Laura McKellar
@lauramckellar.bsky.social
Environmental, public health, and social justice activist. Public Health Nurse. Working to build economic and social systems that care for and support the planet and its inhabitants.
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
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Violence against journalists is not new. Israel’s targeting of journalists in Gaza, however, has taken this violence to a new, unprecedented scale.
“If You’re Reading This, It Means I Have Been Killed”: Palestinian Journalists in Israel’s Crosshairs
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Violence against journalists is not new. Israel’s targeting of journalists in Gaza, however, has taken this violence to a new, unprecedented scale.
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March 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Violence against journalists is not new. Israel’s targeting of journalists in Gaza, however, has taken this violence to a new, unprecedented scale.
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Musk staffers briefly published a list of 440 properties it planned to sell, deeming them “not core to government operations.” However, the list was removed after officials were alerted that it included a complex housing a CIA facility—often referred to as the “worst-kept secret in Springfield.”
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Musk staffers briefly published a list of 440 properties it planned to sell, deeming them “not core to government operations.” However, the list was removed after officials were alerted that it included a complex housing a CIA facility—often referred to as the “worst-kept secret in Springfield.”
No, the United States is not a "beacon of democracy"
open.substack.com/pub/jasonhic...
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No, the United States is not a "beacon of democracy"
The evidence against this narrative is overwhelming.
open.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
No, the United States is not a "beacon of democracy"
open.substack.com/pub/jasonhic...
open.substack.com/pub/jasonhic...
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Does anyone know what’s going on with PubMed and the NIH website? I haven’t been able to access it since yesterday afternoon. I am speculating something nefarious. I hoping it’s just maintenance.
March 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Does anyone know what’s going on with PubMed and the NIH website? I haven’t been able to access it since yesterday afternoon. I am speculating something nefarious. I hoping it’s just maintenance.
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The people hit hardest by threats of mass deportations are the workers targeted, their families and communities, and also smaller farms who haven't had the capital to switch to automation. Larger farms, "harvest almost all of our crops mechanically." www.tpr.org/economy-and-...
'Everyone's nervous' — U.S. farmers gather in San Antonio ahead of mass deportations
At the American Farm Bureau Federation convention in San Antonio, farmers braced for the impact of President Trump's mass deportation plan.
www.tpr.org
January 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The people hit hardest by threats of mass deportations are the workers targeted, their families and communities, and also smaller farms who haven't had the capital to switch to automation. Larger farms, "harvest almost all of our crops mechanically." www.tpr.org/economy-and-...
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Everyone should read this book right now. It is a beautiful book and clearly depicts where we are headed here in the US (though I desperately hope we can prevent it).
Everyone should read this book right now. It is a beautiful book and clearly depicts where we are headed here in the US (though I desperately hope we can prevent it).
American Abductions
By Mauro Javier Cárdenas ISBN: 9781628975185 Publication Date: 5/7/2024 Description Torrential and dreamlike, Mauro Javier Cárdenas’ novel unfurls into a layered, poignant, and unflinching portrait o...
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January 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Everyone should read this book right now. It is a beautiful book and clearly depicts where we are headed here in the US (though I desperately hope we can prevent it).
Everyone should read this book right now. It is a beautiful book and clearly depicts where we are headed here in the US (though I desperately hope we can prevent it).
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In their coverage of the LA fires, neither the NYT Daily podcast nor the NYT Morning Newsletter addresses climate change at all. The Daily has a single throwaway mention but doesn’t actually talk about it and the newsletter just ignores it. Again, climate chaos’ central role is conspicuously absent
January 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
In their coverage of the LA fires, neither the NYT Daily podcast nor the NYT Morning Newsletter addresses climate change at all. The Daily has a single throwaway mention but doesn’t actually talk about it and the newsletter just ignores it. Again, climate chaos’ central role is conspicuously absent
Google
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January 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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"The greatest fraud capitalism committed was convincing everyone they can achieve happiness through a series of transactions”
December 30, 2024 at 6:41 PM
"The greatest fraud capitalism committed was convincing everyone they can achieve happiness through a series of transactions”
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Nature is our life support system. Perhaps we can remember & recognise this by switching off the horrid machine that is Black Friday.
This article by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is still brilliant & so relevant.
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This article by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is still brilliant & so relevant.
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Too right it's Black Friday: our relentless consumption is trashing the planet | Black Friday | The Guardian
Growth must go on – and it’s destroying the Earth. But there’s no way of greening it. So we need a new system, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
amp.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Nature is our life support system. Perhaps we can remember & recognise this by switching off the horrid machine that is Black Friday.
This article by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is still brilliant & so relevant.
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This article by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is still brilliant & so relevant.
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Crazy: Brush fires in the Berkshires (Great Barrington) tonight.
November 20, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Crazy: Brush fires in the Berkshires (Great Barrington) tonight.
This is making my day brighter…
November 19, 2024 at 2:37 PM
This is making my day brighter…
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An "accidentally rewilded" 377-acre UK farm is now home to many threatened species, including turtle doves, warblers, 11 bat species, orchids + butterflies.
Such examples prove how nature can recover when we let it, and that rewilding reverses nature loss. 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Such examples prove how nature can recover when we let it, and that rewilding reverses nature loss. 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A special place’: Guardian readers’ generosity helps to save rewilded farm
Bedfordshire farm was saved through public donations after a successful £1.5m crowdfunding campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:36 AM
An "accidentally rewilded" 377-acre UK farm is now home to many threatened species, including turtle doves, warblers, 11 bat species, orchids + butterflies.
Such examples prove how nature can recover when we let it, and that rewilding reverses nature loss. 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Such examples prove how nature can recover when we let it, and that rewilding reverses nature loss. 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I am pretty distraught right now, but I keep reminding myself that humans are incredibly creative and flexible social beings. We have the ability to change the ways we live and interact with one another and our world. I have been repeating in my head, the Mariame Kaba quote, “Hope is a discipline.”
November 15, 2024 at 12:12 PM
I am pretty distraught right now, but I keep reminding myself that humans are incredibly creative and flexible social beings. We have the ability to change the ways we live and interact with one another and our world. I have been repeating in my head, the Mariame Kaba quote, “Hope is a discipline.”
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Here's my column this week, about the astonishing moment in which we find ourselves: facing the greatest predicament humankind has ever confronted, and doing sweet FA about it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29 | George Monbiot
What would it witness in Azerbaijan? A species that knows it is destroying itself but is too greedy to change course, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2024 at 7:17 AM
Here's my column this week, about the astonishing moment in which we find ourselves: facing the greatest predicament humankind has ever confronted, and doing sweet FA about it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...