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N. LaRocque

@larocquen.bsky.social
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Food. Books. Learning. Kindness. Pets. Trying to put her money where her beliefs are in this capitalist hellscape.

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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I WON MARIOKART FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME EVER AND IT WAS A KNOCKOUT GAME! @Level One Game Pub Ottawa, ON.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 13/05/2026
I just think it’s really funny when people who make hating Bluesky 80% of their personality also spend vast amounts of the time allocated to their one wild and precious life on Bluesky. When I start hating something, I stop doing it. Which is why I left Twitter.
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Can someone please explain why there isn’t by this, the year of our dumpster fire 2026, a decent way to reheat French fries? We value all of the wrong things in this late stage capitalist hellscape.
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This (and the fact that I always enjoy @jayasaxena.com’s writing) is why I just subscribed to @weareravenous.com I can’t wait for their official launch.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Simple information about what the SAVE Act would actually do to American voters. Tens of millions would lose their right to vote unless they spend lots of $$$ and jump through bureaucratic hoops before November.
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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
They come for one of us, they come for all of us. Support Trans folks trying to relocate out of Kansas: tcpipeline.org
tcpipeline.org
Trans Continental Pipeline
Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
People of the internet, a question: What, in your mind, is the difference between kindness and niceness? Tagging several writers who are very important to me to jump start the conversation. @theferocity.bsky.social @courtneymilan.com @scalzi.com @pronounced-ing.bsky.social
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
A former coworker of mine just found out that her 6 m/o was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma. While trying to find relief for her ailing child, her husband was accused of unsubstantiated child abuse by a major children’s hospital. This family lives paycheck to paycheck.
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Rotorbabe Recordings @rotorbabe25.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
mprnews.org
St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident
The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to be the first time local police...
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Mayo Clinic: it is a 15 minute walk from this location to the Hilton building. Me: MAKE THAT 7 MINUTES MFERS!!!! What a week.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force. @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence
Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the en...
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This evening, I have arrived in Rochester, MN for a visit to Mayo. Here is my contribution to the beautification of my hotel. #abolishice #resist
Photo of a silver ice maker with a blue post-it that says “Fuck ICE” in black Sharpie.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.
raffi: regime change in America
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
ICE has detained 4 Oglala Lakota men in Minneapolis. Story here: rapidcitypost.com/four-oglala-... and tribal president's statement below.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
If being disrespectful to black women is a means to your supposed antifascist end, fuck you and your revolution. How you treat people is who you are.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“Emerson does not have a mother today because one of you murdered a woman in cold blood yesterday.”
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Folks, that is 21 STATES who want to revoke your First Amendment Rights to use public and public school libraries. Nearly half the states in the US want to dismantle YOUR RIGHTS. You need to be giving a shit. No one will save us but us. No one else is coming.
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
ALL OF THIS. It’s really hard to purchase books for teens of ALL AGES AND INTERESTS lately as a Librarian.
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
IT IS FINALLY TIME! @mattielubchansky.com @jayasaxena.com
Photo of a kindle ereader screen with the dedication page of Mattie Lubchansky’s book In the Land of Simplicity including a lyric from Stephen Sondheim’s Someone in a Tree and a dedication reading “for Jaya, obviously.”
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Got back from an amazing vacation at 10:30 PM last night. Knew there wouldn’t be time to defrost traditional Thanksgiving stuff. So baked potato bar and bake from frozen pie for all.
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A pretty odd to-do list for my day off. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Well it’s October and I have a road trip coming up this weekend which means it’s time for my annual reread of probably my favorite audiobook of all time: The Gates by John Connolly. If you have a library card and your library gives you access to the Hoopla app you can listen to it any time!
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 30/09/2025
Over a two-year period, prosecutors across 16 states charged more than 400 people with pregnancy-related crimes, with most of the charges originating in states with near or total abortion bans, according to a new report released Tuesday.
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New study finds more than 400 pregnancy-related prosecutions after Roe's fall
Most of the cases involved allegations of substance use during pregnancy, a nonprofit legal group found.
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.
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collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
"the guy audibly dying into the microphone?" "yeah, the health secretary"
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I am a seasonal reader and someone who rereads for comfort. Time for an Indian Lake trilogy reread. Cuz if Jade Daniels can be a badass, so can I. #jadedanielsismyfinalgirl @sgj.bsky.social #booksky
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
1/2 You. All. Reading an advance audiobook copy of Tiffany D. Jackson’s The Scammer and it has me alllll on edge like when I read Grown for the first time. The two biggest pieces of ick thus far? #booksky
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Let’s get this effin’ vacation started. @effinbirds.com
Woman in a white effin’ birds t-shirt with the words Powered by Spite stands in front of a white SUV holding up a peace sign
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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Amtssprache

So what would you pay to have your family safe
In that house with the garden and the clean running water -
And you walk in and hold them and kiss their faces?
Your life? Too easy, and nobody’s asking.

How about the life of an Afghan child,
A city, the birds in the sky?
Would you turn a blind eye? Would you turn off the news?
Would you run the trains to death camps?

Of course you would. You do.
You do these things.

(Poem by Clare Pollard)
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Looks like an important animal fact that @theferocity.bsky.social needs to know.
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
First bike in almost 20 years. Hubs got one too. And that means our entire family can ride together. ❤️
Woman in a neon helmet stands with a dark purple bicycle.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Between June 10 and June 16, there were FOUR bomb threats sent to public libraries across the US. That this doesn't make wider news–the ongoing targeting of public libraries with bomb threats–is mind-boggling. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
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One Week, Four Library Bomb Threats
Bomb threats at libraries have become a far too common occurrence. In the summer of 2023–two years into an unrelenting attack on public librarians, as well...
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I just keep looking at my phone and saying “oh my God” like Bob from Bob’s Burgers.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
How about some neutral-leaning-good news? Brooklyn Public Library is making funding available for libraries across the US who want to develop freedom to read programming for young people. It's open to any library, with a note that small and rural libraries are especially encouraged to apply.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The fascism is not a distraction from the funding of the fascism. They’re the same thing.
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Tracie Renee (she/her) @tracierenee.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
#haiku #HaikuSaturday above an empty basin watermarks ring granite cliffs Inspired by: www.bbc.com/news/world-u... The article is old. The problem is not.
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Lake Mead: Largest US reservoir dips to record low
Lake Mead along the Arizona-Nevada border is a major water supply source for some 20 million people.
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Leah from South Dakota @leahfromsd.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I never, ever want to hear again that women are too emotional to be leaders.
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I sure do love KING KONG VS GODZILLA (1962), I mention for no particular reason
a screenshot from King Kong vs Godzilla (1962) where a Japanese official says "if we're lucky, both will die"
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
As a Librarian, I can’t tell you how amazing this thread is. Transparency is so. Freaking. IMPORTANT. Dang. Go get a @libro.fm account. Get your dollars out of Bezos’s pocket.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/06/2025
It’s called taxing the rich, buddy.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 31/05/2025
Who wore cognitive dissonance/complete detachment from their populous' suffering better?
On right a painting of Marie Antoinette saying "Let them eat cake". On the left, Joni Ernst saying "We all are going to die".
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N. LaRocque @larocquen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Immediately did a double take when I saw this ad since I am reading an advance copy of @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social ‘s The Listeners. IYKYK
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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 21/05/2025
When it comes to the latest economic research on assistance to the poor, says @kedseconomist.com, Congress is like a toddler with their hands over their ears
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The GOP Tax Bill Ignores Decades of Economic Research
Assistance to the poor should be seen less as spending on people and more as investment in people.
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js-atkins.bsky.social @js-atkins.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I'm hoping you and other commentators are going to say something about this. So far there's been almost nothing from those with the biggest voices. www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...
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A Terrible Idea
Dean Chemerinsky discusses the reconciliation bill’s provision that would restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt for violating court orders
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