Laura A. Ring
@lauraring.bsky.social
Poet. Librarian. Anthropologist. Native Vermonter. Field Notes Recovered from the Expedition to Devil’s Peak (MWC Press). Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building (Indiana UP). Poems in Tupelo Quarterly, RHINO, Stirring, and elsewhere.
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What's happening in Chicago is not normal.
The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.
The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.
October 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
What's happening in Chicago is not normal.
The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.
The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.
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The oyster farmer Graham Platner is angling to unseat Susan Collins. He’s been endorsed by Bernie Sanders, and a recent internal poll has Platner ahead of Collins by 12 points. Can he make the leap from harbormaster to senator?
Can a Maine Oyster Farmer Defeat a Five-Term Republican Senator?
Graham Platner, a local veteran, is angling to take on Susan Collins, who may be vulnerable in her 2026 reëlection bid—and is drawing support from both sides of the aisle.
www.newyorker.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The oyster farmer Graham Platner is angling to unseat Susan Collins. He’s been endorsed by Bernie Sanders, and a recent internal poll has Platner ahead of Collins by 12 points. Can he make the leap from harbormaster to senator?
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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
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How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??
She is a tourist from Chile, and these cops left her teenage daughter on the streets of New York City alone. Why anybody would come to this country right now blows my mind.
June 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??
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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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As a mother? I don’t want to hear a word about Mother’s Day when this is what we’re doing to mothers in this country.
May 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
As a mother? I don’t want to hear a word about Mother’s Day when this is what we’re doing to mothers in this country.
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No lies detected. This is our country now.
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
No lies detected. This is our country now.
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This is mislabeled. Actually, it’s a map of where scientific discoveries, biomedical research, cancer treatments, and drug discovery come from. Also economic growth.
April 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This is mislabeled. Actually, it’s a map of where scientific discoveries, biomedical research, cancer treatments, and drug discovery come from. Also economic growth.
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Why, no, you shouldn't have to have your 'papers' on yourself at all times or face extraordinary rendition to a foreign country, actually
April 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Why, no, you shouldn't have to have your 'papers' on yourself at all times or face extraordinary rendition to a foreign country, actually
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Fun fact: the International Criminal Court at The Hague does NOT recognize any immunity based on official title or diplomatic status.
April 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Fun fact: the International Criminal Court at The Hague does NOT recognize any immunity based on official title or diplomatic status.
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forever re-learning that the poem comes out of what I don't yet know. I don't have to know or plan what's going to happen when I go to the page, and it's usually better if I don't. the point is to sit down and let it happen.
April 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
forever re-learning that the poem comes out of what I don't yet know. I don't have to know or plan what's going to happen when I go to the page, and it's usually better if I don't. the point is to sit down and let it happen.
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"ICE took our students, we want them back," @aaup professors from NYU/Columbia among other universities chant, marching to Foley Square.
April 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"ICE took our students, we want them back," @aaup professors from NYU/Columbia among other universities chant, marching to Foley Square.
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““No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Will Fight Trump’s Demands | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garb...
www.thecrimson.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
““No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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if Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release,”
People want action, this is action.
This is the highest form of doing something
www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-r...
People want action, this is action.
This is the highest form of doing something
www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-r...
Van Hollen Requests Meeting with President Bukele to Discuss Return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia; Announces Intent to Travel to El Salvador This Week if Abrego Garcia is Not Returned | U.S. Senator Chris V...
U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) has requested a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele while he is in the United States this week in...
www.vanhollen.senate.gov
April 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
if Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release,”
People want action, this is action.
This is the highest form of doing something
www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-r...
People want action, this is action.
This is the highest form of doing something
www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-r...
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President Trump is using the Abrego Garcia case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop him from imprisoning anyone he wants anywhere else in the world never to be seen or heard from again. His dream is to preside over a police state. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago
He is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
President Trump is using the Abrego Garcia case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop him from imprisoning anyone he wants anywhere else in the world never to be seen or heard from again. His dream is to preside over a police state. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
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Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass.
Philip K. Dickens
Philip K. Dickens
April 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass.
Philip K. Dickens
Philip K. Dickens
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BIG UPDATE TODAY: This afternoon, the ACLU filed a new "class action habeas" lawsuit in New York challenging the Alien Enemies Act removals. They are seeking a temporary restraining order which would basically replicate the same thing they previously had with Judge Boasberg's order.
NY judge will hold a hearing tomorrow at 10am on the ACLU's new lawsuit challenging Alien Enemies Act deportations of people located in that state
Judge ordered that the named plaintiffs not be removed or transferred out of his district before then
Judge ordered that the named plaintiffs not be removed or transferred out of his district before then
April 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
BIG UPDATE TODAY: This afternoon, the ACLU filed a new "class action habeas" lawsuit in New York challenging the Alien Enemies Act removals. They are seeking a temporary restraining order which would basically replicate the same thing they previously had with Judge Boasberg's order.
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"University leaders should commit, collectively and immediately, to challenge unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance": read my brilliant colleague Dave Pozen @ryandoerfler.bsky.social and Sam Bagenstos in @thenation.com here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why Universities Must Start Litigating—and How
The litigation would afford schools a high-profile venue in which to detail the Trump administration’s lawlessness and aggression.
www.thenation.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"University leaders should commit, collectively and immediately, to challenge unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance": read my brilliant colleague Dave Pozen @ryandoerfler.bsky.social and Sam Bagenstos in @thenation.com here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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NEW: As the Fourth Circuit today considers whether to block her order, Judge Paula Xinis releases a strong opinion defending it, calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia's detention "wholly lawless" and her order "the narrowest, daresay only, relief warranted." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
NEW: As the Fourth Circuit today considers whether to block her order, Judge Paula Xinis releases a strong opinion defending it, calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia's detention "wholly lawless" and her order "the narrowest, daresay only, relief warranted." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Oh HELL YEAH
Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Oh HELL YEAH