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Lauren Colton

@laurentgc.bsky.social
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IA, UX, Content; FIRE retired. Pissed-off optimist & open to chat about solving cool problems.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/10/2026
ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
PSA: abortion pills are available by mail in all 50 states. @plancpills.bsky.social
plancpills.org
PLAN C: Abortion pills by mail in every state
Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill options online.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 30/09/2026
Here's a small thing you can do for the future: 🌐 Find a webpage you care about. 💾 Save it. ✔️ That's it. One saved page becomes part of the web's shared memory. Try it today 👉 web.archive.org #ToolsYouCanUse
Cream graph-paper graphic framed by yellow line art, featuring a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine page, with the "Save Page Now" options circled in red. A yellow ">" chevron tagline below reads "tools you can use," pointing toward a yellow arrow.
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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
first principles, clarice. simplicity. read marcus aurelius. of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? what is its nature? what does he do, this man you seek?
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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 07/09/2026
"Slaves donate their slave wages from forced labor to feed young children because the government is letting them starve" isn't the feel-good story this news outlet thinks it is.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.
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DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I feel like we’re missing the real story here which is that historians now have a rough date for the invention of the power metal album cover
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Lauren Colton @laurentgc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"He must be exposed and what he has done painstakingly detailed or we will essentially ratify and institutionalize his transformation of our government into a mafia state."
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE.
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Lauren Colton @laurentgc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Love hearing stories of how she impacted others, but this eulogy honors Dolly and her smarts in a way that's seemed missing.
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Dr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes.
A woman with extremely short painted nails weaving magnetic core memory. A series of rows and columns of wires in a grid.
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bergelsonlab @handle.invalid · 24/08/2026
just did this, thru the comment button here: www.regulations.gov/document/NSF... Would love to see my #NSFSBE folks + the relevant societies ( @fabbs.org, @cogscisociety.bsky.social, @cogdevsoc.bsky.social, @srcdorg.bsky.social, @infantstudies.bsky.social)comment too. deadline today!
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Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request; National Science Foundation Proposal/Award Information-NSF Guidance on Financial Assistance
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to renew and revise its collection for its financial assistance policies and procedures. In accordance with the requirements of the Paper...
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
People who say "I don't know how I'd fill my days if I retired" are clearly boring, shallow and unimaginative. There is so much joy to be had from exercise, music, cooking, cinema, games, art, volunteering. If you can't find joy and fulfilment in any of that, I pity you.
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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026
I think about this a lot.
Tim Henke
@TimHenke9
eat shit, René Magritte
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Mauv @ThatsMauvelous • 1d the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light.
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Select all squares with traffic lights
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 07/08/2026
The next step in the messaging is explaining to reporters how the Trump administration and GOP are cosplaying communists; state control of media and business Per CFR: "the US gov has announced investments worth $27.6 billion across 37 deals involving direct ownership." www.cfr.org/articles/was...
cfr.org
Washington's Growing Portfolio: Tracking U.S. Government Investments | Council on Foreign Relations
CFR’s U.S. Government Deal Tracker reports deals announced since January 2025 that include equity and quasi-equity stakes taken by the federal government.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"one of the surest strategies for amassing autocratic power is what I call deliberate deliteracy: the destruction, restriction, and monopolization of the infrastructures that make mass literacy possible." www.theamericanvandal.com/p/neuroplast...
theamericanvandal.com
Neuroplasticity As A Praxis
We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Give him pasta forever!
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Lauren Colton @laurentgc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#AskAnArchaeologist have you seen anything exciting about sensory archaeology recently? Please tell me all about it!
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Lauren Colton @laurentgc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#AskAnArchaeologist if you have a disability, what support networks currently help you? DMs welcome, for privacy's sake.
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Lauren Colton @laurentgc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Okay #AskAnArchaeologist: if you work in a lab, and did no/limited field work, what did your training or career path look like?
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Could this be the perfect contemporary artwork for Bluesky? Dean Millien's "The Cats & the Rats," a sculptural tableau in aluminum foil in current Greater New York show at MoMA PS1
Lots of cats made out of aluminum foilAluminum foil cats, including one rearing up, with a few rats below
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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
HE BETTER TACO President says 100% tariff would be imposed on generic drugs made overseas after 1 August 2028 ‘for a one year period of time, and 200% thereafter’
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Trump announces new tariffs on generic drugs to take effect in 2028 – US politics live
President says 100% tariff would be imposed on generic drugs made overseas after 1 August 2028 ‘for a one year period of time, and 200% thereafter’
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Antifascism looks like Pedro Pascal. It looks like Alex Pretti and AOC. It looks like 600 priests, imams, and rabbis in the cold streets of winter Minneapolis. Antifascism is gorgeous.
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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Here's the most comprehensive list of their products they sell to the food service industry I could find. taylorfarmsfoodservice.com/products/
taylorfarmsfoodservice.com
Products Archive | Taylor Farms Foodservice
Holds our products and product specific data
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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Rep. Aisha Gomez: “To look at people standing up against ICE and see ‘paid protesters’ says nothing about us and everything about you.” “That you cannot conceive of us loving our neighbors so much that we would actually do something for them.”
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway
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The Death of Renee Good Has Yet to Be Properly Investigated
Six months after she and Alex Pretti were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, little has come of the probes into their killings.
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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
📚 Hey library nerds! The specific ask is that OCLC make the 041 field publicly visible, and (deets in thread) there’s a petition your library can join if you’re OCLC. Makes sense to me; translators matter!
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/06/2026
Jonathan Ross is the man who shot and killed Renee Good.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 17/06/2026
When Republicans passed their One Big Beautiful Bill they said it wouldn’t impact our most vulnerable. Now they’re eating their words. At a time when prices are out of control, 770,000 children have lost food assistance, all so billionaires & corporations can pay less in taxes.
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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...
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Marje isn’t haunted by ghosts @minn-finn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Reminder for my friends: - Drink some water and eat some veggies - You're wonderful and loved dearly. - Don't forget your whistle. Reminder for my enemies: - All you fascists bound to lose.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/06/2026
"So I get to take the blame for our country’s tanked economy While fighting for my basic rights and bodily autonomy In short, I’m fucked in matters from the vital to the trivial I am the very model of a modern-age millennial..."
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The Very Model of a Modern-Age Millennial
My job prospects are hobbled by insistence on a living wage Compete at entry-level with some washed-up folks at twice my age In matters of identity, employ...
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 26/05/2026
I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 18/05/2026
The obvious talking point is "Republicans want to give pedophiles a million dollars each because they helped Trump try to overturn the election."
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Lauren Colton @laurentgc.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
7yr old: is there a Princess Bride 2? Me: (imagining PB12: Tokyo Drift) ...no
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Lauren Colton @laurentgc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I regret to inform you: charging a phone outside the bedroom DOES mean better evenings and mornings. Silly little mental health.
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singlecatlady23.bsky.social @singlecatlady23.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
some🗑️❤️‍🔥inspo❤️‍🔥🗑️for you:
be the dumpster fire that brings light to the darkness
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Lauren Colton @laurentgc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Living on the edge of the bronze age collapse, with climate catastrophies and global trade routes destabilizing? Unthinkable in our modern times! </sarcasm>
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Lauren Colton @laurentgc.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Trying to befriend a local crow with cashews. Wish me luck.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...
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Lauren Colton @laurentgc.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
@selimacat.bsky.social hey!! I remember you from Twitter days. How's life?
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/03/2026
Today's Official #NoKings 3 #Accessible & #Virtual Rally will include ASL interpretation, live captions, visual descriptions, & Spanish audio interpretation. Because resistance must be accessible, inclusive, & open to all & our rally will be for everyone, everywhere. #NK3AR Details: zurl.co/NXFIt
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SUFS NoKings3 Accessible Rally — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
NO KINGS 3 ACCESSIBLE RALLY organized by Stand Up for Science - An online and inclusive rally for everyone, everywhere, on March 28th, 12:30 - 2PM CT followed by live stream of the national flagship event from the Twin Cities (MN).
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings
An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1.	He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2.	He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3.	He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4.	He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5.	He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6.	He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7.	He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8.	He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9.	He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10.	He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11.	For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12.	For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13.	For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14.	For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15.	For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16.	For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17.	For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18.	He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19.	He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20.	He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Every I.C.E. victim in these clips is a U.S. citizen. These are the Kavanaugh Stops™️ that that human frat paddle assured us would last only momentarily and cause only minor, if any, inconvenience. All lies. Rule of Law is dead and buried. There is no coming back from this. Sorry, folks.
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