Sign in

Laura

@lauraa822.bsky.social
2.3K followers 2.6K following 1K posts

~ Writer who loves books, art, music, film, theater, dance ~ Living with Lupus ~ Tea drinker, fragrance collector ~ 26 years married Democrat in a blue state

PostsRepliesMedia
Laura @lauraa822.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is such a great recommendation. I didn't even know there were several of these community fridges near me at some local churches and also at the public library! They are accessible 24/7, too! What a simple thing to do to help others. ☺️ (Thanks, @gregpak.net !! )
010
Reposted by Laura
Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The World Cup should be held every year. It's living proof that a majority of humanity is actually decent, sane, and appreciates joy and community.
2354488562
Reposted by Laura
lesbian unc @papayascents.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Anyway I'm begging more ppl to write, draw, create some type of original art. Not to share, even. Just for personal enjoyment and growth.
836677
Reposted by Laura
Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I love how much these humans love each other, how much they love their families, love our planet, our moon, our universe.. it’s beautiful to see.. #ArtemisII
The Artemis II team wearing blue suits, standing together
1788464
Reposted by Laura
Jason Miciak @jasonmiciak.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Exactly, and reaffirmation that there is no "both sides" to any of this. I was a huge Swalwell supporter right up until 48 hours ago. And then we move on, supporting the victims. It is not only common sense, the right thing to do, but it's available when politics isn't a cult-identity.
1889
Reposted by Laura
Rep. Kelly Morrison @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
“Our purpose on the planet as humans is to find joy… To find joy in lifting each other up, by creating solutions instead of destroying.” Love this message from the Artemis II crew – and grateful for their safe return home.
620042
Reposted by Laura
Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!
3253151413
Reposted by Laura
Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/04/2026
Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛
172195374014
Reposted by Laura
Sarah Rar ❌👑 @sararar.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Everyone feeling inconvenienced by the timing of an assault claim against a person they liked... instead of feeling grateful that the claim came before they voted for a person who sexually assaults his staff... unreal. If you're asking "why now," know that all I hear is "I don't believe women."
916724
Reposted by Laura
The Phantom Judge You Harshly 🎃💀🦇🧛‍♂️ @judgeyouharshly.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I wanna watch the Artemis landing on this.
Vintage classroom TV setup
4988829616
Reposted by Laura
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
1824323810794
Reposted by Laura
Dr. Susan G (she/her) @madtownmama.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Rep Frost’s account of viewing the Epstein files is JAW DROPPING Please keep calling your congressman people about this. @hcrichardson.bsky.social is doing such important work here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=10eO...
youtube.com
The Epstein Files Coverup With Representative Maxwell Frost
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
13635316
Reposted by Laura
Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Rümeysa Öztürk got her PhD yesterday, roughly nine months after being released from ICE custody. Dr. Rümeysa Öztürk!
617141
Reposted by Laura
Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔
313176036772
Reposted by Laura
Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 01/11/2025
For Día de Los Muertos, @padilla.senate.gov and I each left a photo of a loved one at the other office’s ofrenda. Proud to bring a beautiful tradition to the U.S. Senate to remember and honor those who have gone before us.
1717128
Reposted by Laura
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity
17684821008
Reposted by Laura
the lakeshore undead @thecorlew.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
it’s Sunday on bluesky so I am urging everyone to take care of themselves. Take a walk, have a second cup of coffee or tea, read a book, spend some time looking at small poems
2145264592
Reposted by Laura
Keith M. Judge @optimist-press.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
A GoFundMe for Silverio's family.
gofundme.com
Donate to Silverio Villegas González, organized by Lily Rivera
Honoring the Life of Silverio Villegas Gonzales It is cruel what ICE agents did to him short… Lily Rivera needs your support for Silverio Villegas González
023
Reposted by Laura
Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Good Friday morning! Your assignment this weekend! Put some care in the world! Give someone you love a book you love. Tell an author why they're important to you. Send a thank you note to a librarian. Add a banned book to a little free library w a note about why it matters. Add care.
823174
Reposted by Laura
Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
342113731160
Reposted by Laura
Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Six former CDC vaccine chairs are sounding the alarm—and we better listen. The U.S. is on the brink of losing access to life-saving immunizations. When science is attacked and trust is eroded, lives will be lost. This is not a drill. This is a national emergency.
28486693690
Reposted by Laura
Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 19/06/2025
It's Juneteenth. Here's @levarburton.bsky.social reading Lift Every Voice and Sing. #BlackLivesMatter youtu.be/GNEPwwv56DY
youtu.be
155th Anniversary of Juneteenth
YouTube video by GoogleDoodles
4591156
Reposted by Laura
Matt Puckett @mattpuck.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
people need to get a lot clearer—and very quickly!—that the absence of due process is the same thing as lowering the bar of guilt to simply accusation.
041
Reposted by Laura
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
677392248580
Reposted by Laura
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
a friend sent me this one
352359476257
Reposted by Laura
Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
6052411412723
Reposted by Laura
Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
4945582278
Reposted by Laura
BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research. Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts. It will directly impact YOU. #ScienceNOTSilence
114104022972
Reposted by Laura
Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This is a mission everyone should be able to get behind. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families. No effort must be spared to bring them home:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/
785294128014
Reposted by Laura
David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/03/2025
I can't get over the fact that "voters who are educated & attuned to current events vote for Dems" has become one of the central *critiques* of the Dem Party.
2638492
Reposted by Laura
man-in-the-arena.bsky.social @man-in-the-arena.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
As @timothysnyder.bsky.social said in his latest blog post: “If you are a citizen and you are casting doubt on the importance of due process, remember this: you need due process in order to prove that you are a citizen.”
0184
Reposted by Laura
Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Wikipedia image of Major General (Ret.) Charles C. RogersDefense.gov google return: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers Defense.gov
404 - Page Not Foundhttps://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/
26713610714035
Reposted by Laura
David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The Trump admin has quietly terminated a State Department contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of alleged Russian abductions of Ukrainian children—a potential war crime—to law enforcement officials in Europe, two people familiar with the situation tell @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com
Trump Admin Nixed Contract Helping Kidnapped Ukrainian Kids: Sources
The fate of abducted Ukrainian children is a white-hot issue for peace negotiations—and it looks like the State Department may have just undercut the cause.
21293161
Reposted by Laura
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
cutting pediatric cancer research… www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/h...
cnn.com
A kindergartner’s hopes for beating cancer are tied to federal grants now on the chopping block | CNN
A family whose 6-year-old is battling cancer says a move to slash funding by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research at universities and medical centers would be “devastating.”
30973892844
Reposted by Laura
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Some federal workers are going back to work. The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back. Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired. The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.
785215964825
Reposted by Laura
Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
15892142519
Laura @lauraa822.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Highly recommend the newest book from best-selling author of The Chronology of Water (and many other wonderful books!), Lidia Yuknavitch. 📖💕 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726930
penguinrandomhouse.com
Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch: 9780593713051 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The frank and revealing memoir of a writer who draws from her own creativity to heal. "I believe our bodies are carriers of experience," Lidia Yuknavitch writes in her provocative memoir Reading the ...
010
Reposted by Laura
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.
11334702310314
Reposted by Laura
KAMALA NATION @kamalanation.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Ending the night with this. *Get your hankies* A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
11564102811935
Reposted by Laura
Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
78848417
Reposted by Laura
Webvixen @webvixen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
289212153521
Reposted by Laura
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Not pro-life
495135124968
Reposted by Laura
Brooklyn Kennedy Scott @brookekennedyscott.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
011
Reposted by Laura
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/02/2025
REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!
5883523821093
Reposted by Laura
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Jesuit Priest 👇🏽
534309188259
Reposted by Laura
Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Reading this book 📕 for the third time, might be a blueprint for how Marc Cuban can help build a news 📰 network with journalists like Jim Acosta, who can tell the TRUTH to POWER 💪💪💪 and lead the RESISTANCE 🙏🙏🙏
297137922443