Lauren Lavoie

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Mom of 3, software eng manager, science enthusiast, daily walk-taker, lover of word puzzles, progressive. Enjoying life in the beautiful PNW. She/her
bloghttps://laurenlavoie.com
Try it yourself. Say "Donald Trump is likely to be indicted for falsifying records to cover up paying hush money to a porn star." You can't help but smile.
If you ever get awed and overwhelmed by the incomprehensible vastness of space, just keep in mind that it’s expanding, more rapidly minute by minute, and to the best of our understanding it will never ever stop
Russian Spy Balloon

This is a huge deal: The FTC proposed a sweeping ban on non-compete agreements.

30M Americans are trapped by these contracts.

The ban is estimated to increase wages by nearly $300 billion/year.

It's not a sure thing. Please flood the FTC with comments: https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2023-0007/document

Regulations.gov

Semafor said today that "a critical mass of conservatives do not trust McCarthy to lead them..."

Conservatives. Is that what they are?

John Boehner's description of the same crowd in his memoir:

"What they're really interested in is chaos... They want to throw sand in the gears of the hated federal government until it fails."

Are the sowers of chaos properly called "conservatives?"

Is MAGA conservative?

Why do #journalists with a commitment to accuracy maintain this fiction?

#uspolitics

ODing on schadenfreude.

RT @[email protected]

Hard to overstate the psychological/optical blow of *losing* support on the third ballot when you desperately need things to be heading the opposite direction.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1610389618284716034

Dave Wasserman on Twitter

“Hard to overstate the psychological/optical blow of *losing* support on the third ballot when you desperately need things to be heading the opposite direction.”

Twitter

You don't have the votes (you don't have the votes)
Aha-ha-ha ha
You're gonna need congressional approval and you don't have the votes

#kevinmccarthy #speakerOfTheHouse

HAPPY HANUKKAH!!! I just found a snowflake shaped like a Star of David and I'm so unreasonably excited!!!
Lol, I can't get over how thin-skinned you have to be to ban people from linking to their other social media accounts.