Laura
@lauraa822.bsky.social
~ Writer who loves books, art, music, film, theater, dance
~ Living with Lupus
~ Tea drinker, fragrance collector ~ 26 years married
Democrat in a blue state
~ Living with Lupus
~ Tea drinker, fragrance collector ~ 26 years married
Democrat in a blue state
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For Día de Los Muertos, @padilla.senate.gov and I each left a photo of a loved one at the other office’s ofrenda.
Proud to bring a beautiful tradition to the U.S. Senate to remember and honor those who have gone before us.
Proud to bring a beautiful tradition to the U.S. Senate to remember and honor those who have gone before us.
November 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
For Día de Los Muertos, @padilla.senate.gov and I each left a photo of a loved one at the other office’s ofrenda.
Proud to bring a beautiful tradition to the U.S. Senate to remember and honor those who have gone before us.
Proud to bring a beautiful tradition to the U.S. Senate to remember and honor those who have gone before us.
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glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity
October 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity
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it’s Sunday on bluesky so I am urging everyone to take care of themselves. Take a walk, have a second cup of coffee or tea, read a book, spend some time looking at small poems
September 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
it’s Sunday on bluesky so I am urging everyone to take care of themselves. Take a walk, have a second cup of coffee or tea, read a book, spend some time looking at small poems
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A GoFundMe for Silverio's family.
Donate to Silverio Villegas González, organized by Lily Rivera
Honoring the Life of Silverio Villegas Gonzales
It is cruel what ICE agents did to him short… Lily Rivera needs your support for Silverio Villegas González
www.gofundme.com
September 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
A GoFundMe for Silverio's family.
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Good Friday morning! Your assignment this weekend! Put some care in the world!
Give someone you love a book you love. Tell an author why they're important to you. Send a thank you note to a librarian. Add a banned book to a little free library w a note about why it matters. Add care.
Give someone you love a book you love. Tell an author why they're important to you. Send a thank you note to a librarian. Add a banned book to a little free library w a note about why it matters. Add care.
September 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Good Friday morning! Your assignment this weekend! Put some care in the world!
Give someone you love a book you love. Tell an author why they're important to you. Send a thank you note to a librarian. Add a banned book to a little free library w a note about why it matters. Add care.
Give someone you love a book you love. Tell an author why they're important to you. Send a thank you note to a librarian. Add a banned book to a little free library w a note about why it matters. Add care.
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Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
July 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
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Six former CDC vaccine chairs are sounding the alarm—and we better listen. The U.S. is on the brink of losing access to life-saving immunizations. When science is attacked and trust is eroded, lives will be lost. This is not a drill. This is a national emergency.
June 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Six former CDC vaccine chairs are sounding the alarm—and we better listen. The U.S. is on the brink of losing access to life-saving immunizations. When science is attacked and trust is eroded, lives will be lost. This is not a drill. This is a national emergency.
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It's Juneteenth. Here's @levarburton.bsky.social reading Lift Every Voice and Sing. #BlackLivesMatter
youtu.be/GNEPwwv56DY
youtu.be/GNEPwwv56DY
155th Anniversary of Juneteenth
YouTube video by GoogleDoodles
youtu.be
June 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It's Juneteenth. Here's @levarburton.bsky.social reading Lift Every Voice and Sing. #BlackLivesMatter
youtu.be/GNEPwwv56DY
youtu.be/GNEPwwv56DY
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people need to get a lot clearer—and very quickly!—that the absence of due process is the same thing as lowering the bar of guilt to simply accusation.
April 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
people need to get a lot clearer—and very quickly!—that the absence of due process is the same thing as lowering the bar of guilt to simply accusation.
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Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
April 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
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a friend sent me this one
April 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
a friend sent me this one
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Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
kffhealthnews.org
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
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99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research.
Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts.
It will directly impact YOU.
#ScienceNOTSilence
Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts.
It will directly impact YOU.
#ScienceNOTSilence
March 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research.
Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts.
It will directly impact YOU.
#ScienceNOTSilence
Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts.
It will directly impact YOU.
#ScienceNOTSilence
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This is a mission everyone should be able to get behind. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families. No effort must be spared to bring them home:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/
March 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
This is a mission everyone should be able to get behind. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families. No effort must be spared to bring them home:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/
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I can't get over the fact that "voters who are educated & attuned to current events vote for Dems" has become one of the central *critiques* of the Dem Party.
Another massive shift Democrats saw in 2024 is that people who don't follow the news closely went from being slightly left in 2020 to voting for Trump by double digits.
On the flipside, Democrats actually increased their margins with high-information voters from 2020.
On the flipside, Democrats actually increased their margins with high-information voters from 2020.
March 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I can't get over the fact that "voters who are educated & attuned to current events vote for Dems" has become one of the central *critiques* of the Dem Party.
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As @timothysnyder.bsky.social said in his latest blog post: “If you are a citizen and you are casting doubt on the importance of due process, remember this: you need due process in order to prove that you are a citizen.”
March 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
As @timothysnyder.bsky.social said in his latest blog post: “If you are a citizen and you are casting doubt on the importance of due process, remember this: you need due process in order to prove that you are a citizen.”
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This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
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The Trump admin has quietly terminated a State Department contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of alleged Russian abductions of Ukrainian children—a potential war crime—to law enforcement officials in Europe, two people familiar with the situation tell @newrepublic.com
Trump Admin Nixed Contract Helping Kidnapped Ukrainian Kids: Sources
The fate of abducted Ukrainian children is a white-hot issue for peace negotiations—and it looks like the State Department may have just undercut the cause.
newrepublic.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The Trump admin has quietly terminated a State Department contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of alleged Russian abductions of Ukrainian children—a potential war crime—to law enforcement officials in Europe, two people familiar with the situation tell @newrepublic.com
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Some federal workers are going back to work.
The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back.
Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired.
The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.
The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back.
Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired.
The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.
March 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Some federal workers are going back to work.
The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back.
Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired.
The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.
The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back.
Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired.
The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.