KJ Lauck
Graduate of Lipscomb University. Louisville, KY ➡️ Nashville, TN. Sports fan and aspiring journalist.
- Reposted by KJ LauckI do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.
- Reposted by KJ LauckThis is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
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- Reposted by KJ LauckI wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
- Reposted by KJ LauckNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by KJ LauckThis is good news, but Dems shouldn't get too cocky because this is one of the GOP activists who is ON THE CASE trying to get Oregon's voting system completely overhauled so as to eliminate the rampant fraud that supposedly explains why Democrats keep winning.
- Reposted by KJ LauckHAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
- Reposted by KJ LauckScoop w/ @nataliekorach.bsky.social: Washington Post leadership spiked a story that had been prepared by the newspaper's media desk, covering the historic layoffs at the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/4ai6W4C
- Reposted by KJ LauckScoop: As Washington Post leadership laid off hundreds of staffers this week, exec editor Matt Murray blocked the paper’s media desk from covering the cuts, spiking a pre-written story despite internal lobbying www.status.news/p/ms-now-cro...
- Reposted by KJ LauckBREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
- Reposted by KJ LauckVisitor brochures are returned to Medgar Evers home Officials with the National Park Service said they had removed brochures to the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument that identified his murderer as a racist because they were “outdated.”
- Reposted by KJ LauckJust like Trump's racism barely warrants a mention anymore because it's "normal," ICE brutally abducting people is quickly becoming normalized. It's not "new" anymore and there's no longer an angle of political conflict.
- Reposted by KJ LauckWell I don’t like all the fascism and pedophilia, but at least he’ll be good for cryptocurrency right, how’s that going
- Reposted by KJ LauckWatching commentators still refusing to see the white nationalism of this administration and arguingTrump is targeting Atlanta, Philadelphia and Detroit because they are blue cities is just, it’s got to be intentional at this point. There are a ton of blue cities. These are majority Black cities.
- Reposted by KJ LauckDHS Is Hunting Down Trump Critics. The ‘Free Speech’ Warriors Are Mighty Quiet. For years, we've been subjected to an endless parade of hyperventilating claims about the Biden administration's supposed "censorship industrial complex." We were told, over and over again, that the government was…
- Reposted by KJ LauckMe on the death of the Washington Post sports section. This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry. www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...
- Reposted by KJ LauckNEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
- Reposted by KJ LauckI can't speak to whether it is actually bortac and whether it is actually mortar launchers but I mentioned in my piece yesterday that I had witnessed tear gas being launched in the air in an arc over people's heads. This video I found on IG shows what I described
- Reposted by KJ Laucktoday’s tech barons get compared to the robber barons (I’ve done it myself) but it’s notable how the current generation has responded to the philanthropic and cultural legacy of Carnegie et al with their own campaign of wanton destruction of cultural institutions
- Reposted by KJ LauckThis is the cycle: Governments give surveillance contracts-->Stock goes up-->Right-wing CEOs get rich and donate to right-wing candidates-->Politicians give more contracts to surveillance company. This is the cycle we need to break, and it needs to start with ending the government contracts.
- Reposted by KJ LauckIncredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...
- Reposted by KJ LauckBreaking character: The changes at WaPo and CBS are not ones that make economic sense. They're about hating liberals, they're about some media higher-ups hating their mostly liberal audience. It's that simple.
- Reposted by KJ LauckEarly in his career, William Randolph Hearst famously joked that if his papers kept losing $1 million a year, he'd lose all his money in 60 years. If the Post continues to lose $100 million a year, it will take Jeff Bezos 2000 years to lose his money.
- Reposted by KJ LauckAn appreciated acknowledgment from Georgetown tonight on the media info sheets at each seat.
- Reposted by KJ LauckThe Washington Post but it’s ‘The Traitors’
- Reposted by KJ LauckINBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
- Reposted by KJ LauckI expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.
- Reposted by KJ LauckSo (7) says to preserve—but strikes me more as create—the right of state and local govts to file criminal charges in excessive force cases. Details will matter, but if that’s a statutory waiver of supremacy clause immunity, that strikes me as potentially a REALLY big deal.
- Reposted by KJ LauckJeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
- Reposted by KJ LauckNEWS Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation. Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service." Doc buff.ly/uhpSOTz
- Reposted by KJ Lauckin real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits
- Reposted by KJ LauckSchumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders
- Reposted by KJ LauckSpencer Cox has been feted by the Times, the Kennedy School and Josh Shapiro as a different kind of Republican. But in his actual job, he just signed a court-packing law. We have to stop inventing "good" Republican pols and accept this is where the party is now. newrepublic.com/article/2061...
- Reposted by KJ LauckA lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
- Reposted by KJ LauckA manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.
- Reposted by KJ LauckYou cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.
- Reposted by KJ Lauck"under my leadership, our newspaper has lost readers and subscribers at record rates. this shows that I was correct about what was wrong with the newspaper."
- Reposted by KJ LauckBillionaires are taking over newsrooms to push a reactionary agenda? ...Is that new information? Is this a new development? Is this something people care about now?
- Reposted by KJ LauckNew from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
- Reposted by KJ LauckSpeaking on behalf of a religion that actively sought to spread itself to every country in the world whether invited or not, Speaker Johnson would like to share with you the Biblical case for strong borders.
- Reposted by KJ LauckIf you had reasonable concerns about trans women in sports, surely your first step would be to find out what the science says. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
- Reposted by KJ LauckIn the clip, Speaker Johnson asks what if ICE is running after a person and the person retreats into a home—people shouldn't be allowed to block ICE that way, he says. But the warrant requirement doesn't even apply in those circumstances, see U.S. v. Santana, 427 U.S. 38, 42-3 (1976).
- Reposted by KJ LauckFloored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
- Reposted by KJ LauckA government that’s willing to change the law of citizenship contrary to the law is a government that feels unbound to respect rights of citizens at all.
- Reposted by KJ LauckRepublicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering. Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!
- Reposted by KJ Lauckhappening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
- Reposted by KJ LauckPretty wild to me how many pundits and academics treated Republican opposition to the notion of Supreme Court expansion during the Biden administration as a serious, principled stance, as opposed to a position Republicans would obviously abandon the moment it became convenient
- Reposted by KJ LauckCasar holds a 3 minute and 26 second moment of silence to represent the time in which DHS officers let Renee Good bleed out after she was shot
- Reposted by KJ LauckSnowstorms are more than just an inconvenience for wheelchair users. Inadequate snow clean-ups means a loss of autonomy for many. New for me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by KJ LauckThe Art of Star Wars: The Acolyte, the third of @kristinbaver.bsky.social’s High Republic-era art books, is nothing short of extraordinary, overflowing with incredible concepts and stories from the series’ production. Pick up your copy this Tuesday, February 3, everywhere fine books are sold!
