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Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا

@laurakeeney.bsky.social

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Former space comms, ex-journo, writer. I 💜 bad movies, good books, post-punk, space, sci-fi, #LFC and NBA/Nuggets. Filasṭīn Ḥurra, now and forever. 🇵🇸 Dysgwr Cymraeg. Dw i’n cyfri’r dyddiau nes dychwelyd i Gymru. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · May 24

ACAB includes people who report Gazan accounts to BlueSky.

Instead, read this from @mommunism.bsky.social. 🇵🇸

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Dec 9

Threads for:

FAQ in English and Arabic for accounts from Gaza

General information about Gazan Fundraising and GoFundMes

List of Gazans you can support

More general information for people from Gaza

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Aug 10

Can we get this back up?

Recently a story came out verifying that the friends we have appealing for our humanity on Bluesky are real. Saeed in particular has suffered a severe smear campaign on this very site. It's imperative that we show the people who tried to deny his existence that we see him.

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Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · Aug 3

SERIOUSLY. It’s really quite rude, isn’t it?

Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · Aug 3

That’s a good friend!! Wow, what a haul. I’ve been looking for Logs 8 and 9, but I want to find them organically, not search online.

Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · Aug 3

Oh cool, sounds like things are going to get even better around here.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 2

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
newrepublic.com/article/1987...

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows

A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

newrepublic.com

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Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · Jul 22

I’m gone for 2.5 weeks and come back to this same ish? Come on, @moderation.bsky.app. Do better.

Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · Jul 4

Pretty sure those are called the “pew pews.”

It’s a technical term.

Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · Jul 4

Not cheesy at all! More of this, always. 💜

Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · Jul 4

This is it, right here.

Community is how we survive.

Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Jul 4

Today, or tomorrow, or this upcoming week: Find someone that needs help that you can help with and help them. Make a point of it. Ask around. We need each other. Let's get in the habit of helping each other, in defiance of the society that seeks to kill us; Being alive is the -most- punk rock thing.

Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · Jul 4

Nothing … yet 😁

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Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · Jul 4

No peace, no quarter for these monsters.

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Rahul Kohli @rahulkohli13.bsky.social · Jul 3

I am absolutely heartbroken for Diogo Jota, his brother Andre and their families. Diogo was celebrating his wedding just last week, this is just fucking awful. My deepest condolences to his wife, children, and their families.

Rest in peace, Diogo. YNWA

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Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · Jul 3

I came here to see if you’d seen this news yet. It’s devastating. #YNWA

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Jul 2

Extremely dark that the entire U.S. government is lying down to be steamrolled by something called the Trump agenda for fear of some force called "Donald Trump" while the actual Donald Trump has no idea what's happening

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · Jul 2

Helluva @notusreports.bsky.social scoop showing that Trump has no idea what's in his budget bill. Seems like something that ought to get a lot more attention.

Also this: a republican house member actually admits that they are attacking medicaid. Yes, they are.
www.notus.org/congress/rec...

But Trump still doesn’t seem to have a firm grasp about what his signature legislative achievement does. According to three sources with direct knowledge of the comments, the president told Republicans at this meeting that there are three things Congress shouldn’t touch if they want to win elections: Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.

“But we’re touching Medicaid in this bill,” one member responded to Trump, according to the three sources.

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Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · Jul 2

This is why we are friends, Ryan.

Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · Jul 2

I have a first-world problem.

Jonas Valančiūnas is a Nugget
Aaron Gordon is Mr. Nugget.

They are both my basketball husbands (shhhh, let me have my delusion.) This arrangement worked because I could keep them apart.

NOW WHAT.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Jan 5

Why did we get the one apocalypse where everybody still gotta have a job

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Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · Jul 1

BRUCE BROWN IS A DENVER NUGGET AGAIN AND I JUST SCREAMED.

Needed this boost. It’s been a tough few weeks.

#Nuggets

a woman wearing a colorful sweater is raising her hands in the air

Alt: a woman wearing a colorful sweater is raising her hands in the air and silently screaming in glee

media.tenor.com

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Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · Jun 29

Followed you. I’ll share your GFM here but I have a bigger reach there so I’ll do it there too in a few days. 🤍

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Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · Jun 29

Are you on Instagram?

Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · Jun 29

Absolutely. I’m out right now but insha’Allah will get back to you soon.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Jun 27

Oh look Boring Amy Klobuchar is stabbing workers in the back...

United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Jun 27

Senator Slotkin has announced her intended support for legislation that would CUT and FREEZE the wages of farm workers - one of the most underpaid professions in the US.
This is just wrong!

Call @slotkin.senate.gov TODAY! Urge her to withdraw her support.
(202) 759 - 4087

Graphic with a photo of Senator Skotkin and the text:

ELISSA SLOTKIN TURNED HER BACK ON MICHIGAN FARMWORKERS

Senator Slotkin says she supports workers. But now she's backing a GOP-lead plan to cut and freeze farm worker wages.

Michigan workers deserve better.

URGE HER TO STOP NOW: +1 (202) 759 - 4087

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Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · Jun 26

I’m wheezing. 😏

SubhanAllah, my friend. 🤍