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Laura Fisher Kaiser

@elleffkaiser.bsky.social
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Writer, author, journalist. Working on the first-ever biography of fascinating "lost lady of lit" Elizabeth Dejeans (1868-1928). laurafisherkaiser.com

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Laura Fisher Kaiser @elleffkaiser.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It was an honor to interview #karentorghele about her fine and incredibly timely biography of polio vaccine pioneer Albert Sabin! #vaxtothemax, baby!
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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."
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Laura Fisher Kaiser @elleffkaiser.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." --The Declaration of Independence, 1776
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Laura Fisher Kaiser @elleffkaiser.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I think most Washingtonians are baffled about the State Fair on the Mall because (checks notes) DC is not a state.
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Laura Fisher Kaiser @elleffkaiser.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
My latest review for The Washington Independent Review of Books. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/n...
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No Contact: Writers on Estrangement | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
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Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The beautiful thing about science and math is that if you do it right, it will produce the same result no matter who does it The beautiful thing about art is that the exact opposite is true
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Anne C. Serling @anneserling.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
"The moment you begin to censor the writer- and history bears this out in the ugliest of fashions -so begins a process of decay in the body politic that ultimately leads to disaster." ~Rod Serling Speech, Library of Congress (1968)
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 11/05/2026
The attack on the humanities is coordinated, definitely not because there’s no demand so they’re just going out of style or something!
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Laura Fisher Kaiser @elleffkaiser.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Midwives guided me through two triumphant births. Their profession should be an integral part of healthcare as long as people need to be born.
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Laura Fisher Kaiser @elleffkaiser.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
One of the best ledes ever: "At what moment does a man become a ladies’ man, a ladies’s man a skirt chaser, a skirt chaser a Lothario, a Lothario a libertine, a libertine a pervert, a pervert a groper, a groper a groomer and a groomer a rapist?" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/b...
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Confessions of a 17th-Century Diarist, Power Broker and Predator
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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Laura Fisher Kaiser @elleffkaiser.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It’s like that Twilight Zone episode where everyone turns into Banksy.
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Laura Fisher Kaiser @elleffkaiser.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Love this. Author Elizabeth Dejeans (1868-1928) learned to type by serving as her father's amanuensis and then gigging as a secretary. She found the process laborious at first, but grew to "abhor" the pen. The skill served her well when it came time to pitch her own writing.
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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
MacKenzie Scott should publicly offer to buy Washington Post
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
When anyone from SCTV dies it’s like 30 people have died. Every character they created was as alive as anyone else you’ve ever met.
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Cheryl T. @g8rgrrlcheryl.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Local journalism matters.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Charlotte Brontë's dog Grasper drawn by her sister Emily Brontë, January, 1834, both would later be known for such classic novels as 'Jane Eyre' (1847) and 'Wuthering Heights' (1847) #WomensArt
Drawing of the upper half of a terrier like dog with a collar, above there is a line of handwriting above stating the subject, date and artist
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The WSJ found 13 similar cases. Thirteen. Makes it sound less like an accident than a strategy. "The Minneapolis shooting shares characteristics with others the Journal reviewed: Agents box in a vehicle, try to remove an individual, block attempts to flee, then fire." www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
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Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
300,000 Wondrous Nature Illustrations Put Online by The Biodiversity Heritage Library www.openculture.com/2026/01/3000...
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300,000 Wondrous Nature Illustrations Put Online by The Biodiversity Heritage Library
Are we truly in the midst of a human-caused sixth mass extinction, an era of “biological annihilation”?
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Laura Fisher Kaiser @elleffkaiser.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Saw Hamnet on the big screen today and I became Aunt Georgiana in Willa Cather’s “A Wagner Matinee,” weeping helplessly, cathartically, joyfully. Sublime, truly.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
UK based stained glass artist Harriet Love #Womensart.
Six arch shaped stained glass artworks, each featuring a different image of a bird, plant or animal in individual colours
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
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Laura Fisher Kaiser @elleffkaiser.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
If Santa doesn't put a ticket to Paris in my stocking, at least I have @theguardian.com's lovely sampling of MEP's Edward Weston exhibit. I esp ❤️ the modernist nude of Tina Modotti, who starred in the film adaptation of Elizabeth Dejeans' The Tiger's Coat in 1920. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘A revelation!’: how Edward Weston transformed bums, veg and egg slicers into sculpture – in pictures
Moving from one avant garde movement to another during the 1920s, the American photographer’s work helps tell the story of the birth of modernism
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MKSongbird @mksongbird.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/12/2025
More people need to just call them on their lies immediately. They melt like this guy.
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Laura Fisher Kaiser @elleffkaiser.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Writing about family secrets and resisting the urge to begin every sentence with "Curiously,...."
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 08/12/2025
Do the same people who believe the moon landing was faked... also believe that Elon Musk will colonize Mars?
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/12/2025
without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law. revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
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Paul Chiddicks @chiddickstree.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This is how people look when I start talking about my family history
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The laws have put doctors under increasing pressure, complicating the standard medical treatments for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, premature membrane rupture, and other pregnancy problems. These laws are driving much-needed doctors from certain states. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Iowa doesn't have enough OB-GYNs. Is the state's abortion ban part of the problem?
Iowa ranks last among states for the number of OB-GYNS per capita. State legislators are trying to recruit more, but some doctors say the state's strict abortion ban is partially to blame.
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Ms Rachel @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.
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Laura Fisher Kaiser @elleffkaiser.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Democracy dies in passive voice.
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VassB @vassb.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
World Series tickets now start at over $1,000. In 1992, they were $24 which is about $50 today. A beer at the game now costs more than a 1992 seat. When did baseball become a luxury good?
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Butterflies Katz ⓥ @butterflieskatz.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
#NoKings clever sign #FreedomOfPress #FreeSpeach
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Laura Fisher Kaiser @elleffkaiser.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Disgraceful.
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Relevant today, as always.
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Don't We Have To Judge People By The Standards Of Their Time?
Many who reach for this cliché want it to function as a shield against judgment altogether.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This is Rev David Black, minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago. He was shot seven times in the head with chemical pellets by ICE agents as he was kneeling to pray at a protest. He's one of three clergymen that ICE shot in the head.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2025
crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it
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Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor
Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …
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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
'Books have souls,’ repeated the cat softly. ‘A cherished book will always have a soul. It will come to its reader’s aid in times of crisis.' Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books #BookWormSat 💙📚 🎨 Eva Fialka
Painting of a grey cat with yellow eyes. It gazes out from the page of a book, looking past us, ears erect. Despite a serious demeanor, it wears a red bowtie with white spots. The page is printed in French and washed in shades of gold.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Anne Frank describes Chicago in 2025
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2025
The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May)
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Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion
Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...
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Laura Fisher Kaiser @elleffkaiser.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Wonderful cover.
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 22/09/2025
if you’re in line to get raptured, STAY IN LINE
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 09/09/2025
his father was unavailable for comment
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