LauraEH/Opheliacat
@lauraeh.bsky.social
NYC by way of Chicago. Editor, design historian and educational consultant, now having fun telling people where to go (as a museum volunteer).
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This is maybe the first time I’ve felt he’s in actual trouble. I never thought Mueller would get him, nor did I expect Biden to go for the throat. I don’t know how it ends here, and I’m not saying he can’t get out of it. But it’s the worst trouble he’s been in.
November 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This is maybe the first time I’ve felt he’s in actual trouble. I never thought Mueller would get him, nor did I expect Biden to go for the throat. I don’t know how it ends here, and I’m not saying he can’t get out of it. But it’s the worst trouble he’s been in.
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Every time I walk into an office supply store it feels like I’ve stepped inside an entire building that’s lost the will to live
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Every time I walk into an office supply store it feels like I’ve stepped inside an entire building that’s lost the will to live
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p_B...
Men without Hats - The Safety Dance
Day 14: Careful #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Men without Hats - The Safety Dance
Day 14: Careful #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by DemonMusicGroup
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November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Men without Hats - The Safety Dance
Day 14: Careful #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Men without Hats - The Safety Dance
Day 14: Careful #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
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Such a lovely Free Speech Zone...
More concrete barriers are being added on Beach Street outside the ICE processing center in suburban Broadview after a clash between protesters and agents led to at least 21 arrests and four law enforcement officers injured.
READ MORE: https://tinyurl.com/nhaymebh
READ MORE: https://tinyurl.com/nhaymebh
November 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Such a lovely Free Speech Zone...
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the CDC museum inspired so many people (including myself) to serve this nation and world in public health. this is hard to see
🚨🚨
🧵1/6 #FedFam, reporters - urgent help needed
🚨CDC Museum (a Smithsonian affiliate) is being shuttered🚨
Staff are being “un-RIFed” just to close the museum permanently — then RIFed again in Jan
This is bureaucratic cruelty & cultural vandalism
CDC Library is a national treasure
#SaveCDCLibrary
🧵1/6 #FedFam, reporters - urgent help needed
🚨CDC Museum (a Smithsonian affiliate) is being shuttered🚨
Staff are being “un-RIFed” just to close the museum permanently — then RIFed again in Jan
This is bureaucratic cruelty & cultural vandalism
CDC Library is a national treasure
#SaveCDCLibrary
The David J. Sencer CDC Museum: In Association with the Smithsonian
Free museum exhibiting public health topics and the history of CDC.
www.cdc.gov
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 AM
the CDC museum inspired so many people (including myself) to serve this nation and world in public health. this is hard to see
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Astoria the Wild Turkey displays her magnificent tail in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 🍃
November 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Astoria the Wild Turkey displays her magnificent tail in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 🍃
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A worldly lady, perhaps, but not too worldly to play with her dog so I'm OK with her! Also some A+ textiles here, painted in 1672 by Jacob Ochtervelt, whose day is today.
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
A worldly lady, perhaps, but not too worldly to play with her dog so I'm OK with her! Also some A+ textiles here, painted in 1672 by Jacob Ochtervelt, whose day is today.
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A number of local Chicago reporters/journalists have truly distinguished themselves over the past few weeks and I am so very grateful. It also shows that reporting is a public service when done well. Thank you all.
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A number of local Chicago reporters/journalists have truly distinguished themselves over the past few weeks and I am so very grateful. It also shows that reporting is a public service when done well. Thank you all.
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
@ivacheung.com Hi—is there a #LyricsPrompt for today? I thought I saw one for "summer" but now I can't find it although I've searched.
November 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
@ivacheung.com Hi—is there a #LyricsPrompt for today? I thought I saw one for "summer" but now I can't find it although I've searched.
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The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer in the City (Audio)
YouTube video by TheLovinSpoonfulVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
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It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.
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Back before Brooklyn had cable, we watched a lot of PBS. And my then boyfriend, a painter, and I loved to make fun of Bob Ross.
Now I find this (posthumous) gesture very touching. And I’m sorry we were so mean.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Now I find this (posthumous) gesture very touching. And I’m sorry we were so mean.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
3 Bob Ross Paintings Sell for $600,000 to Support Public Broadcasters
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Back before Brooklyn had cable, we watched a lot of PBS. And my then boyfriend, a painter, and I loved to make fun of Bob Ross.
Now I find this (posthumous) gesture very touching. And I’m sorry we were so mean.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Now I find this (posthumous) gesture very touching. And I’m sorry we were so mean.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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Tapping the XKCD sign again to explain that no, I won't be seeing an aurora tonight. Or at least I really hope not. That would be bad. :)
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Tapping the XKCD sign again to explain that no, I won't be seeing an aurora tonight. Or at least I really hope not. That would be bad. :)
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I didn't even think to ask! But now that I do, I'm reminded of this
This is how it felt teaching zoomers about punk in my pop music class today
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I didn't even think to ask! But now that I do, I'm reminded of this
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The future Pope Leo XIV in 1982.
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The future Pope Leo XIV in 1982.
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Astoria the Wild Turkey strolls The Battery, showing off her autumnal colors. 🦃 ❤️
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Astoria the Wild Turkey strolls The Battery, showing off her autumnal colors. 🦃 ❤️
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The Five Boroughs Token was the only token issued by NYCTA that was never successfully counterfeited.
When the MetroCard was introduced in 1993, it coexisted with tokens for a decade before tokens were completely phased out of use.
Plan your visit and learn about the token at nytransitmuseum.org.
When the MetroCard was introduced in 1993, it coexisted with tokens for a decade before tokens were completely phased out of use.
Plan your visit and learn about the token at nytransitmuseum.org.
Home - New York Transit Museum
The New York Transit Museum is a unique museum devoted to the impact of public transportation on the growth and development of the New York metropolitan region.
nytransitmuseum.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The Five Boroughs Token was the only token issued by NYCTA that was never successfully counterfeited.
When the MetroCard was introduced in 1993, it coexisted with tokens for a decade before tokens were completely phased out of use.
Plan your visit and learn about the token at nytransitmuseum.org.
When the MetroCard was introduced in 1993, it coexisted with tokens for a decade before tokens were completely phased out of use.
Plan your visit and learn about the token at nytransitmuseum.org.
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#TokenTuesday: The Five Boroughs Token debuted in 1995 and was the last token to be used in the #NYCsubway.
A fare increase to $1.50 ushered in the new token which featured a pentagonal hole at the center to symbolize the five boroughs of #NYC.
A fare increase to $1.50 ushered in the new token which featured a pentagonal hole at the center to symbolize the five boroughs of #NYC.
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
#TokenTuesday: The Five Boroughs Token debuted in 1995 and was the last token to be used in the #NYCsubway.
A fare increase to $1.50 ushered in the new token which featured a pentagonal hole at the center to symbolize the five boroughs of #NYC.
A fare increase to $1.50 ushered in the new token which featured a pentagonal hole at the center to symbolize the five boroughs of #NYC.
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Mary Petty, New Yorker, January 5, 1952
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Mary Petty, New Yorker, January 5, 1952
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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Flu season is already beginning. Pediatricians are worried after one of the deadliest flu seasons on record last year -- and the CDC ended a vaccination campaign in the middle of it. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pediatricians fill vaccine messaging void left by CDC amid bad flu season
Doctors step up after US health department suspended its flu vaccine campaign following Trump’s election
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Flu season is already beginning. Pediatricians are worried after one of the deadliest flu seasons on record last year -- and the CDC ended a vaccination campaign in the middle of it. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...