Laura
@laura-mclean.bsky.social
Nashvillian, data analyst, cat mom, basic millennial. She/her. AKA notthatindie
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🚨 YEATS: TURNING AND TURNING OF THE WIDENING GYRE EXPECTED TO COINCIDE WITH THE FALCON NOT BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE FALCONER, CENTRE NOT EXPECTED TO HOLD
April 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
🚨 YEATS: TURNING AND TURNING OF THE WIDENING GYRE EXPECTED TO COINCIDE WITH THE FALCON NOT BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE FALCONER, CENTRE NOT EXPECTED TO HOLD
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Fill it in! Salary transparency by crowd sourcing. As usual white women are overrepresented in this data at the moment. Men! This is a way to champion equity. Tell us what you're earning.
April 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Fill it in! Salary transparency by crowd sourcing. As usual white women are overrepresented in this data at the moment. Men! This is a way to champion equity. Tell us what you're earning.
Okay I actually pictured Murderbot as femme but I will never be mad about Alexander Skarsgård
April 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Okay I actually pictured Murderbot as femme but I will never be mad about Alexander Skarsgård
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you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
April 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
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Scenes from Nashville’s #HandsOff2025 protest at Centennial Park. Looks like a few thousand people of all ages and backgrounds 6/
April 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Scenes from Nashville’s #HandsOff2025 protest at Centennial Park. Looks like a few thousand people of all ages and backgrounds 6/
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Extremely stressful world events happening 🤝 me knocking my reading goals out of the park (see also: 2020)
March 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Extremely stressful world events happening 🤝 me knocking my reading goals out of the park (see also: 2020)
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WATCH: The moment the cruel Rep. William Lamberth & Senator Bo Watson bill to block undocumented kids from school passed full House Ed committee last night
You can see 10 year-old Emma kneel in front of them in protest.
They quickly cut the feed as folks started to chant and yell out.
You can see 10 year-old Emma kneel in front of them in protest.
They quickly cut the feed as folks started to chant and yell out.
March 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
WATCH: The moment the cruel Rep. William Lamberth & Senator Bo Watson bill to block undocumented kids from school passed full House Ed committee last night
You can see 10 year-old Emma kneel in front of them in protest.
They quickly cut the feed as folks started to chant and yell out.
You can see 10 year-old Emma kneel in front of them in protest.
They quickly cut the feed as folks started to chant and yell out.
This is the best one
March 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This is the best one
@betsyphillips.bsky.social I was just reading your Feb 26 Scene article abt Edmondson’s influences, and not sure if you already got an answer about Josie Bosley’s death cert COD (“lagniappe”), but it looks like some variation of spelling of “la grippe” to me (so, endocarditis following the flu)
March 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
@betsyphillips.bsky.social I was just reading your Feb 26 Scene article abt Edmondson’s influences, and not sure if you already got an answer about Josie Bosley’s death cert COD (“lagniappe”), but it looks like some variation of spelling of “la grippe” to me (so, endocarditis following the flu)
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Don't just doomscroll the headline -- read @jessicavalenti.bsky.social's post so you won't be fooled by the deluge of mis- and disinformation to come. jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
BREAKING: Texas Midwife Arrested on Felony Abortion Charges
This is Texas’ first post-Dobbs criminal abortion case
jessica.substack.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Don't just doomscroll the headline -- read @jessicavalenti.bsky.social's post so you won't be fooled by the deluge of mis- and disinformation to come. jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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I understand that these are dark times that call for courage. But keep in mind I am just a baby
March 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I understand that these are dark times that call for courage. But keep in mind I am just a baby
Is there anything worse for my anxiety than sitting in bed at 10pm wondering if a tornado is going to wake me up in six hours
March 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Is there anything worse for my anxiety than sitting in bed at 10pm wondering if a tornado is going to wake me up in six hours
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Men are shifting right because Republicans are making their lives worse and telling them to blame women and immigrants.
Democrats should be pointing out this *extremely obvious* dynamic, not trying to peddle a lighter version of the same narrative.
Democrats should be pointing out this *extremely obvious* dynamic, not trying to peddle a lighter version of the same narrative.
March 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Men are shifting right because Republicans are making their lives worse and telling them to blame women and immigrants.
Democrats should be pointing out this *extremely obvious* dynamic, not trying to peddle a lighter version of the same narrative.
Democrats should be pointing out this *extremely obvious* dynamic, not trying to peddle a lighter version of the same narrative.
Every day I stand at my window and pass judgement on who was the cutest bird of the day.
Today it was the mourning dove couple drinking from the bird bath, but tomorrow is anyone’s game. It’s all about who wants it the most.
Today it was the mourning dove couple drinking from the bird bath, but tomorrow is anyone’s game. It’s all about who wants it the most.
March 12, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Every day I stand at my window and pass judgement on who was the cutest bird of the day.
Today it was the mourning dove couple drinking from the bird bath, but tomorrow is anyone’s game. It’s all about who wants it the most.
Today it was the mourning dove couple drinking from the bird bath, but tomorrow is anyone’s game. It’s all about who wants it the most.
@notalawyer.bsky.social would you ever consider turning on RSS for your newsletter? I’d love to be able to add the feed to my RSS reader
March 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
@notalawyer.bsky.social would you ever consider turning on RSS for your newsletter? I’d love to be able to add the feed to my RSS reader
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American Republicans are ideologically much more like people in Russia or Turkey than they are like members of European right-wing parties, and this only happened in the last 25 years.
www.ft.com/content/3046...
www.ft.com/content/3046...
March 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
American Republicans are ideologically much more like people in Russia or Turkey than they are like members of European right-wing parties, and this only happened in the last 25 years.
www.ft.com/content/3046...
www.ft.com/content/3046...
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Perhaps no one is more responsible for GOP Rep. Andy Ogles’ rise in politics than Lee Beaman, the Tennessee businessman who owns the $3.7M DC townhouse shared by:
• Speaker of the House Mike Johnson
• Evangelical Pastor Steve Berger
• And now possibly Ogles
New, @propublica.org
• Speaker of the House Mike Johnson
• Evangelical Pastor Steve Berger
• And now possibly Ogles
New, @propublica.org
Secretive D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers
Evangelical pastor Steve Berger’s political influence campaign operates out of his D.C. townhouse. In addition to House Speaker Mike Johnson living there, a prominent Trump ally, Rep. Andy Ogles, has ...
www.propublica.org
March 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Perhaps no one is more responsible for GOP Rep. Andy Ogles’ rise in politics than Lee Beaman, the Tennessee businessman who owns the $3.7M DC townhouse shared by:
• Speaker of the House Mike Johnson
• Evangelical Pastor Steve Berger
• And now possibly Ogles
New, @propublica.org
• Speaker of the House Mike Johnson
• Evangelical Pastor Steve Berger
• And now possibly Ogles
New, @propublica.org
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Sesame Street really tells the story of America:
- Created for PBS to educate young (especially Black!) children
- Becomes a beloved institution cherished by the entire country
- Gets privatized and kicked to premium cable due to budget cuts
- Unionization leads to mass layoffs
What a country!
- Created for PBS to educate young (especially Black!) children
- Becomes a beloved institution cherished by the entire country
- Gets privatized and kicked to premium cable due to budget cuts
- Unionization leads to mass layoffs
What a country!
The layoffs come after 200 Sesame Workshop employees announced they want to form a union.
Sesame Workshop will 'downsize significantly' with layoffs, CEO says
The layoffs come after 200 Sesame Workshop employees announced they want to form a union.
www.npr.org
March 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Sesame Street really tells the story of America:
- Created for PBS to educate young (especially Black!) children
- Becomes a beloved institution cherished by the entire country
- Gets privatized and kicked to premium cable due to budget cuts
- Unionization leads to mass layoffs
What a country!
- Created for PBS to educate young (especially Black!) children
- Becomes a beloved institution cherished by the entire country
- Gets privatized and kicked to premium cable due to budget cuts
- Unionization leads to mass layoffs
What a country!
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Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency.
via Brett Murphy:
The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:
via Brett Murphy:
The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:
March 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency.
via Brett Murphy:
The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:
via Brett Murphy:
The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:
Good reading that points to more good reading from @raders.bsky.social (especially that Bright Line Watch survey, yikes)
www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/three-stor...
www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/three-stor...
www.ifyoucankeepit.org
March 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Good reading that points to more good reading from @raders.bsky.social (especially that Bright Line Watch survey, yikes)
www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/three-stor...
www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/three-stor...
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Mayor Freddie O'Connell, a longtime police skeptic, now favors the video surveillance tool Fusus as it heads toward a council compromise.
O’Connell Explains Support for Latest Fusus Push
Mayor, a longtime police skeptic, now favors video surveillance tool as it heads toward a council compromise
www.nashvillescene.com
March 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Yay!!! Thanks to the team at @lastweektonight.com, the Warners Bros copyright claim on this video has been dropped! Nashville’s Nosiest Bitch is back!
In introducing myself to BlueSky, I don't think I can do any better than to let @lastweektonight1.bsky.social do the honors! vimeo.com/994715523/70...
HBO's John Oliver Salutes Phil Williams
In the fall of 2023, on his HBO show "Last Week Tonight," John Oliver paid tribute to the work of Phil Williams
vimeo.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Yay!!! Thanks to the team at @lastweektonight.com, the Warners Bros copyright claim on this video has been dropped! Nashville’s Nosiest Bitch is back!
Very pleased with myself that I waited until this past weekend to finally watch season 1 of Severance rather than suffering for three years between seasons.
Slightly annoyed that I didn’t wait a few more weeks so that I could tear through season 2 in one go too.
Slightly annoyed that I didn’t wait a few more weeks so that I could tear through season 2 in one go too.
March 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Very pleased with myself that I waited until this past weekend to finally watch season 1 of Severance rather than suffering for three years between seasons.
Slightly annoyed that I didn’t wait a few more weeks so that I could tear through season 2 in one go too.
Slightly annoyed that I didn’t wait a few more weeks so that I could tear through season 2 in one go too.
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Either transgender Americans are important enough to warrant year after year of breathless coverage questioning their healthcare and existence, or they're so insignificant that destroying their rights is the "least consequential" action of a presidency. www.readtpa.com/p/not-exactl...
"Not Exactly Consequential": NYT Dismisses Trump's War on Trans Americans
After years of trans panic coverage, the paper now claims attacks on trans rights barely matter.
www.readtpa.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Either transgender Americans are important enough to warrant year after year of breathless coverage questioning their healthcare and existence, or they're so insignificant that destroying their rights is the "least consequential" action of a presidency. www.readtpa.com/p/not-exactl...