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Laura M
@elleem2025.bsky.social
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Nanny, seamstress, book nerd, gardener, photographer, cat mom
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I already have a king, thank you very much. 👑🙏🏽🙌🏾
June 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Another fab week with Little Boss Man. 👶🏼🧑🏽🙆🏾‍♂️🙋🏽‍♂️ Exploring, climbing, taking time to smell the flowers, and being creative without rules or expectations. Maybe we can all take a lesson from the little dude.
A toddler boy points to a yellow rose as he sits in his car-shaped stroller. A smiley face sticker is posted on his sweet little face to protect his privacy. A toddler uses sidewalk chalk to make marks on the concrete. A smiley face sticker is posted on his sweet little face to protect his privacy. A toddler attempts to climb a post on a play structure. Outdoor activities allow him to develop large-motor skills. A smiley face sticker is posted on his sweet little face to protect his privacy. A toddler plays with his child-sized toy guitar during free play time. His identity is shielded with a smiling face sticker.
April 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
elleem2025.bsky.social
Sounds familiar.
"[Germans] knew because the camps and the measures which led up to them had been prominently and proudly reported step by step in thousands of officially-inspired German media articles and posters."
Germans knew of Holocaust horror about death camps
The mass of ordinary Germans did know about the evolving terror of Hitler's Holocaust, according to a new research study. They knew concentration camps were full of Jewish people who were stigmatised ...
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
elleem2025.bsky.social
More of this, please.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Apr 12
For fathers in search of friendship, a growing group has emerged: the Brooklyn Stroll Club. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/s...
April 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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How is it "Christ-like" to be obsessed with money? Especially, the ill-gotten gain and hoarding of it? Any Christian putting their faith in this man has their priorities all wrong.
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Scripture of Hebrews 13:5 stating: "Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have ..."
April 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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"If [voters] believed Trump wouldn’t be stupid and malevolent enough to obliterate the US economy for no good reason, they didn’t pay attention to his first term or his most recent campaign. They made a deal with the devil ... we’ll all have to pay the price."
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Yes, they voted for this
"You knew damn well I was a snake before you brought me in."
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April 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Dafuq? 😵😵‍💫😡
"All lives matter" ... what a lie!
April 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Lessons I learned from my toddler "boss": Reach, learn, innovate, and never stop growing.
April 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
elleem2025.bsky.social
You CANNOT ERASE beautiful, talented, strong Black women! ✊🏾
danyelsmith.bsky.social Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · Apr 7
it’s the 110th anniversary of Billie Holiday’s birth: April 7 1915. in Episode 28 of my Black Girl Songbook #podcast, i celebrate the influence of Holiday’s music as it shows up in artists like Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Diana Ross, and more. listen in www.theringer.com/podcasts/bla...
April 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
elleem2025.bsky.social
Her name is Harriet Tubman, and she will NOT be erased!
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Harriet Tubman Reference Removed From Website on Underground Railroad - NewsBreak
The National Park Service (NPS) scrapped a reference to abolitionist Harriet Tubman from its webpage dedicated to the Underground Railroad, The Hill repor
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April 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
elleem2025.bsky.social
Because narrow is the gate .... the majority seem to be on the wide path to death.
April 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
elleem2025.bsky.social
Is California ag "great" yet?
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California Governor Gavin Newsom Appeals Abrupt End of USDA Farm Subsidies Used to Supply Food Banks - Family Farmers Share How These Cuts Will Harm Their Businesses and Communities
California Governor Gavin Newsom Appeals Abrupt End of USDA Farm Subsidies Used to Supply Food Banks - Family Farmers Share How These Cuts Will Harm Their Businesses and Communities
goldrushcam.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
elleem2025.bsky.social
What a joy it is to nurture a child's curiosity and skills. To hear babble become words and encourage crawling to evolve into steps and running. Can we make the world a better place for him to inherit? For ALL of our children, all around the world?
I work as a nanny and hold the toddler's hand as we're about to go down the slide of a play structure. The toddler I nanny looks through a colorful picture book. Toys are strewn around him on the floor. The boy uses a container to pour sand on a dinosaur, showing how his fine motor skills are developing. I hold a small yellow form and help the child I nanny make a small waffle out of Playdo. The toddler is learning to do more complex things with his hands as he develops.
April 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
elleem2025.bsky.social
All the smart people are leaving. 😵
Any of you scientists need a nanny? Take me with you! 😢
March 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
elleem2025.bsky.social
All I can play is the radio
... and then there's this young man! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
camdenstewart.bsky.social Camden Stewart @camdenstewart.bsky.social · Jan 26
they asked for some classical music so i sang my composition “dream”
March 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
elleem2025.bsky.social
Excuse me. Who is deranged here?
www.fox9.com/news/minneso...
Minnesota senator arrested, accused of soliciting minor for prostitution
A Minnesota Senator from Grand Rapids was arrested, accused of soliciting a minor for prostitution.
www.fox9.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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the feminine urge to
Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'
Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.
mashable.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
elleem2025.bsky.social
Past summer, the wasps took over the sunflowers, and I couldn't water w/o being divebombed. I lost track of how many times I was stung! ⚡️🐝 I knocked down 10+ nests and even had to resort to ☠️ sprays and traps.⚠️ I detest chemicals! Open to suggestions on this #macromonday
A close-up shows an empty wasp nest I collected this past summer from my backyard.
March 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
elleem2025.bsky.social
That one time I was blinded by the light.
#selfportraitsunday
A black and white photo of myself for self-portrait Sunday where a high-contrast shadow shields half my face.
March 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
elleem2025.bsky.social
Losing my reporter job and becoming a nanny has had its challenges, but I'd still rather be helping a toddler learn to self-regulate their emotions than dealing with adult temper tantrums during city council meetings.
#careerswitch
#nannylife
The toddler boy that I babysit is shown playing in a sandbox with various sand toys. A close-up of a toddler's hands shows him holding a child-size fork. A toddler is shown from behind swinging in a child's swing. A close up of a child's hands shows him using a pink rolling pin to flatten yellow Play-Doh.
March 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
elleem2025.bsky.social
The bloodshed of innocents begins.
February 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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"Lovers of themselves, lovers of money .. lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God ... and from these turn away." - 2 Timothy 3: 1-5.
The warning is there but he's too blind to see.
February 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
elleem2025.bsky.social
What feels good vs what's true. BOOM!
cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · Feb 24
More true every day
Passage from Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, the demon haunted world. The passage states “ not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting, my lifelong love affair with science. but there’s another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a four boating of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time - when the United States is a service or information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those and authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good, and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
February 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Smdh. 🤦🏾‍♀️
February 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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I'm the first to admit I take too many pictures. Must be a holdover from my photographer/ reporter days. Google account says I must delete photos and it's agony letting go of such randomness: My brother's mural, a Native American taco, a skirt project, and my BFF, Maybelline.
A close up of my brother's painting that shows a heart and children's reaching hands with colorful geometric shapes. A close-up of an Indian taco I purchased at a local Native American pow wow. A picture showing my hands holding colorful African fabric and a seam ripper that I'm using to take out threads. Close up of my cat Maybelline sleeping on instructions for a sewing project. She thinks she is helping!
February 23, 2025 at 5:05 AM