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 🧵 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

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

https://twitter.com/ThunderWolf08/status/1895499986168864869

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

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

https://twitter.com/TheGymQuinn/status/1893501846842388803

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…

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

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

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

🧵

https://twitter.com/KCRCC/status/1851401063787872407

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

https://x.com/LauraJedeed/status/1847334738639356092

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

Hi there, I'm the author of this article and would be happy to answer your questions

🧵

https://twitter.com/KCRCC/status/1847313574395535495

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

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

https://twitter.com/LauraJedeed/status/1793726948348428478

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 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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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?

https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1642358868213919750

"you're excusing violence" I am explaining a basic feature of society since humans started hunting antelope on the savanna

https://twitter.com/LauraJedeed/status/1642566395136286720?s=20

Proposing the Strong Bearded Man Test for Social Interaction

Imagine you're at a good dive bar. Everyone's having a nice time, talking and socializing and enjoying themselves

There's a group of 4 strong bearded men in biker jackets at the bar, kicking back brews and laughing Now, these guys aren't drunk, or surley, or looking for a fight, but they look like they know their way around a fight

Your friend, however, is both drunk and surley. He goes over and starts shouting insults

After putting up with it for a bit, one of the guys throws a punch

Good morning, let's compare @MattWalshBlog's reaction to the Nashville Covenant School shooting with other shootings that involved the murder of very young children Uvalde, Texas: 5-24-2022. 19 elementary school children, 2 teachers dead

Only a "soulless piece of shit" would politicize the shooting of elementary school children, perpetrator should burn in hell, armed security is the answer

Unbelievably dark timeline

https://twitter.com/NotoriousPBG/status/1640474670528077824

The reason it's bad to call everything even vaguely authoritarian fascist or Nazi is that when people correctly point out that this is the type of rhetorical ramp-up that the Nazis employed in the leadup to the Holocaust, it does not pack the punch that it should

My headphones just broke and anyone who has ever met me in real life will understand when I tell you I feel like I just got a limb amputated They still make sound they just physically snapped which probably isn't surprising since I haven't taken them off since approximately August 2021

I'm going to MacGyver a solution with household objects before I perish like a fish removed from water

Seems like people are doing this again so here you go: AMA if you want to

(Looks like I've gotten some msgs since last time I checked and I'll respond to those too)

ngl.link/laurajedeed Please tell your boss thank you, also I'm so sorry

laurajedeed.substack.com/p/requiem-for-…

LMAO are you fucking serious There are NO websites that charge users to have a secure login. NONE. It has NEVER HAPPENED