Laura Sword
@laurasword.bsky.social
Mom. ❤️ Wife. ❤️ Dog mom. 🐾
Attorney ⚖️ SIDems Party Chair🇺🇸
Union Secy ✊.
💙 good food, good books, good people, not necessarily in that order.
Attorney ⚖️ SIDems Party Chair🇺🇸
Union Secy ✊.
💙 good food, good books, good people, not necessarily in that order.
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Former NOAA Administrator Richard Spinrad: "I am convinced that the staff cuts that we saw were a contributing factor to the inability of the emergency managers to respond."
July 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Former NOAA Administrator Richard Spinrad: "I am convinced that the staff cuts that we saw were a contributing factor to the inability of the emergency managers to respond."
I work in disaster recovery and have seen the real life impacts on people.
We absolutely need to take action.
We absolutely need to take action.
Since 1980, there have been over 400 weather disasters in the US, with total damages over $1 billion.
These disasters have cost $2.9 trillion in total and killed nearly 17,000 people.
Don't tell me we "can't afford" to address the climate crisis.
The truth is we can’t afford not to.
These disasters have cost $2.9 trillion in total and killed nearly 17,000 people.
Don't tell me we "can't afford" to address the climate crisis.
The truth is we can’t afford not to.
July 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I work in disaster recovery and have seen the real life impacts on people.
We absolutely need to take action.
We absolutely need to take action.
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Read Jack Smith's full report and watch instant analysis from MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas: www.meidasplus.com/p/doj-releas...
January 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Read Jack Smith's full report and watch instant analysis from MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas: www.meidasplus.com/p/doj-releas...
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At the VERY LEAST, since he accomplished nothing else to hold the leaders of this accountable, Merrick Garland needs to release the damn report and stop being afraid of his own shadow. Weak people all over this Admin is part of what got us here.
January 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
At the VERY LEAST, since he accomplished nothing else to hold the leaders of this accountable, Merrick Garland needs to release the damn report and stop being afraid of his own shadow. Weak people all over this Admin is part of what got us here.
Unsurprisingly, Meta (Facebook) is getting rid of fact checkers
The era of “alternative facts” continues
The era of “alternative facts” continues
January 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Unsurprisingly, Meta (Facebook) is getting rid of fact checkers
The era of “alternative facts” continues
The era of “alternative facts” continues
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The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
December 19, 2024 at 10:22 PM
The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
Hear me out- @timemagazine.bsky.social could have prevented this whole government shutdown nonsense.
If they made Elon Musk the Person of the Year Trump would’ve dropped him like a hot potato out of jealousy.
If they made Elon Musk the Person of the Year Trump would’ve dropped him like a hot potato out of jealousy.
December 20, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Hear me out- @timemagazine.bsky.social could have prevented this whole government shutdown nonsense.
If they made Elon Musk the Person of the Year Trump would’ve dropped him like a hot potato out of jealousy.
If they made Elon Musk the Person of the Year Trump would’ve dropped him like a hot potato out of jealousy.
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Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids.
Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?
Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?
December 17, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids.
Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?
Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?
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Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
December 18, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
So proud of my son, Justin for chairing this team to its greatest success. He’s really excited to meet Jerome Powell.
news.virginia.edu/content/comp...
news.virginia.edu/content/comp...
Competition Prompts UVA Students To Think Like Central Bankers
UVA placed third of 119 student teams in the Federal Reserve College Challenge.
news.virginia.edu
December 16, 2024 at 2:42 AM
So proud of my son, Justin for chairing this team to its greatest success. He’s really excited to meet Jerome Powell.
news.virginia.edu/content/comp...
news.virginia.edu/content/comp...
So the head of the NLRB will be chosen by the next administration.
I’m waiting for maga to be surprised when OT is only straight time (if that) and people can get fired for going on strike.
www.fastcompany.com/91245923/bid...
I’m waiting for maga to be surprised when OT is only straight time (if that) and people can get fired for going on strike.
www.fastcompany.com/91245923/bid...
Biden’s NLRB nominee got rejected by the Senate. Here's why this is bad news for unions
The Senate's rejection of President Biden's NLRB nominee paves the way for Republican control of the labor agency.
www.fastcompany.com
December 12, 2024 at 9:23 PM
So the head of the NLRB will be chosen by the next administration.
I’m waiting for maga to be surprised when OT is only straight time (if that) and people can get fired for going on strike.
www.fastcompany.com/91245923/bid...
I’m waiting for maga to be surprised when OT is only straight time (if that) and people can get fired for going on strike.
www.fastcompany.com/91245923/bid...
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Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who is determined to turn up the volume and EXPOSE all of the brutal, deadly consequences of abortion bans in America.
They're not "pro-life."
They're pro controlling women's bodies.
They're not "pro-life."
They're pro controlling women's bodies.
December 5, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who is determined to turn up the volume and EXPOSE all of the brutal, deadly consequences of abortion bans in America.
They're not "pro-life."
They're pro controlling women's bodies.
They're not "pro-life."
They're pro controlling women's bodies.
May the force be with us
Thank you for this vote of confidence @donkoclock.bsky.social. 🙏 💙
As a longtime member of the Resistance, I want EVERYONE who treasures Democracy to pledge their total commitment to fight the good fight with every fiber of their being & never succumb to the Orange Side!!! 🆚
Sincerely Yours, Mar🐫
As a longtime member of the Resistance, I want EVERYONE who treasures Democracy to pledge their total commitment to fight the good fight with every fiber of their being & never succumb to the Orange Side!!! 🆚
Sincerely Yours, Mar🐫
December 5, 2024 at 1:54 AM
May the force be with us
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Just because we lost an election doesn’t mean we were wrong. We’re still in this fight together.
Thanksgiving
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November 27, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Just because we lost an election doesn’t mean we were wrong. We’re still in this fight together.
Thankful for so many things - this platform being one of them !
November 28, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Thankful for so many things - this platform being one of them !
“While attending Trump’s Inaugural Ball on Jan. 20, 2017, Gorka was pictured wearing a medal associated with Vitezi Rend, a Hungarian national group the State Department designated as having worked under the direction of Germany’s Nazi government”
Who Is Sebastian Gorka? Trump’s Pick For National Security Role Was Previously Linked To Far-Right Hungarian Group
Gorka served as an advisor in Trump’s first administration, though he was reportedly forced out of the role.
www.forbes.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:50 PM
“While attending Trump’s Inaugural Ball on Jan. 20, 2017, Gorka was pictured wearing a medal associated with Vitezi Rend, a Hungarian national group the State Department designated as having worked under the direction of Germany’s Nazi government”
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This is so important! 👇
✅ Call your representative today and demand they vote NO on HR9495!
HR9495 would grant the Secretary of the Treasury unchecked power to arbitrarily remove non-profit status from any groups it accuses of being "terrorist supporting organizations,”
HR9495 would grant the Secretary of the Treasury unchecked power to arbitrarily remove non-profit status from any groups it accuses of being "terrorist supporting organizations,”
November 20, 2024 at 2:31 AM
This is so important! 👇
Words I never thought I’d say:
I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene!
RELEASE EVERYTHING
I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene!
RELEASE EVERYTHING
November 20, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Words I never thought I’d say:
I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene!
RELEASE EVERYTHING
I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene!
RELEASE EVERYTHING
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I hope their corporate overlords realize that this will only alienate their viewers, readers and listeners and will buy them nothing from Trump who will see only weakness. www.axios.com/2024/11/19/l...
Liberal media tries to curry favor with Trump
Resistance media benefitted from outrage engagement Trump's first term, but dynamics are different now.
www.axios.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:17 PM
I hope their corporate overlords realize that this will only alienate their viewers, readers and listeners and will buy them nothing from Trump who will see only weakness. www.axios.com/2024/11/19/l...
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This!
Now is not the time for acceptance and resignation. This is - yet again - a time for commitment and action.
Do not say you’re weary - before the battle has been joined. Simply unacceptable.
Do not say you’re weary - before the battle has been joined. Simply unacceptable.
November 18, 2024 at 10:47 PM
This!
PAY ATTENTION
If the legacy media was doing its job and not sucking up to Trump, this would be a national scandal.
“Republicans filed four more lawsuits to stop the counting of certain ballots in the Pennsylvania general election.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
“Republicans filed four more lawsuits to stop the counting of certain ballots in the Pennsylvania general election.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Republicans Keep Suing to Stop Counting of Certain Ballots in Pennsylvania Election
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 18, 2024 at 10:07 PM
PAY ATTENTION