Laura E
@lauraelizabeth68.bsky.social
Educator. Activist. Feminist. Parent. Occasional writer. Corgi companion.
Powerful final message from Jim Acosta if you haven’t seen it already.
Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
January 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Powerful final message from Jim Acosta if you haven’t seen it already.
Sharing this one so I can keep track of the suggestions of comfort reads.
I think I need to stay off of all social media save for BlueSky for the next couple of weeks or so, it's too dang depressing. #BookSky 💙📚 I need some comfort reads, what do you have for me? Self recs welcome! I'm talking some Anne of Green Gables level of comfort. (Which is my 10/10 marker)
January 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Sharing this one so I can keep track of the suggestions of comfort reads.
Reposted by Laura E
Reposted by Laura E
Please be extra kind to the void today, there’s a lot of people out there screaming and the lines aren’t the void’s fault
January 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Please be extra kind to the void today, there’s a lot of people out there screaming and the lines aren’t the void’s fault
Reposted by Laura E
It is beyond Trump's announcement that "there are only two genders."
Trump's executive orders threaten to detransition up to 1,500 incarcerated trans women and jeopardize the medical care of 276,000 trans adults on Medicaid.
@msjpauly.bsky.social reports what we know so far.
Trump's executive orders threaten to detransition up to 1,500 incarcerated trans women and jeopardize the medical care of 276,000 trans adults on Medicaid.
@msjpauly.bsky.social reports what we know so far.
Trump declares war on transgender people
"We are not going anywhere, and we will fight back against these harmful provisions with everything we’ve got."
www.motherjones.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It is beyond Trump's announcement that "there are only two genders."
Trump's executive orders threaten to detransition up to 1,500 incarcerated trans women and jeopardize the medical care of 276,000 trans adults on Medicaid.
@msjpauly.bsky.social reports what we know so far.
Trump's executive orders threaten to detransition up to 1,500 incarcerated trans women and jeopardize the medical care of 276,000 trans adults on Medicaid.
@msjpauly.bsky.social reports what we know so far.
Roadtrip with best friends.
January 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Roadtrip with best friends.
States with a smaller population than Los Angeles County.
As activist Kipp Dawson says, “Let us respond to this situation recognizing that Los Angeles is all of us. —If we can’t place ourselves among the humans (and other life forms) under duress, what have we become?”
As activist Kipp Dawson says, “Let us respond to this situation recognizing that Los Angeles is all of us. —If we can’t place ourselves among the humans (and other life forms) under duress, what have we become?”
January 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
States with a smaller population than Los Angeles County.
As activist Kipp Dawson says, “Let us respond to this situation recognizing that Los Angeles is all of us. —If we can’t place ourselves among the humans (and other life forms) under duress, what have we become?”
As activist Kipp Dawson says, “Let us respond to this situation recognizing that Los Angeles is all of us. —If we can’t place ourselves among the humans (and other life forms) under duress, what have we become?”
Yessssss.
Surround yourself with the kind of people who fiercely defend the Oxford comma.
January 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Yessssss.
January 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I already wanted to see the new Dylan movie, but now I also want to see it for its eerie not-quite erasure of Toshi Seeger. Get past the first few paragraphs to get to a thorough analysis.
This piece about Toshi Seeger in the new Bob Dylan movie is a hilarious explainer of the very Hollywood problem: “there’s a woman in this story that we can’t get rid of because she kind of ran everything so what can we possibly do?”
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merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/a-complete...
'A Complete Unknown': The Ballad of TOSHI
And INTRODUCING 'THE TOSHI AWARDS!'
merrillmarkoe.substack.com
December 30, 2024 at 8:53 PM
I already wanted to see the new Dylan movie, but now I also want to see it for its eerie not-quite erasure of Toshi Seeger. Get past the first few paragraphs to get to a thorough analysis.
Muddy paws on the corgi today
December 29, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Muddy paws on the corgi today
Here comes the hate.
A wave of offensive text messages and emails has gone out to Hispanic and LGBTQ people in recent days, according to the FBI, coming on the heels of a barrage of racist texts that were sent to Black people in the wake of the election.
New Wave of Offensive Texts Targets Hispanic and L.G.B.T.Q. People
The F.B.I. is investigating messages that told people they would be deported or transported to a “re-education camp.” They came after racist texts were sent to Black people.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Here comes the hate.
“I have breathed in respect for ‘people like us’ in history, across the planet now, and those to come. Especially women. …As historians have begun to call us, people ‘from below.’ …People whose stories are whispered and sung out loud, but don’t do what they do to be noticed.”
-activist Kipp Dawson
-activist Kipp Dawson
Check out a new interview with activist Kipp Dawson AND explore a piece from Jessie Ramey and Catherine Evans on Dawson's papers at the University of Pittsburgh. The Radical History Review article is free to view for a limited time.
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Challenging and Documenting State Violence: A Conversation with Activist Kipp Dawson – The Abusable Past
abusablepast.org
November 17, 2024 at 9:04 PM
“I have breathed in respect for ‘people like us’ in history, across the planet now, and those to come. Especially women. …As historians have begun to call us, people ‘from below.’ …People whose stories are whispered and sung out loud, but don’t do what they do to be noticed.”
-activist Kipp Dawson
-activist Kipp Dawson
Gratuitous corgi post for the day.
November 17, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Gratuitous corgi post for the day.
“May we live and love and work as though there will be tomorrows, even as we fear there may not be.” -Pittsburgh activist and educator, Kipp Dawson.
November 17, 2024 at 4:06 PM
“May we live and love and work as though there will be tomorrows, even as we fear there may not be.” -Pittsburgh activist and educator, Kipp Dawson.
Ugh. We need changes to the laws about overtime pay (and while we’re at it, the minimum wage!)
President Biden tried to raise the overtime threshold, which is the point where salaried workers are entitled to earn overtime pay. It would have helped millions. A Trump appointed judge in Texas just blocked it.
Please tell me you see which party is actually fighting for the average worker.
Please tell me you see which party is actually fighting for the average worker.
November 16, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Ugh. We need changes to the laws about overtime pay (and while we’re at it, the minimum wage!)
We need more women in office. We need more of every other kind of diversity, too, but today I’m furious about the ongoing implicit (and explicit!) bias against women in leadership roles.
Saw these posts the day after the election.
Saw these posts the day after the election.
November 16, 2024 at 6:10 PM
We need more women in office. We need more of every other kind of diversity, too, but today I’m furious about the ongoing implicit (and explicit!) bias against women in leadership roles.
Saw these posts the day after the election.
Saw these posts the day after the election.
As we head into this alarming new political world, I remind myself of this.
November 15, 2024 at 5:31 PM
As we head into this alarming new political world, I remind myself of this.
Shelf of some of my favorite essayists.
November 15, 2024 at 7:42 AM
Shelf of some of my favorite essayists.
