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Laurel George

@laurelbg.bsky.social
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Anthropologist, NYU adjunct professor, mom, birder, dance scholar, LGBTQIA rights advocate, COVID conscious.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The conflation of AI-critical with technophobic is tactical & infuriating. While accusing us of just knee-jerk hating tech, they’re enshittifying search engines, degrading digital archives, sundowning or enclosing popular tools, etc. We were all happily using that tech!
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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ya fuckin think @nytimes.com ?! JFC. A desperate, ludicrous, illegal, deficit crippling bribe. Report it.
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Laurel George @laurelbg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Bruce Nauman on How to Make Art: Don’t Try www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/a...
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: 9 activists arrested protesting gender affirming care reductions in MA More here: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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BREAKING: 9 Activists Arrested After Demanding MA AG Restore Trans Youth Care - Assigned Media
In Boston, Massachusetts this afternon a group of 40 protesters associated with Protect Trans Futures ratcheted up pressure on the Attorney General’s office to take action against providers who have c...
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Goddammit. Dolly Parton of all people deserved to outlive him.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15/07/2026
nyc giving out free KN95s at these public libraries (for the wildfire smoke on its way, but like, let’s do this all the time) www.nyc.gov/site/em/abou...
FREE MASKS
AVAILABLE AT DISTRIBUTION
LOCATIONS
To protect the health of New Yorkers, especially those at greatest risk, free KN95 masks are available at public library branches across the five boroughs. These include Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library locations, as well as the following New York Public Library branches: St. George Library Center in Staten Island, the Bronx Library Center in the Bronx, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (the main branch) in Manhattan. Emergency Management is working to expand availability at additional distribution sites and will announce further locations if air quality worsens.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 12/07/2026
Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Stop, Fox News! I *already* like the Democratic Socialists. You don't need to keep selling me on them.
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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026
genuinely crazy to watch these people freak out over what is essentially 21st century new dealism
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Laurel George @laurelbg.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Judge Blocks Trump Administration Attempt to Seize Private Medical Records of Trans Youth From New York Hospitals www.nyclu.org/press-releas...
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Judge Blocks Trump Administration Attempt to Seize Private Medical Records of Trans Youth From New York Hospitals - NYCLU
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Professional Internet Beggar @profinternetbeggar.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Daily reminder: you can't call it a handout after taking it directly from my paycheck for 40 years.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
What a powerful message! My aai (maternal grandma) in India got small pox. My mom had to get the small pox vaccine. She has that same vaccine scar. Their generation saw the havoc. We were spared from that. The public health actions taken by the past generations affect the future of children. 🧪
What's that mark
in your arm, rama?

My smallpox vaccine scar!
why don't 工have one?

Because it worked.

Cartoon by Dawn Mockler
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Grateful to fight alongside @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for the Democratic Party we deserve!
"We need a Democratic Party with backbone, a Democratic Party that offers an affirmative agenda, a Democratic Party that is not just willing to stand up, but also to stand for something, and a Democratic Party with the ambition to enact a vision worthy of the people it seeks to represent,” said New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. “That’s exactly why we need to elect Brad Lander, whose love for his neighbors is only matched by the fight he will bring to Congress. Brad had my back when I needed him most, had this city’s back when Elon Musk tried to rob it of tens of millions of dollars, and put his own back on the line to protect immigrants wrongfully detained by ICE.”
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:( HOMELESS. PINNED PLZ @adrianmica.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
good morning from my side of the planet! i still need at least $467 to be able to book somewhere before everything gets taken up by vacationers and film crews! i checkout tomorrow 🙁 please share!!! ca: $adrianmica v: lex-thee-lovely pp: walkingpersimmon chuffed: bit.ly/40KRJ83
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Housing Support for a Black Trans Person!
April 14th, 2026 update: Hello--life has been a whirwind these last few months so, I'm putting an update here for transparency as well! I haven't found employment yet which means I still need to crowd...
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Daily Reminder: SOCIAL SECURITY IS OUR MONEY!
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 09/06/2026
I love how people can breezily be like “so much that divides people” like it’s a brunch menu when the division is over whether people should be dead or not
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/05/2026
Just going to join with the many others saying: this is simple courage & humanity & whatever else you think about the race, Steyer deserves enormous credit for it.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Never forget that YOU are a data center. Drink some water ffs.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20/05/2026
ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.
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Google is its own worst enemy
In its bid to push AI, it’s destroying its products and trying to kill the web too
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Melinda's century of humiliation @melindamagpie.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
About 100 people came out to a press conference/rally at Washington Square Park to demand NYU Langone Hospital resist a federal subpoena seeking protected information on trans youth patients and providers. NYU Langone already capitulated to the Trump regime by ending all care for trans youth.
A crowd of protesters hold signs, a trans pride flag, and a banner that reads, "Trans Rights Are Human Rights." At the podium, a young African American trans person dressed in black is speaking.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.
Replying to 
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The shooting happened on the level above the ballroom where the White House Correspondents Association dinner was. 
I don't think people hearing about this -- or even those of us in the room -- realized how far from the president, VP and other guests this incident was. It was on another floor, up some stairs and several sets of security away. 
Because the Washington Hilton's hotel and other public spaces were open for other functions, the entire building wasn't secured by the Secret Service, just the specific areas where the WHCA dinner was held, law enforcement officials told @CBSNews
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 31/03/2026
It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.
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Laurel George @laurelbg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
New York hospital told to reopen its trans youth health services by Democratic attorney general www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/new-...
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New York hospital told to reopen its trans youth health services by Democratic attorney general - LGBTQ Nation
The attorney general's office noted that federal law hasn't actually changed, despite threats to the hospital's funding.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This week's cover @thelancet.com
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
In case you need the case made for you — @katemanne.bsky.social is on it Bard’s President Should Resign Today katemanne.substack.com/p/bards-pres...
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Bard’s President Should Resign Today
Leon Botstein has been revealed to have deep ties to Epstein. It’s time for accountability.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13/02/2026
Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Let the picture of the little five year old boy standing facing the car and the old man being dragged out of his house with no shirt on, let those images burn into your brain. We don’t have to be this country. We don’t have to live this way. Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.
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Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 19/01/2026
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
“Lifeless… foam around his mouth. Nobody wants to see their kids like that.” ICE attacked a family trying to LEAVE the besieged neighborhood and hospitalized a 6 month old baby that couldn’t breathe.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The “if she had complied, she’d still be alive” line that we’re hearing from ICE defenders is the mantra of apologists for security forces in dictatorships through the ages.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
For the love of all that is holy stop using AI to produce slop making fun of Trump. It’s lame as shit and only normalized a technology that’s economically, environmentally, and intellectually destructive. It’s using fascist tools and thinking you’re fighting fascism. Stop.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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not your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025
Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."
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Spooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.
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Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National Park
The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.
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XaiaX ̆̈ (🍁) @xaiax.net · 17/09/2025
I forget where I first saw someone connect the dots between “men didn’t used to have so much ADHD” and “men used to be smoking cigarettes 24 hours a day indoors while chugging black coffee and having their secretaries organize all their work for them.”
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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
On the logic of the scapegoat, and how trans ppl became it. www.frieze.com/article/scap...
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The Scapegoating of Trans People in Trump’s America
How social media promotes a cycle of admiration and resentment in an influencer-driven world – and why the transgender community is at the centre of its violence
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