok I'm at a bar with $3 PBRs and Lesbian Trivia on Wednesdays, let's talk about the Bronx Trump rally, where I just had an existential crisis

🧵 I did a text thread for the first bit of it before the Internet completely shat itself, which you can see here if you missed it

I was totally unable to upload video, so I'll do that in this thread

Jun 13, 2023 • 70 tweets • 17 min read
Good morning, I'm back for one day only to bring you Trumpening II: Miami Vice, where police have just kicked media and a handful of protesters out of the park

Maybe 30 people protesting on the cement area directly in front of the courthouse About 30 MAGA protesters ou...Maybe 3 protesters crossing...Police putting up caution t...A paramilitary vehicle with... In case you missed it somehow, Trump is being arraigned for the funniest violation of the espionage act anyone has ever committed

Laura Loomer has called for a rally at noon, one hour from now
Apr 4, 2023 • 69 tweets • 15 min read
Good morning and welcome to TRUMPWATCH IV: THE TRUMPENING here outside the Manhattan District Courthouse, where the, flags are flying and the press outnumbers protesters by at least 30-1 Flag: fuck Trump and fuck you for voting for him. A middle fFlag: trump or death. Picture of trump and the number 2024An absolute crush of press, 100 at least A handful of Black people in Blacks for Trump t-shirts, also I was going to post a quick summary of what's going on today but I just got absolutely bodied by a crush of press struggling to get a shot of George Santos, who has arrived to great fanfare
Apr 3, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I'm posting this essay of a comment I just got on my Substack because it's an incredible example of how people on the right sometimes use the AESTHETICS of rationality without any actual rationality behind it There is too much text in this essay of a comment to fit intAgain, truncated because of character limit: I trust you wi Observe that this very long comment barely engages with the argument I'm making. Instead, he delivers an extremely long but oddly generalized critique of gender science, which this article mentions in passing but does not discuss at all
Apr 3, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Long before Hammurabi chiseled his Code into a clay tablet

Long after the Butlerian Jihad frees us from our technological shackles

There was, and will, be one basic rule of human interaction:

If you provoke someone far enough, You Will Get
Punched

laurajedeed.substack.com/p/on-protest-t… Rudeness has always carried a price and always will, but never, in the recorded history of the world, has anyone been so good about crying about it for money as the people who routinely call others snowflakes
Apr 3, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Hey, so are we just not going to talk about the part where @BillboardChris grabs her first? @BillboardChris I just wrote a whole substack about the ethics of punching protest trolls, then go frame by frame to find my thumbnail and turns out it was self-defense the whole time
Apr 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
See, this is what I'm talking about

If you wore a billboard that said "Bikers are pedophiles" into a biker bar you'd get your ass kicked and no one would feel bad for you because they'd understand you asked for it

Why is it different with weaker-coded groups? "you're excusing violence" I am explaining a basic feature of society since humans started hunting antelope on the savanna