Laura Dronen

Candidate for North Dakota House | Comms and Digital Director for @nddemnpl | IAMAW Local 2525 member | North Dakota born and raised

[Scott Maxwell @Scott_Maxwell]

A Florida university is threatening to withhold students' diplomas unless they record a 2-minute video apologizing for a silent protest they staged against ICE actions on campus.
Such is life in the "Free State of Florida" ....
https://t.co/lXGQO7PqOc

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Stock Trades by Presidents Since 1990 During Term:

Probably nothing.

[Jared Moskowitz @JaredEMoskowitz]

Watching a President of the United States fly a plane personally gifted to him by a foreign government isn’t just corrupt, it makes us look weak to the world.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

How do you remove a pool liner by hand if it isn't already peeling off?

[Jared Holt @jaredlholt]

They spent millions on this shindig. When I see stuff like this, I can't help but wonder where it all went...

[Laura Dronen @LauraDronen]

Notably not the first time the SSPX consecrated their own bishops and were swiftly excommunicated. This also happened in the 1980s under Pope John Paul II

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: The Vatican excommunicates bishops from a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics that consecrated them without Pope Leo's consent. https://t.co/dZUbjgCi7q

[Mike Warren @MichaelRWarren]

This is dada art.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Apparently keeping the exact same laws which have been in effect since the Founding (barring the Dred Scott period pre-Civil War) is “a tremendous betrayal of the Republic.”

It’s hard to imagine how these people call themselves “conservatives” when their demand is so radical.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

We’ve had birth right citizenship for 157 years.

And, while Matt Walsh hates it, it takes only a few hours with an Ancestry subscription to find out it’s the only reason he is American.

Like nearly all Americans, within 2+ generations you’ll find that Matt’s relatives only became American by birthright citizenship.

They came from Ireland, Australia, England, Scotland and Austria.

Most of them *never* naturalized as citizens.

But their children born here became citizens.

“Ending birthright citizenship” isn’t about “illegals” if it was then Trump’s team would have had a more tailored argument and would have likely won today.

It’s fully kicking the ladder out from underneath you.

When people like Matt act as if they’ve got some right to the land of opportunity that you and your children don’t deserve.

The reality is, 80% of Americans today have ancestors who came to America and never naturalized between now and 1866.

And if you go back 2-4 generations in their family tree basically none of those relatives were in America.

Meaning they owe their own American status to the very policy they want to get rid of.

There is a hubris in thinking “just because my Grandparents were American we must have been American forever” when the only reason they were American is because of birthright citizenship.

[Cody Johnston @drmistercody]

Funny watching these guys act like birthright citizenship was proposed and implemented for the first time today.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Wonder how the Federalist is reacting to the rul—

[QuoProQuid @TNOQuoProQuid]

5-4 for a guarantee that is written in plain text in the constitution

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

Setting aside half the misinformation in this post, the Amish are also clearly a community that refuses to assimilate to American society.

And yet no one on the right seems to care. Curious.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

One is so struck by the meanness and ugliness of nativism that one sometimes forgets its sheer stupidity.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

it should probably be a bigger story that there was a normal bipartisan America 250 organization but then Trump decided to launch his own competing right wing grift version and ruined everything

[Acyn @Acyn]

Talarico: Every bar has that one guy. He’s loud, he’s obnoxious, he makes all the women in the bar feel uncomfortable. He hears you say your name to the bartender and then adds his drink to your tab when you’re not looking.

That’s Ken Paxton.

And I don’t know about y’all, but I’m done picking up his tab.

[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

Today we are all Dan Sullivan

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

They started at “he’s going to cause another 9/11” and now the best they can do is “he violated dress code”

[Jeff Flake @JeffFlake]

When considering a candidate for public office, character is a more important consideration than policy. Policies change. Character remains.