Laura
@mamabearto2.bsky.social
Mom to young adult sons, wife of 39 years, counselor, martial arts student, musician, sister, auntie, daughter, dogs mom. Black Lives Matter, No Human Being is “illegal,” dignity, food and housing are a RIGHT, LQBTQIA+ folks deserve peace and protection.
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Laura
@mamabearto2.bsky.social
· Dec 1
The instructions from IKEA finally arrived: looks like we got this thing put together correctly now! #goldendoodles #goldengoofles #dogsarethebest
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Very honored to be receiving this award. 💜
Citizen of the Year Award-recipient @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social 's work is phenomenal, inclusive, and vital in this day and age. We'll honor Shay at #BNEC2025, where she'll faciliate a group discussion with our other guests. Learn more here: zurl.co/ZcyWG
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September 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Very honored to be receiving this award. 💜
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Breonna Taylor should be alive today.
She was shot and killed while sleeping when officers fired into her home.
By seeking a one-day sentence for her murder, Trump's DOJ is sending a cruel and disrespectful message: that they don't value her life or that of her loved ones.
She was shot and killed while sleeping when officers fired into her home.
By seeking a one-day sentence for her murder, Trump's DOJ is sending a cruel and disrespectful message: that they don't value her life or that of her loved ones.
Breaking News: The Justice Department is asking for a one-day sentence for a former officer convicted in the killing of Breonna Taylor.
Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid
The move was a stunning reversal of Biden-era efforts to address racial disparities in local law enforcement.
trib.al
July 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Breonna Taylor should be alive today.
She was shot and killed while sleeping when officers fired into her home.
By seeking a one-day sentence for her murder, Trump's DOJ is sending a cruel and disrespectful message: that they don't value her life or that of her loved ones.
She was shot and killed while sleeping when officers fired into her home.
By seeking a one-day sentence for her murder, Trump's DOJ is sending a cruel and disrespectful message: that they don't value her life or that of her loved ones.
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Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold women and girls for sex without wealthy men buying women and girls for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.
July 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold women and girls for sex without wealthy men buying women and girls for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.
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Pride Month is a celebration of courage, community, and the right to live with dignity. To our LGBTQ+ neighbors: you matter, and you are not alone. I stand with you—this month and every month.
June 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Pride Month is a celebration of courage, community, and the right to live with dignity. To our LGBTQ+ neighbors: you matter, and you are not alone. I stand with you—this month and every month.
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OUR MISSING HEARTS is not a dystopia, example #751.
Middle America is gonna be stoked when tuition increases at every 4-year public with more than a handful of Chinese students.
May 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
OUR MISSING HEARTS is not a dystopia, example #751.
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This is bad for the Chinese nationals who are here, and it's going to cause more harm to ALL people here with East Asian roots, who will be subject to more xenophobic harassment. And that is bad for ALL of us.
The bipartisan framing of Chinese people as dangerous to the United States has been building up for years and has created this deeply racist and xenophobic opening for the Trump administration.
I stand with my Chinese colleagues and all of our Chinese students. 🧪
I stand with my Chinese colleagues and all of our Chinese students. 🧪
Trump administration to crack down on Chinese visas, applicants, Rubio says
Rubio said the State and Homeland Security departments will work to “aggressively revoke” visas of Chinese students in the United States, “including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Par...
www.washingtonpost.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This is bad for the Chinese nationals who are here, and it's going to cause more harm to ALL people here with East Asian roots, who will be subject to more xenophobic harassment. And that is bad for ALL of us.
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Salt Lake City!
They made the city flags pride flags so you can't get in trouble for hanging them in your classroom
They made the city flags pride flags so you can't get in trouble for hanging them in your classroom
Salt Lake City and Boise adopt official pride flags to skirt Republican bans
New emblems approved by city councils in defiance of bans on ‘unofficial flags’ on government property
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Salt Lake City!
They made the city flags pride flags so you can't get in trouble for hanging them in your classroom
They made the city flags pride flags so you can't get in trouble for hanging them in your classroom
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Unconscionable.
Donald Trump and the Secretary of WWE should NOT be seizing people's hard-earned wages, tax refunds, and Social Security checks.
Donald Trump and the Secretary of WWE should NOT be seizing people's hard-earned wages, tax refunds, and Social Security checks.
May 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Unconscionable.
Donald Trump and the Secretary of WWE should NOT be seizing people's hard-earned wages, tax refunds, and Social Security checks.
Donald Trump and the Secretary of WWE should NOT be seizing people's hard-earned wages, tax refunds, and Social Security checks.
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It was so meaningful to spend time with the Allen County Dems yesterday. I heard your hopes, your concerns, and your deep love for this community. I’m carrying your voices with me every step of the way.
April 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It was so meaningful to spend time with the Allen County Dems yesterday. I heard your hopes, your concerns, and your deep love for this community. I’m carrying your voices with me every step of the way.
This INDOMITABLE, spectacular person, activist and Light unto the World should be followed by EVERYONE! Check out Mari Copeny: she’s done more since she was 11 than most of us do in a lifetime bsky.app/profile/litt...
bsky.app
April 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This INDOMITABLE, spectacular person, activist and Light unto the World should be followed by EVERYONE! Check out Mari Copeny: she’s done more since she was 11 than most of us do in a lifetime bsky.app/profile/litt...
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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Don’t look at me, I voted for the black lady who didn’t want to burn down our economy.
April 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Don’t look at me, I voted for the black lady who didn’t want to burn down our economy.
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I guess the other way to look at this is--also researched for OUR MISSING HEARTS:
- resistance movements in the above eras
- how everyday people managed to survive in ditto
- collective action
- the important of human connection, art-making, & joy-finding
- resistance movements in the above eras
- how everyday people managed to survive in ditto
- collective action
- the important of human connection, art-making, & joy-finding
April 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I guess the other way to look at this is--also researched for OUR MISSING HEARTS:
- resistance movements in the above eras
- how everyday people managed to survive in ditto
- collective action
- the important of human connection, art-making, & joy-finding
- resistance movements in the above eras
- how everyday people managed to survive in ditto
- collective action
- the important of human connection, art-making, & joy-finding
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literally the research topics for my last novel (OUR MISSING HEARTS):
- Nazi Germany
- Stalin
- other erosions of democracy
- family separations
- Great Depression
- anti-Asian sentiment in US
I really wish all this knowledge were not so relevant
- Nazi Germany
- Stalin
- other erosions of democracy
- family separations
- Great Depression
- anti-Asian sentiment in US
I really wish all this knowledge were not so relevant
April 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
literally the research topics for my last novel (OUR MISSING HEARTS):
- Nazi Germany
- Stalin
- other erosions of democracy
- family separations
- Great Depression
- anti-Asian sentiment in US
I really wish all this knowledge were not so relevant
- Nazi Germany
- Stalin
- other erosions of democracy
- family separations
- Great Depression
- anti-Asian sentiment in US
I really wish all this knowledge were not so relevant
Lonesome Dove
Sunset
March 26, 2025
New Hampshire
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March 26, 2025
New Hampshire
March 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Lonesome Dove
Sunset
March 26, 2025
New Hampshire
Sunset
March 26, 2025
New Hampshire
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My favorite part of this race? Meeting Ohioans face-to-face, hearing your stories, and sharing our vision for a better future—together. Grateful for the packed house in Cleveland today.
March 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
My favorite part of this race? Meeting Ohioans face-to-face, hearing your stories, and sharing our vision for a better future—together. Grateful for the packed house in Cleveland today.
Doodle Doings:
1) when your long body doesn’t fit on the couch
2) whiteout weariness: waiting for spring
3) “Sit on you to get a good view? Don’t mind if I do!”
1) when your long body doesn’t fit on the couch
2) whiteout weariness: waiting for spring
3) “Sit on you to get a good view? Don’t mind if I do!”
March 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Doodle Doings:
1) when your long body doesn’t fit on the couch
2) whiteout weariness: waiting for spring
3) “Sit on you to get a good view? Don’t mind if I do!”
1) when your long body doesn’t fit on the couch
2) whiteout weariness: waiting for spring
3) “Sit on you to get a good view? Don’t mind if I do!”
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I think she’s the first example of someone who was laid off because of Elon’s BS running for office… something tells me there will be others.
March 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I think she’s the first example of someone who was laid off because of Elon’s BS running for office… something tells me there will be others.
So many calls - can’t get through! Let’s keep our voices coming! #5callsapp
March 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
So many calls - can’t get through! Let’s keep our voices coming! #5callsapp
My dogs are cuter than yours…
March 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
My dogs are cuter than yours…
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I, and tens of millions of Americans stand with you and the Ukrainian people—and firmly against Donald Trump, JD Vance, and the Republican Party.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-preside...
#SlavaUkraini
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-preside...
#SlavaUkraini
To President Zelenskyy, From an Embarrassed American
Dear President Zelenskyy,
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I, and tens of millions of Americans stand with you and the Ukrainian people—and firmly against Donald Trump, JD Vance, and the Republican Party.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-preside...
#SlavaUkraini
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-preside...
#SlavaUkraini
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10 Dems who voted with MAGA to censure Rep Al Green for loudly rebuking Trump's fascist plan to gut Medicaid:
•Ami Bera (CA)
•Jim Costa (CA)
•Jim Himes (CT)
•Jared Moskowitz (FL)
•Ed Case (HI)
•Laura Gillen (NY)
•Tom Suozzi (NY)
•Marcy Kaptur (OH)
•Chrissy Houlahan (PA)
•Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA)
•Ami Bera (CA)
•Jim Costa (CA)
•Jim Himes (CT)
•Jared Moskowitz (FL)
•Ed Case (HI)
•Laura Gillen (NY)
•Tom Suozzi (NY)
•Marcy Kaptur (OH)
•Chrissy Houlahan (PA)
•Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA)
March 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
10 Dems who voted with MAGA to censure Rep Al Green for loudly rebuking Trump's fascist plan to gut Medicaid:
•Ami Bera (CA)
•Jim Costa (CA)
•Jim Himes (CT)
•Jared Moskowitz (FL)
•Ed Case (HI)
•Laura Gillen (NY)
•Tom Suozzi (NY)
•Marcy Kaptur (OH)
•Chrissy Houlahan (PA)
•Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA)
•Ami Bera (CA)
•Jim Costa (CA)
•Jim Himes (CT)
•Jared Moskowitz (FL)
•Ed Case (HI)
•Laura Gillen (NY)
•Tom Suozzi (NY)
•Marcy Kaptur (OH)
•Chrissy Houlahan (PA)
•Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA)
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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.