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Freelance Journalist, allegedly: Politico, Rolling Stone, TNR, etc. laura.jedeed @gmail .com. I have a newsletter:

New York City, she/hers
Joined December 2017
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@LauraJedeed
Laura Jedeed
16 days
"I went to the sex pervert convention and you'll never guess what I found there"
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20 days
Update: I lasted approximately 24 minutes at Fetish Con. The first person I saw upon entering was an old man dressed as a baby, followed by countless women covered in only tape, men wearing stripper heels, and couples guiding each other around with dog leashes. I turned to my
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@liamgareau
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2 months
New gay icon just dropped
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I can tell Dylan Mulvaney is a real woman because she's getting body shamed in a way every woman will instantly recognize
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This might be horrifically controversial. But idk why they're actually allowed to this it makes the straight community look like a hypersexualised group of freaks
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This might be horrifically controversial. But idk why they're actually allowed to this it makes the lgbtq community look like a hypersexualised group of freaks
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3 years
Boy howdy am I having a lot of feelings about Afghanistan today I deployed there twice--once in 2008 and once in 2009-10 It was already obvious that the Taliban would sweep through the very instant we left And here we are today
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Hello I would like to share with you the most astonishing thing I have ever seen At this CPAC booth you receive a silent disco headset that plays harrowing testimony from people arrested for participating in J6 Instead of dancing, you stand around and watch this guy cry
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@RealCandaceO If masculinity can be undone with a simple change of clothes, it was never very strong to begin with
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Madison Cawthorn is gonna go down for wearing some lingerie and not for sneaking weapons into the Congressional chamber on January 6th and that's so on brand for America it's almost parody
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Wow, this seems to be really resonating with folks. I'm kind of blown away I made this post into an article, if that's a thing that people want:
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If I didn't want to see people doing kinky shit I would simply not pay money for a ticket to watch people do kinky shit
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But if Cowboy is dead then he died a long time ago, and if Cowboy is dead it's our fault for going there in the first place, giving his family the option of trusting us when we are the least trustworthy people on the planet We use people up and throw them away like it's nothing
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No more blown up soldiers. No more Bollywood videos on phones whose owners are getting shipped god knows where. No more hypocrisy No more pretending it meant anything. It didn't It didn't mean a fucking thing
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Kamala Harris reportedly spent 10 hours on the phone yesterday working to lock down nominations. We're going to get a candidate capable of doing something for 10 hours straight. A new day has truly dawned
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Ladies, believe this now or find out later: if you are someone who does not perfectly perform heteronormative conventional-beauty-standards femininity you REALLY do not want to be all aboard this hate train
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I am Team Get The Fuck Out Of Afghanistan which, as a friend pointed out to me today, has always been Team Taliban It's Team Taliban or Team Stay Forever, there is no third team
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3 years
I remember finding propaganda footage cut together from the Soviet invasion and our own Operation Enduring Whatever And laughing about how stupid the Afghans were to not know we aren't the Russians And then eventually realizing I was the stupid one
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Afghanistan is a dusty beige nightmare of a place full of proud, brave people who did not fucking want us there We called them Hajjis and worse and they were better than we were, braver and stronger and smarter
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I remember how every year the US would have to decide how to deal with the opium fields You could let them alone, and then the Taliban would shake the farmers down and use the money to buy weapons Or you could carpet bomb the fields and then the farmers would join the Taliban
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I know how bad the Taliban is. I know what they do to women and little boys. I know what they're going to do to the interpreters and the people who cooperated with us, it's awful, it's bad, but we are leaving, and all I feel is grim relief
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People get very upset about criticisms of Biden from the left because "you're going to cost him the election" buddy a lot of us are mad at Biden because he is costing HIMSELF the election
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Also: bold of her to post feet in this context
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3 years
Or you could give the farmers fertilizer as an incentive to grow wheat instead of opium poppy, and the farmers would sell the fertilizer to the Taliban, who used it to make explosives for IEDs that could destroy a million dollar MRAP and maim everyone inside
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3 years
I remember going through the phones of the people we detained and finding clip after clip of Bollywood musicals, women singing in fields of flowers Rarely did I find anything incriminating
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Every time I talk about Mulvaney someone hits me with "[she's] a grifter/faking" and I disagree but also SO FUCKING WHAT She isn't the reason your life sucks. She isn't taking money out of your pocket. She's bringing joy to many people, myself included: get a damn hobby
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3 years
So I'm sitting here reading these sad fucking tweets about the suffering in Afghanistan and the horror of the encroaching Taliban and how awful it is that this is happening but I can't stop feeling this grim happiness, like, finally, you fuckers, finally you have to see it too
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This might be horrifically controversial. But idk why they're actually allowed to this it makes the straight community look like a hypersexualised group of freaks
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Cowboy was a good student and he wanted to go to college in America, but there weren't colleges that took Afghans, the education system was too shit. No program to help kids like him. I looked I wonder if he's dead now, for serving us food and dreaming of something different
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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
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And now we are leaving and the predictable thing is happening, the Taliban is surging in and taking it all back They have what you can't buy or train, they have patience and a bloody-mindedness that warrants more respect than we ever gave them
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4 years
Words cannot describe how excited I am not to be coming to you live from 3rd and Alder where perhaps 60 chuds are...well, I walked up and was immediately threatened by a man with an AR-15 so you could say things are tense
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Karma's a bitch
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4 years
Good morning, it is entirely too early to be alive never mind awake and I am undercover in Salem, Oregon, where a bunch of far right activists have gathered to protest the state government's decision to close their legislative session to the public today.
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I remember we weren't allowed to throw batteries away because people who worked on base would go through the trash and collect hundreds of dead batteries, wire them together so they had just enough juice for one charge, and use that charge to detonate an IED
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1 year
Cannot believe the woke left heartlessly dragged this woman on Twitter instead of giving her grace and the benefit of the doubt, as she would surely have done for--*checks notes*--oh dear
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𝐉𝐔𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐎𝐑 ☭🇵🇸
1 year
If your notifications say Ken Klippenstein has retweeted 20 of your tweets oh boy
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I remember the look on my roommate's face after she got back from cutting the dead bodies of two soldiers out of an HMMWV that got blown up by an IED that I have always imagined was made with fertilizer from an opium farmer and detonated with a hundred thrown-out batteries
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I remember an Afghan kid who worked in the DFAC (cafeteria) who we called Cowboy, always wore this cowboy hat and an "I'm with stupid" t-shirt someone had given him, always with a big smile, high school age
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What I need you to understand is that I stood here for about half an hour yesterday and this guy NEVER broke character He wept sitting on the bench He wept sitting on the floor He tallied days on a chalkboard set up for the purpise
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Someone just pointed out that the police don't have bodycams. "That means they can do whatever the fuck they want! We've been trying to tell you assholes that for years
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Whoever convinced conservatives that beautiful women with huge naturals are triggering the libs is playing chess on some dimension I can't even fathom and I am asking them to never stop
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Portland government like "we can't salt the roads because it's poisonous and bad for the environment" as though they didn't gas the absolute shit out of everyone downtown for months this summer
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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 🧵
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Do not, my friends, become addicted to human rights They will take hold of you and you will resent their absence
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@puppydog_gaming I'm usually against kink shaming but for this I'll make an exception
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Laura Jedeed
2 years
By far the worst thing in these four terrible minutes is the thing where DHS falsified the immigrants' paperwork to random homeless shelters across the country and then made mandatory immigration appointments at offices near those addresses, thousands of miles away
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Rachel Self, a Boston immigration attorney tells you everything you need to know about immigrants sent to Martha’s Vineyard. They’d been given falsified U.S. addresses by immigration officials, perhaps ensuring that they’d be deemed in the country illegally.
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"We went to Back the Blue Rallies for 8 months and this is what we get!?" Someone is learning that the police are tools of the state The crowd hates the cops as much as any leftist right now
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@ConnaireStanfi2 owned, bodied, crushed, gutted, utterly defeated by this devastating intellectual counterpoint
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This might be horrifically controversial. But idk why they're actually allowed to this it makes the straight community look like a hypersexualised group of freaks (Thank you @tk59327166 )
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Someone yells that we need to burn the Back the Blue flags. Others call the cops Nazis and Brownshirts Confused about what rally I'm at
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The far right protesters keep saying this is how Nazi Germany started and they're right but not in the way they mean
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@Isaac29663055 Yeah, Mardi Gras is crazy huh
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@AllanaSmithee "Hormones will never make trans women real woman and also they have to take hormones to not be a real woman and also hormones have to do the exact same thing in every body" seems like such an exhausting take to have every day
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Someone says they'd never do this to us if we were Antifa and once again they're right, but not in the way they think
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A friend of mine told me they signed up to volunteer for the Biden campaign a few weeks ago and never heard back So I decided to try it That was a week ago. Nothing. Not even a confirmation text
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It's war
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1 year
Hey, so are we just not going to talk about the part where @BillboardChris grabs her first?
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1 year
I'm know I've been really aggro on this issue for the past while, please understand that I spend most of my time researching American conservative and far-right movements which is, at the moment, about 90% frothing psychosis re: The Transgenders
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@NotReida OMFG What do you wanna bet she saw someone she knew and was like "haha no it's for an article it's totally for an article I'm not into any of this
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Is it possible to die from second-hand embarrassment
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Someone is changing "this is what democracy looks like," I can't get away from my least favorite chant no matter where I go I've said it before: protests are what it looks like when democracy fails
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4 years
Telling people who believe the election was rigged to vote is certainly an interesting choice It's going over about as well as you'd expect
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"This is not an unlawful assembly! This is a peaceful protest!!" I'm sorry if this is getting repetitive; I'll stop quoting them saying stuff like this when it stops being totally surreal to hear them saying what we've been saying about the cops for months
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Nigel Farage has spoken and it might be good to listen to the things he said, which CPAC Dallas cheered to the absolute rafters Here's what he said:
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@susiebeeca apparently when someone is wearing stage makeup and you get a close-up shot of them under harsh and unflattering lighting, they look less than perfect! I for one cannot believe it
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Chandler Pappas has also decided not to get arrested. No one with an AR-15 has stayed I leave it to you to decide what this signifies about the bravery level of these people The 10 people who stayed look like regular folks with one exception
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The hallway is packed again. The police are threatening to declare this an unlawful assembly, which, can you imagine the police politely telling a leftist that? Shit Anyway, not declared yet
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Someone is yelling about how they have no money and no jobs and look when they're right they're right Shit is intolerable right now. Everyone is suffering. This is what happens when a government abandons the people
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I swear to God if I get arrested for the first time at a far right protest I'm gonna lose my fucking MIND
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1 year
Never thought I'd see the day when I'd miss election theft discourse but here we are
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4 years
A bald eagle just flew overhead and the crowd lost their SHIT It was pretty cool, I admit
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Today I woke up to a nation not at war for the first time since I was 13
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Someone screams that a side door is open and part of the crowd runs over there "I'm giving you one chance!" Pappas yells dramatically at the cops just inside the door. "Join us!!" The dialogue is just terrible in this movie
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Someone saw "a Chinese person" in the window earlier. The claim now is that the Chinese are inside the building, which is why they don't want us inside
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@shagbark_hick @magneticksara You've never worked in the service industry, I see
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Capitalism at the unlawful assembly
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@NinaStrohminger Fascism and not just because I dislike it: 1) hearkens back to an imaginary idyllic past 2) blames an enemy both internal and external for all the world's problems and calls for a genocidal solution 3) no racial diversity and an emphasis on fertility rates
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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
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And holy shit things got real IMMEDIATELY They just tried to force their way into the building. Fights with cops. A great deal of mace. Footage incoming
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@charliekirk11 If you care more about property damage than murder you lose all moral credibility, in my eyes, to have me listen to a single word to say about injustice
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@Archaic3one So many words to say "I did not watch the video" You got nearly every detail wrong. Congratulations
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@kyliesmom85 Yes. If there is a hell, everyone who could have made this happen and didn't will burn there forever
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Alex Jones badmouthing Q is like Coke badmouthing Pepsi, everybody calm down
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There's a service dog in here doing his best and I wish he wasn't here
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The LRAD keeps saying "all subjects must leave immediately" and oh boy the word "subjects" is not going over at ALL with these 1776 fans
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I don't know a ton about Dylan Mulvaney but based on a quick Google search, her biggest and most unforgivable crime seems to be spending every day happier than James Lindsay and Matt Walsh have ever been in their entire lives
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James Lindsay, anti-Communist
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The correct way to frame this is that Dylan has always been pathologically narcissistic and attention-seeking, so transitioning him given those comorbidities was medical malpractice, especially since he's acting as a role model to impressionable youth.
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"Full MAGA" apparently means "thinking people who voted for Trump don't deserve to be poisoned" which is a new low Imagine thinking that 73 million people deserve to drink water that causes cancer and then thinking you're the good guy
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After being rejected by black and jewish voters in Ohio twice, Nina Turner has gone full MAGA.
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If you approach someone filming and threaten them on camera, and then they publishes the video, and then someone else figures out who you are, you have fallen victim not to doxxing but to a predictable chain of events easily avoided by not threatening or harrassing people on film
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I don't know who needs to hear this but, while tactics matter optically, tactics themselves aren't inherently good or evil "Why do you condemn storming the capital to 'stop the steal' but support the BLM riots!" Because one of those causes is righteous and the other isn't
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"you're heaving birthday parties while you shut us down!" It's important to understand that they rage is real, and that some of it is extremely legit. There's desperation and fear here because people have no way to survive
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The cops have retreated inside the building and closed an internal door. The hallway is full of mace. The right wingers are gearing up to go in. It's spicy as fuck in there. They keep going in and then back out
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What does my delicate feminine brain know about trigger discipline? I deployed twice to Afghanistan with the 82nd AIrborne Division and while I did not see combat I definitely know my way around a fucking M-4 thanks
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Your semi-regularly reminder that the Dems could have run literally anyone else instead
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It just hit an all-time low
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@ginndjuicee "are allowed to"
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People drifting back now. I guess the revolution won't be deferred by a loud and startling noise after all
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Someone is asking around about what to do if they're arrested. "I'm shaking right now," someone else says I'm just hanging out on a lawn in the sunlight not getting maced or beaten 🤷
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There is a guy with a fucking bullwhip hand to God, I will post pics later Kinky
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