Laura Reed Goodson
@reedtome.bsky.social
Poet, Counseling MA, veterans’ advocate, Oberlin grad, Appalachia native & ocean-lover
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I went to Roanoke to witness a community's attempt to care for *everyone* in it, and to see how residents are demanding accountability from their elected officials. (Also, great news: @bethmacy.bsky.social is running for Congress!)
Of, by, and for the people
Roanoke is rising, and it's drafted Beth Macy for Congress.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I went to Roanoke to witness a community's attempt to care for *everyone* in it, and to see how residents are demanding accountability from their elected officials. (Also, great news: @bethmacy.bsky.social is running for Congress!)
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We are joining voters and pro-democracy partners to challenge North Carolina’s retaliatory map that targets Black voters in the Black Belt. North Carolinians deserve fair maps.
Learn more: southerncoalition.org/voters-pro-d...
Learn more: southerncoalition.org/voters-pro-d...
Voters, Pro-Democracy Groups Seek to Stop Retaliatory Redistricting
Individual voters and two pro-democracy groups are challenging the NC General Assembly’s latest congressional map that targets the state’s historic Black belt.
southerncoalition.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We are joining voters and pro-democracy partners to challenge North Carolina’s retaliatory map that targets Black voters in the Black Belt. North Carolinians deserve fair maps.
Learn more: southerncoalition.org/voters-pro-d...
Learn more: southerncoalition.org/voters-pro-d...
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Hello from Odesa, Ukraine, friends. An intense 24hours here, ranging from sleepless night of bombardments to a wondrous meeting of poetry with kids at our Poetry Studio (poemsnotbombs.org) here in Odesa.
Hello from Odesa, Ukraine, friends. An intense 24hours here, ranging from sleepless night of bombardments to a wondrous meeting of poetry with kids at our Poetry Studio (poemsnotbombs.org) here in Odesa.
September 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Hello from Odesa, Ukraine, friends. An intense 24hours here, ranging from sleepless night of bombardments to a wondrous meeting of poetry with kids at our Poetry Studio (poemsnotbombs.org) here in Odesa.
Hello from Odesa, Ukraine, friends. An intense 24hours here, ranging from sleepless night of bombardments to a wondrous meeting of poetry with kids at our Poetry Studio (poemsnotbombs.org) here in Odesa.
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Here’s one of the poems we will take a look at in my Sunday “wow” factor poetry workshop. This poem is by UCLA professor Harryette Mullen.
October 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Here’s one of the poems we will take a look at in my Sunday “wow” factor poetry workshop. This poem is by UCLA professor Harryette Mullen.
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BREAKING: JACKIE MERLOS IS FREE!
After four months in immigration detention, ICE finally released Jackie on Monday night. Here is the moment she reunited with her children. ❤️
After four months in immigration detention, ICE finally released Jackie on Monday night. Here is the moment she reunited with her children. ❤️
October 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
BREAKING: JACKIE MERLOS IS FREE!
After four months in immigration detention, ICE finally released Jackie on Monday night. Here is the moment she reunited with her children. ❤️
After four months in immigration detention, ICE finally released Jackie on Monday night. Here is the moment she reunited with her children. ❤️
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October 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Courts are ruling against ICE for illegal actions such as warrantless entry, racial profiling, & detaining U.S. citizens without cause. Abuse of power isn’t just wrong—it’s unconstitutional. Hold ICE accountable. #AbuseOfPower #MeltICE
Support our campaign to oppose MAGA extremists
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October 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Courts are ruling against ICE for illegal actions such as warrantless entry, racial profiling, & detaining U.S. citizens without cause. Abuse of power isn’t just wrong—it’s unconstitutional. Hold ICE accountable. #AbuseOfPower #MeltICE
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#WSJ & #Reuters want you to believe Trump “won” his fraud case. He didn’t. The fraud finding stands, the shackles remain, and the money fight just moved upstairs. #uspolitics
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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Fraud Is the Headline They Buried
Why I started writing during the Iraq War, and why legacy outlets like WSJ and Reuters still can’t be trusted to tell the truth.
open.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
#WSJ & #Reuters want you to believe Trump “won” his fraud case. He didn’t. The fraud finding stands, the shackles remain, and the money fight just moved upstairs. #uspolitics
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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I can not stress to you how globally humiliating this statement by Trump is for the United States. His complete lack of understanding of, not just the basics of this issue but the extreme political ramifications of it, is a problem. This will not be shrugged off.
Trump: "The whole issue of the women. Comfort women. Very specifically. We talked and that was a very big problem for Korea, not for Japan. Japan was, wanted to go, they want to get on. But Korea was very stuck on that."
August 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I can not stress to you how globally humiliating this statement by Trump is for the United States. His complete lack of understanding of, not just the basics of this issue but the extreme political ramifications of it, is a problem. This will not be shrugged off.
Nowhere in the world to run: The international law ripping children from their mothers 19thnews.org/2025/06/hagu... via @19thnews.org
Nowhere in the world to run: The international law ripping children from their mothers
The Hague Abduction Convention was meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it's often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart.
19thnews.org
June 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Nowhere in the world to run: The international law ripping children from their mothers 19thnews.org/2025/06/hagu... via @19thnews.org
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Reuters: US JUDGE BLOCKS ENFORCEMENT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER REQUIRING CHANGES TO FEDERAL ELECTIONS
June 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Reuters: US JUDGE BLOCKS ENFORCEMENT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER REQUIRING CHANGES TO FEDERAL ELECTIONS
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Sorry. More non-music stuff. But I just walked into the school library this afternoon and found the Librarian had done this. He’s a brilliant soul! I haven’t been in for a couple of weeks, so I was pleased I didn’t miss the tribute to Shakespeare for his birthday.
May 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Sorry. More non-music stuff. But I just walked into the school library this afternoon and found the Librarian had done this. He’s a brilliant soul! I haven’t been in for a couple of weeks, so I was pleased I didn’t miss the tribute to Shakespeare for his birthday.
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Fuck this, absolutely fuck this, everyone who loves audiobooks loves their favourite narrators because they are great at their jobs and interpreting the author's words and they make the experience what it is www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks
Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages
www.theguardian.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Fuck this, absolutely fuck this, everyone who loves audiobooks loves their favourite narrators because they are great at their jobs and interpreting the author's words and they make the experience what it is www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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WATCHDOG REPORT: Counselors and psychologists at Defense Department schools say they are overwhelmed by a surge in student mental health concerns — especially suicidal behavior — due to staffing shortages, administrative burdens and unclear guidance.
GAO warns of gaps in suicide prevention, mental health care staffing at DOD schools
The Government Accountability Office found that 1 in 50 students at Department of Defense Education Activity schools was assessed for suicide risk in each of the past two school years, according to a ...
www.stripes.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
WATCHDOG REPORT: Counselors and psychologists at Defense Department schools say they are overwhelmed by a surge in student mental health concerns — especially suicidal behavior — due to staffing shortages, administrative burdens and unclear guidance.
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An old slang German word for a dog that’s small enough for you to accidentally step on (making it yelp/honk) is Fußhupe. It means “foot-horn.”
And if a dog is low to the ground but still speedy (like a dachshund), I’ve heard it referred to in German as a Teppichporsche (“carpet-Porsche”).
And if a dog is low to the ground but still speedy (like a dachshund), I’ve heard it referred to in German as a Teppichporsche (“carpet-Porsche”).
April 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
An old slang German word for a dog that’s small enough for you to accidentally step on (making it yelp/honk) is Fußhupe. It means “foot-horn.”
And if a dog is low to the ground but still speedy (like a dachshund), I’ve heard it referred to in German as a Teppichporsche (“carpet-Porsche”).
And if a dog is low to the ground but still speedy (like a dachshund), I’ve heard it referred to in German as a Teppichporsche (“carpet-Porsche”).
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Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion
The administration’s lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors. “It could be corruption, but it could ju...
www.propublica.org
April 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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From Lauren Thompson, PhD, professor of late 19th/early 20th century U.S. history
April 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
From Lauren Thompson, PhD, professor of late 19th/early 20th century U.S. history
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"I’ll cavern you, and grotto you, and waterfall you, and wood you, and water you, and immense-rock you, and tremendous-sound you, and solitude you" — John Keats, letter to John Hamilton Reynolds, 1818, re: scenery descriptions Keats connects with Ann Radcliffe
#SundaySentence
#SundaySentence
April 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
"I’ll cavern you, and grotto you, and waterfall you, and wood you, and water you, and immense-rock you, and tremendous-sound you, and solitude you" — John Keats, letter to John Hamilton Reynolds, 1818, re: scenery descriptions Keats connects with Ann Radcliffe
#SundaySentence
#SundaySentence
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A joyful sentence this Easter Sunday!
"She sits and eats them slowly, one at a time, letting the red juice spill over her lips and when there is no fruit left on a pit, she puts her head back and spits it out as far as she can into the trees."
From "Still Life" by Anna C. Rumin #SundaySentence
"She sits and eats them slowly, one at a time, letting the red juice spill over her lips and when there is no fruit left on a pit, she puts her head back and spits it out as far as she can into the trees."
From "Still Life" by Anna C. Rumin #SundaySentence
April 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A joyful sentence this Easter Sunday!
"She sits and eats them slowly, one at a time, letting the red juice spill over her lips and when there is no fruit left on a pit, she puts her head back and spits it out as far as she can into the trees."
From "Still Life" by Anna C. Rumin #SundaySentence
"She sits and eats them slowly, one at a time, letting the red juice spill over her lips and when there is no fruit left on a pit, she puts her head back and spits it out as far as she can into the trees."
From "Still Life" by Anna C. Rumin #SundaySentence
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Sunday has become my favorite day of the week for one reason and one reason alone: Your sentences.
Thank you #Booksky and all the readers out there who have joined the #SundaySentence movement. It’s amazing how just one* well-written line can illuminate so much in our lives. Keep ‘em coming!
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Thank you #Booksky and all the readers out there who have joined the #SundaySentence movement. It’s amazing how just one* well-written line can illuminate so much in our lives. Keep ‘em coming!
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Reading this week's posts with the #sundaysentence hashtag makes me grateful to be part of this community of readers (and a few excellent writers as well). Thanks, all.
April 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Sunday has become my favorite day of the week for one reason and one reason alone: Your sentences.
Thank you #Booksky and all the readers out there who have joined the #SundaySentence movement. It’s amazing how just one* well-written line can illuminate so much in our lives. Keep ‘em coming!
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Thank you #Booksky and all the readers out there who have joined the #SundaySentence movement. It’s amazing how just one* well-written line can illuminate so much in our lives. Keep ‘em coming!
*or 2
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Black Sunday began as a gash in the western sky, growing wider and wider and spilling down dirt instead of blood.
— from THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell
A stunning image and a near-perfect #sundaysentence
— from THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell
A stunning image and a near-perfect #sundaysentence
April 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Black Sunday began as a gash in the western sky, growing wider and wider and spilling down dirt instead of blood.
— from THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell
A stunning image and a near-perfect #sundaysentence
— from THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell
A stunning image and a near-perfect #sundaysentence
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“It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.”
~Arthur C. Clarke, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
#SundaySentence
~Arthur C. Clarke, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
#SundaySentence
April 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.”
~Arthur C. Clarke, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
#SundaySentence
~Arthur C. Clarke, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
#SundaySentence
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So, #Ravel was asked in 1930 (for L'Intransigeant) whether he'd be happy for a woman to conduct his music: 'Without hesitation. I don’t see in what sense a woman is inferior to a man. This idea of inferiority is an ancient idea.’
April 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
So, #Ravel was asked in 1930 (for L'Intransigeant) whether he'd be happy for a woman to conduct his music: 'Without hesitation. I don’t see in what sense a woman is inferior to a man. This idea of inferiority is an ancient idea.’