@laurah73.bsky.social
Retired. Former research scientist at UW. Nature connection. Maker. Walker. Movement. Avó to one and one on the way. Currently in Portugal.
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Every year I read this card my dad made for my 18th birthday. It’s 52 years old now. Antique.
March 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Every year I read this card my dad made for my 18th birthday. It’s 52 years old now. Antique.
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The House GOP's CR gives Trump & Musk a blank check to steal YOUR taxpayer dollars. I won't vote to help two billionaires pick winners & losers.
I spoke on the Senate floor about exactly why I'm voting NO—let's pass my bill to prevent a shutdown ASAP.
I spoke on the Senate floor about exactly why I'm voting NO—let's pass my bill to prevent a shutdown ASAP.
Murray Slams House Republicans’ Power Grab Funding Bill & Urges Senate to Pass Short-Term CR
YouTube video by Senator Patty Murray
www.youtube.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The House GOP's CR gives Trump & Musk a blank check to steal YOUR taxpayer dollars. I won't vote to help two billionaires pick winners & losers.
I spoke on the Senate floor about exactly why I'm voting NO—let's pass my bill to prevent a shutdown ASAP.
I spoke on the Senate floor about exactly why I'm voting NO—let's pass my bill to prevent a shutdown ASAP.
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Welcome to our new Bluesky account where we share our weekly actions over the highway on Rt4 in Paramus and elsewhere. Help us on our mission to awaken people to actively saving our country. Stay tuned!
#resist
@jesscraven101.bsky.social
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@maddow.msnbc.com
#resist
@jesscraven101.bsky.social
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@maddow.msnbc.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Welcome to our new Bluesky account where we share our weekly actions over the highway on Rt4 in Paramus and elsewhere. Help us on our mission to awaken people to actively saving our country. Stay tuned!
#resist
@jesscraven101.bsky.social
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@maddow.msnbc.com
#resist
@jesscraven101.bsky.social
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@maddow.msnbc.com
Every day is No Shopping Amazon day for me. 🙃🥳
March 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Every day is No Shopping Amazon day for me. 🙃🥳
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Despite what Elon Musk says—Social Security is NOT a Ponzi Scheme.
Social Security is a PROMISE that the American people should be able to count on after paying into it their entire lives. Repost if you agree.
Social Security is a PROMISE that the American people should be able to count on after paying into it their entire lives. Repost if you agree.
March 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Despite what Elon Musk says—Social Security is NOT a Ponzi Scheme.
Social Security is a PROMISE that the American people should be able to count on after paying into it their entire lives. Repost if you agree.
Social Security is a PROMISE that the American people should be able to count on after paying into it their entire lives. Repost if you agree.
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
A year or so ago, I bought a big bag of raffia at the local farm store. I knew I’d make
something but I was thinking cordage. Now I have one bundle left, and a new sun hat. #crochet
something but I was thinking cordage. Now I have one bundle left, and a new sun hat. #crochet
March 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A year or so ago, I bought a big bag of raffia at the local farm store. I knew I’d make
something but I was thinking cordage. Now I have one bundle left, and a new sun hat. #crochet
something but I was thinking cordage. Now I have one bundle left, and a new sun hat. #crochet
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“The best thing about heroes is that they always win at the end. And if they aren’t winning, then it’s not the end.” —Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Kyiv
Astonishing speech by Danish Prime Minister.
YouTube video by Dylan Burrill
youtu.be
March 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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These are the things taxpayers could be funding if left to the GOP — lessons on demons and memorization of Christian scripture. Girls would be reminded of their place in society and every other religion would be admonished as near Satanism on your dime. jesspiper.substack.com/p/demonic-yoga
Demonic Yoga
Indoctrination on your dime
jesspiper.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
These are the things taxpayers could be funding if left to the GOP — lessons on demons and memorization of Christian scripture. Girls would be reminded of their place in society and every other religion would be admonished as near Satanism on your dime. jesspiper.substack.com/p/demonic-yoga
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“Together, these actions will make people in the United States and around the world less prosperous and more vulnerable.”
“We at Nature denounce this assault on science. And we encourage the global research community, wherever they can, to voice their opposition.”
“We at Nature denounce this assault on science. And we encourage the global research community, wherever they can, to voice their opposition.”
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu
https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
go.nature.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“Together, these actions will make people in the United States and around the world less prosperous and more vulnerable.”
“We at Nature denounce this assault on science. And we encourage the global research community, wherever they can, to voice their opposition.”
“We at Nature denounce this assault on science. And we encourage the global research community, wherever they can, to voice their opposition.”
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FINALLY one western nation is acting to root out Russian interference.
Romania's investigations into Pro-Russian candidate Georgescu reveal another puppet of the Putin regime.
$10,000,000 in cash, trips back and forth to Moscow, all the usual.
Why can't other nations get serious about Russians?
Romania's investigations into Pro-Russian candidate Georgescu reveal another puppet of the Putin regime.
$10,000,000 in cash, trips back and forth to Moscow, all the usual.
Why can't other nations get serious about Russians?
February 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
FINALLY one western nation is acting to root out Russian interference.
Romania's investigations into Pro-Russian candidate Georgescu reveal another puppet of the Putin regime.
$10,000,000 in cash, trips back and forth to Moscow, all the usual.
Why can't other nations get serious about Russians?
Romania's investigations into Pro-Russian candidate Georgescu reveal another puppet of the Putin regime.
$10,000,000 in cash, trips back and forth to Moscow, all the usual.
Why can't other nations get serious about Russians?
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The administration just deleted information & resources from its website on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women & violence against Indigenous women.
To the families of missing or murdered women: you will never be erased.
Linking resources below, please share:
The administration just deleted information & resources from its website on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women & violence against Indigenous women.
To the families of missing or murdered women: you will never be erased.
Linking resources below, please share:
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) - Native Hope
We’re facing a crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) in the United States. Here's what you need to know about it.
www.nativehope.org
February 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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The administration just deleted information & resources from its website on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women & violence against Indigenous women.
To the families of missing or murdered women: you will never be erased.
Linking resources below, please share:
The administration just deleted information & resources from its website on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women & violence against Indigenous women.
To the families of missing or murdered women: you will never be erased.
Linking resources below, please share:
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If you feel this way, you're not along. And together, we're going to keep the Republic. Pass it on.
February 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If you feel this way, you're not along. And together, we're going to keep the Republic. Pass it on.
Made my own metatarsal pad. Crocheting is a survival skill.
February 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Made my own metatarsal pad. Crocheting is a survival skill.
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This is an excellent and timely factsheet on Ukraine, U.S. v. European security assistance, and other misunderstood or lied about aspects of the war, by our friends at @thestudyofwar.bsky.social. I'll summarize a few main points below, with additional sources of my own:
Institute for the Study of War
Russian forces currently occupy around 20 percent of Ukraine, leaving the remaining 80 percent of the country under Ukraine's sovereign control. At the current rate of advance, it would take Russian f...
understandingwar.org
February 22, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This is an excellent and timely factsheet on Ukraine, U.S. v. European security assistance, and other misunderstood or lied about aspects of the war, by our friends at @thestudyofwar.bsky.social. I'll summarize a few main points below, with additional sources of my own:
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It's past midnight, and Senate Republicans are voting NO against every Democratic-led amendment to PROTECT HEALTH CARE for our families.
Pay close attention: Republicans are working to push kids off Medicaid to pass MORE tax cuts for billionaires.
Pay close attention: Republicans are working to push kids off Medicaid to pass MORE tax cuts for billionaires.
Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.
February 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
It's past midnight, and Senate Republicans are voting NO against every Democratic-led amendment to PROTECT HEALTH CARE for our families.
Pay close attention: Republicans are working to push kids off Medicaid to pass MORE tax cuts for billionaires.
Pay close attention: Republicans are working to push kids off Medicaid to pass MORE tax cuts for billionaires.
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“I realized a lifelong dream to work for the premier environmental protection organization in the world. An organization that mission was to protect the people like me, who used to play on the slag mounds behind Buckeye Steel. Standing amongst the best, I felt an immense pride in my achievements.”
EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: Email from a Federal Worker at EPA to Lee Zeldin
I have obtained a copy of - and permission to publish - an email sent from Jason Poe to the EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Jason has asked me to share this email, along with his name, with the public.
www.muellershewrote.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
“I realized a lifelong dream to work for the premier environmental protection organization in the world. An organization that mission was to protect the people like me, who used to play on the slag mounds behind Buckeye Steel. Standing amongst the best, I felt an immense pride in my achievements.”
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Add SOMETHING to all the other somethings!
Last night I attended the Save Our Services rally in New York City. Listen to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) fighting for people & federal workers:
“Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.”
@aoc.bsky.social
“Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.”
@aoc.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Add SOMETHING to all the other somethings!
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Boycotts work.
The NAACP advises consumers to avoid Lowe’s, Target, Walmart, Amazon, Meta, McDonald’s, & Tractor Supply until they reaffirm their commitments to fairness.
The advisory praises Costco, Apple, Ben & Jerry’s, e.l.f. Cosmetics and JPMorgan Chase & Co for standing firm.
The NAACP advises consumers to avoid Lowe’s, Target, Walmart, Amazon, Meta, McDonald’s, & Tractor Supply until they reaffirm their commitments to fairness.
The advisory praises Costco, Apple, Ben & Jerry’s, e.l.f. Cosmetics and JPMorgan Chase & Co for standing firm.
February 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Boycotts work.
The NAACP advises consumers to avoid Lowe’s, Target, Walmart, Amazon, Meta, McDonald’s, & Tractor Supply until they reaffirm their commitments to fairness.
The advisory praises Costco, Apple, Ben & Jerry’s, e.l.f. Cosmetics and JPMorgan Chase & Co for standing firm.
The NAACP advises consumers to avoid Lowe’s, Target, Walmart, Amazon, Meta, McDonald’s, & Tractor Supply until they reaffirm their commitments to fairness.
The advisory praises Costco, Apple, Ben & Jerry’s, e.l.f. Cosmetics and JPMorgan Chase & Co for standing firm.
Saturday hike on the Caminho de Santiago, and museum visit (Museu Etnográfica de Alvorge). Saw a yarn swift, a box of nostapines (yarn ball winders) and an antique La Pavoni espresso machine. Fixe!
February 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Saturday hike on the Caminho de Santiago, and museum visit (Museu Etnográfica de Alvorge). Saw a yarn swift, a box of nostapines (yarn ball winders) and an antique La Pavoni espresso machine. Fixe!
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.