Laurel George
@laurelbg.bsky.social
Anthropologist, NYU adjunct professor, mom, birder, dance scholar, LGBTQIA rights advocate, COVID conscious.
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For the love of all that is holy stop using AI to produce slop making fun of Trump. It’s lame as shit and only normalized a technology that’s economically, environmentally, and intellectually destructive.
It’s using fascist tools and thinking you’re fighting fascism. Stop.
It’s using fascist tools and thinking you’re fighting fascism. Stop.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
For the love of all that is holy stop using AI to produce slop making fun of Trump. It’s lame as shit and only normalized a technology that’s economically, environmentally, and intellectually destructive.
It’s using fascist tools and thinking you’re fighting fascism. Stop.
It’s using fascist tools and thinking you’re fighting fascism. Stop.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
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Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."
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I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
October 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
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yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.
Fuck Columbus.
Fuck Columbus.
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.
Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National Park
The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.
barharborstory.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.
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i've been saying this for a long time. think about how all the anti-trans/lgbtq+ policies would be reported if they were in russia (they are - we're borrowing from them). "repression" would be the language. do we see it here, anywhere in mainstream reporting?
September 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
i've been saying this for a long time. think about how all the anti-trans/lgbtq+ policies would be reported if they were in russia (they are - we're borrowing from them). "repression" would be the language. do we see it here, anywhere in mainstream reporting?
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I forget where I first saw someone connect the dots between “men didn’t used to have so much ADHD” and “men used to be smoking cigarettes 24 hours a day indoors while chugging black coffee and having their secretaries organize all their work for them.”
September 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I forget where I first saw someone connect the dots between “men didn’t used to have so much ADHD” and “men used to be smoking cigarettes 24 hours a day indoors while chugging black coffee and having their secretaries organize all their work for them.”
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On the logic of the scapegoat, and how trans ppl became it.
www.frieze.com/article/scap...
www.frieze.com/article/scap...
The Scapegoating of Trans People in Trump’s America
How social media promotes a cycle of admiration and resentment in an influencer-driven world – and why the transgender community is at the centre of its violence
www.frieze.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
On the logic of the scapegoat, and how trans ppl became it.
www.frieze.com/article/scap...
www.frieze.com/article/scap...
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We’re here until 6 pm. We’ve had a steady stream of people since noon. Thanks for stopping by!
Craft Fair for Gaza! 629 Nostrand Ave, 12-6 PM. Come join us!
September 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
We’re here until 6 pm. We’ve had a steady stream of people since noon. Thanks for stopping by!
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I am getting ready to head out too. Stop by everyone!
On my way to set up for the Craft Fair for Gaza!
629 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn
12-6 PM
See you there?
629 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn
12-6 PM
See you there?
September 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I am getting ready to head out too. Stop by everyone!
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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how do i explain to my kids two women being married?? how explain sun go away at night but come back next day? how explain magic rectangle show people talk??? HOW
September 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
how do i explain to my kids two women being married?? how explain sun go away at night but come back next day? how explain magic rectangle show people talk??? HOW
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"Discussions should remain focused on literary works. They should never become a platform for students to pitch the professor on a business that, in theory, looks pretty lucrative, but in practice turns out to be a pyramid scheme."
Updated Syllabus, Revised After What Happened Last Semester
Course Overview This course is designed to introduce students to classic literary works. Class time will be primarily discussion based. Those discu...
buff.ly
August 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"Discussions should remain focused on literary works. They should never become a platform for students to pitch the professor on a business that, in theory, looks pretty lucrative, but in practice turns out to be a pyramid scheme."
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Trump's own DOJ website still has a press release up from January pointing out that violent crime in D.C. is at its lowest in more than 30 years.
Violent Crime in D.C. Hits 30 Year Low
Total violent crime for 2024 in the District of Columbia is down 35% from 2023 and is the lowest it has been in over 30 years, according to data collected by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) a...
www.justice.gov
August 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Trump's own DOJ website still has a press release up from January pointing out that violent crime in D.C. is at its lowest in more than 30 years.
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Stop what you're doing and read this extraordinary essay by Rümeysa Öztürk: "I am free, but my true freedom is interlinked with the freedom of many women I lived alongside in ICE prison."
“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
www.vanityfair.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Stop what you're doing and read this extraordinary essay by Rümeysa Öztürk: "I am free, but my true freedom is interlinked with the freedom of many women I lived alongside in ICE prison."
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The war on science and anti-trans propaganda are the same picture.
the anti-trans bullshit is just a way they've gotten the public to be more credulous, more accepting of eugenicist horror, generally
July 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The war on science and anti-trans propaganda are the same picture.
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"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"
June 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"
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I am begging people not to look to the NYT for coverage of what's happening. The BBC, Le Monde, Ajazeera and others will have more truthful coverage.
June 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I am begging people not to look to the NYT for coverage of what's happening. The BBC, Le Monde, Ajazeera and others will have more truthful coverage.
At the point in the election cycle where I actually reply to the spam texts telling me to vote and whom to vote for. (I voted on Day 2 of early voting, which I tell them all, along with choice other information depending on the candidate.) Pointless but therapeutic.
June 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
At the point in the election cycle where I actually reply to the spam texts telling me to vote and whom to vote for. (I voted on Day 2 of early voting, which I tell them all, along with choice other information depending on the candidate.) Pointless but therapeutic.
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Was waiting for this: Heart's Nancy Wilson calls out Trump for blasting "Barracuda" during his military parade.
A “powerful piece of music that was never intended for political use" and used "without permission or authorization from us." www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...
A “powerful piece of music that was never intended for political use" and used "without permission or authorization from us." www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...
Heart's Nancy Wilson Calls Out Trump's Use Of ‘Barracuda’ In His Military Parade
It's a "powerful piece of music that was never intended for political use," she wrote.
www.huffpost.com
June 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Was waiting for this: Heart's Nancy Wilson calls out Trump for blasting "Barracuda" during his military parade.
A “powerful piece of music that was never intended for political use" and used "without permission or authorization from us." www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...
A “powerful piece of music that was never intended for political use" and used "without permission or authorization from us." www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...
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June 11, 2025 at 5:22 AM