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Laura Gillette

@lauragillette84.bsky.social
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Mom of one small child and two cats. Knitter, crocheter, baker. Co-leader of Bend the Arc’s Maryland chapter. Freelance graphic designer (mostly layout/typesetting).

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Eliana @otrodia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Call them what they are already! CONCENTRATION CAMPS
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Would have been an Excellent Vice President…..
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No more book bans: how Florida students are pushing rightwingers out of school boards #TheGuardian
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No more book bans: how Florida students are pushing rightwingers out of school boards
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
HUGE: Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to push private equity out of healthcare. The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act would make it illegal for private equity, insurance companies, and for-profit corporations to own or control medical practices.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 01/09/2026
*88* thousand dollars is not a random choice. 88 = HH = Heil Hitler
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/09/2026
🚨 TEXAS: THEY’RE TRYING TO CLOSE 92 ELECTION DAY POLLING PLACES Tarrant County officials are set to vote TODAY on cutting Election Day voting locations from 316 to 224, nearly 1 in 3 polling places gone. Civil rights groups warn the cuts could disproportionately burden Black, Latino & Asian voters
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Patsy Cline @chompie97.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Marc Elias: This is an assault on democracy.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This would not be happening if people remained silent.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/08/2026
Worth a listen. “If I was gonna stage a coup in 2028…”
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Eileen In @eileennjflns.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Food safety. Airatarians for safe eating
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Trump predicted we'd make trillions off tariffs. Now we're losing billions as companies claim refunds for tariffs SCOTUS ruled illegal. American consumers, on the other hand, won't get any refunds for the higher prices they've paid for months. My @nytopinion.nytimes.com Chart:
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Ethan 🦋Proud Blue🦋 @grand-pa-etan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Butler (PA), a quintessential Republican stronghold, elected the Democrat Brandon Dukes on Tuesday. A bitter foretaste for Trump: even his strongholds are beginning to waver, while he clings to his illusions as if the November midterm elections would bend to his whims. #ProudBlue #DV1
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Wild West🦬 @jb360.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Unbelievable scientists do it again…. mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer shows remarkable potential in clinical trials. Let’s hope this is a big win.. one of my best friends died of pancreatic cancer… science & vaccines save lives and expand human life expectancy #VoteBlue and get vaccinated
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Good 'ol Tami(ka) @tamikakoga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
it's illegal to sleep in your car, it's illegal to be homeless, it's illegal to have a tent, it's illegal to sleep in the park, it's illegal to sleep in the wood, it's illegal to BUILD a fvckin shanty or whatever... it's LEGAL to pay ppl 7.25/hr +raise rents every year 😐 make it make sense
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Grant Tanaka @granttanaka.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
still think daily about the time I was at Arby's and the person in front of me asked what the "healthy option" was, and the cashier responded "leaving"
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Mandy Kilpatrick @mandypandaren.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Are we allowing this? Because there is no one with honor or integrity in Congress to stop it....? Is there a way for us to fight this?
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I've bee thinking about this for over a decade
There’s a grim parallel between America’s food diet and its media diet. We increasingly choose what is cheap, fast, addictive, and engineered to keep us consuming over what is nourishing. Fast food replaced meals; outrage replaced information. Both deliver an immediate dopamine hit while leaving us less healthy, less satisfied, and wanting more. And after decades of consuming junk, we shouldn’t be entirely surprised by the condition of the body—or the body politic.
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Meidas Ian @lordye.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Three star and low bar! No competition!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Susan Collins pulls into town in a bus full of her supporters; then they all get off the bus; and then she addresses the folks who were on the bus with her as if they were regular Mainers; and legacy media covers this, pretending it isn't deeply bizarre. (Notice the guys with cameras.) #MEpolitics
Susan Collins campaign photo.
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LINDZEE @lindzee2.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Ice says that these electric gloves are meant to "maintain compliance." Slave owners used to say the same thing about whips. If using shock collars on dogs is Animal Cruelty and Abuse, how is it fine for ICE to use Shock Gloves on people?
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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IndivisibleHoCoMD❌👑 @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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This orientation is intended to 1) introduce new members to IndivisibleHoCoMD and the Indivisible movement and 2) help existing members explore the different opportunities to take action. Orienta...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Abolishing ICE is now the official position of the Democratic Party
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This story is a bit wild. After Elon Musk's DOGE erased decades of USAID data, it was assumed to be lost. But a Canadian college student had previously downloaded much of it in high school for a project. 4,000 PDFs. Thanks again, Canada. Yet again. www.aiddata.org/blog/before-...
aiddata.org
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Delta Airlines charging me for my bag? That's obnoxious. Delta Airlines charging me to book a seat? That's obnoxious. But Delta Airlines working with ICE to ship people to concentration camps is COLLABORATION. Boycot #delta
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/08/2026
I love this. Senate candidate Annie Andrews says she decided to jump into the race the day RFK Jr was nominated to lead HHS. She’s a pediatrician. Saw what was coming & decided she couldn’t sit on the sidelines. THIS is what I’m talking about. Feeling called to serve & actually following through.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 04/08/2026
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I Remember, Hope you do….
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The “Why would a woman I’ve made worry that I will hurt her if she displeases me cook to placate me?” question is only asked by the least self-aware domestic abusers.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
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God @thegodshow.com · 01/08/2026
Remember when David Hogg was running for DNC chair and the establishment stepped in and said we needed a responsible adult and then gave us Ken Martin, who throws his phone at his staffers? Also the DNC is $2 million in debt. But centrists still demand they should be in charge.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
8 years ago.
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LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Another day, another atrocity.
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South Carolina Department of Propaganda @southcarolinadop.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
For the enlightenment of the 💩🤡s going after Fauci:
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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
They never cared about women’s sports before it became politically convenient. Equal pay? Pfffft. Rampant sexual abuse? Sorry that keeps happening. An excuse to attack a tiny population of vulnerable transgender athletes? “PROTECT WOMENS’ SPORTS!”
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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This really is a perfect measure of the putrefaction of corporate media in the US, now heavily under the control of the tech bros.
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Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/07/2026
The Odyssey cost $250 million to make. Guess who got a tax break worth more than 30x that last year? Amazon—after firing 30,000 workers.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.
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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/07/2026
WHOA!! Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) just STRUCK a person asking him a simple question about rural hospital closures. Reporter: Do you still think rural hospital closures are a myth? Nunn: I said I'm with a constituent. You should protect their privacy! *SMACK*
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
If you hoard those cables for long enough …
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🚢☀️ China has delivered the world's first 10,800-vehicle carrier equipped with a solar power system. The vessel combines onboard solar generation with dual-fuel technology, highlighting how renewable energy is beginning to play a role in decarbonising global shipping.
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World's first 10,800 car carrier with solar power delivered by China
China has delivered the world's first 10,800-vehicle car carrier equipped with a solar power system, combining photovoltaic technology with LNG dual-fuel propulsion.
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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Morning Kitten Sound Up!
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Moodyblues1973 @moodybkues1973.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Nothing we can do????? Hope Dems have prepared????? Not hopeful.
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somedudenamedcarl.bsky.social @somedudenamedcarl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
These performative chuckledicks are annoying....snatch that fucker up, and put him under oath and have him repeat that nonsense...We have to keep calling out these inbred fuckwits. It's like whack-a-mole with lies..but we have to do it.
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God @thegodshow.com · 23/07/2026
Seen in Cleveland, Ohio.
Overpass sign in Cleveland, Ohio says:
“Mitch McConnell is on eternity leave.” 

Done by the Burning River Brigade (Visibility Brigade)
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