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Laura Carroll

@lauracarroll88.bsky.social
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Twitter escapee! ; ) Check out my books, media & podcast highlights, 15+ years of writings, my LiveTrue Books library and more at: lauracarroll.com

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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 23h
Sharing exciting news that my dear friend and seasoned couples therapist, M'Lissa Trent, has just released this new book! Check it out: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
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Unspoken Expectations: Turn Hidden Assumptions Into Deep Conversations That Build Lasting Love
Unspoken Expectations: Turn Hidden Assumptions Into Deep Conversations That Build Lasting Love [Trent PH D, M'Lissa] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Unspoken Expectations: Turn Hidden Assumptions Into Deep Conversations That Build Lasting Love
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"...What they systematically omit is demand: the relentless pressure from billions of consumers." Sure need more of this straight truth talk! 2/2
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"Progressive media, think tanks, NGOs, parties endlessly blame billionaires, corp greed, and “big polluters” for the bulk of emissions and ecocide—deforestation, industrial agriculture, habitat destruction. These claims are at best half-truths"... overpopulation-project.com/the-progress... 1/2
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The Progressive Left are the Bad Guys Too - The Overpopulation Project
The political right deny the climate crisis, the "progressive left" are complicit by refusing to acknowledge effects of population growth.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Such a classic example of reinforcing stale stereotypes and #pronatalist beliefs about #childfree people, and muddled use of this term and #childless. Don't even click on piece like this. www.buzzfeed.com/nicolebecket...
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Women Who Chose Childfree Are Sharing How Their Life Is Now, And Surprisingly, It’s A Mixed Bag
"All of our siblings and friends have kids at varying ages, and I’ve watched some of them grow up to see them have kids of their own now. It’s a privilege to be part of their lives and to have them te...
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
See it. "The structural issues Haugen documented—the algorithm that rewards anger, the platform that knew and didn’t fix it—are still largely unresolved..." www.forbes.com/sites/legale...
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'The Social Reckoning' Proves 'The Facebook Files' Plague Meta
‘The Social Reckoning’ dramatizes Frances Haugen and 'The Facebook Files,' which sparked lawsuits, an $18 billion settlement and new laws—but radicalization remains unresolved.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
...argues much the same, as well as for why MAID needs to broaden to include those with progressive, incurable diseases. timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2026... 2/2
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Opinion: Thinking ahead about options in late-stage Alzheimer's disease
Along with knowing more about Alzheimer’s disease, public education needs to openly address the option of not having to live with it in the late stages.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is such an informative study on medical aid in dying #MAID. It underscores "a significant lack of public knowledge regarding the legality of MAID across the US, even among individuals living in jurisdictions where it is legally available." My recent op-ed.... jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/2
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Knowledge of and Preferences for Medical Aid in Dying
This survey study evaluates knowledge among US adults of the legal status of medical aid in dying as well as personal interest in using medical aid in dying.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"...Americans know this is about giving private industry easier access to our public lands." ourpubliclandsandwaters.substack.com/p/americans-...
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Americans Leave 1.6 Million Public Comments on the Roadless Rule Rescission. Over 99% Are Against It.
Public opposition against Trump administration’s proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule is near-universal.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
News! I have joined A Better Exit's Board of Directors : ) abetterexit.org/our-board
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A Better Exit
A Better Exit advocates for broadening California's End of Life Option Act, promoting compassionate end of life options like medical aid in dying.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
...that it is also an act of self-awareness about their level of desire for the parenthood experience to begin with. #childfree 2/2
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
While I agree that "for an increasing number of urban couples, choosing not to have children—or postponing that choice indefinitely—is therefore becoming less an act of rebellion than a rational calculation about the life they can realistically build," I would add... 360info.org/in-india-din... 1/2
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In India, DINK is now a rational urban household choice - 360
Rising costs, weak pensions, career pressures and unequal caregiving are reshaping how Indian couples calculate the price of parenthood. The DINK household—Double Income, No Kids—has moved from an onl...
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Great piece!
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Check out the women who were 'Masters of Story' and more in my book, #ASpecialSisterhood! www.amazon.com/Special-Sist... 2/2
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A Special Sisterhood: 100 Fascinating Women From History Who Never Had Children
A Special Sisterhood: 100 Fascinating Women From History Who Never Had Children - Kindle edition by Carroll, Laura, Tonyeva, Nataliia. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Special Sisterhood: 100 Fascinating Women From History Who Never Had Children.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Canadian poet and essayist, Anne Carson, who was just awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature is also part of #ASpecialSisterhood of many women now and from history gifted with the written word who also never had children : ) Read about her here: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/b... 1/2
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Canadian Poet Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (Gift Article)
The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"In the 2017 'Singles in America' poll, 80 percent of respondents younger than 40 said they felt it was important to find a partner who wanted to have kids; this year, only about 38 percent of singles ages 18 to 49 reported wanting children. " 2/2
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Some interesting stats from this year’s “Singles in America” study" - "From 2017 to this year, the share of respondents who said they would be willing to consider IVF fell by more than half, from 44 to 18 percent."  www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/... 1/2
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A Striking Decline in Openness to IVF
Interest in fertility treatments is down—even if the actual procedures are booming.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
for #FamiliesofTwo, the questioning has been going on from over 25 years before; it's just that the many questioning were living in the tributaries of society. The evolution of our digital world in the last 2+decades has changed this big time! 2/2
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes: "More individuals know their options, can make informed choices, and feel accepted by their community and society no matter their choice." To this, "We might be the first gen to widely question motherhood, but we won’t be the last," based on my research... 1/2 macleans.ca/society/the-...
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The Glorious Freedom of a Child-Free Life - Macleans.ca
Growing up, I thought motherhood was mandatory. When I realized it was a choice, I opted out.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, "careful reflection" with a health provider as part of deciding whether and when to do medical assistance in dying is valuable, as long as there is no delay-bias on the part of the provider, which would = provider paternalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Opinion | Assisted Death Is Not a Choice of Last Resort in Canada (Gift Article)
Assisted dying accounts for more than 5 percent of deaths in Canada.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"It was not immediately clear what Mr. Trump meant..." @nytimes, say what? Seems clear to me. I agree with reader comment JC "There is no bottom with this person." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w...
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Trump Suggests Iran Could ‘Take Out’ L.A. or San Diego, Drawing Anger From California Leaders (Gift Article)
Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president “dangerous and deranged” after his remarks at a political rally, where Mr. Trump said the Iran war was necessary to “keep the world safe.”
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
..."shifts in sureness" about being #childfree in their own learning process. Whether we have children or not, or how many when we do, like other realms of our own personal development over time, our reproductive lives evolve as well. 3/3
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
...and the experience might be better or worse than they had imagined," which then affects whether have more children or not. In my #childfree longitudinal study "intentions" also relate. A subset of the 25 women I tracked for 10 years had what I call... link.amazon/B04C9hKl8 2/3
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This point needs more spotlight: "Fertility intentions" are a "learning process" and are so often different that what actually happens. W/parenthood, "...once people have a child...they know what parenthood is really like... www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/... 1/3
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She Wanted to Have Three Kids. Then Life Happened.
Many women start out with a notion of their ideal number of children—but a variety of obstacles can get in the way.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How this story exemplifies the stubborn belief that we should try to live as long as possible and chase "an elusive cure." More stories need to be told of those who, instead, "had taken more time to say goodbye and celebrate a life well lived." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/b...
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How to Die (Gift Article)
We look at one family’s struggle to navigate a terminal illness.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Always like seeing pieces debunking #childfree myths coming out of Africa. This one in Daily Nation Africa, the largest in Kenya and East Africa: nation.africa/kenya/news/g...
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Women deserve respect beyond motherhood and children
A woman’s worth should be measured by her character, work and contributions, not whether she has children.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No to confirming "a CDC Director who has signaled a willingness to increase surveillance of people seeking abortion care and cater to anti-abortion extremists’ demands...[and] authority to conduct biased studies or suppress evidence that yet again proves abortion is safe." nwlc.org/resource/rep...
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Reproductive Rights, Health, and Justice Organizations Oppose the Nomination of Dr. Erica Schwartz for Director of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - National Women's Law Center
Dear Senator, The undersigned organizations committed to reproductive rights, justice, and health equity urge Senators to vote against the confirmation of Dr. Erica Schwartz to serve as the Director o...
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Many reasons amazing women from history never had children, and Many ways they lived fascinating lives. #ASpecialSisterhood: [just] 100 Fascinating Women From History Who Never Had Children shines light on them for young adults and all ages! aspecialsisterhood.com theconversation.com/childless-wo...
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Childless women who shape history and culture are still judged on not being mothers
Traditional motherhood has always been recognised, while women’s other achievements and bequests must continually prove their worth.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
👉These "challenges not only seek to overturn state-level bans, but could be used as part of a larger argument that the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade is itself unworkable and should be reversed." www.autonomynews.co/new-lawsuits...
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New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life
Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Add this to what to be outraged about re data centers: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A new reason people aren't having children-a "romance famine"? My first reaction is - in part this is a #pronatalist hypothesis, as underneath it is the assumption that once you Do find romance and fall in love, you will want to have a baby with that person. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
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I love my childfree life, but we need more women to have babies
A new book says we’re in a ‘romance famine’ and it’s affecting the birth rate. Too many have made the same choice as me
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
While I have contributed a US Supplement to the site that explains all about the Swtizerland Alternative (www.theswitzerlandalternative.com), I do agree that "Nobody should have to leave their own country to die on their own terms." thegooddeathsocietyblog.net/2026/09/27/a...
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A Personal Note
They were not doing anything wrong. They were dying; they knew it, and they wanted some say in how it happened. For that, they had to behave as though they were doing something shameful.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And...one of many bad ass female athletes now and from history who never had children : ) #ASpecialSisterhood
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Whoa did not know!
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sept is #WorldAlzheimersmonth. Today The Times of San Diego ran my op-ed related to this! It's part of my work on getting info out there about end-of-life choices, and this month, what too often public education on Alzheimer's awareness lacks. timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2026...
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Opinion: Thinking ahead about options in late-stage Alzheimer's disease
Along with knowing more about Alzheimer’s disease, public education needs to openly address the option of not having to live with it in the late stages.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"where the difference between us and the machines cuts deepest..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/o...
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Opinion | The Id, the Ego and the Superintelligence (Gift Article)
Artificial intelligence isn’t coming for philosophers’ jobs — it needs philosophers, and always will.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another smart (and disturbing) piece by Bruce Gritton: resistreflectrebuild.substack.com/p/why-would-...
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Why Would Trump Keep an Unpopular War Going Until After the Midterms?
The Pretext Theory - Why keeping the Iran war active through the midterms could create a domestic election-security pretext.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today is #WorldContraceptionDay. Here's to the goal of everyone having "access [to] the information, services, and contraceptive options they need to make informed decisions about their future." www.your-life.com/en/world-con... (Planned Parenthood Image)
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"And we as a society, need to get over that, frankly...It does not behoove us to continue to treat the behavior of Silicon Valley as some kind of exception to established legal norms." 2/2
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
👉"...this whole industry is built on theft, right? The way that these models were created is by stealing enormous amounts of intellectual property.There has been this sense of carte blanche for behaviors that are criminal in a very straightforward sense..." 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...
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Opinion | The Wild West of A.I. Needs to End. Here’s How. (Gift Article)
It’s time to give the public what it wants: A.I. regulation.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ida Noddack is also part of #ASpecialSisterhood of fascinating women from history who never had children. In my book with this title, learn about just 100 (there are so many!), including a whole chapter called "Brainiacs" in which she definitely fits! www.amazon.com/Special-Sist...
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A Special Sisterhood: 100 Fascinating Women From History Who Never Had Children
A Special Sisterhood: 100 Fascinating Women From History Who Never Had Children - Kindle edition by Carroll, Laura, Tonyeva, Nataliia. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Special Sisterhood: 100 Fascinating Women From History Who Never Had Children.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
...discussion that is child-centered, starting with concerns about bringing a child into today's world. So many of the 'baby bust' articles are thru a parent-centric lens. As it remains all around us, this also is #pronatalism at work. 2/2
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Talbot finally gets there-yes to this: "...perhaps some part of the fertility decline reflects a change in what people want from their lives..." a"genuinely enlarged sense of what a satisfactory life might contain." Also the views discussed in this piece lack... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 1/2
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What’s Really Behind the Baby Bust?
Are people having fewer children because modern life makes parenthood too difficult—or because the meaning of a satisfying life has changed?
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"8.3 Billion humans growing at a rate of a million (births minus deaths) every 5 days." ~ Population Counts Birth rate plummet fears, fertility crisis messaging are both #pronatalist myths. #overpopulation
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
...progressive neurological conditions like Alzheimer’s who are in the early stages of the disease and have cognitive capacity. The organization, A Better Exit, has this mission. abetterexit.org 2/2
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A Better Exit
Learn about end of life choices and medical aid in dying at A Better Exit. Stay updated with legislative news on end of life options.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Not only does Iowa Not have a medical aid in dying (MAID) law, no state with MAID allows it for those with Alzheimer’s or any type of dementia. MAID needs to expand to include people with... 1/2 thegooddeathsocietyblog.net/2026/09/20/r...
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Rusty Martin Dies, Leaving These Final Words For Iowans
I do not want to be in a hotel room thousands of miles away. I want to be at my home in Des Moines.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Another way “they've assimilated all of this stuff, and now they’re spitting it back at us." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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The Rise of Parasite Authors
First, AI stole their books. Now it’s stealing their readers.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ruth Bader Ginsburg died #OTD in 2020. Champion of race & gender equality. Pioneering lawyer on women’s equality. Civil rights hero. Major pop icon. Notorious RBG. Key justice on America's highest court. #WomensRights #CivilRights #SCOTUS #RBG
A three-panel chronological photo collage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020), tracing her historic journey from a pioneering civil rights lawyer to an influential Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The composition transitions from left to right across three distinct eras. The left panel: A black-and-white portrait of a young Ginsburg, smiling warmly with bright, forward-facing eyes. Her hair is pulled back, and she wears a patterned blazer over a draped scarf, exuding a welcoming yet determined mood. The center panel: A color portrait from her early Supreme Court tenure. She wears her hair pulled back into her signature low ponytail with a black bow, paired with large, gold-rimmed glasses and elegant gold earrings. Donning her judicial robes with a crisp white jabot, her thoughtful expression reflects her status as a formidable legal mind. The right panel: A portrait of Ginsburg in her later years against a rich red backdrop. Her hair is sleekly pulled back, showing turquoise earrings that contrast with her black robes and intricate white lace jabot. She looks directly at the camera with a subtle, resilient smile, projecting an aura of quiet strength. The overall mood shifts seamlessly from youthful optimism to seasoned, historic authority.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yes, indeed. Looking forward to seeing his new movie, Babies : )
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
On #childfree men, in my interview research with happily married childfree couples, I'd add here that it was the man who drove the childfree decision more than people might think. lnkd.in/e8HXTwE4 www.newsweek.com/child-free-w...
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Child-free women get asked this question all the time. Then a man did
"There's still this deeply ingrained idea that motherhood is something we're all supposed to want," Tina told Newsweek.
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It judges women who choose not to have children, who have one, who can't have bio children, and promotes having to have both child genders before stopping having more, promotes shame w/miscarriages and more. It involves attempting to influence all of us, whether parents or not. #TheBabyMatrix 2/2
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