NMLaura (she/her)
@nmlaura.bsky.social
Intrepid Galactic Explorer (Retired), Artist, Poet
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Shopping local / small / indie, making art, sharing stories, supporting mutual aid, lifting each other's voices... All of these are acts of protest. All of these matter so much, especially in a time where corporations and billionaires attempt to control more and more of what we do.
December 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Shopping local / small / indie, making art, sharing stories, supporting mutual aid, lifting each other's voices... All of these are acts of protest. All of these matter so much, especially in a time where corporations and billionaires attempt to control more and more of what we do.
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I teach Sociology of Childhood, and when we talk about school shootings, my students tell me about how they also do these checks in their classes--noting locks on doors, thinking about how to escape and where to hide. I hate that they have to mind those risks while trying to learn.
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I teach Sociology of Childhood, and when we talk about school shootings, my students tell me about how they also do these checks in their classes--noting locks on doors, thinking about how to escape and where to hide. I hate that they have to mind those risks while trying to learn.
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New Wheels Museum mural honoring victims of violent crime
New Wheels Museum mural honoring victims of violent crime
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A striking art display was just unveiled Saturday at the popular Wheels Museum, honoring victims of violent crime. Local artist, Ryan Saavedra, lost his son to gun violen…
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December 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
New Wheels Museum mural honoring victims of violent crime
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Stop printing lies in the newspaper. There need to be consequences for printing lies in the newspaper. He literally says and believes exactly this, several times per day and on camera.
December 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Stop printing lies in the newspaper. There need to be consequences for printing lies in the newspaper. He literally says and believes exactly this, several times per day and on camera.
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"A Hundred Little Hitlers" by Elinor Langer is a very necessary read that dives into some niche Portland, OR history of fascism & racism and a community's response to the xenophobic murder of an Ethiopian man in the 1980s. Absolutely required reading.
us.macmillan.com/books/978031...
us.macmillan.com/books/978031...
A Hundred Little Hitlers
On November 12, 1988, a group of Portland, Oregon, skinheads known as East Side White Pride encountered three Ethiopians in a street fight, resulting in the ...
us.macmillan.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"A Hundred Little Hitlers" by Elinor Langer is a very necessary read that dives into some niche Portland, OR history of fascism & racism and a community's response to the xenophobic murder of an Ethiopian man in the 1980s. Absolutely required reading.
us.macmillan.com/books/978031...
us.macmillan.com/books/978031...
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pure comedy
I love the Lewis and Clark expedition, mainly because it's a series of them being like, "the Indians say there's a huge bear, but we've seen huge bears, I'm sure they're exaggerating" and then they run into a Grizzly Bear and are like HOLY SHIT BEARZILLA!!!!
Same story for the Rocky Mountains.
Same story for the Rocky Mountains.
December 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
pure comedy
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NEW: It’s not just readers that suffer due to Harlequin’s mismanagement of the' Heated Rivalry' books. Reid misses out on royalties, & booksellers miss out on commissions—which is especially painful during the holiday season when many small businesses make the bulk of their money.
was ‘heated rivalry’ failed by its publisher?
everyone's devouring the new TV series, so why can't people buy a copy of the book the show is based on?
www.thefrankiedlc.news
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
NEW: It’s not just readers that suffer due to Harlequin’s mismanagement of the' Heated Rivalry' books. Reid misses out on royalties, & booksellers miss out on commissions—which is especially painful during the holiday season when many small businesses make the bulk of their money.
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"Trump will just defy court orders, what's even the point of litigating"
This, this a point
This, this a point
PHILIPSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia leaves immigration detention after federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.
December 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
"Trump will just defy court orders, what's even the point of litigating"
This, this a point
This, this a point
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We have always been at war with Calibri ! Brothers, support our boys at the Calibri Font! This war is within measurable distance of being won! All hail, Big Brother!
December 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
We have always been at war with Calibri ! Brothers, support our boys at the Calibri Font! This war is within measurable distance of being won! All hail, Big Brother!
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War is peace. Calibri is helvetica.
December 12, 2025 at 1:11 AM
War is peace. Calibri is helvetica.
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Lit Hub’s 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 locusmag.com/2025/12...
December 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Lit Hub’s 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 locusmag.com/2025/12...
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Sutter Health is literally the only hospital within 90 minutes of my hometown on a good day, and not a great hospital at that. While it's a small place, that's a lot of trouble for a lot of people.
10 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Northern CA's biggest provider of GAC, Sutter Health is apparently bowing to administration pressure and ending its pediatric care program Dec 10th, leaving hundreds of parents and their kids across the Bay Area medically stranded.
NorCal’s largest hospital to end gender-affirming care for kids
Sutter is the latest clinic to bow to federal pressure and stop treatment, leaving Bay Area families in medical limbo.
sfstandard.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Sutter Health is literally the only hospital within 90 minutes of my hometown on a good day, and not a great hospital at that. While it's a small place, that's a lot of trouble for a lot of people.
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Reposting with the picture of Lucy and Ricky looking for their home. Please share to help them find it! #LucyandRicky #ForeverHomeNeeded #Rescue #wobblycats #Connecticut #NewYork #kittens #cats
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Reposting with the picture of Lucy and Ricky looking for their home. Please share to help them find it! #LucyandRicky #ForeverHomeNeeded #Rescue #wobblycats #Connecticut #NewYork #kittens #cats
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According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
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🚨BOMBSHELL: Federal judges caught the U.S. government lying in over 35 court cases; falsified records, fake declarations, and sworn statements built on fiction.
This isn't clerical error. It's institutional deceit.
Even legal scholars now say it looks intentional.
📺60 Minutes
This isn't clerical error. It's institutional deceit.
Even legal scholars now say it looks intentional.
📺60 Minutes
December 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
🚨BOMBSHELL: Federal judges caught the U.S. government lying in over 35 court cases; falsified records, fake declarations, and sworn statements built on fiction.
This isn't clerical error. It's institutional deceit.
Even legal scholars now say it looks intentional.
📺60 Minutes
This isn't clerical error. It's institutional deceit.
Even legal scholars now say it looks intentional.
📺60 Minutes
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“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
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A bunch of us did a piece on RFK Jr.'s attacks on vaccines. Please circulate. Scientists and clinicians are sounding the alarm. It's time to act. youtube.com/shorts/4wnNy...
December 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A bunch of us did a piece on RFK Jr.'s attacks on vaccines. Please circulate. Scientists and clinicians are sounding the alarm. It's time to act. youtube.com/shorts/4wnNy...
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
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South Korea will require advertisers to label their ads made with artificial intelligence technologies from next year. https://to.pbs.org/4psIQKR
South Korea to require advertisers to label AI-generated ads
South Korea will require advertisers to label their ads made with artificial intelligence technologies from next year as it seeks to curb a surge of deceptive promotions featuring fabricated experts o...
www.pbs.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
South Korea will require advertisers to label their ads made with artificial intelligence technologies from next year. https://to.pbs.org/4psIQKR
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Squirrel don't care
December 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Squirrel don't care
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Incredible beauty, joy and adventure flying Infinitude at the Red Rock #Balloon Rally in #Gallup. Catch the awesome high five at 0:55! #Newmexicotrue
December 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Incredible beauty, joy and adventure flying Infinitude at the Red Rock #Balloon Rally in #Gallup. Catch the awesome high five at 0:55! #Newmexicotrue
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Thou shalt not start a war to distract everyone so you can continue to protect billionaire pedophiles.
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Thou shalt not start a war to distract everyone so you can continue to protect billionaire pedophiles.
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.