Sign in

Laura A. Ring

@lauraring.bsky.social
378 followers 413 following 9 posts

Poet. Librarian. Anthropologist. Native Vermonter. Field Notes Recovered from the Expedition to Devil’s Peak (MWC Press). Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building (Indiana UP). Poems in Tupelo Quarterly, RHINO, Stirring, and elsewhere.

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 07/10/2025
What's happening in Chicago is not normal. The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.
624189816648
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/09/2025
The oyster farmer Graham Platner is angling to unseat Susan Collins. He’s been endorsed by Bernie Sanders, and a recent internal poll has Platner ahead of Collins by 12 points. Can he make the leap from harbormaster to senator?
newyorker.com
Can a Maine Oyster Farmer Defeat a Five-Term Republican Senator?
Graham Platner, a local veteran, is angling to take on Susan Collins, who may be vulnerable in her 2026 reëlection bid—and is drawing support from both sides of the aisle.
2239484
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
theguardian.com
University of Toronto agrees to host Harvard students facing Trump visa restrictions
Pact will help international students finish their studies amid Harvard’s legal battle with Trump administration
46814
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/06/2025
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
24163422616328
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??
1044146464777
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
605196388904
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
As a mother? I don’t want to hear a word about Mother’s Day when this is what we’re doing to mothers in this country.
38419
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
No lies detected. This is our country now.
0197
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is mislabeled. Actually, it’s a map of where scientific discoveries, biomedical research, cancer treatments, and drug discovery come from. Also economic growth.
10664198
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Hey Marco
0141
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Fun fact: the International Criminal Court at The Hague does NOT recognize any immunity based on official title or diplomatic status.
320115212597
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Chiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
forever re-learning that the poem comes out of what I don't yet know. I don't have to know or plan what's going to happen when I go to the page, and it's usually better if I don't. the point is to sit down and let it happen.
283
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
"ICE took our students, we want them back," @aaup professors from NYU/Columbia among other universities chant, marching to Foley Square.
61810464
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
““No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
thecrimson.com
Harvard Will Fight Trump’s Demands | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garb...
0258
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 14/04/2025
if Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release,” People want action, this is action. This is the highest form of doing something www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-r...
vanhollen.senate.gov
Van Hollen Requests Meeting with President Bukele to Discuss Return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia; Announces Intent to Travel to El Salvador This Week if Abrego Garcia is Not Returned | U.S. Senator Chris V...
U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) has requested a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele while he is in the United States this week in...
9141861127
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
President Trump is using the Abrego Garcia case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop him from imprisoning anyone he wants anywhere else in the world never to be seen or heard from again. His dream is to preside over a police state. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago
He is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.
20039991760
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens
13873392095
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
61Flaneur @chaptal.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
good grief... www.wosu.org/politics-gov...
wosu.org
Multiple Columbus speaking events canceled for doctor who treated Palestinian bomb victims
Oxford University's Dr. Nick Maynard was supposed to speak about how Israel's bombing of Gaza is also an attack on healthcare workers there.
163
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
BIG UPDATE TODAY: This afternoon, the ACLU filed a new "class action habeas" lawsuit in New York challenging the Alien Enemies Act removals. They are seeking a temporary restraining order which would basically replicate the same thing they previously had with Judge Boasberg's order.
413402824
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Luis Alberto Urrea (& Cindy) @urrealism.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
48328
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
"University leaders should commit, collectively and immediately, to challenge unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance": read my brilliant colleague Dave Pozen @ryandoerfler.bsky.social and Sam Bagenstos in @thenation.com here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
Why Universities Must Start Litigating—and How
The litigation would afford schools a high-profile venue in which to detail the Trump administration’s lawlessness and aggression.
05619
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 06/04/2025
NEW: As the Fourth Circuit today considers whether to block her order, Judge Paula Xinis releases a strong opinion defending it, calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia's detention "wholly lawless" and her order "the narrowest, daresay only, relief warranted." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
MEMORANDUM OPINION
In 2019, an immigration judge acting under the authority delegated by the United States
Attorney General and pursuant to powers vested by Congress- granted Plaintiff Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia ("Abrego Garcia") withholding of removal, thereby protecting him from return to his native country, El Salvador. ECF No. 1 9 41; EC No. 1-1. Such protection bars the United States from sending a noncitizen to a country where, more likely than not, he would face persecution that risks his "life or freedom." See Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"), 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b)(3)(A); see also 8 C.F.R. §$ 208.16-.18 & 24 (setting forth the standard for withholding of removal and the procedures required for its termination).
Six years later, without notice, legal justification, or due process, officers from U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE"), a subagency of the Department of Homeland
Security ("DHS"), put him on a plane bound for the Terrorism Confinement Center ("CECOT")
263184836
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Oh HELL YEAH
349775
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Dawn F as in @obi-dawn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Montpelier, VT #HandsOff It was 40° F and raining. This is a pretty impressive crowd for Vermont.
Looking down on a crowd from a small hill. Onto the Vermont State House lawn. Lots of umbrellas and colorful raincoats. Hard to read any signs but there is one in support of sovereign Canada. The whole lawn is full, a few thousand people. It’s grey and the trees are still bare. Across the street is a 5 story cream colored early 20th century office building. More interesting Victorian-ish buildings to the sides.  Behind are low, tree covered hills.
732968
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.
18668284319371
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I scanned dozens of newspapers from around the U.S. & world. On average, international newspapers cover the widespread protests against Trump/Musk and for democracy much more prominently on their covers than those in the U.S. This isn’t due to deadlines, protests were daytime in the U.S. #handsoff
The San Jose Mercury News and Arizona Daily Star cover protests prominently; the Boston Globe and Dallas Morning News do not.The Philly Inquirer covers protests above the fold; the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Newsday and NY Daily News don’t have protests on the cover or have only a blurbThe Detroit Free Press and Minnesota Star Tribune cover protests front and center; the LA Times has a tiny mention in bottom right corner; the SF Chronicle doesn’t have it on coverThe NY Times has a picture of protests on lower left of front cover; The Washington post has a tiny picture in bottom strip
12735411372
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 05/04/2025
really into this new collaborative art installation
415636
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025
The #HandsOff rally in Chicago is packed!
102100151987
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Lots of people willing to try new foods
A smiling person holds a sign over their head. It reads “vegetarian but will eat the rich”
132538
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Protest changes the permission structure. It says fascists will not be allowed to proceed unencumbered. And if you didn't think there was anything to be done, a protest shows you many think otherwise.
214283852
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march. They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.
10081702371
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 30/03/2025
Also, a woman was handcuffed at a subway station in NYC (Franklin Ave) when she intervened asking why a delivery man was asked to show work permit by undercover agents. There is a video of that.
409118675412
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
An elderly holocaust survivor confronts ICE and Tom Homan. His bravery after what he has experienced and endured shows his incredible indomitable spirit even the Nazis couldn’t crush. #MomSky
28299204224
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
4378952449
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
They are rounding up the students. Anyone acting like this isn’t a 4 alarm fire is deluded.
91047272
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 26/03/2025
Another student kidnapped and disappeared by masked ICE agents for voicing an opinion.
12212
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
10215588217482
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This by @bechamilton.bsky.social seems complementary.
072
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Here at Princeton, we’re amplifying our university president’s leadership. It’s time for everyone - faculty, students, staff - to speak out. tl;dr: rights can’t be blackmailed. From me and science colleagues: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
dailyprincetonian.com
To stop intimidation, Eisgruber needs your help
When targeting one institution is a bald attempt to divide and conquer, as is the case with Columbia, it is essential for a coalition or group of institutions and individuals to stand up together.&nbs...
8582163
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It's World Poetry Day, and we're revisiting 'It's About Time', a poem by Michael Bazzett from our February / March 2024 issue.
2115
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Heather Christle, for the day that's in it.
1123
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"Human beings are all the limbs of one body." —Saadi Shirazi
0317
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Chrissy Stegman @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
👀
0114
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.
12563538411107
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The irony of today being the Ides of March and the Senate having missed the opportunity to put a halt to the gutting of our democracy.
06316
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Deborah Kay Kelly @dkkelly.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
@tupelopress.bsky.social Tupelo Press sets an example. williamsrecord.com/469281/featu...
williamsrecord.com
‘We poets are cartographers of the soul’: Tupelo Press defends its mission amid Trump attacks on the arts
Tupelo Press, a North Adams-based literary press, announced on Feb. 9 that it would not comply with the National Endowment for the Arts’ new guidelines restricting federal grants. Tupelo’s founder and...
292
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger. —Adrienne Rich
1483104
Reposted by Laura A. Ring
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
theatlantic.com
Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run
The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.
9664622594