Sarah Laurence
@sarahlaurence.bsky.social
Writer and Artist. Not the college. MIT alumna. Following the tides of Maine. Pronouns: she/ella. Rep: Eric Myers Lit. sarahlaurence.com
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Hello/Hola! I'm looking forward to connecting with old and new friends soon but not until I've written the first chapter of my WIP, an historical novel about Jewish refugees in the UK and the Dominican Republic during WWII. I also enjoy reading contemporary fiction. What are you reading?
Where are you protesting on Saturday? Lots of options in Maine, and others driving down to Boston and DC. #mepolitics #Handsoff
April 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Where are you protesting on Saturday? Lots of options in Maine, and others driving down to Boston and DC. #mepolitics #Handsoff
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Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
March 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
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🚨ATTENTION PUBLIC HEALTH ALLIES!🚨
We have power together. To see our strength and build community, we ask that you wear something 💚green💚 to work on WEDNESDAY to show solidarity and readiness to defend public health.
Please spread the word!
#courageiscontagious #spreadthecolor
We have power together. To see our strength and build community, we ask that you wear something 💚green💚 to work on WEDNESDAY to show solidarity and readiness to defend public health.
Please spread the word!
#courageiscontagious #spreadthecolor
March 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🚨ATTENTION PUBLIC HEALTH ALLIES!🚨
We have power together. To see our strength and build community, we ask that you wear something 💚green💚 to work on WEDNESDAY to show solidarity and readiness to defend public health.
Please spread the word!
#courageiscontagious #spreadthecolor
We have power together. To see our strength and build community, we ask that you wear something 💚green💚 to work on WEDNESDAY to show solidarity and readiness to defend public health.
Please spread the word!
#courageiscontagious #spreadthecolor
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They needed an overflow room for the empty chair town hall for Rep. Jared 'it's fine if Trump wins' Golden, currently ongoing in Bangor. #MEpolitics
Empty Chair Town Hall for Jared Golden
Bangor Library, Maine
22 March 2025, 4-6 PM
Already full inside but it is a beautiful sunny Spring day and there is overflow just outside of the atrium with a sound system, so if you aren’t here yet, there’s no reason not to head over now! #MEpolitics
Bangor Library, Maine
22 March 2025, 4-6 PM
Already full inside but it is a beautiful sunny Spring day and there is overflow just outside of the atrium with a sound system, so if you aren’t here yet, there’s no reason not to head over now! #MEpolitics
March 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
They needed an overflow room for the empty chair town hall for Rep. Jared 'it's fine if Trump wins' Golden, currently ongoing in Bangor. #MEpolitics
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Keep calling and writing, junior rangers! Susan is GeTtInG CrAnKy. 🦝🦝
#WhereIsSusan
mainebeacon.com/collins-snap...
#WhereIsSusan
mainebeacon.com/collins-snap...
Collins snaps at reporter on Trump policy turmoil as public pressure on her increases - Maine Beacon
Sen. Susan Collins pushed back against a reporter’s question Monday, dismissing concerns about the Trump administration’s recent policy swings that have disrupted federal funding for Maine. “I see tha...
mainebeacon.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Keep calling and writing, junior rangers! Susan is GeTtInG CrAnKy. 🦝🦝
#WhereIsSusan
mainebeacon.com/collins-snap...
#WhereIsSusan
mainebeacon.com/collins-snap...
My favorite part of the Twitter resistance has immigrated to Blue Sky. #AltGov
Reminder.
The profiles with the #altgov label are independent. We represent different agencies and parts of government. We range in age, grade, and represent diverse groups of employees, contractors and retirees.
We do NOT ask for $$ or sell anything.
We are vetted.
The profiles with the #altgov label are independent. We represent different agencies and parts of government. We range in age, grade, and represent diverse groups of employees, contractors and retirees.
We do NOT ask for $$ or sell anything.
We are vetted.
#AltGov
Join the conversation
web-cdn.bsky.app
March 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
My favorite part of the Twitter resistance has immigrated to Blue Sky. #AltGov
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Tomorrow in Portland!! Join National Nurses United outside Susan Collins' office at One Canal Plaza to demand she reject cuts to Medicaid. Congress is currently considering $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid in order to fund tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy. RSVP at the link below!
Portland Care Not Cuts Action
Congress wants to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid to fund tax giveaways for the ultra-rich, but nurses across the country are fighting back and standing instead with the over 72 mill...
actionnetwork.org
March 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Tomorrow in Portland!! Join National Nurses United outside Susan Collins' office at One Canal Plaza to demand she reject cuts to Medicaid. Congress is currently considering $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid in order to fund tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy. RSVP at the link below!
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@mainepeople.bsky.social is currently seeking a #Maine farmer that participated in the now suspended USDA Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program to speak to the program and their experiences with it at an upcoming advocacy event.
Does anyone happen to know someone that fits that bill?
Does anyone happen to know someone that fits that bill?
March 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
@mainepeople.bsky.social is currently seeking a #Maine farmer that participated in the now suspended USDA Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program to speak to the program and their experiences with it at an upcoming advocacy event.
Does anyone happen to know someone that fits that bill?
Does anyone happen to know someone that fits that bill?
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1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
March 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
Important 🧵👇
So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...
Leaked memo: DOGE plots to cut Social Security phone support
Changes could break the system, former officials say.
www.axios.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Important 🧵👇
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March 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Huge march in New York today protesting the illegal DOGE cuts
March 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Huge march in New York today protesting the illegal DOGE cuts
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New, from me:
Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America.
Here is a partial inventory. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America.
Here is a partial inventory. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
Whitewashing American history
The Trump Presidency as a project of erasure
donmoynihan.substack.com
March 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
New, from me:
Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America.
Here is a partial inventory. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America.
Here is a partial inventory. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
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The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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You heard Trump’s attorney general — if you visit a Tesla dealership, she will prosecute you.
Be safe! Shop somewhere else.
Be safe! Shop somewhere else.
Pam Bondi: "If you're gonna touch a Tesla, go to a dealership, do anything, you better watch out, because we're coming after you."
March 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
You heard Trump’s attorney general — if you visit a Tesla dealership, she will prosecute you.
Be safe! Shop somewhere else.
Be safe! Shop somewhere else.
My two favorite medical Substacks that got my family safely through the pandemic:
My live chat with @kkjetelina.bsky.social on the pathogens (measles, bird flu, Covid, norovirus, flu) and issues we are facing in US public health [archive from yesterday)
erictopol.substack.com/publish/post...
erictopol.substack.com/publish/post...
erictopol.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
My two favorite medical Substacks that got my family safely through the pandemic:
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Here is one weird form of public participation this tax season:
If you can, use Direct File, the free IRS software to enable you to report your taxes. The more people that use it, and report good experiences, the harder it will be for DOGE to later remove it.
apnews.com/article/dire...
If you can, use Direct File, the free IRS software to enable you to report your taxes. The more people that use it, and report good experiences, the harder it will be for DOGE to later remove it.
apnews.com/article/dire...
A government program made tax filing free and more efficient. Musk and DOGE may get rid of it anyway
The fate of the IRS Direct File program is unclear as Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency cleave their way through the federal bureaucracy. Republicans and commercial tax preparation...
apnews.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Here is one weird form of public participation this tax season:
If you can, use Direct File, the free IRS software to enable you to report your taxes. The more people that use it, and report good experiences, the harder it will be for DOGE to later remove it.
apnews.com/article/dire...
If you can, use Direct File, the free IRS software to enable you to report your taxes. The more people that use it, and report good experiences, the harder it will be for DOGE to later remove it.
apnews.com/article/dire...
I just called my senators in Maine and was shocked that Ind Senator King was undecided. Your call matters! #mepolitics King in Portland: (207) 245-1565. Collins in Lewiston: (207) 784-6969.
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I just called my senators in Maine and was shocked that Ind Senator King was undecided. Your call matters! #mepolitics King in Portland: (207) 245-1565. Collins in Lewiston: (207) 784-6969.
Call your reps and donate to food banks. Hungry children should never be used as political pawns. #mepolitics
That includes a program that provided more than $720,000 to Maine schools to serve local produce to students. Via Maine Public
USDA ending local purchasing programs for Maine food banks and schools
That includes a program that provided more than $720,000 to Maine schools to serve local produce to students.
www.bangordailynews.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Call your reps and donate to food banks. Hungry children should never be used as political pawns. #mepolitics
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That includes a program that provided more than $720,000 to Maine schools to serve local produce to students. Via Maine Public
USDA ending local purchasing programs for Maine food banks and schools
That includes a program that provided more than $720,000 to Maine schools to serve local produce to students.
www.bangordailynews.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
That includes a program that provided more than $720,000 to Maine schools to serve local produce to students. Via Maine Public
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They're really putting the FFS into tariffs is what they're doing
They're really putting the "if" in tariff
March 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
They're really putting the FFS into tariffs is what they're doing
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I know it's not ~that~ important given everything else, but as an Argentine I'm here wondering how they are gonna pull off a US-Mexico-Canada 2026 World Cup given how the presidents are getting along.
March 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I know it's not ~that~ important given everything else, but as an Argentine I'm here wondering how they are gonna pull off a US-Mexico-Canada 2026 World Cup given how the presidents are getting along.
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FRIDAY: Join @standupforscience.bsky.social rallies around the US to protest funding cuts, illegal firings, and censorship of scientists. In response to the attacks, the most important thing we can do is to visually show that science has strong support in this country, so please show up if you can!
March 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
FRIDAY: Join @standupforscience.bsky.social rallies around the US to protest funding cuts, illegal firings, and censorship of scientists. In response to the attacks, the most important thing we can do is to visually show that science has strong support in this country, so please show up if you can!
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It's the latest lawsuit abandoned by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since Trump appointees have taken over at the bureau.
The CFPB drops its case against payment app Zelle, in another sign of a Trump pivot
It's the latest lawsuit abandoned by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since Trump appointees have taken over at the bureau.
www.npr.org
March 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It's the latest lawsuit abandoned by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since Trump appointees have taken over at the bureau.