Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 5hCalling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants. 209105003321
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There are NOT machine-made clothes. If there were, your clothes would be made in the country you live in (where the customers are), or in China (where machines are cheap). They’re made in Bangladesh or India or Indonesia because that’s where the LABOUR is cheap. Your clothes are made by people. 271479361
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.nytimes.comOpinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity. 5032491229
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026Possibly the most American news of all timelocal12.comPrison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debtResidents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457. 280173914954
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comOpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death LawsuitsOpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits. 13543121594
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/09/2026to my knowledge, Gloria Steinem never went back on her opposition to sex workers' rights—such as when she urged Amnesty International to not support decriminalization, despite all the evidence that criminalization harms sex workerstheguardian.comActors call on Amnesty to reject plans backing decriminalisation of sex tradeMeryl Streep, Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson and Lena Dunham among signatories of letter arguing that policy change would ‘legalise pimping’ 630999
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/09/2026I also can't tell the full story yet, but when Gloria Steinem was a co-chair of the Women's March, language supporting sex workers vanished from the march platform—but it was put back. Between the lines: sex workers won that fight, over Gloria's objections. The story as I could report it:psmag.comThe Women’s March Is Pro-Choice and Pro-Sex Workers’ Rights — and Should Be Proud of It(Photo: djc/Flickr) This Saturday in Washington, thousands of women — tens of thousands, maybe — will march, defining what women’s rights look… 8897256
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026AI is not inevitable. resistance works!motherjones.comMamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schoolsKids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday. 2852731075
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Baffler United @bafflerunited.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Later this month, we’ll mark one year since we first sat down at the bargaining table with management. We’d like to share an update on how things are going (1/4): 13713
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 31/08/2026knuckle tattoos that say "nut graf" 39311
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 28/08/2026What I find fascinating is that not a single person who says they oppose illegal immigration on the grounds that "you should just come here legally" has ever been able to correctly tell me what the process for coming to the US legally is. 1625651
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Fuck the FBI, but: Hiring sex workers 👍 Stealing from work 👍 Stealing from sex workers👎 041
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 27/08/2026Being a name-your-own-price law practice means that I represent a lot of sex workers. That's good! Lots of sex workers are lovely people and they need lawyers too, and I fervently believe that sex work is valid work. But I *am* seeing a lot of the same mistakes repeated over and over again, 418235
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE. 69492355070
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Still no sign of Mitch McConnell. 47265301243
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Walmart spent $8.1 billion on stock buybacks last year. Over 156,000 Walmart workers are on Medicaid because they don't get healthcare from the company. ips-dc.org/report-execu...ips-dc.orgExecutive Excess 2026 - Institute for Policy StudiesExecutive Excess 2026 16474210
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I struggle to describe what Dolly meant to me as a southern blonde who spent her entire life getting disrespected to my face for being trashy and vain, but I will encourage you today to reflect on the ways YOU have treated women in your life whose aesthetics you find insufficiently respectable 194400601
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 17/08/2026more places should have artists-in-residence. like there should be a residency where you live on a particular train for a month. there should be an oil rig residency, an arctic research station residency. maybe a residency at a zoo 201515238
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay, 218104142359
laura 🇦🇷 @lauraisloading.bsky.social · 14/08/2026complaints about leftists being annoying are so weird to me because right-wingers are also extremely annoying and cringe. you just don’t notice because the evil is very distracting 010
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026There's a lot to say about the latest media take on Sociology. But I just have to point out that the NYT isn't doing Sociology (or arguably society) any favors here by labeling inequality a "left-leaning concern." 1411926
laura 🇦🇷 @lauraisloading.bsky.social · 12/08/2026it's never just about what your personal definition of "porn" is! 021
laura 🇦🇷 @lauraisloading.bsky.social · 06/08/2026very high iq of this administration to preempt any potential hunger strikes by making our food inedible anyway 000
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026This is art, to me. 185107492706
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷24k gold Ornstein labubu @heirsbane.bsky.social · 19/07/2026im not censoring shit this is literally the most en masse mask-off yanqui event ever seen. you people are SLAVERING to be racist and genocidal against latin americans, as if attempting to ethnically cleanse us from your borders isn't enough. 'oh it's just a joke' THAT ISN'T FUNNY, YANQUI. 142
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷reechie 🐙🎈 @reechiebun.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I already blocked the acc bc I refuse to engage w shit like that, but laura is fully right: I need left-wing "progressive" ppl to stop for a minute and listen to what's really being said about argentina. for like. a minute. we're being painted as savages for a fucking reason. 011
laura 🇦🇷 @lauraisloading.bsky.social · 21/07/2026joking about bombing a south american country under a dictator is very cool and epic 120
laura 🇦🇷 @lauraisloading.bsky.social · 20/07/2026now that the world cup is over can we talk about how many americans, whose government was responsible for destabilizing our country to get us to the point of milei, are falling for an alleged israel-funded hate campaign against argentina 011
laura 🇦🇷 @lauraisloading.bsky.social · 19/07/2026of course the colonizers win when trump is there 012
laura 🇦🇷 @lauraisloading.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Pro-Palestine Argentinians are facing suppression and state violence under a fascist government following the Trump playbook. @nacla-report.bsky.social nacla.org/tortured-by-...nacla.orgTortured by Israel, Abandoned by ArgentinaAs the country’s far-right Zionist president seeks to deepen ties with Israel, Argentine activists in solidarity with Palestine have been left to pay the price. 032
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org: 8953092939
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Manijardi 🎃🔮 @manijardi.bsky.social · 05/07/2026If you're following me in hellsite, sorry not sorry for all the rts trying to educate against the Argentina hate campaign. I'm so scared people are falling so easily for it. We just got our nuclear power plant handed to an Israeli company. Like, we are being actively ransacked during the WC. 141
laura 🇦🇷 @lauraisloading.bsky.social · 15/07/2026watching authors you liked being openly xenophobic about your country is weird lmao 000
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 15/07/2026His name is Peter and he works at the Old Florida Book Shop in Dania Beach, Florida. He loves reading Shakespeare. 261105051015
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 14/07/2026NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.miamiherald.comMan dies during immigration encounter in Florida, the third ICE-involved death in a weekThird ICE-involved death in a week confirmed after fatal St. Augustine crash during joint agency operation. National outrage grows over enforcement and deaths 27720601363
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Kev - I see SMART people - On Bluesky @57kev.bsky.social · 13/07/2026So how long before the statement is released that says this person tried to attack the agents with their car. Then once out of the car he tried to take one of their guns or had a knife or some other fake shit. Murders are freely roaming our streets with full authority of our government.commondreams.orgAnother Fatal Shooting Involving ICE—This Time in Maine | Common DreamsICE involved in second fatal shooting in a week, this time in Maine. Mainers demand answers. Will ICE be held accountable for their actions? Calls to abolish ICE grow louder. 1117
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13/07/2026"Your horror has been stolen from you" really defines the conditions we're in 0626152
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Curious to hear Mitch McConnell's comments on the passing of Lindsey Graham. 680143042443
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I love this so much 13615535
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11/07/2026“In the stuffy, standing-room-only union hall, the vigil to honor Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the Houston man killed by ICE this week, was ending… [Ronaldo Salgado is] a teacher at Eastwood Academy, in the neighborhood where he grew up, and he’s proud to teach kids who are like the kid he used to be…”houstonchronicle.comA message for America from the sons of Lorenzo Salgado AraujoTheir father was killed by federal agents. They still believe in America, writes Lisa Gray. 07332
laura 🇦🇷 @lauraisloading.bsky.social · 11/07/2026a lot of you gringos are a little too eager about the argentina hate that’s all i’ll say 121
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026kinda spitballing here, but I do feel like being the sort of guy who loves being a marine and killing people and who gets nazi tats because he thinks they're badass probably is comorbid with being the sort of guy who does nasty things to women, and that denying this association don't make sense 231890214
laura 🇦🇷 @lauraisloading.bsky.social · 08/07/2026you know i’ve always assumed i can’t run for office because of my highly visible sex work but now i want to see if certain people would come to my defense the way they’ve come to platner’s 000
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 07/07/2026🚨BREAKING🚨 More than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group just voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the largest union in trade publishing history! newsguild.org/hachette-boo...newsguild.orgHachette Book Group employees win election for largest union in trade publisher history | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA 153392904
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Can I just say how fucking wild it is that a man travelled to Montreal, booked a hotel room across from the Pornhub offices, fired BULLETS INTO THE WINDOWS OF PORNHUB, killed two bystanders and the Guardian does not mention Pornhub or WHY HE WAS THERE. Even as they warn against "copycat attacks."theguardian.comCanadian police warn of possible copycat attacks after deadly shootout in MontrealAssailant behind shooting that left three people dead wrote ‘incel’-like manifesto that was posted by a far-right outlet 12884360
Reposted by laura 🇦🇷Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.politico.comExclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted herThe Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.” 776581976